English Reading Lesson (Advanced English Vocabulary & Grammar) - Learn English with the NEWS

Would you like to improve your English reading  skills? In this lesson we're going to read a  

newspaper article together. So you can learn a lot  of advanced vocabulary, complex grammar, complex  

sentence structure and natural pronunciation in  a very fun and engaging way. And that summarizes  

everything that you learned in this lesson. I'll  also read the article in full right at the end,  

so make sure you watch right Welcome back  to JForrest English training. Of course, I'm  

Jennifer and this is your place to become a fluent  confident English speaker. Now let's get started.  

Hello, hello and welcome to our article today. As  you can see, we're talking about the navigation  

app. Wait, let's read the headline feels like  Google is letting Waze die. Widespread bug makes  

Google Maps the only option. Now in North America,  Waze is not very popular. I actually don't know.  

Many people if anyone who use Waze, most people  just use Google Maps or Apple Maps for navigation.  

But when I was living in Costa Rico, Waze was  the preferred choice. Everybody used Waze.  

So what's it like in your country? Do you use  Waze use Google Maps Apple Maps? Share that in  

the comments. Let's talk about this headline here  feels like Google is letting Waze die, widespread  

bug. I think most people know this because it's  a computer term, right? A bug is a problem.  

And we use this specifically with technology so  

I can't use this app. There's some sort of  bug. So some sort of problem. I don't know  

what it is. I can't use this app. There's above  there is a problem. Or you might ask someone,  

can you help me? Can you help me fix this bug,  this problem specific with technology? So you can  

definitely use the now bug when you're using it?  In the context of technology is very common. Now  

widespread? I hope you understand from the context  of the article, but spread is when something  

moves. So we use this a lot with illnesses the  spread of COVID That's probably how you've heard  

it before. So when something moves so widespread  is when it's a problem or a situation that impacts  

many people or many places widespread. So this  is an adjective. So as an example sentence,  

I could say corruption is widespread. This is  my adjective. Corruption is widespread in our  

company. So corruption affects many people  or many different areas of our company.  

So a very useful adjective you can use. So they're  saying this problem with the Waze app affects many  

different people. So let's move on to our next  paragraph. While the number of alternatives keeps  

growing with renowned names like tomtom and psygic  I don't know what this is to be odd. Honest. Do  

you psychic sigh get I don't know how to pronounce  this. I'll just say psych it. I may be incorrect.  

If you know what this is. I assume it's a GPS  style app. TomTom inside it. Also investing  

in similar software. Most people continue to run  Google Maps and Waze because of obvious reasons.  

All right, I'll renowned This is an adjective  and when someone or something is renowned,  

it means they're well known by many different  people or within a specific industry. Simply  

you can think of it as famous, famous, renowned.  Notice my pronunciation of this EDI here renowned,  

renowned, renowned. So for example, we often  use this with people, companies places. So  

because I mentioned Costa Rica before I could say  Costa Rica is renowned for its natural beauty.  

There are a lot of beautiful waterfalls, volcanoes  rainforest in Costa Rica. Renowned for so the  

sentence structure here is to be to be renowned  for something now if you something is a noun.  

So here, my noun is its natural beauty. If you  have a verb, your verb is in the gerund form,  

so doing something. So I might say, for  example, Costa Rica is a noun and for  

now I need a gerund. Verb. Renowned for growing  coffee. Costa Rica has amazing coffee as well.  

Here I have a verb and it's in the gerund form. So  why don't you share what your country or your city  

if you live in a very big country, your city  or your company, whatever you like your city,  

that would be a good one is renowned for and you  can practice with a noun and then try changing  

that to a Geron verb as well. So practice that  in the comments below. And let's continue on.  

They are both free. They come with state of the  art navigation capabilities, and they are owned  

by a technology giant that should theoretically  guarantee a bright future. So these are the  

benefits that the article was listing about Google  Maps and Waze because you remember they say,  

obvious reasons. Well, what are the obvious  reasons that people use Google Maps or Waze?  

Now they listed those obvious reasons free  state of the art, this is a great adjective.  

Notice the dashes here. So when you're spelling  it, pay attention to things like that the dashes  

generally for adjectives if there's two words  or two or more words a compound adjective,  

we put dashes between them state of the art. And  notice it comes before the noun because it's an  

adjective. But you could also describe something  you could say our new research facility is states  

of the art, our new research facility  to be state of the art. Now of course,  

when something is state of the art, it means it  has the most recent technology, the most recent  

everything. It is extremely modern, extremely  innovative state of the art. So you can try  

using that adjective to when you're thinking about  something your city is renowned for being famous  

for. Why not share something in your city that is  also state of the art to practice that adjective?  

