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This is News Review from BBC

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Learning English, where we help you understand

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news headlines in English. I'm

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Neil. And I'm Georgie. Make sure you

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watch to the end to learn the vocabulary you

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need to talk about this story. Don't

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forget to subscribe to our channel so you can learn

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more English from news headlines. Now,

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let's get back to the show. South

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Korea has passed a law banning the killing and

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sale of dogs for their meat. Dog

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meat isn't

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as popular as it used to be in the country. Research shows

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that only 1 in 5 people are in favour of eating it.

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The new law comes into effect in 2027, which

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gives farmers and restaurant owners three weeks to

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choose their favourite meat. The

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new law comes into effect in 2027, which

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gives farmers and restaurant owners three years

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to adjust to the change. You've

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been looking at the headlines, Georgie. What's

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the vocabulary people need to understand this

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story? We have... in

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the making, off the menu

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and overjoyed. This is News

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Review from BBC Learning English. Let's

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have a look at our first headline. This

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one's from LBC. It's

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history in the making. South

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Korea passes law banning centuries-old

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dog meat industry. So

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this headline is about a new

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law in South Korea which bans

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an industry which has been around

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for centuries. But we are looking

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at the expression history in the

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making. Georgie, it contains the

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word history. It makes me think of

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things that happened a long time ago

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in the past. But this story is

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about now. So what's happening? Yes.

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So we use history in the

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making to describe big important events

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that are likely to become history.

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Or something significant that we're all going

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to remember in the future. So

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here, because the dog meat industry has

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been around for so long, for centuries,

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this new law is a big moment for

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the history books. It's history in

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the making. Are there any other

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ways we can describe this kind of big

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important event, Neil? Yes. So in

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news headlines we often see words

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like historic or history making. How

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do we use them? Yes. Well, those

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words are both adjectives which have very

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similar meanings. So you can say the

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new law is history in the making,

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or the history making law, or

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even it's a historic law. OK.

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Let's look at that again. Let's

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have our next headline. This

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one's from Al Jazeera. South

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Korea takes dog meat off the menu.

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In this headline we are looking at the

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expression... off the menu, and in

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this case, it's literal. This new

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law has come in, and

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it means that restaurants will have to

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take dog meat off their menu to

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remove it, otherwise they'll get in trouble

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with the law – could even go

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to jail. But I think,

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probably, Georgie, there's another meaning as well.

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Yes, you're right. Here, it's used literally

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– dog meat won't be on the

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menu in restaurants. But

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we can also use off the menu

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in a metaphorical way to say that

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something is not an option. So,

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Neil, this year, my New Year's resolution

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is to save money, so buying a

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sports car is off the menu for

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me this year. Ah, yes. Unless

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you win the lottery, then

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buying a sports car will be on the

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menu again. Let's have

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some more examples. What are you doing this weekend?

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Well, I wanted to go for a hike, but

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I can see that it's going to rain this

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weekend, so that's off the menu. And

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there aren't really any good films out at the

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moment, so that's off the menu as well. Maybe

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I'll meet up with a friend. Ah,

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yes. Meeting a friend should always be on the

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menu. Let's figure that out again.

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Let's see. Let's

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have a look at our next headline. This

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one's from the Investors Observer. South

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Korea bans the dog meat

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industry with historic vote at

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National Assembly as animal campaigners

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overjoyed. This headline talks

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about the reactions of animal rights

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campaigners who have described the dog

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meat industry as cruel. The word

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we're looking at is overjoyed. Now,

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Georgie, if we look inside this

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word, we can find two parts

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that help us understand the sense.

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Yes, we have over and

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joyed. The first part over

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can mean more than, and

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joy is another word for

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happiness. So overjoyed means

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more than happy or very

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or extremely happy. The animal

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campaigners in this story are very

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happy about the new law.

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Yeah, and we have lots of examples

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in English of words that start with

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over, like overjoyed. Can you give us

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some more examples? Yes, you've got

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overconfident, which means very confident,

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almost too confident – this

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one sounds a bit negative.

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We've also got overpriced, which

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means that something is more

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expensive than it should be.

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Going back to overjoyed, Neil, are there

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any other words that mean very happy?

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Yes, we have thrilled. We

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also have ecstatic, and there's a

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really nice expression to be on

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Cloud 9. Let's

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look at that again. We've

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had history in the making – an

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event that will be remembered as really

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significant. Off the menu, not

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an option. And overjoyed, very

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happy. Watch more news with

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you on our website and learn how to

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talk about world events in English. Thank you

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for joining us, and goodbye. Bye.