Kamala Harris makes history: BBC News Review

Kamala Harris has become the first black woman to accept a nomination as US Vice-President. She’ll be working with Joe Biden to take on President Trump in November’s elections. Rob and Catherine have the vocabulary you need to talk about this story.

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Video chapters
0:00 - Introduction
0:31 - The story
1:19 - Headline 1: Kamala Harris accepts historic vice presidential nod
4:02 - Headline 2: Hysteria and dismay: Fox hosts spend evening fear-mongering over Kamala Harris
7:37 - Headline 3: DNC 2020: Kamala Harris blasts Trump 'failure of leadership'
10:38 - Language summary

The story
The first black woman to be chosen as US Vice-President candidate, Kamala Harris, has accepted her nomination.

She’ll run alongside Joe Biden to take on President Trump, who’s been accused by former US president Barack Obama of not taking the job seriously.

Key words and phrases:
nod
official act to suggest that someone should be given a prize or position

* Freya got the nod that she’d come first in the spelling competition.
* The Hollywood actor was very happy to hear he’d got the film award nod.

-mongering
encouraging an activity that is damaging or hurtful

* All this doom-mongering about job losses has made everyone very nervous.
* We decided to stock-up with toilet rolls after all the fear-mongering about a shortage

blasts
severely criticises

* The railway company was blasted for continually cancelling train services.
* The politician blasts the newspaper for misquoting him in an article.

To do
Try our quiz to see how well you've learned today's language.

*Please note: We have decided to activate YouTube's automatic subtitles on this video. The BBC is not responsible for the accuracy of YouTube automatic subtitles.
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[judyvine]

Robbing looting stealing Under 950 dollars is not criminal, why? Ask Kama she is the one promoting that law

[pedropetrucci]

Oh, the famous Rob biscuits lover! Nice to meet you, Rob!. Thanks a lot, you both for this excellent video. I found today's words quite strange and difficult, particularly the word 'mongering', but very useful. Thank you very much.

[shylajavineed]

Love to hear Rob's funny buscuit stories.

[englips]

Thanks for the video. Where is Neil by the way? Hi Neil, how are you? It's weird not to see you as usual. But finally, I have seen the Biscuit man (Rob) who Katherine and Neil have been using as a pretty understandable analogy :D Biscuit and Rob. Thank you Rob and Katherine.

[dimasirawan]

Thank you for helping us as non-native speakers to increase our vocabulary. I hope we get the nod for our English test such as ielts :). Thank you so much

[goodluck]

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[kanmaneenampakdee]

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[hieunumber]

i really like the videos, from Vietnam with love

[youstinas.daoud]

🏚️ Because of her honesty in her work, the school decided to nod her.
🏚️ The country refuses _ mongering and announced in all social media they will arrest the criminals of destroying acts.
🏚️ The mother blasts her kids for misbehaving all the time.

[erickaguirremaya]

I really love the pronunciation of Catherine ❤️

[Nataly]

It's nice to see Rob here as well as Neil)

[manhdoan]

Love to hear Rob’s accent which is quite attractive and easy to follow

[anik]

Thank you for all your efforts, really informative 💜

[suwandisuwandi]

I got the nod in 2015 to become vice principal in the school where I teach.

[vi]

Your explanation was really good and I really enjoyed it.

[suwandisuwandi]

Most people in my country feel fear mongering about covid 19

[baharehgolpour]

Fear -mongering reminds me of this word hatemonger.

[HaroldoTajra]

We have the headlines text here and that's great! But they're not in the website! Why don't put them there too?

[josedelfinoortatrejo]

Thanks a lot best teachers ever, even thougth, I have never seen the links, you suggested when you said, - there is a link below.
From México with tons of love

[MIMNGN]

I don't suppose you have got any biscuits now, Rob? 😃