Today's Headlines:

Researchers develop lip-reading machine

More women in the UK working into their 70s

Italian woman first to manage male football team

Transcript:

In Oxford, research is underway to teach computers the difficult art of lip-reading. It involved training an artificial intelligence system using thousands of hours of BBC News programmes. Right now, the technology only works on full sentences in recorded clips. The next stage is to make it work live.

The proportion of women who don’t stop working until past 70 has grown from one in 20 four years ago to more than one in 10 last year. It’s doubled. There are still more men than women working into their 70s, but what stands out is the dramatic increase in the number of women and at least part of the reason for that is money.

Italy’s Patrizia Panico is making history this week. She’s the first woman football coach of a male Italian side. She is leading Italy’s under-16 team in two friendlies against Germany. At 42, she’s a retired footballer herself – she scored 110 goals for Italy in over 200 matches. Patrizia Panico hopes that her career inspires other women.    

Words and phrases and definitions:

underway
in progress

stands out
is very noticeable

making history
doing something never done before that people will remember

Exercise:

Use one of the words or phrases from Lingohack to complete each of these sentences. Note that you may have to change the form of a word or phrase to complete the sentence correctly.

underway / stands out / making history

1. Rosa Parks ______ when she refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring efforts to end segregation in the United States.

2. All my students are good, but Mary ______ because she's never scored less than A in her exams.

3. Rescue efforts are ______ in Myanmar's jade-producing area after a landslide killed at least 12 people.

Answers:

1. Rosa Parks made history when she refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring efforts to end segregation in the United States.
2. All my students are good, but Mary stands out because she's never scored less than A in her exams.
3. Rescue efforts are underway in Myanmar's jade-producing area after a landslide killed at least 12 people.