It's a special program.

It's a review of 2019.

We're going to take you through three of our top stories from the year teacher, the vocabulary as ever.

But first of all, we're going to say hello to you all and a Happy New Year festival from Catherine.

Hello, everybody and Happy New Year and Georgina.

Hi, everyone.

Happy New Year.

And finally, Dan.

Hello, everybody.

Happy new year, huh?

Now do make sure you watch through to the end off the program because we have some stories that we haven't had a chance to cover over the last few years.

But they sound quite like a certain member said Hungry.

Member of our team May have bean involved more of that later.

But first of all, Catherine, can you take us through our first story?

Yes.

In April, the world witnessed the horrible sight of Notredame Cathedral in Paris going up in flames on we brought you the word priceless.

Not a damn fire.

Priceless Crone off Thorne's relic saved after inferno.

Priceless.

So valuable that it cannot be priced Now.

This is confusing for many people, isn't it because of the Suffolk CE?

Yes, the cervix, less on priceless often means without Now, if something is priceless without a price, you might think it's free.

Yeah, very cheap.

Or it was really cheap.

Yeah, but actually it's the opposite.

Something that is priceless is so valuable.

You cannot say what price it is.

It's beyond price.

So in this context, the crown of thorns.

We have a religious artifact.

Christianity, Yeah.

Therefore, its unique.

Yeah, there's only one in the whole world.

Can't replace it.

You can't really say how much.

It's worse because it's beyond price.

So yeah, something really unique, important, valuable.

We call it prices.

It means you can't buy it.

You can't say how much it costs.

What's the opposite of priceless?

Well, you could say worthless, and this time it means without value.

So, yeah, something's worthless.

It's like saying it's rubbish.

OK, I'm on a more personal level.

People's objects can have monetary value, but they can also be priceless to them.

How does that?

Yeah, priceless isn't only about things like religious objects and jewelry and wonderful things.

It's also about things which are really important to you yourself.

So have you have an object at home, which isn't?

You couldn't.

You wouldn't sell it.

It wouldn't be worth much money if you did.

But to you, you can't replace it.

You you would never sell it.

You can say that is priceless.

My mum's old cardigan.

Nobody would wear it.

But to me it's priceless because it reminds me of her.

Something with very high sentimental value.

Exactly.

Okay, on Can you talk about somebody being priceless?

Most definitely.

Anybody can be priceless if they are valuable to you for something that they do.

So your friends are prices, Probably somebody who helps you.

A lot of work can be priceless.

Assistance could be priceless.

If you know, the firefighters daughter done probably did some priceless work by saving artifacts and help in saving life.

So the other day I were heard Rob and Neal laughing, and I would say that Rob was priceless.

But I don't mean that he is extremely useful or value.

He is extremely useful and valuable, but not in this context.

It was making a joke.

He was making a really funny joke.

Yeah.

Yeah, I was.

We were all laughing and we were crying with laughter because the joke waas priceless.

That means it was incredibly funny.

Okay, so quite a fixed meaning there that you might say to someone.

Wow, that was priceless.

Yeah, and it often means you've never heard it before.

It's not a standard joke.

It's something unique that somebody does.

That's really, really funny.

You can say That's priceless.

Let's have a look at another one of our top stories from 2019.

Dan, what have you got?

Well, in September, the Swedish climate change activist Greta Teutenberg addressed the U.

N.

And she was very, very critical about world leaders.

World leaders Excuse me.

Attitudes in approaching and tackling climate change.

She actually gave Donald Trump a death stare.

And that was the vocabulary that we covered in that program.

Greta turn.

Berg gives Donald Trump death stare after emotional climate speech.

So deaths there D e a t h second word stare S t a r e.

So a death stare is a look of hatred aimed at a person?

Yes.

Now, if you saw credit Hamburg's speech on TV or on Lane, you will see a clip of seeing Donald Trump entering the building.

