Name: BBC News Review: Trump vs Clinton: first US presidential TV debate
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he's review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to News of Youth program, where we give you the language.

Well, today story is about power at the very highest level power the very highest level.

Okay, let's find out a little bit more from this BBC World Service News Bulletin Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have clashed over their policies on their characters in the first televised debate of the US presidential campaign.

The broadcast covered a range of issues, including the economy, race relations, UN security.

So as you heard the two people who want to be president of the U.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, they've met in a live TV debate.

Okay, now you've been, ah, checking out this story online.

Obviously, it's dominating the news agenda today.

One of the words and expressions and phrases that you've picked out that will help people understand and talk about this story.

Okay, where we've got first of all clash, then the phrase head to head and then lose your cool.

Okay, Well, first headline comes from the BBC, its presidential election debate, Trump on Clinton Clash and another headline as well on the same theme from the Los Angeles Times, Clinton and Trump clash over their pasts and their plans in ferocious opening presidential debate.

So there's the word clash, which really means tohave an angry argument.

Yeah, so they've met together on they've exchanged some strong words.

They've had a strong argument live on TV.

It's a very dramatic word you get almost like the sound of swords clashing and metal clanking together in the Clash.

Of course, they're not physically clashing.

It just their words that a clashing I suppose we wouldn't use it everyday, everyday conversations and journalistic.

Yes, that once again you stole my coffee and I didn't.

It would be too strong to say We clashed into journalistic.

Because a lot of these words that you see and hear in the media are very journalistic and not the kind of thing that we use in our everyday speech.

See the written down on a newspaper headline But you sound a bit odd if you use them in the conversation over the top.

Probably so the use of clash If we want Teoh describe the thing that were clashing about we use, we use the word over And Lee so we don't say about They didn't clash about their pasts and their plans they clashed over over tends to go with the word clash.

When you talking about the subject, their clashing about and that's in there.

And that headline there from the L A times Okay, Head to head is our next.

Well, this has appeared in the National Post.

Clinton and Trump go head to head in opening Brule for the presidency.

Yeah, so again, they're not physically going head to head and Clinton put their heads together, which you might get, for example, in wildlife.

You get two stags, too big, dear clashing with their antlers, locking horns in a fierce battle.

No, but they're going head to head in a debate and discussion with their words.

Um, you can use Ah, this with go, can you?

So it's to go head to go head to head, correct on or used as an adjective.

And by the way, we're going to go head to head on.

And I suggested that on Friday We have have a race.

Yeah, Let's go head to head on Friday and see who's the fastest.

On one condition that you don't lose your cool when I beat you.

That's That's a nice linking to the next phrase, isn't it?

This headline comes from the Guardian newspaper.

Clinton stays calm while Trump loses cool during first presidential debate Losing your cool It's an interesting phrase, isn't it?

Of course, school has loads of different meanings in English.

We've got cool describing the temperature so it could be quite cool as opposed to being very hot.

So you might wear a jumper if you're cool.

If you're not very friendly towards me, as you sometimes are when you use my coffee, you're a bit cool on you.

You're not woman friendly, your cool something.

We know a lot about call courses being fashionable.

So that's another Another example of cool of the use of cool And, of course, cool comedian Your calm and relaxed.

So this is the sense for this particular example, isn't it?

So Trump may have bean cool and relaxed up till now, but in this this heated TV debate, he lost his cool.

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