A group of young female Afghan footballers and their families are being given visas to come and live in the UK. They left Afghanistan to get away from the Taliban and have been staying in Pakistan.
Roy and Neil discuss the news story and teach you some related vocabulary so you can talk about it too.
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Video chapters:
0:00 – Introduction
0:32 – Story
1:32 – Headline 1: Afghan female footballers and families to be resettled in the UK
4:54 – Headline 2: Afghan women’s football squad granted UK visas
8:45 – Headline 3: Afghan girls football team WILL be allowed to come to Britain to flee the Taliban
11:05 – Language summary
The story:
A team of promising young women footballers who fled the Taliban in Afghanistan have been told they can come to live in the UK with their families.
The Home Office has said it’s finalising visas for 35 members of the Afghan women’s development team, who are aged between13 and 19. They are currently staying in a hotel in Pakistan.
Key words and phrases:
resettled
forced or helped to move to a different place to live
* The family were resettled after their house was destroyed in the fire.
* We are trying to resettle the refugees near to their family members.
granted
given something officially
* The politician was granted asylum in the neighbouring country.
* They decided to grant him a visa based on his achievements.
flee
leave a place of danger
* The family decided to flee the country after being threatened.
* Residents fled the area after the volcano erupted.
To download the audio and a transcript and test your understanding, go to our website:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish…
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Neil n Roy , you both are amazing. Learning English by video is really interesting.
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Thanks a lot! I'm learning new vocabulary and training my listening too.👏
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The word resettled I understood mean moving place to pleace to using by force it's right or wrong BBC learning English
Thanks to these videos from the BBC my English skills have improve a lot, since now I am able to read more news articles.
Great video
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I’m officially become a fan of Neil and Roy.
You guys are absolutely amazing.
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Another Great Lesson
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What a joke the uk is why should we pay for them
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It never crossed my mind that there could be a problem with the petrol.
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All propaganda, these people have only been given visas to boost UK image. Why not put these so called footballers through the same strict financial requirement laws that everyone else has to follow. The UK is a failed state.
Where is the Sub 🥺 there are some words which I can't know the spelling of it.
Great lesson as usual
UK is collapsing…. open the doors LOL its fooked
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Great as always, thanks.
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Well done! Giving these young women not only have chance to practice the sports but also start their new page in life.
What about English Army war crimes in Afghanistan? Any trial?
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Why did they give this opportunity.? Is there any free lunch? Let's ask them.
that is, state sexism in England as in Afghanistan
that is, state sexism in England as in Afghanistan
I love these gays, but in this video they are too much happy, its strange