Speak ADVANCED English in 60 MINUTES | American English Lesson (LESSON PDF + QUIZ)

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Speak ADVANCED English in 60 MINUTES | American English Lesson (LESSON PDF + QUIZ)

391,169 views ・ 2023-06-02

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Welcome back to JForrest English. I'm  Jennifer and this is your one hour weekly  
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English lesson. This lesson will help you  improve all areas of your English or English.  
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Speaking Reading Writing vocabulary, grammar  and pronunciation. Let's get started. First,  
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let's focus on your English speaking skills.  I'm going to explain 10 bad speaking habits  
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that I commonly see students,  make now I'll share how you can of
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avoid these habits so you can look very  professional and confident when speaking  
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in English. Now, before we start the lesson, I  want to ask for your feedback on this style of  
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lesson. So what I'm doing is I'm taking  individual lessons that I posted and I'm  
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combining them into one weekly lesson. So  you have all the individual lessons in one  
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place. You can download it, you can review  it anytime. If you're going for a long drive,
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Ivor A Long Walk. You have this one lesson, so let  me know if you like this lesson or you don't like  
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this lesson, share your thoughts in the comments  below. Now let's improve your speaking skills.  
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The first bad habit is using one word answers,  let's say you were at a conference and your  
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boss asks, you how was the conference  and you reply back? Can you say good?
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Great awesome. What do you notice about these  answers? They're all one-word answers. Now,  
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it might seem a little comical that that's  all you would say. But I hear this from  
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students all the time, I'll ask them about  their vacation, and they were on a two-week  
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vacation in another part of the world, and  all they say was good. Great. Okay, not bad.
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Very short answers, this doesn't sound very  professional and you definitely don't sound  
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advanced in English. The an easy way to solve  this problem is to answer in a complete sentence,  
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repeat the question. The conference was good,  now still, this isn't enough information,  
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you can then expand on that and you can  provide the reason why or you can provide one
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Sample from the conference or the trip.  The conference was good because I met  
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a lot of new people in my field  and I have a lot of new contacts.  
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This sounds so much more professional and advanced  compared to good. Our next bad. Habit is using  
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weak words. Let's say your boss. Asks, you if you  can have the report finished by the end of the
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And you reply back and say I think  so I'll try these are all weak words  
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because they imply that you might  not finish the job or finish the  
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request. So instead of saying I think I can  change that to something more confident,  
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something stronger. I know, I can finish  the report by the end of the day I promise
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Promise, I'll finish the report by the end of the  day, you can count on me to finish the report by  
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the end of the day. The next bad habit is  using very basic words. Basic words like  
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good. Okay, fine. All of these are very  beginner words and they don't sound very  
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professional and they don't make you look very  confident either. So if you simply change,
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Change that to something more advanced  instead of saying the conference was  
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good. You see the conference was very  beneficial and then you can move on and  
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provide more information. Like we talked  about in the first bad habit because often  
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the one word answers that you want  to avoid are also very basic words.  
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Now let's move on with our next point one  bad habit you definitely want to avoid is
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Speaking too quickly. So imagine  right now I'm telling you about  
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the rules of something and I'm speaking very fast.  
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Do you think you'll be able to understand very  well if that's how I spoke what a lot of students  
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actually think they speak too slowly but in my  experience, that's not true, they actually speak  
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too fast and when you speak too, fast is difficult  to understand to follow your story. So, just
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Take a breath, put some pauses into your  words as well and that will help you  
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slow your pace. Now let's talk about word,  fillers word, fillers are those words like  
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well you know like these words that don't have any  meaning but people add them to their speech when  
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they're trying to think about what to say next.  So imagine you're in a meeting and your boss.
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I asked you to tell everybody about how the  project is going and you reply back and say well  
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the projects going on pretty good.  
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Well you know we just need to obviously  that doesn't seem very professional and  
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you certainly won't feel very confident when  you have all those thumbs. Let's talk about  
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eye contact. This can be a very difficult  one especially because culturally people.
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Different rules for eye contact in North  American culture. It's considered polite  
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and professional to make eye contact with  the person you're talking to but you don't  
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maintain eye contact. 100% of the time. You can  absolutely Look Away. Look down look up. But you  
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want to maintain eye contact at least 50% of  the time. Next, let's talk about intonation.
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Ian intonation is the natural raising  and falling of your voice. Our voices,  
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do this naturally. Now, if I'm away up  high and then I come down low and then  
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I go way back up high and then I come  down low. That's not very professional  
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and it won't make you look very confident  but you also don't want to talk on one  
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specific note and maintain that know, right  now, I probably sound more boring to you.
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No, because I don't have intonation in my voice.  That's the impact of not having that natural  
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rising and falling. And I hear this from students  all the time. So you could do some vocal exercises  
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and try to go up higher and then comb down lower  and just try to vary your intonation, which is the  
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rising and falling of your voice. When you speak  to sound more professional and to appear more
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Didn't our next bad habit is on  enthusiasm and a lack of enthusiasm.  
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What do I mean by this? Well let's say you  went to this conference and you want to tell  
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your boss and your colleagues that the conference  was very beneficial and you learned a lot and you  
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made a lot of useful contacts. But if you deliver  this, if you communicate this without enthusiasm
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Yasm, they're not going to understand the message.  The conference was great. I'm met a lot of people,  
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it was very beneficial, it was really interesting,  
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a lack of enthusiasm. Your intonation  goes down, your volume goes down,  
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just think of it as being very tired, or bored  or not interested. So, think about the enthusiasm
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Chasm that you have in your voice. Now,  part of showing your enthusiasm and part  
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of being confident is also your body language.  Notice how I said, when you lack enthusiasm,  
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it's like you're tired. When you're tired,  you have a hard time keeping your body up,  
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but it doesn't look very professional  and I probably don't look very confident  
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right now. And same people often they  speak, they cover up their body which
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Makes them appear very small, that doesn't seem  very confident either. When you're confident just  
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bring your shoulders back and take up about as  much space as your shoulders. Go think of that  
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as your box, your Communications box and that's  where you want to be. You want to make sure you  
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stay upright in this box when you're communicating  because that will make you seem very confident.
