British Prime Minister Theresa May will today challenge public bodies to explain or change sweeping inequalities between different ethnic groups in areas such as education, housing and criminal justice. She’s launching the results of the government’s racial disparities audit.
Key words and phrases:
take action on –
begin to do something to solve a problem
lays bare –
makes something known which was hidden
glaring –
obviously bad or wrong
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Launching the results of
Lay bare
Glaring-glare
Take action on
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It is the time to take action on Glaring audit which has been laid bare the disparity between different ethnic groups.
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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.
** Is just me who has completely memorized this
opening line of News Review or who did it like
me? Lol **
Hi, I'm Neil. Joining me today is Dan.
Hi, Dan.
Hello everybody.
So what's our story?
Our story is about ethnic inequality in the UK
OK ethnic inequality in the UK
Let's hear more from this BBC News bulletin
So the results ( ) have been published
in the UK and it shows how people of all
ethnicities are treated in areas such as health,
education and criminal justice and it shows
unequal picture.
For example, unemployment among black, Asian and
other ethnic minorities is almost double that of
white british adults.
Those more likely to own their home are Idian,
Pakistanee and white people compared with black
people and those from Bangladesh
However white British people are on free school
meals performed the worst in the second stage of
primary school.
So there're inequalities all over the system.
OK, you've been looking around and finding words
and expressions people need to understand to
talk about the story.
What have you got?
Take action on, Lays bare and Glaring.
So the first one, Take action on, what have you
got?
Our first headline comes from BBC news website
and says:
UK must take action on racial disparity, says
Theresa May.
So Take action on: begin to do something to
solve a problem.
Indeed, now Take action on something suggests
that the problem is quite a large one and needs
addressing.
I wouldn't take action on everyday problem like
my daily commute.
I might deal with my daily commute or I might
handle my daily commute because it's just a
personal problem and it's not very important.
However the kind of problems that we take action
on tends to be a large and ( ), such as
politics or societal problems.
So environmental issue, drug addiction,
unemployment these kind of big issues.
Exactly. and it often require a coordinated
effort by many people together working in unity.
So again, large problems. That's the idea.
OK, let's have a look then at your second
headline.
My second headline comes from Guardian and says:
Audit lays bare racial disparities in UK
schools, courts and workplaces.
Lays bare: make something known which was
hidden.
Indeed. now bare is beautiful word and it means
exposed and naked.
At the moment in the nothern atmosphear is
autumn which means leaves are getting ready to
drop. Once the leaves do drop from the trees
the trees will be bare.
They will be exposed to nothern wind, hence
unprotected.
Now when you lay something bare, you expose it
for everyone to see and it's a real state.
Much like a musician removing a cloth
and we use it to describe negative things such
as a wrong doing or injustice.
You wouldn't necessarily use it for good news.
For example. If I were to announce that my wife
was pregnant, I wouldn't lay that bare for
everybody because it's a good thing.
I would announce it quite happily.
However, if I were to find out that the baby
wasn't mine, then I might lay bare my wife's (
).
This is all fictional by the way it's not real.
( ) example, Dan I think will move away from
it.
I'm gonna get into a terrible trouble later I
tell you.
What's another way of saying Lay bare?
We can expose something or we can reveal
something.
However if you're a bit naughty you don't want
people to know, you might try to cover up or
sweep under the rock.
Ok, that's ( ) to hide the true nature of
something.
Exactly.
OK, let us have a look at our final word.
Alright.
Our final headline comes from an article of
ITV.com
Racial inequality to be laid bare in disparity
audit.
Now that doesn't contain our third word but it
is another nice use of Lays bare. I wanted to
show you.
Our final word comes from within the article on
that page and says:
A national audit of racial inequality in the UK
has revealed glaring disparities between white
Britons and British ethnic minorities.
Glaring: obviously bad or wrong.
Exactly.
Now hang on a minute. I thought glaring was
something to do with light.
You're not wrong at all then Neil.
It is something to do with light.
Glaring is an adjective. noun is Glare.
and Glare is a very very strong light which
causes pain or discomfort to our eyes.
such as when you might look at the sun and
afterwards when you stop looking at the sun
you can still kind of see it on your vision
little green globe that's called an after image.
so it's uncomfortable to look at.
Now imagine a mistake which is so bad or obvious
that you don't want to look at it.
It's uncomfortable to look at. so bad.
That's it. so that's a glaring mistake.
and it collocates very strongly with mistake or
error and it's wonderful expression because you
can use it in everyday life.
Yeah. let's hope there are no glaring errors in
this program.
Certainly not No.
If there is an error. let's hope it…
settle..
which means..
get away with it. quiet, ( ) nobody won't
notice.
very small mistake
exactly.
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