2 HOUR ENGLISH LESSON - Learn English with the NEWS And Improve Your Fluency

Welcome to JForrest English training. I'm Jennifer and today you're going to learn English

through stories.

We're going to review a four different news articles. And through this review, you're

going to learn a lot of advanced vocabulary, advanced Grammar and even correct pronunciation.

Let's get started.

you might recognize this man, he's an actor, and he was in The Avengers movies. So let's

read the headline, Jeremy Renner Avengers actor out of surgery but still in critical

condition. So unfortunately, I know that something happened to this actor and something terrible

happened. And I know that because he is still in critical condition and critical condition.

This means life threatening condition, life threatening conditions, so he is still severely

at risk. So life threatening condition, you might even just refer to it as severe condition.

In a medical context severe would be really bad if someone described your injuries as

severe. It means threatening, life threatening. Okay, and out of surgery, you go into surgery,

that's when you start your surgery, and then you get out of surgery, that's when you end

your surgery. So there's just another way of saying start and finish or start and end.

So this is surgery is over, finished, however you want to think of it over finished out

of surgery. So maybe if you know someone who's going in to surgery, I'll just write that

to go into surgery. This is when you start your surgery the operation begins. So you

might ask someone, when are you going in? For your let's say it's a I'll just say operation

operation is a type of surgery. I could say shoulder surgery, as well. When are you going

in for and then just your surgery, you could put the type of surgery or you could say when

are you going into surgery? Either one would be fine. This one is when you know this specific

type of surgery. When are you going in for your knee surgery, for example, if you knew

the specific type of surgery, and then this is just general, you don't know what type

of surgery they're getting. And then the opposite would be when did he get out of surgery? So

this is asking when did it finish? So very specific to surgery, but it will help you

understand this article at least. Okay, let's continue on. renter's suffered blunt chest

trauma and orthopedic injuries and is still in intensive care. So remember, well critical,

if you're in critical condition, the area of the hospital you would go into is intensive

care. And generally this is referred to as ICU. This is the acronym. The U stands for

unit intensive care unit. So if you hear for example, that Renner This is the last name

of the actor, Renner is still in ICU. That's bad because he's in intensive care. And you

only go into intensive care if you are in critical condition, which means you have some

sort of life threatening or severe injury or illness. All right. Let's continue on here.

He was airlifted to hospital on Sunday after an accident while clearing snow outside his

home in Nevada. Now this is very surprising because to me snow and Nevada do not go hand

in hand because Nevada is the desert. It is very hot in Nevada. So the fact he was clearing

snow just really surprises me to be airlifted, this is basically when you're rescued by either

an airplane or a helicopter, some sort of aircraft, it doesn't matter which one. So

you've seen this in movies, most likely documentaries, the news, there might be a fire of a burning

building or something, and you can't go in it. So a helicopter or a plane has to come

and they dropped someone from above and then pick that person up and then take that person

because it's either the safest way or the fastest way to rescue that person. So maybe

because there was so much snow, that regular ambulances it would have taken way too long.

The roads were completely blocked by snow. So they had to use either a helicopter or

airplane. That's what I would guess, to be airlifted This means to be rescued by an air

craft, which is just an airplane or helicopter. I can't think of any other aircrafts are there

just the two? I think so. Airplane helicopter. Okay aircraft a craft in this case is just

a vehicle but we don't call them vehicles in the air you would call it an aircraft and

these are the two types of aircrafts just like different types of vehicles you have

a car a van or SUV or a truck for example. Those are the different types of vehicles.

So if you know a different type of aircraft, let me know because I personally only know

these two. Okay. He was airlifted to hospital on Sunday after an accident while clearing

snow in this case. Clear snow simply means to remove snow remove snow. Remove snow so

clear is another way of saying that while okay but it is removed but let me put it in

the correct verb tense because you notice that we have a gerund here. Now why do we

have a gerund? This is a great grammar point. Because of the verb while so you could say

while clearing not cleaning you don't clean snow. You clear it while clearing snow. He

got into an accident while clearing snow. He got into an accident. Okay? So you need

a gerund verb after a while and this means the action was in progress clearing snow shoveling

and clearing snow and then something happened as that action was in progress that's what

while represents the sentence structure is flexible because I could say he got into an

accident while clearing I don't know why I keep saying cleaning you would do not clean

snow. That's weird. You clean clear snow while clearing snow. I would say this is the more

common sentence structure having your action your subject verb your action and then using

while to show the the other action by you can absolutely reverse them. It's just what

do you want to emphasize? This one emphasizes the clearing snow because it comes first and

this one more emphasizes the accident. So either one is correct. So just remember while

plus gerund verb.

Okay, while clearing snow outside his home in Nevada. I think that's good. So this is

the cause of the accident. Something happened while he was clearing snow. Let's find out.

The US has been battered by snow storms killing dozens of people. Now you might not know what

this verb To bad or means, but I hope just by the context of this one, you can understand

the emotion is it a positive or a negative, and then well, it's negative, right? killing

dozens of people, this isn't a positive thing. So battered by snowstorm. So in this context,

even if you don't understand what the verb means try to understand the emotion of it.

And it will least help you understand the overall meaning. When you're battered by something,

it means that something happens very suddenly very quickly or in large quantity, and you

weren't expecting it. So the US had a lot of snow, it happened very quickly and very

suddenly. Now, maybe they also weren't expecting it, it's winter. So Snow is likely, but maybe

not the amount of snow or the location of the snow. Remember, I said Nevada is very

hot, it's the desert. So it was quite surprising that they would have snow. So to be battered

by notice this is with the verb be, which is just conjugated in our present perfect

to be battered by that's because it is in the passive form to be battered by. And then

in this case, it's something the snowstorm now is in the positive form, because we're

not focusing on the subject doing the action, we're focusing on the object receiving the

action, the US people, the country receiving the snow storm, okay? To be battered by something

that's in the passive. Another verb that's very common has is the verb hit to hit. So

the US has been hit by snowstorms. Exact same meaning I would say hit is more common. Honestly,

I don't hear batter too much. You can use both of these specifically with weather. And

it's when it happens suddenly, which means quickly, or you can think of it in large quantity

as well large amount of snow.

So just to show you a different example, we were hit by a tornado last year, so of course

a tornado does happen suddenly and quickly. But then there could also be that unexpected

quality, large quantity. And I'll also add unexpected, unexpected and again, this is

in the passive because I'm focusing on receiving the action, not the subject doing the action.

Jeremy's family would like to express their gratitude to the incredible doctors and nurses

looking after him publicists, Miss mast said in a statement. All right. So I like this

because you can express an emotion. So to express an emotion and in this case, the emotion

is gratitude. We use this a lot with gratitude, appreciation, you can also use it with love.

I bought you this present to express my love for you. I wrote you this song to express

my love you. That's basically what a lot of people do in their music in their songs, they

express an emotion. So it's just another way of saying to share and emotion. So write down

that example I just gave. I wrote you this song to express my love. So you might say

this is more formal. Now in perhaps a formal speech or presentation or even a staff meeting,

your boss might say I'd like to Take a moment to express our appreciation for all your hard

work. So this is a boss or a manager, a leader saying this to the staff to the employees,

I'd like to take a moment to express and then here is the emotion, our a priest appreciation,

and then appreciation for because you appreciate for something for all your hard work. Now,

although gratitude means thinks it's the same thing, I don't really hear express my thanks

for the incredible doctors. So this means Thanks, bye, we use the word gratitude. So

I encourage you to use the word gratitude. So if you want to express your gratitude to

me, in the comment section for this video, you can do that and say, you can copy this

sentence structure, I'd like to express my gratitude. So notice one's gratitude, my gratitude,

their gratitude, because it's Jeremy's family, their gratitude. In this case, it was our

because it's the boss and all the managers the company as a whole hour. So remember ones

gratitude, I like to express my gratitude for your amazing lessons. And then you can

say thank you so much. So even though this technically means thank you, you can still

add on a thank you. Because remember, you don't say I'd like to express my thanks for

I mean, you can but I hear it way more with gratitude. Now, look at the sentence structure,

I should say this, because notice, it's gratitude. And then the preposition to, but I wrote gratitude

for, do you know why I used a different preposition is gratitude to some one. And it's for something.