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Tent. And then also that will help with your  intonation and your enthusiasm. Because when your  
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body is all crunched down, it actually impacts the  intonation of your voice. And when you're upright  
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more, you can get more enthusiasm more intonation  from your voice as well. So remember, shoulders  
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back and pay attention to your body language.  Now finally, let's talk about hand gesture.
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So hand gestures is just simply using  your hands when you communicate. Now,  
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there are some things you don't want to  do like completely not having any hand  
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gestures. So if I did the entire video  like this, maybe you could watch it for  
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30 seconds but imagine watching it for  10 minutes where you don't see my hands  
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at all. Now if my hands are like this,  most likely my body is going to start to
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To Sag as well. And I'm not going to have good  body language but when I bring my hands into  
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it I'm more likely to keep my shoulders back.  Remember I said you want to have a communication  
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box because you also don't want your hands  wailing and frailing about and just being all  
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over the place as well. You want to keep your hand  gestures within this Communications box. So just
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Keep them. Very slight, very natural. You don't  want to go too far away. Just close to the body,  
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but just keep them going and that will again help  you with your body language. It will make you  
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look a lot more confident and you'll appear  more professional. Because all professional  
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speakers use their hands when they're speaking.  And if you avoid these 10 bad speaking habits, I
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I know you're going to look instantly more  professional, and you're going to feel more  
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confident as well. So, which bad habit? Do you  think you need to improve the most? Share that in  
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the comments below? Now let's move on and focus on  your English reading and at the same time you'll  
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improve your grammar, your vocabulary  and your pronunciation. So we're going to  
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read a news article that talks about  the release of Disney's The Little
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Mermaid. Let's get started.  Let me read the headline.  
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The Little Mermaid makes box office  Splash with 95.5 million opening. First,  
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let's talk about this makes a splash makes a  splash here. It says box office Splash to describe  
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what type of Splash it made. But this is a fun  idiom that you can add to your speech and the
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M is to make a splash to make a splash and  this means to attract a lot of attention.  
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So you might say, Sarah really made a splash at  the conference so maybe she gave a presentation  
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and it was really engaging and interesting and  informative. And a lot of people were talking  
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to her about it. So she attracted a  lot of attention. She made a splash
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She made a splash now, do you know why they  chose to use this specific idiom in the headline?
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Well, because it's also a joke  because Splash has to do with water,  
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the literal definition of  Splash and the Little Mermaid,
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course, takes place  
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in water because right now, imagine I'm in water  and I'm doing this, I'm splashing to Splash. So,  
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if you're right here and I'm doing this with  water, you would see Jennifer's stop splashing.
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In me, why are you splashing me? So that's  the literal definition. But remember idioms,  
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they don't follow the literal definition. They  just chose to use this idiom because of the  
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water connection. So to Splash to Splash, this  is to move water. I guess. Boo to move water.
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In the direction of someone or something.  So to move water kids. Love splashing in  
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water but hey adults, love it, too, is pretty  fun. Let's continue on The Little Mermaid,  
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Minx box office, Splash when ninety  five point five million dollar opening,  
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okay? The little mermaid made moviegoers want to  be under the sea. All Memorial Day weekend. This
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Is not an idiom to be under the sea,  they're using this as a little joke,  
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because one of the main songs from the  movie, is called Under the Sea. Remember,  
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they sing a lot in Disney movies and this is one  of the songs Under the Sea, if you remember it?  
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Okay, let's take a look at this though.  Moviegoer made moviegoers. This is a noun.
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I'll moviegoer and can you imagine who? This  would represent a moviegoer. I'm a moviegoer.
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What does that mean? A moviegoer is someone who  
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goes to the movies a moviegoer? Because  remember, it's a noun. So, you need
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article here we have plural. So there's  no article because moviegoers a moviegoer,
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Someone who goes to the movies  
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in North America. When we say go to the  movies, it means I went to the movie theater.
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Movie theater in North America,  we commonly called the cinema a  
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movie theater. So we just shorten it to movies.
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went to the movies last weekend. It  means I went to the movie theater to  
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watch a movie. So a moviegoer  is not someone who watches a
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movie
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at home. They have to go to  the movie theater, the cinema
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Are you a movie goer? I am not a moviegoer. I
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haven't gone to the movies. The movie theater  for five years, maybe but of course, I watch  
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movies at home. I'm just not a moviegoer.  What about you, share that in the comments?
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Disney's live-action remake of it's 1989.  Animated classic easily, out swam the competition.  
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All right, this is another water  joke. This is also not an expression.
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We use it in the literal context  of to outswim. Someone means I  
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swam faster than the person. So,  when you add out in front of an
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Action verb. It means to do better  than. So if I say I outran someone  
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it means I ran faster than another person  who was running usually in the sense of a  
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competition. I'm racing against someone and I  outran them, I ran faster than them. So this  
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is not an idiom it's in a very specific  context of sports and competition, but it
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Again, they used it because of the water  reference, but it means to perform better  
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than. So easily performed better  than is how you can think of it,  
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easily performed better than the competition.  Now here remake, if I add re in front of my verb,  
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it means to do that verb again. So, to  remake, it means to make it again and
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This makes sense.
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Because the Little Mermaid was  originally a cartoon originally in 1989,  
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but they just remade it. And this, the  live action originally, it was a cartoon,  
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an animated cartoon, but now, of  course, real people Ariel and Ursula,  
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they're real people. Obviously, flounder,  the fish is not. The fish is still
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It, so that's the live-action remake.  So with the verb remake, you might say,  
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I had to remake the cake. So maybe you  were making a cake but at the same time  
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you were watching one of my videos  on YouTube and you forgot about your  
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cake and it burns in the oven. So you had  to remake it, I had to remake the cake.
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So, you can use this in many different contexts.
