{"id":3169,"date":"2025-04-01T04:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T04:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/kamala-harris-makes-history-bbc-news-review\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T04:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T04:55:20","slug":"kamala-harris-makes-history-bbc-news-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/kamala-harris-makes-history-bbc-news-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris makes history: BBC News Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vBsK2S0kzAU?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Kamala Harris has become the first black woman to accept a nomination as US Vice-President. She\u2019ll be working with Joe Biden to take on President Trump in November\u2019s elections. Rob and Catherine have the vocabulary you need to talk about this story.<\/p>\n<p>Related programmes:<br \/>\nThe English We Speak: Give us a bell: https:\/\/bbc.in\/3hux0wL<br \/>\nNews Review: Kanye West says he\u2019ll run for president: https:\/\/youtu.be\/DToOEhbwE2U<\/p>\n<p>Video chapters<br \/>\n0:00 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>\n0:31 &#8211; The story<br \/>\n1:19 &#8211; Headline 1: Kamala Harris accepts historic vice presidential nod<br \/>\n4:02 &#8211; Headline 2: Hysteria and dismay: Fox hosts spend evening fear-mongering over Kamala Harris<br \/>\n7:37 &#8211; Headline 3: DNC 2020: Kamala Harris blasts Trump &#8216;failure of leadership&#8217;<br \/>\n10:38 &#8211; Language summary<\/p>\n<p>The story<br \/>\nThe first black woman to be chosen as US Vice-President candidate, Kamala Harris, has accepted her nomination.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019ll run alongside Joe Biden to take on President Trump, who\u2019s been accused by former US president Barack Obama of not taking the job seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Key words and phrases:<br \/>\nnod<br \/>\nofficial act to suggest that someone should be given a prize or position<\/p>\n<p>* Freya got the nod that she\u2019d come first in the spelling competition.<br \/>\n* The Hollywood actor was very happy to hear he\u2019d got the film award nod.<\/p>\n<p>-mongering<br \/>\nencouraging an activity that is damaging or hurtful<\/p>\n<p>* All this doom-mongering about job losses has made everyone very nervous.<br \/>\n* We decided to stock-up with toilet rolls after all the fear-mongering about a shortage<\/p>\n<p>blasts<br \/>\nseverely criticises<\/p>\n<p>* The railway company was blasted for continually cancelling train services.<br \/>\n* The politician blasts the newspaper for misquoting him in an article.<\/p>\n<p>To do<br \/>\nTry our quiz to see how well you&#8217;ve learned today&#8217;s language.<\/p>\n<p>To download the audio and test your understanding, go to our website: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/course\/newsreview\/unit-14\/session-157<\/p>\n<p>*Please note: We have decided to activate YouTube&#8217;s automatic subtitles on this video. The BBC is not responsible for the accuracy of YouTube automatic subtitles.<br \/>\n#bbclearningenglish #kamalaharris #USelections #newsreview<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vBsK2S0kzAU\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris has become the first black woman to accept a nomination as US Vice-President. She\u2019ll be working with Joe Biden to take on President Trump in November\u2019s elections. Rob and Catherine have the vocabulary you need to talk about this story. Related programmes: The English We Speak: Give us a bell: https:\/\/bbc.in\/3hux0wL News Review: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150630,"featured_media":3170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6252,15,6247,6262,6257,6270,6268,6261,6255,6259,6258,6267,6248,6253,6245,6266,6260,6256,6254,6269,1277,6265,6264,6246,6263,6271,6251,6249,6250],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-anh","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-english","tag-bbc-learning-english","tag-british-english","tag-dnc","tag-elt","tag-english-expressions","tag-english-grammar","tag-english-lesson","tag-english-pronunciation","tag-english-speaking","tag-english-teacher","tag-english-tutorial","tag-english-vocabulary","tag-how-to-speak-english","tag-idiom","tag-ielts","tag-ingilizce-ders","tag-kamala-harris","tag-learn-english","tag-online-english","tag-slang","tag-speak-english","tag-tefl","tag-us-elections","tag-6251","tag-6249","tag-6250","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}