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Hello and welcome to News Review from BBC Learning English.

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I'm Rob and joining me today is Catherine. Hello Catherine.

Hello Rob. Hello everybody. Yes, if you're a fan

of Harry and Meghan, we've got just the story for you

because they have teamed up with streaming giant

Netflix to produce a range of programmes and they may

yourself on the vocabulary that we're going to talk about today.

On our website, there's a quiz at bbclearningenglish.com

but don't go there yet. Let's find out more about this royal signing

So yes – it's just six months since Prince Harry

and his bride Meghan Markle stepped away from the spotlight

and now we find they've signed a deal with media giant

Netflix, although we don't know how much money

And we've got three words and expressions that you can use to talk

Yes, we have. We have: 'mocked', 'land' and 'impactful'.

Great. OK – well, let's start with your first news headline, please.

Yes, of course. We're heading first to the Daily Express,

So, that's the word 'mocked' – laughed at; made fun of.

Yes. Now we spell this word M-O-C-K-E-D – 'mocked'.

It's the past tense and the past participle

Now, if you 'mock' somebody, you laugh at them:

you make jokes about them. You make – you have fun at their expense.

Is it quite a cruel way of making fun of somebody, or is it something

you can do together and have a laugh together?

Yeah, it's not really about having fun together. If you mock somebody you're

It's something we talk – like kids do it a lot at school.

Yeah. In a bit of a, kind of, unpleasant way. So, it's when you laugh at somebody because they

can't do something properly or because – in this case because the...

People are saying, 'Harry and Meghan said they wanted a quiet life, and here they

so people are laughing at them about this.

when I was at school, when we did sport, we played football.

always the last one to be picked because I was so bad at football.

Oh Rob! That's such a shame! And what did the other kids say?

Well, they just said I was rubbish: they mocked me. They were mocking me all the

That's awful! Kids shouldn't mock you Rob. We would never mock you...

even if you are bad at football, I don't care.

OK. Well, let's see a summary of that word:

So, we talked about the word 'mocked' but

'mock' has more than one meaning, doesn't it Catherine?

Yes, it does. If you want to know about the meaning and use

of the phrase 'to mock up' just click the link

and we'll tell you all about it.  Down below.

OK. It's time now to look at our second headline, please.

Yes, and we're going now to 'Hello!' website – the headline:

So the word is 'land' – get; achieve something you wanted.

Yes. Now this is a verb. It's spelt L-A-N-D – 'land'.

Well, I'm standing on land, or sitting on land now. Land is all around us.

Yes. It's basically the earth and that as a noun isn't really where

we're going with this, but if you think about an aeroplane,

when it flies a long way and it goes closer and closer and

closer to the ground, and eventually it touches the ground: it lands.

So, after a long effort – a long flight – finally it achieves its destination

and that's the meaning of 'land' here. If you

'land' a deal, it means you've been working towards a deal,

a contract, an arrangement, and finally it's happened: the deal has been signed.

You've agreed. You've shaken hands or you've signed a contract.

You have landed the deal. You've done the work. It's finally happening.

So, you could land a job, for example. Land a position, yeah?

that's a very strong collocation. Those two words go very strongly together.

But you can land a job, you can land a promotion,

you can land a place in a team – like you never really landed a place in

the football team at school, did you Rob?

Well, no – going back to my school days, no

I didn't get picked for the football team,

but I did land a place in the chess team that we had.

Well done! What did you have to do to land a place in the chess team?

Well, I had to do some practice and I had to have a test before I was accepted

into the team. Then I landed that place and then we went off and did

Not bad, being bad at football then? There's compensation.

I achieved something, didn't I? I landed something.

Yeah. And the idea is you did a lot of practice and preparation to land your

Well, let's have a look at a summary of the word 'land':

So, we're talking about Harry and Meghan today and it's not the first time we've

talked about this couple, is it Catherine?

right through from their meeting, to their wedding, to the baby coming along

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