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