Learn English with a BBC NEWS Article - Advanced Vocabulary Lesson

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When you learn English with the news, it's a great way to learn advanced vocabulary,

complex sentence structure and advanced grammar and natural pronunciation in a really fun

and engaging way.

And make sure you watch right until the end because I want to read the article in full

at the very end, so you can practice along with your pronunciation and I'll also share

the link where you can download the PDF of the lesson that we've reviewed today.

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Welcome to our article, in this article, we're talking about the death of Pele one of the

greatest footballers of all time, or the greatest perhaps in your opinion footballer of all

time.

So let's start with the headline.

Thank you king, Brazil lights up in honor of Pele, so King is what a lot of people refer

to Pele as they also called him king.

So if you see that it also refers to Pele in this instance.

Okay, let's go to our article.

Brazil has woken up to its first thing without footballing legend Pele so here we have an

E irregular verb conjugation.

Now notice this is a phrasal verb because we have the verb and the preposition up woke

up.

Now the base verb is to wake up.

And then in the past, it's woke up, and then in the participle form, it's woken up.

So let's take a look at some different sentences.

So for example, today, what time did you wake up?

Now office today and the action is complete?

What verb tense do you need in your response?

today?

What time did you wake up?

I woke up at 6am I always wake up at 6am I've woken up at 6am for the last 10 years.

So notice, past simple my present simple verb and you know it's the present simple because

I have my adverb of frequency.

Now here it's in the third form and it's in the present perfect verb tense because it's

an action that started in the past and continues until now.

So for this one, if it's he don't forget, you have to conjugate he always wakes up.

And this one he has as a contraction, he's woken up at 6am for the last 10 years.

Now you can wake up to something this is a common sentence structure, you might say today

I woke up to this sound of car alarms.

Or today I woke up to this smell of freshly brewed coffee.

So it was a little more poetic way I've seen this.

And we often use it with our senses things we see things we hear things we smell.

I probably not taste because you probably wouldn't wake up tasting something but I guess

it's possible theoretically.

So notice you have your phrasal verb wake up and remember it you need to conjugate it

so he always wakes up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee.

So what about you?

What do you wake up to if you're a parent, you might say I always wake up to my children

a screaming in the other room so that could be I wake up to my children jumping on me

screaming yelling things like that things your kids do.

So this is a very common expression.

So here Brazil has woken up to its first day that is the something in this case in my example

it was screaming children is first day without footballing legend Pele let me include without

because without is a preposition.

So grammatically, what do you need if your verb follows a preposition?

You need a Jaren verb because it's a preposition.

So plus Geron.

So you might say, for example, using our expression we just learn today for the first time I woke

up without hearing my kids screaming today for the first time I woke up without and then

you need a gerund verb without hearing my kids screaming.

So that could be a good sentence structure to practice because you also combine it with

a preposition and your gerund.

for All right, let's continue on.

The king who won three World Cups and was widely considered the greatest footballer

of all time, died at the age of 82 in Sao Paulo on Thursday.

All right, widely.

This is an adverb ever and it means by many by many, so he was considered by many the

greatest footballer he was widely considered.

Now notice.

The article does not say considered as this is a mistake that many native speakers may

we include as after considered when in fact, it is not necessary.

So you do not need as here now many native speakers make this mistake and you might hear

native speakers.

So you might wonder why are they using us?

Mainly because when we use regarded we do use as regarded as the greatest footballer

with considered we don't need as so considered the greatest footballer so notice that difference

there.

So coming back to widely remember widely is an adverb that means by many, so you can say

English is widely spoken around the world which is why you're learning it right English

is widely spoken around the world or you might say that's a widely held belief.

So I didn't specify what the belief is.

Maybe the belief is that Pele was the greatest footballer of all time.

That's a widely held belief.

It's a belief held by many.

So notice the placement of our adverb because we put it right after the verb to be English

is widely spoken.

Let's continue on.

Overnight Pele space shown on buildings across the South American nation and landmarks were

lit up in his memory.

Okay, here shown this means illuminated on.

So this is the past simple of the verb shine like the sun shines so our infinitive is to

shine.

Our base verb is of course shine.

For example, this sun shines brightly.

And then the past form is either shined or shown shown.

Now notice the pronunciation is the exact same as shown, shown shown they're exactly

the same shown on shown so yesterday the sun shined or shone

brightly.

I would probably say in American English shines is more common, but I do hear shown a lot

so I think it's probably worth knowing that both of them are acceptable.

And the third form is only shine we don't use shown and the third form just shine.

The sun has shined since nine an action that started in the past and continues until now.

And of course in this case, we're talking about his face being illuminated.

