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

Welcome to this lesson to help you learn English  with the news. We're going to read a news article  

together so you can learn Advanced vocabulary,  Advanced grammar, and correct pronunciation in  

a fun and engaging way. Let's get started. Let  me read the headline of article, 3 things that  

relieve stress and boost your happiness. Now  first, let's talk about relieved and stress.

Is relieved is a verb and we use this  verb specifically with something like  

a symptom and illness and ache or  a pain and relieve means to either  

eliminate or reduce. So if I have a  headache which would be an ache or a

pain,

then I could take a pill to relieve my headache.  Relieve my sore throat, relieve my stress.

Fee nose. For example,  

now notice the pronunciation here. This  beginning part is our schwa sound. Ra ra

relieved

relieved. The emphasis is  on the second syllable and  

it's pronounced like the word  leave leave. So I just add a

quick

raw, it's unstressed. So it sounds more like row  

and then this is my stress sound  relieved, relieved stress. So

Let me write my other example, sentence this

pill

will help

relieve your headache, for example.

Okay, and boozed, boost means to increase to  increase and you can use this in a more General  

context. For example, you might want to boost  your vocabulary. I hope this lesson will help  

you boost your vocabulary, boost, your speaking  skills, boost your pronunciation increase.

Let's continue on and talk  about these three things.

Number one, claim more time for yourself  

fitting. Even one more thing into an already  over packed day can feel like an impossible task.  

Let's take a look at this overpacked. So we  have our noun day and then overpacked is are  

adjectives which describes our day. Now I  could just say into an already packed day.

Packed as an adjective is another way of saying  busy. So if you have a packed day, if you look in  

your calendar, you have a lot of different  appointments, tasks meetings things to do.  

That's a packed day. Now, over when we add over  to our adjective, it means more than desirable  

you might say.

I over slept. So, in this  case, I'm adding over to my

verb.

Slept, I slept, I overslept, which means more  than desirable, I slept too much. I slept

Too much which can be a bad thing. I don't  know about you, but for me when I oversleep,  

I actually get a headache, so I might need to  take a pill to remember, relieve my headache,  

you might over work, which means work too much.  I overworked I overworked and now I'm exhausted  

so you can add it to a

Verb or here, you can add it to and adjectives.  So it means more busy than desirable than want it.  

So of course, fitting one more thing  is impossible but if you're constantly  

doing for everyone but yourself, so if you're  constantly doing doing things for everyone,  

but yourself, it's time to  reclaim space in your own life.

All right, so there are saying you need  to take time for yourself reclaim space in  

your own life. Take time for yourself. This  means taking a hard look at your to-do list  

now, a to-do list, I think this is pretty obvious  but it's a list of everything you need to do and  

those things you need to do. They could be tasks  appointments meetings, a list of everything.

You need to do. But notice here to do, is being  used as an adjective to describe your list. Now,  

I always keep a to-do list and I've tried  using apps and different ways, but for me,  

the most effective is just writing it down  on a piece of paper and notice how this is  

crossed off. So you write your task and then  for me, oh the best part. The best part is cry.

All singing off that task. So when you finish  it you cross it off. I don't know about you. Do  

you keep a to-do list? I love Crossing off those  tasks. Okay, and overflowing we're seeing this,  

again over means more than desirable,  but let's see what the context is and  

overflowing workload. So that's saying your  workload is just too heavy. That's a good.

Good adjectives, because we describe workload.  We don't use the adjective big or small. I have  

a big workload. We don't say that. You could  say, I have a heavy workload. Now first,  

if you don't know, we're glowed is the term  to describe the amount of work you do in a  

day. So heavy means you have many many  tasks to do that day or that week that

Now, the opposite of heavy is I have a light  workload today, so you might tell a colleague. Oh,  

I have a light workload today. So, if  you need any help, let me know. Or if  

your colleague asked you for help? You can say,  oh sorry, I have a really heavy workload today,  

or you can say, oh sorry, I have a long to-do  list. You wouldn't say a heavy to-do list.

