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We show You how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English I'm Dan, and joining me today is Katherine.

Hi, Katherine.

Hi, Dan.

So what's the story?

We've got a story today about a controversial new advertising campaign.

Okay, let's hear more from this.

BBC World Service News Bulletin The sports giant Nike has said its latest advertising campaign will feature Colin Kaepernick, the former American football player who led a protest against police brutality towards African Americans.

Kaepernick was a quarterback with the San Francisco 40 Niners for six years but stirred a controversy in 2016 when he now don't during the playing of the U.

S national anthem before matches.

So Colin Kaepernick was an NFL American football player during the American national anthem.

Americans usually stand up as a mark of respect and patriotism.

Colin Kaepernick didn't stand.

He decided to kneel during the national anthem.

He did this'll, he says, as a protest against police brutality.

Violence against African Americans from the police Now opinion at the time was very divided.

Some people thought this was a great thing to do.

Other people were very angry and thought it was a very unpatriotic.

The brand sports brown Nike have now decided Teoh that Colin Kaepernick will be the face of their new advertising campaign.

This decision has proved very, very controversial in America.

Thank you very much.

We'll we've got three words and expressions that they can use to talk about this story.

What have we got for them?

We have provocative exiled on litmus test, provocative, exiled and litmus test.

OK, Katherine, can we have our first headline, please?

Yet we're going to Fox.

Ktv you Colin Kaepernick appears in provocative Nike.

Odd, provocative, causing a reaction or thought provocative.

It's a nice word.

What kind of word is it?

It's an objective down and it comes from the verb to provoke.

And something tells me you've got a story about provoking visit.

The cheeky smile I had on my face always.

Well, yeah.

I used to provoke my brother all the time.

Daisy, A little brother three years younger than me.

What did you dio poke him?

Yeah, I put my hand in front of me.

I'm not touching that.

Nothing you could do and wind him up.

What did you say?

She said, don't provoke your brother.

What did your brother do when you provoked him?

He either got upsets and cried.

Or he got angry and he hit me.

Accident.

So, poor brother.

I'm sure you're very sorry now, but you provoked a response, which was anger and annoyance on being upset on.

This is the key to provoke the reaction that you get can be about annoyance or anger.

It can also be desire.

You can talk about something provoking desire, often sexual desire.

We talk about people wearing provocative clothing.

We can also things can also be thought provoking something often that you read or hear or see that's designed often to make you think like a good thought provoking documentary, for example.

Absolutely yes.

Okay, so I'm guessing that the use of provocative in this headline isn't anything to do with sexual desire?

Probably not.

It's more to do with given the history off Colin Kaepernick.

It's likely to be provocative in this sense, off anger and science and thought as well.

It's going to make people respond either angry or thinking about the situation.

Thank you very much for that thought provoking explanation.

Let's move on to our second headline, then.

OK, we've got Fox Sports now.

Exiled NFL star Colin Kaepernick reveals ultimate sacrifice and politically charged Nike campaign exiled, forced out of a place or group.

Sounds like a very serious would.

It is, and it comes on the verb to exile.

We often use it in the passive.

Somebody has bean exiled.

It's often used in a political sense when a politician has to, or leader has to leave their country because often it's not safe for them to stay so that sometimes they get sent to live.

Sometimes they choose to live in a different country.

Could be like a crime couldn't like it could be the punishment for a crime.

It could be a punishment for a crime.

So for various reasons, politicians and leaders sometimes have to live outside their own country.

They live in exile, they all exiled.

They are on exile.

Okay, in this case, though, Colin Kaepernick hasn't been forced to leave the USA.

So why are we using exile here?

So it's not in a geographical sense that he's been exiled, but he hasn't played in the NFL since 2017.

So because off his his controversial accent actions, he is now unable to participate in his sports.

So in that sense, he's in exile.

He has Bean exiled from his profession.

Okay, so I mean, in this case, he's not allowed to be within that group.

So could I say that I've been exiled from the tennis club?

You probably just get kicked out of your tennis level.

Asked to leave, we use exile in that kind of is quite a big word used for kind of politicians, famous people for controversial figures.

So it's not.

You don't use it for day today.

Situations Okay, so in this case, it's being used because it's a newspaper and it's a kind of Yeah, seriously, Yeah.

Nations.

Yes.

Okay, let's have a look at our third headline then, please on.

We're now going to NBC Sports Colin Kaepernick Art.

A litmus test off Nikes.

True Intentions, litmus test action that shows someone's riel thoughts or opinions.

I thought litmus tests were all about chemistry.

Yeah, I remember in my school chemistry lessons, they gave us 22 bottles of liquid in a piece of paper and you put the piece of paper at one end into one bottle, and it went red.

And then he turned it over and put it on the other end into another bottle, and it went blue on.

The bottles look the same, but you got a different response, whether the liquid was acid or alkaline.

So the paper showed what was going on even though you couldn't tell normally.

So it's a kind of test of the situation.

Okay, so this is revealing kind of the inner workings of the inner thoughts.

Yeah, off something or a group of people shows what's going shows what a litmus test shows what's really going on.

It's an attempt to find out what's likely to happen in a particular situation.

Oh, like home the other day, I I pitch tonight.

Why?

I have an idea for a new show.

I'm gonna say what it is right now.

Keep it under wraps.

You know how sharks?

But I wanted to see if it was a good idea or not.

So I took Robin neither side, and I said, Listen, guys, this is the idea, did it and they gave me some feedback.

And so, based on that I would decide whether or not to tell the rest of the team, the larger groups.

Is that a litmus test?

Kind of, Yeah, yeah, it's when you are, you sort of test your idea to find out whether it's going to be successful in the wider sense.

Companies often do this when they launch a product.

They might only launch a product in one city, see how popular it is and then decide whether to launch it in a in A in a wider area.

So a litmus test is a test off what's really going on or what people think, or what the likely responses to something, Thank you very much.

Okay, So before we recap our vocabulary, let's go to our Social media Challenge.

This morning we posted a synonym of controversial is a contentious be agreeable or C unbiased?

Catherine, what's the right answer and how do they do?

The right answer is answer.

A contentious is a synonym for controversial lots of correct answers.

On Instagram, we had Seattle Facebook, Palm men can and on Twitter, Arun Bharadwaj well done to everybody who got it right and well done to those three in particular Okay.

Can we please recap the vocabulary?

Certainly we had provocative causing a reaction or thought exiled, forced out of a place or group litmus test action that shows someone's real thoughts or opinions.

Thank you very much.

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