Name: A real-life Santa: News Review
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He's a review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to News of You, the program where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English.

Today's story is about the true spirit of Christmas.

Well, isn't that lovely thing here on Christmas Eve to hear about the true spirit of Christmas?

Here is a clip from Lorraine, a son, Lee, who is a resident of Keg Worth village in the UK She found wrapped chocolates on a bench by her local fish and chip shop while she was out with her mom on her birthday.

We just thought it was Somebody left it there.

You know, when somebody sits down and then forgets that they've left a bag awesome from there, and Tommy won't look at it, and we had a lock on it, said it random act of kindness with, I hope you enjoy Play it forward.

It's just really nice for somebody to do that.

A lady in keg with she was out shopping with her mom.

It was a It was some chocolates wrapped up in wrapping paper on the note said, Enjoy these chocolates.

So it was what we call a random act of kindness.

And it turns out that there's actually some kind of secret Santa operating in this village because other residents have found other presence scattered around the village and nobody knows who's doing it.

Okay, well, you've been looking at this story.

We have delights dotted on dhe, random delights dotted and random.

So let's hear now that first word in your first headline, please.

Mystery secret Santa Delights Keg with Villagers Delights gives great pleasure.

No, There's a G in there that you don't pronounce its delights.

Now if you delight somebody or something, you caused them Great happiness.

If you're in this, this would delight commuting a lot of different ways.

If you are delighted you're very happy or joyful, you're really please that something's happened.

Yes, so in the headline, it's a verb there you've got it as an adjective.

Yes, there's, Ah, another type of adjective as well.

Yes, If something is delightful again, it's wonderful.

It makes you very happy, fills you with joy.

You can give somebody a delightful gift, or you can watch a delightful Fillmore.

Yes, and you can also describe that thing that is delightful as simply our delight.

I listen to one of your six minute English programs the other day it was a delight.

Is that because the program was a delight or I was a delight.

You can describe somebody as it actually your co presented wasn't delight.

Well, there's a very nice fixed phrase that we can used again to express our joy and happiness.

If we're inviting somebody to spend some time with us all to come to an event, you can say I would be delighted if you could or if you would Joyner's come to the party, attend the wedding on if you If you want to accept, you can say I would be delighted to join you or if you're saying thank you.

So to be delighted to do something is a sort of semi formal.

We usually right at you a way of offering and accepting invitations.

Well, we're always delighted Thio have our audience taking part in participating in these.

And we're delighted to bring you a news review every week.

And on that note, we'll go to our second headline, please.

Locals find gif ts dotted around village from mystery secret Sunday.

Now I know what a dot is it's a little point like in a dot com.

Yes, BBC learning english dot com If you write it down, the dot isn't spelled D o t.

It's just a small, really small little point.

OK, so what has this got to do with somebody leaving boxes of chocolates around the village?

If you have lots of dough starts, you can organize them in rows and columns.

But often we talk about dots being just one here, one there, one somewhere else.

One appear one over there so that it's very, very disorganized with no purpose or pattern.

So when things are dotted around and we often use the proposition around, it means spread without any plan.

Okay, so if we can imagine a map of this town keg with and, uh, we put a dot everywhere that somebody left thes presence we could then describe the map has dotted it would be adopted map on it would show the places where these presents were dotted around the village.

Often it's used to describe things of a similar nature.

Yeah, this case, lots of presents yesil the presence.

You could say that there was rubbish dotted around the street.

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