⚽🏆 Learn English with the News | English Reading Lesson (Advanced English Vocabulary, Grammar)

Today you're going to learn English with  the news. We're going to read a news article  

together and you're going to learn a lot of  advanced grammar, natural vocabulary and even  

pronunciation by reading this article. Welcome  back to JForrestEnglish training. Of course, I'm  

Jennifer and this is your place to become a fluent  confident English speaker. Let's get started.  

Welcome to our article, if you're a football  fan, you'll love this article. And if not,  

that's okay. You'll still love it for all  the advanced English grammar and vocabulary  

you're going to learn. So let's review  our title here the article is titled world  

count 2022 Christiana Ronaldo says row with  Manchester United will not shake Portugal.  

Okay, first of all here Row, row says row  with Manchester United. Now row means fight.  

So row is actually British English.  And this is an article from the BBC  

so it is British English. I speak  American English and we use the word  

fight says fight with Manchester United.  Let me make this a little bit smaller.  

Okay, fight roe is fight. And here of course we  have Cristiano Ronaldo. United are exploring their  

legal options as they look to en Ronaldo was time  at the club following his critical interview with  

talk TV. Now when I first saw this, I thought this  was quite odd because look at our subject united.  

I'm not a football fan, but I know just from  context that United is the name of the team. I  

hope that's correct. Manchester United so united  is the name of the team that Ronaldo plays for.  

So why if this is united, there is no  s on it. Why are we using the verb R  

because we know that r is conjugated with  we are, they are or the subject you are.  

You we are they are, but we know that  is our subject is would be he she it is  

for our verb TO BE conjugation. So if United is  singular and would represent it as a subject,  

why is it conjugated as they and the verb to be  is are the best? My best guess is because they're  

referring to United maybe managers United managers  are exploring United coaches are exploring United  

leaders I'm not sure who else would be on the  team, what the language they would use but that  

is the only explanation I can give you for why  it has our bid the needs to be something plural  

here United managers are exploring their legal  options. Because notice here as they they make  

sense because we know our subject is You we they  because we have the verb to be. So this subject  

united, it's the same here as they so I guess  you can think of it as United managers are.  

All right, Ronaldo, 37 said he felt betrayed by  the club. He stated he had no respect for manager  

Erik ten Hag. Okay. He felt betrayed to feel  betrayed. Notice how the word betray is being used  

as an adjective. And we commonly use the verbs are  or feel when we have an adjective that follows it.  

And I pointing this out because we can use  the tray as a verb. So this is also a verb.  

You could say, Eric betrayed Ronaldo. I'm just  using his last name here, Ronaldo. Eric betrayed  

Ronaldo. So this is our verb to betray. And  it's just conjugated in the past simple.  

So this is the past symbol. I could say Eric  always betrays Ronaldo. And this is of course,  

our present simple. So it's our verb betray  and we can use it in different time references.  

I could also put this in the passive voice, which  is quite common when we have the verb betray.  

And we can say, Ronaldo, do you know what the  passive would be? Ronaldo was betrayed by Eric  

Now of course in the passive you don't have to  include by and the person that's optional. So you  

could just say Ronaldo was betrayed, Ronaldo  was betrayed, and this is the passive voice.  

So here he felt betrayed. Betrayed is  our adjective describing his feeling.  

In my life, the best timing is always  my timing, Ronaldo said on Monday,  

now pay attention when you're reading something  because whenever we have quotations, you know that  

someone is talking directly so these are  the exact words that Ronaldo said. And  

you know that because you see them in these  are called quotation marks quotation marks.  

Quotation marks and we use the  word quotation marks, we also say.  

You could say for some, for example, Ronaldo  was quoted as saying, and then it would say in  

my life, so notice the word quoted that comes from  quotation marks. And then of course this continues  

and sometimes when celebrities or  leaders are doing business interviews,  

or any interview a sports interview, they'll  ask for a quote, can you give us a quote,  

on your opinion, and then they'll share their  quotes and it will appear in quotation marks  

making a surprise appearance at a news  conference, the Portugal captain said again,  

our quotation marks. I don't have to think  about what other people think. I speak when  

I want. The players know me really well for  many years, and know the type of person I am.  

