Get Fluent in English FAST | Reading and Listening Method

Today, you'll improve your fluency in English by  reading and listening to English at the same time.

We're going to read a news article together.

Welcome back to JForrest English.

I'm Jennifer.

Now let's get started.

First, I'll read the headline The Spear, Las  Vegas's multibillion dollar entertainment venue.

Let's talk about the pronunciation here.

Notice that this has a F sound, so this  pH is pronounced as F If I change this  

to F and I just leave the S for now, we have fear.

Fear.

Repeat that Fear.

Easy enough, right?

So now I need to add the S, which  can be a difficult sound combination  

for your F Think about what your mouth is doing.

Fear Sphere.

But for your S Sphere.

Sphere.

So you're going to hear the F more.

The S is going to be quite quick.

Sphere, Sphere, Sphere.

Keep practicing that this sphere  Las Vegas is now notice here.

Vegas, Las Vegas.

That's the name of the city, the famous  city around the world, Las Vegas.

Here I'm making it possessive, but for  pronunciation, I need to add an extra syllable.

Las Vegas sis.

Vegas sis.

Las Vegas's multi billion  dollar entertainment venue.

And here is the spear.

This spear.

When I first saw this image,  the first thing I said is wow.

Wow, that's impressive.

And then I also said, that's cool.

That's cool.

So cool.

This is a very casual way that you  can sound like a native speaker.

You can use it as an adjective to  describe something as interesting.

Impressive.

That's cool.

That's so cool.

That's impressive.

What about you, When you saw this, what's  the first adjective that came to your mind?

Put that in the comments.

Wow.

This fear is, and you can use mine.

Impressive, cool or a different adjective.

Put that in the comments.

Wow the sphere is and then say it out loud so  you can practice that pronunciation as well.

Now don't worry about taking these notes  because I summarize everything in a free  

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Now let's continue and talk about the sphere.

This sphere is finally here.

So these rhyme because we have fear here.

This sphere is finally here.

That's a good one to practice out  loud for your pronunciation as well.

You're going to get very comfortable  with this by the end of the article.

This sphere is finally here.

And if you're wondering why  this has a capital the sphere,  

it's because that's the name  of this entertainment venue.

The name of this is the Sphere, The Sphere.

And that's why you have a capital S,  because we always capitalize proper nouns.

And later when you see it in the article,  

you'll notice that the article the is part  of the name, so the name is the sphere.

The sphere is finally here and it's already  generated quite abuzz when you first read this,  

you may have thought it is,  it's is a contraction of it is,  

but grammatically that would be  incorrect because it is generated.

That doesn't make sense.

Because of that, I know that this S  is actually the auxiliary verb has.

It has already generated quite a buzz,  and that's the present perfect verb tense.

So you can't tell just by  looking at this contraction.

You can't tell if this is it is or it has.

It's the full context of the  sentence that will tell you.

So this contraction represents, it has,  and it's already generated, quite a buzz.

Let's talk about this.

What's a buzz in this context?

A buzz is excited, positive talk about something.

And in this case, the something is the sphere.

So if I go to my friend and say, oh wow, did  you hear about the new sphere in Las Vegas?

Yeah, it's super cool.

I really want to go see it.

Yeah, it looks amazing.

And many people are talking about this  sphere in a positive, excited way.

That's a buzz, a buzz.

And generally, it's something generates a buzz.

So that movie generated a buzz.

The event generated a buzz.

And again, excited, positive talk.

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Now let's continue with our lesson.

It started as a simple sketch.

So what's the IT here?

This sphere.

This sphere started as a simple sketch.

A sketch is a quick drawing, so you  can Draw Something very quickly.

And generally there aren't a lot of details.

There's not a lot of precision.

So I might say, make a sketch of your house and  

you'll just draw the outline  of your house very quickly.

Now notice, because sketch  is a noun, you need a verb.

The verb is make a sketch, make a sketch.

And this is in the imperative verb tense.

But I can also simply use sketch  as a verb sketch your house,  

and in this case this is a  verb in the imperative form.

