BBC 英语学习 News Review 韩国禁止食用狗肉

Dog meat banned in new South Korean law.

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more English from news headlines. Now the story South Korea has passed a law banning the killing and sale of dogs for their meat.

Dog meat isn't as popular as it used to be in the country.

Research shows that only one in five people are in favor of eating it.

The new law comes into effect in 2027, which gives farmers and restaurant owners three years to adjust the change.

You ve been looking at the headlines, georgie, what's the vocabulary?

People need to understand this story.

We have history in the making of the menu.

And overjoyed. This is news review from BBC Learning English.

Let's have a look at our 1st headline.

This one's from LBC. Its history in the making.

South Korea passes law banning centuries old dog meat industry.

So this headline is about a new law in South Korea which bans an industry which has been around for centuries.

But we are looking at the expression history in the making Georgie.

It contains the word history. Makes me think of things that happened a long time ago in the past, but this story is about now.

So what's happening? Yes. So we use history in the making to describe big, important events that are likely to become history, or something significant that we're all going to remember in the future.

So here, because the dog meat industry has been around for so long, for centuries, this new law is a big moment for the history books its history in the making.

Are there any other ways we can describe this kind of big, important event?

Neal Yes. So in news headlines, we often see words like historic or history making.

How do we use them? Yes.

Well, those words are both adjectives which have very similar meanings.

So you can say the new law is history in the making, or the history making law, or even it's a historic law.

OK, let's look at that again.

Let's have our next headline. This one's from Al Jazeera.

South Korea takes dog meat off the menu.

In this headline, we are looking at the expression off the menu, and in this case, it's literal.

This new law has come in, and it means that restaurants will have to take dog meat off their menu to remove it.

Otherwise they'll get in trouble with the law.

Could even go to jail, but I think probably, georgie, there's another meaning as well.

Yes, you're right here. It's used literally dog meat won't be on the menu in restaurants.

But we can also use off the menu in a metaphorical way, to say that something is not an option.

So Neil, this year, my New year's resolution is to save money.

So buying a sports car is off the menu for me this year.

Ah, yes. Unless you win the lottery, then buying a sports car will be on the menu again.

Let's have some more examples. What are you doing this weekend?

Well, I wanted to go for a hike, but I can see that it's going to rain this weekend, so that's off the menu.

And there aren't really any good films out at the moment, so that's off the menu as well.

Maybe I'll meet up with a friend.

Ah, yes, meeting a friend should always be on the let's look at that again.

Let's have a look at our next headline.

This one's from The investor's observer.

South Korea bans the dog meat industry with historic vote at National Assembly as animal campaigners overjoyed, this headline talks about the reactions of animal rights campaigners who have described the dog meat industry as cruel.

The word we're looking at is overjoyed.

Now, georgie, if we look inside this word, we can find two parts that help us understand the sense.

Yes, we have over and joined.

The 1st part, over can mean more than And joy is another word for happiness.

So overjoyed means more than happy, or very or extremely happy.

The animal campaigners in this story are very

happy about the new law. Yeah?

And we have lots of examples in English of words that start with over, like overjoyed.

Can you give us some more examples?

Yes. You've got overconfident, which means very confident, almost too confident.

This one sounds a bit negative.

We've also

got overpriced, which means that something is more expensive than it should be.

Going back to overjoyed, neil, are there any other words that mean very happy?

Yes, we have thrilled. We also have ecstatic.

And there's a really nice expression to be on cloud nine.

Let's look at that again. We've had history in the making, an event that will be remembered as really significant off the menus are not an option and overjoyed, very happy.

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