Name: Olympics 2024: Paris or LA?
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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.

Today story is about one of the world's greatest sporting events.

But yeah, let's find out more from this BBC World Service News Bulletin.

The International Olympic Committee is expected to approve bids later from both Paris and Los Angeles to host the Summer Games.

The IOC, meeting in the Swiss city of Lausanne, is expected to take the unusual step off, awarding both the 2024 Olympics and those for 2028.

The International Olympic Committee is expected to take the unusual step later today of approving bids for two summer Olympic host cities, Paris and Los Angeles.

Now the main question, it seems, is who will get to go first?

Will it be Paris 2024 or L A 2024 or Paris, 2028 or 2028 on, By the way, for other cities Hamburg, Rome, Budapest on Boston.

Originally wanted to bid, but pulled out because of the high cost, right?

You've been looking at this story scanning the news websites.

And you have picked out three words which you think will, uh, help people talk about this story.

So lobbies, meaning tries to persuade people in authority to take a certain action.

Now, Rob, as often happens, I'm a bit confused because I thought a lobby was a kind of room.

It is, actually, And the origin office word is to do with the lobby.

A long time ago in parliament, people used to go to the lobby thistle big wide spaces between rooms to talk to the politicians and try and get into change their minds to influence them to do to take action.

And so they were lobbying in the lobby where the word comes from, It is now a verb to lobby.

And as you mentioned, the name of the person or the name of the activity is more being.

And the people who do it, they are lobbyists.

So the people who go into the lobby to lobby are lobbyists.

Okay, Now, this is quite a formal way of describing that process of persuading people, isn't it?

We wouldn't really use in everyday language to persuade someone to do something.

Yeah, I wouldn't lobby my Children to do their homework, although we could say it.

And it's likely sort of ironic way I spoke.

Yes, if you wanted to make something sound more important than it.

IOC is expected to okay, naming two winners in host race.

Meaning to agree or give approval for something to happen now.

It's a very informal world, a very in forward as well.

And, um, as you said, I mean, okay, is normally seen as a very informal way of speaking.

But here we're talking about We're talking informally about something which is actually quite formal.

So we're saying to okay, informally agree.

A formal agreement, a formal arrangement.

We could use more formal words such as approve or ratify, but to okay is another way of using it.

And as you say, we use it to talk about formal agreements, arrangements, proposals such as this Olympic one, and we probably wouldn't use it to describe um perhaps I suggest to you Rob after this.

How about we go for lunch and you You say you that you need to think about whether or not Okay, this idea.

If if a company wants to change its policy, they may okay, something.

But I'm not gonna Okay, going for a drink with you?

And of course, if we do something in the past, the past form off this verb is to have bean okayed.

Obviously it's spelt slightly differently to other words in that it is just the letters O and K.

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