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All right, bringing in ninety five point  five million dollars. So notice Point,  
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that's how I would vocalize this 95.5 million  and then I vocalize the money sign as dollars,  
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and it is plural, there's more than one  dollar. One dollar singular 1 million dollars
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There's there's a plural on the  dollars but there is no plural on  
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the million. I hear a lot of students say  to Millions. No, it's two million dollars  
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that plural goes on the dollars. Bringing  in ninety five point five million dollars  
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on 4320 screens in North America.  According to Studio estimates Sunday,
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So let's take a look at this according to  
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and after you need a someone or something. So  this a something could be according to the report,  
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this would be a something according to the report  According to Jim, who wrote the report. So this  
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would be, of course, a someone. So according to  don't forget this preposition to according to
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The report According to Jim before we go on, are  you enjoying this lesson? Do you enjoy learning  
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look in the description for more information. Now,  let's continue on and Disney estimates. The film  
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starring Halle Bailey as the mermaid Ariel and  Melissa McCarthy as her see, which Nemesis Ursula.
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Kayla's pause here. Nemesis listen  to my pronunciation. Nemesis Nemesis  
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a nemesis is your rival or your opponent. So  someone or sometimes, even a something that  
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you need to defeat something, you need  to defeat this happens a lot in movies.
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And books and TV. So think of any superhero. Let's  take Batman. And who does Batman need to defeat?  
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He needs to defeat Joker. Right? The Joker,  Don is Batman's Nemesis. It's his rival,  
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his opponent. But you may have an  opponent in a race or a competition.
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And in that case, the word nemesis  is too strong. When I hear Nemesis,  
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I think there's going to be a battle, there's  going to be violence involved. And that's why  
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I think more of movies and TV and superheroes. I  don't really think of just being in a race or a  
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competition where you have an opponent.  So think of it in that sense as well,  
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there's probably some sort of  violence or extreme conflict.
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Nemesis her see which Nemesis Ursula will reach,  one hundred Seventeen point five million dollars.  
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Don't forget that as sand dollars.  By the time, the holiday is over.  
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Okay. This was a very long sentence but let's  take the short form of the sentence. We have  
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the film and then this is additional information  about the film. The film will reach this amount.
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By the time, the holiday is over. So this  is a nice Advanced sentence structure,  
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you can practice, you have the future simple.
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And then you have by the  time. Okay, so let's try that,  
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let's try by the time. The week is over, what  will happen? So it will rain by the time the  
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week is over. So, by the time the week is over  that's the last day of the week and sometimes
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Between now and the end of the week, it will  rain. So here future simple. It Will Rain by  
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the time and then and then you can have any time.  It doesn't necessarily have to be over. It could  
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be by the time I go on vacation. So I will buy a  new bathing suit. By the time, I go on vacation.
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Ation.
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By the time I go on vacation. So this is a  nice sense of structure. You can try your  
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own sentence in the comments, it ranks as the  fifth biggest Memorial Day Weekend, Opening Ever.  
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So rank is talking about the score, right? So if  you're in first place that's your rank. Second  
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place. Third place 4th Place so this is fifth it  ranks as its overall performance. Now I've saved
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All the notes that I'm taking here in a free  lesson PDF, you can look in the description for  
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the link to download it and you can also download  this free speaking guide how to speak. English,  
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fluently, and confidently, in six. Easy steps,  you can download this absolutely free from my  
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website. So the link is in the description  as well. Let's continue it displaces fast.
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X in the top spot. So they're talking about  it, the movie, The Little Mermaid because of  
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its overall rank, its performance, its core  it displaces. So first we had fast X but now  
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the little mermaid is going to displace it. So  it's going to take its Spot, It displaces Fast  
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X in the top spot, the tenth installment in  the Fast and Furious franchise starting Vin
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Oil has lagged behind more recent  releases in the series. So when you  
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leg behind, it means you're not  performing as well as you could,  
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so you're performing slower than expected  or not as good as expected. So to perform
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Less than expected.
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But we also use this in a physical distance.  So remember before we talked about running  
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or swimming, and you can outswim  or outrun the competition, well,  
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I might be running. And then I realize that  my competitor not my Nemesis because I'm not  
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going to violently fight them. My competitor  is lagging behind. I know they can run faster.
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Other than they're currently running.  Why is my competitor lagging behind?  
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Why are they running slower than  the they can run? And maybe a,  
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even in transportation of train could be legging  behind? It's not moving as quickly as it can  
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move. So there could be some mechanical  issue and that's why his legging behind
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But in this case, they're talking about  the performance not physical movement.  
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So the film The Tenth film in Fast and Furious.  Are you watching that series? I am not. I'll  
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stick to my Disney movies has legs behind more  recent releases in the series bringing in 23  
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million dollars. Domestically for a two-week,  total of 108 million dollars for Universal
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Pictures notice here too, weak. There's no  as on it, right? Because this is being used  
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as an adjective and adjectives, don't have a  plural form. So it's the difference between
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I went on a vacation.
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Now, let's say I want to add an adjective.  I could say, I went on a two-week vacation,  
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this is an adjective but if I want to  just talk about the time reference for  
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my vacation the length of time, then I do add  the S, I went on a vacation for two weeks,  
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this is plural. This is an adjective so it is not  plural. This is a Time reference so it's plural.
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The performance of The Little Mermaid represents,  something of a bounce-back for Disney's,  
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animated to live-action remake. So remember,  they remade The Little Mermaid first? It was  
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animated and now is live action. So, they went  from animated to live action. Notice here,  
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bounce, back bounce, back when you bounce back,  is another way of saying recover. So this because
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It's a noun, it would be  recovery. It's a recovery. So  
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we'll learn later on that. They say that the  live-action remakes they were doing poorly but  
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now they've bounced back. So they're recovering  in terms of their performance is going from,  
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not very good to better. We use this in a  medical context as well. So let's say your
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Sick, you're not feeling well, but the  doctor wants to tell you. It's not serious,  
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you'll recover, the doctor could say, don't
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Don't worry.
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Don't worry, it's just a cold. You'll bounce back.
