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  • the queen has agreed.

  • A period of change for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

  • We've got the language you need to talk about this story.

  • I'm Catherine and I'm den, and this is news review.

  • Let's hear more about this story from this BBC Radio One news report.

  • The queen is backing a plan for Prince Harry and Megan to spend more time in Canada while the royal family works out their future roles.

  • But Canada's prime minister says more talks I needed over the move on Dhe who will pay for their security.

  • So Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, has said that they want to step back from their royal duties now.

  • This will involve spending more time in Canada.

  • The queen has agreed in principle, although there's a lot more work to do on the Canadian prime Minister, Justin Trudeau has said that the Canadian people are largely okay about this, a receptive although there is more work to do, including working out who's going to pay for the security.

  • So big story down.

  • Yes, big story and big changes coming.

  • So we've got three words and expressions that you can use to talk about this story I want to be have for them.

  • We have fruit progressive on dhe railroaded, shrewd, progressive and railroaded.

  • Okay, Can we have our first headline, please?

  • Most certainly.

  • So we're starting off with the eye.

  • The headline is The queen has played a shrewd hand at this Sandringham summit.

  • But devils still look in the detail Shrewd, showing good judgment that leads to an advantage.

  • Lovely were to say, shrewd shoot.

  • But the spelling is quite interesting because to hear the words shrewd, you're expecting that is gonna have a double o double o But it doesn't.

  • It a a w shrewd is spelled S h r e w d.

  • Okay, but it is a lovely were to say, Yeah, say one more time.

  • Shrewd.

  • And it's to do with making judgments and decisions, really good judgments, intelligent decisions, things that really work for you.

  • But they're not always the obvious thing to do, or it's not always the emotional thing to d'oh!

  • A shrewd decision is a decision that you really thought carefully about, and it's gonna work for you so you might have a difficult judgment to make you think about it.

  • You make a choice and It turns out that that was actually the best thing that you could have done in that situation, because you really thought about it was a really good decision is a shrewd decision.

  • So the queen, for example, could have said, You're not going, I won't have it or she could have so go.

  • We don't want anything to do with you But she kind of did something in the middle.

  • She really thought it through this headline saying, and she really made a clever decision.

  • So she's quite a shrewd person.

  • She is a shrewd person, A lot of things.

  • People think that about Her Majesty, a shrewd lady.

  • Yes, we can use shrewd to describe a person.

  • We can also use it to describe actions coming.

  • Can't decision.

  • Yes, exactly that.

  • And you can not.

  • Just queens are shrewd politicians or people that jump just in any kind of contact where decisions could be made.

  • You can make that decision shrewdly, but l y on for the adverb, but it can also be a yes, a decision, or we often talk about shrewd moves.

  • Now, Dan, you play the game chess.

  • I have played a game of chess twice in my life.

  • A bit obvious.

  • I'm gonna attack over here.

  • It's very not very shrewd, you know, through the shoot move is a kind of move where you make a move.

  • When your opponent girls, Why didn't Leo and six moves later it wouldn't obliterated?

  • Yes, that will be a shrewd move when you would be a shrewd player.

  • Nice.

  • So if I want to use a verb after shrewd yet which form would it take?

  • Well, you would need the infinitive with too, because after an objective, you use the two infinitive.

  • So it was shrewd of you to do that to make that move.

  • Oh, you you were shrewd to make that move.

  • Thank you.

  • It was a very shrewd explanation.

  • Let's go shrewdly to a slide.

  • Okay, so let's take a look at our second headline now, please.

  • On where?

  • The Guardian this time.

  • And it's another opinion piece as hurry and Meghan are finding out the Royals don't do progresses progressive, modern and encouraging change.

  • Now I could see the would progress in there.

  • Yes, it's anything to do with that.

  • It absolutely is everything to do with that word progress or progress.

  • The full spelling is P R O G R E double s I V E e progressive and the stress is on the dress, progressive for aggressive jaggery.

  • Yes, on the old is a shot.

  • It's a very, very short sound, like a progressive.

  • Give us another gold down, progressive.

  • Thank you.

  • Okay.

  • And yes, it's to do with progress.

  • It's to do with changes to do with doing things differently in particular, modernizing on the word progressive.

