A plan to bring live music back: BBC News Review

Hello and welcome to News Review I'm joined by Georgina on the other side of

London hi Georgina hi everybody lovely to see you all what story have

you got for us well today we've got a story about a plan which will hopefully

allow music festivals to get going in the future okay well a potential good

news story then for music lovers let's find out some more from this BBC Radio

one news beat the man behind Wireless and Reading and Leeds has told news feed

he's got a plan to get festivals back to full capacity next year Melbourne band

says customers could get regularly tested before an event to prove they

haven't got coronavirus I know that because of his plan to go ahead

government guidelines would have to change as most people can only get an

NHS test if they're already showing symptoms so Melvyn been managing

director of a festival Republic has come up with a plan which will hopefully

allow music festivals and other events to go ahead in the future now there are

a few things that need to be sorted out because each person attending will need

to have a coronavirus test and prove that they are that it is negative and

then they will be allowed to attend but some interesting ideas new yes some very

interesting ideas hopefully they can make it work you've been looking at this

story and you've picked out three words and expressions which are useful what

have you got I've got getting going unveils and drafts getting going unveils

and drafts so let's let's have your first headline with that expression

getting going so so the first headline is from the BBC news website and the

headline is coronavirus is this a way of getting

festivals going again getting going starting something often

after a delay yes and it's about GE TT ing new word GOI n G okay well I know

these two words I know getting and I know going but when you put them

together in this context they've got a kind of special meaning haven't they

they do and so in the context of the headline and it gives the impression

that the music festivals have been stopped for the time being because of

something and in this case it was it is sorry

the corona virus pandemic but that hopefully they will be able to start

again in the future and that's what getting going me so hopefully they will

be able to get going again in the future okay and we use this

expression get going when we want to resume something now that's the word we

used in a previous episode of news review meaning to get something started

again exactly so for example kneel before the pandemic did you ever go on

any long journeys I used to go to visit friends and relatives go on a long car

journey yes and oh and often you have to stop at a service station to get petrol

maybe a coffee little rest or something and you might after a while think oh

this is nice you know I don't really like driving

it's nicer to sit here drinking coffee and then whoever you're with said come

on we need to get going we need to get going

it means start again exactly so we need to get going come on everybody

and I think you're gonna hear this expression a lot over the next couple of

months so another example might be sporting events hope to get going by

next year so I think it's a really useful expression to get familiar with

and start using absolutely let's have a summary

time now for our second headline please Georgina yes so the second headline is

from IQ online website and it is fo Boss and vales plan to restart industry at

full capacity unveils introduces something for the first time so it's

about un ve ILS and unveils is made up of two parts so the first part is on and

that means not and I think a lot of people will be familiar with that the

second part is veils and that is means for example if you get married some

people sometimes wear a veil over their face and then once their marriage they

are unveiled um interestingly this verb to unveil and can be used to talk about

something physical which is unveiled but also something which is not physical so

it's more figurative so let's have a look at how it can be used when we're

talking about something physical that is removed and Neal have you been to any

openings of buildings yeah well I think if you go to any famous building off and

there'll be a plaque on the wall outside which will give details about when the

building was built and who opened it now at the ceremony there might be a little

curtain over that plaque a curtain or veil and a famous or important person

will pull a string and the curtain or veil will open it will be unveiled

literally unveiled and the building will be opened and people can see it for the

first time yeah exactly that's a really good example so the curtain is acts as a

veil to cover the plaque and then when the building is open the veil is removed

the curtain is removed to unveil this plaque to commemorate the building

opening so if we're going to use it in a more figurative sense and you could

think about say you have a new boss at work

they unveil their plans for the company so in this context the veil is not

physical it is figurative and it simply means that it's the first time that

these ideas have been shared to a wider audience okay so we're not talking about

the boss standing there with a little with a little curtain and opening the

curtain and the plans are behind it no in this context it's not physical

because what would happen is the boss or the person would come into the room and

they would say right I'm going to tell you my new plans and when they start to

save the new plans they are unveiling the new plans for the company okay well

let us now unveil the summary if you like stories about music festivals we

have another one don't we Georgina we do we certainly do it is a news review

episode that we put out all about the effect of coronavirus on music festivals

so click on the link below to have a look absolutely okay your next headline

please the next headline is from EDM which stands for electronic dance music

and it is an online news website for music and the headline is Live Nation's

festival Republic drafts full capacity plan to get live music up and running by

November in the UK drafts creates the first version of something yes and it's

about dr a ft/s in this context it's being used as a verb and often when it's

used as a verb the city is is used in more formal

situations so for example to talk about a business or a group of people who are

in authority so maybe they might say the president drafted his new plans for the

country but it can also be used as a noun and in this context it's not quite

as formal so we've all studied haven't we now we have I can remember just about

you a slightly painful memory but when I was studying I handed in my first draft

of my dissertation to my professor so in that context it's just talking about

giving my dissertation or essay however you know dissertation is a longer essay

into the professor for them to have a look at it now this was not my final

draft this was the draft for him to look at or her to give feedback on for me to

then make revisions to then probably given a second draft often there could

be many many many different drafts until you get to the final draft that you are

a hundred percent happy with and that's a bit like when we prepare for this show

so when we prepare for this show we do a first draft script then we have a

practice and then we do a second draft and then when we're finally happy this

is what you get so what you're watching is the final draft

it is indeed yes okay well let's have a summary of that

time now then for a recap of the vocabulary please Georgina yes so the

first phrase we looked at was getting going and that means starting something

often after a delay the next one was unveils and that means introduces

something for the first time and the final one we looked at today was drafts

and that means create the first version of something I bet you would like to

test yourself on this vocabulary in which case go to our website BBC

learning english.com you can find a quiz there thanks for joining us

stay safe and good bye yeah bye for me too bye