Read an English Article with Me | Reading & Listening Method

Today, you're going to improve your  

English fluency fast with this  reading and listening method.

We're going to read a news article on a viral  

topic to help you improve  all areas of your English.

Welcome back to JForrest English.

Of course, I'm Jennifer.

Now let's get started.

Our headline why the viral Dubai  chocolate bar is all over TikTok.

Have you seen this chocolate bar?

Have you tried this chocolate bar?

This is my first this time seeing the chocolate  bars, so share your answer in the comments.

Now let's take a look about at this.

We have why is this headline a question?

What do you think?

Is this a question or is this a statement?

This is a statement and we know that  because of the placement of the verb.

So in a statement form, you  can have AWH then the subject.

What's the subject here?

The subject is all of this  the viral Dubai chocolate bar,  

which could be summarized as the  subject it why it is all over TikTok?

So we have WH subject verb  for a statement and then in  

the question form we would just  change the subject and the verb.

So we have WH verb subject.

Why is the chocolate bar all over TikTok?

I'm asking you as a question.

I don't know, do you?

Why is the chocolate bar all over TikTok?

And you can reply and say the chocolate bar is  all over TikTok because it's delicious perhaps.

And then you can use Y to form a statement to  suggest you're going to provide the reason you  

commonly see this statement with AWH,  such as Y with additional information.

For example, here's why.

Here is why the chocolate bar is all over TikTok.

This is why.

Or let's review 3 reasons why, which  is a very common way to start an essay,  

a presentation, a meeting, or  many other formal purposes.

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Now let's learn why it's all over TikTok.

I first saw it it being the viral chocolate bar.

I first saw it on my feed  in the beginning of August.

So one important point, when you are learning  new words or when you're reviewing something,  

make sure you always pay  attention to these prepositions.

Something is on your feed in the  beginning of August for social media.

You would also use the preposition  on if you specified the platform.

I first saw it on YouTube, my platform of choice,  

or I first saw it on TikTok because that's  where this chocolate bar went viral.

Now on my feed, this isn't specific to a platform.

You could add on my YouTube feed on my TikTok feed  now, just to make it a little confusing for you,  

the preposition choices in the beginning  of something in the middle of something.

For example, a season in the middle  of summer, we went on vacation.

But if you use and we change the preposition to  at, at the end of, at the end of of something, at  

the end of the class, at the end of the movie, at  the end of summer or August, whatever it might be.

So just remember in the beginning, middle, But  at the end, you could say I commented, let's go  

in the beginning of this lesson because we have  a duration being the beginning, middle and end.

We could say we're still in the beginning.

So why don't you comment, Let's go,  let's go in the beginning of this lesson.

And then this is true.

So notice I commented.

That's a completed pass action  because you already did it.

And then you can say I commented, let's go  in the beginning portion of this lesson.

Let's continue A thick so  thick, thin, thick, thin.

A thick brick like so saying is brick like  is comparing it perhaps in shape to a brick.

So a brick what you make houses out of.

For example, a thick brick like  chocolate bar filled with filled  

with is the phrasal verb to mean on the inside.

So the inside contains and the majority of  it contains a pistachio green substance.

So pistachio green tells you what color of  green because there are many other colors,  

dark green, Forest Green, for example.

So this is pistachio green filled with  is commonly used in an everyday context.

I could say this lesson is  filled with important vocabulary.

Hopefully you agree as well.

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This lesson is filled with So to be filled  filled represents the adjective it describes.

It is filled with important vocabulary.

So in this case, the chocolate bar is  filled with a pistachio green substance  

that both looked gooey and sounded  crunchy whenever someone took a bite.

Do you know what gooey means?

Gooey is used most frequently  as an adjective to describe  

food and it's soft, semi liquid and sticky.

So as just looking at this, it's  soft semi liquid and if you were  

to touch this after you would want to wash  your hands because they would be sticky.

So you could say cookies are best when they're  fresh out of the oven because they're still gooey.

Generally, gooey is a positive  adjective when describing food.

Some people may not like things that are  gooey, but in general it sounds positive.

Now you could potentially use it to other things  that cause your fingers or hands to become sticky.

For example, glue is gooey, it leaves sticky  semi liquid stickiness on your fingers,  

but it is most commonly used with  food and specifically baked goods.