So both are correct as a noun or as a verb.

It started as a simple sketch.

So someone drew a sphere.

So a circle.

That's a sphere.

A circle with a stick person inside.

This on the right is a stick person.

So a very simple drawing of a person.

This is a stick person.

We have a joke in English that  she's such a terrible artist,  

she can't even draw a stick person,  which I would say would apply to me.

Even my stick people aren't that good.

So this is a stick person, and  it was inside a circle which  

represented this sphere, and  that's how this came to life.

Seven years later, that  drawing has been made real.

Notice the expression that I use.

That's how it came to life, Came  to life, has been made real.

Same thing, just a different way of saying it.

Of course you always need to match your grammar  to the sentence structure of the sentence.

So that drawing has come to life.

Now is grammatically correct within the  sentence a $2.3 billion massive spherical venue.

All right, so you already  know how to pronounce sphere.

Now you'll just add a cool spherical and then you  have to add the syllable stress spherical eerical.

So you can always drop the beginning  part and make it an easier sound.

So let's just say eerical,  like ear eerical, eerical.

And then you can add on the F sound spherical.

Now you can add on this spherical, spherical.

So that's how you can take a  complicated sound and make it  

a lot easier to pronounce and to practice as well.

In this case, spherical is the adjective  form, and it simply describes the venue.

I just realized I didn't explain what a spear is.

Perhaps you don't know.

A spear is just an object  that's in the shape of a circle.

And that's why this entertainment  venue is called The Sphere,  

because it's in the shape of a  circle, a $2.3 billion massive  

spherical venue standing 366 feet high  and lighting up the Las Vegas skyline.

So again, here's the object.

As you can see, there's light coming  from it, so it's lighting up the skyline.

It's making the skyline lighter or  brighter, it's lighting up the skyline.

Let's continue inside the 516 foot wide sphere.

So before we talked about the height,  366 feet high, so that's the height.

And now we're talking about the width.

So you describe it as wide.

So the height is high and the width is wide.

I wrote that here and notice I wrote X feet  wide, but here it says 516 foot wide sphere.

Why is that?

That's because in this case, this entire area  that I've highlighted is an adjective that  

describes the sphere, and adjectives  don't have a singular or plural form.

So feet is plural and foot is singular.

Otherwise, if you were seeing it as a measurement,  

you would say the sphere is 516 feet wide, so this  is the measurement for it and you would use feet.

But this is the adjective form and you  use foot because adjectives don't have  

a plural form inside the 516 foot wide  sphere, a high resolution LED screen.

Notice we don't pronounce this as lead.

Lead.

It's LEDLED screen, not lead.

So you pronounce this as the individual letters.

I'll just put a space between them  so you remember to pronounce them  

as the individual letters and not as lead.

To be honest, I'm not sure what LED stands for.

I know that FYI means for your information,  

so each letter represents  something for your information.

FYI, so I know that LED each letter stands  for something, but I don't know what that is.

Do you know what LED stands for?

If you do, feel free to share it in  the comments because I have no idea.

I've only heard it pronounced as LED.

I've never heard anyone actually say what it is.

A high resolution LED screen,  

the largest on earth, wraps halfway  around the 17,600 seat audience.

OK again, this is a great example of an adjective.

It describes the audience because otherwise you  

would say the audience or the theater  will just change it to the theater.

The theater has 17,600 seats,  and you would need to add an S  

to seat because there's more than one seat, right?

But this is an adjective, and  that's why we don't have an S here.

So there are 17,600 seats in the sphere.

That is pretty cool.

Very impressive.

Out of the 17,600 seats.

Oh look, we have it right here.

I didn't need to write it because  we have an example right here.

10,000 provide an immersive experience.

Let's take a look at this out of these seats.

This is a great sentence structure that  you can use to ask someone a question.

You could say out of these three cities,  which one do you want to visit the most?

And then you can either say the  cities or perhaps the written below.

So I want you to answer this.

Out of these three cities, Las  Vegas, San Francisco or Miami,  

which one do you want to visit the most?