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Bounce back quickly, you'll  recover quickly. In this case,  
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it's being used as a verb but here they're using  it as a noun, all bounce back. So in this case,  
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it's recovery because that's the noun form, and  the verb form is recover, you'll recover quickly
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So they're talking about The Little Mermaid film  because of its performance it's considered a  
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bounce-back for their remakes and makes it  likely. They'll keep coming in definitely  
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poor reception and the pandemic had some  recent reboots. In this case reboot is  
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just another word for remake, but  remake is the more common one. We
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Use reboot more in the sense  of starting again. So to start,
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An electronic.
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Device again. So that's not how  they're using it in this context,  
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they're using it to replace the word remake,  to just talk about making it again. But that  
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isn't how it's normally used. When you reboot  a device, I will power down my computer or my  
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phone usually because it's it has some sort  of bug or an issue. And then they'll say
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So just try rebooting it, so turn  it off and turn it back on again.
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So recent reboot. Same as remake  either performing poorly or skipping,  
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theatrical release for Disney plus, including  Dumbo Milan, and Pinocchio, so Dumbo,  
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Milan and Pinocchio. These are three other Disney  movies that they remade into live-action films,  
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but they didn't do very well, and they  didn't even go to the theaters. They  
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only release them on Disney plus their  streaming service. They didn't release.
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Some in the theaters probably because they  didn't think they were going to perform  
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very well. So when you skip something it  means you you miss it you miss it so you  
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don't go to it or you don't do it so to  miss it or missing theatrical release.
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You hear this a lot with events. So you might say,  
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I think I'm going to skip the party tonight,  which means I'm going to miss it. I'm not going  
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to go where I'm not going to do it or someone  might say, you can't skip the meeting today.  
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The CEO will be there, which means you can't not  do it. You have to do it. You can't skip the meet
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eating today.
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Let's continue the opening puts it in the top  tier of Disney's remakes. So top-tier is one  
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of the highest ranks highest positions  top tier with a similar performance to  
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2019 Aladdin though. It was well short of  2017 s Beauty and the Beast which open to  
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more than 170 million dollars and twenty  19's. The Lion King which brought in more
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Then 190 million dollars in its first  weekend. Have you seen any of these  
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remakes? I've seen all three. I love Disney  movies. I'm very excited to watch The Little  
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Mermaid. Although I'm not a moviegoer,  so I'll watch it at home. What about you?
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Oh, and that's the end of the article,  
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okay, so now, what I'll do is I'll go to the  beginning of the article and I'll read it from  
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start to finish. And this time, you can focus on  my pronunciation. Let's do that now, The Little  
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Mermaid minks box office Splash with ninety five  point, five million dollar opening. The little  
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mermaid made moviegoers want to be under the sea  on Memorial Day Weekend. Disney's live action.
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Action remake of it's 1989.  Animated classic easily,  
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out swam the competition. Bringing in  ninety five point five million dollars  
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on 4320 screens in North America,  according to Studio estimate Sunday,  
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and Disney estimates. The film starring Halle  Bailey as the mermaid Ariel and Melissa McCarthy  
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as her see, which Nemesis Ursula will reach. One  hundred Seventeen point five million dollars.
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By the time the holiday is over it ranks. As the  fifth biggest Memorial Day Weekend, Opening Ever  
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it displaces fast X in the top spot. The tenth  installment in the Fast and Furious franchise.  
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Starring Vin Diesel has lagged behind more recent  releases in the series bringing in 23 million  
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dollars domestically for a two-week, total of  108 million dollars for Universal Pictures.
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The performance of The Little Mermaid represents  something of a bounce-back for Disney's animated  
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to live action remakes and makes it likely  they will keep coming in. Definitely  
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poor reception. And the pandemic had some  recent reboots either performing poorly,  
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or is skipping theatrical releases for Disney  plus, including Dumbo Milan, and Pinocchio,  
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the opening puts it in the top  tier of Disney's remakes with a
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Our performance to 2019 s Aladdin  though, it was well short of 2017,  
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s Beauty and the Beast which opened to more than  170 million dollars and twenty 19's The Lion King  
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which brought in more than 190 million dollars  in its first weekend. Now let's focus on phrasal  
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verbs because native speakers use phrasal  verbs all the time and in this lesson we're
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Going to focus on phrasal verbs with  get and you're going to learn the top,  
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40 phrasal verbs with get and at the end  of this section, there's a quiz. Let's go  
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to get ahead. This means to progress, so to  make progress towards something and we most  
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commonly use this in a career setting or academic  setting. For example, if you want to get ahead
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You need fluent English. Would you agree with  that? Put that in the comments if you want to  
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get ahead, you need fluent English. Now, notice  how I didn't specify get ahead in. What if you  
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want to get ahead at work in your career, so,  don't forget that. But you can also just say,  
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if you want to get ahead to get along with most  students know this one. Do you know this one? When
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You get along with someone. It means you have  a good relationship with that person. I really  
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get along with my boss but we commonly use  this in the - I don't get along with my boss  
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so you can use it in both the positive or  the negative. So which describes you I get  
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along with my boss. I don't get along  with my boss to get away. This means
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To escape. So you can use this into  context, the criminal got away. So  
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that means he escaped. The robber got away,  he stole my car and he got away he escaped.  
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But we also use this more in the sense  of to escape from your daily life. The  
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difficulties of your daily life. I really  need to get away. Work has been so busy.
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II. Don't get along with my boss, I need to get  away another common phrasal verb with get away,  
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is to get away with something and that something  is negative. For example, she got away with the  
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crime, this means she wasn't punished for the  crime. So she did something wrong but she got
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We with it, she got away with stealing the car.  Notice that verb ing with stealing the car to get  
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off lightly? This is when you are punished for  something but you're punished less severely than  
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you anticipated. So maybe you forgot to submit a  report at work but you got off lightly your boss.
