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BBC Learning English

Video Words in the News 

28 August 2013

Knife massage¹

Transcript²:

It's not food she wants to chop - it's you.

This is a massage parlour in Taiwan. Trained specialists use blunt knives as well as meditation³ to help their customers relax. 

Knife massages⁴ date back more than 2,000 years to China, where they were given by monks⁵ or nuns⁶.

Now Taiwan is one of the few places where this type of therapy is still practised.

Vocabulary:

to chop

to cut into pieces

massage parlour

a place where professional massages are given 

blunt

with a dull edge; not sharp 

meditation

concentrating on a single thing in order to become calm

therapy

treatment

Exercise:

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from news reports. 

Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.

to chop / massage parlour / blunt / meditation / therapy

1.  Lord Hutton released his findings in January 2004, reporting that the scientist had committed suicide by slashing⁷ his wrist with a __________gardening knife.

2.  The roasted guinea pig - called cuy in South America - was brought to our table whole before being __________ into five pieces - four leg portions and the head.

3.  A disease which robs children of the ability to walk and talk has been cured by pioneering gene⁸ __________ to correct errors in their DNA⁹, say doctors.

4.  Adam says that __________ is a crucial part of free-diving. "If you don't stay relaxed, you can't hold your breath," he tells BBC News. 

5.  Two men have been arrested and weapons have been seized after an armed robbery at a Brighton __________.

Answers:

1.  Lord Hutton released his findings in January 2004, reporting that the scientist had committed suicide by slashing his wrist with a blunt gardening knife.

Source: Dr David Kelly: Controversial death examined

2.  The roasted guinea pig - called cuy in South America - was brought to our table whole before being chopped into five pieces - four leg portions and the head.

Source: Could I bring myself to eat a guinea pig?

3.  A disease which robs children of the ability to walk and talk has been cured by pioneering gene therapy to correct errors in their DNA, say doctors GMT.

Source: Gene therapy trial 'cures children'

4.  Adam says that meditation is a crucial part of free-diving. "If you don't stay relaxed, you can't hold your breath," he tells BBC News. 

Source: Man v seal: How we compare with our marine¹⁰ cousins

5.  Two men have been arrested and weapons have been seized after an armed robbery at a Brighton massage parlour.

Source: Two arrested over Brighton massage parlour raid