Improve Your Fluency with English News (Reading Practice in 30 minutes)

Do you find it?

Difficult to read the news because as you're reading, there are so many.

Words that you?

Just don't know.

Well, don't worry, because today we're going to read a news.

Article together.

And I'm going to explain all the advanced vocabulary, grammar, structures and even pronunciation.

To help you.

Improve your fluency.

Welcome back to JForrest English

I'm Jennifer.

Now let's get started.

1st I'll read.

The headline threads meta to launch web version of flagging threads app.

So here this.

Lets you know.

That the article is about threads.

Which is owned by Meta, which of course is the company that owns Facebook and WhatsApp

and Instagram, among probably others Meta to launch.

Notice here this.

Is the short form meta.

Is going to launch.

Meta plans to launch.

So they just let.

That out to make the headline as short as possible.

Meta to launch when you launch something.

In this case, the something is.

A web.

Version of the flagging Threads app.

All of this.

Represents the something, so when you launch something it means you make it available.

For the first.

And.

That could be a product, a service.

Or an entire business.

So when you launch a business, it means.

You start that.

Business, and it is.

Available to the public for the first.

Time I wrote those notes for you and I also added the articles in.

Because.

In headlines, they often.

Delete the articles or auxiliary verbs.

Like we saw right here.

To make the headline as.

Short as possible.

As concise as possible, but you need.

The article here.

In this case you can.

Use all web version because it's.

Just all means any or it can be the web version because.

It's a specific.

Web version and it's the only one generally when a company launches.

A web version.

There's only one web version, so in that case it can be unique so you can use that.

But both articles are possible.

And in this.

Case a web.

Version The web version of the flagging threads app because flagging and threads.

Are adjectives to give.

More information about the noun.

In this case, the noun is.

App.

So it's a web.

Version of app.

That doesn't sound right of the app.

So the app.

We might even say of its app it's being metas.

Belongs to meta.

Meta is an IT.

So that's.

Why I'm using the possessive?

Of the subject it it's.

Now the because there's only one app, it's not a app.

So the OR it's.

Now flagging what?

Does flagging mean when is used as an adjective of the flagging app, it's flagging app.

Flagging means weakening.

So if the app is.

Weakening in this.

Case is.

Talking about.

Its popularity its.

Popularity is weakening, which means it's declining, it's going down.

So that's why they're saying it's a flagging.

App flagging is the adjective.

So we've already covered a lot.

In just the headline.

Don't worry about taking notes because I summarize everything in a free lesson PDF, so you can

look in the description for the link.

Let's continue.

Meta is releasing or launching.

As we saw here, Meta is releasing a web version.

So here notice how they add the article.

Because.

They only remove articles in the headline.

Now they're writing the actual article and they must use correct grammar, and articles

are not optional.

Although apparently they are in.

News headlines.

But when you're writing an article or an e-mail or anything like that?

Articles.

Are mandatory Meta is releasing a web version of Threats?

As.

It attempts to revive the social media platform.

Now when you revive something, you try to return that something.

To a previous state because that previous state was better.

So in this.

Case previously threads.

Popularity was here.

But remember now the?

Popularity is.

Flagging the app is flagging, so declining, weakening, so the.

Popularity is here.

So they want to revive the app.

They need to get the.

Popularity back?

To its original level.

That would be to.

Revive the platform.

I wrote that here for you.

Meta.

Hopes the web.

Version SO notice.

We have the.

The Remember I?

Said before.

That you can say.

All web.

Version or the web version.

Both of them are correct.

It makes sense.

Here that they used all because.

Meta is releasing.

A web.

Version any web version, it's just.

A web.

Version of.

Threads.

Threads.

Is the name of the platform if you didn't know.

Now Meta.

Hopes the web.

Version.

So now it's a specific, distinct web version.

In this case, we're not talking about just any web version, we're talking about the one

that meta launched that Meta.

Meta hopes.

The web.

Version will tempt back.

Users, let's take a look.

At this verb tempt.

The verb is.

To tempt.

Tempt, tempt, to tempt, and this.

Is simply to.

Encourage someone to want something.

Or to do.

So think of any.

