Justin Trudeau Announces He's Separating 💔 🇨🇦 | Learn English with the News

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First, I'll read the headline Justin  Trudeau separates from Wife Sophie Gregoire.

You probably recognize Justin Trudeau.

He's the Prime Minister of Canada.

Well, he announced that he's  separating from his wife.

Of course, this is a very difficult  time in both of their lives.

And although Justin Trudeau is a  public figure, he's also a human being.

And this is not an easy  thing to talk about publicly,  

and it's not an easy thing to go through.

For us, we are going to focus  on the very common vocabulary  

to talk about marriage, separation, divorce.

So first, let's talk about separate.

First, notice the sentence structure to separate.

Separate is the verb to separate from  this is the preposition from someone.

When you separate from someone, it means you start  

to live in a different place  from your husband or wife.

Only people who are married can separate.

If you are not married to the person,  you can't use the word separate.

So you start to live in a different  place because the relationship has ended.

So when you separate you  initiate ending the relationship.

The example in the headline was Justin  Trudeau has separated from his wife.

Here.

I put this in the present perfect  because it's a past action.

They've already said to each  other I want to separate from you.

But the present consequence  is now they are separated.

They are separated.

So the verb is separate.

But you can also talk about it as  to be separated, we are separated.

That describes your current state.

So Justin Trudeau has separated from his wife  

is also very common to describe  that two people have separated.

They've separated, they have separated.

You can also simply say  they separated in the past.

Simple, they separated.

Here these two examples, the  present perfect, the past simple.

They are the same, the same meaning.

Generally, native speakers will use the  present perfect just to show that there's  

some connection to the present although  the action is a completed past action.

Another example, my parents  separated when I was 6.

My parents separated.

And remember I said after you separate  you can describe your current state.

I am separated.

We've been separated for two years.

So many different ways.

Grammatically, you can use this verb.

Now also know that when you're  separated, you're still legally married.

So Justin Trudeau and his  wife are legally married.

Their husband and wife.

You need to get divorced in order  to legally end your marriage.

So step one, generally couples will separate.

They'll begin living separate lives.

But then Step 2, they have to get  divorced, which can take many years.

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Now let's continue with our  article The Trudeau's Notice Here.

They have it in the plural.

This is when you want to refer to a family unit.

So Mr.

Trudeau, Mrs.

Trudeau, and perhaps their  children could be here as well.

Little Trudeau, 1-2 and three,  because there are three kids,  

little Trudeau's, all of them together.

You can refer to them as the Trudeau's.

The Trudeau's.

You need to use the article, the so the  and then whatever your last name is plus  

S so the plus last name with an S and that  refers to the whole family, the whole family.

The Trudeaus who have been married for 18  years and remember they are still married  

now they are separated, but they are also  married because they haven't gotten a divorce.

Who have been married for 18 years  

and who have three children have  signed a legal separation agreement.

So here notice a legal agreement separation.

This describes what the agreement is.

So you can use separation as a noun as well.

For example, can we meet  to discuss our separation.

So the wife Sophie could say this to Justin.

Hey, can we meet to talk about our separation?

We need to discuss our separation.

When are we going to announce our separation?

So you can use this as the noun.

And I'll put a question mark because  technically this was a question.

As always, we remain a close family.

close as an adjective is very useful for family,  friends, coworkers to describe your relationship.

So I could say she's my close friend,  

close friend, listen to that  pronunciation, close friend.

For example, she's my close friend here, close.

This means my friend and I  have a very good relationship,  

a better relationship than  perhaps my other friends.

You could use this with even  more casual relationships.

You could say my coworker and I are close.

So notice here it's to be close  the verb to be conjugated.

My coworker and I.

This represents we as a subject.

We are close, so perhaps we  have coffee together every day.

I talk to this person the  most out of all my coworkers.

As always, we remain a close family.

So even though they have separated,  which means they are now living  

separate lives, they remain close.

They want to stay.

They want to keep a good relationship, close  family with deep love and respect for each other.

For the well-being of our children,  

we ask that you respect our privacy and  their privacy and I agree with this.

This is why I said at the beginning we're  reviewing this article because of the very  

important vocabulary related to  marriage separation, divorce,  

which is a must know in social and as you  can see even more business conversations.

So you respect one's privacy.

So in this case it's our privacy,  

meaning Justin Trudeau and his wife  and their privacy meaning the children.

So to respect one's privacy.

So I'll put this here to  respect one's privacy, Mr.

Trudeau said in a post on Instagram.

OK, so this what I just read.

This is what he said in a post on Instagram.

So it sounds like they announced  their separation notice there.

It is the noun form.

They announced their separation and then  he added this as a post on Instagram.

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Mr.

Trudeau's wife and children have played  a prominent role in his political career.

So here the expression is to play a role in  

something and then notice we have an adjective,  A prominent role and important role for example.

So let me highlight this for you.

In his political career, the conjugation  they use is the present perfect.

Have played a role to suggest that they  started playing a role in the past,  

a prominent role, and they  still play a prominent role now.

So let's take a look at another example.