Okay, so let me write that out. too. So I'll put express any emotion to someone for something,

and you can use one or the other or both. So I could add, I would like to take a moment

to express our appreciation to someone to all of you, and now four, and then something,

all your hard work, okay? So one or the other, or both. You don't have to use both. So practice

that in the comments, express your gratitude. It doesn't have to be to me, although I would

appreciate it. It could be for anything or to anyone. Let's continue on. The family also

thanked the local police and fire services and said they were tremendously overwhelmed

and appreciative of the outpouring of love and support from his Penn fans, from his fans.

So I can say instead, the family also thanked the local police, I could say the family also

expressed their gratitude to two because it's someone the local police, so you could say

that as well. Tremendously. This is a nice adverb here. It's a more formal way, or a

stronger way. I wouldn't say formal, I take that back, not formal, it's a stronger way

of saying, really, so really is like here, I was really overwhelmed, really being the

amount of overwhelm. So I'll show the amount of overwhelm is like this with really, but

tremendously, it's more more overwhelmed. So it's not that it's more formal, I take

that back. It's that the amount is more so it's stronger than really, I would say it's

like really, really, is tremendously tremendously. So this is an advanced advert verb to add

to your speech okay adverb tremendously. Another one you could add is incredibly, incredibly.

They were incredibly overwhelmed, I would say the amount of incredibly and tremendously

is the same, but then really would be smaller, incredibly overwhelmed, tremendously overwhelmed

and appreciative of the outpouring of love. So outpouring is just the emotion. The love

is inside of me. And now I'm getting it out of me. So I'm just showing my love and when

it's pouring, it sounds like it's coming quickly. So the amount of love and support from the

fans came very quickly. That's what I would say. outpouring is outpouring. The amount

of love support came quickly. And large quantity is well, that's for outpouring. So I added

a large quantity, because it sounds like the amount of it was, was a lot, outpouring. I

don't think it's that common to add to your vocabulary, to be honest, but just to help

you understand what it means. So you can read this article without being like, what does

this mean? I'm so confused. Okay, let's continue on. Before the accident, Renner was reportedly

clearing a road outside his home in Reno, Nevada, using his personal Snowplow, so his

family could get out after a heavy storm. Okay, again, you can clear a road. So in this

case, we're talking about snow. But it could be for other things. So you could clear a

road of any objects on that road. So let's say there was a lot of garbage after a parade

or a festival. And then some people came to clear the road it would be to remove whatever

objects are on the road, but in this case, they're clearing it of snow, which means to

remove it. So in this case, clear just means remove the snow, I'll write that remove snow.

Now they use reportedly to express that this is what we think happened, but we are not

100%. Sure. So journalists use this a lot because if they state something as a fact,

and then it turns out it wasn't true. They could get in a lot of trouble. So they are

the word reportedly as a way to let you know. We are not 100% Sure. So you will see this

a lot in the media was reportedly clearing so reportedly to say that something is likely

to be true. They have maybe a witness a family member of friends said Yeah, I saw him clearing

the snow, but not 100% Certain. So we use this outside of the media you might say the

company is reportedly closing their branch in Reno. Reno is the location where this happens.

That's why I'm using it. So the company is reportedly closing a branch in Reno. Now if

I did not have this word, reportedly, the company is closing their branch in Reno. This

sounds like a fact. So a fact is 100% true. It's happening. If I add the company is the

company is rigged. reportedly closing their branch in Reno. This is now maybe it goes

from a fact to a maybe or a possibility, because I think it's going to happen. I heard from

other people I saw it in an email. But there's still some doubt. So probably you'll use this

more in a business context and you will see it a lot in a in the media in the news. All

right. Let's continue on. The 51 year old was the only person involved in the incident,

the Washoe County Sheriff's Office said, adding that it was being investigated. All right,

I think that's pretty clear incident here is just another way of saying accident. The

incident, the accident. Let's continue on. UI celebrity news site. TMZ reported that

Renner was aided by neighbors at the scene, one of whom was a doctor. All right, so one

of his neighbors was a doctor and the doctor helped him so was aided by was helped by now

notice the sentence structure. What do you notice about this? Renner was aided by neighbors.

This is again in the passive form. The passive is incredibly common in the news and the media,

because a lot of times they want to focus on the person receiving something receiving

an action receiving something specific and the person doing the action the subject is

not as important This article is about Renner this article is not about the neighbor's.

So by putting it in the passive form, it keeps the focus on Renner. So if I had this in an

active form, what would it be? What do you think? So put that in the comments. If you'd

like to practice you can pause the video now put in the comments. The active form is the

neighbors helped or aided? renter so this is in the past simple, helped or aided, the

neighbor has helped the neighbors aided runner to be honest, I would say Help is definitely

way more common. So just understand what to aid someone means but I would still for my

own vocabulary, I would use the verb help. The scene I think you understand what this

means just from movies plays but the scene is where something happens. So in this event,

the scene was Rayner's driveway or the road outside of his house because that's where

he was clearing the snow with the snow plow. I didn't define it. And if you live in a tropical

climate, you probably don't know what a snow plow is. For me since I live in a cold climate,

it's obvious plow. Notice the pronunciation plow plow snow plow. This is a machine that

removes snow so instead of doing it with a shovel, that's what we call the object to

remove to clear snow a shovel, you use a machine and the machine clears removes the snow. So

a machine to remove snow. Now there are large snow plows that you drive and it removes the

snow but there are also for for individual homes. You can buy a snow plow that you push

and so you're not driving it you just push it and it removes the snow so it could be

a big machine that you drive or it could be something that you you push All right, where

were we? We were talking about oh, yes, this scene. The scene is where he was clearing

the snow with his snow plow, which is the machine to remove snow. All right. Let's continue

on. A day after the accident, news emerged that rally driving champion Ken Block was

killed when his snowmobile flipped at his ranch in Utah. Oh, so another accident involving

the snow. Remember, I said up here that incident means accident? Well, I could say a day after

the incident because that's what they originally used. And now they're changing it to accident,

but it doesn't matter because in this context, it has the exact same meaning. Incident a

day after the incident, news emerged that this car driver was killed. Okay, a snowmobile.

Again, if you live in a hot climate or tropical climate, you might not know what this is a

snowmobile. They're actually really fun. They can be dangerous, unfortunately. So let me

show you a picture of a snowmobile. So here we are on Google images. So this is a snowmobile.

It's a vehicle that you drive on the snow. It's really fun. I had one when I was a kid.

But I haven't gone snowmobiling in years. I don't know. It can also be a little bit

dangerous, to be honest. But it is very fun. Have you ever been snowmobiling. So now you

know what a snowmobile is. And I said they can be very dangerous. And that's because

they can flip. So the verb flip, right? You might flip a pancake when you're cooking or

flip your eggs while cooking, for example, but if you're driving, you can flip. So that's

when the snowmobile will either go on the side, or it could go entirely over. Now, of

course, it's not just snowmobiles, it could be a motorcycle, a car can flip a boat, something

on water can flip as well.

So let's continue on. 1000s of homes experience power cuts and travel was severely disrupted.

So a power cut is when the power stops working, the power stops working and power is electricity

stops working so that's what it means. Now, let me share a very useful expression for

you. My power went out because of the storm. Okay, so here, once power to go out to go

out, so when your power goes out, it means you don't have electricity, your electricity

stops working. So it's the exact same thing. Electricity stopped working my power went

out because of the storm. So let's say there's a lot of snow, a lot of rain, a lot of wind,

whatever it might be in your in your location, you might say I hope my power doesn't go out.

