Hi, Catherine.

Hello down and hello, everyone.

So what's the story?

Today's story We're going to Indian administered Kashmir.

Okay, let's hear more about that from this BBC World Service News report.

The Indian Home Minister, amid Chuy's, expects to place his resolution abrogating Article 3 70 which confers special status on the state of Jammu and Kashmir before the lower house of the Indian Parliament later today.

So the Himalayan region of Kashmir is currently partitioned between Pakistan and India.

Now the Indian side that's a state of Jammu and Kashmir has got special status.

It's significant degree of autonomy that means it's able to govern itself.

This comes from Article 3 70 Now India's government have decided to remove this status.

Conferred by Article 3 70 India is going to take direct governmental control here.

This is going to the Indian Parliament later today.

There is a strong expectation that there's going to be protest there may possibly even be violence, so it's a very significant decision with possibly serious consequences.

I see.

So we've got three words and expressions that our viewers can use to talk about this story.

What have we got for them?

Can we have drips in one fell swoop on dhe grim strips in one fell swoop and grim.

Okay, let's have our first headline then, please, We'll have it now.

Are we looking at BBC News Article 3 70 India strips disputed Kashmir off special status strips, removes something's position or status.

Now I'm familiar with the term strip in reference to clothes, and many people are This has nothing to do with that.

Doesn't nothing to do with removing clothes, the job of stripper, someone who removes closer entertainment or money.

We're not going there without one.

But stripped does have the meaning off.

Remove something that usually something that's covering something else.

So S T.

R.

I P.

Is this spelling, and you can actually strip lots of things.

So, for example, if you're making, if you're want to change your bed linen and you want to take off your dirty, she's This is a bed you can strip the bed when you're cooking in the kitchen down.

Then you've got a nice some herbs, maybe rosemary or thyme.

Okay, the stem is woody.

The leaves are soft, so we want the leaves.

We don't want the woody part.

So you rip the herb.

You stripped the hurt by removing the good parts and getting rid of the part you can't eat.

You want to decorate your house, Okay, You have some paint on a wooden door and you don't like the pain.

Old, horrible pain, vulnerable color.

So you go to the D I Y store.

You buy a special chemicals t put onto this paint, which will dissolve the paint so you can strip it.

It's from on.

This special chemical is called paint stripper.

Well, to do paint stripper, that's it will remove the paint forcefully as well.

On.

That brings us to the next point about this verb to strip when you strip something off something and we usually strip something over something.

And that's the verb Patton is.

It strips something off, something to strip something off something.

You do it forcefully You do.

It can almost be violently sometimes, but generally the thing being stripped doesn't want to be stripped year because we're talking about, like, status, power or property.

Oh, yeah?

You want to give it up?

Yes.

So if you remove a politician or somebody who's got a position of political power, they do something wrong.

They go to jail, they can be stripped off their power.

Okay.

They can be stripped off their possessions.

If you're a criminal, you could be stripped of you possessions.

Um, stripped off your authority is another way to do it.

So is taking something away from somebody by force?

Thank you very much for explaining it.

All right, let's move on to our second headline, then, please.

Yes.

So now we're looking at the Independent in one fell swoop.

Modi's B.

J P has shut the door to a democratic, peaceful solution in Kashmir.

And that's an editorial and opinion piece there in the Independent in one fell swoop all at once.

Gosh, that's a lot of words.

What What does that mean?

It means all at once, all at the same time.

You do something without waiting without doing part of it now, and part of it later, it actually has it appears in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth.

No, we don't We're not saying that William Shakespeare invented this phrase, but he certainly used it.

The kind of idea is, if you think of a bird of prey, are hunting birds like a hawk or an eagle?

Yeah, it's up there.

It's, sees what it wants.

Down it goes, it grabs it and it leaves.

Okay.

And that's the idea of one fell swoop.

Is the movement of averted Okay, so we'll like it happens so suddenly.

It was all in one go.