Now notice this is in a quotation. So this is what  Ronaldo said word for word. Because he said for  

many years, if I were to rewrite this, I would use  a different verb tense in this specific sentence.  

The players know me really well. That was possible  when he was speaking. He just said the players  

know me really well. And then he paused and he  added on for many years and is common in spoken  

English. So the sentence structure might not  match because you add something on that could  

change the verb tense, because for many years  does not go with the present simple. They're  

not compatible. When you see or many years. Do  you know what verb tense we need. We need an  

action that started in the past and continues  on till now and will continue into the future.  

That's the present perfect, so instead of No, it  would be better if Ronaldo had said the players.  

The players have known me  have known me for many years.  

The players have known me This is our present  perfect have known for our present perfect we need  

has or have as the auxiliary and we use  have for you we and they. We need our verb  

in the past simple. So or our third form  our third form of the verb the participle  

the past participle third form. The players have  known me for many years. Now you could also say  

since the players have known me since 2005,  so you can give us specific time reference.  

And you sense the players have known me  since 2005. Since I was 21, for example.  

Let's move on. It's an ambitious group that is  hungry and focused. So I'm sure it won't shake  

the changing rooms concentration and focus. Now  notice this is a quote so this is Ronaldo talking.  

This I want you to notice, sometimes in  written English, especially in the news,  

you might see something in square brackets. in  square brackets. This is additional information  

to provide context because right now, so I'm sure  it what's the it we don't know it's not clear,  

because this is a quote. So that it could have  been talked about before. But we're only hearing  

this one section of the conversation. So it's  not clear to us what it is, and it's not easy  

to understand it. So whoever wrote the article  The author of this article is giving us the  

information we need in square brackets, and it's  in square brackets to let me know that Ronaldo did  

not see this. It's only to provide context. So I'm  sure it it being the interview that he gave. This  

whole article is about an interview that he gave.  I'm sure it the interview. I'm sure that interview  

won't shake the changing rooms concentration  and focus notice this, it won't shake to shake.  

This is an idiom, because it's being used in a  specific context right now. I could I just have my  

phone here. I could shake my phone to shake. Why  would I do that? Now let's say you have a juice,  

you might shake your juice before you drink it. So  there are many things you probably shake and this  

is the motion of shaking. That doesn't make sense  in this context, right? So when a verb the literal  

meaning of the verb doesn't make any sense.  It's because it's idiomatic which means it has  

an alternative meaning a non literal meaning.  So that is something shakes something. Okay,  

so in this case, it's the interview. I'm putting  it in the past simple, shook, I shook my drink.  

The action is completed. I just shook my drink.  The interview shook the world for example,  

what does that mean? The interview shook the  world. When something shakes something something  

the interview shook something the world it means  to cause a disturbance to cause a disturbance.  

You can think of it as in a way to  interrupt so the players were were  

playing, they were practicing and then Ronaldo did  this interview, and it disturbed them in some way.  

It impacted them. It affected them. It interrupted  what they were doing. So there are different ways  

you can think of it disturb is probably the  easiest one you can think of a cause to cause  

a disturbance so to disturb I'll just make it  short to disturb to interrupt to affect even  

so the interview disturbed  them. affected them in some way.  

Five Time belong d'Or winner Ronaldo will  the Portugal into their opening group ah  

game against ona on Thursday. So here they're  just giving some background on who Ronaldo is.  

I don't think there's much  here. We need to discuss.  

He has just over seven months  remaining on his 500,000  

Euro a week contract at Old Trafford, but united  could terminate the forwards contract which would  

leave him free to sign for another club when  the transfer window opens in January. Okay  

he has just over. Now over in this case means  more than more than so we could be 7.5 months.  

It could be eight months. It could be nine months.  That's over seven months but when I add the word  

just now I know it's a small amount. So it's not  nine months is not 8.5 Because that's not just  

just would be 7.1 7.2 7.3 Maybe 7.5 would be  just so a small amount. So just a small amount  

more I would say a small amount more.  And then over is more than so remember.  

They could just say they could only say over  he has over seven months. But then it's not  

clear because 24 months is over seven months.  So it's a very wide timeframe. But if I add  

just over I know it's a small amount more.  But you have to include the over as well.  

