🎤 Read An Article From The News With Me | Advanced English Vocabulary Lesson (FREE LESSON PDF)

Welcome back to JForrest English training, I'm Jennifer. And today we're going to learn

English with the news. We're going to read a news article about the recent passing of

musical icon, Tina Turner and you'll learn lots of natural Expressions. Advanced grammar

and improve your pronunciation. All at the same time while improving your reading skills.

Let's get started. Our headline. Tina Turner, legendary rock

And roll singer dies aged 83 let me share some natural Expressions that you can use

to express emotion after someone dies. Now these are expressions you would probably use

when it's someone that you don't know very personally like in this situation you could

say

it saddens me to hear that. Tina,

Turner

died.

Now, you can also take this notice, it saddens? Me saddens is a simply a way of saying I became

sad. It saddens me to hear that Tina, Turner died. It's also very common to put our verb

died in the present. Perfect Tina. Turner has died. It saddens me to hear that. Tina.

Turner has died.

I'd

now, you could also say,

The news saddens

me and the news is that Tina? Turner has died. I'm saddened by the news, and you can specify

what the news is. But since we know by the news that Tina Turner has died. So these are

some very common Expressions that you can use with the word sadden. All three of these,

Lightly different structures are very common notice. This one is in the passive form. I'm

saddened by the news. So that's just something you could say, is someone says, wow, did you

hear that Tina? Turner died. Yeah, I'm saddened by the news.

Let's continue on before we go on, I just want to point this out. Mmm, rock and roll,

rock and roll. The MMA stands for and the word. And but it would not be very common

to pronounce it as rock and roll, because that sounds like three separate words, rock

and roll, rock and roll. Mmm, Rockin Rockin. So notice it's

Sound is attached to the word that comes before. It Rockin rock and roll. This is a pronunciation

change that you can use when you have and between two or more nouns. For example, I

had coffee and cake. Notice that sounds like three separate sounds coffee, and cake or

do you can

pronounce

it. I had coffee and cake coffee, in coffee and cake, coffee and cake.

It just really Smooths out your pronunciation and it will help you sound more like a native

English speaker. Let's continue on.

Turner who initially found Fame in a turbulent musical partnership. Let's talk about the

word turbulent.

Turbulent is an adjective and it means involving a lot of sudden changes arguments or even

violence. Now violence, obviously that's a very negative thing, but it can just be simply

a lot of changes. A lot of changes that really impact your your day-to-day routine. So, let's

say you have a routine at work, but then there are all these changes and you

Get to work and you just you don't really know what to do because there's been so many

changes. You could say it was a turbulent week, I had a turbulent week at work. For

example, I had a turbulent week at work and then you could say why because of the new

policies, okay? So maybe there were all these new policies that you had to follow and learn

about. And that was why you had

Turbulent week, but keep in mind, it can also be used in more of a violence context. And

unfortunately, that's the way that it's being used in this case, because as will learn in

the article. And as you may

know,

Tina Turner was in an abusive marriage for many years. And that turbulent partnership

was with her former husband, who was abusive

So in this case, it does represent violence, but the context will make it obvious, whether

we're talking about more violence or simply changes or arguments before we move on all

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linked it download. It is in the description below. Let's continue on Turner who initially

found Fame in a turbulent. Musical partnership became one of the biggest acts in the world

as a solo artist solo. This is also an adjective and it means just one so you can think of

it as a long.

Own or as an individual. So, if you're a solo artist, it means the band is you. There's

no one else in the band, it is just you, so Beyonce, for example, Justin Bieber, they

are solo artist, it is just them. But remember, Beyonce used to

be

with a group called Destiny's Child. So in that case, she wasn't a solo

Artist because she was part of a group. But then she went out on her own as a solo artist,

but we use this in many other contexts the word solo. You could say, I'm going to the

party solo. I went to the meeting so low. It means you went to the party alone without

anyone else. You went to the meeting alone.

I don't like traveling.

So, low, you don't like traveling by yourself alone without anyone else with you. So it

is a very common adjective and we use it in a lot of different contexts. Now, everything

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on and one of the defining, pop icons of the

80s. And you can tell this picture because of her big hair is from the 80s, Tina Turner,

the pioneering rock and roll star. So let's take a look at pioneering

pioneering is an adjective and it means being the first to do or use a particular new idea

and I'll can even say new method. So in this case, they're talking about Tina. Turner's

musical style, the way she presented herself. The way she sang. The way she performed it

was pioneering. She was the first person to perform in such a way as a musician, the pioneering

Rock.

