Building a better world with wood? ⏲️ 6 Minute English

Did you know that being in nature, and building with wood, has benefits for our physical and mental health? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.👇👇👇

❓❓❓ How many trees were needed to build the HMS Victory, Nelson’s famous ship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805?

a) 4,000 trees?
b) 5,000 trees? or,
c) 6,000 trees?

Listen to the programme to hear the answer. [Cover: Getty Images]

You can download the audio and a free programme transcript here 👉

Vocabulary:
✔️forest bathing - being in nature and immersing your senses in the experience for its physical and mental health benefits
✔️timber - trees that are grown so the wood can be used for building houses
✔️compelling - so strong and convincing that it makes you believe or accept it
✔️intelligently - in a way showing intelligence and skill, or the ability to learn
✔️hemp - family of plants, some of which are used to make rope and strong cloth
✔️skyscraper - very tall modern building, usually in a city

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The BBC Learning English Science Team loves forest bathing. It has so many compelling reasons! For example, it can make you relaxed. However, humans are cutting down timber to build skyscrapers, thus making it harder to find places to forest bathe. Thankfully, the BBC Learning English Science Team has intelligently developed a way to make hemp into wood. No trees will be cut down again! The BBC Learning English Science Team can forest bathe again!

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In this video, nail and bez discuss trees, Spending time outside has benefits for our health. Bez says that she always spends her free time outside and it helps her and there is also a name for this type of activity in Japan ;Shinrin yoku: in English it translates as forest bathing this is type of a relaxation that involves being calm and quiet among the trees. They want to tell you how the oldest material on earth, wood, is being used now for greener future