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  📣 Podcast link： https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-210225 📣 Vocabulary： 1. pandemic ：a disease that affects people over a very large area or the whole world. 👉🏻The government should control SARS before it becomes a pandemic . 2. take hold ：to start to have a definite effect. 👉🏻The economic recovery is just beginning to take hold now. 3. wimpy ：not strong, brave, or confident. 👉🏻I was too wimpy to be a boxer so I decided to be a musician. 4. sheer ：used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; nothing except. 👉🏻Immense and sheer , the mountains emerge from a fog of silk. 5. kick in ：to start to have an effect or to happen. 👉🏻the reforms will kick in later this year. 6. genome ：the complete set of genetic material of a human, animal, plant, or other living thing. 👉🏻Billions of dollars will have been poured into the human genome project. 7. take stock ：to think carefully about the things t...

This time I'm gonna share a podcast. The podcast name is: Before Breakfast The name of the host is Laura Vanderkam. She is the author of several time management and productivity books. This podcast mainly about shares a time management strategy or an answer to a listener’s schedule question. Like how can listeners make the most of their time, both at work and at home? Quote from Michael LeBoeuf:"Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life." Clearly, we have less time than we think. And I consider I'm a procrastinator, I often think I have a lot of time, so I always postpone what I can do today. Yeah, I know it is a bad habit. So I want to improve my procrastination habit, and share it with those who have the same situation as me. I think this podcast can not only improve my English listening skills, but also give me the knowledge of time management. Every day just only takes about six minutes. It’s very suitab...