Because obviously you don't want You don't want to fall slowly to catch their They don't mess about No.

OK, eso done all at the same time, or all in one go?

Yes.

Fell f e double l Soup s W double o P.

Now you can do lots of things in one fell swoop.

It's not just about catching things or indeed political process down if you've got a lot of work to do, Um and you've got a lot and you you want to do it.

You can either do it bit by bit.

Bit now, a bit later, a bit another time.

Or you can do it all in one fell swoop.

That means you do it all.

And then it's finished like my Christmas shopping that I did last year.

Oh, yes, I hate Christmas shopping.

I don't want to go to the shop to so many people are blah, blah got up really early one Saturday and I went to the shopping center on.

I bought all of the presence in one fell swoop, and then I didn't have to do any more.

Shopping is the rest of the holiday.

Yes.

Oh, good, that's very good.

You think you can't do things in more than one fell swoop?

Can't do it in three fellas.

Will No, no, Certainly I wouldn't want to.

Anyway.

I want to go back there three time.

That's the whole point of in wall at one fell swoop in all, at one fell swoop or more commonly in 11 fell swoop means one time and it's done.

Do you like to do anything in one fell swoop?

Eyes.

I'm not really a one first.

What kind of person?

To be honest, I tend to be the person who does a bit now, in a bit later than a bit more than a cup of tea and then another one.

I like the cup of tea.

Very important.

Nina got a D in the middle, and so things said, I'm not.

Yeah, I tend to do things bit by bit.

Okay, that's very no Well, thank you very much for explaining that in one fell swoop.

Now let's go to our next headline.

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All right, let's go to our third and final headline, then, please.

Yes, we have Dawn I H.

K's grim reality.

Very short headline, grim, serious worrying and without hope.

This is one of my favorite words to say Grimm Grim.

Yeah, you can say it's quite grimly.

Yes, you can.

Yeah, that's the adverb.

Yes, the Namib.

So grip objective G R.

I am.

It's not a happy would, it describes.

You can use it in lots of different context, but it means unhappy, miserable, hopeless, not pleasant, depressing, ugly dog.

A miserable It's It's a word you use when things are about Yeah, yeah, eh So you can use you can have a grim expression down what you're gonna do for us now that's quite a grip.

Is looking serious and miserable.

You can talk about the future looking grim.

Eso without hope.

Yeah, yeah, you can tell what some people say that there's an expression actually fixed expression in.

In the UK, we talk about, say, we say it's grim up north, okay?

And this refers to the north of the country.

It's a little bit old fashioned.

People don't use it so much now, but it refers to the industrial days when the north of England was full of factories.

There was a lot of smoke.

The weather is not so nice Sometimes the wind is a long it can rain a lot, so the weather is very gray and cloudy.

And life, of course, is quite hard when you have to work that much.

It was back then and probably still is for some people.

So the expression it's grim up north means it's a difficult, depressing, gray kind of experience.

Okay, I am from up north, and I tell you, it's no that, but so we've got serious.

We've got hopeless.

We've got the weather that you just mentioned.

So quite dark.

British weather is often quite grim, isn't it?

Yeah, it's overcast.

What else?

You can talk about grim buildings.

You get a big, horrible concrete building that has no character, and it's used for sort of administration or something on an uninspiring on.

And then you got the character a grim Reaper, that kind of character guy.

Usually we think it's a guy.

Well, sex was.

Technically, it's a skeleton wears a long cloak with a black hood.

He carries a big it's called a side, which is a pole with a big blade on it.

Here he is death.

In fact, it's a cover to his death but we called him the Grim Reaper.

I wonder if that's because he never smiles, Although technically as a skeleton, he's always smiling.

I don't know how that works.

You're overthinking it.

Yeah, no, don't worry about it.

That's right.

Now could you please recap the vocabulary?

I can?

So we had strips remove something's position or status in one fell swoop all at once on grim, serious worrying and without hope.

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