Store you, go to they.

Put the items on display in a very certain way to tempt.

You to look at.

Those items because if you look at them, you're more.

Likely to buy?

Them or a store might tempt.

You to visit the store by.

Offering you a discount.

And once you're in the store.

Obviously, you'll buy.

So that's how they can tempt you.

Another word is entice.

This is a nice advanced word.

So if.

You don't know what it means.

Words you've learned, tempt and entice because they have the same meaning.

Now you've learned.

The store entices you by offering you a discount.

So in this case, Meta hopes.

The web.

Version will tempt back.

Users what is?

Back users.

It means that it will tempt.

Users, the people who use threads.

To return return to the platform.

That's what it means by tempt back users, and they're doing this by offering a web version.

Let's continue.

The arrival to X, Formerly known as.

So they're saying the arrival to acts, the rival to acts.

Is threads.

Arrival is someone you're directly competing against.

So we have Twitter.

Sorry.

Not called Twitter anymore.

We that's going to be a hard one to remember.

So we have X.

And we have threads, and they're directly competing for the same people, you and me.

To use the.

So, because they're.

Directly competing, we can say.

Their rivals, their rivals, So Threads is X's rival.

And.

X is threads rival.

They are rivals.

I wrote that here for you.

And just notice that you need.

A possessive here, so threads is X's.

Rival now threads.

Is.

Spelled with an S.

So you put the possessive.

Sign.

After the S because this is how you.

Spell the name.

Now you can also say they.

Are rivals?

And in this case, it's the same thing as saying they're competitors, the rival to X formerly

known as.

Enjoyed Meteoric, Meteoric.

So here.

We have a meteor.

What you see?

In space, A meteor.

Meteoric growth Meteoric growth.

Is when someone or something, in this case the Threads app.

Grows very quickly, very rapidly.

Just like a.

Meteor goes.

In the.

Sky Very.

Extremely fast.

So think of that is just extremely fast.

Now notice the.

Pronunciation here because we have meaty or we end with the strong or sound meteor meteor

and then you just add the ick.

Meteoric Oric.

Meteoric so careful.

With that pronunciation.

I wrote that here for you.

And because this is such a positive thing to have.

Growth meaning you grow.

Very quickly.

That's definitely something I would like to have happen with my YouTube channel, so why

don't you put this in the comments?

To support.

Me and cheer me on and also to practice.

This meteoric because if.

You write it down, you'll be way more likely to remember it.

So, Jennifer I.

Wish you meteoric growth.

And then this.

Was the best emoji.

I could find for a meteor.

I think that's what this is at least, so you don't need to put the.

Emoji you can just put.

Meteoric.

Growth as well.

That will be fine.

Meteoric growth.

Put that in the comments.

Practice saying it out.

Loud as well.

So you remember that pronunciation?

Meteoric growth.

Woohoo.

Thank you.

So put that in the comments.

So the rival 2X threads enjoyed meteoric growth.

When it launched.

We know what that means now, in July.

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Let's continue.

However.

Users then abandon it.

Abandon it.

Just.

As rapidly, partly due to.

Its limited functionality OK.

Here the IT is threads the threads.

Platform.

And when you abandon something, it means.

You you leave.

It and you no longer use it, so it's being threads now.

Notice the pronunciation here.

Abandoned.

Abandoned.

End because.

This Ed is being.

Pronounced as a.

Very soft.

D abandoned the abandoned now bandined.

It so you have to hold that D.

Out to connect and it will sound like abandoned.

It dit dit.

Abandoned it.

Abandoned it.

However, the users.

Then abandon it just as rapidly.

Partly due.

To its limited functionality, OK.

Partly due.

This is saying one of.

The reasons?

But not the only reason and notice.

Here it's due.

To something, so you need this too, and the two belongs to do.

To due to the bad weather.

We cancelled.

The party partly due to the bad weather.

So that was one of the reasons, but it wasn't the only reason.

Were going to come.

Maybe also not a lot of.

Maybe it.

Was a popular.

Weekend and people were busy doing other things.

So partly due to the bad weather, but also.

The lack of attendance was a reason, partly.

