Read A News Article With Me! (Learn English with News)

Hello, my amazing students.

Today you're going to improve  all areas of your English.

And we're going to do that by  reading a news article together.

Welcome back to JForrest English, of course.

I'm Jennifer.

Now let's get started.

First, I'll read the headline.

Biden Administration Unveils strictest  Ever US Car Emission Limits to Boost EVs.

First of all, do you know what this stands for?

EVs.

Maybe it will help the fact he's in a car.

So the V stands for vehicle  and the E stands for electric.

So EVs electric vehicles.

And of course the verb to boost.

That means to increase,  That's why you're here, right?

To boost your English fluency.

To boost your vocabulary.

To boost your confidence.

To boost your English.

That's why you're here.

Right put.

That's right.

That's right, put.

That's right in the comments.

Because of course, you're here to  boost your total English fluency.

Now, in this article, the Biden  administration unveils unveils.

This is another word for reveals and both of them  mean to make known to show for the first time.

And the Biden administration is  unveiling revealing the strictest ever  

US car emission limits and the reason  why they're limiting the emissions.

This is what is produced from gas powered  cars, which harms the environment.

So they're trying to limit those in an  attempt to increase electric vehicles,  

the sales of So that's what  we're discussing in this article.

Now don't worry about writing  all these notes down because  

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Now let's get into the article so  you can boost your English vocab.

President Joe Biden has announced the strictest  regulation on a vehicle exhaust emissions ever  

introduced in the US OK, so first of  all, notice what verb tense is this?

President Joe Biden has announced  this is the present perfect.

And why are they using the present perfect here?

It's a completed pass action.

So the regulation was announced maybe last week.

So this is a completed pass action,  but there is a result in the present.

So now car makers have to  follow these regulations.

That's the result in the present.

So that's why this is in the present perfect  and the president did that in a bid two.

So in this case all bid means an attempt.

So notice that article because we have all  bid because bid begins with a consonant.

But if you use attempt, which  has the same meaning, you need.

And because attempt starts with a vowel  sound in an attempt to accelerate.

Accelerate means increase the speed  or progress of so to boost it faster,  

to increase it faster in a bid to.

Now, technically you don't even need those words.

You could just say in the US to accelerate the  auto industry shift to electric vehicles and you  

could just remove in a bid in an attempt  and it would have the exact same meaning.

Because in English when you have to  accelerate, it can mean in order to accelerate.

Let's review these three sentences  to boost your vocabulary.

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That's right, that's right, you  already put it in the comments.

But but that's right again  to boost your vocabulary.

Here, students, they get confused.

Sometimes they think this is the infinitive,  but technically it's in order to.

In order to boost your  vocabulary, you should subscribe.

But native speakers, we almost always  remove the words in order because it's  

implied based on context to boost your vocabulary.

I know this means in order  to because otherwise it's  

incorrect to start a sentence with the infinitive.

So it must mean in order in  order to boost your vocabulary.

Now what about this one?

Boosting your English will help  accelerate your career growth,  

and that's why you should  subscribe to J Forest English.

That's right.

So boosting.

This is what type of sentence?

A gerund sentence for a general statement.

How about this one?

Subscribe to J Forest English if  you want to boost your fluency.

What type of sentence is this?

It's the imperative.

It begins with the base verb.

And I'm giving you an instruction.

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Click the subscribe button.

So I'm giving you that instruction.

So this is a very common  sentence structure in English.

Don't let it confuse you.

It means in order.

But we just leave that out.

Which is why you can get rid  of all of this and just say  

in the US to accelerate the auto  industry shift to electric cars.

So the industry shift to electric cars,  so right now we use gas powered cars.

So the shift would be going  from one thing to another.

That's why it's the shift to electric cars.

You could say the shift from  electric or from gas powered  

cars to electric cars EVs Electric vehicles.

Let's continue.

It includes so this it represents the regulation.

This is the singular noun that  was introduced previously,  

so you can use it when the subject has already  been introduced and is known to the audience.

It includes.

So don't forget that S because  you're conjugating it with it,  

which is present simple third person singular.

It includes a target for 6056% of all new  US vehicles sold to be electric by 2032,  

a huge increase from current levels.

