Covid-19: Drug trial gives hope: BBC News Review
hi everyone welcome to News Review I'mnail in my home studio of course we are in lockdown because of the corona virusoutbreak but with me well on the other side of
London is Catherine hi Catherine what story have you got for us todaywell the race is on to find a treatment for corona virus and scientists in theUnited States think they might be onto somethingokay well let's find out some more about that story from this BBC news report REMdeseve is an antiviral that was originally developed as a treatment forEbola a full clinical trial of more than a thousand people suggests it cutscorona virus symptoms from an average of 15 days down to eleven however theimpact on deaths is still not certain and the fine detail is lacking the datahas not been published or reviewed by independent scientists it means wecannot be convinced of the drugs effectiveness or usefulness nowscientists are saying that the amount of time that people experience kovat 19symptoms has been reduced from 15 days to 11 by using this drug however thisthe results have not yet been independently tested so it's a littlebit early to start celebrating okay well you have been looking around the variousnews websites you've picked out some really fantastic vocabulary this weekwhat have you got we have clear-cut opening the door andshow promise clear-cut opening the door and show promise okay let's have yourfirst headline please yes we'll start with BBC news here in the UK and theheadline is remedy severe drug has clear-cut power to fight coronavirusclear-cut obvious easy to understand that's right there are twowords in this vocabulary item we've got clear CLE AR and cut C UT put themtogether you have clear cut okay all I know the word clear I'm not so sureabout cut in this instance what is cutting got to do with this well it'squite an idiomatic use of the word cut so we'll start with clear now ifsomething's clear it's very obvious you can see it very easily and that's reallythe sense of this word it's obvious if you cut something with a very sharpknife it's very straight there's no ragged edges it's just really clean cutisn't it something that's cut with something very sharp so this idea thatit's obvious and clean there's no doubt if something is clear cut there is noroom for doubt there is no room for argument something's very very obviousand you can't disagree with it okay you often see this expression used in asporting context for example you could hear that it was a clear-cut penalty howdid the referee miss it yes that's a really good example of how to use clearcoat when people might be about to argue when you're anticipating people to throwdoubt on something you can stop them you can stop this argument before it happensby saying it's clear cut it means anybody can see ityou can't all you can't disagree now you can use the word clear-cut in a positiveor a negative sense so you can say that this is a clear-cut case of a goodtreatment for a bottom four Cove in 1900 or you can say it's a clear-cut penaltymeaning something bad happened so you can use clear-cut for good things or badthings the key about clear-cut is there's no possibility of arguing it'salso used often in a negative sense isn't it so we can hear that somethingis not clear-cut yes you can say it's not clear-cut if youdon't really know if something is obvious or not obvious there's room forargument there's a possibility of debate yeah then you could say it isn'tclear-cut so I heard you're thinking of becoming a vegetarian meal I wasthinking of becoming a vegetarian yes I I read a lot of the arguments in favorand there's quite a lot but also there's some debate about how healthy it is so Ihave to say it's not clear-cut whether it's the best thing for the human bodyyeah it's not clear-cut at all it's fairly clear-cut for the animal washealthiest though that is indeed clear-cut okaylet's have a summary please time now for your second headline pleaseCatherine yes we're in the United States now with MSNBC and the headline isFalchi REM disappear trial is opening the door to possible coronavirustreatments opening the door making something possible yes we have threewords here opening ope n ing the th e door opening the door okay well I knowwhat opening a door is but I'm not really clear about the connection tothis story what's what's opening doors got to do with this medical it's quite azoo Matic but it's not a huge stretch of the imagination to work out what we'retalking about here if you leave one room and you go through a door you're inanother room you you're in a different place you're in a new place and whenyou're in a new place new and different things can happen so opening the door isan expression that talks about possibilities things that might happennext usually good opportunities in this casethis drug trial is creating possibilities for coronavirus treatmentsso if you open the door to something and the preposition is to you're creatingpossibilities for good things usually good things to happen okay so forexample a lot of young people finishing school will be wondering whether to goto university university can really open the door to job opportunities yesabsolutely yes going to you know any further education opens the door to morepossibilities in particular with employment the career prospects okaylet's have a summary of that please if you are interested in hearing storiesabout vaccines and medical trials we have the perfect one for you don't weCatherine we do it was actually mr.
Fucci again and this time he's talkingabout a possible vaccine for Ebola so click the link to go to the story oktime now for your final headline yes we're still at the United States thistime with ABC News the headline is early trial results for a desappear showpromise show promise give an indication of likely success yes another two-wordphrase show SH o w promise PR om is e show promise okay well I know what shownme the show means display promise though promises of word people probably know ina slightly different context as a verb yes Rob promised to pay back some ofthose biscuits he's he stole and we're still waiting for them it music says hewould do something in the future yeah this is a slightly different meaningisn't it this is a slightly different meaning butit is related to the future if you promise to do something you say that youwill do something in the future if usually if something shows promise youcan see from what is happening now that the future for this thing will be goodgood things will happen in the future so showing promises about what'shappening now that indicates a good result in the future so Neil I believeyour daughter likes to play the piano she's learning isn't she she is learningpiano yes and she yeah how'd you get on with it well she passed her grade onethe other day which means that she's showing promise yes so she's going to begood she's starting now but she's done wellin her exam you can see that one day Neal she'll be on that stage sellingrecords you can try helping meet her helping me to retire yes so to showpromise or she's very promising is another way we can say it if somebody orsomething is promising you can see that they're good good things happening nowand even better things will happen in the future yeah we also hear theexpression is show potential yes the synonym would be to show potential yesOh to have potential okay let's have a summary of that time now then for a summary of the wordswe've looked at today please Katherine yes we had clear-cut which means obviouseasy to understand we had opening the door meaning makingsomething possible and show promise give an indication of likely success I betyou want to test yourself on that vocabulary and you can do on our websiteat BBC learning english.
com stay safe and join us next week goodbye.
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