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Today's story is about Penguins penguins Brilliant.

Let's hear more from this BBC World Service News report.

Scientists think they may have discovered why thousands of penguins who get stranded on South American coasts, a predominantly female.

When researchers tracked a small number of Magellanic penguins from breeding grounds in Patagonia, they found that the females generally traveled further a field in search of food, with many reaching as far north as Uruguay.

So the story is about new research from scientists who have studied the way that penguins traveled to find food.

They have found that female penguins travel further than male penguins to find food.

This answers the question which a lot of people were asking.

Why do so many female penguins end up dead on the beach is off South America, Okay, very mysterious.

Let's, um, have a look at the vocabulary that you picked out.

What have you got?

I have venture exhaust and washing up venture exhaust and washing up.

Okay, so your first headline there with that word.

My first headline, Neil, is from earth dot com, and it says female penguins venture farther north and many end up stranded.

Okay, So venture meaning travel into somewhere dangerous or unknown?

It's related to the word adventure.

I was going to ask you.

Yes.

Which has a similar meaning.

Yes.

So what's what is that similar?

Meaning it's traveling that is traveling somewhere, which is unknown and probably is quite risky or dangerous.

Okay, on that could be a good thing or a bad thing in the depending on who you are.

Could be a good thing or a bad thing.

Yeah.

So give me an example of a venture so we could say the penguins ventured intimacy or ventured further.

Intimacy.

When we use venture, venture is almost always followed by a proposition or an adverb.

So they venture into the sea or they venture far into the sea.

Okay, so it's going somewhere where there's a sense of risk or danger.

So just before Christmas, I heard somebody saying, I'm going to venture into Central London to do some shopping.

Now, Central London is not a particularly dangerous place.

I don't know why Central London around Christmas time.

Well, okay, so why this word venture?

In that case, Well, we can tell how the speaker feels about this journey that they're going to do, and for them there is going to is going to involve some element of risk.

It could be slightly dangerous.

Now, the lots of crowds are lots of queues.

Yeah, very busy.

Some people like risk, don't they?

And especially in a sort of business sense, Yeah.

We can also use it in a business context as well.

So if I have a company when we want to expand into new countries or continents, yeah, we would venture into new markets.

Yeah, And as a noun, that's known as a venture you will often see together.

Yeah, the expression business venture.

Exactly.

The same word is used as a noun to describe the project.

We don't say project because venture also implies that there's an element of risk.

Okay, let's move on now to our second headline.

My second headline is from the Guardian and it says female penguins get stranded Mawr because they travel further.

Our word exhaust is actually in the sub headline.

It says Longer journeys may exhaust birds, say scientists tracking them off South American coast exhaust makes someone or something very tired.

Yes, well, I mean, if you walked from Patagonia, swam or sweat and certainly not fly with wings that they have from Patagonia to Uruguay, he would It would exhaust you, wouldn't it?

Yeah, it's very.

It's a long journey in.

Normally, when we use exhaust, we use an object because it describes the object becoming very tired.

The long journey exhausted the penguins.

It made them extremely tired.

Yeah, what exhausts you tell news review already?

Yeah, If if we do a long day of news review on we're still here late in the late in the day of state news review, exhausts may okay, in which case you feel exhausted because the experience is exhausting.

You go.

We're just exhaustingly talk to each other.

Nonsense.

What a flexible work.

There's a there's a further meaning, isn't there?

Another meaning we could use is to run out off.

So imagine if you were stranded or stuck on an island like these Penguins, like the penguins are on the beach.

You wouldn't want to exhaust your supplies of food or water if your supplies became exhausted.

If they ran out, you'd have no more and there would be a problem.

OK, so exhausted.

Their meaning run out.

Not tired.

Exactly, right?

Yeah.

And you know, we often have ah, biscuit supply in the office.

Don't weigh the biscuit supply gets exhausted frequently.

Yeah, and we know who's done it.

How Final Head Lower Final headline is from our very own BBC news and it says it's same story.

Why more female penguins are washing up dead in South America, washing up, being moved by water to land.

Yet in this context, wash up is a very literal phrase.

Over a wash is the movement of water.

And so if you wash up, it describes the process of being moved to somewhere by a current of water.

Yeah, it is not necessary.

The place where someone or something wants to go.

No often it's involuntary.

It's against your will.

Yes, example.

Thes penguins are dead and they're being moved by the water.

Yeah, Or if I was in a boat and just put myself in the river and went down the river?

No idea.

I would wash up somewhere.

Yeah.

Okay.

A little bit of potential confusion here.

I thought that washing up was when you you're going to say I thought washing up is when you clean the dishes after your dinner that's washing up.

Isn't that is washing up?

That is actually by far the most common way that you will encounter this expression toe wash up is to clean your plates, clean your knives and forks after a meal in the U.

K.

In the you came and you do the washing up.

Yes.

The activity that washing up also means something else in the North America in yet in American English toe wash up means to make yourself presentable.

So if you're going to go out on a date or something, I'm just going to go wash up before I leave.

I'm going to go and make myself presentable, do my hair and so on, not clean the dishes, not clean the dishes, and not encounter any dead penguins.

Now it's time for a recap of the vocabulary Please Tom are three words and expressions for today.

Venture travel into somewhere dangerous or unknown.

Exhaust.

Make someone or something very tired and washing up placing sub Scuse me, washing up being placed somewhere by water.

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