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1st I'll read.

The headline Netflix.

The boy who?

Harnessed, the wind is a.

True story about.

An invention that saved an entire community.

Now notice here, Netflix, there's.

A possessive.

And that's because The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

I know all of this because it's in a quotation  mark, so I know this is the name of a movie.

Because that's.

What Netflix does.

Although I guess it could be a TV show.

And it belongs to Netflix, so.

You know that this is available.

On Netflix.

So that's what this's is.

Netflix The boy who harnessed the win.

Now, because this ends in South Sound.

You don't.

Hear this.

In pronunciation, Netflix.

The boy.

There's no difference between just  saying the word Netflix and saying.

It with the.

'S Because that sound is already there.

Let's also look at the pronunciation here.

Harnessed, we have the Ed verb, the past simple.

Of the verb to.

Harness.

When you harness something, in  this case the wind, it means.

You use it, you're able to.

Capture it and then use it.

Who harnessed?

Notice that pronunciation.

Because this ends in an unvoiced,  we add a soft T on the end.

Harnessed the wind.

But when it's in the middle of a sentence,  we don't really pronounce that sound.

Who harnessed the wind?

So it's almost silent, but  context will make it obvious that.

It is.

A past simple verb, so again, the title.

Is the.

Boy who harnessed the wind is a true.

Story is a true story.

You see this a lot.

To describe movies or TV shows  or books, of course plays.

Now, what's the opposite of a?

True story like Harry Potter, Harry Potter is.

Fictional story.

A fictional story.

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So this movie is not a fictional story.

It's a true story.

I wrote.

Here is based.

On a.

True story.

This is also commonly.

Used to describe books, movies, TV shows.

And it's just letting you know that not 100%.

Of the movie is true, parts of it it's based.

On a.

True story.

Is a true story about an invention  that saved an entire community.

And I am sharing this as an article because  I recently watched this movie and I.

Absolutely loved.

It I found it very inspiring and  uplifting and it was an incredible.

Story.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, an  upcoming original Netflix movie.

Now notice.

Here it says.

Upcoming this.

Article was released.

Before the movie.

Was available.

On Netflix, Netflix.

Because upcoming is in the future,  which means not available right now.

And it's an adjective.

So you might say I need to  study for my upcoming exam.

Or, I might say, make sure  you watch my upcoming video.

I know you'll.

Love it.

And to confirm like a native  speaker would, you can say.

2 words will do, will do.

And this is.

To say I.

Will watch your upcoming video.

Will do, so put that.

In the comments will do Jennifer.

Will do.

Put that in the comments.

So the upcoming original Netflix movie  out March 1st out in the context.

Of a video.

A book.

A TV show, a movie means.

Available.

And remember that March 1st at the time this.

Article was written.

Was in the future, now it's not in the.

Future because you?

Can watch.

The movie.

The movie is already out to be.

Out.

So in this case it's.

A verb.

And it means available out March 1st, focuses  on a Malawian boy named William Maxwell Simba.

So this is.

The.

Actor's name and the real person.

Because remember, this is not fictional.

This is based on a true.

Story.

So.

The real boy.

'S name is William, but the actor who plays.

The boy.

Is Maxwell Simba, who saves his town  from famine by constructing a windmill.

To provide water.

And electricity.

So he harnessed the wind.

He was.

Able to capture.

Control and then use the power of the wind.

Remember, that's the verb harness  and in the past, harnessed.

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The boy who?

Harnessed the Wind Remember,  this is the full title.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Is based  on oh, so here we have that based on,  

remember I said based on a true story.

So now you're seeing that.

Notice they just add the adjective remarkable,  but you need that article based on.

A true story.

And then you can add an adjective.

Like they did.

Here, remarkable remarkable is a great adjective.

It means unexpected or  surprising, but in a positive.

Way.

And the.

Story is.

Based on this young.

Boy who saved?

His entire community and it was remarkable.

That he did.

This it's unexpected.

Or.

Surprising for such.

A young boy.

To accomplish such an amazing invention.

So that's why they used.

Remarkable based on a remarkable.

True story.

Bringing a wider audience into  William Cam Kwamba's incredible  

journey of innovation, Remember, this is the.

Real.

Person who did this in.

Real life.

And then the.

Movie is based.

On his story back in 2007, notice how  they have back in and then a date.

This is something we add.

Before we.

Have a time reference.

That's.

Quite in the past there.

Isn't a specific.

Amount of time but it.

Should be.

In the.

Past, you could say back.

In 1987.

So it can be a very distant past or.

It could be.