And roll star who became a pop Behemoth, listen to the pronunciation, but he meth, but he

meth, this is an adjective and it represents an extremely large and Powerful. So just think

of it extremely large and Powerful. It could represent a company organization or in this

case a person. So we could say, for example, apple is a behemoth

Check company. So you might, you could just say, apple is a behemoth, but you can specify

will what kind within the tech industry, the tech company. Apple is Behemoth tech company

So, she became a pop Behemoth in the 1980s and she has died, aged 83 after a

long

illness.

Now here aged 83, this is more, she's died. Aged 83 is very common to say this is more

short form but in a full written sentence, she has died at the age of 83, you could also

completely change the sentence structure and say she was 83 when she died. She was 83.

She died. We use the verb to be and the past simple after someone dies. So, of course,

when someone is is alive, you state their age. With the verb to be in the present, she

is 67. She was 83 when she died,

she died at the age of 83.

You can also when people are very old or older, you can say she lived until she was 103. She

lived until but we really only Reserve this one for when someone becomes quite old older

than you expect. Someone to live in my opinion. 83 isn't that old, especially in this modern

day and age so I

I probably wouldn't say she lived until she was 83 because 83 and my opinion doesn't sound

very old. So I

personally

would use this 11, someone becomes 95 or older but that's just my personal opinion based

on how long I expect people to live in this day and age.

She had suffered ill health. In recent years, noticed the past perfect used to describe

an action in the past, before another past action before she died, she had suffered ill

health. She had suffered ill health before she died. So notice the past, perfect for

the older action, and the past, simple form.

Or the newer action, but both of them are in the past. She had suffered ill health before

she died. Okay, so we have past perfect.

This is our past perfect. And this is our past simple.

She had suffered ill health in recent years, being diagnosed with intestinal cancer in

2016 and having a kidney transplant in 2017. Turner affirmed, and Amplified black woman's

formative stake in rock and roll.

To useful verbs here to affirm is when you show that something is true. So simply by

being a successful musician, a successful black female musician. She showed to the world

that black women can be successful musicians. She affirmed the possibility. She affirmed

that this is true.

So that is the verb, a firm now, amplify in a musical context, amplify means to increase

the volume. So right now, if I wanted to amplify my voice, I could turn up the volume on my

microphone. I could get a bigger microphone as well to amplify my voice, so it is used

in a musical context, but when you amplify something, you can also just increase the

size of it or the

the effect of it. So just like when you amplify your voice, it becomes more fat powerful.

When you increase the size of something, it can also become more powerful as well.

Turner affirmed in Amplified black woman's formative, stake in rock and roll. There are

stake in something just means their participation in it, their involvement in it so I can write

that down for you their involvement in rock and roll involvement.

Or maybe even ownership in rock and roll that, they belong to be there. So if you have a

business interest in a specific company, you have

a stake in that company. So if you own shares of Apple, the company, Apple the Behemoth

company. Apple, you have a stake in Apple. So I have a stake in apple because I

I own shares. So I care about

the company's performance. I'm involved in it and I'm technically, a partial owner of

that company as well.

Defining that era of music to the extent that Mick Jagger. Who

is in the band. The Rolling

Stones Mick Jagger admitted to taking inspiration from our high-kicking, energetic live performances

for his stage.

Persona

when you admit something

you you

affirm that something is true. You

state that something is true. But usually

There is some

reluctance meaning that you don't necessarily want to say that. Something is true.

To I'll put reluctantly state that something is true. Now why would you reluctantly? Meaning

you don't really want to because often when

we admit something, we admit that we made a mistake, for example, so she admitted that

she was the one who lost

The document. So, at first, when her boss asked who lost the document, she didn't want

to say, I lost the document. Why? Because it's a mistake, she could get in trouble,

but she eventually stated that it's true. I lost the document, but she did it reluctantly,

she didn't initially want to do it because of the negative consequences. Now, in this

case,

Case. Mick Jagger might not want it to have admitted this, because he's saying that his

stage Persona, which is how he behaves on stage, he basically copied Tina Turner, it

wasn't his own invention, so that could be why they used to use the verb in MIT.

Let's continue on. After two decades, one decade is 10 years. So, two decades is 20

years because one decade equals 10 years, that's some pretty basic math, right there.

We did it guys, after two decades of working with her, abusive husband. Now, this is what

we talked about before because her, they described her relationship as turbulent.

It's her turbulent relationship because it involved violence. When someone is abusive,

it means that they are physically violent towards you. So a very negative thing working

with her abusive. Husband Ike Turner, this was her husband. She struck out alone, she

struck out alone. That's just another way of saying she. She decided to leave him.

