#3 COVID: One year on

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1. Hyperlink to the podcast:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-210225

2. Example sentence for each of the keywords

  • pandemic: In some parts of the world malaria is still pandemic.
  • take hold: The economic recovery is just beginning to take hold now.
  • wimpy: I was too wimpy to be a boxer so I decided to be a musician.
  • sheer: The date went sheer out of my head.
  • kicks in: It takes half an hour for the medication to kick in.
  • genome: The human genome contains about 3 billion nucleotides.
  • feeble: The little lamp gave only a feeble light.

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