All right, let's continue on. And  yet, when I see this word here yet,  

this is a transition word. is an adverb, and  it lets me know that there's going to be a  

contrast. So all of this is positive, right?  So without even reading this second sentence,  

second paragraph, I know that they're going to  talk about some disadvantages, some drawbacks,  

because all of this was positive, and the word  yet is used when there's a contrast. For example,  

I could say I'm really tired. Let's just consider  this a negative. I'm really tired. Now I could see  

something more positive, more contrasting. Yet  I gave a great presentation, because it might  

surprise you to think I gave a great presentation  when I'm really tired. So there's that contrast.  

Another example could be, I could say, I'm really  tired yet. What could I say yet? I went for a jog.  

I went for a jog or run this is another way  of saying I went running. It's just a very  

natural way of saying I went running I went for  a run. This is a noun or run. This is a noun,  

run is a verb. So I highly suggest you add this  to your vocabulary specific for run and jog,  

because it's very commonly used. We also use  it with I went for a walk. I went for a hike.  

You could also say I went for a bike. Ride,  for example. So you're basically taking your  

verb form, which would be I went hiking and  you're turning it into a noun by saying a hike.  

That's something bonus I just taught you because  I naturally wrote that because it's a very natural  

way of seeing it. I'm really tired yet. I went for  a run. So you wouldn't expect me to go running. If  

I'm tired. It's surprising. So why don't you try  a contrast? In the comment section? I'm really  

tired yet. What did you do? That's surprising  that you did it when you're tired. So as I said,  

I know that there's going to be some sort  of contrast in the second paragraph simply  

because of that one word yet. That shows you the  importance of including a specific adverb. It  

really prepares your audience for the meaning of  your message. All right, and yet is not a surprise  

that things sometimes go wrong, for absolutely no  clear reason. And in the case of ways, the most  

recent struggle comes down to mysterious freezing  happening on Android Auto. Okay, so this is the  

negative, it's the bug. Remember, at the very  beginning, we are talking about a bug will now we  

know what the bug is in ways. So if you use Waze,  have you experienced this bug that they're talking  

about and what's the bug? The bug is mysterious,  freezing. Mysterious just lets you know you. You  

weren't expecting it and you don't know why it's  mysterious. Now freezing is when you're talking  

and there's pauses, pauses. So it would be when  you enter a destination in ways and it's giving  

you directions turn left, turn right go straight,  but then it stops directing you and it tells you  

you're still on this street, even though you pass  that street five blocks ago, so the app is frozen.  

So notice, we take the word freeze, and we can  use it in many different ways. I might say,  

I have to restart my computer because it's frozen.  So everything stops working. My mouse won't move.  

I try to close a webpage. It doesn't close. It's  frozen. So our verb is to be frozen to be frozen.  

To be frozen, you can use this with your  computer, your cell phone, even your  

television if you're watching a movie, it could  just freeze, for example. Now you might say also,  

I think my computer has a bug. has a problem  has a bug. I think my computer has a bug it's  

been freezing all day. So you're using  the computer and then all of a sudden,  

it freezes. It's frozen. And then you restart it  and then it does it again. That could be your bug.  

And notice my verb is freeze. And it's in the  present perfect continuous because it's an action  

that started in the past. And it continues until  now. And I put it in the continuous to focus on  

the continuation of that action. All right. Let's  continue on. First spotted earlier this year,  

the problem is becoming more widespread. So  we know what widespread is before the problem  

only affected 10% of users 15% But now if it's  widespread, I imagine it would affect 60% 70%  

of users 50% or more the majority of users  is widespread. Now first spotted. This means  

first noticed or detected when you use the verb  spot in this context, it means notice or detect,  

noticed, detect. Let me give you an example  using spot this is a verb so I could say  

I hope my boss doesn't spot any errors in  my report. I hope my boss doesn't notice  

doesn't detect. Another way of seeing seeing.  See basically I hope my boss doesn't see. See  

because you're looking specifically  for it. I hope my boss doesn't spot  

any errors in my report. Maybe it would  be better to say teacher for example.  

I hope my teacher doesn't spot any errors in my  report. Errors in my grammar or my punctuation,  

my vocabulary, for example. So that could be  a good one. We also use this with people you  

could spot someone you might say I spotted  Sarah at the conference. So in this case,  

it makes sense because there are a lot of people  at the conference and then you see you notice you  

detect because you're looking for Sarah I think  Sarah is here. Oh, there she is. I spotted Sara  

at the conference. So it is a good one for now.  You can practice it with spot something like an  

error in a report. Let's continue on Oh, we didn't  finish this. So first spotted first notice the bug  

was first noticed earlier this year, the problems  becoming more widespread going to more people with  

more and more users claiming they have no  other option than to switch to Google Maps.  