And do things Solo solo. Remember that word. Okay, she struck out alone, she left to go

solo. So, let's see that. You work for an advertisement company and you've gained a

lot of skills and experience. Over the years, you might did decide to strike out a loan

and start your own company. So, you

Quit your job and you start your own advertisement company. That's how you could strike out alone.

So you leave your job to start your own company, she left to go solo and after a few false

starts became one of the defining, pop icons of the 1980s with the album Private Dancer.

Her life was chronicled in three Memoirs. The verb Chronicle is just when you tell the

story of and usually, it's in a sequential situation where you start when perhaps you

was a child, and then they go through her teenage years, her early adult years and they

Chronicle her life. So, tell the story of her life.

Tell the story of her life from childhood to adulthood in three Memoirs a biopic, a

jukebox Musical. And in 2021 the acclaimed documentary film Tina, have you seen this

film? I have not, and I'm sure it will be very popular now that she has died in a statement

on Wednesday night, her publicist, Bernardo a

Tree said, Tina Turner, the queen of rock and roll has died peacefully today at the

age of 83, remember I already shared this expression with you, this is more the full

form often In Articles, they will condense information because they only have a certain

number of words that they are allowed to use in in each situation. So they always try to

limit the number of words which is why they probably use the

Short form, but for your purposes, I personally would say and write at the age of, or the

other Expressions that I shared at the age of 83, after a long illness, in her home,

in Switzerland, with her the world loses, a musical Legend, and a role model and this

is where you can add your. I'm saddened by the news. I'm saddened that Tina Turner has

died. It saddens me to learn that.

Nat Turner has died. Those expressions, I shared at the beginning and that's the end

of our article. Were you a fan of Tina Turner? That's a good expression as well. When you're

a fan of someone, it means that you enjoy their work. You appreciate their work, I was

a fan of Tina, Turner, of course, you can still be a fan of Tina Turner. I'm a fan of

Tina.

Turner. I'm a huge fan of Tina Turner. You can add an adjective here, huge fan, Tina

or you could say something like Tina Turner was, my or is was, is my favorite singer for

example. Tina, Turner was my favorite singer in the 80s and maybe she's still your favorite

singer.

Today. And that's why you can use was my favorite singer just because she was more popular in

the 80s, but maybe she's still your favorite singer. Tina. Turner is my favorite singer

or you can simply say I wasn't a huge fan but I did like her her music like her music

or you can State a specific song that you liked. I wasn't a huge fan but I

Loved her and then whatever song it might be. So these are some Expressions that you

can use, or you might say, honestly, I'm not familiar with Tina Turner, or you can say

Tina. Turner's music, you could simply say, Tina Turner as a person, which also represents

her music or you can say,

Tina Turner's music. Notice the possessive because the music belongs to her. So out of

these options, remember, huge isn't necessary. I'm a fan of Tina Turner. I'm a huge fan of

Tina Turner so out of these options which one represents you. The most feel free to

take one of these or put it in your own words and share that in the comments section below

for me, I

I would say this one, I wasn't a huge fan, to be honest. I don't know many of her songs,

but the songs, I do know, I did like the songs, but I did like her music, so this would describe

me the most. So now, what I'll do is I'll go to the beginning of the article and I'll

read it from start to finish. And this time, you can focus on my pronunciation. So let's

do that now. Tina, Turner, legendary rock and roll singer dies. Aged

83 Turner who initially found Fame in a turbulent. Musical partnership became one of the biggest

acts in the world as a solo artist and one of the defining, pop icons of the 1980s. Tina

Turner, the pioneering rock, and roll star, who became a pop Behemoth in. The 1980s has

died aged 83, after a long illness, she had suffered ill health in recent years, being

diagnosed with

Testimonial cancer in 2016 and having a kidney transplant in 2017. Turner affirmed and Amplified

black woman's formative, stake in rock and roll. Defining that era of music to the extent

that Mick Jagger admitted to taking inspiration. From our high-kicking, energetic live performances

for his stage. Persona after two decades of working with her, abusive husband

And Ike Turner she's struck out alone and after a few false starts became one of the

defining pop icons of the 1980s with the album Private Dancer. Her life was chronicled in

three Memoirs a biopic, a jukebox Musical and in 2021 the acclaimed documentary film

Tina in a statement on Wednesday night. Her publicist Bernardo our tree said, Tina Turner

the

Of rock and roll has died peacefully today at the age of 83. After a long illness, in

our home, in Switzerland, with her, the world loses, a music, legend, and a role model.

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