Learn English with the News | 58 Advanced Words and Phrases

In this lesson, you're going  to learn English with the news.

We're going to read a business news  article together so you can add 58  

advanced words and phrases to your vocabulary  using correct grammar and correct pronunciation.

Welcome back to JForrest English.

Of course, I'm Jennifer Nell.

Let's get started.

Let's review the headline.

Why personal health and Wellness  are key to business longevity?

Do you know what key means in this context?

Key means important, critical, or crucial.

Now this functions as an adjective.

Notice you have the verb to be, which is plural  because there are two things health, Wellness.

But key doesn't have an S because  it functions as an adjective.

It would be the same if you replaced it  with R, important, critical, or crucial.

So still you conjugate your  verb to be singular or plural,  

but your adjective does not take an  S Now let's talk about longevity.

Notice that pronunciation long JJ.

It has a JA sound long JA Jevity  javity, longevity, longevity.

This means lasting for a long time.

So it means for the business to  last for a long time, so to exist.

Now if the word business were not  there, this could also be correct.

And it would mean your ability to last to  live for a long time because of course,  

health and Wellness are key to longevity  for us to live for a long time.

So you can attach this to something specific  like a business or a company or even a product.

But without something specific, one would  assume that it's a person's longevity.

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Now let's continue on here.

Notice it says key takeaways.

We know what key means, right?

It's important, critical or crucial key.

But what about this word takeaways?

Do you know what that means?

Takeaways means points,  lessons or just information.

This is very commonly used in a business context.

You might start a presentation  or a call or a meeting by saying  

here are the key takeaways from the conference.

And then you would list the most important  points or what you learned instead of key.

It's very common to use main  specifically with takeaways.

Here are the main takeaways from the conference.

Now, if there were only one piece  of information or one lesson,  

then you would use take away in the singular.

So it's singular or plural.

You could say my main take away from  the conference is and then you would  

say what you learned or what you remember.

So maybe your main take away, what you  remember or what you learned that was  

the most important is the importance of  health for business longevity, longevity.

So this article was very long.

We'll review the key takeaways,  the most important points.

And notice here you have the actual points  because they're just listing them as points.

So in a meeting, you could verbalize  this as first or the first thing or .1.

Take away one.

Business leaders who prioritize their  personal health and Wellness are better  

equipped to handle their responsibilities and  inspire their management teams and employees.

Let's review.

Prioritize.

This is a verb to prioritize,  prioritize, prioritize.

Now you may be comfortable  with seeing priority as a noun,  

and if you use priority as a  noun, you need make as your verb.

You make something a priority.

So in this case, it would be business leaders who  

make personal health and Wellness  all priority are better equipped.

So you would slightly change the sentence  

structure because you need  make something a priority.

But in this case, you prioritize something.

So the sentence structure is a little different.

Let's practice this as a verb.

As a verb, you conjugate it  according to your time reference.

So you could say right now, right  now I'm prioritizing prioritizing.

It's in progress.

So it's the present continuous.

I'm prioritizing learning what?

Because remember, you prioritize something.

I'm prioritizing learning phrasal verbs.

I'm prioritizing improving my  pronunciation or my grammar.

So what about you?

Try this.

Put this example sentence in the comments  to practice this expression and let us know  

what you're prioritizing so I can  make a lesson on it in the future.

Let's review equipped.

Notice here the sentence  structure IS2B2B equipped.

You can add a modifier  

like better, but the structure is 2B and  then equipped functions as your adjective.

Notice that pronunciation that  Ed is a soft T equipped equipped.

Now when you say it in a sentence,  especially here because my next sound is A2.

I won't even really pronounce this  because my next sound is AT so I  

would say personal health and Wellness are  better equipped to handle equipped to handle.

So I don't even pronounce it.

So just be cautious of that to make sure  you understand it and understand that Ed.

Now synonyms you could say prepared, able,  ready and then you use the infinitive to handle.

Capable is a very common synonym.

But notice with capable, the sentence structure is  

different because you need  of and then your gerund.

So you would use our better capable of handling  their responsibilities and instead of handle,  

you could use manage, deal  with or address as synonyms.

Now remember, if you're using capable,  you need to use the gerund form are better  

equipped to handle their responsibilities and  inspire their management teams and employees.

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Now let's continue with our lesson.

Let's review our next key  point, our next take away.

Over exertion, whether it's physical  or mental, can lead to to burnout.

OK, first let's talk about over exertion.

First, let's look at the pronunciation  

because notice you have X, but  that's not how it's pronounced.

It's pronounced as exertion,  exertion, exertion, exertion.

And then you just add over in front  of it over exertion, over exertion.

So exertion is the use of  mental or physical effort.

When we add over in front of a  word, a verb, it means too much.

So in this case, it's too much  mental or physical effort.

Now this over in front of a  verb is very commonly used.

You could just say I slept until 8:00 AM.

That's just a statement.

I don't know if this is good or bad.

If you say I overslept, then it means it was bad.

You slept too much.

So that's what it means.

It means you had too much of the verb.

In this case, the verb is sleep.