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Didn't fire you but they did remove you  from the account so you were punished,  
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but you were punished less severely than  you expect it. We also use this more in a  
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criminal context. She stole the car, but  she got off lightly. So maybe she didn't  
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go to prison. She only had to do community  service to get back. This is used to say
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That you return to your original starting  point. So, let's say you're at home,  
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but then you go to the store and then  you return back home. So now you can say,  
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I got back at 7:00. What time did you get  back? Now, you can specify the place. What  
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time did you get back home? Back to the  office. Oh, I got back around seven week.
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Commonly use this with your vacations. What time  did you get back from your trip to Italy? Oh,  
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I got back on Tuesday, you returned home  from Italy. There's also the phrasal verb  
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to get back to someone. You might say,  oh I really need to get back to John  
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when you get back to someone, it means you respond  to that person. So if I say I need to get back to
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John, it means that John contacted me  
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but I have not replied. So maybe he asked me a  question and I have not answered his question. I  
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need to get back to John or you John might say.  When are you going to get back to me? When are  
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you going to respond to my question when you get  back into something? It means you continue doing.
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Something that you stopped for a period of time.  So let's say you decided to learn how to play  
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guitar or piano, and you play a guitar every  week, for months, and months, and months. And  
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then you stop playing guitar, you get very busy  at work but then work is no longer busy. So you  
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say oh I need to get back into guitar. I need  to get back into my guitar lessons so maybe you
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Use this with your language lessons. I need  to get back into my English language class to  
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get back at someone. This is used for Revenge.  So if you didn't get back to John which means  
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you didn't reply to John and you didn't answer  his question, maybe John will try to get back  
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at you. He'll try to get revenge on you  so maybe he'll tell everyone that you're
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You're not very helpful and that's how we gets  back at you to get behind someone or something,  
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this is when you support someone or  something. So let's say your company  
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has a new policy on their dress code  and you like the policy. You can say,  
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I can really get behind that policy, you  support that policy to get by. This is when you
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Just enough resources to  survive, we most commonly use  
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this with Financial Resources. So you might  say with inflation, I can barely get by,  
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so it means you can pay your bills,  pay your mortgage, buy groceries,  
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but just enough at the end of the month, you  have one or two dollars left in your account.
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I'm getting by to get into trouble. I'm sure you  do this all the time when you get into trouble, it  
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just means you enter that situation where you're  doing something you're not supposed to be doing  
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which is the trouble. So kids get into trouble all  the time. That's why you don't leave your kids at  
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home without an adult to supervise them because  they're going to get into trouble. They're going.
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Right on all the walls with crayon or eat, all the  cookies in the fridge, they're going to get into  
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trouble to get on. This is when you board, which  means to enter certain vessels, certain methods  
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of transportation. So, you can get on a plane, a  train, a boat, or a bus. I got on the plane, you
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You entered the plane. You boarded the plane  to get on is also used as an expression to say  
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that someone is old or has become very old.  So you might say my grandma is getting on,  
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which means my grandma is now quite old.  She's become very old my grandma's getting on,  
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so she has difficulty getting on a  plane. Now, what's the opposite of on
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I'm on the plane I got on the plane so  now I need to get off the plane. And  
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remember you only get off certain  methods of transportation Planes,  
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Trains, boats, and buses. This is my stop.  I need to get off the bus. Get off the train  
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for vehicles, cars Vans or  trucks. You get in and get out of
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Of. I got in my car, I got out of my  car, so don't confuse those two. We  
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also use get in when you enter a room  in a building or enter a house or a  
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location. So this is very common at work.  A co-worker could ask you o. What time did  
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you get in? They met. What time did you  enter the office? So you can also use it.
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It to mean. What time did you start your work  day because when you enter the office building  
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technically, you started work. So what time  did you get in? Is another way of saying,  
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what time did you start work? Now in this case,  
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although the opposite of in is out we have  an expression to get off which means to end  
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work for the day. So someone could ask  you o. What time do you get off today?
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What time do you usually get off? What time are  you getting off, tomorrow. This means what time  
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do you finish work? Do you end work? Just  for the day to get out is also used as an  
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expression of disbelief. So let's say your  friend tells you, I won the lottery, get out.  
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Get out. Get out of here,  get out of town so you can.
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Dad, get out of here or less commonly but still  comment, get out of town. It's just a show that  
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I can't believe it. What get out. Get out. So  if your friend says something very shocking or  
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surprising, I'm moving to Antarctica. Get out.  Get out of town. Why, why are you doing that?  
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When you get out of something  or get out of doing something,  
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it means you avoid doing something unpleasant.
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Pleasant. So, I could say I need to get out of  cleaning the garage because that's unpleasant,  
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and I don't want to do it to get together.  This is when people organize socially,  
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they join each other socially. So I might ask  what time are we getting together tonight? So  
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what time are we going to meet each other?  Join each other and have dinner. Have a
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A coffee. Go for a walk, do something social.  Now, if you specify the noun, you need with,  
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what time are you getting together with your  friends tonight? You probably know this one  
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to get up. What time do you get up? This is  when you leave your bed in the morning, first  
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thing in the morning. So what time do you wake  up? This is when you open your eyes. But then,
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Get up is when you actually leave your bed so  I wake up at 6 a.m. but I don't get up until  
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6:30 but how about this one, get up to. What did  you get up to last night? This is a common way  
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of simply asking what someone did. Oh, what  did you get up to last night? Oh, not much.  
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I watched a movie. We also use this one though  to imply that someone is doing something wrong.
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My kids are always getting up to no good. This  is the same thing as getting into trouble,  
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but in a general context. So, what did  you get up to last night? It's what did  
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you do last night to get across?  This is to communicate your idea  
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successfully. So as a non-native  speaker, you might say I have a  
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hard time getting my ideas across. I have  a hard time communicating successfully and
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If you have a hard time,  getting your ideas across,  
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someone might ask you. What are you  getting at? What are you getting at?  
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This is another way of saying. What are you  trying to communicate? What do you mean? So,  
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if you're trying to explain something, but the  other person doesn't understand, they can say,  
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what are you getting at now? To get at can also  mean to successfully reach something or fine.
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Something or obtain something. So let's say I have  a shelf and I have a hat on a very high shelf. I  
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might say, I can't get at my hat, I can't reach my  hat so you get rid of this is when you throw away.  
