1 HOUR ENGLISH LESSON - Learn English with the NEWS And Improve Your Fluency

Welcome to this one. Our English lesson today  you're going to learn English with the news. We're  

going to read two different news articles together  so you can learn a lot of advanced vocabulary,  

complex, grammar and correct pronunciation.  Let's get started. Should can't be allowed on  

airplanes. Hmm, so this is an opinion based  article and the topic is cats on airplanes.

And now, let's say you were going to provide an  answer to this question because it's a question,  

right? So if you want to sound more advanced  more professional, you can add an opinion word,  

you can say, in my opinion and then you can  State your opinion cats should or shouldn't  

be allowed on airplanes. So you can say,  in my opinion, that's a very common one.

You can also say, from my perspective.  Now notice it's from, from my perspective,  

in my opinion, from my perspective, these are the  two most common opinion words that you can use.  

You could also say, simply,  I think, I think that cat,

That's should or shouldn't  be allowed on airplanes.

Now notice

here, I included that a lot of students  get confused about when you need to use  

that and when you don't generally in  written English, we include that. I  

think that cat should generally. You can  absolutely just say I think cats should  

now in spoken English. We generally do not include  it just to make it shorter and we say I think cat

Should so if you're writing, you can include  it. It's more common, but if you're speaking its  

more common to omit it, exclude it. So here are  some opinion words. You can start adding to your  

speech, you can start right now and share your  opinion about cats on airplanes in the comment  

of this video and use in my opinion, or from  my perspective, they will both help you sound.

Sound very Advanced. All right,  let's continue on at the Bogota  

airport as passengers were placing.  Their carry-ons laptops and purses  

in bins. Inching their way on the conveyor  belt for inspection. Okay, let's stop here.

Carry-ons.

This is absolutely must know for travel  vocabulary, most commonly planes. But  

you can also use this on trains buses, most  likely boats as well. Now a carry-on is simply  

a bag that you carry on to the airport onto the  airplane, excuse me, not airport airplane now.

A suitcase is generally larger and you would check  that. So when you get to the airport you check  

your suitcase and it goes under the plane. But  then you take your smaller suitcases, your smaller  

bags onto the airplane with you, you carry it onto  the plane. So here on Google Images, you can see

See the carry-on bags. Now this right here that  this man is opening, this is called the overhead  

bin, the overhead bin and your bag must fit  in the overhead bin or go under your seat  

in order for it to be a carry-on bag. So let  me just write that here. So overhead bin. So

Your carry-on.

Bag or suitcase Moss fit in the overhead  bin or under your seat. And then we have

Larger suitcases.

Larger suitcases are called checked

bags

or luggage and they go under the  plane so they do not go on the  

plane with you. They go under the  plane. All right now let's move on  

and look at this inching their way. So an inch is  a very small amount. So if I say I'm inching my

My way it means I'm making slow progress. So if  you said, I'm inching my way towards the exit,  

it means the line is going very slowly. So  you could use that when you're at a grocery  

store or when you're going through security  at the airport. So you might say I enjoyed

Way through security and it took me  almost one hour. So if you use inch  

my way, the person understands you're making  progress slowly. Alright. One item stood out,  

stood out. This is a great phrasal verb to  stand out, and this means to be noticeable.

Two.

To stand out to be noticeable. So, it's something  

that you notice more than other things.  So, let's say I have these two black pens  

and maybe I'll take this one. This purple one,  because it's darker, right? And then I can take

this one.

Well, if I get rid of this one this is a  better example. If I have these three pens  

which one in your opinion from your perspective  which one stands out stands out which one is  

more noticeable? Well the yellow one stands  out, obviously because it's a bright color.  

So this item this item in the

All the suitcases, this one item was more  noticeable because there was a cat in the  

suitcase, that's why it stood out. One item. Stood  out, was more noticeable. It was a cat and its  

owner was putting it into a cabin. Ready, case?  So a cabin is what I showed you in the picture.

That's where all the passengers go. When  they're on a plane, they just call that  

the cabin so that cat is going on the plane.  Okay, let me just write out that example,  

sentence with the yellow pen for  you, the yellow pen, stood out.

So remember this is a phrasal verb. You need your  verb stand, which you conjugate in this case is  

conjugated in the past simple and then you need  your preposition out, the yellow pen, stood out  

for most Travelers, this would hardly be  noticeable yet for me alarm Bells rang.  

Okay, let's take a look here. Hardly this

Is an adverb, hardly be noticeable. When  you use hardly, it means a small amount.  

So, for most people, they wouldn't  notice the cat. It's a small amount  

that they would notice. So not very much  a small amount, there is another word that  

means the exact same thing. Another  adverb you could also say hardly or

Barely hardly barely, they mean, the same thing.  In this specific context, a small amount. This  

would barely be noticeable. This would barely  hardly be noticeable. And remember, instead of  

be noticeable, you can say, stand out this would  hardly stand out. This would barely stand up.  

Yep, for me alarm Bells rang so just like

Like your phone rings,  

right? That's the verb. We use to ring  when you get a phone call. Well, that's

the

verb we use with alarms room, who  

that's Ring the Alarm rings. And rang is  just in the past. Simple alarm Bells rang,

I am severely allergic to cats vulnerable  to allergic asthma and a cat was going to  

be sharing my cabin during the six-hour Air  Canada flight. Now, remember, cabin is just  

used to describe the interior of the plane,  

that's it. So the interior of the plane,  they call it a cabin. I don't know why.