Back in 2020, it could be.

A relatively recent.

Past, but it needs to be in the past.

Back in 2007, Cam Quamba gave  a Ted talk in Tanzania about  

how he accomplished this feat at only 14 years.

Old.

So this feat feat here.

Is.

To mean this accomplishment, you wouldn't  say accomplished this accomplishment,  

although that's what feet means.

So when we have.

A verb.

And the noun also means the same thing.

It's more likely that you're  going to choose another word to  

avoid sounding repetitive, accomplished this feat.

The pronunciation is exactly the same as.

I have two.

Feet.

Feet accomplish this feat at only 14 years old.

He explained that since.

He couldn't afford his.

Education, he dropped.

Out of school.

When you drop.

Out of.

It means.

You quit, but we specifically use this with.

School.

You wouldn't say I dropped out of my job to.

Say I quit.

My job.

So phrasal verbs always have very specific.

Meanings and are.

Used in very specific.

Contexts.

So just because it means  quit, it doesn't mean you can.

Use it necessarily.

For other things, but you can drop.

Out of school.

You can also use DROP.

Out of for.

Any classes or lessons?

It could be singing classes, piano classes,  language classes, swimming classes, any other.

Classes you could.

Say, oh, I dropped out, which means I quit.

He found a book in the  library called Using Energy.

So this is the name of the book that sparked.

The idea of.

Creating the windmill, so this.

Book sparked his idea.

So in this case.

Sparked.

Means that he got.

The idea.

From the book for the sentence structure.

A sparks B.

Which means A causes B to happen.

A inspires B to happen.

Without AB.

Wouldn't happen, so I could.

Say.

Watching this movie.

This is a.

And then my.

Verb is spark.

I need to conjugate it.

With the.

Subject and the time reference watching  this movie sparked this lesson,  

this lesson that I'm recording now because.

Previously I said that.

I'm creating this lesson because I watched  the movie and I was very inspired by it.

So I decided to choose a.

Summary of the movie for this  lesson to also encourage you  

to watch it because I think it was a great movie.

So this is BA.

Caused B to happen and then the verb is spark.

It's in the past.

Simple because at.

This point the lesson.

Is already created.

Watching this movie sparked this lesson.

The book.

Sparked the idea of.

Creating the windmill.

Now this is in quotation marks, which means the.

Speaker is.

Saying it and in this case the.

Speaker is.

Cam Quamba the.

Boy who?

Harnessed the wind.

I used a bicycle frame, a pulley and a plastic.

Pipe.

Explained the inventor, saying that  it generated 12 watts of electricity,  

it was able to light 4 bulbs and.

2 radios.

In his home.

Hmm.

See, I have no concept of how much.

Electricity 12 watts.

Is but knowing that it lit.

Four bulbs.

And two radios?

That seems like quite a Watt, and he  was able to harness the wind to do this.

I'm just using that verb.

Harness for you.

Again, when that first windmill became  a success, he began making more.

He said his next plan was to create another one  that would pump water and produce irrigation.

Irrigate irrigation is a watering system.

That waters crops irrigate.

Irrigation.

Irrigation.

Irrigation for crops and that he.

Hoped through.

His Ted talk people would  be inspired to lend a hand.

Lend a hand is another way of saying give  a hand, and that's another way of saying.

Help to help.

And provide materials as a question.

It's very common for a native.

Speaker to say.

Can you give me a hand?

Which means, can you lend me a hand now?

Although the article.

Used lend and it is very common.

I would.

Say that give is slightly.

More common Can you give me a hand?

Can you lend me a hand?

Can you help me?

Both of them mean help me and Indian  speaker will absolutely say can you help me.

It's just.

Very common to use the expression.

Can you give me a hand?

And then you can reply and say, sure, I  can give you a hand, I can lend you a hand.

I can help you.

In an interview, he discussed his accomplishments  further, including building a windmill for  

a primary school and even offering to  help the local handyman properly build.

1 And Handyman is someone  skilled at repairing things.

So if you think of your local handyman, I'm sure  there's someone in your communities, someone in.

Your circle of.

Friends, Your family who?

Is very.

Handy to be handy.

So that's the adjective form.

Bob is very handy.

To be is our.

Verb and then handy.

Is.

The adjective to be handy.

I'm not very handy.

This describes me.

I'm not very handy.

If something breaks in my house, I can't fix it.

But my husband can because he's very handy.

If my husband is traveling and something breaks,  well then I would have to call a handyman.

A handyman, though, sounds like a profession.

It sounds like someone who is  skilled at repairing things.

