Hello and welcome to the English like native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening
to week 11 day 5 of your English 5 a day.
The second season.
This is the series that gives
you a healthy daily dose of English vocabulary so that you can slowly but surely feel more
like yourself when communicating in English.
Now let's begin as we always do with a snapshot
of what's to come.
Listen very carefully.
Trapped in a cycle of doom and gloom, Rory began
doom scrolling uncontrollably late into the night, clicking through devastating news stories
for the sake of it.
His friends worried he was becoming callous, more interested in consuming
tragedy than feeling empathy for the people behind the headlines.
Eventually he realised that his
obsessive scrolling was doing nothing to help the world and everything to destroy his own piece
of mind.
Right let's not waste a second but dive straight into our first idiom which is
doom and gloom doom and gloom three words doom d o o m and gloom g l o o m doom and gloom you may