So huge is a great choice.

You probably already know this one.

To sound a little stronger,  or to sound more advanced.

More formal, you could say a significant,  a significant increase from current levels,  

or substantial A substantial  increase from current levels.

Significant and substantial are  also important because they can  

be used with uncountable nouns like experience.

So if you're talking about your experience  in a job interview, you should say I have  

significant experience, I have substantial  experience, and then you need your gerund verb.

I have significant experience  creating, writing, preparing,  

drafting, working on whatever your experience is.

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Now let's continue with our lesson  in a concession to car makers.

The goal was softened from last year's draft.

So remember they're talking  about the new regulations.

So there's this target for 56% of all new  US vehicles sold to be electric by 2032.

But they're saying this was softened, which  means that either this number was higher,  

so maybe 80% or even 60% would be  higher or the timeline was sooner.

So maybe it was 56% of new car  sales, but it was by 20-30.

So by softening it, they're  making it more achievable.

They're extending the timeline or or they're  reducing the the burden by how much is required.

So that would be softening it.

The goal was softened from last year's draft.

So this is a concession to car makers.

When you make a concession, it means you give up  

something you want in order to  make the other person happier.

So let's say you and your friend, your  family, your significant other, your kids.

You want to go on vacation and  you really want a beach vacation.

But the person you're going with  does not want to go to the beach.

They want to go somewhere  else, go on a city vacation.

So maybe you make a concession and you say, OK,  

we won't go to the beach, we'll go to  this city, we'll go to Disney World,  

as long as we stay at a hotel with a pool  so you can get the beach environment.

So you give up something.

You want the beach vacation, but you're  doing it to make the other person happier.

So obviously this happens a lot in negotiations  and in this case in politics as well.

But it can also be in your everyday lives.

Let's continue.

But the Biden administration says it will  still dramatically reduce planet warming gases.

So these are more commonly  called greenhouse gases.

And the IT again is the regulation,  the regulation it introduced.

So says it.

The regulation will still reduce now  dramatically means to a large degree.

So you could also say significantly reduce or  

substantially reduce and hopefully you'll  say I've dramatically boosted my English.

Now notice I've added dramatically as our  adverb to modify how much you've increased.

I've dramatically boosted my English.

And what verb tense is this?

I have boosted, I have dramatically boosted.

This is the present perfect, and  again it's a completed past action.

But there is a result in the present.

I've dramatically boosted my English,  

so now I can get a promotion or travel  confidently or whatever you want to do.

Wednesdays regulation will prevent 7 billion,  

so this BN is the short form for billion 7  billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

So notice the tons takes the  S but the billion does not.

So $7 billion.

Perhaps that's why Elon Musk  earned yesterday $7 billion.

The S is on dollars.

So here, notice the S is on tons  and then I'll just write billion.

So you remember, it's in singular because  you don't want to say 7 billions, tons,  

7 billion tons of carbon dioxide  emissions over the next 30 years.

So Wednesday's regulation, this just means  the regulation that was released on Wednesday.

So you can just shorten that by saying Wednesday's  regulation, Monday's dinner was delicious.

Tuesday's speech at work was inspirational.

Thursday's lesson was amazing  because it boosted my English.

So instead of saying the lesson I watched  on Thursday, the dinner I ate on Monday.

You can say Monday's dinner, Thursday's lesson.

Just remember to make the noun  possessive so the the day,  

the day of the week will take the possession.

Monday's dinner.

The dinner belongs to Monday.

According to the Environmental Protection  Agency, the new measure increasingly limits,  

year by year, the amount of pollution  permitted from vehicle exhaust.

OK, so we have pollution from vehicle exhaust.

So under the new measure, which is the  regulation, Wednesday's regulation,  

the topic of this article, every year the  limit of vehicle exhaust emissions increases.

So in 2024, maybe it's 10 percent.

2025 it's 15 percent.

2026, it's 20%.

So that is the increasingly limits year by year.

Every year the the limit increases.

Car makers that do not meet the new  standards will face stiff fines.

A fine is a financial penalty that you have to  pay if you don't follow a rule or a regulation.

And stiff is an adjective that describes  the fine, the financial penalty.

