BBC 英语学习 News Review 女足世界杯“强吻门”

World Cup kiss scandal. The president of the Spanish football Federation quits.

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Now the story Louise Ruby, alice, head of the Spanish Football Federation, has resigned.

He caused controversy after grabbing and kissing football Jenny Eremosal without her consent after the World Cup final last month.

His actions caused anger and a debate about sexism, especially as he refused to leave his job.

Until now, youve been looking at the headlines film what's the vocabulary?

We have? Fallout a win. And in wake of this is news review from BBC, learning English.

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

This is from ESPN. Spain Federation President Rubbiales resigns amid kiss fallout.

So Louis Ruby Alice has resigned because of the kiss fall out.

And fall out is the word that we're looking at here.

Now, phil if I fall over or something falls, this is quite negative.

Is there a connection here? Well, fall out its amount, and it is negative.

We use it to talk about the negative result of something bad.

So here we had the kiss, which is something bad, and fall out to it is the negative reaction to it.

Okay? Now, fallout often follows an adjective.

It was kiss here in the headline.

But we also often hear about political fallout or public fallout.

And fallout is also followed by over quite often.

So you might see a headline that says, fall out over political scandal, yes.

And you could also fall out with someone, and that is a frasal word, and it means to have an argument or a disagreement with someone.

Yeah, and I don't fall out with me, phil but, um, I need to talk to you about something later.

OK, let's look at that again.

Okay, I'm worried. Now let's have our next headline.

This is from BBC news. Louis through viale's resignation a win for spain's women's team.

So this headline describes the resignation as a win.

Now, fill I can win a card game or when a match, but that's a verb, um, this is a Now, what is a win?

Okay? Well, our win is a positive result, a victory, but not just in a sporting sense.

This was a positive result for the Spanish women's football team, but not on the pitch.

It wasn't a sporting victory, which of course means this was quite a clever headline.

Exactly. Yeah, there's a double meaning here.

So of course, the Spanish team won the world's Cup, but ribialis resigning is seen as a win against sexism.

So that is two winds. Phil, have you had any winds recently?

Well, I did get a parking ticket the other week, which was really unfair.

I wrote to the council and they cancelled it, which was a win for me.

Yeah, that sounds really good. That is definitely a win.

OK, let's look at that again.

Next headline, please. This is from the Financial Times.

Louise Brubialis resigns a Spanish football chief in wake of World Cup kiss.

Now, the language we're going to talk about is in wake of Now, normally this is in the wake of but we often remove the in headlines.

Phil can you explain what this is?

OK, so if something happens in the wake of something else, it happens after, and usually because of that something.

Right? So here in this headline, it's saying that the football chief resigned after the World Cup kiss, and because of the World Cup kiss?

Exactly. No. It's quite formal. And it's often used in headlines.

You might see something like, security Tightened in wake of World Cup final.

Yep. That's right. Okay, let's look at that again.

We've had fallout, a negative result, oh, win, a successful result in wake of because of something recent.

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