With this, expanding your vocabulary plays  an important role in learning a language.

So this is simply saying expanding  your vocabulary is important.

It plays an important role.

So remember, this is your adjective.

So you can use a different adjective and you have  

to conjugate your verb play  according to the sentence.

In this case, this is a gerund sentence to  make a general statement, and so as a subject,  

gerund sentences are conjugated as it  and that's why you see play with an S it.

This plays an important role.

Do you agree with that?

I'm sure you do.

So if you agree with that, put this  or whatever you think maybe Jay Forest  

English lessons play an important  role in helping you learn English.

I should also note that you have the gerron here  because in is a preposition, so you need a gerron.

So here's a good example.

Hopefully you agree with this JForrest English.

The YouTube channel JForrest English plays an  important role in helping me become fluent.

So here you have your verb play conjugated  with JForrest English which represents it  

and then important role.

You could change this for a different  adjective essential role perhaps,  

and then in and then you have your  ING and helping me become fluent.

So if you agree with this,  

put that in the comments below and feel  free to change the adjective as well.

Let's continue.

So they play a prominent  role in his political career,  

often accompanying him on trips overseas  after he was elected Prime Minister in 2015.

When you accompany someone, it means  you go with that person somewhere.

Is a little more formal, though.

So if I want to invite my friend  to a movie or the mall, sure,  

I could say can you accompany me to the movies?

But that sounds a little formal, I would say.

Do you want to come with me to the movies?

So this makes sense in this context.

But in a more everyday context, you can simply  say, do you want to come with me to the movies?

Let's continue.

His young children have  helped craft an image of Mr.

Trudeau, now 51, as a youthful, vigorous leader.

Let's talk about vigorous.

This is a great adjective, Vigorous.

Vigorous.

This means energetic.

So I gave you an example sentence here.

I've been vigorously watching  JForrest English lessons.

So you watch this lesson very attentively.

You're spending a lot of energy on  it, and then as soon as it's done,  

you watch another lesson, so that  could describe it as vigorous.

But what do you notice between the  example I gave and the example here?

Well, here it's an adjective,  but I gave you the adverb form.

Adverb adverbs generally end in  ly, so they're easy to identify.

And I did that because my example  was with the verb watching.

So grammatically you need an adverb.

So I'll just write that for you.

Adverb.

Maybe I'll write it below so  it's easy to understand for you.

And if you have been vigorously watching  my lessons, JForrest English lessons.

Put that in the comments as well.

That's a great adjective.

Or in this case, adverb to practice vigorous.

I like that one as a useful vigorous leader.

His wife, 48, is a former television presenter  

and helped burnish his image  further with a touch of glamour.

Let's look at burnish his image.

Burnish is a verb.

Remember it as this expression.

Burnish one's image or burnish one's  reputation, and that simply means to improve.

So you could have said and helped improve his  image or help make his image more attractive,  

make his reputation more attractive.

So generally we use this with public  figures like Justin Trudeau or companies.

So Coca cola needs to burnish their image.

They need to improve their  image, make it more attractive.

So his wife, because she was a former television  presenter and apparently quite glamorous,  

she helped burnish his image  with a touch of glamour.

I like this.

A touch of a touch of something  is a small amount of something.

Here's an everyday example.

You could use this dish whatever  you're eating or making.

This dish needs a touch of salt, a touch of  salt, a small amount of salt, a touch of salt.

Or she put on a touch of perfume before her date.

So a small amount of perfume.

She didn't want it to be too  noticeable, just a touch of perfume.

I'll read this part again now.

His wife, 48, is a former television presenter  

and helped burnish his image  further with a touch of glamour.

A small amount of glamour.

The Prime Minister's Office said that  the couple are focused on raising their  

kids in a safe, loving and  collaborative environment.

It added that they will be a constant  presence in their children's lives.

Notice how it said it added.

It added because what's the subject here?

The subject is the Prime Minister's Office  and although this was actually a person  

saying this because they didn't say Joe from  the Prime Minister's Office, if they said  

Joe or Joseline from the Prime Minister's  office, then it would be he or she added.

But because they're talking about  the office is conjugated as it.

It added, the office added that they  will be a constant presence in their  

children's lives and that the family  plan to vacation together next week.

So this is an example of how  the family plans to remain.

What's that adjective close.

So example of how the family  plans to remain close.

They're going to still go on vacations together.

Let's continue.

The couple met in Montreal in  2002, so completed past action.

So that's why we have the past simple  here and we're married three years later.

Notice how we have were married.

That's because the expression  is to be married, to be married.

So you take your verb to be  and then you conjugate that.

In this case it is in the past simple.

And were married three years later after Mr.

Trudeau, who had spent years teaching  in Vancouver, returned to Montreal.

So notice the past perfect here had spent because  on our timeline of past actions we have The couple  

met.

In 2002 they got married and  then he spent years teaching.

So those are all past actions.

But we use the past perfect to show  the older action of these actions.

So he had spent years teaching before he  returned to Montreal and before they got married.

Now notice how I've also been saying get married  

to get married because we use get married to talk  about your transition from not married to married.

