Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Young female footballers from Afghanistan have been given the right to live in the UK after leaving the Taliban-controlled country. I'm Neil and this is News Review from BBC Learning English. Joining me is Roy. Hello Roy. Hello Neil and hello everybody. If you would like to test yourself on the vocabulary around this story, all you need to do is head to our website bbclearningenglish.com to take a quiz. But now, let's hear more about this story from this BBC News report: Yes. So, a group of young female Afghan footballers and their families have been given visas to come and live in the UK. These footballers had left Afghanistan to get away from the Taliban and have been living in Pakistan. OK. Well, you have been scanning the world's media for this story and you have picked out some really useful words and expressions. What have you got? We have: 'resettled', 'granted' and 'flee'. 'Resettled', 'granted' and 'flee'. So, let's have a look at your first headline please, Roy. So, our first headline comes from the UK, from the Evening Standard, and it reads: 'Resettled' – forced or helped to move to a different place to live. Yes. So, this word is spelt R-E-S-E-T-T-L-E-D and it means that somebody has been moved by force, or from help, from one place to another to live. Now, let's first of all look at that word. Right in the middle of that word is the word 'settle', which means to move somewhere to live. So, for example, my parents – when I was a lot younger – they moved to the Isle of Wight in the south of the UK to live. So, they settled on the Isle of Wight and it's about a choice – you choosing to do something – and it being a permanent arrangement. Now, in the word 'resettled', we have that prefix 're-', which means 'again'. So, for example, Neil, if you do something once and then you do it again, what do you do? You 'redo' it. 'Redo' it: so, you're doing it for a second time – again. And the idea of 'resettled' is moving where... you are settled in one place – you're living in one place – and then you move to another place: you 'resettle'. Now, it's important to remember this is often that you're helped or you're forced to do that move. That's right. So, for example, if you live – I mean, we looked at a story from the Canary Islands with the volcano a few weeks ago. If a volcano explodes – erupts – near you and the lava is flowing towards your house and destroys it or there are floods, for example, you may have to be 'resettled' – that's move to a new place. And in that situation there is something forcing you – a natural disaster – but the authorities are there to help you 'resettle'. In other situations – we can think of, for example, with many indigenous populations around the world – governments force them to move onto new settlements and that was done by force. So, it was not with the best intentions. No, no. Absolutely not. And you used an interesting word there. You used the word 'settlement', which is the place where people 'settle' and the people that do the 'settling' are called 'settlers'. That's right, yeah. So, that word 'settle' in the middle there is the key to all of this. Absolutely. OK. Let's get a summary: So, we mentioned natural disasters and people having to move. We covered a story, a while ago, about a flood in Australia, in which crocodiles were seen swimming up and down the streets of a town. Where can our viewers find it? All you need to do is click the link in the description and I can tell you, if there were crocodiles swimming down my streets, I would want to be 'resettled' immediately. I'm sure you would! OK. Let's have a look at your next headline. OK. So, our next headline comes from the National and it reads: 'Granted' – given something officially. Yes. So, this word is spelt G-R-A-N-T-E-D and it means to be given the permission or the right to do something. So, for example, in this case these people have been given visas: they have been 'granted' visas. Another good example is you can 'grant' somebody access to a building: you can give that person the permission to enter the building. Or, for example, on computers if you can't access my file, I can 'grant' you the access: it's about giving the permission. OK. Roy – so, you said it's like 'give': so, why don't we just use 'give'? What's the difference between 'grant' and 'give'? Well, yeah, I mean, informally you could say they've been 'given' visas, but 'grant' is a bit more official. It's a bit more about giving permission to do something. It's an official thing. And it's also... has this sort of idea of it being about a favour or helping someone to do something. That's right, yeah. We see this word, 'grant', also as a noun, don't we? And it's... it refers often to financial help. Yeah. Again, that important word there is 'help' and it's facilitating something to happen. So, a good example of this is maybe if somebody needs help or they don't have access to finances to go to university, they receive a 'grant'; or maybe a charity or a person receives a 'grant' to do something. It's about being helped and that idea again of a favour or permission to do something. Yeah. And there's another expression, quite common, isn't there? To 'take something for granted'. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. We hear this a lot, especially parents talking about their children: 'Oh, he or she takes me for granted!' Now, this idea is believing that something is true or it's available, without really questioning or asking something. Now, a great example of this: just recently, something's happening in the UK, isn't it, Neil? That's right, yes. People may have heard that we've had problems getting petrol in the UK and so there are queues at petrol stations, or the petrol stations are just empty and it's... it's a, kind of, shocking surprise for people here because we 'take it for granted' that there will be petrol when you go to a petrol station. Yeah. And I can think of another example: in the UK, at the start of the Covid pandemic, I went to the supermarket and the shelves were just... there was nothing in the supermarket and toilet paper wasn't there. Now, I 'take for granted' that my supermarket will have toilet paper and I think a lot of people 'took that for granted' and when the toilet paper wasn't there any more, it was a big... a big shock. That's right. Yes, there are many things that we 'take for granted' that perhaps we shouldn't. OK. Let's get a summary: One of the things that we 'take for granted' is that we will be here forever on this Earth, but anyone who takes... takes a step back and looks at us floating in space will realise that actually we're a fragile little place, and space is a theme that we have been looking at in detail at BBC Learning English recently, haven't we, Roy? Yes, we have indeed. Now, this episode is all about who owns space. Now, I was... I was... I learnt a lot from this episode. I found it really interesting and all you need to do to watch it is click the link in the description. OK. Let's have a look at our next headline. OK. So, our next headline comes from the Sun and it reads: 'Flee' – to leave a place of danger. Right. So, this word is spelt F-L-E-E and it's about escaping a dangerous situation or something that you're very scared of. So, we use it – and it's got this idea of being in panic or chaos. You're running away very, very quickly. We often 'flee' dangerous situations. Now, earlier on, you spoke about that volcano going off on the...in the Canary Islands. A lot of people will have... they will have to have 'fled' from that situation. They will have run away – escaped that situation. Yeah, interesting past tense there, you used, Roy: 'fled'. It's not 'flee-ed'; it's 'fled'. Yes. So, it's: 'flee', 'fled', 'fled'. F-L-E-D – 'fled'. Now, obviously, this is for very extreme situations that we use this literally – you know, with volcanoes or very dangerous situations – but we do... we do sometimes use it in an exaggerated sense, don't we? We like to exaggerate with the word 'flee'. Yeah. So, perhaps you... you're at a party and someone arrives, who you just don't want to see – ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend or someone you've had an argument with or something – and you might 'flee'.