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he's review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to News Review.

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We show You how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English I'm Dan, and joining me today is Katherine.

We've got a story today about a controversial new advertising campaign.

BBC World Service News Bulletin The sports giant Nike has said its latest advertising campaign will feature Colin Kaepernick, the former American football player who led a protest against police brutality towards African Americans.

Kaepernick was a quarterback with the San Francisco 40 Niners for six years but stirred a controversy in 2016 when he now don't during the playing of the U.

So Colin Kaepernick was an NFL American football player during the American national anthem.

Americans usually stand up as a mark of respect and patriotism.

He decided to kneel during the national anthem.

He did this'll, he says, as a protest against police brutality.

Violence against African Americans from the police Now opinion at the time was very divided.

Some people thought this was a great thing to do.

Other people were very angry and thought it was a very unpatriotic.

The brand sports brown Nike have now decided Teoh that Colin Kaepernick will be the face of their new advertising campaign.

This decision has proved very, very controversial in America.

We'll we've got three words and expressions that they can use to talk about this story.

We have provocative exiled on litmus test, provocative, exiled and litmus test.

OK, Katherine, can we have our first headline, please?

Ktv you Colin Kaepernick appears in provocative Nike.

Odd, provocative, causing a reaction or thought provocative.

It's an objective down and it comes from the verb to provoke.

And something tells me you've got a story about provoking visit.

The cheeky smile I had on my face always.

I used to provoke my brother all the time.

Daisy, A little brother three years younger than me.

What did your brother do when you provoked him?

I'm sure you're very sorry now, but you provoked a response, which was anger and annoyance on being upset on.

This is the key to provoke the reaction that you get can be about annoyance or anger.

You can talk about something provoking desire, often sexual desire.

We talk about people wearing provocative clothing.

We can also things can also be thought provoking something often that you read or hear or see that's designed often to make you think like a good thought provoking documentary, for example.

Okay, so I'm guessing that the use of provocative in this headline isn't anything to do with sexual desire?

It's more to do with given the history off Colin Kaepernick.

It's likely to be provocative in this sense, off anger and science and thought as well.

It's going to make people respond either angry or thinking about the situation.

Thank you very much for that thought provoking explanation.

Let's move on to our second headline, then.

Exiled NFL star Colin Kaepernick reveals ultimate sacrifice and politically charged Nike campaign exiled, forced out of a place or group.

It is, and it comes on the verb to exile.

It's often used in a political sense when a politician has to, or leader has to leave their country because often it's not safe for them to stay so that sometimes they get sent to live.

Sometimes they choose to live in a different country.

Could be like a crime couldn't like it could be the punishment for a crime.

So for various reasons, politicians and leaders sometimes have to live outside their own country.

Okay, in this case, though, Colin Kaepernick hasn't been forced to leave the USA.

So it's not in a geographical sense that he's been exiled, but he hasn't played in the NFL since 2017.

So because off his his controversial accent actions, he is now unable to participate in his sports.

Okay, so I mean, in this case, he's not allowed to be within that group.

So could I say that I've been exiled from the tennis club?

You probably just get kicked out of your tennis level.

Asked to leave, we use exile in that kind of is quite a big word used for kind of politicians, famous people for controversial figures.

Situations Okay, so in this case, it's being used because it's a newspaper and it's a kind of Yeah, seriously, Yeah.

Okay, let's have a look at our third headline then, please on.

We're now going to NBC Sports Colin Kaepernick Art.

True Intentions, litmus test action that shows someone's riel thoughts or opinions.

I thought litmus tests were all about chemistry.

Yeah, I remember in my school chemistry lessons, they gave us 22 bottles of liquid in a piece of paper and you put the piece of paper at one end into one bottle, and it went red.

And then he turned it over and put it on the other end into another bottle, and it went blue on.

The bottles look the same, but you got a different response, whether the liquid was acid or alkaline.

So the paper showed what was going on even though you couldn't tell normally.

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