So, for example, you could say  

we got married in 2014, we're getting  married next year, We just got married.

Okay.

So this is talking about the transition from not  married to married and that is to get married.

I'll move that here.

Now to be married.

This is used in We are now  married, we are married.

So someone might ask you, oh, are  are you just dating your husband?

Are you boyfriend, girlfriend?

And you can say no, we're married.

We're married.

He's my husband.

She's my wife.

We're married.

We've been married for 10 years.

OK, to be married.

And this is just in the present.

Perfect, because it started in the  past and it continues until now.

We've been married for 10 years.

We are married.

So be married your current state.

Get married.

Is the transition from not married to married?

Nelson Wiseman, a professor of political  science at the University of Toronto,  

said that while Miss Gregoire  Trudeau prominently accompanied  

her husband at public events after he  became Prime Minister, her appearances  

had more recently decreased notably OK  here, so we're using the verb to accompany.

But remember, before, it was in  the gerund form accompanying him,  

often accompanying him, often going with him.

And here is just in the past.

Simple, but the verb is to accompany someone.

You accompany someone, which means you go  with someone to a specific event or location.

So his wife, Miss Gregoire Trudeau,  prominently accompanied her husband  

at public events after he became Prime Minister.

So by saying prominently, it means  she was a very visible figure.

So she was always there by his side,  wearing these beautiful, glamorous clothes.

I imagine she was very prominent.

Her appearances had more  recently decreased notably.

When you say notably, it means that it  was, it's now obvious to the public.

Before she was always there in pictures,  

but now when you see pictures, you  notice like, hey, where is his wife?

I don't see Sophie, I don't see Mrs.

Trudeau.

So that's notably, for example, you  could say she was in a workplace context.

She was notably late, so when you're notably  late, it means everyone knows you were late.

It was obvious.

So if you're just one minute or two  minutes late, that's not very obvious.

But if you show up an hour late or 45  minutes late, that's pretty obvious.

She was notably late, even though the role  of family man was an integral part of Mr.

Trudeau's carefully crafted image.

Mr.

Wiseman, that was the the  professor of political science, Mr.

Wiseman said he foresaw no political  fallout from the separation.

So here separation is being  used as a noun from a noun.

As a noun.

If you wanted to use it as a verb, you  would say from their decision to separate.

That would be how you could  use it from the verb form.

But hear from the separation and you could  say their separation as well, the separation.

Or you could say it's possessive and  it belongs to them, their separation.

Here for saw.

So this is the verb see conjugated in the past.

So see saw.

But when you foresee something, it means you,  you anticipate it, You see it in advance.

So because this just happened, we don't  actually know if they'll be a political fallout.

A political fallout is when  his reputation is damaged.

So a negative impact from the  decision from their separation.

There was a negative impact.

And how could there be a negative impact?

His popularity goes down, his ratings  go down, his public image goes down.

So political fallout, negative  impact, Yeah, that's how I'll say it.

Negative impact political fallout.

It doesn't just have to be a political fallout.

A company could experience a fallout if  they released a product that was defective.

So that could negatively impact  their image or reputation.

OK, so to foresee is when you see it in  advance, you predict it, you anticipate it.

But this just happened.

So right now it's a little premature.

It's too soon to say if there  will be a fallout or not,  

so that's why he's using the  verb for C but conjugation.

He already said this, so  that's why it's in the past.

Simple for saw, but the verb is  to for C So time will tell if  

there will be a political fallout from their  separation from their decision to separate.

And that's the end of the article.

So what I'll do now is I'll go to the beginning  and I'll read the article from start to finish,  

and this time you can focus on my pronunciation.

Justin Trudeau separates  from wife Sophie Gregoire.

The Trudeaus, who have been married for  18 years and who have three children,  

have signed a legal separation agreement.

As always, we remain a close family with  deep love and respect for each other.

For the wellbeing of our children, we ask that  you respect our privacy and their privacy, Mr.

Trudeau said in a post on Instagram.

Mr.

Trudeau's wife and children have played  a prominent role in his political career,  

often accompanying him on trips overseas  after he was elected Prime Minister in 2015.

His young children have  helped craft an image of Mr.

Trudeau, now 51, as a youthful, vigorous leader.

His wife, 48, is a former television presenter  

and helped burnish his image  further with a touch of glamour.

The Prime Minister's Office said that  the couple are focused on raising their  

kids in a safe, loving and  collaborative environment.

It added that they will be a constant  presence in their children's lives and  

that the family plan to  vacation together next week.

The couple met in Montreal in 2002 and  were married three years later after Mr.

Trudeau, who had spent years teaching  in Vancouver, returned to Montreal.

Nelson Wiseman, a professor of political  science at the University of Toronto,  

said that while Miss Gregoire Trudeau  prominently accompanied her husband at  

public events after he became Prime Minister, her  appearances had more recently decreased notably,  

even though the role of family  man was an integral part of Mr.

Trudeau's carefully crafted image, Mr.

Wiseman said he foresaw no political  fallout from the separation.

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