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  • he's a review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to News Review This show where we show you how to use the language from the news in your everyday English I'm Catherine, and joining me today is Tom.

  • Hello, Tommy.

  • Hello, Katherine.

  • On What's your story today?

  • These story relates to migration.

  • Okay, so let's hear from this BBC World Service News Bulletin.

  • The Mexican president elect, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has urged the authorities in southern Mexico to protect the thousands of migrants making their way towards the United States.

  • He was speaking in the southern state of Chiapas, where the migrant caravan has reached the city of Tapachula.

  • President Trump has said migrants will be turned away if they reach the U.

  • S border.

  • So the story is a large group of people.

  • Between five and 7000 people are traveling through Mexico to reach the United States.

  • However, President Trump says when they arrive he doesn't want to let them into the country.

  • Thank you very much.

  • And you've been looking at the headlines about story.

  • You've picked out three words for us today.

  • What days?

  • Three words are Caravan vows on hysteria.

  • Okay, Caravan bows hysteria.

  • Let's have your first headline, please.

  • My first headline comes from NPR National Public Radio.

  • It says migrant caravan moving towards the US swells to about 5000 people.

  • Okay, so caravan now, when I was a child, my grand parents had a caravan.

  • Them?

  • It's like a vehicle, like a big van you can live in where you can live.

  • Yeah, I need to go on holiday in it.

  • There's it.

  • Had a bathroom and cooker in the bed and everything.

  • So is this the kind of thing we're talking about here?

  • Well, it relates to transport, So it's similar, but no.

  • In the headline, it says 5000 people.

  • Okay, a caravan is a group of people all moving towards the same destination.

  • Normally, it's quite a large group on.

  • Normally it takes quite a long time.

  • Gray Andi.

  • It's normally and known form.

  • Is there any other way we can use Caravan?

  • We could use it as a verb.

  • We could say these people our Caravanning to the U.

  • S.

  • But we wouldn't normally say that sounds a bit.

  • Or we could say they're traveling in a caravan.

  • And this describes the caravan formation.

  • Okay, I see and back.

  • Teoh would caravan.

  • Is it a single now, Nora?

  • Floor of now.

  • And how does that work?

  • Caravan is a singular noun which refers to the group of people.

  • So the people moving to the U.

  • S.

  • Or the caravan is moving to the US Qorei.

  • Thank you very much, Tom.

  • I'm out for more thing, Catherine.

  • Yes, Caravan is a really old word, and it comes from people moving across the desert in the past.

  • And this is where you get the idea off.

  • Very big groups and very big diff distances because people would move together for safety.

  • Okay, So obviously, in the desert, there's lots of dangers and people need to take care.

  • So they thought if they move together, they'd be safer.

  • And that's why you have such big numbers.

  • Okay, so now let's caravan on to our next headline.

  • What have you got?

  • My next headline is from BBC News.

  • It says Trump vows to cut aid over migrant caravan on the word is vows, Vows makes a strong or serious promise.

  • So Val promised.

  • What's the difference?

  • Brown promises.

  • Similar vow is a very strong and more serious promise.

  • Okay, Um on.

  • And, um, is it a verb or unknown in this case, in this headline?

  • It's a verb.

  • So President Trump vow was to cut aid.

  • He strongly promises to cut aid.

  • Okay, Well, other kind of violence Come people make.

  • Is it only presidents or can you make coming?

  • You and I make vows.

  • Well, you say, Can we make Valence?

  • You're showing how vow can be a noun as well.

  • The same as promised.

  • Marriage is a very good example of vows.

  • I make a vow of commitment to my wife.

  • I get married, Onda.

  • We exchange of ours.

  • So the now inform you can exchange it was got it.

  • Okay.

  • Any other words that go with vows?

  • You said make.

  • All right.

  • Come on, then.

  • Also take a vow.

  • Ah, what kind of vows can you take silence?

  • Okay.

  • Especially in the context of religion.

  • You know, people who are heavily into religion might take a vow of silence.

  • And this is when they promise not to speak.

  • Oh, I can think of a couple of people not far from here.

  • I think perhaps a few vows of silence in maybe people should exchanged vows of silence.

  • in the office.

  • That would be fabulous.

  • Okay, now let's move on to 1/3 headline, Tom.

  • Our third headline, Katherine is from reason dot com.

  • Andi this an opinion piece.

  • It says Migrant caravan hysteria returns and the word is hysteria, hysteria, uncontrollable excitement, extreme emotional reactions.

  • So who's experiencing hysteria?

  • Tom.

  • This is an opinion piece.

  • And in the writing, the author suggests that some people in the United States are experiencing hysteria about the migrant caravan because of what they're reading in the news.

  • Okay, so and this hysteria is panic.

  • It's worry.

  • It's fear.

  • It's an exactly it's not just a reaction.

  • It's an overreaction.

  • Really bad panic, extreme worry, terrible fear.

  • Instead of feeling concerned, they feel fear or extreme panic.

  • OK, and if this hysteria spreads and more and more people feel it, we encounter mass hysteria, which is very, it says some very dramatic visit.

  • The whole country is worrying mass hysteria, okay?

  • And the idea is that it's there's too much of it.

  • It's almost unhealthy.

  • And actually I saw some.

  • There was a boy band playing a concert, the BBC office says the other day was an instance of hysteria.

  • Ah, hundreds of people teenager crying and screaming, screaming, trying to get to the front loads.

  • And yes, and they were all hysterical.

  • They were.

  • They were the objective form.

  • Hysterical, Yes, and this situation is quite a positive, happy one.

  • You know, they're very excited to see their favorite boy band.

  • It shows that hysteria is not always next, not always about fear and panic.

  • It's about excitement and happiness.

  • But the key that the common factor is there's a bit too much.

  • Yeah, it's extreme response.

  • Have we got an adverb form hysterically?

  • You can do something hysterically.

  • For example, the crowd outside was screaming hysterically, or the other day when Neal fell over in the office.

  • Everybody was laughing hysterically.

  • Will love it because it was very, very funny.

  • But he was all right.

  • Mercifully, yes.

  • On before we will recap today's words.

  • Let's have a look at our social media challenge now.

  • We asked you to complete this sentence.

  • The government are meeting to discuss a migrant, be migration or see immigrant.

  • How did they do, Tom?

  • Everybody did very well.

  • The answer.

  • The government are meeting to discuss migration.

  • Option V.

  • This is because migration is the noun on the topic.

  • Any names for us?

  • Yet we have Twitter, Isha, Facebook, Santee, Sarafovo on Instagram.

  • My favorite name starts with the excellent, and if you'd like to test yourself on two days vocabulary.

  • There's a quiz ikan take on our website BBC learning english dot com.

  • There you will find loads of fantastic materials to help you improve your English or you confined his own Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

  • And, of course, of course, something hysterically exciting.

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