So you could just like you can you look up and you see the sun shining you can see his

face shining, so illuminate it, His face shone so that's what that means there.

You'll probably more likely use it with the sun, but now you know the different conjugations.

Overnight Peles face shone on buildings across the South American nation and landmarks were

lit up in his memory.

So to be lit up again, this is another way of saying illuminated so the bridge had lights

on it buildings had lights on it, so to be lit up that's our verb to be there.

And then our verb to be is in the past simple and then you can think of this as illuminated.

Okay, fans took to the streets dress and his iconic number 10 shirt.

So this is just an expression.

It just means fans left their house and went to the streets.

It's just a way of seeing it.

It's not really that commonly used, but we use it more when there is a mass group of

people so in this case, it's a positive thing because they're going to mourn him to mourn

is when you show respect for somebody who has died.

Like Pele in this case.

So fans took to the streets a large number of people were on the streets as a group.

Now this is also used in negative so you might see this in the news a lot when talking about

protests or riots.

So for example, you might see now 1000s of people took to the streets to protest the

election results, for example, so 1000s of people took to the streets.

So you can think of it as gathered as a group in public and usually outside which is the

reference to street because streets are outside so I'll just add that in public.

Outside.

Let's continue on.

Brazil's government has declared three days of national mourning.

Now let's look at this here, because I mentioned it in the last example to mourn.

This is a verb to mourn and this is when you pay respect to someone especially in a death.

So you either you feel sadness, but then usually you express it as well.

You express that sadness.

So that's to mourn you could say the world is mourning the death of Pele or you could

say the world is mourning hellacious depth.

So notice here I use the present continuous is mourning because it's an action taking

place now, and notice in this case, are put the death of now these two sentences have

exactly the same meaning Kelly's death the death of Pele.

The reason why my first example I chose to use the death of because we want to emphasize

that because that's what mourning is about.

It's usually about the death.

So I put that first but you can absolutely put Pele's death as well.

Sometimes we refer to someone's death as passing so you could say the world is mourning the

passing of Pele, which means death.

It's some people don't like using the word death because Oh, it's death, right?

It's so negative.

So I guess passing sounds nicer and nicer way of saying it but in reality, it's the

same thing.

But you might see this.

Let's continue on.

fans started gathering outside so Palouse Albert Einstein hospital on Thursday afternoon,

when they heard news appellees death I was signed a banner red eternal King pellet All

right.

Started is one of those verbs, that is an optional Geron verb.

So you have the verb start.

And when I say start is a gerund verb, it means the verb that comes next is in the gerund

form.

Just like we talked about prepositions earlier.

With out gathering.

Okay, so just to use the same verb.

Now you must use without gathering you cannot say, without to gather.

You can't use the infinitive because without is a preposition and you must use a gerund

verb following prepositions.

So this one's correct.

This one's wrong.

Other verbs in English there are some optional verbs.

So start is one of those verbs you can use started to gather or started gathering.

And in this case, they're both correct if you want to make it easy on yourself, I would

just remember that start is a gerund verb.

So start is a gerund verb.

Remember, it means that the verb that follows start is an ING form.

And that way, it's just easier for you because using the gerund is always correct.

It will always sound proper.

So you could say, I started going to the gym, I started eating vegetables.

With every meal, or just fit with the context of this lesson.

I started playing soccer.

Sorry, force of habit.

American English, we say we say soccer.

I'll say football.

I started playing football.

All right.

So remember, just to be on the safe side.

Consider start a gerund verb.

But if you're confused why you see it in the infinitive form, just know that it is acceptable

to use the infinitive but to be on the safe side, I recommend using the germ.

All right, let's continue on.

Kelly had been undergoing treatment for colon cancer since 2021.

Knowing his condition was worsening, Brazilians had spent weeks reflecting on his life and

legacy.

Notice our verb tense in both of these had been undergoing had spent weeks reflecting

okay.

The reason why is in the past perfect continuous is because Pele is now dead.

Right?

So they're talking about an action that started in the past, but it is now complete.

The action is not taking place anymore because Pele is dead.

And they're talking about it taking place before another action.

Now if Pele were still alive, you could say Pele has been undergoing treatment for and

this is he's still undergoing treatment.

Now, which we know is not true because he's dead right?

So that's why because he's dead.

That's why we switch to the past perfect continuous.

So this is the past perfect.

And this is the present

perfect continuous.

Let's continue on.

The hospital issued a statement confirming his death for multiple organ failure connected

to his cancer.

Notice here we have our gerund for now you might be wondering, why is this in the gerund?

Because think about the sentence structure we have here's our subject, the hospital subject,

and then we have our verb, the hospital issue.

