Hi, Catherine.

Hello, Dan and hello, everyone.

So what's our story about?

Today's story is about an invitation to talk.

Okay, let's hear more from this BBC World Service News report After weeks of anti government protests in Hong Kong, the territories leader Carrie Lam has said she wants to listen to what people have to say.

Demonstrations against creeping Chinese mainland influence over Hong Kong have escalated since mid June, so there has bean protest in Hong Kong for the last 11 weeks Now.

Some of these protests have got quite violent.

This most recent protest was actually peaceful.

Carrie Lam, who is the chief executive of Hong Kong, has announced the establishment of a platform for dialogue to listen to what people want to say.

So there's going to be a mechanism for communication between Carrie Lam and the protesters.

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

What do we have for them?

We have shuns olive branch on dhe concessions.

Shuns olive branch and concessions.

Okay, Can we have our first headline, please?

We can.

So we're going to look at Al Jazeera first.

Hong Kong's Carrie Lam offers talks but shuns protestors, demands, shuns, deliberately ignores, avoids or rejects something.

Now, this is a verb.

If I'm not mistaken, this is a verb.

S h u n is the vase verb.

It's a regular verb.

So shunned send it takes with a double n.

It does take an object.

So you shun something I can't say I shun.

You can't say I shouldn't.

You need to say what you're shunning.

Okay, So how does it work?

Well, sure has a similar meaning to avoid or ignore.

Reject.

It's when something is bad.

Negative, unpleasant.

You don't like it?

You don't want to be around it.

So when you see it, you avoid it a bit like plastic at the moment with, You know, the environmental movement in society with parents were being encouraged to shun plast.

A lot of people are shunning plastic.

They're avoiding using plastic as much as possible.

Yes.

Okay, so Obviously, plastic is a thing.

Do we only shown things?

No.

You can show people.

In fact, it's more useful people, really.

If you show you can show people that are negative in some way, you might have.

If you play a sport, there might be somebody on the team on your side or the other side.

Who is who plays too aggressively who breaks the rules, who isn't very pleasant.

You will shun them.

You'll avoid socializing with Anil.

Avoid talking to them.

Avoid playing, shun that kind of behavior as well.

You shouldn't behavior indeed, yes as well.

It's a personal issue in the behavior, so it's used.

It's a way off saying you avoid something because it's bad in some way.

I also heard that you use it a lot in the passive Done.

You people are shunned.

Yes, yes, very much so you can say somebody who was a thief, for example.

They might be shunned by their community.

They might be shunned by their neighbors or just national.

Let's go to our second headline, please.

So this time we're going to time.

The headline is a platform for dialogue.

Hong Kong's leader promises to listen to a community tourney, part by protest.

Now our phrase today is actually in the first line of the story.

Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's in battled top official, held out an olive branch to anti government protesters.

Olive branch action taken as an attempt to end a disagreement.

Now I'm guessing that she didn't actually hold a stick with olives on it.

No, she didn't.

An olive branch o l I v E on B r A N C H olives are those like fruits that you eat often with solid or sometimes you cook with them.

You can put them in drink sometimes either black or green, small, with a like a love.

And already I can't stand them.

Yeah, people like they love them or hate them.

I love them, especially the black ones.

They grow on trees on dhe.

There's actually a biblical reference here, if you know your Bible.

Old Testament stories.

Noah, who was on the ark with the flood and all the animals in his ark.

He sent out a dove to see if there was any land anywhere.

The dove came back, and it was carrying a branch of the olive tree on This is a symbol of piece of dove is a symbol of peace.

It's a symbol of new beginnings, so if you hold out an olive branch, you don't literally hold out.

Stick with.

We will be carrying olive branches everywhere when we don't have two bags.

One of your normal stuff of one for all your love brunch.

Because of the inconvenience of having to carry olive punches with you everywhere, we use it, figuratively or idiomatic.

Lee.

If you hold out an olive branch, you do something that makes to symbolize the fact that you want to reconcile.

You want to make peace.

You want to move ahead.

You want to make friends again after a disagreement.

It's interesting that you said Hold out an olive branch, so I'm guessing that's one of the common verbs that we use with it.

It's a very strong col occasion.

To hold out an olive branch means to do something to signal that you want to make friends with somebody.

You can also extend on olive brunch.

You can offer an olive branch by someone like I did with Rob again.

I mean, Rob and I had a disagreement over a script was do with biscuits.

But knowing that Rob likes biscuits after I fight, I bought him a cookie as an olive brown.

Does he accept your offer of an olive branch?

You did.

I held out an olive branch to him by buying him a cookie, and he gobbled it up.

Never fails, does it?

The cookies, Right, Let's move to our third and final headline.

But before we do, Did you know that this is not the first time that news of you has covered events in Hong Kong?

Know we recently covered them, didn't we?

Can't.

We did.

So if you click in the link under the video, you'll get to go to another episode of news review about this story and loads of more vocabulary related to it.

Fantastic.

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

All right, so we're looking at Hong Kong Free Press.

Hong Kong leader promises open direct dialogue, offers no concessions to protest his demands, concessions, something given to reach an agreement.

Verb.

The verb is actually concede concessions.

But C O N C E double s I.

O.

N s concessions is a noun.

It's countable Nancy, you can have single concession, or you can have more than one.

You'd say concessions with an s.

Yes.

A concession is something that you do in order to make an agreement.

Something that you give to this.

Some of the person you're disagreeing with.

Okay, so we're kind of talking about, like, a negotiation here.

And you kind of you give something?

Yeah.

Make them feel better.

Absolutely.

Yes.

It's kind of different to a compromise.

In a compromise, you both meet in the middle, but in a concession, you give something that you didn't want to give.

But it's worth it because you'll get a benefit by making an agreement.

Okay, So what verbs do we use with concession?

We often say, Well, you make a concession to somebody you can give a concession.

You Congrats.

A concession.

If you're receiving this benefit, you can say that you obtain a concert session, you secure a concession or you win a concession.

Okay.

Eso This might work in a business sense.

Might nip with this staff and sees me.

The company management in the staff?

Yeah, Most definitely.

Yes.

So you often we see it in politics and we're seeing the kind of formal contact.

So you've got, for example, in the business context, the stuff want a pay rise.

They want, however much they're going on strike, the company goes, Okay, we're not going to give you everything, but we're going to give you something and we're going to give you longer lunch breaks.

We might have an extra holiday on those things to make them come back to work.

They say, OK, then that will do.

We're coming back.

Those benefits they've given the extra lunch bags of holidays.

They are concessions.

So the company made a pay concession, for example.

Yes, it's stuff, and the stuff accepted the concession, and everybody was happy.

Oh, as my mother used to say, You can't be in a relationship without making concessions.

Very wise, Mom, you have so hang on a minute.

One other thing When I'm at the cinema, I do like going to the cinema.

When I'm at the cinema, I see the price board, adults, Children, concessions, concessions.

That's not about disagreement.

I'm not disagreeing with cinema.

What's going on?

Nobody are giving you something because they want you to come to the cinema and the reason that giving you look something is because you're either the person who gets a concession is either old oh young or disabled or a student UN employees.

It's where it's a little bit cheaper because of your personal circumstances, so you'll see concessions written.

You might talk about a concessionary ticket, which is the objective form concessionary bus pass.

And it's when it's cheaper because you're old, young student, disabled, unemployed, those retired.

Gosh, what a useful word that is, right?

Let's recap of vocabulary, shall we?

Yes.

So we have shuns, deliberately ignores, avoid or rejects something Olive Branch action taken as an attempt to ended his agreement on dhe concessions, something given to reach an agreement.

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