You could say, I have a long to-do list. I have  

a long to-do list and this adjectives  makes sense. Right? Because right now,

I only had two items on my to-do list and that  short, but if I have this entire page that would  

be long long, long short, right? Okay, so heavy  workload, light, workload long, to-do list,  

short to-do list. I created a free lesson  PDF that summarizes all the notes from this  

lesson. You can find that in the description  and in the comments section, let's continue

So an overflowing workload. That's just  another way of saying heavy workload  

is not a badge of honor, a badge of honor  is if I was awarded something and I wear it  

with pride, I wear it with pride, but  a lot of people use their to-do list  

as a sense of Pride. Oh, I have  a heavy workload. I must be very

Important that's like a badge of  honor. Something that tells people

that

they should be proud of you, because you  have a long to-do list or a heavy workload,  

but this article is saying it's not a badge of  honor. It's not something to be proud of, and  

it doesn't mean you're productive more often than  not is just a precursor to exhaustion and burnout.

Talk about precursor. This is a noun and  this simply means it happens before. So,  

let me write that definition for you. A  precursor is something that happened or  

existed before another thing. So,  in this case, they're saying that  

you're heavy workload, that existed, and  then it existed before your exhaustion.

So it's saying that's what  caused it. So you can say,  

she is exhausted because of her heavy workload.  

Now notice I just said she is exhausted. And  let's compare that to here, which is exhaustion.  

Exhaustion is the noun form and to be exhausted  with our verb to be. I have she is if it if I

Change the subject to they, it would be,  they are exhausted. So, I'll just change  

it back to. She is exhausted, because she  has a heavy workload. I could say she is

burned

out because she has a heavy workload  as well. So here you could also use  

it as that adjective form. I'm burned  out, I'm she's burned out and burn out,

Is the noun form?

Okay, let's continue on. Go down that list. So  again, remember we're talking about our to do  

list. So if I'm here at the top and I have a task  right here, will I'm going down my to do list,  

that's what I'm doing right now. I'm  going down my to-do list and start asking  

questions. What else can you delegate? So if I  delegate, let's say I have a task right here.

That did nothing. Let me create a task  right here. So if I delegate this,  

it means I am not going to do it. I'm going to  ask someone else, my assistant, A co-worker,  

a colleague. I'm going to delegate it. So  that's when you assign responsibility to  

someone else. You give it to someone else.  In simple terms, let me write that here  

to assign responsibility.  Okay? That's to delegate.

Eight. Now what can you defer to a later date? So  defer, that's another way of saying postponed. So  

let's say I delegate this task. Now this one is  supposed to be do today at 2:00 p.m. but because  

my workload is so heavy because my to-do list  is so long, I can say, well, you know why today  

at 2:00? That's not possible. That's going to  create a lot of stress. So I'm going to defer this

Capone this to two days from now next week so  postpone. You do it at a later date. Now you can  

say defer or postpone interchangeably. Honestly  I hear postponed more commonly but defer is  

common as well. Postpone, so to do at a later  date at a later date that's postpone or defer  

and finally you can delete it entirely.  So delete is when I have a crush.

Task and I just crossed it off. I get rid of it.  I eliminate it. I delete it. Few things in life,  

are truly urgent. So what's your actual level of  accountability release some tasks and reclaim that  

time for yourself? So obviously if I had this  very long to-do list, I delegate some, I delete  

some and I defer other tasks, all of a sudden,  my long to-do list is going to become short.

And I'm going to have all this additional time  that I can spend on myself, which will help me,  

relieve stress, and boost happiness  is what the article is saying,  

Okay, so let's take a look here at our number  two, which is increase your energy. Now, I made  

a note here because increase is in our imperative  and the imperative verb tense is when you just

use the base verb. So right here, if I said  to increase, this is the infinitive. And if I  

get rid of two, well, then I just have increase  and this is the base verb. Now, the imperative  

is used for instructions, directions, orders  and commands. So if I tell you stop talking,  

that's a command an instruction in order  and I'm putting it in the imperative.