Now let's take a look at whenever  whenever someone took a bite,  

so took a bite, you could also say had a bite.

So it's just simply to bite  to bite the chocolate now.

Whenever means anytime.

Anytime.

This is commonly used in the past.

Simple to mean anytime in the past when  this action happened, this action happened.

You can also use it in the present.

Simple.

Whenever I use glue.

So anytime I use glue.

So it's a repeated habitual event.

The present simple.

Whenever I use glue, I get goo on my clothes.

So do you know what goo is?

Well gooey is the adjective that describes  something that is soft, semi liquid, and sticky.

Goo is the noun.

It refers to it as a something.

So it's a sticky substance.

So if I have something sticky on my  sweater, oh, I have some goo on my sweater,  

so you can use that after eating gooey  cookies, you have goo on your sweater.

Or when using glue or other sticky substances.

Whenever I use glue.

So a repeated event, in this case, the present.

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Once I eventually saw.

So notice here once I saw now eventually saw  means that this person saw the chocolate bar,  

but after a period of time of not seeing it.

So it sounds like this chocolate bar was viral,  

perhaps on this person's feed for a  period of time before she noticed it.

So once I eventually saw, after a delay,  once I eventually saw what has been dubbed.

Do you know what this word means?

Notice the pronunciation dubbed.

So this Ed is a very soft dubbed dubbed.

So you have to go from AB  directly to a soft D dubbed.

If something is dubbed something, it  means that is the name it has been given,  

likely by a mass amount to  people or the media perhaps.

So people call this the viral Dubai chocolate.

That's what people refer to it as.

It has been dubbed.

This is commonly used with  famous or prominent people.

For example, the athlete was dubbed a  legend after breaking several records.

Let's continue the fixed bar.

So this is the name of the  viral Dubai chocolate bar.

The fixed bar has undoubtedly, undoubtedly.

Let's review this word.

Let's review this example.

I'm sorry I doubted you.

I'm sorry, I doubted, doubted.

So notice this B is not pronounced, and  then this T is pronounced as a soft D.

Doubted, doubted, doubted.

I'm sorry I doubted you.

If you doubt someone, it means that  you have uncertainty or a lack of  

confidence in one's actions or, or what they say.

So if a friend says I will pick you up  at 7:00 and take you to the airport,  

but then you order a taxi just in case.

So your friend comes and sees there's a taxi  there and you say I'm sorry I doubted you.

I'm sorry, I didn't have confidence that  you were going to pick me up at 7:00.

So in this pronunciation here, you just  take the doubted and then add LY doubted.

Lee undoubtedly.

So you also have to add the UN.

Undoubtedly, undoubtedly, the fixed  bar has undoubtedly sparked a movement.

If it sparked a movement, it  means it created a movement.

A movement was created because of the fixed bar.

So it is what caused or created the movement.

Now undoubtedly, as an adverb is used  to emphasize that something is true.

So whatever the statement is without  the word, without the adverb.

So for example, you could say learning  English will help you in your career.

That's just a simple statement.

Learning English will let me remove this.

So this is grammatically correct.

Learning English will help you in your career.

Now, if I want to emphasize that this is  a true statement, in my opinion at least,  

I can add the word undoubtedly before  the verb, before the main verb.

Learning English will undoubtedly  help you in your career.

If you agree with this statement and if  that's why you're here learning with me,  

then put that's right, that's  right in the comments below.

So the fixed bar has  undoubtedly sparked a movement.

So it just emphasizes that the fixed bar, the  chocolate bar has caused or created a movement,  

which has of course led to price gouging on resale  

sites like eBay where some bars  are going for upwards of $50.00.

So do you know what price gouging is?

Price gouging ow ow gouging is when  the price is raised significantly.

But this is generally illegal if  you raise the prices of things  

for example in an emergency or crisis  or when there are shortage of things.

And this is often done when a  product becomes viral as well.

So price gouging, charging you way more  than the product is actually worth.

Price risk gouging on resale sites  like eBay where some bars are going for  

going for means this is what the price is.

So these bars are going for $50.00, the price  is $50.00 and upwards of means 50 or more.

Someone in South Africa reportedly  paid around $56 for one.

