Georgina what's our story today so our story today is all about Beyonce's new

song at Black Parade okay let's find out some more from this little clip from BBC

Radio 1 Beyonce released a surprise new song on Friday just because she can

because she is Beyonce she's released a surprise new song titled black parade

shortly after announcing a project by the same name to support black owned

businesses beyonce chose Juneteenth a holiday celebrate in America Tamar the

official end of slavery and she released the track on this day so the song is

called Black Parade it includes very powerful lyrics about black history

police brutality and the George Floyd protests Beyonce has released a new song

called Black Parade and it was released on

Friday the 19th of June and this day is called June 10th this is the anniversary

of the end of slavery and is celebrated across the United States soon after she

also announced a new project also called Black Parade which is there to support

black owned businesses oK you've been looking at this story on the various

news websites you've picked out some interesting vocabulary what have you got

yes I have and they are spotlight benefit and in honor of spotlight

benefit and in honor of let's hear your first headline then please with that

word spotlight so the headline is from PopSugar and it is Beyonce drops

Juneteenth Jam Black Parade to spotlight black owned businesses spotlight draw

attention to an issue yes and it is about SP o t li ght and in the headline

is being used as a verb but you're probably more used to hearing it used as

a noun so a spotlight or the spotlight so imagine you are the star of a new

musical and you walk onto the stage and a big light or beam

comes on you and you are in the spotlight well in the headline is being

used as a verb and it means to draw attention to an issue so in this case

the song Black Parade is helping to spotlight or draw attention to black

owned businesses okay and as you say here it's a verb

normally the word spotlight is a noun it's that beam of light that highlights

a person it's also used in a couple of expressions to be in the spotlight or to

put the spotlight on someone yeah that's true

okay let's have a summary of that word

time now for your next headline please Georgina the next headline is from

Vanity Fair and it is Beyonce releases surprise benefit track for June teens

accompanied by curated list of black businesses benefit describe something

which raises money for a cause yes and it's felt B en e fi T and actually in

the headline is being used as an adjective but it's very commonly used as

a verb or a noun for example you may get extra benefits at work and they may be

things like extra holiday Day or health benefits and that means in all of the

context it means brings good things so benefits means to bring Goods bring

benefits means to bring good things yes I benefits are good things as a verb it

means to bring good things here it's being used though as an adjective isn't

it yes so in the headline it's used to the context is benefit is used to talk

about the music track which has been created to help black businesses okay

and we hear this word used like this there are a couple of common

combinations we hear about benefit concerts yeah exactly so you could have

a benefit match a benefit concert or even a benefit rally so for example the

star organized the benefit match for victims absolutely ok let's have a

summary of that

if you would like to watch another story about music and music related things we

have one for you don't we Georgina about music festivals yeah we do it's called

covert 19 the end for live music and to watch this you just need to click on the

link below perfect okay let's have your next

headline okay so the next headline is from insider and it is Beyonce surprises

fans with a new song called black parade in honor of Juneteenth weekend in honor

of to show admiration or respect for someone or something exactly and so it's

actually three words in I n honor H o n0 r and the third word is of o F now in

British spelling it is actually spelled H o n

you are so honor the middle word will be spelt with an with an you as well and

and it means to show respect or admiration for some one so for example

in the headline the song was released to show admiration and respect for the

black community now we often talk about things in honor of so for example the

Taj Mahal was built in honor of the venn Emperor's wife and there's also a statue

a statue outside the BBC which was put up in honor of George Orwell who wrote

very a lot of famous a a lot of famous writings yes he he worked for the BBC he

has a reputation as a very important writer and so in order to show respect a

statue was put up in honor of George Orwell used in the same way as in the

headline there yeah exactly okay let's have a summary of that

time now for a recap of our vocabulary please Georgina yes so we have spotlight

draw attention to an issue the second one was benefit describes something

which raises money for a course and the third one in honor of to show admiration

or respect for someone or something I bet you would love to test yourself on

that vocabulary well you can do on our website BBC learning english.com stay

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