Just the base verb, increase your energy.  Let's continue on. Lightening your load. Now,  

this makes sense, right. Lightening your  load to lighten, your load. It makes sense.  

It should at least because we already talked  about the adjective light to describe your  

workload and here load. Well, this is short  for workload. I can shorten it to just load.

Because it's obvious based on context, I already  know, we're talking about workload so it's okay  

to shorten it to Simply load to lighten.  Your load means to reduce your workload, to  

eliminate some of your tasks right now,  lightening. Your load goes a long way toward  

reducing fatigue. Let's talk about this to go. A  long way toward something else. This is a good.

Expression and is simply means to greatly  help. So this lightening your load,  

this greatly helps and then  it greatly helps to do what

to reduce your fatigue. Let me show you an  example. Speaking out loud goes a long way  

toward. This is our expression goes a long  way toward boosting your confidence. So,  

speaking out loud, this could represent.

X greatly

helps and then the

result is y. So X goes a long  way toward greatly helps why.

Now my verb is the verb. Go right now is

conjugated with third person  singular. Because speaking out loud

is represented by the

subject. It it goes a long way,  

if I had more than one thing and I said  those things, well, then that would be the

Subject. They and

I would have to change my verb to go.  So, you have to conjugate your verb,  

I'll just put it back to speaking out loud.

It goes a long way to work.  So that's a great expression.

Reducing fatigue. In fact it  probably it's probably the most

important way to begin  

follow that with small steps, toward your health  and wellness goals, grab that extra 15 minutes of

sleep.

Now, here the verb grab, which is in  our imperative because it's giving  

you it as an instruction, as a command  grab that extra 15 minutes of sleep.

Grab is an informal way of

Of saying have or take. So here  I could say, I'm going to grab

a coffee, we commonly see this. Even at  restaurants, if the person asks you, oh,  

what would you like? And I can say, oh, I'm going  to grab a coffee. I'm going to have a coffee or  

take a coffee. Both of them can be used. Its  informal is not slang but it is informal. Now,  

I gave another example. Can I grab  a pen again, this could be have or

So if your coworker has three pens on her desk  and you need a pen. Oh hey. Can I grab a pen?  

Just a casual way of seeing it. So grab that extra  15 minutes of sleep. Do some food prep now prep.  

This is short for preparation. Preparation food  prep is when you prepare food in advance. So

This is a very common, time-saving activity, let's  say every day for lunch, you have a solid. Well,  

instead of chopping up your vegetables, every day  at lunch will, you could do food prep on Sunday,  

cut up all your vegetables on Sunday and then  throughout the week you can just take your cut  

vegetables and put them in a bowl and have a salad  so that would be food prep, do some food prep that

Sure. So you're feeling your body in healthy ways,  allow yourself a walk around the neighborhood,  

slow down, breathe, and drink your water, you'll  be surprised how all these little changes lead to  

higher energy levels across the board. Now  I highlighted this one, I really like this  

expression across the board. This simply means in  all categories. So as an example I could say we

Increased or I could use boosted because  we already learned that we increase. We  

boosted our sales across the board. So if I have  product a product B product C, well those could  

be the different categories of products. So it's  saying all products increased sales. We increase  

our sales across the board or another example,  more specific to you. I scored a level eight.

Ross, the board. So if you're doing your, I  else, you have a category for speaking for  

writing for grammar. Now, if all those categories  across the board, so that's a great expression,  

okay? Step 3 improve your mindset. Again, this  is in the imperative form, improve your mindset  

mindset also affects energy  levels Optimus tend to get less.

S bogged down by challenges. Alright, first,  let's talk about Optimist. You've probably  

heard the classic question. You take a glass and  then, what do you say? Is this glass half full  

or half empty? You've probably heard  that question before, right? Is this  

glass half-full or half-empty an optimist will  look at this glass and say it's half full.