While I'm presenting while I'm presenting while remember, you can just use the gerund

verb while presenting. We talked about while before so you're presenting there's a lot

of snow a lot of rain, a lot of winds. I hope my power doesn't go out. So that means I hope

my electricity doesn't stop working. But no native speaker would say my electricity stopped

working. That's a literal translation. We would say my power went out. So that's a very

useful one because it happens to everyone. Your power goes out from time to time, right.

So when was the last time your power went out? Share it in the comments just to practice

that expression to time Oscar nominee Renner is best known for his role as Clint Barton

Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring in several Avengers films and in

the spin off television series Hawkeye okay. So Renner, they're just giving some background

information on Renner just to let you know who he is his accomplishments. If you didn't

know you're probably wondering what a spin off is. A spin off television series. A spin

off is when you have a movie like The Avengers, and then they take one part of that movie,

and they take it out and they create an entire movie. Or show TV show from that one part

of that movie. So that's a spin off. So for example, right now, I heard I saw and on Netflix

or something like that, that they're creating or they have created I think it already exists.

I'll say they have created a spin off television series called I think it's called Wednesday.

Called Wednesday, and the spin off is that Wednesday. This is the name of a person Wednesday

was a character in the movie The Addams Family so they took that whole movie The Addams Family,

they took one piece of that movie the character Wednesday they took it and they created an

entire television show series from that one part of the movie. So that is called a spin

off Have you heard of this series Wednesday? Have you seen it? Have you seen the movie

Addams Family? So that is what a spin off if some people really like spin offs because

they get to keep watching is like you're still watching the Avengers. A lot of people don't

like spin offs because it's not the same as the movie. So I don't know. What about you?

Do you like spin off? You can share that in the comments as well just to practice your

new vocabulary. All right, so that is the end of the article. I hope you learned lots

from this article and found it very interesting. What I will do now is I will read the article

from start to finish so you can focus on my pronunciation and you can practice along with

my pronunciation. So let's do that now. Jeremy Renner adventures actor out of surgery but

still in critical condition. Runner suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries

and is still in intensive care surmount the man said in a statement to US media on Monday

night. He was airlifted to hospital on Sunday after an accident while clearing snow outside

his home in Nevada. The US has been battered by snow storms killing dozens of people. Jeremy's

family would like to express their gratitude to the incredible doctors and nurses looking

after him, publicists Ms. Mast said in a statement. The family also thanked the local police and

fire services and said they were tremendously overwhelmed and appreciative of the outpouring

of love and support from his fans before the accident Runner was reportedly clearing a

road outside his home in Reno, Nevada, using his personal snowplow so his family could

get out after a heavy storm. The 51 year old was the only person involved in the incident.

The Washoe County Sheriff's Office said adding that it was being investigated. USA Liberty

news site TMZ reported that Renner was aided by neighbors at the scene, one of whom was

a doctor. The day after the accident news emerged that rally driving champion Ken Block

was killed when a snowmobile flipped out his ranch in Utah. 1000s of homes experienced

power cuts and travel was severely disrupted. Two time Oscar nominee Renner is best known

for his role as Clint Barton Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring in several

Avengers films and in the spin off television series Hawkeye

Amazing job with that article. Now feel free to hit pause, take a break, go get a cup of

coffee or tea. Review the vocabulary you just learned. And when you're ready, hit play and

we'll continue on with the next article.

As you can see, we're talking about Britney Spears. Personally, I don't really like celebrity

gossip too much, but I do like Britney Spears and you are going to learn a lot in this lesson.

So let me start with our title. Sam Asghari responds to rumors he's controlling Britney

Spears, social media. So this of course is sound Ascari and hopefully needs no introduction.

Britney Spears. Let's continue on. Sam Asghari is addressing whether he's overstepping when

it comes to his wife, Britney Spears. All right, let's look here. Of course you know

what an address is right. If someone asked you, what's your address? What's the company's

address? You know what that is? But this is not the same, right? Because address What's

your address? That's a noun and this here is a verb, a verb and I know it's a verb because

one is conjugated. It's in the continuous form and here's my verb to be in the present

continuous. So this is the verb to address to address. And this means to give attention

to or to deal with a matter or problem. So in this case, you can think Sam Askari has

a problem. The problem is, other people are saying that he's controlling Britney Spears.

That's the problem. So he's going to address that he's going to deal with it. He's going

to give it attention. Now this is a very useful for in a business context and in an everyday

context, as well. In a business context, you might say, let's schedule a meeting to address

why our sales are falling. So this is your problem. Sales are fine. It doesn't necessarily

have to be a problem that you address a generally it's some sort of situation that needs attention.

And most of the time if a situation is positive, it doesn't really need attention. So just

naturally we use this to address in a more problem based situation. So this is the problem

sales are falling, and we simply need to discuss it we need to deal with it. We need to give

attention to it. So let's schedule a meeting to address why our sales are falling. Or perhaps

you're giving a summary of a meeting or a conference you attended and you can say the

conference address addressed marketing trends for 2023. So in this case, it isn't necessarily

a problem. They're just talking about the overall subject that the conference was giving

attention to marketing trends for 2023. The conference addressed so in this case, it isn't

a problem base, so it is absolutely possible. But you'll see more and problem based situations

and of course addresses a verb so you have to conjugate it here. I have it in the past

simple. Okay, so Sam Asghari is addressing whether he is overstepping to overstep. This

is very useful when you overstaffed. It means you involve yourself in matters that you shouldn't.

So in this case, Sam as Gauri, why would he decide what Britney Spears posts on her social

media is her social media right? So he is involving himself in a situation that he has

no right to involve himself in, that is over stepping. So we see this again a lot in a

business situation. For example, I know I'm only a junior employee, and I don't want to

overstep, but I have a suggestion about how we can improve our sales. So let's say you're

in this meeting, you're a junior employee, you should only really be listening taking

notes and the executives or the more senior people are discussing this sales issue. And

then but you have an idea, but you might be involving yourself when you have no right

to based on your position within the company. So you can see that a lot when there's some

sort of a hierarchy. And perhaps people in the lower part of the hierarchy should not

be involving themselves, and if they do, we could use the verb overstep but remember,

there's a hierarchy in families, there's a hierarchy, even in friendships. So you can

use this in everyday situations as well. So here's the definition for you to involve yourself

when you have no right to you shouldn't I'll give you one other example because we do commonly

see this for example with the police or government. They have power and authority, right, but

there's certain things they should and shouldn't do, right? So maybe someone might say the

police overstepped when they searched the residence without a warrant. A warrant in

North America is a legal document that gives the police the authority to search someone's

personal property. So if they don't have that warrant, they are overstepping. So that's

another example for you. Okay. So Sam Asghari is dealing with addressing whether he is over

stepping when it comes to his wife Britney Spears, when it comes to this is good as well.

This is another way of saying regarding regarding we use them a lot at the beginning of a sentence.

So that's how I'll show you how to use it because I think this will help you sound quite

advanced, you might say when it comes to our sales strategy, just because we've been talking

about sales and my other examples when it comes to our sales strategy. We need to involve

the marketing department. Okay. When it comes to our sales strategy, so this is how I can

introduce what topic I'm going to be talking about. Remember, it's the same as saying regarding

regarding our sales strategy, so it's exactly the same. It seems a little bit longer, which

it is, but it is a very nice expression. It's a very advanced expression it will sound very

natural so you can use it at the beginning when you want to state the topic. And then

you can state your opinion. You might say, for example, we use this a lot with opinions.

