Reading Practice (Improve Your FLUENCY in English) | King Charles

Welcome to JForrest English, I'm Jennifer.

And today, we're going to read a news article from The New York Times.

So you can add a lot of advanced vocabulary Advanced grammar and correct pronunciation

to your speech.

Let's get started.

Our headline London's.

Coronation countdown Travelers arrive.

Others, flee.

So we're talking about the coronation now, the coronation is the official ceremony.

When King Charles officially becomes king and they place the crown on his head, Travelers

arrive,

others

flee.

Let's take a look at this verb.

Now, flea is used in a negative context because it means to escape by running away

because

of danger or fear.

But that is not, what is taking place here in this context?

I would say that flee,

Simply means to leave quickly to avoid an unpleasant

situation.

So that's what we mean in this specific context, but you will calm and lie.

You see it used in The Escape because of a danger or fear and you'll hear that in the

news a lot because you might hear after the invasion

we flood to and then you would

say where they fled to,

we fled to

London because this article is

about London.

Now

notice

Is the past simple, and the past participle is fled.

We fled to London.

While hundreds of thousands are expected to arrive.

In London, ahead of the crowning of King, Charles, the Third.

So the crowning that is just another way of saying the coronation.

When the crown is placed on his head, what a moment that would be and notice how I said

his name.

Did you hear what I said?

King Charles, the third, the third, that's what this represents these three lines there,

Roman numerals and

Represents the ordinal number three, but as an ordinal, number, its third, and ordinal

numbers, always use articles.

So that's why we say I live on the fourth floor.

So I can't say I live on 4th floor.

That's incorrect.

And I certainly wouldn't say I live on floor for because that sounds unnatural because

we use or

Channel numbers.

So I need to say, I live on the fourth floor and that's why it's King.

Charles, the third, the third,

I am Jennifer Forest, the first the third others are making plans to get out of town,

so I guess that's another way of saying others are making plans to leave to flee.

You could say to flee to

get

out of town.

But remember, when I safely, in this case, even though it's not a dangerous situation,

I definitely get the sense that there's urgency, they want to leave quickly, whereas making

As to get out of town, this is neutral.

It doesn't suggest that it needs to be quickly.

So, if you want to emphasize that quickly, you can use the word flee.

And this is what London looks like right now.

What a very interesting time to be in London, although not everybody feels that way because

some people are fleeing.

What about you would you like to attend the coronation and see this in person?

Or would you flee?

Share it.

That in the Commons areas around Buckingham Palace and the central route known as the

mall are already crammed with people.

There is a real interest crammed crammed with people crammed, this is another way of saying

many people in

In a specific space.

So within that space, whatever that space could be the space could be huge or the space

could be tiny.

But if it's crammed, it means, there are many people in that specific space.

You can say, crowned, another very common one.

And to be honest, I would say more common is packed and that's the one I generally use

although I have used crammed as well.

So

I'd say the

conference

was packed the mall or the movie theater.

I'll see.

Movie theater was crammed so it means there were a lot of people in these specific spaces.

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Right us Travelers.

Britain's biggest inbound Market are expected to lead next week's swell of arrivals here.

Swell simply means increased large number of next week's, well of arrival.

So it sounds like there's going to be a lot of arrivals arrivals.

That represents people arriving swell of arrivals a lot of arrivals at a single time so I would

just say

Increase in number of arrivals and maybe a quick or drastic increase in number and that's

what that means they're.

So as we already know, there's going to be a swell of arrivals and that's why London

is going to be packed or crowned.

And that's also why some people are choosing to flee to get out of town.

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flight.

Bookings from the United States to Britain are about 10% higher in May compared to in

May 20 19 before the pandemic.

According to visit Britain, according to Hopper the booking app, they are also more expensive

round-trip air fares.

So a round trip is when you go and you come

Back.

So that's round trip airfare otherwise, if you're just bought one ticket to go to London

and that's it.

That would be a one-way one-way airfare or you can say one-way ticket and then a round

trip ticket or round-trip airfare is you go and you come back from the United States to

London over coronation weekend.

Averaged $733.

In mid-april 21% higher than a year earlier.

After the coronation dates, were announced searches for Airbnb.

Rentals in London during the coronation weekend.

Surged so increased very quickly that would be surged.

Increased quickly.

They use this a lot with prices of things, you could say, the price,

the

price of milk, we could say surged for whatever reason, the price of milk surged increased

quickly.

According to the company, the company being Airbnb, which reported u.s.

Travelers, among the top gas in London around the coronation dates along with travelers

from Britain France.

Australia, and Germany.

Do you have any interest in going?

Do you know anyone who's going?

I do not know anyone who's going and I would love to go to London, but I wouldn't go specifically

for the coronation I have to admit, although it would be a very interesting experience,

but not all travelers, headed to London over coronation weekend.

Are thrilled to be thrilled.

We need our verb to be here as well to be thrilled.

Thrilled.

This means to be very happy, but not all travelers are thrilled.

So it means not all travelers are very happy.

So you can use this in a negative context.

You can say, I wasn't thrilled.

When my boss told me, I had to work late.

So, let me write that for you because we do use this in a negative.

Tex I wasn't thrilled.

Because remember, why do I keep forgetting the H thrilled with an angel?

The so thrilled.

I wasn't thrilled because the expression is to be thrilled.

So, this is in the past simple, and this is my verb to be conjugated in the past.

I wasn't thrilled.

When my boss told me, I had to work late, I wasn't thrilled.

But on the other hand, I was thrilled when I got a promotion.

So of course, you can use it in the positive as well.

Laura of IED.

Not sure how to say this last name of ITI will say Laura of it.

A youth fitness instructor.

Living in Houston, was disappointed to find out that her

Family vacation to London, which she booked last July coincided with the festivities.

