Read An Article From The NEWS With Me To Learn Advanced English Vocabulary And Grammar (FREE PDF)

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Welcome to this lesson to help you learn  English with the news. We're going to read  
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a newest article together and you're going  to learn a lot of advanced vocabulary,  
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complex sentence structure, advanced grammar,  and even correct pronunciation directly by  
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reading this article with me. Welcome back  to JForrest English training. Of course I'm  
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Jennifer and this is your place to become a  fluent and confident English speaker. Let's  
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get started. Welcome to our article, I'm sure you  recognize Leonardo DiCaprio. Now this comment here  
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says so Leonardo DiCaprio is nearly 50 and  dating someone who went to prom on Zoom. So  
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that's what we're talking about in this article,  the potential relationship and age gap the age  
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difference between these two. The headline of our  article is Leonardo DiCaprio 48. denies dating  
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model Eden Fulani 19 But the internet is calling  BS. Now this is celebrity New Celebrity gossip. So  
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it's written in a very informal way. Keep that  in mind. This in brackets of course refers to  
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the age of each person so Leonardo DiCaprio is 48  years old. And this is model Eden Polani. She's a  
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model and she is 19 years old. So very young. But  the internet is calling BS. Okay, so first let's  
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go to denial because this is important. When  you deny something you claim isn't true. So  
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Leonardo DiCaprio is saying that he is not dating  this very young model. I want you to notice the  
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sentence structure. What do you notice about our  next word denies dating? Dating is a verb to date  
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to date someone and that means to be in a romantic  relationship with someone but what do you notice  
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about the grammar of this verb? It's the gerund  verb. It's a verb plus i in G which is our gerund.  
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So notice that the verb deny is a gerund verb,  the verb that follows it needs to be in the gerund  
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form. Here's another example sentence again,  notice that gerund verb Joe denies stealing the  
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money. Joe says it isn't true. I didn't steal the  money. But the internet is calling BS BS Do you  
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know what this sounds for? Well, this is a slang  expression. Bs is an abbreviation for the word.  
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I can't say this full word because you're not  allowed to swear on YouTube. Your videos could  
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be penalized if you do. So I'm sure you understand  what letter is missing here. So that's what the  
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word stand for. It's considered offensive which  is why YouTube doesn't like it when you use it  
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is considered offensive. So I don't encourage  you to use this word but it is very commonly  
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used. The AST is the abbreviation because you  take the first letter from here and the second  
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letter from here. Sometimes we also abbreviate  it by saying bool and just dropping the second  
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word because it's this word that is considered  offensive. bool isn't really offensive and neither  
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is B S is really just this one word. Now when you  call something B, as you're saying it's nonsense.  
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It's not true at all. So here's the definition.  Now let me give you an example sentence.  
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They said I stole the money. So Joe could  be seeing this. They said I stole the money,  
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but that's BS. That's BS. So if you want a more  polite way of saying this, because remember,  
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I don't recommend using this maybe with your  close friends, for example, you can say,  
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But that's nonsense. That's nonsense. And this  is not offensive. So you can use nonsense,  
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but now you know what this means when you see  it. All right, let's continue on. So Leonardo  
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DiCaprio denies dating this very young model  chatter about Leonardo DiCaprio 48 allegedly  
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dating teenage Israeli model Eden Polani has been  making rounds on the internet for over a week.  
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Let's start with chatter. This is a noun and  this is specific to internet terminology,  
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because Chatter is just conversation communication  between people but specifically over the internet.  
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Here's an example sentence my company monitors  our chatter. So monitors our communication on the  
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internet. So conversations you have on Twitter  or Reddit or other forums or other sites where  
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you communicate monitor means that they review it  closely. So chat or just conversation online about  
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Leonardo DiCaprio, allegedly allegedly is used  because they're not 100%. This is true. So we  
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use the adverb allegedly to show doubt. Here's the  definition. Let me give you an example sentence  
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going back to poor Joe. Joe allegedly so someone  said it's true, but there is no proof. It hasn't  
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been proven yet. Joe allegedly stole the money,  but he denies it. Remember, if we were to use a  
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verb it'd be the gerund verb but he denies it.  He said it's complete BS or to be more polite.  
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You can say complete nonsense. Okay, so chatter  about Leonardo DiCaprio, allegedly dating teenage  
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Israeli model. Eden Polani has been making rounds.  So when you make rounds, it means you go from  
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place to place to place. So making rounds remember  they're talking about the chatter, making rounds,  
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the chatter going from place to place. So in  an online context, the places would be Twitter,  
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Reddit TMZ. That's where this article is from  forum hosts tick tock you to and it's going this  
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this rumor that Leonardo DiCaprio is allegedly  dating this teenage model is making rounds.  