So you might say when it comes to social media, I prefer you to so you're stating your opinion

and what's your opinion on the topic is social media and you're using when it comes to to

identify that topic when it comes to All right. Let's continue on. The fitness trainer 28

This is his age he is 28 the fitness trainer 20 A touched on speculation that he's controlling

what the Grammy Award winner 41 This is of course Britney Spears. She's the Grammy Award

winner. What the Grammy Award winner 41 posts on Instagram after she previously admitted

that her social spots were alive. During her 13 year conservatorship as she accused father

Jamie Spears of controlling much of her life. Basically what this is saying is previously

Britney Spears father Jamie Spears was controlling her social media and Britney Spears admitted

that a lot of her posts were actually not written by her. So it's easy to think that

maybe now her husband is doing the same thing that her father did. Let's take a look at

this. This is a very useful phrasal verb the phrasal verb is to touch on. When you touch

on a topic a situation. It means you talk about it briefly briefly means for a short

period of time. And this is a phrasal verb to touch on something to touch on something

there's something being the topic. So let's say you're in a meeting and there's only 10

minutes left in you want to talk about the sales strategy, but it's a big topic. You

can talk about it in 10 minutes. You might say something like let's quickly touch on

the sales strategy. Before we wrap up, wrap up this is a phrasal verb as well and this

is the most natural way to say before we end the meeting, you can say and the meeting but

that's really more of a literal translation. Native speakers don't really say let's end

the meeting. Well, we do but we more commonly say let's wrap up. Let's wrap up. That's the

natural way to say and a meeting. Let's wrap up so that's what that means before we end

the meeting before we wrap up. So let's quickly touch on. So let's just talk about it briefly.

I'm not going to talk about everything. I'm just going to talk about a few areas. So you

can do that when you have a big topic and you only want to talk about it a little bit.

So that's a very useful phrasal verb. Now you may be wondering what speculation is touched

on speculation speculation is a noun, but we also have it as a verb which is to speculate

so this is the noun form. The verb form is to speculate. When you speculate, you guess

possible answers to a question, but you don't actually have all the information to be certain.

So let's say that there's a problem at work. And I have some information, I might say if

I had to speculate, I'd say that and then I would guess the cause of the problem. So

when we use to speculate if I had to speculate, we're letting the person know this is just

what I think happened. But I'm not 100% Sure. So here using it as a noun is talking about

speculation. It's his guess it's his guess about what happened. So the fitness trainer

touched on speculation that he's controlling. So notice the speculation is about him. So

other people are guessing that he's controlling but they don't actually know. So it's saying

that they don't have evidence that her husband, Sam Asghari is controlling her they're just

speculating, they're just speculating. So that's what how we use it. I might say, I

think Jane wrote the report, but I'm just speculating. So I'm letting you know that

I have some evidence to support that, but I'm not 100% Sure. Another sentence structure

is if I had to speculate, I'd say I would say that Jane wrote the report is another

way of saying if I had to guess, if I had to guess so really, it's a fancy way of saying

guess what it's very common and get comfortable with it in the noun form, and the verb form

because we use it in both. All right, let's continue on. Okay, now, this is quotation

mark. So somebody is saying this, and this is what Sam Asghari her husband said. He said,

I don't even control what we have for dinner, Asghari recently joked to photographers, according

to Just Jared, Just Jared, this must be some sort of online magazine or maybe it's a social

media channel. I don't know what it is. But it's the name of some sort of company or publication.

Now, this is a joke. A joke is of course funny haha. And it's funny because he's saying,

How can I control her social media? I can't even control what she eats for dinner. So

he's making a joke out of it, which is actually kind of funny. I laughed a little at least.

All right. In the past, there has been a lot of stuff going on. So I understand where some

fans are coming from. He explained of the accusations. They're just being protective,

if anything, they're being good France. So Sam s Gauri is explaining why people are speculating

are guessing why people are speculating that he is controlling Britney Spears, Vidya, this

is his explanation. So he could say, if I had to speculate if I had to guess why people

think I'm controlling Britney Spears. If I had to speculate, I'd say it's because and

then you could continue right here. I'd say it's because there has been a lot of stuff

going on. So that's what he is saying he's guessing this is the reason but remember,

it's not 100% He has some evidence, but he's not 100% Certain. I don't think there's anything

else I need to explain here. If I'm missing things that you don't understand, feel free

to share. In the comments. So I know in future lessons, what to talk about because I don't

see any grammar concepts or unnecessary vocabulary that I think needs to be explained in this

paragraph. But if I'm wrong, let me know in the comment section. They're just being protected.

If anything, they're being good fans. I guess the only thing I'll point out is what does

this mean? When you have a square bracket, when you have a square bracket, which is highlighted

here? It means that the actual words that sound asfari Or whoever said this, the actual

words have been changed slightly. So remember, this is a quote when you see quotation marks,

it means those exact words came out of the person's mouth. So Sam Askari in an interview

perhaps or he wrote it on his Instagram. He said in the past, there has been no he said

all of this except sound escorting did not say some fans are. He probably said I understand

where they are coming from. Usually when we have square brackets, the journalist or the

interviewer changed the words for clarity, because Sam Ascari probably said I understand

where they're coming from. They are coming from I understand where they're coming from.

But who is they? If we only have this one bit of his speech, we don't know who they

are. So the interviewer or the journalist changed it to some fans so we understand who

they represents. That is what is usually the case when you see square brackets. Okay, hopefully

that was helpful. Was that interesting for you to learn? Again, I'm trying to understand

what you want me to teach you from these articles. So please let me know in the comments, comments,

if I'm explaining parts that are useful or if there are other parts of the lesson you

would have liked me to explain? Please let me know because it will help me improve for

future lessons. Okay, let's continue suspicion around Brittany social media activity group

earlier this month when she celebrated her birthday with a tribute to her younger sister

Jamie Lynn Spears with whom she had previously been feuding. So let's take a look here. She

had previously been viewing. This is the past perfect, continuous and we use it for a past

action that happens before another past action. So on our timeline, let's say she feuded with

her sister feud is another way of saying fighting perhaps you don't know this and let me point

this out. It's not as common So honestly, I would stick with the word fighting. It's

way more commonly used than feuding, but it means the same thing feuding fighting. So

she and her sister had a fight. They were feuding, but something else happened. What

is that something else? She celebrated her birthday with a tribute. So this is and the

past simple, but it happened after the feud. So we have let's say on Monday viewed well

with Sister Wednesday. celebrate birthday with tribute. Okay. So this action is in the

past simple and this action is in the past perfect. The continuous can also be used.

The continuous is used when you want to focus on the duration of the action, the past perfect

is used when you just want to more focus on the action, the result of the action, not

the actual duration of the action. So I could say we had feuded before I made that video

tribute for her birthday, we had feuded before I made that video tribute for her birthday

so notice past perfect. I could have said we had been feuding if I want to focus on

the action in progress, which is fine. Both of them are grammatically correct. It just

shifts where do you want to focus on just focusing on the results of it we had feuded

before I made that video. So notice past simple because the action is the later action and

past perfect for the earlier action. Okay, so that's a very good grammar concept is one

of those concepts. All students kinda know the past perfect and how it relates but most

of them don't really know how to use it in their speech. So try a few examples. Just

think about your week. What did you do on Monday? What did you do on Wednesday or Tuesday,

Thursday doesn't matter. And then just try to form sentences. I had gone to the mall

before I watched the movie and just make some examples based on your day. It's good practice

to do a few few examples every single day. And you'll get really comfortable using the

past perfect. Ascari previously defended his wife social media activity after she began

posting some risque content, following the termination of her conservatorship last November.