Share that in the comments.

I'm really excited to hear your answer.

Now notice in this sentence structure,  

out of these specific seats, 10,000  provide an immersive experience.

So they're saying 10,000 out of 17,600 seats.

So they're limiting the number of seats  that have this immersive experience with  

a specialized sound system capable of  making guests feel sound vibrations.

Notice how they put feel in quotations  because generally you hear sound,  

but they're talking about the vibration.

So if you're sitting down in a movie theater  and because of the bass, you you feel it.

You feel the vibration.

So that will happen in 10,000 out of 17,600 seats.

This fear proudly boasts having the  world's largest concert grade audio system.

The verb to boast is used when you have or  you own something and you're proud of it.

So in this case, the sphere proudly boasts  having the world's largest audio system.

So they have it, and they're  very proud that they have it.

I put halving in brackets because it's optional.

You can boast something now.

In this case, the something  is just the audio system.

The rest of the information gives more  information about the audio system.

But you could say this sphere  boasts an audio system.

So this sphere has an audio system  and they're very proud of it.

This sphere boasts an audio system.

It delivers a crystal clear and  multi layered audio experience.

If you describe audio as crystal clear,  

it means that it is the highest  level of quality crystal clear.

So I hope you think that  this audio is crystal clear.

I certainly go to a lot of effort getting this  

professional microphone and making sure  that the studio has very good audio.

So if you are happy with the  quality of the audio in this video,  

put crystal clear in the chat,  put crystal clear in the chat.

If you don't put crystal clear, I  might have to get a new microphone.

So put Crystal Clear in the chat.

Now you can use crystal Clear in  a more everyday setting as well.

You could be having a phone call or  a zoom meeting or an online meeting.

And you might say, oh, can you hear me?

Can you hear me and the other  person to let you know that yes,  

they can hear you and the audio quality is great.

They can simply say crystal clear.

Can you hear me?

Crystal clear so you know that  the audio is OK, let's continue.

Not only is the interior  of the building impressive,  

but it's exterior also boasts 1.2  million hockey puck sized Led's.

So remember, boast.

It has it and it's very proud of having it.

So again, the same verb here.

Hockey puck size.

This is an adjective.

It tells you the size of the Led's.

Led's are a light, remember?

I'm not sure what LED means,  so if you do, let me know.

And a hockey puck is about this big.

So that's the size of the LED and  it boasts 1.2 million that can be  

programmed to create dynamic  and colossal image displays.

Colossal image displays are extremely large.

That's what colossal means.

Extremely large.

Let's continue.

It drew immediate attention on the 4th of  July with a digital fireworks display and  

an eyeball that appeared to scan the  horizon with the words Hello World.

So imagine you were walking down the street and  

all of a sudden a giant eyeball  appeared on the sphere again.

You would probably say, wow, that's cool,  that's super cool or that's impressive.

Or again, have some other  adjective choice of your own,  

so make sure you share that  in the comments as well.

Let's continue.

On September 29th, the much  anticipated moment arrived.

Has the sphere unveiled its grander  to the world for the first time.

So it's grander.

This represents the the size, how  large it is, how advanced it is.

It's grander.

Now let's talk about the verb to unveil.

When you unveil something,  you should simply show it.

But you show it for the very first time.

So before this moment, on September 29th,  nobody had seen the inside of the sphere.

But then they unveiled it.

They showed it for the first time.

They showed the grandeur  of the sphere to the world,  

setting the stage for U2's 25 show residency.

So U2 is the name of a very popular band, a  band that's known around the world I'm sure.

And a 25 show residency means that you  two has committed to performing 25 shows.

So you 2 will perform 25 shows in the sphere.

And notice again this is an adjective.

That's why we don't have an S on  show, because it's an adjective.

But when I said my sentence, there was an S Here's  the sentence again with the S, the plural noun.

You 2 will perform 25 shows at the sphere.

That's it's 25 show residency  now, much anticipated.

This is very common to say much anticipated.

Another common word is highly anticipated,  

the highly anticipated moment,  the much anticipated moment.