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It's moving from place to place specific on the  internet because we're talking about chatter.  
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Let's continue on. Good. Two were photographed  sitting together at an LA event, sparking rumors  
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about a possible relationship. Okay, so they  sat together at an event and now everybody's  
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saying oh, they must be dating. So that is a  rumor. Did you hear that Leonardo DiCaprio is  
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dating a teenager. Oh my god, I can't believe it.  That is a rumor. It's information that may or may  
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not be true that spreads spread is another way of  saying to go from person to person. So of course I  
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see this rumor to one person but then guess what  that person is then going to say oh my god Did  
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you hear and that person is going to tell another  person and then a lot of people are talking about  
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it right. Now let's talk about this verb sparking  rumors. This simply means causing rumors, pausing.  
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So what sparked the rumors what caused the rumors?  It was the fact that they were sitting together  
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at any event, and then probably someone took a  picture posted it online. And then oh my god,  
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did you see and that's how other rumors started.  Polani was born in 2004 and is currently 19 years  
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old. So she's a teenager. Notice I was using that  word before they use it in the article teenager.  
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Teenager a teenager is someone whose age and  in the word teen 1918 1716 1514 13 Those are  
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the teen years 12 doesn't end in teen So 12  years old, you're not a teenager 20 doesn't  
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end in teen so it is 13 to 19 that is the age  group of a teenager and it sounds very young.  
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So if you hear that a 48 year old is dating  a teenager that sounds very young because  
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a teenager could be 13 years old, right? Let's continue on, given DiCaprio his track  
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record and his recent splits with 25 year old  Argentinian American model, okay, track record.  
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Your track record is your past accomplishments or  your failures. So if you're applying for a job,  
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you can say I have a great track record  of getting results. Which means you have  
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a lot of accomplishments in the past getting  results. So you can definitely use this in a  
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job interview. It will sound really professional.  So let me write that example. Here's the example  
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now notice they're using it for DiCaprio is  Leonardo DiCaprio his track record of dating  
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younger women. So in his past, he has dated all  a lot of younger women. So that's his track.  
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Record. And then they talk specifically about one  woman he dated. And they say his recent split.  
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So when you're a couple, but then you split,  that's another way of saying you end your  
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relationship you break up so he was in a  relationship with this 25 year old model,  
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another model, but then they split they broke up.  It is more common to use the phrasal verb break up  
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split sounds a lot more informal. Whereas breakup  is the common expression use we don't really say  
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they ended their relationship that sounds a little  too formal. It sounds like the literal definition  
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we say they broke up, but the casual way is  they split. Now here we're using rumored again,  
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a rumored relationship with Polani.  So remember, rumored in the sense that  
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it may or may not be true. A rumor relationship  with Polani was hardly a reach. Okay, notice it  
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started with given given means that based on so  based on his previous track record of dating a lot  
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of younger women, it's hardly or reach. What does  this mean? Well, hardly. It just means not. So in  
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this context, it means it's not a reach, which  means it's not difficult to understand why these  
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rumors exist. These rumors exist because he has  dated many, many younger women models specifically  
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in the past. That's his track record. Remember  so not a reach means it's not difficult to  
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understand that something is true or not difficult  to imagine that something is true. Let's continue  
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on. But on Tuesday, a source close to DiCaprio a  source is just someone who knows DiCaprio, well,  
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someone who is a friend or an acquaintance or has  information about him. A source close to DiCaprio  
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told TMZ that the star was not dating Fulani or in  a relationship with her at all. He just happened  
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to be seated next to her at the event. Okay, let's  talk about happened because it's also in quotation  
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marks. He just happened to be seated next to her.  The sentence structure is to happen. And then we  
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have our infinitive. He just happen to be seated.  So it just means that whatever is so here it's to  
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be seated. That was by chance by chance means it  was not planned in advance. So by chance I'll just  
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write not planned in advance. So this is saying  that Leonardo did not plan to sit beside the model  
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the teenage model he just happened to be seated.  Now happened is probably in quotations. Because  
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they're saying, Oh yeah, he just happened.  He probably did groundnut, right. So they're  
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casting doubt on if this is true or not. He  just happened to be seated next to her at the  
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event. And the two were hanging out. So hanging  out is just interacting socially, this year,  
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interacting socially with the same  group of people. However, netizen.  
