Name: Tiny 'cousin' of T.rex discovered - News Review
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he's a review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to news Review the program where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English.

I'm damn and joining me today is Catherine.

Today's story is about the dinosaur discovery who?

Okay, let's hear more from this BBC World Service news report A new dinosaur, Her diminutive ancestor of the mighty Tyrannis Saurus Rex has been identified by a paleontologist who first discovered the bones as a teenager in New Mexico more than 20 years ago.

The creature dates back 92 million years, about 20 million years earlier than T.

Rex and would have been less than a meet a tall scientists not certain how the small tyrannis oris type dinosaurs evolved in some of the largest and most fearsome creatures ever to walk the Earth.

So a paleontology story here now a paleontologist, is somebody who explores and discovers bottles that is the fossilized remains of ancient creatures.

He found the fossil of a small dinosaur 20 years ago.

But now they believe it's the distant relative of a T.

Rex, the big, scary dinosaur with all the teeth.

Um, this one was very small lesson a meter, I but they believe that over 20 million years there's tiny little dinosaur evolved into the great big scary T Rex.

So from less than a meter 20 million years later, Giant T.

Okay, well, we've picked out three words and expressions that our viewers can use to talk about this story.

Stepping stone, imposing, trod lightly and stepping stone.

Can we please have our first headline we can, Aunt, we're looking at C net in the surprising we have a newly discovered ancestor off Tyrannosaurus Rex wasn't nearly as imposing as the king of deadly dinosaurs imposing, appearing large and impressive.

And basically, if something is imposing, it's got the wow factor.

Sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for bad reasons.

Okay, so we're talking about something that's very large.

Yes, you can have an imposing person, a boxer bee bodybuilder, yet imposing eso physically, physically, big person.

You can use it for people and personalities.

You can say that someone's got an imposing personality.

Okay, So quite strong or like a strong character?

Yeah, after years, somebody in a range of walks of life, It could be a pair and it can be a boss.

Usually there's somebody in there position of authority, a politician.

But yes, somebody who you don't forget about okay can be an imposing character.

And it's only for people that we talk about imposing.

You can talk about an imposing building, you know, religious buildings are usually really can often be large and imposing On the Taj Mahal in and mausoleum in India, you can talk about skyscrapers and architectures.

You can talk about an imposing mountain and views and random Berg tour.

It's very mighty and strong and very big.

And then you can use imposing for artworks and design.

You don't talk about an imposing book If it's very long and difficult to read, you talk about imposing pictures, so lots of things that leave an impression they are imposing.

So where does this idea of imposing come from?

If you impose something on someone, you force them thio.

The police can impose a fine or punishment.

It's not always a negative thing, but the idea of you have to do something so so the imposing You can't ignore it.

I've often heard it in connected in connection with hospitality.

Say, for example, when I invite someone old, do come over to my house and we'll have dinner together.

Put that away politely, declining an offer of hospitality, especially if you think the person's doing too much.

So if you say I don't want to impose, you're saying it's okay.

I'm not going to accept your impossible hospitality because I don't want to force you to do anything way.

OK, well, we don't want to impose on our listeners and viewers anymore, So we'll move on to our next headline, please.

Nice linked up because usually going to cosmos Tiny Terata sort trod lately 92 million years ago Trod lightly spoke or acted carefully tow.

Treading, stepping, walking What's going on?

Oh, there were the verb to tread which is the part?

Trading is about walking and stepping Eso if you tread lightly, Literally done when you're coming home from a night out Four o'clock in the morning.

Yes, I do, because I don't want to wake up my wife.

So that's the literal meaning of tread lightly.

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