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6 Minute Vocabulary.

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Hello and welcome to 6 Minute Vocabulary.

I'm Neil.

And I'm Catherine.

And today we're talking about hyphenation.

Hyphens. Those little signs like dashes that we use in writing to join two words together.

Yes, like in old-fashioned. There's always a hyphen between old and fashioned.

So let's start with a clip from Brian. He's a news reporter and he's reporting from a high school about an election.

Think about this question while you're listening.

How does Brian describe the young people at the school?

Here's Brian.

I asked some 18-year-old students at this secondary school how they're voting in this year's election.

They're all hard-working young people.

22 of them are undecided and are likely to make a last-minute decision.

But a sizable group say today's politicians are not well respected and their attitudes are out of date.

Back to the studio.

So we asked you, how does Brian describe the young people at the school?

And the answer is he says they are hard working.

That means they work hard.

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