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  • he's a review from BBC Learning English 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.

  • Ah, a nail and joining me Today's Catherine.

  • Hi, Catherine.

  • Hello, Neil.

  • Hello, everybody.

  • What we got today.

  • Today's story is about Greta Ton Berg's speech to the United Nations.

  • Yes, okay, so let's hear a clip from that speech that Greta Timberg made to the United Nations.

  • People are suffering.

  • People are dying.

  • Entire ecosystems are collapsing.

  • We are in the beginning, off a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales off eternal economic growth.

  • How dare you.

  • So, Greta Totenberg there now she's the 16 year old Swedish climate change activist.

  • She's made an emotional speech at a U.

  • N.

  • Climate summit in New York.

  • She expressed her frustration at world leaders for, as she says, their failure to act on climate change.

  • She thinks their priorities are wrong.

  • She thinks that Maur interested in making money than they are in dealing with environmental issues.

  • Okay, well, you've been looking across the various news websites and you've picked out some really interesting vocabulary that go with this story.

  • What have you got?

  • We have fairy tales.

  • Death stare on Dhe.

  • How dare you?

  • Fairy tales Death stare And how dare you?

  • So that 1st 1 fairy tales, please.

  • What's the headline headline is from Yahoo News?

  • Emotional Greta Totenberg denounces fairytales off eternal economic growth at U.

  • N Climate Action Summit.

  • Okay, fairy tales stories people have invented which disguised the truth.

  • Now that's a bit different to the fairy tales I know.

  • I'm thinking about Cinderella.

  • Red Riding Herd.

  • Goldie Locks.

  • Yes, those are fairytales.

  • What's this got to do with economic climate?

  • This that well, it's very interesting.

  • So, yeah, fairytales are those Children's stories Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, All those stories where there's usually a princess who is in love with a handsome prince and the prince has to kill a monster or fight somebody or something bad happens.

  • But always at the end, the prince marries the beautiful princess and everybody's happy forever.

  • They all live happily ever or live happily ever after, but we kind of know it's not true life.

  • Real life isn't like that.

  • It's lovely to believe fairy tales As a child.

  • We love them, you know.

  • It's a sort of model of the way we would love life to be.

  • But in reality it's not the same.

  • So what Greta is saying, the way it's used here is to say his life is not a story.

  • There's not going to be a happy ending.

  • And she's saying that the politicians are telling us there will be a happy ending with that with their economic plans and policies.

  • But it's actually it's not really yes, Ally, it's a fantasy is a fantasy.

  • Yes, Okay, now fairy tale is also used.

  • Ah, as a sort of as an adjective to mean a very positive.

  • Yeah, it's interesting.

  • You can say that's a fairy tale when you think somebody's lying to you or they're selling you a fantasy.

  • That isn't gonna happen.

  • But you can also use it in a positive sense.

  • If you have a fairy tale romance or a fairytale wedding, you actually do marry your handsome prince or your beautiful princess in real life s Oh, it's when you've got, you know, the cake and the flowers, and everybody's happy and crying that convey, actually, for once the dream comes true way.

  • Also hear this about teams or sportsmen, sports people who do very well despite not being that great or no, Not normally performing to that Lear recently.

  • In the last few seasons, Leicester City won the English Premier League.

  • Nobody expects of it.

  • Nobody expected that Croatia went got to the World Cup final.

  • The very small and very new nation fairy tale.

  • A retail run in the cup?

  • Yes.

  • Oh, yes.

  • When something amazingly, wonderfully good happens with a brilliant ending that nobody expected.

  • That could be a fairy tale as well.

  • Okay, let's move on to our next headline.

  • Okay, we've got the mirror.

  • Greta, turn.

  • Berg gives Donald Trump death stare after emotional climate speech.

  • So deaths there D e a t h second word stare S t a r e.

  • So a death stare is a look of hatred aimed at a person?

  • Yes.

  • Now, if you saw credit Hamburg's speech on TV or on Lane, you will see a clip of seeing Donald Trump entering the building.

  • She looked at him very, very angrily.

  • Very stern, very unforgiving.

  • She really you could see in her face how annoyed and angry she wasthe?

  • Yes.

  • If you saw that death stare, he would, you know, Look it up.

  • Yes, because you can't mistake it, but in case you aren't able to see it date Neal, would you like to know, demonstrate your very best deaths.

  • Ah, okay.

  • I tend to be really annoyed now with percent.

  • I've stolen your last biscuits.

  • Okay, here it comes.

  • Here is my death stare.

  • I think you're too nice.

  • Nearly.

  • It's because I don't I don't need biscuits like Rob does.

  • If the last fix biscuit has gone, Rob will give you a very, very, very harsh soak allocation there.

  • The word that goes with death stir is to give someone a death stare.

  • Or you can give a death stare to somebody.

  • You might yet do it, Esther, but is mostly gift.

  • If you are interested in stories about the climate and climate change, we have plenty.

  • We did one recently about the forest fires in the Amazon.

  • And where can you find that, Catherine?

  • You confined that by clicking the link in the information, you'll go straight to the program.

  • OK?

  • On to our final headline, please.

  • Right.

  • We're going to the nation.

  • The headline is How dare you!

  • Greta Teutenberg rebukes world leaders.

  • Okay?

  • How dare you?

  • Is an expression used to express anger at someone's actions?

  • Yes, it is.

  • Now, this is a three wood expression.

  • First word how h o w second would dare d a r e and then the final, would you Y o u.

  • So how dare you?

  • You say it when somebody has really annoyed you or surprised you by doing something that they really shouldn't have done that quite sort of shameful.

  • There are data.

  • They they shouldn't do it.

  • But they did it anyway.

  • You're shocked.

  • You're angry.

  • So you say.

  • How dare you say somebody borrowed your car or something without you without asking and then damaged it?

  • Yes.

  • How dare you Or somebody went into my bedroom, looked in my cupboards, took something, war it.

  • I saw them on the street wearing my clothes.

  • How dare you?

  • You have no right to do that.

  • I'm sorry I did that.

  • I can see your debts.

  • S O is this expression of anger is shocked at somebody's outrageous actions.

  • Yeah, Now this is a fixed expression.

  • Apart from the pronoun.

  • Yes, yes.

  • If you're talking about somebody else.

  • How dare he?

  • How does she if it's a group of people or a company?

  • How did l ve We don't normally say how dare it?

  • Because usually animals and things don't have the ability to Tuesday knowingly do something outrageous.

  • Yeah, OK on we don't change the tents, do we?

  • If we're talking about the past, we don't say how did he?

  • No, no, no.

  • It's always how dare you?

  • Very fixed expression.

  • Yeah, interestingly was it Sounds like question it.

  • Sze got the question.

  • Would how we often write it with an exclamation mark rather than a question mark.

  • You'll see it written.

  • It's an exclamation.

  • Now it is time to recap a vocabulary, please.

  • Okay, here we go.

  • We had fairy tales, stories people have I invented which described the truth.

  • We had a death stare, look of hatred aimed at a person on how dare you used to express anger at someone's actions.

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