Name: Coronavirus: Do schools need to shut? - News Review
Uploaded: 2020-07-01T16:05:42.000Z
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Studios in our own homes rather than our recording studios because of the Corona virus outbreak, were not able to get to work.

But we are able to bring you the headlines still, by the magic of technology.

I'm in one part of London and High Catherine in another part of London.

Yes, we're working from home and a lot of the world's Children are studying from home.

At the moment, many schools are closed in an attempt to stop or hold the spread of Corona virus.

Let's find out some more about that from this BBC news report.

While Children can catch Corona virus, they rarely get severe symptoms, but they can still spread the disease, which is why many countries have closed schools.

The latest research, published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health Journal, assessed the likely impact of this policy based on the limited available data.

The scientists found that shutting schools was far less effective than other social distancing interventions, preventing between two and 4% of deaths.

They say policymakers must weigh up the possible harms and reopen schools at the earliest opportunity.

The government has said it will review its Corona virus policies after Easter.

So schools around the world have shut down in an attempt to slow the spread of Corona virus.

But some scientists are asking if this polities actually effective.

You've been looking around the world's media at this story, picking out headlines on useful expressions that we can use to talk about the story.

Play a role question marginal and play a role.

Okay, let's hear your first headline, please.

Scientists question school closures Impact Question expressed doubt about something.

Well, the question is something you ask, isn't it?

And actually you've also just questioned May about the word question.

Now we know that question is usually and now you can ask a question you can answer a question.

You can also use the word question as a verb.

You can question somebody that's quite a common use.

The police questioned Rob about the missing biscuits, for example.

In fact, we all question drove about the myths and biscuits and not just me.

Usedto ask him questions, toe asks form or information or an explanation.

But another way we can use the verb to question is when you doubt something, you don't trust it.

You're not quite sure if it's true or accurate, and this is the use in this half headline.

The scientists are questioning school closures impact.

That means they're not sure if it's actually effective.

So question in this sense means to really mistrust or doubt or not be convinced of something.

You use it when you don't trust something, or you don't think there's enough information or you are not sure that the information is accurate.

Now it's important to note that this word is being used in quite a former context.

We often use it in the scientific or formal or medical or academic context.

In that case, we say that a good student special at university level always questions existing ideas.

That's the whole point of universities to make people question things in an academic sense.

If you question a policy at work or in government or something, you're you are expressing concern about its effectiveness or its validity.

You're saying I'm not sure about the value You can question the value off something.

Announced the use of question here to question something and notice.

We're not question oppose and you're questioning the thing.

Okay, it's time now for a summary of that time.

Now for your second headline, please, Catherine.

Yes, and we're looking at Yahoo in the UK here, The headline Corona virus Closing schools has a marginal impact.

Scientists discover marginal, very small, not important.

So a marginal impact marginal is used as an objective usually goes with a now, but let's look at the noun form of marginal that is margin M a r G i n.

Now, if you have a piece of paper with writing or a computer screen with writing on making this gesture with my hands to show that on each side of the writing there will be a space a column with no writing.

You'll have vestment writing a lot of writing in a small space on the left and right on top and bottom, where there's no margin, No writing.

Yeah, and that area is kind of not important, is it?

It's called the margin, and it's not important because it's small and there's no writing in it.

So if something has a marginal impact, it has an insignificant impact.

It's not important, or it's a very, very small.

So marginal means not important, not significant or very small.

You know, May Catherine, I like to drink cola.

I noticed that you do like corner, but I could never work out which Brown's you like near because every time you've got sometimes a Pepsi, some names of Coke sometimes a different one is all every day.

To be honest, I think the difference between them is marginal.

There's a marginal difference between the tastes of all these different colors.

It's small, marginal difference at the really strong col occasion.

The words marginal difference often go together.

It's probably one of the most common uses.

A marginal difference means a difference is so small.

You don't really know what I said or it doesn't matter.

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