Let's just take a look at this word. Notice the pronunciation you might notice this little

accent. Obviously the English alphabet does not have this accent. So we pronounce it according

to French pronunciation rules, which is when you have this accent to pronounce it as a

risk a risk a risk a so that's how you pronounce it. Just remember that is not English pronunciation

we Borel the pronunciation, the French Okay, now what does this mean risk a content is

an adjective. When you describe something as risky, is something that it shocks you

a little bit just a little bit. It's not like oh my god, it's just like, Oh, it's just a

little bit shocking, a little bit shocking. Usually because of sex, there's something

related to sex. So a little bit shocking. So maybe you're watching a movie

with your kids. And there's a scene in the movie that is risque. So maybe there's some,

you know, certain attire or some scenes involving some kissing, but it's a little risque. There's

more than you would expect, but it's not like close your eyes. It's just a little bit risque.

So let's say your friend is on vacation at the beach, and she posts some photos of herself

in a bikini in a very certain pose. Right? And she puts that on social media. You might

say, Wow, your photo was a little risque meaning, you know, there's a slightly shocking I didn't

expect you to host that photo.

Let's continue on. The only person in the world that gets bullied for posting things

like this Asghari wrote on his Instagram story earlier this month. I personally preferred

she never posted these. Oh, who am I to control someone that's been under a microscope and

been controlled for most of her life. So I guess he's saying I personally preferred she

never posted these, these being I assume risque photos, risque photos, I don't fall over these

fears on Instagram, but I imagined she could post risque photos.

Okay, risque photos. So again, a little bit shocking, right. I'm going to highlight two

words. And I want you to think about why did I highlight these two words? There's something

grammatically odd, perhaps incorrect about the two words that I highlighted. Do you know

what that is?

Well, your clue is person and someone because we should grammatically we should use who?

Who that is for objects things. Who is for people who is Ben. Now, this apostrophe as

represents hats. So we need that with who? Who has equals as a contraction? Who's oops,

okay. So yes, technically, this is incorrect grammatically. And if you are taking your

ILT or submitting a formal business report or an academic report, you should absolutely

use who for people and that for objects, but I'll be honest, native speakers make this

mistake and we use that instead of who, all the time is just something we do. In more

casual speech. You'll see it all over the place on social media. And if you're wondering,

why are they doing this, it's grammatically incorrect. Yeah, it is grammatically incorrect

and yet we do it anyway. So just for you to be safe just remember who we people that with

objects. I'll just this is a expression to be under a microscope. And I think you can

imagine what that means. So, um, you put something under a microscope so you can see it. Every

single detail very clearly, right? Scientists put something under the microscope and they

examine it and they get to see every single detail. We use this as an expression to say

that we feel like we are being examined too closely, and we use it as a negative. So you

might say my new boss makes me feel like I'm under a microscope. He always checks up on

me. So to check up on someone is just imagine you're working and then all of a sudden your

boss, what are you doing? What are you doing? How's it going? Did you finish that report?

Did you do this every five every 10 minutes or you get you know, the person might not

be there but they might send you a message. How's it going? What are you doing? Are you

working on that report? When's it going to be done? That is to check up on someone to

inquire about their status basically, but you can imagine you feel like you're being

watched very closely if somebody is constantly doing that, right. So generally, we use this

expression as a negative to say we're being watched too closely. You can use it with a

work situation a co worker, a boss, you can use it in a family situation, a parent, even

a friend could make you feel like you're under a microscope. Okay, I wrote out the definition

here for you. So I'm sure there's someone in your life maybe maybe not that makes you

feel like you are under a microscope. Oh, all right. Let's continue on. Spears and Asghari

tie the knot in June during an intimate ceremony with 60 guests in attendance. Here are the

people in attendance who some celebrities of course, Drew Barrymore, Selena Gomez, Madonna,

that's cool. All right, to tie the knot. What is this mean? Based on the context, what do

you think to tie the knot is an idiom to say to get married to get married. Now obviously

you know what that means. But notice my verb to get married because that is when you're

having the ceremony. Spears and Askari got married, got married. Remember we use the

verb get when we're talking about the transition from not married to married. Oh once you are

married once the ceremony takes place and you get the ring on your finger, then you

simply say we're married. We've been married for 10 years. Now I'm putting it in the present

perfect because the action started in the past and continues on till now. So I'm using

the verb be married because I'm talking about the current state. Now. I am married. But

if I want to talk about that transition from not married to married I use get. So now I

can say we got married in Hawaii, a destination wedding. We got married in Hawaii. So this

is where you transition from not married to married. So that's why I used get married

and that's what tied the knot means to get married. So you could say we tied the knot

in Hawaii. We tied the knot in Hawaii. It's a fun casual way of saying get married. So

someone might ask you When are you going to tie the knot? They're asking when are you

getting married? When is the date of your wedding? When are you going to tie the knot?

Now you could pull it Where are you going to tie the knot? How are you going to tie

the knot just asking about the details so you can use a different WH question. Our final

paragraph. The couple began dating in 2016 after he appeared in her slumber party music

video, and they announced their engagement last September. So to be in gauged. So engagement

is a thing. It's the noun, but the verb is to be engaged, to be engaged. This is when

you have an engagement ring right you are going to get married at a specific date in

the future but you are not married right now to be engaged. Now remember we can use to

get engaged to talk about the transition from not engaged to engage engaged just went when

someone says will you marry me? Right. Okay to get engaged. So, again, I could say we

got engaged last month. We got engaged last month. So technically, that means we've been

engaged for one year, right? They mean the same thing. If somebody asks you, how long

have you been engaged? You could say we got engaged last month or you can say we've been

engaged for one year they mean exactly the same thing. Just remember get focuses on that

transition and be focuses on that current state. So that can be a useful thing to practice,

married and engaged. With get and be in the comment section below. And that's the end

of our article. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to read the article from start

to finish so you can focus on my pronunciation. So let's do that now.

Sam Asgari response to rumors he's controlling Britney Spears social media. Sam Asghari is

addressing whether he is overstepping when it comes to his wife Britney Spears, the fitness

trainer 28 touched on speculation that he's controlling what the Grammy Award winner 41

posts on Instagram after she previously admitted that her social spots were alive during her

13 year conservatorship as she accused father Jamie Spears of controlling much of her life.

I don't even control what we have for dinner. Asghari recently joked to photographers, according

to Just Jared, in the past, there has been a lot of stuff going on. So I understand where

some fans are coming from. He explained of the accusations. They're just being protective.

If anything, they're being good fans. Suspicion around Brittany social media activity grew

earlier this month, when she celebrated her birthday with a tribute to her younger sister

Jamie Lynn Spears. With whom she had previously been feuding. Asghari previously defended

his wife social media activity, after she began posting some risque content, following

the termination of her conservatorship last November. The only person in the world that

gets bullied for posting things like this Asghari wrote on his Instagram story earlier

this month. I personally preferred she never posted these local up I to control someone

that has been under a microscope and been controlled for most of her life. Spears and

Asghari tied the knot in June during an intimate ceremony with 60 guests in attendance, including

Madonna Paris Hilton, Drew Barrymore, Selena Gomez, Donatella Versace, Ansel Elgort and

Maria Menounos. The couple began dating in 2016 after he appeared in her slumber party

music video, and they announced their engagement last September.

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I'm sure you recognize Leonardo DiCaprio. Now this comment here says so Leonardo DiCaprio

is nearly 50 and dating someone who went to prom on Zoom. So that's what we're talking

about in this article, the potential relationship and age gap the age difference between these

two. The headline of our article is Leonardo DiCaprio 48. denies dating model Eden Fulani

19 But the internet is calling BS. Now this is celebrity New Celebrity gossip. So it's

written in a very informal way. Keep that in mind. This in brackets of course refers

to the age of each person so Leonardo DiCaprio is 48 years old. And this is model Eden Polani.

She's a model and she is 19 years old. So very young. But the internet is calling BS.