Because Optimus see the positive in situations.  Now, what's the opposite of an optimist?

The opposite of an optimist is a, pessimist  a pessimist. We'll look at this glass and  

say it's half empty because pessimists see the  negative in situations. So let me summarize that  

here often miss, see the positive in situations  and pessimists. See the negative in situations,  

I'll just add in, as there should  be situations, all situations now I

I see this a lot with my students, I  have a lot of pessimistic students,  

but I will tell you it is always my  Optimist, my optimistic students to  

use the adjective. It's my optimistic students  who see results because they look at getting a  

six out of ten as. Wow, I got six. Correct.  That's amazing. I'm improving a pessimist.

I can't believe I got four wrong. I'm  an idiot. I'm so dumb. I'm never going  

to learn and then they quit because they see  the - but an optimist, they are motivated to  

keep improving because they see the positive.  So that's a little side bonus lesson for you  

on Optimist and pessimist. Okay, now let's talk  about this expression to be bogged down by this.

This is when you're so involved in something  and that something is usually difficult or  

complicated, but you can't do anything else. So  all of your attention is on that one thing. Now,  

in this case, it's negative, because if  you're bogged down by challenges, it means  

you're so focused on that one challenge that  you just, you can't do anything else. So, your

Not effective in other areas. Now, you can get  bogged down or you can simply be bogged down. So,  

remember that get is for the transition from  not bogged down to bog down, and then be is  

to describe your current state. So often is  tend to get less bogged down by challenges,  

which means they generally experience less  stress and can manage it more effectively. When

It's unavoidable. So keep a positive attitude and  surround yourself with people who do the same.  

Now, here is our imperative again, so notice  how the sentence starts with the base verb.  

This is the imperative. It's the base verb  imperative and they're doing that starting  

with the base verb because they're providing a  direction or instruction, they're telling you.

Keep a positive attitude. So that's the  instruction or the direction to you and  

surround yourself with people who do the same.  Now, this is also in the imperative because when  

we have and the verb tenses need to match. So  if this were in the present, continuous then the  

verb tense after and would also be in the present  continuous. So because this is in the imperative.

And is also in the imperative imperative again,  which means it's just the base verb and that was  

the end of the article. So I hope you learned a  lot of new vocabulary, grammar pronunciation and  

you also had three tips to help you reduce your  stress, which is awesome. So, now, what I'll do  

is, I'll read the article from start to finish  and this time, you can focus on my pronunciation.

Three things that relieve  stress and boost your happiness.  

Number one, claim more time for yourself  

fitting. Even one more thing into an already  over packed day can feel like an impossible task.  

But if you're constantly doing for everyone  but yourself, it's time to reclaim space in  

your own life. This means taking a hard look at  your to do list. An overflowing workload is not

Badge of honor and it doesn't mean you  are productive more often than not is  

just a precursor to exhaustion and burnout.  Go down that list and start asking questions,  

what can you delegate to someone else?  What can you defer to a later date,  

and what can you delete entirely few  things in life? Are truly urgent. So  

once your actual level of accountability  release some tasks and reclaim that time,

For yourself number to increase your energy,  

lightening, your load goes a long way toward  reducing fatigue. In fact, is probably the most  

important way to begin. Follow that with small  steps, toward your health and wellness goals.  

Grab that extra 15 minutes of sleep, do some  food prep that ensures. You're fueling your  

body in healthy ways, allow yourself a walk around  the neighborhood, slow down, breathe and drink.

Our water, you'll be surprised how all these  little changes lead to higher energy levels  

across the board. Number three, improve,  your mindset mindset. Also affects energy  

levels Optimus tend to get less bogged down by  challenges, which means they generally experience  

less stress and can manage it more effectively  when it's unavoidable, keep a positive attitude  

and surround yourself with people who do the  same. Are you ready to keep learning you can

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