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BBC"s Word in the News
BBC's Learning English is a very helpful site for increasing one's vocabulary in English through daily usage of the language.
Many articles and top stories are available in this section with some kind of what may be called as an "extra feature".
An example is that today's news features the following article:
An antique dealer on New York's Madison Avenue, is claiming a million dollars in damages from 4 homeless people. They've been sheltering outside his shop and he wants them stopped from coming any nearer than 100 feet of it. Guto Harri reports from New York:
The contrast could hardly be starker. Inside Karl Kemp and Associates, a pair of cast iron candlesticks can cost you almost seven-thousand dollars. Outside, an aging, bearded man lies hunched up above an air vent, struggling to keep warm in freezing temperatures. At times he's joined by three others.
The lawsuit, filed this week names them as John Doe, Jane Doe, Bob Doe and John Smith and accuses them of sleeping on the sidewalk, consuming alcohol, urinating and spitting. Karl Kemp says he has nothing against them and would like to see them put up in a shelter twenty blocks away. But he's concerned that customers are being put off by their presence.
Repeated complaints to police have achieved nothing, but an injunction would allow the authorities to move them on. The claim for a million dollars in damages was apparently necessary for technical legal reasons and there's no expectations of that aspect of the action being enforced.
Here in this article some words are taken up and then they are explained in teh context.
An example would be:
The contrast could hardly be starkerThe differences between the people or things that are being compared could not be clearer, more obvious, more opposite
hunched upcrouched, bent down and forwards so that your back is curved.
In this way the learning is made interesting and informative as well.
The words in the news section is indeed a very educative section and a must read.
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