Okay, so first let's go to denial because this is important. When you deny something

you claim isn't true. So Leonardo DiCaprio is saying that he is not dating this very

young model. I want you to notice the sentence structure. What do you notice about our next

word denies dating? Dating is a verb to date to date someone and that means to be in a

romantic relationship with someone but what do you notice about the grammar of this verb?

It's the gerund verb. It's a verb plus i in G which is our gerund. So notice that the

verb deny is a gerund verb, the verb that follows it needs to be in the gerund form.

Here's another example sentence again, notice that gerund verb Joe denies stealing the money.

Joe says it isn't true. I didn't steal the money. But the internet is calling BS BS Do

you know what this sounds for? Well, this is a slang expression. Bs is an abbreviation

for the word. I can't say this full word because you're not allowed to swear on YouTube. Your

videos could be penalized if you do. So I'm sure you understand what letter is missing

here. So that's what the word stand for. It's considered offensive which is why YouTube

doesn't like it when you use it is considered offensive. So I don't encourage you to use

this word but it is very commonly used. The AST is the abbreviation because you take the

first letter from here and the second letter from here. Sometimes we also abbreviate it

by saying bool and just dropping the second word because it's this word that is considered

offensive. bool isn't really offensive and neither is B S is really just this one word.

Now when you call something B, as you're saying it's nonsense. It's not true at all. So here's

the definition. Now let me give you an example sentence. They said I stole the money. So

Joe could be seeing this. They said I stole the money, but that's BS. That's BS. So if

you want a more polite way of saying this, because remember, I don't recommend using

this maybe with your close friends, for example, you can say, But that's nonsense. That's nonsense.

And this is not offensive. So you can use nonsense, but now you know what this means

when you see it. All right, let's continue on. So Leonardo DiCaprio denies dating this

very young model chatter about Leonardo DiCaprio 48 allegedly dating teenage Israeli model

Eden Polani has been making rounds on the internet for over a week. Let's start with

chatter. This is a noun and this is specific to internet terminology, because Chatter is

just conversation communication between people but specifically over the internet. Here's

an example sentence my company monitors our chatter. So monitors our communication on

the internet. So conversations you have on Twitter or Reddit or other forums or other

sites where you communicate monitor means that they review it closely. So chat or just

conversation online about Leonardo DiCaprio, allegedly allegedly is used because they're

not 100%. This is true. So we use the adverb allegedly to show doubt. Here's the definition.

Let me give you an example sentence going back to poor Joe. Joe allegedly so someone

said it's true, but there is no proof. It hasn't been proven yet. Joe allegedly stole

the money, but he denies it. Remember, if we were to use a verb it'd be the gerund verb

but he denies it. He said it's complete BS or to be more polite. You can say complete

nonsense. Okay, so chatter about Leonardo DiCaprio, allegedly dating teenage Israeli

model. Eden Polani has been making rounds. So when you make rounds, it means you go from

place to place to place. So making rounds remember they're talking about the chatter,

making rounds, the chatter going from place to place. So in an online context, the places

would be Twitter, Reddit TMZ. That's where this article is from forum hosts tick tock

you to and it's going this this rumor that Leonardo DiCaprio is allegedly dating this

teenage model is making rounds. It's moving from place to place specific on the internet

because we're talking about chatter. Let's continue on. Good. Two were photographed sitting

together at an LA event, sparking rumors about a possible relationship. Okay, so they sat

together at an event and now everybody's saying oh, they must be dating. So that is a rumor.

Did you hear that Leonardo DiCaprio is dating a teenager. Oh my god, I can't believe it.

That is a rumor. It's information that may or may not be true that spreads spread is

another way of saying to go from person to person. So of course I see this rumor to one

person but then guess what that person is then going to say oh my god Did you hear and

that person is going to tell another person and then a lot of people are talking about

it right. Now let's talk about this verb sparking rumors. This simply means causing rumors,

pausing. So what sparked the rumors what caused the rumors? It was the fact that they were

sitting together at any event, and then probably someone took a picture posted it online. And

then oh my god, did you see and that's how other rumors started. Polani was born in 2004

and is currently 19 years old. So she's a teenager. Notice I was using that word before

they use it in the article teenager. Teenager a teenager is someone whose age and in the

word teen 1918 1716 1514 13 Those are the teen years 12 doesn't end in teen So 12 years

old, you're not a teenager 20 doesn't end in teen so it is 13 to 19 that is the age

group of a teenager and it sounds very young. So if you hear that a 48 year old is dating

a teenager that sounds very young because a teenager could be 13 years old, right?

Let's continue on, given DiCaprio his track record and his recent splits with 25 year

old Argentinian American model, okay, track record. Your track record is your past accomplishments

or your failures. So if you're applying for a job, you can say I have a great track record

of getting results. Which means you have a lot of accomplishments in the past getting

results. So you can definitely use this in a job interview. It will sound really professional.

So let me write that example. Here's the example now notice they're using it for DiCaprio is

Leonardo DiCaprio his track record of dating younger women. So in his past, he has dated

all a lot of younger women. So that's his track. Record. And then they talk specifically

about one woman he dated. And they say his recent split. So when you're a couple, but

then you split, that's another way of saying you end your relationship you break up so

he was in a relationship with this 25 year old model, another model, but then they split

they broke up. It is more common to use the phrasal verb break up split sounds a lot more

informal. Whereas breakup is the common expression use we don't really say they ended their relationship

that sounds a little too formal. It sounds like the literal definition we say they broke

up, but the casual way is they split. Now here we're using rumored again, a rumored

relationship with Polani. So remember, rumored in the sense that it may or may not be true.

A rumor relationship with Polani was hardly a reach. Okay, notice it started with given

given means that based on so based on his previous track record of dating a lot of younger

women, it's hardly or reach. What does this mean? Well, hardly. It just means not. So

in this context, it means it's not a reach, which means it's not difficult to understand

why these rumors exist. These rumors exist because he has dated many, many younger women

models specifically in the past. That's his track record. Remember so not a reach means

it's not difficult to understand that something is true or not difficult to imagine that something

is true. Let's continue on. But on Tuesday, a source close to DiCaprio a source is just

someone who knows DiCaprio, well, someone who is a friend or an acquaintance or has

information about him. A source close to DiCaprio told TMZ that the star was not dating Fulani

or in a relationship with her at all. He just happened to be seated next to her at the event.

Okay, let's talk about happened because it's also in quotation marks. He just happened

to be seated next to her. The sentence structure is to happen. And then we have our infinitive.

He just happen to be seated. So it just means that whatever is so here it's to be seated.

That was by chance by chance means it was not planned in advance. So by chance I'll

just write not planned in advance. So this is saying that Leonardo did not plan to sit

beside the model the teenage model he just happened to be seated. Now happened is probably

in quotations. Because they're saying, Oh yeah, he just happened. He probably did groundnut,

right. So they're casting doubt on if this is true or not. He just happened to be seated

next to her at the event. And the two were hanging out. So hanging out is just interacting

socially, this year, interacting socially with the same group of people. However, netizen.

This word is new to me. I had never seen this word before and when I saw it the first time,

like netizen, what is this? I had to look it up in the dictionary but it has a very

simple definition of medicine is a person and it's a person who uses the internet. So

the internet is also just called net right? And that's how this word begins with net.

So you know how a citizen is someone who lives in a city or a country right citizen so they

probably just took this, and then they added that izen, izen, but again, I've never seen

this word before. So I don't know how common it is. But it is in the Cambridge dictionary.

So I don't know. Have you seen this word before? Maybe it's just me, but I am an Edison. I

mean, everybody is an netizen. Everybody uses the internet. So I don't really understand

the purpose of this word. But netizens are not convinced this is the truth. So netizen

sends the people who follow the Twitter feed or the YouTube videos or the Reddit posts.