She looked at him very, very angrily.

Very stern.

Very unforgiving.

She really you could see in her face how annoyed and angry she wasthe.

Yes.

If you saw that death stare, you would.

You would, you know, look it up yet because you can't mistake it, But in case you aren't able to see it date Neal, would you like to know, demonstrate your very best death stare.

Okay.

You tend to be really annoyed now with percent.

I've stolen your last biscuits.

Okay, here it comes.

Here is my death stare.

You're too nice.

Nearly.

It's because I don't I don't need biscuits like Rob does.

If the last big biscuit has gone, Rob will give you a very, very, very harsh soak allocation there.

The word that goes with death stir is to give someone a death stare, or you can give a death stare to somebody you might.

You do with this ta, but is mostly gave.

Some might say that our biggest story off the year was Georgina joining us on the show.

Georgina, tell us about our third and final big hitting story off 2019.

Well, that was the biggest story but the one we're going to talk about today is a story about climate because these were very popular this year in this one, Also from September, we had cause for the richest countries in the world to pay Maur towards the fight against climate change than the poorest countries.

One of the words recovered waas payoff Here it is.

Experts say adapting to climate change can pay off manifold, payoff, succeed and bring benefits.

Now I see two little words.

There is this phrase over.

It is a phrase of Hoover's This word P a y second word O double F pay off.

If something pays off, it succeeds on it brings benefit.

Now.

The idea of payoff also has the idea of effort or cost or expense.

So you doing something which is difficult, expensive?

You don't like it?

It's imagine you're revising for an exam Done so many hours vested into my exam.

Yeah, that's home.

Miserable Board is running around playing Frisbee.

I'm not allowed you missing Your friend got her advice, but then the exam comes the results.

Come on.

You got a great day.

Who total that time that I invested into my exam totally pay it off.

Paid off because that work gave you the result that you wanted.

A good result.

Positive results.

So in the context off this story, they're saying that the work now to prevent or mitigate climate change will have a benefit.

In the future, it will pay off.

There was 1.8 trillion in investment for seven or near seven trillion payout.

That's that's totally worth it.

Yeah, okay.

And of course, my teaching qualification.

Yes.

Long, Long, long, long time ago.

I took a teaching qualification just out of university.

Had no idea what I want to do.

And I decided, you know, I'll learn how to teach English, and I went off and did.

And hey, you are 10 years later.

Here I am on BBC Learning English.

It pays off very nice, but we're talking about situations.

Yes, because we don't.

If we talk about paying off people, then it's different is very different.

If you pay off a person or you pay a person off, you give them money to not talk about something bad.

You did.

Okay, so we're talking corruption illegality?

Yes, Yes.

Don't confuse the two people right enough said about that.

Thank you very much.

Do not go away.

I promised you at the beginning.

Some stories we haven't had a chance to cover.

But they do sound like someone we know was involved.

Katherine, what have you got?

Yes, we're going to the Metro.

The headline is PC investigated for 12 months for stealing colleagues, biscuits, stealing colleagues, biscuits.

Could that be sound familiar?

A little minute.

Okay.

Next in this trail of Discovery.

Dan, we have from Fox News Thief caught stealing cookies during heist earns Cookie Monster nickname from police Cookie Monster.

We have our own cookie months.

We do have our own cookie monster.

Georgina, you also have a story.

I have a story from the Metro is gang of biscuit thieves jailed for nicking £20,000 off Jammie Dodgers on.

If we have a look here, hopefully you may be able to see a Jammie Dodger.

It's got jam in the middle.

Delicious.

Mmm.

I wonder he loves Jammie Dodgers.

Well, you know, it's a shame, but our very own cookie monster Rob couldn't be with us today.

But I'm sure he will join us in wishing you all a happy new year We look forward to your company in 2020 goodbye from all of us.

Goodbye.

Bye.

Goodbye, everybody.

Happy New Year.

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