Earthquake hits Japan on New Year's Day

日本元旦发生地震

Learning English from the News

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2024-01-03

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Search for survivors after New Year’s Day earthquake hits Japan.

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  • Search for survivors after New Year's Day earthquake hits Japan.

  • This is news review from BBC Learning English, where we help you understand news headlines in English.

  • I'm Neil.

  • And I'm Georgie.

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  • Now the story.

  • Emergency services are searching for trapped survivors following powerful earthquakes in Japan.

  • At least 64 people have died so far after a series of quakes on New Year's Day.

  • Images taken by helicopters show many fires and widespread damage to infrastructure and buildings.

  • You've been looking at the headlines, Georgie.

  • What's the vocabulary?

  • People need to understand this news story in English?

  • We have battle against time, rocked by and aftershock.

  • This is news review from BBC learning English.

  • Let's have a look at our first headline.

  • This one's from the Guardian.

  • Japan earthquakes, battle against time to find those trapped under rubble as death toll rises.

  • So this headline talks about the time pressure to find people trapped under the rubble after the earthquakes in Japan, rubble is the broken bits of buildings.

  • But we're looking at the expression battle against time, which contains the word battle.