And stiff means significant or substantial.

We're getting a lot of views  out of these two words.

It can also mean in this context, severe that  was really severe or that was really harsh.

It was more than you expected or  anticipated given your actions.

So for example, parking ticket, that  is a common fine financial penalty  

that I'm sure everyone here has had at  least one parking ticket in their life.

So you could say $200 for a  parking ticket, that's stiff.

So that's a significant amount of  money, a substantial amount of money.

And considering all I did was park in  front of this office for 5 minutes,  

that's pretty harsh or severe.

So you can say that's stiff, that's stiff.

You can also say that's a stiff.

That's a stiff fine.

So here stiff is describing fine.

So if you got rid of stiff, you have.

That's all.

Fine, fine.

Not as I'm fine.

Fine is a financial penalty, right?

So that's all fine.

What type of fine?

That's a stiff fine.

That's a stiff fine.

Or you can just say that is stiff.

That's harsh.

That's severe.

That's significant.

All right.

So hopefully you don't have to say that  when you get your next parking ticket,  

companies will still be able to  make petrol powered vehicles.

So petrol.

This is another word for gas.

This article is from the BBC.

Now in North America we don't really say petrol,  although of course we know what it means.

We say gas, gas powered vehicles so long as they  

are a shrinking percentage  of their total product line.

So a company, let's take Toyota.

Their total product line would be all the  different types of cars that Toyota sells.

I don't know cars.

I cannot name one car Camry,  Toyota, Corolla, Corolla, Camry.

So those are the cars in the product line,  the different types of cars that Toyota sells.

So as long as the gas powered cars  is shrinking, it's getting smaller.

So you could say my fear of speaking is  shrinking as my vocabulary increases.

Hopefully you could say that.

So shrinking means getting smaller.

So I wrote here.

My fear of speaking is shrinking, getting smaller  as I'm boosting, increasing my vocabulary.

So hopefully you relate to this.

So put that's me, that's me.

You're getting a lot of use out of this,  but that's me in the comments as well.

The US is taking a more moderate approach than  the European Union and UK so moderate approach.

I already know that this suggests that the  rules, the regulations in the European Union  

and the UK are harsher, are stricter than the  US because the US is taking a more moderate  

approach which will ban all sales of new  petrol powered cars from 2035 S In the US.

This new regulation is 56% of all  new sales must be electric by 2032.

But in the European Union and UK they're banning  

all sales of new gas powered cars in  the US Gas powered cars from 2035.

Wow, that does sound quite severe, quite harsh.

Because remember, ban means not allowed.

So if you try to buy a new car in  the UK in 2036, it must be an EV,  

an electric vehicle, because at that point  in 2036, gas powered cars will be banned.

One of the rare times you can use  the future perfect in English.

By 2036 gas powered vehicles will be  banned in the UKI wrote this down for you.

By 2036 gas powered vehicles will  have been banned in the UK and EU.

Let's continue.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced last year  

he was delaying the British ban by five  years from its original deadline of 2030.

Whoa.

So that's even more harsh when you think about it.

But they extended it probably because that  would have been very difficult to implement.

The American car industry pointed  to slower electric vehicle.

So now they're giving you the  definition here, electric vehicle.

We already learned this is Evie electric vehicle  sales growth in objecting to a draft of the rules  

last year that would have ensured such vehicles  accounted for 67% of all new cars sold in 2032.

Let's review this sentence if the  regulation had been passed because  

here they had a draft regulation,  but this regulation wasn't passed.

I know this simply because of the grammar  and the fact that this is a conditional.

So we have our if clause and in this  case we have the past perfect If the  

regulation had been passed, it would  have required EV electric vehicle  

sales to account for 67% of total  sales by 2032, but it wasn't passed.

So the regulation that was passed is the  current one and it requires electric vehicle  

sales to account for 56% because remember,  it was softened, it was made less severe.

So previously the draft regulation was 67%,  but that number was softened to 56% percent.

So it was made less severe and part of the reason  

it was softened was because  of the slower EV sales growth.

So this Ev's electric  

vehicles made-up less than 8%  of all new car sales last year.

So I guess that would have been 2023.

