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Today's Catherine Catherine.

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Hello, everyone.

Now what is today's story all about?

Today's story is about the true spirit of Christmas.

Well, isn't that lovely thing here on Christmas Eve to hear about the true spirit of Christmas?

Here is a clip from Lorraine, a son, Lee, who is a resident of Keg Worth village in the UK She found wrapped chocolates on a bench by her local fish and chip shop while she was out with her mom on her birthday.

Let's hear her.

We just thought it was Somebody left it there.

You know, when somebody sits down and then forgets that they've left a bag awesome from there, and Tommy won't look at it, and we had a lock on it, said it random act of kindness with, I hope you enjoy Play it forward.

So we opened it.

It was a bunch of chocolates.

It's just really nice for somebody to do that.

So there we go?

A lady in keg with she was out shopping with her mom.

She was sitting on a bench.

She saw the parcel, She opened it.

It was a It was some chocolates wrapped up in wrapping paper on the note said, Enjoy these chocolates.

So it was what we call a random act of kindness.

Well, more on that later.

And it turns out that there's actually some kind of secret Santa operating in this village because other residents have found other presence scattered around the village and nobody knows who's doing it.

Okay, well, you've been looking at this story.

You found three words and expressions.

What have we got?

We have delights dotted on dhe, random delights dotted and random.

So let's hear now that first word in your first headline, please.

So, first of all, we have BBC news.

Mystery secret Santa Delights Keg with Villagers Delights gives great pleasure.

Yes.

So delights.

D e l i g h t s here.

It's a verb.

Yes, not the legs.

No, There's a G in there that you don't pronounce its delights.

Now if you delight somebody or something, you caused them Great happiness.

Great joy.

great pleasure.

If you're in this, this would delight commuting a lot of different ways.

If you are delighted you're very happy or joyful, you're really please that something's happened.

So it's that idea.

Almost childlike happiness.

Yes, so in the headline, it's a verb there you've got it as an adjective.

Yes, there's, Ah, another type of adjective as well.

Isn't there a delightful?

Yes, If something is delightful again, it's wonderful.

It's really lovely.

It makes you very happy, fills you with joy.

You can give somebody a delightful gift, or you can watch a delightful Fillmore.

You can listen to delightful music.

Yes, and you can also describe that thing that is delightful as simply our delight.

It's a delight, Neil.

I listen to one of your six minute English programs the other day it was a delight.

Oh, thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Is that the pleasure was mine?

Is that because the program was a delight or I was a delight.

Now the program was a delight Deal?

You were just You okay?

You can describe somebody as it actually your co presented wasn't delight.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Welcome.

Um yes.

What else can we say about this word?

Well, there's a very nice fixed phrase that we can used again to express our joy and happiness.

If we're inviting somebody to spend some time with us all to come to an event, you can say I would be delighted if you could or if you would Joyner's come to the party, attend the wedding on if you If you want to accept, you can say I would be delighted to join you or if you're saying thank you.

I was delighted to join you.

So to be delighted to do something is a sort of semi formal.

We usually right at you a way of offering and accepting invitations.

Two happy events, usually, Yes.

Well, we're always delighted Thio have our audience taking part in participating in these.

We are.

And we're delighted to bring you a news review every week.

And on that note, we'll go to our second headline, please.

Okay.

And we have the mirror stunned.

Locals find gif ts dotted around village from mystery secret Sunday.

Dotted.

Meaning spread across an area.

Yes.

D o double T e d.

Dotted.

Yeah.

Now I know what a dot is it's a little point like in a dot com.

Yes, BBC learning english dot com If you write it down, the dot isn't spelled D o t.

It's just a small, really small little point.

And that point is a doctor.

OK, so what has this got to do with somebody leaving boxes of chocolates around the village?

Well, a daughter is really small.

If you have lots of dough starts, you can organize them in rows and columns.

But often we talk about dots being just one here, one there, one somewhere else.

One appear one over there so that it's very, very disorganized with no purpose or pattern.

So when things are dotted around and we often use the proposition around, it means spread without any plan.

Okay, so if we can imagine a map of this town keg with and, uh, we put a dot everywhere that somebody left thes presence we could then describe the map has dotted it would be adopted map on it would show the places where these presents were dotted around the village.

Yes, yes.

Often it's used to describe things of a similar nature.

Yeah, this case, lots of presents yesil the presence.

You could say that there was rubbish dotted around the street.

You know a bit Here.

A bit.

There.

A bit somewhere else.

Yeah.

Many British town centres are dotted with pubs.

Yes, and there's another proposition.

It can.

The village is dotted with Pope's.

Or you can switch it round and say that Popes are dotted around the village.

Yes, indeed.

Okay, now as it is Christmas and we have a very happy story for you today, why not watch another one of our happy stories?

We have got some there in news of you.

It's not all bad news on we've got one about a man on honeymoon in Sardinia.

Heavenly Catherine, we have a man on honeymoon in Sardinia.

His holiday was about to go terribly wrong as he got into difficulties when he was swimming.

Fortunately, there was an Olympic swimmer on the beach with him on that.

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You are listening to news of you from BBC Learning English Onda, We have one more headline for this story.

What is it?

Please the Scotsman Mystery secret Santa delights Residents with random gif ts left around their village Random meaning by chance or unplanned.

Yes, R a n d o m Random, Yes.

No, If something is random, there is no plan.

There is no organization.

It just happens when it happens where it happens.

However it happens, it really means without organization.

So this person, this secret center, is putting things about the town at random?

Yes.

I mean, there is some sort of all this person has decided to buy presents to wrap them up and to leave them in town.

That much is the plan.

The part that's random is who finds them, who gets which present that one is completely unplanned or not.

There is no control.

This person has no control over who gets the presence, who gets which present on that that's completely rammed and no plan, no control.

And so the proposition we use with it in that expression is at random.

Yes, you can do things at random, so that then becomes a proposition with the word random becomes about verb.

You did it at random, but we can also use a straightforward adverb randomly randomly.

They were scattered randomly or dotted randomly around the village.

Yes, we also have a verb to randomize.

Yes, it's make random to make random, you can randomize.

You often use it in medical, in testing, even randomize subjects to different groups when you're doing kind of scientific tests yet and you often also hear this word used these days to describe the sort of odd funny event.

Yes, kind of quirky or different or something that you don't expect to see or happen.

For example, you told me the other day, you you are on the chief and I looked on the seat next to me and there was a cauliflower writing the tube.

For some reason, that's pretty random.

It was random.

It was around him.

Yes, on.

That is also how you can use the word random.

We now have time just for our recap of the vocabulary, please.

Yes, we have delights, gives great pleasure dotted spread across an area random by chance, unplanned.

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