And when you describe something as  highly anticipated or much anticipated,  

it means that it's something  that people have been expecting,  

and they've been expecting it  with a lot of strong emotion.

Oh, I can't wait.

I can't wait.

Only three more days that would describe  a highly anticipated moment or event.

I wrote that definition for you.

Now let's continue this legendary rock band.

Of course That's You 2.

The legendary rock band This legendary rock  band took center stage within the Colossal.

We already know what this means.

Very large, colossal state-of-the-art.

To describe something as state-of-the-art means  it uses the latest and the best of everything.

Materials, technology, everything  that went into the construction  

of it is the latest and the best  state-of-the-art within the colossal  

state-of-the-art spherical structure  and delivered a 2 hour performance.

Again, we have a lot of adjectives in this case  that otherwise could be a plural noun, but in this  

case is an adjective and that's why you don't  see an S The performance lasted for two hours.

In that case, of course there  would be an S on the noun,  

so they delivered a 2 hour performance  that left the audience in awe.

That's the face of awe when you see  something and it's just so great,  

so interesting, so amazing that  your mouth literally drops.

That's in awe.

In awe.

Let's continue.

Throughout the evening, attendees were treated  to a mesmerizing array of stunning visuals.

First, let's talk about an attendee.

An attendee is just someone who attends.

So attendees, in the plural  represents people who attend.

So people who attended the two hour performance  by the legendary rock band U2 throughout the  

evening, attendees were treated to a  mesmerizing array of stunning visuals.

OK, an array of means a large  number of so an array of visuals.

So there are many different visuals,  an array of and a mesmerizing array of.

When something is mesmerizing,  

it means it has your full attention  and you don't want to look away.

Because what you're looking at  or what you're listening to is  

so interesting that it has your full attention.

So even if your phone was  beeping, you wouldn't even notice,  

or you wouldn't even care because what  you're looking at is so much better.

That would be mesmerizing.

So they were treated to a mesmerizing  array of stunning visuals.

It was a star-studded affair.

If you describe an event as star-studded,  it means that many stars attended.

And a star in this case represents a celebrity.

So a star-studded affair is an affair,  an event where many celebrities attended.

It was a star-studded affair with  numerous prominent entertainers and  

athletes in attendance, including Oprah  Winfrey, LeBron James and Matt Damon.

And that's the end of our article.

And I don't know about you,  

but it definitely convinced me to want  to go to Las Vegas and see this sphere.

I'd love to see it in person.

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.

Let's do that now.

The Sphere Las Vegas is multibillion  dollar entertainment venue.

This sphere is finally here and  it's already generated quite a buzz.

It started as a simple sketch, a  circle with a stick person inside.

Seven years later, that drawing has  been made real a $2.3 billion massive  

spherical venue standing 366 feet high  and lighting up the Las Vegas skyline.

Inside the 516 foot wide sphere,  a high resolution LED screen,  

the largest on earth, wraps halfway  around the 17,600 seat audience.

Out of these 17,600 seats, 10,000  provide an immersive experience  

with a specialized sound system capable  of making guests feel sound vibrations.

This fear proudly boasts having the  world's largest concert grade audio system.

It delivers a crystal clear and  multilayered audio experience.

Not only is the interior  of the building impressive,  

but its exterior also boasts  1.2 million hockey puck sized  

LED's that can be programmed to create  dynamic and colossal image displays.

It drew immediate attention on the 4th of  July with a digital fireworks display and  

an eyeball that appeared to scan the  horizon with the words Hello World.

On September 29th, the much  anticipated moment arrived as  

the sphere unveiled its grandeur  to the world for the first time.

Setting the stage for U2's 25 show residency,  

this legendary rock band took center  stage within the colossal state-of-the-art  

spherical structure and delivered a 2 hour  performance that left the audience in awe.

Throughout the evening, attendees retreated  to a mesmerizing array of stunning visuals.

It was a star-studded affair with  numerous prominent entertainers and  

athletes in attendance, including Oprah  Winfrey, Le Bron, James, and Matt Damon.

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