BBC News Review: Trump dismisses US attorney general over immigration ban
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Date: 2020-09-18
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Hello and welcome to News Review the program where we show you how to use the languages from the lastest news stories in your everyday English.
Hi, I'm Neil and joining me today is Catherine. Hello, Catherine?
Hello Neil?
So, what have you got for us today?
I've got a story today about someone who's just lost their job.
someone who's lost their job ,that doesn't sound very nice ,does it?
Let's find out more from this BBC world service news bulletine.
so as you probably know a few days ago president Trump gave an order banning people from seven muslim majority contries from entering United States America
now there's been a lot of disagreement about this police and US attoney general that's head of justice department has told justice department lawyers not to defend the ban in court and as a result of this , president Trump has removed her from her job.
ok, you've been scanning the news website for this story
and what are the words and expressions which are useful?
ok, today we're going to look at sack, fire, defying and betrayle
ok,let's start with our first one sack or fire?
ok, on the BBC news website we have the headline Trump sacks defiant acting attorney general Sally Yates
and on sky News Trump fires attorney general over travel ban
so both sack and fire meaning remove from a job.
what's difference between those?
well, they're pretty much interchangeable
but fire is generally American English whereas sack you hear more in British English.
although British people do understand fire and sack is being ,having the same meaning.
yeah, they're both quite very short dramatic words ,aren't they?
very short,very dramatic, very informal. you don't see them very much written down
you wouldn't put it in formal letter, you wouldn't probably put it in a formal email , the formal word would probably dismiss
and this words are often used in the passive ,aren't they?
they use, you can be fired , you can get sacked , and we often use it in that way.
and there's an expression in British English,
we say to give someone the sack
you can give someone the sack , you're not literally giving them anything.
but it means you're removing them from their job.
usually because they've done something bad
or because they haven't performed or succeeded in their job very well.
yes , this is not a very nice way of losing a job.
it's not , ( ) or retirement
no It's not a happy ending or you're not leaving because you want to.
you've leaving because you've been told to leave because of problem that you are responsible for usually.
yeah.
Have you ever been sacked, Neil?
What a incredible question , Have I been sacked.
No, I've never been sacked. this time yet.
( ) something out.
a possible reason for being sacked or fired could be connected to the next word.
next word ok so ,we're moving on this time to the Independent website.
their headline says Donald Trump fires acting attorney General for defying executive order banning refugees
so, defying meaning refusing to obey
yeah, it can be , you can refuse to obey a person, a person in authority.
you can refues to obey an order , you can refues to obey a rule,
and if you do this to refues to obey , usually as an act of protests because you don't like what you're being told to do. that's what we call it, it's defiance
in this case, in a verb form , defy or defying.
yes, it's an deliberate act , isn't it often?
yes, you're showing your displeasure, your disagreement.
and it's quite aggressive act ,it's a protest, you don't do it quitely usually.
and an act of defiance and that's a really nice expression. act of defiance.
it's something you do to show that you don't really like it,
or you're being told to do.
for example.
if you're a smoker, and you thought it's your human right to smoke anywhere.
and when you went into an restaurant ,in this country and many other countries,
where smoking is now illegal ,is banned.
and you took out your cigarette and lit it
proudly, angrily,
exhaling your smokes. in the manager's face.
that would be a large act of , a strong act of defiance..
you would probably be removed from the restaurant.
if you did it at work, you might get sacked.
which lead us on now to our third word and headline?
ok ,now we're looking at I-TV news website
and headline here is Trump fires attorney general over travel ban 'betrayal'
betrayal is an act of not being royal
so it's a little bit like defiance , ins't it?
it is. it is a way of your doing something opposite of what you're expected of you
opposite of what people this you're going to do.
with defiance , you're protesting , you're doing it against a rule or an authority.
with betroyal , you're doing something which works in opposition to friendship
or trust.
so for example, perhaps you support a certain football team
and you've got a star player, a quy that you really love.
and then onc season he decieded to play for the city rivals
the closest rivals , the next door team. you hate.
maybe you support Manchester United and the player goes to the Manchester city
or ( )
I've never forgive him.
New castle ,sunderland
don't even talk about it.
it's an act of betrayal.
it's an act of betrayal , the fans would be very offset
because this person has taken their trust ,their friendship ,their support.
( ) something where he really shows he doesn't care about that.
and that's called betrayal.
to betrate somebody.
and both betrayal and defying ,they're quite dramatic and serious words.
most definitely. yeah. serious story. so we're using serious vocablurary.
but you can use words like defy and betrate in your everyday English.
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Hello and welcome to News Review the program where we show you how to use the languages from the lastest news stories in your everyday English.
Hi, I'm Neil and joining me today is Catherine. Hello, Catherine?
Hello Neil?
So, what have you got for us today?
I've got a story today about someone who's just lost their job.
someone who's lost their job ,that doesn't sound very nice ,does it?