So you can eat or you can overeat, which  is negative overwork, overdo something.

This is general.

When you don't want to necessarily specify  the verb and you want to be general,  

you can just use overdo, and  then you overdo something.

So you might say to me, Jennifer,  I am so excited to learn English.

I am going to study for 12 hours a day and I  might reply back and simply say don't overdo it.

So don't over study, don't overdo it.

Or if your friend tells you they're  going to go to the gym five days a  

week for four hours every day, you  might say, whoa, don't overdo it.

Don't overwork, don't overdo it.

So let's review this again.

Over exertion.

Too much physical or mental  effort in a negative way.

Over exertion, whether it's physical or mental.

So here notice the definition  is mental or physical.

So they're including both of them in this term.

Physical exertion or mental  exertion can lead to burnout.

Burnout is a state of extreme exhaustion where you  

can no longer function can lead  to burnout that will negatively  

impact your leadership effectiveness and  the organization's overall performance.

Notice here they added negatively  because impact is neutral.

You can have a positive impact and a negative  impact if it sounds like it's obvious.

Generally native speakers won't  specify the negative or positive,  

but if they want to be very  clear, they'll specify it.

Here, Using the opposite positively,  you might say adequate sleep.

In this case, it's the subject  of the sentence adequate sleep.

Adequate means enough.

Adequate sleep can positively impact your studies.

Let's move on to our next  point, our next take away.

Leaders who model good health and Wellness  

practices contribute to a  healthier work environment.

So if the leader models something,  

it means they display it because  they do the activities themselves.

So if the leader is drinking a lot of water, other  people might see that and say, oh, I should drink  

more water because of course hydration is  part of your overall health and Wellness.

So that could be an example of how you  would model health and Wellness practices.

Some synonyms for model are  demonstrate, exhibit, exhibit.

Notice that exhibit,  exemplify, exemplify, and show.

And remember here, this is your verb contribute.

It's being conjugated with  the subject, which is leaders.

So when you have additional information like this,  

sometimes it can confuse  students, even native speakers.

Here this is also plural.

But if this were singular, it does not  matter because the subject is leaders.

That is what your verb is being conjugated with.

Leaders contribute.

Leaders who model good health and Wellness  

practices contribute to a  healthier work environment.

Boosting.

This is another word for increasing, boosting,  increasing staff retention and company resilience.

Do you know what staff retention means?

Retention is the noun form.

The verb form is retain.

You may be familiar with this because you want  to retain vocabulary, so you learn it, but then  

you have to retain it any information, which  means keep it so you can use it in the future.

So staff retention staff meaning employees  notice staff is a collective noun.

So staff retention is your ability to keep retain  staff, employees, people, so they don't quit,  

they don't go to other companies because  they don't like working for your company.

So coming back to our previous  vocabulary so you can retain it.

The key take away was the  importance of staff retention.

Maybe the key take away of the conference.

The conference was on how to improve  your business performance and one of  

the most important points was staff retention.

Keeping people, employees, staff in your business.

Now you always have to ask yourself  how is the word being used and what  

are the grammatical rules Because here if  you were to replace staff with employee,  

you would not add an as because  they function as adjectives.

They describe what type of retention,  staff retention, employee retention.

But if you were to use them as nouns,  

so I'll put this in parentheses, Nouns  retain is your verb, keep is your verb.

You conjugate that.

But then staff is always a collective noun.

But employees is a regular noun,  so it takes a singular plural form.

So you would talk about keeping  or retaining employees because  

there's more than one, but staff is a elective.

So no S our next take away, new  data released by Babel in 2024.

So now here they're going to explain what  Babel is because it's not common knowledge.

I didn't know what Babel was before this article.

So Babel, it's a survey of 500  business leaders in the UK.

Now, because this information  is between these dashes,  

you can delete what I have highlighted and  the sentence must be grammatically correct.

So often if if you want to include this  additional information either between  

dashes or between commas, write it  first without and then add it in  

just to make sure your sentence is  grammatically correct without it.

So new data released by Babel in 2024  showed that 76% of business leaders wanted  

to strengthen their own physical, mental  and ethical fitness in order to succeed.

Instead of using strengthen, you could use  improve to improve to boost because strengthen  

is the verb form to strengthen their own  physical, mental and ethical fitness.

Ethical fitness would be their ability to  act ethically or make ethical decisions.

Either one of those.

And why are they doing this?

In order to succeed.

Now, native speakers commonly delete the two  words in order, so you just see to succeed.

And you might think that this  is simply the infinitive.

However, depending on the sentence structure, you  have to understand that it isn't the infinitive.

It's in order to.

And I say that because it's very common to begin  a sentence with, to succeed, to do something.

But this isn't the infinitive  because that's not grammatical.

In English, we don't start  sentences with the infinitive.

So this means in order to succeed,  

but it's very common to just use the  to succeed and leave out in order.

This is done in both spoken and written  English in a casual and professional context.

To succeed, leaders need to  boost their ethical fitness.

So remember, this means the  ability to act ethically.

Again, you need to think about  how this word is being used.

