Training for Premier League starts: BBC News Review

hello and welcome to News Review from our lockdown home studios I'm on one

side of London and Katherine is on the other hi Katherine hello Neil hello

everybody so what story have you got for us all today today is a story about a

possible return to play for the English Premier League okay an exciting story

for those who are interested in football and what the season might bring let's

find out some more from this BBC report this phase of training will involve is

close contact tackling and it will enable the clubs to bring players in to

full team training so they could do 11 V 11 from tomorrow now whether clubs will

choose to do that or not is entirely up to them clearly it would come with an

increased risk of transmission but as I said the players will want to feel that

they've had a lot of that training before they return to matches so a

football story about a possible return to play for the English Premier League

now the football and clubs have agreed to start training again without

observing the 2 meter distance rules so the players will be allowed to tackle

each other and come close together while they're training now a little while

after this it is expected that the clothes will meet again to decide

whether they're able to resume matches ok you've been looking around the

various news website to this story you picked out three great words that we can

look at what have you got yes we had resume edges and back resume edges and

back ok let's hear your first headline then with that first word resume and

we're starting with BBC Sport the headline Premier League clubs agreed to

resume contact training as for more tests positive resume start again yes

zooom re s um e so this word is interesting for its pronunciation

amongst other things it's got an S in it but it's not pronounced like an S is it

that's correct so re s um II the S is pronounced with its sound so it's not

resumed its resume most people say resume okay and the stress is on the

second syllable it is resume yes no not to be confused with resumes ah yes

resume often with accent on the final letter looks the same but it's got a

different meaning completely very different meaning Li you will mostly see

resume talked about in the context of job applications a resume is a document

which contains details of all your previous employment training education

and so on and you will give it your resume to a potential employer to tell

them about your work in education history resume is nothing to do with a

resume resume is also known as a CV resume means start something again so

you do something you stop doing it and then you start doing it again okay now

we have the definition start again why don't we just say start again why do we

need this word resume well that's English for you English has

lots of different synonyms with the same meaning resume is slightly more formal

start again is something we say in everyday conversation you will hear

resume used in in everyday conversation sometimes but it's more likely to be

seen in slightly more formal context yeah we might also see or hear restart

restart yet that's another way of saying it resume restart start again yeah now

this is a very relevant word at the moment because

people are waiting for all kinds of things to start again to resume yes they

are hoping for the resumption of normal life

good now resumption re s UMP tion and we use it with the prep as a phrase often

the resumption of and then you say the thing that's going to resume so the

resumption of lessons in schools is happening right now and we are waiting

for the resumption of Premier League matches we are ok let's have a summary

of that word

time now for our second headline please yes

we're off to Scotland now the publication is the national and the

headline Premier League to resume contact training as big restart from

coronavirus lockdown edges closer edges moves slowly yes

EDG e:s edge here is a now we often have edge as a noun which means the side of

something this is the edge of your screen this side of something I'm

pointing at it now and I'm pointing towards the corners of my my screen that

is the edge but as a verb edge means to move slowly and slowly towards something

often because you can't go straight to something you have to do it you have to

make that movement or progression little by little little by little and gradually

yes did you see the last time we were in the office I did yes I think I know

where we're going with this one Rob it is indeed a story about Rob I have a

nice cup of tea nice mug of tea and a biscuit I saw that yes I saw that you

were drinking your tea and you weren't really you were looking at your screen

and I saw this hand just pop up on your desk and it was just going slowly toward

your biscuit and you didn't notice it and then the hand more and edged closer

and closer to the biscuit and then it grabbed it and ran away and didn't run

took it away and you didn't see a thing near that was so funny yes

Rob's hand is always edging towards the biscuits

Rob's had edged slowly towards the biscuit and we used the word edge often

with the preposition towards and another way we can use edge

is we can say something edges closer or edges nearer yeah so we can say that as

summer edges nearer people are making holiday plans yes something that's

happening slowly bit by bit something that's coming but you can't make it

happen any faster so we're edging closer towards the end of lockdown we hope we

are and we are also edging towards the summary of edges let's go

if you are interested in stories about football we have a great playlist for

you don't we we do it's all about the language of football so if you're

interested in learning some English words and expressions for talking about

football just click the link in the description and you'll go straight there

okay time now for our third headline and now back of the UK BT sport the headline

Premier League clubs unanimously back resume in contact training back give

support yes ba ck it's a verb now you know back as a

body part don't you kneel yes it's the opposite of your front yes it's this bit

behind you yes you have a long bone going down the middle don't you the

spine and the spine supports your body yes also known as the backbone yes and

without your backbone you can't yeah you can't sit up straight you can't do much

at all because it's a supporting part of your body and that might help you to

remember the meaning of back when it's a verb if you back something you supported

either you say you're supporting it or maybe you actively kind of do something

you help or you give money but if you back something you give it your support

yeah so we often hear this used in a political context we might hear about a

politician backing another politician who's in trouble yes or you might back

someone's plans to do something I remember em when you're trying to get

people to back your latest program idea aren't you yeah yeah so English for cats

you know I was hoping that people would back my my plan but no one was

interested I didn't get much you haven't got any backers how do you know backers

no no and a bucket is a person who supports something so be a cker is

somebody who supports something and they will give it their backing

so when you add ing it becomes a noun and you can give somebody or something

you're backing yeah no Becker's no backing nobody backed it

never gonna happen oh well I'll keep trying let's have a

summary of that word time male then for a recap of our vocabulary please

Katherine we had resume start again edges moves slowly back give support you

can test yourself on that vocabulary there's a quiz on our website BBC

learning english.com see you next time and stay safe bye