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So permanently remove unwanted items. So remember  I said I wanted to get out of cleaning my garage.
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Judge because there's so many things,  I need to get rid of. There are so many  
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unwanted things in my garage that I want to  permanently remove. So maybe once a year,  
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you can go through your entire house and get  rid of things. Get rid of unwanted things to  
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get wound up about something is when you get  really angry about something. So let's say,
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Your father doesn't like politics in general  so every time he sees something in the news  
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about politicians he gets wound up. He gets  really angry, but you might say to your dad,  
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get over it, get over it, to get over something  is when you tell someone, they shouldn't have
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Wrong feelings towards something else and those  strong feelings are usually negative feelings.  
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So if your dad gets really wound up about  politics, you can say, oh, just get over it,  
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it's not a big deal. You can, of course, get  over someone. Do you know this one? When you  
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get over someone, it means you. No longer have  romantic feelings for that person. So after
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My divorce. It took me years to  get over my husband. It took me  
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years to stop having romantic  feelings towards my husband.  
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Now, someone could say, get over it, stop being  upset about the situation that you're no longer  
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with your husband, but that might be a little  insensitive. You can also get over an illness.
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- which means you recover from an illness. It  took me weeks to get over my cold. It took me  
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weeks to recover from my cold to get around. This  is how you travel within an area. So if you're a  
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tourist you might Google. What's the best way  to get around New York City and of course it's
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Aunt by car. You don't want to get around  by car because the traffic is terrible. So  
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walking is the best way to get around  or taking the subway is the best way  
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to get around New York City. When you get  around to something or to doing something,  
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it means you finally do something after not  doing it for a long period of time. So, let's
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Say I was trying to get out of cleaning the garage  because I didn't really want to get rid of all  
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that unwanted stuff but I finally got around to  cleaning the garage. So I finally clean the garage  
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after a long time of not cleaning the garage  to get it together, is when you take control.
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Your life or your emotions. So let's say your  friend is really upset because she broke up with  
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her husband and she has not gotten over him and  you want to tell your friend to just get over it  
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but instead you tell your friend, get it together,  get it together. You need to take control.
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Of your emotions because your friend is crying  all the time or she's really upset. She's really  
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moody angry, not pleasant to be around and you  tell your friend, you need to get it together  
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which is a little bit of tough love but  sometimes it's necessary. There are many  
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phrasal verbs with debt through that have  different meanings when you get through.
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Thing, it means you in der or deal with a  difficult situation, it was really difficult  
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for me to get through my father's death. So  my father died. Obviously that's a difficult  
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situation. Hopefully you don't say get over it  because that would be very insensitive but I had a  
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hard time getting through my father's death so you  can use this in a personal situation. You can use
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Is it in a work situation as well? I don't get  along with my boss so I have a hard time getting  
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through our meetings. I have a hard time dealing  with our meetings because I don't get along with  
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my boss when you get through something.  It can also mean that you successfully  
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finish something that was very difficult  or time-consuming. I finally got through.
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The report. So you finished it but  it took you a really long time. It  
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was difficult when you get through to  someone, it means that you successfully  
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contact them after numerous attempts of  trying to contact them. So, let's say,  
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I needed to get back to John, I needed to  respond to John, but every time I called John
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I got his voicemail I could say I'm having a  hard time getting through to John so I can't  
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get back to John because I can't get through to  him, but we also use to get through to someone  
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when you're able to communicate something  to someone in a way that they understand it.  
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So I told my friend that she shouldn't quit  her job and I explained all the reasons why
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And I finally got through to her. So I finally  made her understand why she shouldn't quit her  
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job. Your head is probably spinning right now  with all of these phrasal verbs with get. But  
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all you need is some practice practice,  practice and repetition. So let's do that  
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right now with a quiz. So you have a chance to  review and practice. These get phrasal verbs.
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So how did you do with that quiz? Don't  worry if it was difficult again, you just  
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need to practice so review this video again  multiple times try that quiz again, but share  
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your score in the comments so you can come back  and see how much you've improved and share, your  
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favorite phrasal verb with, get in the comments  as well. Finally, I have another reading lesson  
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for you because my students love these lessons  and they're so amazing because they focus on.
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All areas of your English at once. Your  vocabulary, grammar reading pronunciation and  
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this time we're talking about a legal case that's  happening in Australia. That's rocking the entire  
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country. Don't worry, you'll learn exactly what  that means in the lesson. So, let's go first, I'll  
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read the headline Ben roberts-smith, how decorated  soldiers, defamation case has rocked Australia. So
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This man is Ben roberts-smith. Notice this, his  
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name ends in an S Roberts but the second part  of his last name starts in an S. So in this  
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case you only pronounce 1s Robert Smith.  Robert Smith if it were just Roberts you  
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would pronounce the s or just Smith, of course  s, but together, roberts-smith Ben roberts-smith,
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This mountain is Ben roberts-smith.  Notice these metals on his suit jacket,  
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this is what it means by decorated soldier.  If you say that a soldier is decorated,  
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it means that they have been  awarded medals for various reasons,  
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so that's what decorated means. It's  really used in a military context now.
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Now, what is a defamation case? We're  talking about a legal case, defamation  
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is the action of damaging someone's reputation  and that's done by either writing or saying,  
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bad things about that person, but the  important thing is that those things  
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are not true. So apparently, the media said bad  things about Ben roberts-smith and they ruined
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His reputation. So he suing them. So someone  said bad things about Ben roberts-smith that  
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damaged his reputation but those things are  not true. So he is suing them. I'm suing you  
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for defamation. So if you said Jennifer is  the worst teacher in the entire world and  
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that ruined my reputation. I could sue  you for defamation. So don't say that.
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Hopefully, you don't think that now how  this defamation case has rocked Australia?  
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What does it mean to Rock Australia?  When something rocks, someone or a group,  
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such as the population of Australia, it means it  shocks them. So, this defamation case has shocked  
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Australia, let's continue on and find out.
