Name: Earthshot Prize: Prince William's new awards - BBC News Review
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With the COP26 Climate Conference just around the corner,

Prince William has created and held the first ever 'Earthshot Prize',

To-infinitive

which awards innovation in the attempt to tackle climate change.

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But now, let's hear more about this story from this BBC News report:

So, the Earthshot Prize was created by Prince William

and awards those who come up with creative solutions

to help them build on their initial ideas

and the ceremony, which was the first ever,

OK. Well, you've been looking at this story on the various news websites

and you've picked out some really good vocabulary

that can help us talk about it and use it further afield.

Yes. We have 'star-studded', 'looms' and 'upcycled'.

So, let's have a look now at your first headline please.

So, our first headline comes from Sky News and it reads:

'Star-studded' – featuring lots of famous people.

And in the headline, it's being used as an adjective

and it means that an event features a lot of famous people.

Yeah. So, the first part of this is pretty obvious:

the word 'star'. Obviously, there's the twinkly thing in the sky;

that's a star, but we obviously use this word to describe famous people.

The second word is... I'm not quite so clear about, Roy.

I can see 'stud'. I thought that 'stud' was a thing

that sticks out the bottom of a football boot.

What's... what's it got to do with this story?

but remember that time when you decided to go

through that phase when you were always wearing a leather jacket,

and that leather jacket had lots of little metal pieces in it, didn't it?

it normally has lots of those metal pieces in,

so we call it a 'studded' leather jacket.

it normally refers to the night sky as you said.

So, we talk about a 'star-studded' night sky;

it means there's lots of stars in the night sky,

like on that leather jacket – lots of 'studs'.

Now, of course, this has been used in the meaning with word...

so we're talking about lots of 'stars' sprinkled all over.

Yeah. And it's used very frequently in, sort of,

the headlines because they are interested in celebrity,

we cannot use this formula more widely, so you can't...

you can't describe the BBC as a 'journalist-studded' building.

'Star-studded' – it will... it will relate to, like, films

with lots of celebrities or events – something like that.

Yeah. You wouldn't... you wouldn't say, like, a school is 'teacher-studded'.

Well, if you would like to hear about a 'star-studded' event,

we have the perfect video for you, don't we, Roy?

Yes, this episode of News Review is about the Golden Globes

and all you need to do to watch it is click the link in the description below.

OK. Let's have a look at the next headline please.

OK. So, our next headline comes from France24 and it reads:

and it means that something is about to happen or occur.

Climate change 'looms' – this big, scary thing

This conference, though, isn't really a big, scary thing,

I mean, it may, as you say, refer to the climate change,

but quite often we use it to talk about something that is threatening

or, kind of, dangerous coming towards you.

It's making you feel unsettled, a little bit.

So, for example, the other day I asked you if you wanted to go to lunch,

but you told me you didn't want to. Do you remember this?

Yeah. That was right. I had a... I had a deadline 'looming'.

So, deadlines – they're full of pressure, they can be quite difficult

and we talk about it 'looming'. It's almost like this presence is there.

This entity is 'looming' and notice the preposition.

But we don't only use it for situations or things like this;

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