Beyonce: Juneteenth single out: BBC News Review

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hello and welcome to News Review I'm Neil and joining me is Georgina hi
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Georgina what's our story today so our story today is all about Beyonce's new
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song at Black Parade okay let's find out some more from this little clip from BBC
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Radio 1 Beyonce released a surprise new song on Friday just because she can
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because she is Beyonce she's released a surprise new song titled black parade
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shortly after announcing a project by the same name to support black owned
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businesses beyonce chose Juneteenth a holiday celebrate in America Tamar the
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official end of slavery and she released the track on this day so the song is
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called Black Parade it includes very powerful lyrics about black history
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police brutality and the George Floyd protests Beyonce has released a new song
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called Black Parade and it was released on
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Friday the 19th of June and this day is called June 10th this is the anniversary
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of the end of slavery and is celebrated across the United States soon after she
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also announced a new project also called Black Parade which is there to support
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black owned businesses oK you've been looking at this story on the various
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news websites you've picked out some interesting vocabulary what have you got
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yes I have and they are spotlight benefit and in honor of spotlight
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benefit and in honor of let's hear your first headline then please with that
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word spotlight so the headline is from PopSugar and it is Beyonce drops
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Juneteenth Jam Black Parade to spotlight black owned businesses spotlight draw
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attention to an issue yes and it is about SP o t li ght and in the headline
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is being used as a verb but you're probably more used to hearing it used as
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a noun so a spotlight or the spotlight so imagine you are the star of a new
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musical and you walk onto the stage and a big light or beam
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comes on you and you are in the spotlight well in the headline is being
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used as a verb and it means to draw attention to an issue so in this case
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the song Black Parade is helping to spotlight or draw attention to black
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owned businesses okay and as you say here it's a verb
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normally the word spotlight is a noun it's that beam of light that highlights
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a person it's also used in a couple of expressions to be in the spotlight or to
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put the spotlight on someone yeah that's true
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okay let's have a summary of that word
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time now for your next headline please Georgina the next headline is from
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Vanity Fair and it is Beyonce releases surprise benefit track for June teens
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accompanied by curated list of black businesses benefit describe something
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which raises money for a cause yes and it's felt B en e fi T and actually in
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the headline is being used as an adjective but it's very commonly used as
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a verb or a noun for example you may get extra benefits at work and they may be
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things like extra holiday Day or health benefits and that means in all of the
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context it means brings good things so benefits means to bring Goods bring
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benefits means to bring good things yes I benefits are good things as a verb it
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means to bring good things here it's being used though as an adjective isn't
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it yes so in the headline it's used to the context is benefit is used to talk
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about the music track which has been created to help black businesses okay
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and we hear this word used like this there are a couple of common
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combinations we hear about benefit concerts yeah exactly so you could have
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a benefit match a benefit concert or even a benefit rally so for example the
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star organized the benefit match for victims absolutely ok let's have a
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summary of that
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if you would like to watch another story about music and music related things we
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have one for you don't we Georgina about music festivals yeah we do it's called
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covert 19 the end for live music and to watch this you just need to click on the
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link below perfect okay let's have your next
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headline okay so the next headline is from insider and it is Beyonce surprises
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fans with a new song called black parade in honor of Juneteenth weekend in honor
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of to show admiration or respect for someone or something exactly and so it's
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actually three words in I n honor H o n0 r and the third word is of o F now in
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British spelling it is actually spelled H o n
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you are so honor the middle word will be spelt with an with an you as well and
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and it means to show respect or admiration for some one so for example
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in the headline the song was released to show admiration and respect for the
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black community now we often talk about things in honor of so for example the
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Taj Mahal was built in honor of the venn Emperor's wife and there's also a statue
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a statue outside the BBC which was put up in honor of George Orwell who wrote
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very a lot of famous a a lot of famous writings yes he he worked for the BBC he
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has a reputation as a very important writer and so in order to show respect a
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statue was put up in honor of George Orwell used in the same way as in the
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headline there yeah exactly okay let's have a summary of that
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time now for a recap of our vocabulary please Georgina yes so we have spotlight
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draw attention to an issue the second one was benefit describes something
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which raises money for a course and the third one in honor of to show admiration
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or respect for someone or something I bet you would love to test yourself on
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that vocabulary well you can do on our website BBC learning english.com stay
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safe
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