  • We often used to talk about kind of institutions, organizations, company's systems.

  • If you got a progressive company, you do things differently.

  • You do them better.

  • Okay, you do them in a modern way.

  • But not everybody likes that.

  • Yeah, that's true.

  • So you can also use it to describe a society as well.

  • Can't get progressive society, progressive society vegetarian and frees freedom, Freedom of speech.

  • One of that kind of thing.

  • You want a progressive, progressive, very nice.

  • I heard about progressive school ones.

  • Yes, I believe it was somewhere in Brazil, or they don't quote me on it.

  • But basically the students were allowed to choose their own lessons as much as they wanted.

  • And rather than having like a rigid core structure.

  • They had like a patchwork quilt.

  • They just showed it sounds great.

  • I think it would be terrible in a school like needs.

  • Just a Fline Just play that you choose the video video game options.

  • Yeah, and comics.

  • That's right.

  • You would be better off in a conservative school on.

  • Of course, this article is claiming that the Royals don't do progressive, so it's saying so.

  • They would be conservative as well.

  • Yes.

  • Now this is not to be confused with the political party, the Conservative Party.

  • If you are a conservative with a small C, it's a kind of opposite of progressive.

  • You like to do things the traditional way.

  • You're not so keen on change, or you don't like to take too many risks.

  • So the opposite of progressive in many ways could be called conservative.

  • That's right, and they're both objectives.

  • So let's have a look at this slide.

  • Okay, now, before we go to our third and final headline, do you like hearing stories about the Royals?

  • Because we have another one for you?

  • Don't make Katherine.

  • We do now.

  • This one's from our Al Qaeda.

  • It's Prince William being quite progressive as it goes, he's saying, You should talk about your feelings.

  • If you want to find out more about what he said on why, Just click the link and you'll go straight to the story.

  • Very nice.

  • Okay, let's go to our third and final headline on It's Our third and final opinion piece again.

  • Where the sun this time the headline is Will End in tears.

  • Queen railroaded into deal by greedy Prince Harry and Meghan Markle blasts Piers Morgan.

  • Now Piers Morgan is a very opinionated British television personality.

  • Eso he's known for strong opinions like this one railroaded, forced into doing something.

  • Now I'm familiar with the railroad.

  • Yes, the trains.

  • So is there a connection?

  • There's gonna be a connection.

  • There is a connection.

  • You're quite right.

  • So the spelling railroaded?

  • R A I L r o a d e d.

  • So it's the simple past tense I was in the past.

  • It's a passport Izabal, because it's probably in a passive Yep, on yes to do with railroad or trains.

  • Now, if you're on a train down and you want to get off well, you're gonna have a very difficult time getting on the train not really.

  • If it's moving, it is very hard to stop a moving train.

  • It does what it's going to do.

  • You can't turn left or right.

  • They're difficult to slow down.

  • So once you're on it, year going wherever it's taking you.

  • And that's the idea of railroaded.

  • If you're railroaded into something, it means you're pretty much forced to do something by pressure from other people.

  • Everyone going.

  • Go on.

  • Go on.

  • Come on.

  • You said you would.

  • You've got to do it.

  • Keep going.

  • You can't stop now.

  • It's that kind of idea.

  • Yeah, I think I was railroaded once and buying a key ring where he I was.

  • I was a tourist in a another country and I got promised a free tour and I thought, Well, free tour.

  • Great There.

  • Show me around.

  • And the only place they took me to was a big shopping center on when I got inside, they all stood over me, waited until I bought something you were railroaded into buying a little little key ring covered in Chile's You still use it?

  • Yeah, I've got it somewhere.

  • So you could someone for real turned out to be my lucky charm and it's in the passive way.

  • Use real world a lot to railroad somebody, but often you'll see I was railroaded into doing something.

  • That's right.

  • Well, we're going to railroad you now into this third and final slide.

  • Now, can we please recap the vocabulary we can we hade Schrute showing good judgment that leads to an advantage.

  • We had progressive modern on encouraging change on finally, railroaded, forced into doing something.

  • Thank you very much.

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  • And of course, thank you very much for joining us.

  • And we will see you next time.

  • Bye bye bye.

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