Rubiales quits: BBC News Review

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World Cup kiss scandal.
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The president of the Spanish football federation quits.
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This is News Review from BBC
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Learning English. I'm Beth. And I'm Phil.
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Make sure you watch to the end
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to learn the vocabulary that you need to talk about this story.
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And don't forget to subscribe to our channel, like this video
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and try the quiz on our website.
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Now, the story.
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Luis Rubiales,
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head of the Spanish football federation, has resigned.
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He caused controversy
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after grabbing and kissing footballer
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Jenni Hermoso, without her consent,
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after the World Cup final last month.
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His actions caused anger and a debate about sexism,
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especially as he refused to leave his job,
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until now. You've been looking at the
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headlines, Phil. What's the vocabulary?
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We have: fallout, a win
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and in wake of. This is News Review from BBC
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Learning English.
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Let's have a look at our first headline. This is from ESPN.
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Spain federation president Rubiales
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resigns amid kiss fallout.
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So, Luis Rubiales
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has resigned because of the kiss fallout
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and 'fallout' is the word that we're looking at here.
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Now, Phil, if I fall over, or something falls,
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this is quite negative. Is there a connection here?
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Well, fallout, it's a noun and it is negative.
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We use it to talk about the negative result of something bad.
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So, here we had the kiss, which is something bad,
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and the fallout to it
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is the negative reaction to it.
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OK. Now, fallout often follows an adjective.
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It was 'kiss' here in the headline,
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but we also often hear about political fallout or public fallout.
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Fallout is also followed by 'over' quite often.
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So you might see a headline that says 'Fallout over political scandal'.
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Yes. And you could also fall out with someone. That is a phrasal verb
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and it means to have an argument or a disagreement with someone.
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Yeah. Now, don't fall out with me,
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Phil, but I need to talk to you about something later.
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OK, let's look at that again. I'm worried now.
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Let's have our next headline.
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This is from BBC News.
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Luis Rubiales resignation
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a win for Spain's women's team.
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So, this headline describes the resignation as a win.
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Now, Phil,
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I can win a card game,
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win a match, but that's a verb.
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This is a noun. What is 'a win'? OK. Well, a win is a positive result,
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a victory. But not just in a sporting sense.
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This was a positive result for the Spanish women's football team,
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but not on the pitch.
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It wasn't a sporting victory,
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which of course, means this was quite a clever headline.
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Exactly, yeah. There's a double meaning here so,
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of course, the Spanish team won the World Cup, but Rubiales
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resigning is seen as a win against sexism, so that is two wins.
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Phil, have you had any wins recently?
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Well, I did get a parking ticket
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the other week, which was really unfair.
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I wrote to the council and they cancelled it, which was a win for me.
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Yeah. That sounds really good. That's definitely a win.
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Let's look at that again
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Next headline please.
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Yes. This is from the Financial Times.
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Luis Rubiales resigns as Spanish football chief
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in wake of World Cup kiss.
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Now, the language we're going to talk about is 'in wake of'.
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Now, normally this is 'in the wake of'
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but we often remove 'the' in headlines.
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Phil, can you explain what this is? So, if something happens
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in the wake of something else,
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it happens after and usually because
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of that something.
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Right. So, here in this headline, it's saying that the football
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chief resigned after the World Cup kiss and because of the World Cup kiss.
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Exactly. Now it's quite formal and it's often used in headlines.
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You might see something like 'Security tightened in wake of World Cup final'.
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Yeah. That's right.
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OK, let's look at that again.
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We've had: fall out -
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a negative result, a win -
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a successful result, in wake of - because of something recent.
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