Due to.

It's limited functionality, meaning functionality meaning the.

Features the.

Functions that the app has and limited functionality means it didn't.

Have a lot of.

It didn't have a lot of different things that a.

User you could.

Do on the app.

Meta says.

The web.

Version again the.

Because it's a specific.

Web version.

The one it just launched Meta.

Says the web.

Version is.

Part of.

A drive.

To deliver new features but experts.

Warn more needs to be done to rebuild customer interest.

And this is.

Why they said that the popularity is?

Flagging the app is flagging.

Popularity is going down.

Now a drive.

To do.

Something is just a a motivation to doing something.

So someone could ask.

What was?

Your drive to launch the new app.

So.

Part of the drive was to deliver new features.

So this is a drive.

To do something and it's just the the motivation to do something but.

Warn more needs to be done to rebuild customer interest.

So when you add re in front of a verb, it means you do it again.

So again, this is their.

Popularity was here.

But now it's flagging so it's down here, so they need.

To revive.

Remember the verb we learned before They need to.

Interest.

Bring it back.

They need to.

Rebuild customer.

Same thing, just a different.

Word restore it.

Bring it back.

And they're hoping that this app will tempt.

Users back.

Remember that one as well, and then they'll have the.

Meteoric growth users will be able to post a.

View their.

Feed and interact.

With other people's threats, so this is.

The functionality that.

Will be available.

On the web platform.

So this we can say is the functionality.

Of the web.

Based platform this.

Is what they'll be able to.

Do it seems.

Basic to me.

To be honest, I don't know what impression you get from that.

However other.

Aspects of the mobile app will not.

Be available.

On the web initially.

OK.

Initially means from the very beginning or at the start.

So that.

Would be when the app or when the web-based version launches.

That would be initially, so at.

The very start.

And this is after the web version launches.

OK.

That would be initially.

So the other.

In this case the aspects.

It means the.

Features, so other features.

Functionalities I'll just.

Put features here, but it could.

Also, BE functionalities of the mobile app will not be.

On the web initially, so that sounds like.

They'll be available.

In the future, but they're just not available now initially after it launches.

For example, so now they're sharing one of the.

Aspects or features?

Or functionalities that won't be available initially.

For example, users won't be able to.

Edit their.

Profile on the web version.

They'll be able to do it on the app, but not on the web version.

Won't be.

Able to edit their profile.

Or send a thread.

To the.

Direct Messenger feature.

Of its sister.

Platform Instagram.

OK.

So you can watch out for that if you use the web.

Version you won't be able to do these things meta.

Says it will.

Add more functionality.

So features.

In the coming weeks.

The coming weeks coming is an adjective in this case, and it represents the.

Weeks ahead.

So perhaps you?

Commonly see that in.

The weeks ahead.

In the weeks.

So you can't replace these.

You can't change.

The order.

Of these, you can't say in the ahead.

You can't say that you.

Have to say.

In the weeks.

Ahead.

And you can't say in the weeks coming.

You have to say in the coming weeks.

So just notice the placement of these adjectives is different in the coming weeks.

In the weeks ahead as.

It seeks.

To make the web and mobile experience of the app the same.

OK, so it seeks to.

When you seek to do something, it means you.

Try to do.

So you just attempt or try as it tries to make the web and mobile experience of the

app this same and it.

Is threads.

That's.

The topic as.

Threads seeks.

To make and that's why.

Of course we have the S on.

Seek because it is the present simple and you need to conjugate.

That with your subject.

Threads raced to more than 100 million.

Users in the week following its launch.

That's impressive.

Remember launch is when threads.

First became.

Publicly available, so when it?

Started so you can now download.

The Threads app that was the launch.

So in the week following, so one week after threads launched.

It reached more than 100 million users.

It raced to this is simply saying.

It reached threads reached more than.

But what is the image you get in your head?

When you hear the word race, when you hear race, you imagine that is happening very.

So I get the image that this happened very quickly.

Whereas if I just said reach I don't get that same image but notice.

You raised to.

You need that preposition to.

But if you replaced it with the verb reach, it would be threads reached more than it's

not.

