Hello and welcome to the English we speak with me Faye Faye and me Phil we have an expression

which is about a bad thing appearing or starting to happen it's rear its head.

Rear its head. I think we need to hear this one.

Can you give us an example of how we use it?

Okay, I bought a new computer last week.

Sounds great.

No, not great.

I can't get it to work properly.

The speakers don't work, it has a virus.

Every time I think I've fixed it a new problem rears its head.

Oh no that's typical isn't it?

I always find when I need to do something important IT problems rear their heads.

I'm learning that I need to be better prepared so that when any problems rear their ugly heads,

I can sort them out.

Well, it's always good to be prepared. Let's listen to these examples.

Attendance on the course was good until colds and flu reared their heads in the winter.

I was working outside until the wet weather reared its head and I had to go inside.

Food prices were going down until drought to rear its ugly head.

You're listening to the English we speak from BBC Learning English and we're learning the expression rear its head.

It's used to talk about something bad appearing and as you may have heard in one of the examples we can also say

rear its ugly head. Yes we don't use it to talk about good things it's always

problems that rear their ugly heads and I think the end of this

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