They're not convinced that he just happened to be seated next to her or that they are

just hanging out. They don't believe it. So that's what convinced means. They don't believe

it. Let's continue on. Most pop culture followers. Believe it's a public relations move to protect

DiCaprio from further criticism about his controversial dating habits. So the fact that

he's saying we're not in a relationship, remember he's denying it. He's saying that's BS. That's

nonsense. They're saying this is a public relations move, which means he's strategically

saying this to protect his public image. That's what public relations is about is about managing

your public image. A move is just a strategy or a plan. So I'll write that for move a strategy

or a plan, strategy or a plan. So it's just a plan to protect him from Criticism Criticism

is negative things that people say about you. And it is controversial dating habits. Controversial

is an adjective it describes his dating habits and cons when something is controversial.

It causes disagreement or discussion. So obviously people are talking about the big age difference

between them. Is that appropriate? Is it inappropriate? That's why it's controversial and dating habits.

Well, his eating habits are that he likes dating young women who happen to be models.

I don't know. Can you blame the guy who wouldn't want to date young women who are models? The

news has fuelled a deeper conversation about legal age gap relationships. Okay. They're

saying it's legal because she is an adult. So by law, you become an adult when you're

18 years old. You are a legal adult So 18 years old, legal adult, at least in North

America could be different other places. So the model I don't remember her name Eden,

Eden, Bologna is an adult she can make her own decisions. If she wants to date Leonardo

DiCaprio will she's an adult, she can make that decision. So she is a legal adult, but

age gap. So he's 48 and she's 19. The gap is between those ages so it's the difference.

We often use this to say there's a big age gap. There's a big age gap between them. Or

you could say the opposite. And you could say there's only a two year age gap. Again

gap needs difference between my husband and me. So gap needs difference. And you can talk

about the age gap in friendships or other types of relationships. It doesn't have to

be just romantic relationships as well. So the news has fuelled fuelled means cause something

to continue. So it's cause these conversations to continue. So that's what fuelled means.

I'll write that out here. So our sentence structure is something has fuelled something

so the news has fuelled and this something is the deeper conversations. So it means something

has caused something to happen that's fueled so the news remember, which is a rumor about

their relationship their alleged relationship has fuelled has caused this deeper conversation

about legal age gap relationships, their ethics and their inherent power dynamics problems

they come with. And that is the end of our article. So now I'll go back and I'll read

the article from start to finish and this time you can focus on my pronunciation and

follow along with my pronunciation. Leonardo DiCaprio 48 denies dating model Edom Kulani

19 But the internet is calling BS chatter about Leonardo DiCaprio 48 allegedly dating

teenage Israeli model Eden Fulani has been making rounds on the internet for over a week.

The two are photographs sitting together at an LA event sparking rumors about a possible

relationship. Melania was born in 2004 and is currently 19 years old. Given DiCaprio

his track record and his recent split with 25 year old Argentinian American model Camilla

Marone a rumor relationship with baloney was hardly a reach. She's 29 years his junior

but on Tuesday A source close to DiCaprio told TMZ that the star was not dating Fulani

or in a relationship with her at all. He just happened to be seated next to her at the event

and the two are hanging out with the same group of people. However, medicines are not

convinced this is the truth. Most pop culture followers believe it's a public relations

move to protect DiCaprio from further criticism about his controversial dating habits. The

news has fueled a deeper conversation about legal age. Gap relationships, their ethics

and the inherent power dynamics problems they come with

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Today we're talking about Beyonce and the Grammy Awards which recently took place. So

first, I will read the article in full and you can pay attention to my pronunciation.

So let me read it now. Beyonce arrived fashionably late to the 2023 Grammy Awards. She was stuck

in LA traffic. Beyonce, his highly anticipated appearance at the 2023 Grammy Awards was delayed

due to you won't believe it. Los Angeles traffic. I mean, where was her helicopter. Over an

hour into the ceremony, the Renaissance singer finally made it to the crypto.com arena, as

confirmed by pot bass. Once she took her seat host Trevor Noah pan to your table, where

we got a first glimpse of her look. The Grammy winning artists who tied the record for the

most all time wins with her husband, Jay Z. wore a strapless beige core set top with a

silver metallic skirt by Gucci accessorized with black leather gloves. For beauty she

opted for a soft bronze look, her honey gold hair cramped and worn down. Now let's review

the article in more details so you can learn some of the advanced vocabulary and grammar

concepts from this article. This is a very short article. It's a very light hearted topic

light hearted means not serious topic. We're talking about Beyonce, we're focusing on her

clothes, and we're talking about the Grammys. So let's read the title here. Beyonce arrived

fashionably late to the 2023 Grammy Awards. So of course, I can say Beyonce arrived late

to the Grammys. When I add the word fashionably fashionably, it means that she was late, but

in a positive way. We use this a lot in North American culture, because let's say you're

invited to a party and the party starts at eight o'clock PM, nobody goes to the party

at eight o'clock PM. Because it's not fashionable. Fashionable means popular at a specific time.

So let me write that down for you fashionable, we'll talk about that a little bit more fashionable,

popular, but at a specific time. So first, let me give you an example of fashionable.

And this is an adjective. So right now since COVID. Actually, I would say it's fashionable

to wear casual clothes, too to the office, casual clothes meanings, jeans, jeans and

a cotton t shirt to the office. It's fashionable, which means it's popular right now. And I

could say before COVID Before COVID it was fashionable to wear suits to the office. Now

I'm sure some some places it's still fashionable to wear suits. And that's the thing with fashionable.

It really depends on where you are in the world because fashion trends change around

the world, right? So this could not apply to where you live or the office you work in.

So that's fashionable. So going back to our example the party starts at eight o'clock

PM. It's not fashionable to arrive at eight o'clock PM. everybody shows up fashionably

late, so ever everybody shows up, which is another way of saying arrive. It's just a

more casual, familiar way of saying it using the phrasal verb to show up. Everyone shows

up fashionably late, which is probably between 815 to 8:45pm for a party, so they're saying

Beyonce was late, but in a positive way, she was fashionably late. Now, sometimes we use

this. If someone says you're late, and you might reply back, just in a fun way, no, I'm

fashionably late. I'm fashionably late, which is just trying to make a light hearted way

of saying, I'm sorry for being late. I'm fashionably late. But keep in mind, this isn't the case

with appointments like a doctor's appointment or a job interview, you must show up at the

scheduled time. In fact, you should show up early. So notice I've been using show up.

So that's a great phrasal verb to add to your vocabulary, which just means arrive. Okay,

let's continue on. And doesn't she look gorgeous at the Grammys. This is the reason why she

was fashionably late, she was stuck in LA traffic. So this is a great expression to

add to your vocabulary, because you can use it. When you're late. You can say Sorry, I'm

late. I was stuck in traffic, obviously, you could say I was stuck in a meeting. I was

stuck at an appointment. So it doesn't have to be traffic. But traffic is probably the

number one most common reason when you're late. But this is very common as well, oh,

I was stuck in a meeting. When you use the verb stuck to be stuck notice our sentence

structure to be stuck to be stuck. And that's why our verb to be is conjugated in the past

simple here, I was stuck. That means you're unable to leave to be stuck to be unable to

leave. And the reason why you can't leave that meeting is because you're talking to

an important client or you're talking to your boss, you can't just walk out and leave. You

have to stay to be unable to leave. So keep this in your vocabulary for the reason why

you're late. Beyonce is highly anticipated appearance at the 2023 Grammy Awards was delayed

due to you won't believe it LA traffic Los Angeles traffic. So this is saying the exact

same thing as up here. They're just basically repeating it. I mean, where was her helicopter?