Now, reportedly, this word is used to suggest that  

we don't know this is 100% true,  but this is what we have heard.

So what other people have told us,  what other people have reported.

So this word adds some doubt to  whether this is actually true.

Let's continue.

The owner says seeing the dupes is  both thrilling and a bit overwhelming.

The word dupe is the short  form of the word duplicate,  

which is a copy or replica of something and  there's an S on it because it's a plural noun.

The duplicate chocolate bars.

So there's more than one, so that's  why this pronunciation is OOP.

Duplicate, duplicate,  duplicates, dupes, the dupes.

Just like if you see someone selling a purse  

with the Louis Vuitton logo on the  sidewalk for $20, that's a dupe.

That's not the actual Louis Vuitton  purse, but it looks like it.

It's a replica, a duplicate.

So it sounds like the people  buying these chocolate bars,  

it's not even the real chocolate bar.

It's a dupe, a duplicate.

Adding that her team is dedicated to keeping Fix.

Remember, this is the name of the chocolate bar  company Fix unique and of the highest quality.

Now what do you notice here dedicated to keeping?

That's because the verb dedicated to to  be dedicated to you need this verb to be.

This is a gerund expression.

So the verb that comes next is in  the ING form because this preposition  

is not part of the verb is part of  the expression to be dedicated to.

This is very commonly used  by businesses or individuals  

to talk about their their goals or their purpose.

For example, this channel is dedicated  to helping you become fluent.

So make sure you subscribe or this channel  is dedicated to teaching you English.

So again, subscribe or I could  say I'm but remember it's to  

be be dedicated to and then your verb  in ING or you could also use a noun.

So here this channel it it  because this is the subject it.

But if I say I, then it's I am as a contraction.

I'm I'm dedicated to creating  amazing lessons for my students.

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OK, continues on saying ensure that their  chocolate is unlike anything else out there.

The lore created around the bar.

The lore for pronunciation.

Notice it's the same as or  and then just add an L Lore.

Lore.

So this lore represents stories,  posts or details shared by people.

Is generally used for traditional  

stories, ancient stories that are  shared from generation to generation.

I don't commonly see it  used in such a recent issue.

I generally see it for traditional  knowledge, but in this case it's being used.

The lore stories created around the bar  has hungry social media users drooling.

So when you drool.

This is generally used for for when  someone is extremely hungry or when  

someone is looking at something that looks so  delicious that saliva comes out of your mouth.

Dogs drool all the time.

Animals drool.

We use this more for humans.

Not that actual saliva is  coming out of our mouths,  

but just to say that something looks so delicious.

Oh, I was drooling when I saw those  gooey cookies come out of the oven.

Now of course there isn't  actual drool saliva on my face.

It's more metaphor Oracle.

I traveled over an hour to taste it for myself,  

and the people in the room with  me were whispering about it.

Whispering about it hours before  it made its evening debut.

So to make a debut, in this case, the  debut just happened in the evening.

To make a debut is when something  becomes available for the first  

time or known for the first time and notice  that pronunciation Debut bew day debut debut.

Daniel Radcliffe made his  debut in the film Which film?

So this means that Daniel Radcliffe  first became known to the public,  

made his first performance, made  his debut in the film Which film?

Put it in the comments and  that's the end of this article.

So what I'll do now is I'll read it from start to  finish and you can focus more on my pronunciation.

Why the viral Dubai chocolate  bar is all over TikTok.

I first saw it on my feed  in the beginning of August.

A thick brick like chocolate bar filled  with a pistachio green substance that both  

looked gooey and sounded crunchy  whenever someone took a bite.

Once I eventually saw what has been dubbed  the viral Dubai Chocolate, it was everywhere.

The Finks bar has undoubtedly sparked a  movement which has of course led to price  

gouging on resale sites like eBay, where  some bars are going for upwards of $50.

Someone in South Africa reportedly  paid around $56 for one.

The owner says seeing the dupes is  both thrilling and a bit overwhelming,  

adding that her team is dedicated to keeping  Fix unique and of the highest quality,  

ensuring that their chocolate is  unlike anything else out there.

The lore created around the bar has  hungry social media users drooling.

I traveled over an hour to taste it for  myself, and the people in the room with  

me were whispering about it hours  before it made its evening debut.

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