So to go from 8% to 67% in such a short period  of time perhaps would have been unrealistic.

So they softened it to 56%.

And remember, they made a concession.

So they gave up.

The government gave up some of what they  wanted to make the car makers happy.

The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a  trade group representing the car industry,  

welcomed the slower pace of the roll out.

So when something is rolled out, it  means that it is gradually introduced.

Now grammatically here roll out is a noun.

I know that because of the sentence structure and  

I see the article the roll  out, so it must be a noun.

The verb form is to roll out, so  a phrasal verb, the verb roll,  

which you conjugate, and then  you have your preposition out,  

and that means to introduce, but is most  frequently used as a gradual introduction.

We're rolling out the new regulation  this year, so this is in what verb tense?

We're rolling out present continuous  because it's in progress now.

We're rolling out the new regulation this year.

So it means they're introducing it this year, but  most likely it will be a gradual introduction.

So this year perhaps 10% of sales must be  EVs, next year 15, next year 20, next year 25.

So they're rolling it out.

It will be gradual or this year, this  part of the regulation is effective.

Next year, another part is effective.

So different parts are introduced  at different times as well.

So that's the phrasal verb to roll out, most  commonly used with government proposals, plans.

But it can also of course be used with  companies proposals, plans and schools,  

institutions, anyone's proposals or plans.

And it can be used as the  noun, the rollout or a rollout.

So the Alliance for Automotive Innovation  welcomed the slower pace of the rollout.

So the introduction is going to be slower.

So every year perhaps less  of a percentage is required.

Now notice I went from here, the Alliance for  Automotive Innovation, the name of this group,  

to here, because this information in the middle  between the commas is additional information.

But you can delete it entirely from the sentence  

because grammatically this verb  is conjugated with the subject.

So this has nothing to do with  the grammar of the sentence.

The Alliance for Automotive Innovation  welcomed the slower pace of the rollout,  

but said the goal was still  extraordinarily ambitious.

Let's review these two sentences.

That's extraordinary.

So if you told me you just got a promotion  because you boosted your English fluency  

and felt so confident going to job interviews  and communicating that you got a promotion,  

I would say that's extraordinary.

So that's really amazing.

That's really great.

So that's extraordinary.

Without any other context, it  sounds like a positive thing.

So extraordinary is an adjective.

But here that's extraordinarily adverb.

Notice the pronunciation pronunciation?

That's extraordinarily ambitious.

That sounds more like a negative  thing, because extraordinarily  

sounds too much more than expected, so  more ambition than needed or wanted.

So notice, as an adjective, that's  extraordinary pronunciation.

That's extraordinarily,  extraordinarily adverb ambitious.

So make sure you're using  those two words correctly  

and also that you have your pronunciation correct.

And that's the end of our article.

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.

So let's do that now.

Biden Administration Unveils Strictest Ever US  Car Emission limits To boost EVs President Joe  

Biden has announced the strictest regulation  on vehicle exhaust emissions ever introduced  

in the US in a bid to accelerate the  auto industry shift to electric cars.

It includes a target for 56% of all new  US vehicles sold to be electric by 2032,  

a huge increase from current levels.

In a concession to car makers, the goal  was softened from last year's draft,  

but the Biden administration says it will  still dramatically reduce planet warming gases.

Wednesday's regulation will prevent 7  billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions  

over the next 30 years, according to  the Environmental Protection Agency.

The new measure increasingly limits,  

year by year, the amount of pollution  permitted from vehicle exhausts.

Car makers that do not meet the new  standards will face stiff fines.

Companies will still be able to make  petrol powered vehicles so long as  

they are a shrinking percentage  of their total product line.

the US is taking a more moderate  approach than the European Union and UK,  

which will ban all sales of new  petrol powered cars from 2035.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced last year  

he was delaying the British ban by five  years from his original deadline of 2030.

The American car industry pointed  to slower electric vehicle EV sales  

growth in objecting to a draft of  the rules last year that would have  

insured such vehicles accounted for  67% of all new cars sold in 2032.

Evie's made-up less than 8% of  all new car sales last year.

The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a  trade group representing the car industry,  

welcomed the slower pace of the rollout, but said  the goal was still extraordinarily ambitious.

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