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Why this case has rocked Australia for  months on end Australia's, most decorated,  
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living Soldier. So remember I said, decorated  represents these Metals so he has the most  
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metals of any living Soldier. So, he sat stoic  lie in a Sydney courtroom, let's stop here  
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because there are a few things I want to review.  Let's take a look at this for months, on end for
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Months. Now, we could just say four months and  it would be completely correct when you add on  
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and it simply stresses the continuation. So to  emphasize or to stress. Continuation emphasize  
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continuation. So, let's say,  
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I've been having issues with my computer.  I could say, my computer has been freezing.
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For months on end, when I add on end. It just  lets, you know, it didn't just happen once or  
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twice, it's been happening continuously. So you  can add that four months, four days, four weeks,  
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four hours, whatever, time reference you  would like. And notice because we have  
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four and then our time reference, this  is a keyword for the present perfect or
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The present, perfect, continuous  for months, on end Australia's,  
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most decorated, living Soldier, sat  stoically. This is a great adverb,  
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and it means without showing your feelings,  especially when something bad happens to you.  
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So let's say that someone delivers, some terrible  news to me and as they delivered the nose, I just
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Okay.
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Thank you for sharing. I  understand that would be a  
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stoic reaction. I reacted stoic  lie, but if I went know what, why,  
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why why? And I reacted very emotionally. That's  the opposite of stoic lie. So he sat stoically  
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in a Sydney courtroom as dozens of witnesses  accused him of war crimes. Bullying peers.
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And assaulting his mistress, okay, so  different people dozens of. So, of course,  
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one dozen is 12 12. I hope you know that one  doesn't equals 12, it's a very common measurement  
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because things like eggs, come in, a dozen,  a dozen eggs, 12 eggs, a dozen buns, 12 buns.
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So it's a common quantity, a dozen. So  this is dozens of, so it would be 24 or  
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36 just more than 12. So, a lot of people,  a lot of people accused him. This decorated  
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soldier of these terrible things, war crimes,  bullying, peers, and assaulting his mistress
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But Ben roberts-smith was not the one on trial,  so he was not officially accused of these crimes  
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because remember, in the headline, he this man  was actually suing someone else for defamation  
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but instead now people are accusing him of all  of these crimes. Hmm. And that probably explains
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Lane's why this case has rocked Australia?  Now, you can download the lesson PDF that  
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summarizes. All the notes from this lesson.  Just look in the description below or in the  
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comment section for the link to download it. Let's  continue. The 44 year old had brought the case,  
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so notice the past perfect. He had  brought the case before he was.
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Accused of war crimes. So remember,  the past perfect is used for a past  
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action before another past action, past  action, before another past action.
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So
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I'll write out that full sentence,  he had, he had brought the case,  
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when you bring a case to the criminal  justice system, it just means you start or
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It's a legal process. He had brought  the case. The defamation case,  
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before he was accused of war crimes. So  remember we have the past, perfect past,  
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perfect. And then, this is the older action. And  then we have the past simple for the newer action,  
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but they are both past actions.  The 44 year old had brought the
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Case suing three Australian newspapers, over a  series of articles in 2018, which he says defamed  
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him. So, this is the verb form, remember  before we had defamation, which is a noun,  
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but here to defame someone that's the verb  form. So the verb form is to defame, someone to  
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defame. So the media to
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Named him you defamed me when you said I was the  world's worst teacher so I'm suing you don't worry  
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I won't do that. He argues they ruined his life  by painting him as a callous man so you can paint  
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someone as something and that's just another way  of saying to describe someone as she described me.
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As the world's best teacher. Oh why thank you  so much. She painted me as the world's best  
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teacher. So when you paint someone as you  don't just say Jennifer's the world's best  
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teacher. You usually give examples, you tell  a story just like when you paint a picture,  
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you don't just put one blob. You put a  lot of detail on that picture. So you
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I details informations examples.  A story to describe someone,  
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so the media painted him as a callous  man, what is this adjectives callous?  
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He's very callous. When someone is callous.  It means they are unkind cruel and they don't  
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have any sympathy or feelings for others. So  it's a negative adjectives. So let's say, aye,
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Share some very bad news with you. I told  you guys a family member died and you said,  
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let's get some pizza. I might say, well, that was  very callous. That was very unkind. You didn't  
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even offer any sympathy to this. You just wanted  pizza. So, that was very callous. He's so callous.  
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So the media painted him as  a callous man who had broken.
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In the moral and legal rules of War, notice  our past perfect. Again, a past action,  
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before another pass action. So maybe this is the  older past action. So, the newer past action could  
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have been, he had broken, the legal rules of War  before he met Queen Elizabeth because up here,
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Here, they have him with Queen Elizabeth.  So this is a past action, it's already in  
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the past, but we're talking about a past  action before this, this past action.  
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So he had all right, that again  for you. So you can practice,  
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he had broken, the moral rules of War before he  met Queen Elizabeth. So remember this is the only
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Those are action. And this is the newer action.  But they are both past actions disgracing,  
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his country in the process. Let's take a look at  disgrace. This is a verb, and this is when you  
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make people stopped respecting, you or your family  team, your company by doing something very bad.
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Or wrong. So remember before this case, he was a  beloved decorated soldier in Australia but then it  
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came to light that he had done all these terrible  things. So now he has embarrassed his country,  
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he's disgraced his country disgracing, his country  in the process. Now let's continue. But the media.
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Lids say they reported the truth and  have set out to prove it. Let's take  
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a look at this to set out to do  something in this case to prove  
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it. What's the it? Remember that  it is that this decorated soldier  
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did commit all these things that they said. So  there is no defamation because it's true. That's
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what they want to set out to prove and this  simply means that they're going to start  
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trying to do that specific thing. So in this  case, they're going to start trying to prove  
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that he committed those crimes.  So you might say, I've set out,  
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I've set out to improve my English speaking  skills. Does this describe you? Are you going to
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Start trying to improve your English  speaking skills. If this describes,  
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you put it in the comments, I've set out to  improve my English speaking skills and notice  
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to set out this is in the present. Perfect, let's  continue on. It is the first time in history, any  
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court has been tasked with assessing allegations  of war crimes by Australian forces, an allegation.
