Name: 香港、「対話のためのプラットフォーム」を構築へ - ニュースレビュー (Hong Kong to establish a 'platform for dialogue' - News Review)
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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 I'm Dan and joining me this morning is Catherine.

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.

We have shuns olive branch on dhe concessions.

Okay, Can we have our first headline, please?

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.

So shunned send it takes with a double n.

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

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

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.

They're avoiding using plastic as much as possible.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, people like they love them or hate them.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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?

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

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