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Will the 2024 Olympic games be held in Paris – or Los Angeles? Neil and Rob teach you how to use the language the world’s media is using to discuss this story.
Olympic cities for 2024 and 2028 – Is it going to be Paris or Los Angeles? The International Olympic Committee is expected to accept bids from both cities, but which will get to host the greatest sporting show on earth first?
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Thanks for the great lesson! I have a question though. What is the correct past form of TO OK? OKed? For instance, IOC oked LAโs bid?
The lobbyers have to spend lots of money to woo the bureaucrats to come to an agreements on behalf of the company .
The best method of lobbying for the improvements of the life standard for the worker's is the strike ;don't you agree ?
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You guys are great, just a quick question – why not use the infinitive of verbs, as well as give us some of its other forms (nouns, adjective, phrases even) when mentioned/unusually formed?
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Hi, about the sentence 'She lobbies her MP every month……..', could I get your telling me what is 'MP'? Thanks. (Is that Member of Parliament?)
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Great! it is the first time I hear woo word and i love it!
I have a question.
The example of "to OK" is that '"The management need to Ok……."
Should the verb be "need" or "needs"?
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hello news review, in your facebook page, you put a exercise with a blank, the sentene contains the letter MPs, I am wondering that they means, could you give a hand please?
woo woo
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Hello and welcome to News Review the program
where we show you how to use the language from
the latest news stories in your everyday English.
Hi, I'm Neil. joining me today is Rob.
Hello, nice to be here.
Good. yes, you have story for us?
I do, yes, today's story is about one of the
world greatest sporting event.
World greatest sporting event. What could that
be?
What could that be, yeah.
Let's find out more from this BBC world service
news bulletin.
So, there's our story the international Olympic
committee is expected to take the unusual step
later ( ) of approving bids for two summer
Olympic hold city. Paris and Los Angeles.
Now the main question is.. it seems who will get
to go first. Will it be Paris 2024 or LA 2024
or Paris 2028 or LA 2028
and by the way four other cities Hamburg, Rome,
Budapest and Boston originally wanted to bet but
pulled out because of high cost.
Right. yes expensive stuff. holding an Olympics.
and you've been looking at this story scanning
news website and you have picked out three words
which you think will help people to talk about
this story.
Yes that's right, The words are 'lobbies','to OK'
and 'woo'
So the first one lobbies. How is that appearing
in headlines?
Ok, let's have a look at this headline from
REUTERS: Maron lobbies for Paris bid, LA banks on
solid candidacy. lobbies.
Lobbies meaning tries to persuade people in
authority to take a certain action.
Now Rob as often happens. I'm a bit confused here
because I thought 'A Robby' was kinda a room.
Yeah. you're not wrong. it is. actually.
and the origin of this word has to do with
'lobby'. a long time ago in parliament, people
used to go to the lobby. This old big wide spaces
between rooms to talk to the politicians trying
to get them to change their mind, to influence
them. to do, to take action basically.
and so they were lobbing in the lobby.
This is where the word comes from.
It's now a verb. to lobby.
Yes. as you mentioned, the name of the person or
the name of the activity is 'lobbying' and
people who do it?
They are lobbyist. so the people go into the
lobby to lobby are lobbyist.
Ok. this is quite a formal word way of describing
the process of persuading people. isn't it?
It is. it is very formal. we wouldn't really use
it in everyday language to persuade someone to do
something. I wouldn't lobby my children to do
their homework. although we could say it in the
slightly sort of ironic way I suppose.
Yes, if you want to make something sound more
important than actually it was.
Ok, Great. let's move on to our next headline.
Yes. this comes from Los Angeles Times:
IOC is expected to OK naming two winners in host
race – which Olympics might go to L.A.?
So, that's 'to OK'
Yes. 'To OK' meaning to agree or give approval
for something to happen.
Now 'OK' is a very familiar word. it's used
widely in English and in other languages.
it's very informal word as well. OK.
but this is slightly different. used slightly
different.
It's used as a verb 'to OK something'
Yeah. and umm. as you said, I mean OK is normally
seen as a very informal way of speaking.
But here we're talking about, we're talking
informally about something which is actually
quite formal.
Yeah. ( ) saying to OK informally… agree..a
formal agreement, a formal arrangement. so a
funny mix of a informal verb and then a very
formal action and we could use more formal words
such as 'approve' or 'rectify'
but 'to OK' is another way of using it.
Yeah. and umm as you say, we use it to talk about
a formal agreement, a formal arrangement.
proposals umm such as this Olympic one.
and we probably wouldn't use it to describe ,umm
perhaps I suggest to you "Rob, after this, how
about we go for lunch and you would say you need
to think about it,whether or not to OK this idea.
yes. again. that would be, even though it sounds
informal, that's a very formal use of it.
and we just use it for more. let's say an
official arrangement, if a company wants to
change its policy, it may OK something.
I'm not gonna OK going for drink with you.
I'd probably just say Yes.
Of course if we did something in the past
the past form of this.. to have been OK'ed.
so it's OK opostrophie ed.
Yeah. because OK is obviously slightly
differently to other words in the… the letters
is just 'O' and 'K'.
That's right.
OK what's your next headline?
OK the next headline comes from The Huston ( ):
Around sports: L.A. Paris woo IOC in advance on
vote for 2024, '28 Games.
That's 'woo'
'woo' try to persuade someone to support you by
being nice to them.
Umm we use this word, we have used this word a
lot in romance. when you woo a man or a woman,
you're very charming because you want something
perhaps marriage at the end of the day.
I would woo a woman perhaps buy her a chocolate
or flowers something like that.
oh, I've done in the past but ^%^%%#%$%^&^&
Very romantic.
Yeah. so what you're saying is that The president
of France is going to buy some chocolates for the
members of international Olympic committee.
Well he may do that as part of the whole wooing
process.
But obviously it's not just about chocolates now
because we can use,, say it in kind of any
situation where you want to get a certain result.
so he could be doing something like taking them
for dinner, could be buying some chocolates but
I think it would be a big box of chocolate.
It's basically trying to keep in with people.
and be forcibly, friendly, possibly
Yes, maybe there's something about that..is a
sense that perhaps a little bit force.
Yes.
You woo someone.
Yes. you perhaps do some forced action because
you want to be friend.
umm I was trying to woo the boss the other day.
Yes. you were. you were upset about your amount
of pay or something
That's right I wanted a pay rise. and I thought
I'd woo him. so I complimented him on his
clothing. I took him for a drink. bought him
coffee everyday.
Did it work?
It didn't work unfortunately and it was an
unsuccessful woo there of the boss.
We need to work on wooing ( )
Yes,indeed.
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I'm wondering the reason why today Rob comes to
present on this program has anything to do with the word lobby that is one of today's words to have learned ???
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both of you are very complacent ,composed difficult to woo you.
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I love this production.
thank you …I am keeping up with new vocab..
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There is no doubt this video is gripping as usual.
It is nice to see Rob here again.
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Rob is back! So nice!
I like the word woo .. and this is not wooing you ๐๐ I don't want any reward