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Myanmar's ousted civilian leader and san Souci has been sentenced to four years in prison.

A spokesman for the ruling military junta said she'd been found guilty of inciting unrest and violating covid restrictions during last year's election campaign.

So this story is about and Sang Suki, the former civilian leader of Myanmar, she was removed from power and replaced by a military gente.

Now she has been told she will go to prison for four years and we've got three words from the news headlines that we can use to talk about this story, haven't we?

Yes, we have, we have sentences ousted and incitement.

That sentence is ousted and incitement.

Okay, well let's have a look at the first of those words.

Tell us about your headline please.

Right, Okay, so my first headline comes from here at home at the BBC and it reads ANg Sang Suki Myanmar.

Court sentences ousted leader to four years jail sentences declares punishment for someone found guilty of a crime.

Yes.

So this word is spelled S E N T E N C E S sentences and it's basically telling somebody officially their punishment after being found guilty of a crime.

But I thought sentences were groups of words put together with a full stop at the end.

Isn't that sentence?

Well yeah.

Yes, it is speaking about language, yes, we talk about a complete grouping of words uh that usually ends in a full stop or a question mark and it forms a statement or a question.

For example, my name is Roy is a sentence.

How are you?

Is also a sentence, but obviously in the headline, we're not talking about a language point.

The words sentences in the headline is a verb and it's used to talk about delivering or declaring the punishment for somebody who has been found guilty of a crime.

Very different meaning.

Okay, so talk about a kind of legal word here.

It's very official.

What kind of word?

Absolutely, yes.

So for example, in a court of law, you have the process which is called the trial.

And at the end, if the person is found guilty, they can be sentenced.

So for example, sentenced to uh several years in prison.

Okay.

So I say official word.

So if it worked, for example, I wasn't doing very well and my boss wasn't very happy, Could he sentence me to more work?

No, no, we don't use it outside.

We don't really use it outside of a court of law to be honest.

In that case, he may punish you or reprimand you um or tell you off if you're you know, if he tells you you're doing something bad, uh he wouldn't sentence you to extra work or you wouldn't sentence your child to extra chores because they arrived home late.

For example, we wouldn't use it in that context.

It's a very official usage.

And so we talk about to sentence someone.

That's the verb.

Is there kind of a noun form of this?

Yeah.

Absolutely.

So you can sentence someone or give someone a sentence, write a verb and a noun.

Okay, thanks for that Roy.

Let's have a summary of that word.

Mm Of course we've talked about Myanmar in the past here on news review and we did a story about when the military took control Roy.

How can we watch that video again?

All you need to do is click the link in the description below.

Good stuff.

Yeah, click down below.

Okay, Roy, let's have a look at your next headline please.

Okay, so our next headline comes from The Financial Times, The FT and it reads ousted Myanmar leader Aung san suu kyi sentenced to four years in prison ousted.

That's expelled from a place or position.

Yes.

So this word is spelled O U.

S.

T E.

D.

Ousted ousted that last sound, is it?

And it means to remove somebody from a position or a place and there's a feeling of force about this removal.

There's no choice in it really.

Absolutely.

That's that's that's right, yeah.

There is that feeling of a forceful removal and that is key to understanding this word.

Now, when we talk about a forcefully removing somebody, it's not necessarily a physical, it can be physical, but we can also talk about it in the idea of it being kind of political pressure.

So it doesn't need to be a physical force to remove somebody from that position of power.

And again, another formal word here.

Not something we use in everyday conversation.

No, no, you wouldn't.

Now going back to that idea of forceful removal, it can be, for example, a group of people in a place, for example protesters and maybe the protest has got a little bit violent and the police decided to remove them by force, they oust them from a place.

And again, that is an official usage actually physically move people trying to physically move people.

Um This all happened though at a party I went to recently where I ate all the biscuits.

Now people weren't very happy that I think in all the biscuits of course, but could I say they ousted me out of the party because they weren't very happy.

I mean you could if you wanted to be really dramatic, but we wouldn't really normally use this in this scenario for example, and I remember this party, we bought you specific biscuits Neil bought you biscuits, but you not only ate those biscuits.

You ate all of the biscuits.

You found the secret biscuits and Neil was really, really angry.

He opened the door and he threw you out.

So that's that word there.

That's the one we commonly use throw somebody out.

We don't usually oust them from a party.

Oust, as I say, it's an official word talking about removal of protesters or political position.

Somebody from a political position in this case we threw you out of the party.

I'm sorry, but you shouldn't eat all the biscuits.

Okay, noted noted.

But just to say throw out.

You didn't actually physically throw me out.

I'm sure you have liked to have done.

You just kind of open the door and said go yeah, yeah.

So it's the same idea.

You can throw somebody out like asking them to leave or you can physically eject them.

But we chose to do it with words with pressure of words.

Thank you so much.

Okay, let's have a summary of that word.

Mm hmm.

Now, robots of course, are a threat to many of our jobs.

Maybe they'd like to oust the human being from a position and we've talked about robots taking over the role of a doctor.

This is something we discussed in six minute English.

How can we watch that program again, Roy all you need to do is click the link in the description below.

Yeah.

Down below.

Okay.

Time now for our next headline please.

Right, so our next headline comes from The Guardian and it reads Ang Sang Suki sentenced to four years in prison for incitement.

That's incitement action are provoking unlawful activities.

So this word is spelled I N C I T E M E N T in the headline.

It's being used in the noun form.

The verb form of this is in sight and it basically means stimulating somebody stimulating somebody to do something negative or bad.

And we could say it's about provocation and unlawful behavior.

That's key here, isn't it?

Absolutely.

So let's talk about that idea of provocation or provoking somebody.

Now.

Provoking has an idea of encouraging somebody, but encouraging, we usually use that in a positive sense.

So I encourage you to be better provoking somebody is about stimulating somebody to do something negative.

And that is the idea of incitement or insight.

It's basically provoking somebody to do something bad or unlawful.

Yeah, it's like prodding them and saying, go on, go and do this, it's a bit naughty, but go and do it.

But of course it's illegal and dangerous activities we're talking about here mainly.

Yeah, we wouldn't normally use it in a sort of outside of talking about illegal or unlawful behaviors.

This is something very serious.

It's something big.

So for example, you wouldn't incite a friend to do something bad, you would maybe provoke them.

So we wouldn't normally use it in a casual sense, it's more of a kind of more formal and serious sense and it's on a large scale as well.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Okay let's have a summary of that word.

Mm Okay time now to recap the vocabulary please Roy.

Okay so we had sentences, declares punishment for someone found guilty of a crime.

We had ousted expelled from a place or position and we had incitement action of provoking unlawful activities.

Thank you Roy.

There you go.

Three useful words from the headlines to help you talk about this news story and don't forget on our website there's a quiz where you can test your understanding of the vocabulary.

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