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Hi, everybody. Today I'm going to be having a look at The Sun, one of the fine contributions to U.K. publishing.
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We're going to be looking at terms, words that are used in a tabloid.
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A "tabloid" is a small newspaper that opens like this. We're looking at use for journalistic terms used in the U.K. press.
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Lovely. Lovely. I hope you enjoy my words that I'm going to be giving to you today.
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Make sure that as we're going along, you practice saying them, too.
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I don't want you sitting there, like this. That's no good.
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You're going to say the words back to me. Okay?
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So, on page number seven, I read about an "Obsessive Mum and Dad".
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Look at them, they're talking about their little child. They're really thinking about what they should do with the child.
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They are "helicopter parents". Okay? They have a lot of money. Right?
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And they can afford to give anything to their child, but they think a bit too much about that child.
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We call them "helicopter parents". Yeah? Great.
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Now, I turn to page 11, and it's this person, Ulrika Jonsson, and she is showing me some arguments.
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Now, she makes a good point about Miley Cyrus, and she goes: "Boom!" Okay?
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If you're having a bit... A bit of a conversation with a friend and you win the argument, you go: "Boom!"
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Okay? It's an exclamation mark to show that you won the argument. This is an exclamation mark.
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You're shouting out. "Ex", out, "clamo", the Latin word "to shout".
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Yeah, I'm a bit of a boffin; clever person.
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Now, I turn to page, I think it was 12, and I'm reading all about the economy, and the "EU is in trouble".
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The European Union, right? So, what do we call it? "Eurageddon". Okay?
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All this language, it's exaggerated. Yeah? It's silly language. We make it like a disaster movie,
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because bad news sells. "Eurageddon", obviously we get that from Armageddon, end of the world, the EU in trouble.
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Now, some poor girl's got bitten by a dog. Where was she? But look at the use of verb.
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We say that she's been "mauled". Yeah? A "savage" is like a wild person. The dog has savaged her so much
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she's got blood bursting out. [Roars] Yeah? Savage, mauled.
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It's... You know, she's actually just been bitten by a dog, but you know, we exaggerate.
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These are strong verbs. Strong, yeah, strong.
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Oh, dear, there's a man wearing tights. Good thing he's called David Beckham. What do we call these "man tights"?
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We call them "mantyhose". Yeah, that is the correct word for "man tights".
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Not quite sure where... Why Becks is wearing them here, but there we are. Becks, mantyhose.
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So, some people have been criticising David Beckham's choice of man tights, here. In fact,
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they've been "slamming" them. Yeah? Because The Sun likes to exaggerate. Yeah? So it's
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slamming it. Yeah? It's not just saying: "Becks, not a very appropriate choice of underwear."
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They've slammed it. Slam, yeah? You slam the door, that's how badly they've criticised it.
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They've said he's a little bit different, but they haven't just said: "He's a little
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bit different", they've called him a "loony". Yeah? That's really rude to call someone a loony.
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He's completely mad.
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And the new launch, okay? It didn't go very well, so they don't just say that it "went badly",
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something can go badly or it can go well; they say that it "flopped". Yeah? It flopped.
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So we could talk about this the opening weekend of a film, the premiere of a film, and it flopped.
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Okay? No one went to go and see the film.
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And if I look on page 15, if I remember correctly, we have a "1st time that the story has been told",
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yeah? "Revenge Slayer", okay? So this is a "world exclusive". "World exclusive"
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means the first time it has been told. Okay? It's just a... Sort of, again, exaggerate.
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It sounds really important: A world exclusive.
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"Showing off his legs" in a photo, we call that a "legbombing". See this lucky lady, here,
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she's showing off her legs, she's sticking in her legs, she's legbombing. We're not talking about... We're not talking about a bomb, okay?
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We're talking about the surprise caused by showing a bit of leg.
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Uh-oh.
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Now, if I turn to page three, I see a bit of a "stunner". Okay? So, "stunner" is a word for "good looking".
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Now, what I want you to do is become a bit of a "boffin", a "clever person", and go to the quiz, and get 10 out of 10.
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And never buy this newspaper. Thank you.
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You'll become much more of a boffin if you read a slightly more intellectual newspaper.
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Thank you very much for watching today. We've had an obsessive Mum or Dad; a helicopter parent.
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"Boom!" You're going to win your arguments. EU in trouble, we hope not, but if it is, it's Eurageddon.
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I hope you subscribe to my YouTube channel, thanks for watching today,
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and really go out there, read some English papers. You can get them online as well, if you're not in the U.K.
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So, keep reading, keep learning.
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Until next time, see you later.