Name: Euro 2020: Player has heart attack - News Review
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Hello and welcome to News Review from BBC Learning English.

I'm Neil. Joining me is Catherine. Hi Catherine.

Hello Neil. Hello everybody. So, the Euros 2020 football

tournament kicked off this weekend and there were shocking

scenes as Danish player Christian Eriksen collapsed on the field.

If you would like to test yourself on any of the vocabulary

you hear on this programme, there's a quiz

on our website at bbclearningenglish.com.

Now, let's find out more about the story from this BBC News report:

So, Danish footballer Christian Eriksen collapsed on the football

field just before half-time. Many of his fellow players were in tears,

absolutely shocked at what was happening.

He was treated on the football pitch and then taken to hospital.

He is recovering now and the Danish team doctor said he had actually

suffered a cardiac arrest – that's a heart attack to you and me.

and the game actually went on, didn't it Catherine?

Yes, it did. It was abandoned temporarily so they stopped playing,

but once all the players realised or were told that he was awake,

which was eventually won by Finland by one goal to nil.

OK. Well, you've been looking around the various headlines about this story

and you've picked out three really interesting words and expressions.

Yes, today we are looking at: 'stable','heartfelt' and 'eye-opening'.

'Stable', 'heartfelt' and 'eye-opening'. So,

let's start with your first headline, with that word 'stable', please.

Yes, we're at Sky first of all – the headline:

'Stable' – fixed; not likely to change.

Yes, we have an adjective here. It's spelt S-T-A-B-L-E

which are fixed in position and they don't move.

So, for example, Neil, your camera is not wobbling at the moment, is it?

You've got a very, very secure, still picture.

Yes, I'm using a tripod to make sure that the pictures here are 'stable'.

If I didn't have it, it would wobble. I'm now wobbling my tripod.

Right. That's very 'unstable'. You've got an 'unstable' picture there.

Yes, I have, yeah. So, 'stable' is used to talk about

physical things like this tripod, but we can also use it, like many...

like many items of vocabulary, in figurative way.

Yes, absolutely. So, 'stable' here is referring to his physical

condition – his medical condition – saying that if something's...

if you're 'stable' medically, it means you are not changing:

you're not getting worse. You're probably not getting better,

but it means that your condition is not changing so it's not as

worrying as when your condition is critical or deteriorating.

Yeah. And we can use it to talk about, sort of, situations in general.

For example, the economy can be described as 'stable'.

Yes, when there's not great periods of economic change, where investments

aren't changing too much, things aren't going up and down too much,

we can say: 'It's stable.' You can talk about other things, like...

That means the kind of relationship where there isn't lots of drama,

you're not arguing and breaking up and getting back together;

you just have a strong, solid, reliable relationship.

but the negative of 'stable' is 'unstable'.

That's right, yes. So, if you're in an 'unstable relationship',

you're doing lots of breaking up and arguing.

it means there's lots of ups and downs with the economic situation.

Now, like with most words in most languages, there are different

versions of the word. We've been looking at the adjective...

We can also turn this into a noun: 'stability'.

Yes, we can... yeah. So, that would be 'stability'.

and the negative of that is 'instability',

so starting with an 'in-', the prefix 'in-',

is the opposite of 'stability' as a noun.

So, we've got 'unstable', but 'instability'.

Yes! Different prefix there: from 'un-' to 'in-'.

...because the verb form of this word 'stable' is 'stabilise'.

So, we've got all the different prefixes: we've got 'unstable',

'instability' and 'destabilise'. And just to make it slightly more

complicated, there are two ways to say... to spell 'stabilise'.

If you're here in the UK, you spell it with an 's' in the middle.

If you're speaking American English, it's with a 'z'.

Yeah. I would like to apologise on behalf of the English language

for the complicated collection of prefixes connected to this word.

If you are interested in stories about football,

we have a really interesting one about the European Super League.

That didn't go very well, did it Catherine?

But you can find out what happened by clicking the link.

OK. Let's have a look at your next headline.

Yes, in the UK with Hello and the headline:

Yes, we've got two words here: H-E-A-R-T.

But we put them together without a space and we have one word:

'heartfelt'. Now, the meaning of this word is kind of,

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