Let's find out more from this BBC world service news bulletine.
so as you probably know a few days ago president Trump gave an order banning people from seven muslim majority contries from entering United States America
now there's been a lot of disagreement about this police and US attoney general that's head of justice department has told justice department lawyers not to defend the ban in court and as a result of this , president Trump has removed her from her job.
ok, you've been scanning the news website for this story
and what are the words and expressions which are useful?
ok, today we're going to look at sack, fire, defying and betrayle
ok,let's start with our first one sack or fire?
ok, on the BBC news website we have the headline Trump sacks defiant acting attorney general Sally Yates
and on sky News Trump fires attorney general over travel ban
so both sack and fire meaning remove from a job.
what's difference between those?
well, they're pretty much interchangeable
but fire is generally American English whereas sack you hear more in British English.
although British people do understand fire and sack is being ,having the same meaning.
yeah, they're both quite very short dramatic words ,aren't they?
very short,very dramatic, very informal. you don't see them very much written down
you wouldn't put it in formal letter, you wouldn't probably put it in a formal email , the formal word would probably dismiss
and this words are often used in the passive ,aren't they?
they use, you can be fired , you can get sacked , and we often use it in that way.
and there's an expression in British English,
we say to give someone the sack
you can give someone the sack , you're not literally giving them anything.
but it means you're removing them from their job.
usually because they've done something bad
or because they haven't performed or succeeded in their job very well.
yes , this is not a very nice way of losing a job.
it's not , ( ) or retirement
no It's not a happy ending or you're not leaving because you want to.
you've leaving because you've been told to leave because of problem that you are responsible for usually.
yeah.
Have you ever been sacked, Neil?
What a incredible question , Have I been sacked.
No, I've never been sacked. this time yet.
( ) something out.
a possible reason for being sacked or fired could be connected to the next word.
next word ok so ,we're moving on this time to the Independent website.
their headline says Donald Trump fires acting attorney General for defying executive order banning refugees
so, defying meaning refusing to obey
yeah, it can be , you can refuse to obey a person, a person in authority.
you can refues to obey an order , you can refues to obey a rule,
and if you do this to refues to obey , usually as an act of protests because you don't like what you're being told to do. that's what we call it, it's defiance
in this case, in a verb form , defy or defying.
yes, it's an deliberate act , isn't it often?
yes, you're showing your displeasure, your disagreement.
and it's quite aggressive act ,it's a protest, you don't do it quitely usually.
and an act of defiance and that's a really nice expression. act of defiance.
it's something you do to show that you don't really like it,
or you're being told to do.
for example.
if you're a smoker, and you thought it's your human right to smoke anywhere.
and when you went into an restaurant ,in this country and many other countries,
where smoking is now illegal ,is banned.
and you took out your cigarette and lit it
proudly, angrily,
exhaling your smokes. in the manager's face.
that would be a large act of , a strong act of defiance..
you would probably be removed from the restaurant.
if you did it at work, you might get sacked.
which lead us on now to our third word and headline?
ok ,now we're looking at I-TV news website
and headline here is Trump fires attorney general over travel ban 'betrayal'
betrayal is an act of not being royal
so it's a little bit like defiance , ins't it?
it is. it is a way of your doing something opposite of what you're expected of you
opposite of what people this you're going to do.
with defiance , you're protesting , you're doing it against a rule or an authority.
with betroyal , you're doing something which works in opposition to friendship
or trust.
so for example, perhaps you support a certain football team
and you've got a star player, a quy that you really love.
and then onc season he decieded to play for the city rivals
the closest rivals , the next door team. you hate.
maybe you support Manchester United and the player goes to the Manchester city
or ( )
I've never forgive him.
New castle ,sunderland
don't even talk about it.
it's an act of betrayal.
it's an act of betrayal , the fans would be very offset
because this person has taken their trust ,their friendship ,their support.
( ) something where he really shows he doesn't care about that.
and that's called betrayal.
to betrate somebody.
and both betrayal and defying ,they're quite dramatic and serious words.
most definitely. yeah. serious story. so we're using serious vocablurary.
but you can use words like defy and betrate in your everyday English.
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1. fire & sack(v) = dismiss : remove someone from their job. ex: His boss fired him because he is very lazy. She is sacked because she forgot to clock.
2. defying (n): refusing to obey. ex: I asked my child to take a shower. But he didn't do it. It is a defying.
3. betrayal (n): act of not being loyal. ex: J is his best friend. J talks to the other person about his badness. It's betrayal.
4. Thanks Neil and Catherine.
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1. fire & sack(v) = dismiss : remove someone from their job. ex: His boss fired him because he is very lazy. She is sacked because she forgot to clock.
2. defying (n): refusing to obey. ex: I asked my child to take a shower. But he didn't do it. It is a defying.
3. betrayal (n): act of not being loyal. ex: J is his best friend. J talks to the other person about his badness. It's betrayal.
4. Thanks Neil and Catherine.
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Frank
Hello and thank you for this fantastic program... Dismissed can also mean: you have the permission to leave , military language, for instance. In example, when a superior asks a subordinate to leave the office by saying you are dismissed, this doesn't mean you are sacked.
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Hello and thank you for this fantastic program... Dismissed can also mean: you have the permission to leave , military language, for instance. In example, when a superior asks a subordinate to leave the office by saying you are dismissed, this doesn't mean you are sacked.
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Yan
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I love this programme sooooooo much! Unfortunately, Youtube's been blocked in China. I was wondering if you could upload this programme to iTunes Podcast! I definitely appreciate that.
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Sasa
Thanks a lot for these words ... but there is (executive) word ... what does it mean ? I really looked it up but I didn't see the meaning at all ... can you help me with that ?
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Thanks a lot for these words ... but there is (executive) word ... what does it mean ? I really looked it up but I didn't see the meaning at all ... can you help me with that ?
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