You can't say just seven months remaining just  over seven months remaining. Let's continue on.  

All right. He has not played because of an  unspecified illness since he kept in united  

in their three to one defeat. at Aston Villa on  Sixth November. But he says he feels in shape  

for what will be his Fifth World Cup. His fifth  world cup that is very impressive. Notice here  

since and then we have a specific time reference.  Now it's not clear that it's a specific time  

reference because it just says since he kept in  the game, but he kept in the game on a specific  

date. So that could have been for example, I have  no idea what it was. But let's just say it was May  

23. Okay, so that is since May 23. It's a specific  time don't worry about this he kept in the game is  

just because Ronaldo is the captain of the team.  So this is very much a sports specific word. Just  

if you're confused about seeing Captain as a verb  in the past form, just ignore that it's a sports  

reference because he's the captain of the team.  Going back to sense a specific date. Now, let's  

go back to our verb tense. You can always find  the verb tense at the beginning of the sentence,  

and it will be after the subject because we  have subject verb than object the rest of the  

sentence. So here is our verb tense. And what do  you notice? It's in the present perfect because we  

have since and that goes back to the change I made  to Ronaldo was quote previously. Now notice here  

of course we have has because he has, if it was we  it would be we have not played we have not played  

you have not played they have not played you  we they and notice where we put our negative.  

Now in written English especially in the  media, they tend to avoid contractions,  

because it's more formal to say have not but if I  wanted to turn this into a contraction, which is  

very common in many forms of written English,  you can of course say he hasn't. He hasn't.  

He hasn't played, but generally the media  tends to avoid contractions. And academic  

English. Definitely avoid contractions. But  if you're writing something for an everyday  

English purpose, such as an email at work,  then you can use the contracted form that  

would be my recommendation if you're ever in  doubt, then just use the full non contracted  

form because it will sound proper and correct  in any situation. Let's continue on. I wanted  

to discuss this he feels in shape. He feels  in shape. Now this is a great expression.  

Here it's being used with the verb feel which  you can do. I would say it's more commonly used  

with the verb to be to be in shape. I see more  commonly because B describes your current state.  

I am tired. It describes how I feel how I am  right now. But we commonly like I just did we  

commonly use the verb feel to replace the verb to  be okay. So you can say feel to be or to feel in  

shape. I am tired. I feel tired to be in shape. Is  to describe yourself in good physical condition,  

good physical condition. And of course Ronaldo  as an athlete is in shape. So good physical  

condition. Now the opposite is I'll put it down  here for you to be out of shape. So notice in  

good physical condition out bad physical  condition to be out of shape. So this is bad  

physical condition. So you could say for example,  I go to the gym five times a week. I'm in great  

shape. You can simply say, I'm in sheet, that's  fine. But we if you don't have an adjective,  

I would probably just say represents good I'm in  shape. I'm in good physical condition. Well what  

if you want to say I'm in great shape? Great,  obviously is better than good. I'm in amazing  

shape. I'm in excellent shape. So we commonly add  an adjective. The same is true for the opposite  

out of shape. So let me give you an example  there as well. Okay, I haven't gone to the gym  

since last year, notice I'm using the present  perfect because my time reference started in  

the past and continues until now. And this is a  negative. I haven't gone to the gym since last  

year. I'm in a terrible shape. So I took my in  shape, but I gave it a negative adjective. You  

can absolutely do that. I'm in terrible shape.  I'm in awful shape. I'm in the worst shape. Okay,  

but you can also use out of shape. So you  can say I'm out of shape. So remember here.  

You can add an adjective and then if your  adjective is negative, it's obviously going  

to change the definition from good to whatever  the adjective is terrible. Shape, awful shape,  

horrible shape. I feel that this Portugal swan has  amazing potential. I think we can win for sure.  

But we need to focus on the next game. So it's  focusing on gonna get a win and go from there.  

But we'll see in the end who the best team  is. But I believe Portugal is the best team  

in this World Cup. But we need to show it on  the pitch. Now obviously because this was in  

quotes this was Ronaldo talking. And he according  to him, this is what he said he believes Portugal  

is the best team in the World Cup. So do you  agree with that? Do you think Portugal is the  

best team in the World Cup? You can leave your  answer in the comments below. And I hope you  

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