But you would pay that person to repair.

It so it sounds like more of a profession.

A handyman.

Whereas to be.

Handy is just an adjective that describes someone.

So what about?

You are you.

Handy you can put in the comments.

I'm very handy.

I'm not very handy.

I'm not at all handy.

So put that in the comments.

As for me, I'm not very handy.

I can't fix anything around the house.

All right.

Let's continue.

But the expansion of his  efforts was in part thanks.

To his Ted talk.

So in part thanks to.

If this part.

Wasn't here, and it said the expansion of his.

Efforts.

In this.

Case the.

Expansion of his.

Efforts while his efforts.

Are building windmills,  harnessing the wind and expanding.

That means building more windmills for  his community or other communities,  

the expansion of his.

Efforts was was.

Thanks.

To his Ted talk.

This means that expanding his efforts was.

Entirely a result of the Ted talk, but if you add.

In part it means that only some of  it, so some of the expansion was.

Because of the.

Ted Talk.

But maybe other other expansions  were not from the Ted Talk.

They were just from word of  mouth meaning people talking.

Oh, did you?

Hear that, he built.

This awesome windmill.

Maybe he can come to our  community and build this windmill.

So having, in part changes  the meaning of the sentence.

After the Ted talk, entrepreneurs  stepped up to finance his education.

The phrasal.

Verb, step up.

Means that these entrepreneurs,  business owners, they took action.

They took action because there was a need.

For this people.

In these communities, needed windmills.

Now let's say there's a need in your community.

For I'll just say.

Food donations.

Someone might send out an e-mail or  a flyer and say who is going to step.

Up.

Who is going to take action?

Because we know.

There is.

A need.

So who is going to step up?

Entrepreneurs stepped up to finance his  education, giving him the opportunity to  

go to an International School in Malawi's  capital, the long way he later went on to.

Receive his college.

Education at Dartmouth in the US,  graduating with a bachelor's degree in 2014.

Remember that time reference back in before it.

Started.

The sentence now I want to show.

It to you.

In the middle of a sentence,  I graduated back in 2014.

That's when he graduated.

I graduated back in 2014 in this case.

If you just said I graduated.

In 2014, that's a statement.

You're stating a fact, but you if you add back in.

I graduated back in 2014.

It emphasizes that it was a  long time ago, so someone might.

Ask you about your.

Education and and you might  say, oh, I don't know, I.

I graduated.

Back in 2014.

So you're just letting them know?

That for you, it seems like it was a.

Long time ago.

So your memory.

Of it is not that.

Clear.

Or your knowledge that you gained from it  perhaps is not as sharp as it once was.

I graduated back in 2014,  

so a very useful time reference to show  that emphasis and that is the end of.

The article Remember this is based.

On a true.

Story the movie.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind  and is out on Netflix right now.

So if you.

Are motivated, if you are.

Inspired.

You can watch the movie.

I personally really loved it and  you can share in the comments if  

you have seen it or if you plan  to watch it, I'd love to know.

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

and this time you can focus on my pronunciation.

Netflix.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a.

True story about.

An invention that saved an entire community,  The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, an upcoming  

original Netflix movie out March 1st, focuses  on a Malawian boy named William Maxwell Simba  

who saves his town from famine by constructing  a windmill to provide water and electricity.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is  based on a remarkable true story,  

bringing a wider audience into William Cam  Quambas incredible journey of innovation.

Back in 2007, Cam Quamba gave  a Ted talk in Tanzania about  

how he accomplished his feat at only 14 years.

Old.

He explained that since he couldn't  afford his education, he dropped out of.

School.

He found a book in the library  called Using Energy that Sparked.

The idea of.

Creating the windmill, I used a bicycle  frame, a pulley and a plastic pipe,  

explained the inventor, saying that it  generated 12 watts of electricity it was able.

To light 4.

Bulbs.

And two radios.

In his home, when that first windmill  became a success, he began making more.

He said his next plan was to create another one  

that would pump water and produce  irrigation for crops, and that he.

Hoped.

Through his Ted Talk, people would be  inspired to lend a hand and provide materials.

In an interview, he discussed his accomplishments  further, including building a windmill for a  

primary school and even offering to help  the local handyman properly build one.

But the expansion of his efforts  was in part thanks to his Ted Talk.

After the Ted Talk, entrepreneurs stepped  up to finance his education, giving him the  

opportunity to go to an International  School in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe.

He later went on to.

Receive his college.

Education at Dartmouth in the US,  graduating with a Bachelors degree in 2014.

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