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It is a claim that someone has done something  wrong without evidence, okay, without evidence. So  
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at this point is just a claim a claim that someone  has done something wrong, like, the war hero,  
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the soldier who committed war crimes. But  at this point is just an allegation without
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without evidence or proof.
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So, the media wants to explain that. There is  evidence, there is proof. So it's not in fact,  
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an allegation, it's the truth. So again,  it's not defamation and notice this  
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sentence structure to be tasked with  something, and then not something is  
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either a noun or a verb and ing. So let  me give you an example. I've been tasked
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With helping my students  improve their speaking skills.  
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So, of course, a task is something that you  need to do, but if I've been tasked with it,  
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it sounds like someone else is giving me the task.  So, maybe it's just my students who constantly  
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say Jennifer, can you help me improve my speaking  spill skills? So, I can say, I've been tasked with
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And notice the verb with ing, let's continue  
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lasting 110 days and costing up to an estimated 25  million Australian dollars. Now in this context,  
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that a strat stands for Australian simply because  this article is for a worldwide audience, and when  
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you see the dollar sign you assume, it's American  dollars. So they put the a to represent Australia.
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Trillion dollars. Of course, if  this is a newspaper in Australia,  
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they wouldn't put that because for  them that is the currency. This is  
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just for an international audience. So  we understand its Australian dollars,  
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the trial has heard extraordinary and  at times bizarre evidence about every  
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facet of mr. Robert Smith's life bizarre is an  adjective. That means very strange, and unusual.
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So at times, strange and unusual evidence. Hmm,  now, I'm curious. What is this bizarre evidence?
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You could use this because is an  adjective. You could say, her behavior  
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was very bizarre. It was very strange  and unusual bizarre. Her behavior was  
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very bizarre or the movie was very  bizarre. You could use that as well.
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The movie was very bizarre. It was  strange. It was unusual. It was bizarre.  
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Every facet of facet is a way to say every  part of every element of every piece of. I'll  
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write that out for you. So every part element  aspect piece, these are all synonyms. That
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You can use piece of. So of course he  has different parts of his life. He has  
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his his family life. His friends,  his Hobbies, his Sports, his work,  
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his community. Those are the facets of his  life that aspects the pieces of his life.  
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So this evidence is about every facet  of. So not just his work or his family.
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Lee also how he acts in the community or the  Hobbies. He enjoys every facet of his life,  
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it sparked a media frenzy. So this verb to spark  it, simply means that it created the media frenzy  
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was created because of this trial. So it created.  So the frenzy wouldn't have existed without this.
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It created Created. Now, what is Frenzy?
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Frenzied simply means uncontrolled or really  excited uncontrolled excited. So if you say  
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there was a media frenzy When Brad Pitt arrived,  so Brad Pitt arrived and there are tons and tons  
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of different people. Taking pictures asking  questions. Nobody is controlled. Nobody is  
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respecting, Brad Pitt's, personal space.  Oh, Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt. They're putting
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Microphone a camera in his face and everyone  is very excited. That would be a frenzy  
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captured national attention,  and has made mr. Robert Smith,  
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the public face of accusations of Australian war  crimes in Afghanistan. After sifting, through,  
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when you sift through something, it means you  go through something or review. Something in a
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A lot of detail. So if I have all these  different pages in a notebook and I read  
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each and every page, very, very carefully.  I sifted through the notebook. So let  
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me write that for you. So, to review  information, very carefully to review  
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information carefully and you're doing not so  you can determine what's useful or what's not
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Useful, after sifting, through volumes  of evidence this week, a judge is due  
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to hand down a decision. When you hand down a  decision, it simply means that you make your  
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decision public. But it's used with authorities  because the judge once the judge decides that  
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is legally binding decision. Yes, he can appeal  the decision but until he appeals the decision.
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Asian that decision is legally binding. So  if your boss hands down a decision because  
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your boss has authority to make decisions. If  you don't like the decision, unfortunately,  
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there probably isn't a lot, you can do.  So, we use hand down a decision when it's  
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someone in a position of authority who makes a  decision. So, when the judge is due to hand down,
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Decision. So, I'll just write that note for you  
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to make a decision. So the judge is  due to make a decision, and I'll just,  
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no only used when the decision is made by someone  with authority. So, when that person shares,  
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the decision that decision is final, but remember,  every decision can be appealed or there are
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Our official processes that you can follow.  If you don't agree with a decision, even if  
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it is made by someone with authority,  even if that decision is handed down,
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the judge is due to hand down a  decision in the historic case. So soon,  
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we will find out this week. We will  find out what that decision is.  
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Now, that's the end of the story. So what  I'll do now is, I'll go to the top and I'll  
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read the article from start to finish. And  this time, you can focus on my pronunciation,  
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Ben roberts-smith, how decorated soldiers,  defamation case has rocked Australia
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For months, on end Australia's, most decorated,  living soldiers, sat stoic, lie in a Sydney  
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courtroom as dozens of witnesses accused him of  war crimes, bullying peers, and assaulting his  
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mistress, but Ben roberts-smith was not the one  on trial. The 44 year old had brought the case,  
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suing three Australian newspapers over  his series of articles in 2018, which he
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He says defamed him. He argues they ruined  his life by painting him as a callous man  
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who had broken the moral and legal rules of  War disgracing. His country in the process  
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but the media Outlets say they reported  the truth and have set out to prove it.  
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It is the first time in history, any  court has been tasked with assessing  
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allegations of war crimes  by Australian forces last
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Sting 110 days and costing up to an estimated  25 million Australian dollars. The trial has  
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heard extraordinary and add X bizarre evidence  about every facet of mr. Robert Smith's life,  
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it sparked. A media frenzy captured  national attention, and has made mr.  
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Robert Smith. The public face of accusations  of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan after
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Sifting through
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volumes
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of evidence this week, a judge is due to  hand down a decision in the historic case,  
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