Oh, that's a good point.

I would be disappointed too.

Most likely, the verb here is to coincide coincide coincide and that means to happen

at or near the same time.

So let's say you're planning a trip.

Up to London and then you find out one of your good friends from another country is

also planning a trip to London.

You could say, I hope our trips coincide which means I hope we go at the same time or if

our trips coincide, we'll have to get together.

Which means we'll have to arrange to see each other and go out for lunch or do something

together.

If our trips coincide, we'll have to get together.

So her trip that she booked a year ago.

Before she knew about the coronation coincides with the festivities.

The city is going to be packed.

Ah, remember, I told you that crammed commonly we use pack?

Now, this is interesting.

Eating because Laura of it, she's an American so maybe it's possible that crammed is more

popular in British English.

I'm not sure and packed is more cop.

Popular in American English, I personally use packed a lot more than crammed but you

could absolutely use either.

And it's not ideal which means she is not thrilled about this missive ID said it really

doesn't interest us.

You could say

She's not interested in the coronation.

Now notice my sentence structure to be, which I put as a contraction.

She is not, she's not interested Edie in the coronation to be interested in something.

So, that's an advanced sentence structure that you see a lot of students make mistakes

with, but it's extremely common.

You should know how to use it despite booking early.

IE two separate Airbnb, hosts cancel, Miss of Eddie's reservations in central London

leaving her scrambling.

So this is a negative adjectives.

If someone is scrambling, it

sounds

like they're trying to do many different things in a short period of time or they're trying

to solve a problem in a short period of time.

The dictionary definition.

Is a hurried attempt to get something.

So like I said, move very quickly.

Since this is all about traveling, you could say after our flight was canceled, we scrambled

to find a new one.

So we had to move very quickly to solve this problem to find a new flight.

And in her case, she's trying to find a new Airbnb.

She paid almost double her budget.

For a third are beam be at the line.

Last minute though the company reimbursed her for some of her unexpected cause Miss

of ID said planning, the trip was a nightmare so obviously, to describe something as a nightmare

to be a nightmare is obviously a negative expression and we do use this a lot with traveling.

Oh, my flight was a nightmare first, it was delayed and then they lost my bag.

And then something bad happened.

It was a nightmare.

Now here the company, reimbursed, her to reimburse.

Someone is.

When you pay them back, you give them money

back because they spent your money when they shouldn't have or they

charge you too much or they lost your money.

So maybe you gave

Gave your friend $20 and she lost it, but don't worry because your friend is going to

reimburse

you gave you the money back or maybe you found out that your your phone company charged,

you more money than they should have.

But don't worry because you called them.

You told them about it and they reimbursed you, they gave you the money

back.

Alright, so that was good of Airbnb to reimburse her for some of the unexpected costs, let's

continue on.

Even some Royal fans who attended the Platinum Jubilee are staying home in what may be a

reflection of

Charles historically being less popular than his mother Queen Elizabeth.

They just don't have the interest this year said, Ralph

I and Tosca in Tosca, a texas-based travel advisor, who only has one client visiting

London that weekend.

The ones that did have the interest don't want crowds.

So crowds, obviously

describes that there are many, many people in an area but crowds is a noun.

Okay,

look at this example.

Well, I don't like crowds because I don't like being in packed spaces.

Notice this is a noun.

I don't like crowds.

This is a something a group of people in one single location.

I don't like crowds, which is generally true.

Do you like crowds sometimes?

I don't mind crowds if it's a festival or a celebration.

It's nice to be.

A crowd.

But overall I guess generally, I don't like crowns because I don't like being in packed

spaces.

So notice this is an adjective.

It describes, the space packed meaning.

There are many people in that one space, there's all crowd in the space, so they're basically

saying the same thing.

But it's just the sentence structure that this is a noun and this is an adjective

of.

So what about you?

Do you like crowds?

And that's the end of our articles.

So what I'll do now is I'll go to the top and I'll read it from start to finish.

And this time, you can focus on my pronunciation London's, coronation countdown Travelers arrive,

others flee, while hundreds of thousands are expected to arrive.

In London, ahead of the crowning of King.

Charles, the Third others are making plans to get out of town.

Areas around Buckingham Palace and the central route known as the mall are already crammed

with people.

There is a real interest.

U.s.

Travelers, Britain's biggest inbound Market are expected to lead next week's.

Well of arrivals Flight bookings from the United States to Britain are about 10% higher

in May compared to in May 20, 19 before the pandemic.

According to visit Britain, according to

Two Hopper the booking app.

They are also more expensive.

Round-trip air fares from the United States and London over coronation weekend.

Average $733, in mid April 21 percent higher than a year earlier.

After the coronation dates were announced searches for Airbnb, rentals, in London during

the coronation weekend surged.

According to the company, which reported us Travelers among the top gas in London.

Around the coronation dates along with travelers from Britain France, Australia, and Germany,

but not all travelers headed to London over coronation weekend are thrilled.

Laura, I've ID a youth fitness instructor.

Living in Houston, was disappointed to find out that her family vacation to London, which

she booked last July coincided with the festivities, the city is going to be packed and it's not

ideal Miss of ID said,

It really doesn't interest us despite booking early to separate Airbnb, host cancel, Miss

of ID's reservations in central London leaving her scrambling.

She paid almost double her budget for a third Airbnb.

At the last minute, though.

The company reimbursed her for some of her unexpected.

Cause Miss of ID said planning, the trip was a nightmare, even some Royal fans who attended

the Platinum Jubilee are staying home and want maybe

Reflection of Charles historically being less popular than his mother Queen Elizabeth.

They just don't have the interest this year said Ralph, Ian Tosca, a texas-based travel

advisor, who only has one client visiting London that weekend, the ones that did have

the interest don't want.

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