Reached to It's just reached more than 100 million users in the week following its launch,

but by the end of July.

That figure had more than halved.

OK.

Let's take a look at this more than half.

So generally in a business context.

You want to see more than doubled, which is times.

Two, but if something halves, it means it's.

Divided by two because you have 1/2 and another half.

If I was eating an apple and you an apple and you asked me for half an apple.

I would have that apple, and so that's the verb form to half something.

I would have that apple and give you a half, and I would.

Have 1/2, so when something is halved it means.

Divided by two.

Divided by two.

So obviously this is not a very good thing.

Which means it went down to 50 million users by the end of July.

By the end of July, All right, that is halved.

You want to talk more about doubled?

More than doubled, remember.

This Ed here because that means.

If it doubled, obviously then it.

Would have been 1-2 hundred million users.

If it had doubled, but it didn't.

Double it have OK, let's continue the tech giant again, this is meta.

Well, Meta owns Threads, so now we're talking about Threads, or Meta, the tech giant Meta,

which also owns Facebook and WhatsApp.

Will hope this announcement will help reverse that trend does this sentence.

Look awkward to you?

It looks awkward to me.

Because it is not very common to put hope in the future.

Simple, even though technically.

It's it's allowed grammatically.

It's just not commonly done.

It is common to have it in the present simple, not the future simple.

Now because of that you need in the future simple you need to conjugate.

Your verb with the subject.

So here the tech giant hopes, because the tech giant represents it.

So that's why it hopes this announcement will help.

Reverse that trend.

It's more common in the present simple because the present simple.

For Hope, it means you are hoping it now and you're hoping it in the future.

So the present simple includes.

The future desire and the present desire.

Whereas if you say will hope, then it only sounds like it will happen in the future and

the tech giant is not in fact hoping now.

Which of course it is hoping now it's not going to.

Wait two weeks and then start hoping, Right?

So it's happening now.

So.

I would say although what they wrote is grammatically correct, it sounds awkward to me because native.

Speakers use the present simple.

With hope to include the present and the.

Future The tech giant hopes this announcement.

Will help reverse that trend the platform meaning.

Threads is the platform.

The platform still does not have a search function, something users have complained

about.

When you complain about something, to complain about something.

It means you express your dissatisfaction, so let me write that for you.

I wrote that here for you.

The sentence structure is to complain.

The verb is complain and you complain about something and when you.

Do that you're expressing your dissatisfaction, for example.

You could say this video is too long.

Oh, this video was boring.

Now you are complaining.

By doing that, you're complaining.

About the video, my video and then.

That's the verb You're complaining to complain in the present continuous because you're doing

it now.

But these are examples of complaints, so I'll complaint.

That's the noun form a complaint.

You are obviously welcome to complain because freedom of speech, you can say.

Or do whatever you want.

But of course I hope to use it in the present simple, I hope you don't complain about.

This video so I hope you say Jennifer.

I have no complaints.

I spelt that wrong.

You need the.

T there because this is the noun, I have no complaints.

About this video, so if that's how you feel then put it in the comments.

Jennifer, I have no complaints.

About this video, This is another way of saying Jennifer.

I really loved your video because if you have no complaints, which means 0 complaints, that

means you only.

Have positive things to.

Say so.

Put that in the comments.

Jennifer, I have.

No complaints about this video and that's the end.

Of the article.

So what I'll do now is I'll go to the top and I'll read the article from start to finish

and this time you can focus on my pronunciation threads meta to launch web version of Flagging

Threads App Meta is releasing a web version of Threads as it attempts to revive the social

media platform Meta.

Hopes the web version will tempt back.

The arrival to X, formerly known as Twitter, enjoyed meteoric growth when it launched in

July.

However, users then abandoned it.

Just as rapidly, partly due to its limited functionality, Meta.

Says the web version is part of a.

Drive to deliver new features.

But experts warn more needs to be done to rebuild customer interest.

Users will be able to post a thread, view their feed and interact.

With other people's threads, however, other aspects of the mobile app will not be available

on the web initially.

The platform still does not have a search function, something users have complained

about and experts say it needs.

If it is to really take on Elon Musk's ex.

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