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Joining me is Georgina.

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Okay, so what's our story today?

We've got a story about how a simple bit of exercise I can help you live longer.

Wow.

Sounds fantastic.

Let's find out some more from this.

BBC radio to bulletin researchers say regular running, no matter how far or how fast, substantially reduces the risk of an early death.

It seemed from Australia, Thailand and Finland examined data on nearly 1/4 of a 1,000,000 people.

And about that, any amount of running was linked to a 27% reduction in mortality.

Yes.

Interesting.

Are you Ron O'Neal?

I am a bit of a runner.

Yes, I know.

I hear you run a lot, actually, and so do I.

Obviously on this is great news for us runners.

In fact, we all know that running is give you, but you don't actually do you need to do that much, So this is a surprising bit of news that has just come out from this research.

In fact, a single 50 minute jog of less than six miles per hour is all that you need to do.

Really?

So I can stop doing two or three a week.

Just one slow 50 minutes.

Yeah.

One slow, 50 minutes, and they use the word jog.

So, yes.

So that's just a slow little run.

Okay, Well, you have been looking around on picking out interesting headlines about this story, and you've got three words and expressions.

What are they?

I have I've got slash premature and run for your life slash premature run for your life.

Okay, let's have your first headline, please.

With slash in it, the first headline is Run for your life.

A weekly one can slash the risk of early death by more than 1/4 research shows.

And this is from the sun, so slash reduced something by a significant amount.

Now I know what slash means.

It means cut something violently with a knife.

Yes, it does.

Certainly, Ana is spelt S l A s h.

So normally we would use it to talk about For example, Vandals slashing a painting or slashing through the undergrowth, both of which would be are used in a negative way.

Uh, we probably wouldn't say to slash your birthday cake.

Okay?

Yes.

Unless you cut it extremely violently.

Yeah.

People may leave your party.

If you did that on when you wouldn't say slash the carrots?

No, they cut them, cut them on, DE.

So it's used in a negative ways.

But in this article headline, it's used in a completely different way.

Well, it's used in a more figurative way because it means to reduce the risk off something.

Okay, So just as we use the word cut to mean reduce, we also use the word slash, which has a similar meaning to reduce, but dramatically, dramatically.

Yeah.

On in this case, it's talking about reducing the risk off dying earlier than normal, so we can often use it in a phrase like to slash the risk off something, Um, and often that something is to do with your health.

Something negative isn't Yeah, slash the risk of cancer slash the risk off heart disease, but it can also be used to slash prices.

So the important thing to remember is that you're reducing the amount not by a little, but by a lot of dramatic reduction.

It's also quite a journalistic word, isn't it?

Quite a newspaper headline.

Any type of wood?

I probably wouldn't say Rob really needs to slash his biscuit intake.

No, I mean it really is a journalistic word.

It has a very kind of you can really see the meaning.

It's a short word.

It's succinct.

It's it's easy to get across the meaning.

And that's why it's used a lot in headlines.

But yeah, poor Rob.

I mean, he does need to slash his intake of biscuits, but that Yeah, we probably wouldn't use it in that.

We would say, Rob, you need to stop.

Yeah, just stop now it go running once once a week.

Okay, let's have a look.

Now at our second headline, our second headline is going for a 50 minute job.

Just once a week slashes your risk of a premature death by up to 30% premature earlier than the expected or natural time.

Yes, it's about P r E m A T U R E.

It's an adjective, and it has two parts.

It has the perfect pre wish means before and mature, which means to be ready.

So in for example, my sister was meant to have a baby on August the 31st but she had her baby on August.

The first the baby was fine, but she had a preference.

Premature baby?

Yes, often used in that context.

When a child is born too early, we say premature.

What about other cases?

For example?

Well, we all know what some people definitely know about the Rugby World Cup at the weekend.

Ah, the rugby work.

So congratulations to South of Yeah, well done, obviously, was a game between South Africa and England on the England team and I think were not the team necessarily.

But the supporters was celebrating long before the match, but unfortunately they lost.

So the celebrations were premature.

They were not red.

They had not won the match.

They should not have started to celebrate.

When they did, they should have waited for the match to finish.

And if they had one, then they should have celebrated.

Absolutely, once again.

Well done, South Africa.

Yea.

So before we move on to our final headline, we would like to tell you about another great story about exercise that you can find on our website.

What's it about Georgina?

It's called Exercise is good for the brain and apparently over a 1,000,000 people.

Am I correct?

Over a 1,000,000 people have watched it.

Are you one of them?

If not, get there and watch it.

Yeah, We want to get to two million.

Come on, team, we can do it.

Two million.

Where can they find it?

In the link below this Right down there.

Go and click on it and watch it right now.

Okay, so your final headline, then please.

My final headline is from Metro and it's run for your life.

One slow jog a week will add years Run for your life.

Meaning move as fast as possible Away from danger.

Yeah, And this is made up of four words the 1st 1 R U N 2nd 14 F o r.

The third your y o u are on the fourth Life L i F E so is often used as a complete phrase and instruction with an exclamation mark at the end exclamation mark at the end.

It's mainly used in a negative way, for example, when people are running away from danger.

Yeah, like a fire or something?

Yeah.

Or like I was when I was surfing sharks, we were running away.

You were surfing with sharks, signed off.

Well, we thought we were.

That's where we kept running away.

But we weren't actually running away because we were on our surfboards.

So we were paddling very fast.

So you had to run for your life.

Yeah.

So you were swimming?

Yes, because basically, it's used in a in an idiomatic way in a figurative way to say, Get out of there, move away from danger.

In this case, it's used in a more jokey way as a pun on its used to talk about something that is not immediate.

It's something that you know in the future you're running to help your use yourself live longer.

Yes, so that headline run for your life.

One.

The slow jog a week will add years.

Yes, so it's no, it doesn't mean there's like you said.

There's no immediate danger.

We're not saying Rod real life, No, but this is a story about running and about life and increasing your life.

So it's a kind of joke.

Is a kind of joke.

I mean, for me, it's just here.

It's being written very literally.

Just go warning, but only once a week.

Okay, Now just time for our vocabulary.

Recap, please.

Yes.

So the first word is slash Reduced something by a significant amount.

Premature earlier than the expected or natural time.

And the last one run for your life.

Move as fast as possible.

Away from danger.

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