In this case, it's an adverb because it  modifies the verb act to act ethically.

In this case, ethical is an adjective and it  describes what type of fitness, ethical fitness.

Let's move on to our next  key point and over exhausted.

OK, so now you understand what over  exhausted because we're adding over.

In this case, exhausted is an adjective.

Exhausted.

I'm exhausted.

And we know this is going to be an so we  need a noun, an over exhausted leader.

So it would be ah leader.

But because this is a vowel sound, you have  to change your article to an instead of ah,  

a leader, an over exhausted leader.

So of course, exhausted  already means extremely tired.

So adding over really strengthens that.

It emphasizes that sleep deprived.

Deprived means not enough  sleep, but this is prolonged.

For example, you would say I didn't sleep well  last night or I had a terrible sleep last night.

You can replace this with I had an amazing sleep  last night or I slept amazingly last night.

So you can turn these positive.

Now if this takes place for weeks, I  didn't sleep well last night and you  

say this every night for weeks, then you  could describe yourself as sleep deprived.

I'm sleep deprived.

I'm so sleep deprived.

I need to solve this problem.

An over exhausted sleep deprived leader is also  more likely to be a less effective negotiator.

So in this case a negotiator.

This is a person who negotiates.

The verb is to negotiate less capable of.

Remember we talked about capable as a replacement  to equipped and when you use equipped or ready  

able, you need the infinitive capable of  now capable of something is a something.

It's a noun.

You could also use the gerund verb  capable of expressing empathy.

That could be a verb that goes with the noun  empathy, less capable of empathy and understanding  

different points, viewpoints and is not able to  drive innovation and change within the company.

Notice here.

So also able that was a replacement to capable  or equipped is not equipped is not able to drive.

To drive innovation means to cause it to happen.

To drive change means to cause it to happen.

So to drive something is  very much a business verb.

Synonyms are inspire, encourage or facilitate,  

which is very much a professional or academic verb  to facilitate innovation to cause it to happen.

Our next point, a company culture that  focuses on overall health and Wellness  

will eventually increase staff retention,  so increase their ability to keep staff.

Because remember, staff retention is the concept,  

the noun form of the verb  to keep, to retain staff.

So to increase staff retention, which  ultimately contributes to the longevity,  

longevity, longevity of the business.

Let's talk about a company culture.

So this represents the values,  beliefs and practices that shape  

how employees interact and  work within an organization.

It's the same concept of a culture  within a community or a family,  

But in this case, it's within the company.

And often it's management that  really shapes the company culture.

So you could say Apple as a company has,  

we use the verb have for possession  and then, ah, company culture.

And then you would use an adjective on the  negative side, people use the adjective toxic.

Oh, toxic company culture to refer  to one that is very bad toxic.

So it's about the worst you could have.

And then for positive adjective,  

you could simply use amazing or any  other positive adjective that you know.

So I'm not sure if this is what the culture  is at Apple because I don't work theirs,  

but we have either the negative or the positive.

Hopefully you would describe the positive for  your company culture, how people interact, how  

they work, how they behave, their values, their  beliefs, all of that would be the company culture.

Now let's move on to our final take away.

Our last main point.

Health truly is wealth.

Have you heard this before?

This isn't new to this article.

The concept of saying health  is wealth, Health is wealth.

This is a very common phrase in English.

Health is wealth.

It means that you should prioritize.

Prioritize.

You should make health a priority  because it is the most important thing.

It is wealth.

Health truly is wealth, especially if  you want to be a good business leader.

Let's end this article with a positive statement  

using some of the vocabulary we  learn to retain that vocabulary.

Health is key.

We learned what that means.

Health is wealth.

We know this is a common saying or proverb.

I will prioritize.

We learned the verb to prioritize here.

It's in the future simple.

I will prioritize because we use  the future simple for commitments.

For commitments, I will prioritize my health.

I am committed or I will make my health a priority  because we learn to make something a priority.

So choose your favorite one from these and  write it in the comments so you retain this  

vocabulary as well.

And now I'll read the article from  start to finish so you can focus on  

my pronunciation because there were  some advanced words in this article.

Let's do that now.

Why personal health and Wellness  are key to business longevity.

Key takeaways.

Business leaders who prioritize their  personal health and Wellness are better  

equipped to handle the responsibilities and  inspire their management teams and employees.

Over exertion, whether it's physical or mental,  can lead to burnout that will negatively impact  

your leadership effectiveness and the  organization's overall performance.

Leaders who model good health and  Wellness practices contribute to  

a healthier work environment, boosting  staff retention and company resilience.

New data released by Babel IN2024A  survey of 500 business leaders in  

the UK showed that 76% of business leaders  wanted to strengthen their own physical,  

mental and ethical fitness in order to succeed.

An over exhausted, sleep deprived leader is also  more likely to be a less effective negotiator,  

less capable of empathy and understanding  different viewpoints and is not able to  

drive innovation and change within the company.

A company culture that focuses on overall  health and Wellness will eventually  

increase staff retention, which ultimately  contributes to the longevity of the business.

Health truly is wealth, especially if  you want to be a good business leader.

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