This is just a little joke. I don't think it's that funny. Maybe you do. And you can

tell that this is written in a very casual way. Because in a professional writing context,

you would never have a double exclamation. You we have a double punctuation story. We

have an exclamation point, which is right here. And we have a question mark. This is

very commonly used in casual writing, but it is never used in professional writing and

Professional Writing. You only have one punctuation, so either the question mark or the exclamation

point. But this is very common in casual writing. When I write text messages to friends, I often

do multiple punctuations, sometimes in my text messages, I'll have lots I'll you know

do things like that. But most commonly I stick to three, two or three is quite common in

casual writing, and it's just really to emphasize, but again, casual writing only. Let's take

a look at highly anticipated when something is anticipated. It means that people are looking

forward to it or expecting it. And then highly is just used to emphasize that highly anticipated

they're very commonly used together. So to look forward to or to expect something or

someone. For example, since we're talking about music, I'll use Taylor Swift Taylor

Swift's last album was highly and participated. So before she released that album, a lot of

people were looking forward to it. Oh, I can't wait, I can't wait for that album, or they

were just expecting it. Oh gosh, I bet she's going to release an album soon, I bet is going

to happen next month. This is exciting. So you're looking forward to or you're expecting

something with positive emotion, we'll could use this for an upcoming vacation, for example,

or even a job interview, it could be a really highly anticipated meeting. Because something

amazing could happen as a result, you could get your dream job. So this is a good adjective.

This is an adjective a good adjective to add to your speech. And they're saying that her

appearance, people were looking forward to her appearance, mainly because they wanted

to see what she was going to wear. Or maybe she was performing and they wanted to know

what song she was going to perform. It was highly anticipated. Okay, and then we talked

about the reason why she was late, in this case, they just use was delayed delay is another

way of saying late. And we know the reason why she was stuck in traffic. Okay, let's

continue on, over an hour into the ceremony. So over an hour into the ceremony means the

ceremony the Grammy Awards, has already taken place for 65 minutes, or more than one hour.

And then the Renaissance singer, I guess this is the name of a song or an album by Beyonce

finally made it to the arena, when you make it to a location is simply is another way

of saying arrive arrive. We usually use this when you have some difficulty arriving. For

example, you might say, I can't believe I made it to the job interview in time I was

stuck in traffic for 20 minutes. So even though you were stuck in traffic for 20 minutes,

you still arrived in time. And I'm using made it as a replacement to arrive justice suggests

there was some struggle involved in arriving. So she finally made it to the arena as confirmed

by pop bass. All right, once she took her seat host Trevor Noah pan to her table. This

is just a photography term. If you're not a photographer, just ignore it. When you pan

this is the camera okay? Right now, sorry, my microphones in the way I'll move back.

That means pan when you move the camera slowly and then you might focus on something specific.

So in this case, they focused on beyond say's table that's pan, you can ignore it if you're

not in the photography industry. So it's just a photography term. Okay, let's take a look

at the sentence structure here. Once she took her seat, in this case, once means the same

as after one she took her seat. And then notice the second part of the sentence is in the

past simple. Okay. So I could say once I arrived, we called the marketing team. Once I arrived

past simple, we called past simple. So past simple, past simple, okay, this is a great

sentence structure just to show the sequence of the events. This happened first, and this

happened second, but they are both past events. So this is a great first action. Write that

here first action and then we have our second action. So this is a nice sentence structure

you can add second action, and you can use this in a casual context as well. Once you

We landed in Cuba, let's say you're going on vacation to Cuba, once we landed in Cuba,

we went to the beach. So this is the first thing you did after you land it. And both

of them are in the past simple. The Grammy winning artist who tied the record for the

most all time wins with her husband, Jay Z. That's pretty awesome. When you tie, it means

you finished with the exact same score or result. We use this with anything competitive.

So sports, for example, let's say there's a game and the score was three to three. This

is a tie. So you could say it was a tie game. If somebody asked you who won, you would say

No, buddy, it was a tie. It was a tie. It was a tie, you can just leave it at that.

Or you can add game, it was a tie game. You might say match. If that's the word choice

you use for the specific sport, it was a tie. Now, if you are the opponent, and you're playing

someone else specifically, you could use instead of it was you could say we tied, which means

my team scored the exact same as the other team we tied and it could be a team or it

could just be one person against one person. So maybe Jay Z 110 awards and Beyonce won

10 awards, so they tied it was the exact same number that describes a tie. Okay, now they're

talking about what she wore because that's what they talk about at the Grammys right

the appearance she wore a strapless beige core set top with a silver metallic skirt

by Gucci accessorized with black leather gloves. Okay, so strapless. This represents strapless.

She doesn't have any any straps right? Now, a core set is when it's tied very tightly

at your back usually there's some some rope and they actually tie it very tightly at the

back. Metallic is the color of her skirt. And then her black leather gloves gloves of

course you were and they used the word accessorized because they consider gloves accessories,

accessories. So let me write this for you. Accessories. Now these are items added to

an outfit for decor, like decoration for decoration. So things like jewelry. Purse would be an

accessory spelled that wrong jewelry purse, I guess in this case, gloves a hat. What else

could be an accessory? Well for men like a watch, but that's considered jewelry as well.

I can't think of any other accessories. So we'll just leave it at that. So let's see.

Beyonce has earrings. These are accessories she doesn't have a necklace, which would be

a common accessory. She probably has a purse somewhere, which would also be an accessory

and they're added to her main outfit. Her main outfit is the shirt and the skirt. Right

everything else is an accessory. Okay, where were we here? They're using this as a verb,

which isn't. Of course you can use it as a verb, but it's more common to use it as a

noun. So you might say for my birthday, you can buy me some accessories and then you can

specify what accessories you like maybe you like earrings, maybe you like rings, maybe

you like watches purses, you can specify all right. For beauty. She opted for a soft bronze

look her honey gold hair crimped and worn down. This is a great verb to have in your

vocabulary. The verb is opt to opt. Listen to my pronunciation, opt OPT. Now you can

opt for something which is how it's used here. There's some thing would be a noun, you can

also opt to do something. So that is opt plus infinitive. infinitive verb, so to do something.

Now, what does this mean? When you ought to do something or for something, it means you

make a specific choice. Let me give you an example. I opted to decline, the promotion,

I was offered a promotion. And I chose not to accept the promotion. So I made a specific

choice. So we use this when you have a choice, you can do one thing or another thing, you

could have more than two choices, you can have many choices. And when you want to specify

what you personally decided, you can use the word OPT. Now, this is a verb, which is why

it's in the past simple because I already made the decision. It's a completed action.

Notice I'm using my infinitive. If I wanted to use a noun, I opted for, what would I say

I opted for my current job. This is a something I made the choice to keep my current job,

it would be more common to use an infinitive, but I just want to show you an option where

you could also use for so both of these sentence structures are very common. So here, they're

saying she opted for a soft bronze look, I don't really know what that means, to be honest.

But they're saying that she had other choices. So she could have chose a different color

instead of bronze. I guess maybe they're talking about her her shirt, maybe is what she opted

for, I don't know, or her makeup, her makeup like her lipstick color is soft bronze, probably

the makeup actually. So they she could have opted for bright red, she could have opted

for purple for Orange, all these different colors, but she opted for soft bronze. Maybe

they're talking about her hair as well. So that's a great verb to have, as well. And

notice that sentence structure. And finally, the last thing I'll explain is worn down,

they're talking about her hair worn down. I get asked a lot of questions from women

about how to talk about what to do with your hair. So right now, my hair is down, my hair

is down. My hair is down. I could also say I'm wearing my hair down. Now in general.

So the present simple, I usually wear my hair down. Okay, now what's the opposite of down?

It's up, right? I rarely wear my hair. Not here hair up. So this is up, up, down. Pretty

simple, right? So that's how you can use it with hair. And notice, I could say my hair

is down. My hair is up. But then we also use subject and then the verb wear my hair and

then up or down. And that is the end of our article. I hope you enjoyed it. And what about

you? Did you watch the Grammys? Who was your favorite singer from the Grammys shares something

related to the Grammys in the comments as well?

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