All right. As such, some people believe this is  actually what Google wants in the first place  

as they think that Waze could eventually have  the same fate as so many other Google products,  

including most recently, our beloved  Statia. I also don't know what Statia is,  

I don't know if his stadia or stadia I'm not  sure how to pronounce that A to be honest  

stadia stadia. Do you know what this app is?  If you do share it in the comments as well?  

Okay, let's continue on. So here's where our  headline came from. Is Google quitting ways  

and letting it die? So by letting it die,  it means that if you ignore the product,  

you don't try to improve it. Eventually, more and  more people will stop using it and if zero people  

are using it, well, then the product won't exist  anymore. And in that sense, it's dead, right?  

Is Google quitting ways and letting it die?  One of the many users hitting the a4 mentioned  

problem asked rhetorically, rhetorically,  when you ask something rhetorically,  

you don't expect an answer. So here's a  question. How can I fix this book? Well,  

let's imagine I see this question out loud.  And there are some other people around me and  

they kind of look at me like, What are you talking  about? What bug? Why would you think I know how to  

fix it? But they don't actually see that they're  just like, huh, then I could say something like  

don't worry. It's a rhetorical question.  Don't worry, it's a rhetorical question,  

which means I don't actually expect an answer. I  don't want an answer. I don't need an answer. I'm  

just saying it out loud. So it's a useful a useful  word to know. Notice here it's an adjective.  

And here it's an odd verb is an adverb because  it modifies the verb ask and here it modifies the  

noun question. I do see a probably more commonly  as an adjective and it comes before question. It's  

a rhetorical question. So rhetorical, no need to  answer. And I would say I don't want don't expect.  

Don't need an answer. I'm just talking  out loud. So I will get rid of that.  

Let's continue on. So in this context, is  Google quitting ways or letting it die?  

He wasn't actually expecting anyone to answer  that. He was just saying it out loud. That's  

what rhetorically means in this context.  All right. Let's continue on. Well, I do  

understand why so many people come down to such  a conclusion. Google isn't trying to get rid of  

ways the application is playing an essential part  in the company's long term commitment to solutions  

aimed at improving the experience behind the wheel  behind the wheel. This means while you're driving,  

because you're you as the driver, your position,  here's the wheel and I'm behind the wheel.  

So we use this sometimes you'll see advertisements  now let's say this is alcohol. Someone might say,  

don't drink and get behind the wheel, which is  another way of saying don't drink and drive,  

right. So it just means to be driving if  you're behind. The wheel. Now hearing notice,  

they say come down to such a conclusion. That's  just another way of saying so many people reach  

a conclusion. They get to that conclusion.  I'll just say you can reach a conclusion.  

All right, and our final paragraph,  not a long time ago, Google brought  

the Google Maps and Waze teams under the  same roof specifically to allow them to  

work together on innovations that would  eventually be aimed at users of both apps.  

Okay, so under the same roof, well, above me  is a ceiling, but then on top of the ceiling  

on the exterior, that's the roof of my house,  right. So the ceiling is what you see from the  

inside or from the outside, you see the roofs,  so under the same roof, means on the same team,  

basically, the teams were working perhaps at  separate locations. And now if they're under  

the same roof, it means they're in one location.  So that's a could be a useful expression as well.  

All right, so that is our article. Now what  I'll do is I'll read the article from start  

to finish so you can focus on my pronunciation  and practice along with my pronunciation as well.  

Feels like Google is letting Waze die widespread  bug makes Google Maps the only option?  

Well, the number of alternatives keeps growing  with renowned names like Tom, Tom and sidekick,  

also investing in similar software. Most people  continue to run Google Maps and Waze because of  

obvious reasons. They are both free. They come  with state of the art navigation capabilities, and  

they are owned by a technology giant that should  theoretically guarantee a bright future. And yet  

it's not a surprise that things sometimes go wrong  for absolutely no clear reason. And in the case  

of ways, the most recent struggle comes down to  mysterious freezing happening on Android Auto.  

First audit earlier this year, the problem is  becoming more widespread. With more and more users  

claiming they have no other option than to switch  to Google Maps. As such, some people believe this  

is actually what Google wants in the first place,  as they think that Waze could eventually have the  

same fate. As so many other Google products,  including most recently, our beloved Stadia.  

Is Google quitting ways and letting it die? One  of the many users hitting the a4 mentioned problem  

asked rhetorically Well, I do understand why so  many people come down to such a conclusion. Google  

isn't trying to get rid of ways the application  is playing an essential part in the company's  

long term commitment to solutions aimed at  improving the experience behind the wheel.  

Not a long time ago, Google brought the Google  Maps and Waze teams under the same roof,  

specifically to allow them to work together on  innovations that would eventually be aimed at  

users of both apps. Amazing job with this lesson  I hope you enjoyed the article. If you did,  

let me know in the comments, and what was  your favorite new word from this article?  

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