So this is our verb and it's in the past simple.

So we already have our verb they issued a statement.

Now in this case, we're talking about the action and the action is in what the statement

is doing.

So the statement is confirming, so we're just talking about the action so that's why it's

in the gerund form.

The hospital issued a statement confirming so that's why it's in the gerund form.

Let's continue on.

But in a reflection of his status, the hospital added it shared the suffering felt by the

family and everyone over the loss of our beloved king of football.

So this is a way the hospital is mourning the loss because remember to mourn means to

express sadness over a death right?

So by issuing this statement, they are in fact mourning.

The hospital is mourning his death.

Okay, let's continue on.

One man standing outside the FIA SP I'm not sure if that's pronounced as something building

in Sao Paulo as it displayed a colorful tribute spoke of the intensity of feeling for Pele.

So again, this is another person mourning the loss of the death of the passing of or

simply mourning Pele.

It is indescribable to say at this moment what we are going through here, the loss wirelessly

gi madres.

Hopefully I said that right.

What is leaky, Mario's told Reuters news agency so the verb to go through something.

This is a phrasal verb because you have go and then you have the preposition through

to go through something.

This is always used in a negative context.

So to experience something negative or difficult, I would say.

And we use this a lot in more of a general context like I'm I've been going through a

tough time, says my father's death.

So I'm using the present perfect continuous because it started in the past.

It continues until now, since my father's death I know my keyword is sense.

And then go through I've been going through a tough time, a difficult time you can use

tough or difficult both of those are very common.

And remember this is negative to go through something this something is negative.

Our last paragraph tributes have poured in from the late footballer including from Brazil

forward nine Mar who said before Pele football was only a sport okay to pour in this is a

phrasal verb and it means to arrive quickly.

Now because think of rain when it's pouring rain, the rain is coming down really hard.

So you can imagine these tributes are arriving.

But they're arriving quickly just like the rain when it's pouring down.

So you could say is pouring outside which means is raining very hard.

You could also say complaints poured in after we canceled the conference.

So you canceled the conference.

And you received a lot of complaints a complaint is somebody saying something negative I don't

like this.

Why did you do this?

I'm upset I'm not happy.

That's a complaint something negative.

So arrived quickly.

They were received quickly they have complaints poured in.

So we generally use this with information that you receive.

In this case the complaint that's a negative, but tributes tributes or something positive

said about someone else generally after they have died.

So tributes have poured and tributes have arrived in a large volume and quickly.

Tributes have poured aim for the late footballer.

Now late in this context is a way of saying the dead footballer in this case.

Remember before I said death some people don't like seeing death so they change it to passing.

In this case we rarely say the dead footballer that just seems very abrupt or impolite.

Just not commonly said so not commonly said but that's what it means the late footballer

that means he's dead.

So when you see a sentence like this one, my late uncle was always late.

We have the word late twice, but there are two very different meanings and this one means

dead my dead uncle, my uncle who was no longer living.

My late uncle was always late was always arriving after he said he would so that of course is

late.

But my late uncle we use a possessive with it because it would be my uncle right so I'm

using an adjective to describe it my late uncle and in this case, the adjective late

which means dead comes before the person whereas here to be late you need the verb to be to

be late.

So to be late means arriving after this scheduled time, right?

So this sentence structure will make it obvious and the context will make it obvious as well.

So that's the article.

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 and practice along with my pronunciation.

So let's do that now.

Thank you king Brazil lights up in honor of Pele Brazil.

has woken up to its first day without footballing legend Pele, the King, who won three World

Cups and was widely considered the greatest footballer of all time, died at the age of

82 in Sao Paulo on Thursday.

Overnight, Pele's face shone on buildings across the South American nation, and landmarks

were lit up in his memory.

Fans took to the streets dressed in his iconic number 10 shirt, Brazil's government has declared

three days of national mourning fans started gathering outside South Palouse Albert Einstein

hospital on Thursday afternoon when they heard news appellees Death outside a banner red

eternal King Pele Pele had been undergoing treatment for colon cancer sent 2021 Knowing

his condition was worsening, resilient had spent weeks reflecting on his life and legacy.

The hospital issued a statement confirming his death or multiple organ failure connected

to his cancer.

But in a reflection of his status, the hospital added it shared the suffering felt by the

family and everyone over the loss of our beloved king of football.

One man standing outside the FIA SP building in Sao Paulo, as it displayed a colorful tribute

spoke of the intensity of feeling for Pele.

It is indescribable to say at this moment what we are going through here though loss

witness Lee Maoris told Reuters news agency tributes have Horton for the late footballer

including from Brazil forward Neymar, who said before Pele football was only a sport.

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