Hiya this is an advanced English lesson about
the news this week's lesson we're going
to look at this guy here
Jair Bolsonaro a politician from
Brazil let's see what happened to him
and let's learn some new English as we
do so so today we're going to look at an
extremely worrisome situation that is
unfolding in Brazil last week one of the
candidates for the presidential election
Jo bolson ro was stabbed in the street
bolson ro is a former captain in the
Brazilian Army and to judge from his
pronouncements he yearns for the days in
which the military held the whip hand in
Brazil Bolton ro has made many enemies
with a series of hugely controversial
right-wing and socially illiberal
comments and yet he has also attracted
many fervent supporters who defend him
zealously against his legion of
detractors so let's look at the
vocabulary on this first page worrisome
just means the same thing as worrying
something that you worry about a lot if
a situation is unfolding somewhere it
means this is what's happening it's
unfolding it's happening pronouncements
somebody's pronouncements are the things
that they say but often we use this word
pronouncements to describe the things
that people say when the people seeing
them are show a lot of conviction about
what they are seeing they say these
things of a lot of certainty as if they
must be right if you yearn for something
bolson ro yearns for the days that means
that you really want that thing to
happen again
something from the past you want it to
happen again you could also yarn for
something
in the future it means to really want
something to happen the military held
the whip hand in Brazil the whip hand
crack is when you are in charge when you
rule as the military news to rule in
Brazil socially illiberal so illiberal
is the opposite of liberal and when we
say socially illiberal comments we mean
things like comments that are very much
against things like same-sex marriage
very rude comments about homosexuals and
things like that
fervent supporters a fervent supporter
has a lot of fervor which is a noun they
are very enthusiastic about their
candidate if you defend somebody
zealously then you do it with a lot of
force with a lot of determination you
defend them in a really strong way
a legion of detractors your detractors
are those people who say critical things
about you if there are a legion of
detractors that simply means there are
loads of them
so polling shows that bolson ro would be
in the lead in the presidential race
should the former brazilian president
Lutheran our co da Silva be excluded
from running on the grounds of previous
convictions relating to corruption
indeed corruption lies at the heart of
bolsa narrows appeal as he as he is
projecting himself as the
anti-corruption candidate all this has
shades of Donald Trump's campaign pledge
to drain the swamp in the US elections
the other key plank of bolsa narrows
appeal is a pledge to get tough on crime
according to the UN there are more total
murders in Brazil and in any other
country in the world and many Brazilians
are fed up with the violence that is in
endemic in parts of Brazil such as in
here de Janeiro so all the grounds of
previous convictions means because of
previous convictions if something has
shades of something else it reminds you
of that thing to use another advanced
English word it is reminiscent of that
thing
so balsa narrows anti-corruption
campaign has shades of Donald Trump's
pledge to drain the swamp in the US
elections a pledge is a promise
especially when made by a politician in
the course of an electoral campaign a
key plank this is an important
collocation in English which means a
very important part of something is a
key plank fed-up a phrasal verb very
important if you are fed up with
something you have had enough of it you
are sick of it you want this thing to
end or stop endemic if something is
endemic then it is very wide spread very
widespread so in this case the violence
is very widespread so for both scenarios
disciples he offers a vision of a Brazil
in which corruption is eliminated and
violence greatly reduced
however the means by which both enero
may aim to bring these changes about are
unclear and potentially chilling this
after all is a man who has heaped praise
on the former dictator of Chile General
Augusto Pinochet and who in a TV
interview in the 1990s bragged that if
he were to become president he would
order a military coup on the very first
day if you eliminate something then you
get rid of it you
move it so if corruption is eliminated
there's no more corruption to bring
changes about simply means to make
changes happen if something is
potentially chilling then that means
it's potentially really scary it's a
really bad thing to heap praise is a
collocation in English a verb noun
collocation which means to give somebody
a lot of praise but we news this as a
collocation to heap praise a military
coup another collocation when the
military takes over control of a country
such that democracy ends also here we
should look at the meaning of the word
the verb to brag if you brag it means
the same thing as to boast it's to make
a statement in which you try to make
yourself look great in which you try to
impress others so I hope you've enjoyed
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government is a good solution to dealing
with crime in society if you're a
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about the future if you're of your
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