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Six Minutes Vocabulary. From BBC Learning English.

Hello and welcome to six minute vocabulary. I'm Catherine. And I'm Finn. Hello.

Today's programme is all about lexical sets.

That's right.

Lexical sets help us to learn words by grouping them together by topic or word type.

So, more on that later, but first, here's Dave.

He's talking about a flood that happened in his

hometown recently, and here's a question to answer while you listen. What happened to all of Dave's

possessions? Well, we had so much rain. It said on the news we got a month's rainfall in just one day.

The water level rose so high that the river burst its banks

and water poured into everyone's houses.

It's terrible.

My house was flooded.

All my things were completely soaked and the carpets are still waterlogged.

Oh dear Dave.

Yes, we asked you what happened to Dave's possessions.

And he said all his things were completely soaked.

They were covered in water and now they're all wet and damaged.

Dave also used a few different words to talk about the flood and its effects.

He talked about the rain and rainfall.

That's a way to describe the water that falls as rain over a period of time.

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