Name: Tourists rescued from Scottish mountain: BBC News Review
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tourists in trainers rescued from the top of Britain's tallest mountain.

We've got the language you need to talk about this story.

Let's find out some more about that story from the BBC's Danny Shore.

The group of four were found by Law Harbor Mountain Rescue Team in an ice bound gully.

The team said they could easily have fallen hundreds of feet.

They did not have ice axes or crampons, which are essential for winter climbing.

They had no map, and three of them were wearing trainers.

Yes, so this story is about four tourists for men who decided to climb up Britain's highest mountain, Ben Nevis.

They did it in the middle of winter, but also in the middle of Ah, Big storm.

High winds on it was minus 20 Celsius as well as a very, very cold.

They had no specialist climbing equipment, but luckily for them, they did have mobile phones, which allowed the mountain rescue to locate them on bring them safely back down the mountain.

Now, when they got back down the mountain, they were criticized for their behavior for going up in those conditions without any, You know, preparations on Dhe later on, they did send a generous gift to say thank you to the rescuers off £200 of cash, whiskey and wine, I think.

But they did save their lives, so yeah, it's probably justified.

You've been looking at this story, and you've picked out three words and expressions that we can use to talk about it.

Cut them some slack clowns, bunch, and cut them some slack.

So what's your first headline with that word?

My first headline is from a British news where website called the Daily Record.

And it is clowns who climbed by Nevis in their trainers.

Reward rescuers with whiskey, wine and cash clowns, people who behave in a silly way.

A clown is that guy at the circus with the big curly red wig, the big red nose, the silly clothes with the spots and the big shoes.

Is this what climbed up Ben Nevis in winter?

They did not climb up Ben Nevis in a clown outfit that absolutely did not.

The reason why they are clowns is because their behavior waas was stupid.

So they weren't dressed as clowns, but their behavior, they behaved like a clown.

Okay, um, so it's the silly, foolish behavior that connects the clown in the circus and the clown climbing the mountain in trainers?

So whilst the circus, you go to watch a clown and you laugh with them.

In this context, their behavior made people laugh at them or know even laugh at them because there's a very serious situation.

It was a dangerous situation, so their behavior, they behaved like clowns.

So, for example, you might then call somebody a clown who is driving at 200 kilometers an hour on the motorway, overtaking on both sides.

There were not dressed as a clown, but their behavior they behaved like a clown.

So the big difference here is with using it as a noun in with this meaning the meaning is negative.

With the verb to clown around, it can be positive or negative.

So, for example, I could say to my naughty students, Stop clowning around and concentrate.

But I could also talk about last weekend.

We clowned around or we can so we just had a good time.

We didn't do anything, particularly just clowned around.

Okay, So clown around as a verb, we also have an adjective we could describe.

Those guys who climbed the mountain as they were clownish, their behavior waas clownish.

Another example would be his behavior gets more clownish, the older he gets.

So when he was younger, maybe he was much more serious.

And then the older here he got, the more his behavior became a bit silly.

Hey, was like, hey, behaved clownish like a clown.

Okay, let's have your second headline, please.

The second headline is from Alba Wahba which is a news online website for the Middle East, about the Middle East.

On the headliners bunch of idiots rescue from Britain's highest mountain wearing trainers bunch.

A group of things of the same type gathered together.

It's Ah, bunch of bananas or, ah, a bunch of grapes.

Why are we using bunch to talk about people?

Well, you can use it to talk about a bunch of people, So that's a group of people that are put into a unit together because there is something that connects them in this case.

Unfortunately, it's because they were idiots.

And that's that's very informal, isn't it?

So if you had a group of people arriving in your office for a meeting, the front desk, probably No, they would not ring you up and say Hi, I've got a bunch of people to see for that very important meeting.

They would not do that because that is almost disrespectful.

Okay, so bunch with people is for in formal situations this context bunch of idiots, eyes also extremely negative.

You can use it for positive in positive ways as well.

So, for example, last night I went out with a bunch of mates for dinner way.

So you can use it for positive situations.

Okay, um, we can also I've heard this used to describe a sort of hair style.

Oh, yeah, I let me demonstrate so you can put your hair into a bunch.

So you grew up your hair together into one group, one unit.

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