Name: Exercise helps the brain: BBC 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.

Now we all know that exercise is good for the body.

But today we're going to find out how exercise is also good for the mind.

Let's find out more from this BBC Radio Four news report.

The study says moderate exercise several times a week is the best way for the over fifties to keep their brains in good working order.

Australian researchers say combining aerobic activity such a swimming, cycling or jogging with muscle strengthening exercises is most effective.

They support the idea that taking up exercise at any age is worthwhile.

Okay, so everybody knows that exercise is good for the body.

It keeps your body working well to keep your body healthy.

But Australian scientists have done some research which shows that exercise can also keep the brain and the mind working well and healthy on If you keep your mind working.

It means that older people will have less chance of developed developing diseases of the brain.

This means that memory loss will be less on in particular.

Condition called dementia will happen less if you take exercise as you get older.

Well, you've been looking at all the news website to find the words and expressions people need to understand and to be able to use to talk about this story.

Okay, so we have shop, keep something at bay on day stint.

Okay, So if we go to BBC news website, the headline is exercise keeps the mind sharp in over fifties.

Study finds sharp meaning mentally quick and intelligent.

I don't think I'm very sharp because, as you know, I often get confused.

I thought that sharp was used to describe a knife you're right near.

And you're clearly not very sharp in your mind.

Because if you were, you would know that the word shop often describes the way people think.

If you have a sharp mind, you have a lot of intelligence, and you can cut away unnecessary information and you can cut away.

You can cut straight to the most important point of it of a situation.

So a sharp mind means one that cuts away all the unimportant stuff.

We can also use it with wit, for example.

If you have a sharp wit, it means you're really quick thinking and quick talking often quite funny and comic.

And the things that you say we could talk about a sharp intellect.

If you have a sharp intellect, it means that you're quite academic.

You can understand complex problems and situations very easily.

Okay, well, we do need to be careful off opposites here because there's a direct opposite of sharp, which is well for a knife.

Yeah, if you have a shop, if your knife isn't sharp, it's blunt.

Yeah, but we don't use blunt to describe someone who is the opposite off.

The opposite of a sharp mind is a blunt mind.

Okay, so now we're looking at the Daily Express.

Running and walking significantly boosts brainpower.

So keep something at bay is to prevent something from happening.

Quite a strange little expression, but very common.

You can its use in everyday English, We have say in this headline, but you'll hear it all over the place.

And the origin of this one's quite interesting.

So going back to days when people did a lot of hunting with dogs, use a dog to help you catch and hunt another animal.

Another word for barking in a dog is bay.

And if a dog is baying, it's howling and it's on the lead.

Stay away from the thing it wants to cut.

It's not something you want to be on the other side of.

So if you keep something at bay, you mean that the thing that wants to get you all course some damage or difficult?

Well, I actually have a bit of what you call it.

Yeah, that time of year, it's all for the pollen.

And I'm sneezing and sniffing And I take an anti histamine tablets every day to keep my hay fever at bay.

You dio eso to try and keep the colds at bay.

And it helps to stop this horrible thing happening.

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