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In this program, trump Assassination attempt Us Reacts.

Hello. I'm Neil, and I'm Tuji.

In this program, we look at one

big news story and the

vocabulary in the headlines that will help you understand it.

You can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode, as well as a worksheet, on our website, bbc learning english dot com.

So let's hear more about this story.

People in the US have been reacting after an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

Now, an assassination is a murder, and it's the murder of someone important or famous.

Thomas Matthew Croaks shot at Trump as he spoke at an event in Pennsylvania, injuring the former president's ear.

One man in the audience was killed in the attack.

Two others were seriously injured. Security officers then shot the gunman dead, and the exact reason for his attack is unclear.

We have a headline which gives us more information about the gunman.

Thomas Matthew Crooks. Yes, this one is from sky News, which is based in the UK.

Trump Gunman an outcast who wasn't let on school rifle team because he was a bad shooter.

So that headline again, from sky News.

Trump Gunman an outcast who wasn't let on school rifle team because he was a bad shooter.

We're interested in the word outcast from this headline.

OK, so let's break it down and look at the 2nd part um.

So, cast, as a verb, means to throw something.

Yeah? So if we cast something or someone out, it means we throw them.

We throw them away. So we can see this meaning in the noun an outcast.

And an outcast is a person who has cast out, someone who is not accepted by other people.

Yes, and it's got a serious meaning.

Really. It can be connected to people from a different race or class.

So it's connected to inequality often.

yes, that's right. But we also use it socially to describe someone who doesn't fit in or doesn't have any friends.

And that is the meaning that we see in the headline.

The shooter was an outcast. It suggests he didn't really fit in with people we looked at.

Outcast someone who is not accepted by society, e.g.

the business is treating working mothers like outcasts.

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We're talking about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and its impact on the US.

Politicians across the USA have been critical of the attack on Trump.

Yes, president Biden has said that US politics must never be a killing field, and there are concerns about how the violence will impact the US elections in November, where Biden and Trump are due to compete to be the next president.

Let's have another headline. This headline is from the Financial Times, based in the UK, and it is, america is staring into the abyss.

Let's hear that again. America is staring into the abyss.

From the Financial Times. Now, this is an article about the significance of the assassination attempt in American politics.

Let's start by looking at this word abyss neal.

What does it mean? Well, literally, an abyss is a very big, deep black hole.

But of course, there isn't suddenly a deep hole in the USA.

The headline is describing the social and political situation as an abyss.

Yes. And that's how we often use abyss metaphorically to describe a dangerous and powerful situation.

Now, if you fell into a real abyss, a big hole, that would be a very bad situation for you.

You might not be able to get out of it.

Would be really scary and dangerous.

Yeah, exactly. In the headline, america is staring into the Abyss.

That means the country is looking at the dangerous situation.

Staring into the abyss is a common metaphor, isn't it?

Neil, it is. Yes. We also talk about being on the edge of an abyss.

And we use that to describe a dangerous, overwhelming, frightening situation in front of us.

But it is quite dramatic language, isn't it?

We often use staring into the abyss in writing and in headlines.

We don't often use it in speech.

We ve had staring into the abyss facing a large, dangerous situation.

So e.g., the company is staring into the abyss of bankruptcy after four years without making a profit.

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We're talking about the assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump.

Since the shooting, donald Trump has attended

the Republican

Convention. This is where politicians from the Republican Party pick their candidates for the election.

In November, thousands of supporters gathered in Milwaukee to cheer on Trump, who wore a bandage on his at the convention, trump was confirmed as the Republican candidate for President, and he picked jd Vance as his candidate for Vice President.

Here's a headline about trump's response to the shooting.

It's from the Telegraph, based in the UK.

Trump two Point Oh ditches old rhetoric for new mission to unite America.

That headline again. Trump 2.0 ditches old rhetoric for new mission to unite America.

Now, this headline gives the opinion that trump's Behavior may change.

Rhetoric means speech or writing that is designed to change people's minds.

It's very common during political campaigns where politicians want to convince us to vote for them.

Now, this headline writer says that Trump has ditched this old way of speaking, and that means he has stopped using it.

Yes, but we are interested in the phrase Trump Two point.

Oh, what does it mean? Are there two trumps now, neil?

So this could be confusing. What you heard in the headline was point Oh, actually it's written as a number, two dot zero, but we say 2.0, and we often say Oh, instead of zero, e.g.

in phone numbers. So 2.0 comes from technology, doesn't it?

So think about gadgets or computer programs.

Engineers usually describe the 2nd version of a program or a product as two point.

Oh. now, here is an adjective we use to describe someone or something that has changed, usually for the better.

Trump Two point. Oh yes. So it doesn't mean that Trump has literally been reprogrammed, but the headline is saying that following this assassination attempt, he might be like a new version of himself.

Now, remember that this is the opinion of the article writer.

Yes. Now we can use two point, oh, informally to talk about a dramatic change in someone or something.

So we can use it in a more light hearted way as well.

We ve had two point, oh, a new, improved version of something.

E.G. Georgie is looking very tired today.

She can go home and have a good night's sleep and then come in tomorrow refreshed.

It could be Georgie. That's it for this episode of Learning English from the News.

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