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This word is new to me. I had never seen this  word before and when I saw it the first time,  
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like netizen, what is this? I had to look it up in  the dictionary but it has a very simple definition  
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of medicine is a person and it's a person who  uses the internet. So the internet is also just  
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called net right? And that's how this word begins  with net. So you know how a citizen is someone who  
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lives in a city or a country right citizen so they  probably just took this, and then they added that  
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izen, izen, but again, I've never seen this word  before. So I don't know how common it is. But it  
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is in the Cambridge dictionary. So I don't know.  Have you seen this word before? Maybe it's just  
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me, but I am an Edison. I mean, everybody is an  netizen. Everybody uses the internet. So I don't  
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really understand the purpose of this word. But  netizens are not convinced this is the truth. So  
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netizen sends the people who follow the Twitter  feed or the YouTube videos or the Reddit posts.  
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They're not convinced that he just happened to be  seated next to her or that they are just hanging  
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out. They don't believe it. So that's what  convinced means. They don't believe it. Let's  
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continue on. Most pop culture followers. Believe  it's a public relations move to protect DiCaprio  
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from further criticism about his controversial  dating habits. So the fact that he's saying we're  
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not in a relationship, remember he's denying it.  He's saying that's BS. That's nonsense. They're  
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saying this is a public relations move, which  means he's strategically saying this to protect  
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his public image. That's what public relations  is about is about managing your public image. A  
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move is just a strategy or a plan. So I'll  write that for move a strategy or a plan,  
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strategy or a plan. So it's just a plan to protect  him from Criticism Criticism is negative things  
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that people say about you. And it is controversial  dating habits. Controversial is an adjective  
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it describes his dating habits and cons when  something is controversial. It causes disagreement  
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or discussion. So obviously people are talking  about the big age difference between them. Is that  
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appropriate? Is it inappropriate? That's why it's  controversial and dating habits. Well, his eating  
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habits are that he likes dating young women who  happen to be models. I don't know. Can you blame  
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the guy who wouldn't want to date young women  who are models? The news has fuelled a deeper  
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conversation about legal age gap relationships.  Okay. They're saying it's legal because she is an  
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adult. So by law, you become an adult when you're  18 years old. You are a legal adult So 18 years  
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old, legal adult, at least in North America could  be different other places. So the model I don't  
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remember her name Eden, Eden, Bologna is an adult  she can make her own decisions. If she wants to  
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date Leonardo DiCaprio will she's an adult, she  can make that decision. So she is a legal adult,  
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but age gap. So he's 48 and she's 19. The gap  is between those ages so it's the difference.  
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We often use this to say there's a big  age gap. There's a big age gap between  
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them. Or you could say the opposite. And you  could say there's only a two year age gap. Again  
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gap needs difference between my husband and  me. So gap needs difference. And you can talk  
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about the age gap in friendships or other types of  relationships. It doesn't have to be just romantic  
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relationships as well. So the news has fuelled  fuelled means cause something to continue. So it's  
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cause these conversations to continue. So that's  what fuelled means. I'll write that out here.  
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So our sentence structure is something has  fuelled something so the news has fuelled  
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and this something is the deeper conversations.  So it means something has caused something to  
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happen that's fueled so the news remember, which  is a rumor about their relationship their alleged  
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relationship has fuelled has caused this deeper  conversation about legal age gap relationships,  
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their ethics and their inherent power dynamics  problems they come with. And that is the end of  
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our article. So now I'll go back and I'll read  the article from start to finish and this time  
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you can focus on my pronunciation and follow  along with my pronunciation. Leonardo DiCaprio  
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48 denies dating model Edom Kulani 19 But the  internet is calling BS chatter about Leonardo  
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DiCaprio 48 allegedly dating teenage Israeli model  Eden Fulani has been making rounds on the internet  
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for over a week. The two are photographs sitting  together at an LA event sparking rumors about a  
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possible relationship. Melania was born in 2004  and is currently 19 years old. Given DiCaprio his  
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track record and his recent split with 25 year  old Argentinian American model Camilla Marone  
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a rumor relationship with baloney was hardly a  reach. She's 29 years his junior but on Tuesday  
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A source close to DiCaprio told TMZ that the  star was not dating Fulani or in a relationship  
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with her at all. He just happened to be seated  next to her at the event and the two are hanging  
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out with the same group of people. However,  medicines are not convinced this is the truth.  
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Most pop culture followers believe it's a public  relations move to protect DiCaprio from further  
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criticism about his controversial dating habits.  The news has fueled a deeper conversation about  
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legal age. Gap relationships, their ethics and the  inherent power dynamics problems they come with  
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amazing job with this lesson. Now you can look  in the description or look in the comment section  
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below to find the link where you can download  the free lesson PDF that summarizes everything  
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