Interior of the plane. So it's where you,  

sit where your bags are, where the pilot  is everything on the inside of the plane,

All right. What else? Oh, severely.

So severely, this is an adverb and it's  saying to a large degree. So remember  

hardly was small but then severely is to  a large degree. So in in certain contexts,  

you could think of them as opposite.  So this is to a large degree.

To a large degree.

Alright, let's move on here.

Why are cats allowed? Yes, dogs are also permitted  in the cabin yet twice as many people are allergic  

to cats as two dogs, according to the American  College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology,  

let's take a look at yet because I noticed  they also used it here yet for me. So yet yet

What is one of those words in English that  has many different meanings depending on  

the context and that's why it's so useful to  study from articles because you see the context  

that the word is being used in this specific  context yet is being used as a conjunction.

It's a conjunction and it has the same meaning as  but, or however. So it's used to show a contrast  

so here, let's look at our first example.  Most Travelers wouldn't notice a cat.

I would notice a cat. Do you see the  contrast most Travelers would not? I  

would. So we have a yes and a no, there's a  contrast. We use yet to help us transition  

from the one contrast point to the  other contrast point. So you could

equally

say. But for me, how

Wherever for me yet for me in this specific  context and it's the same thing here.  

So cats are allowed dogs are allowed but twice as  many people are allergic yet. So we're setting up  

another contrast and we're using yet as  a conjunction. Now, just as a reminder,

All of these notes are available as a PDF download  so you can look in the description of this video  

to get this download. Let's continue on yet twice  as many people are allergic to cats as two dogs  

here. They chose to use as two dogs. Honestly,  

I would say then so we have twice as many  people are allergic to cats than dogs.

That's what I would say. Then dogs and you're  probably more familiar with that wording.

so, for example,

More people by dogs, then cats more people fly  then travel by bus for example. So just showing  

you that that contrast, that comparison with them.  All right, let's continue on dangers of exposure.

So, what is a cat?

Allergic passenger to do. So this  person is allergic to cats. They get a

reaction

but someone is taking a cat on  the plane and they might be quite  

close to each other. So they're asking  for advice what is that person to do  

and this is the advice, take medications that help  prevent symptoms advises Randolph. So notice here

Sizes, this is being used as our verb, our verb.

And the noun form of advise, we can use  advice which is the noun. What advice do

What advice do you

have for me?

Because this person is asking

for advice. What

advice do you have for

me?

And I can say, I advise

you to take medication advise advice.  So notice the pronunciation difference  

advice. Advise advice. Advise  this is our noun and this is  

our verb spelling difference,  and pronunciation difference

as well.

This includes a non-drowsy antihistamine taken an

hour before the

flight and two pumps of a rescue  inhaler, 15 minutes before boarding.  

So drowsy drowsy is when you feel sleepy  or tired fuse feel sleepy or tired.

Sleepy tired. But when you say non and  drowsy, it makes it negative because  

a lot of medication makes you feel  sleepy or tired. It makes you drowsy.  

So a lot of medication will say on their label  do not drive after taking medication because it

May make you drowsy which means sleepy, but  generally drowsy is the vocabulary Choice  

when we're talking specifically about medication.  Now, if I had a long day at work, or if I didn't  

sleep very well, I wouldn't say I feel drowsy  because drowsy implies the result of some sort

Art of medication because we use it with  medication. So if you're just talking about

Working hard or not sleeping. Well you would use  tired or sleepy. I feel tired, I feel sleepy.  

I am or I feel either. One of those  is fine. I am I feel tired or sleepy,  

but if you're talking specifically about  medication, then you can use drowsy.

All right, so that's the advice which is a noun.

Let's continue on a mask used  to protect against covid-19,  

could help prevent the dander from  getting into your Airways dander.

That is something from the cat's fur, so little  particles from the cat's fur is called dander  

and that's generally why people are allergic  to cats. It's the dander on their fur.

Airways is of course just  

how you get air into your body is through your  Airways. So your nose is one of your Airways  

and your mouth, your throat is another one of  your Airway so how you get air into your body

Now, notice how they're using could, as our modal  verb, because could is used to show possibility,  

or potential possibility or potential.  So it's not saying that it will help you,  

will is a more of an absolute,  this will work. It sounds

Percent certain, this could  work, it's just a possibility,  

it's also possible that it won't work. So  could is used to show possibility. So this

Medicine could make you drowsy could there's a  possibility, the potential and that's a modal  

verb. And remember, we always have grammatically.  We always have modal + base verb so you  

don't change your verb. That comes next. It's  always the base verb and could doesn't change.

JH either this medicine could make you drowsy.  Let's continue on. Is anything being done?  

Is there any progress in at least making the  public and the airline industry aware of the  

cat? Allergy problem, we have been trying  to raise awareness of cat allergy and cabins  

since 1985 notes. Tanya winders, president  of the Virginia, based Global allergy Airways

Patient, platform and 82,  

member Network. A patient based groups  including the Asthma and Allergy Network  

winders points to the Federal, Aviation  administration's air carrier access act, which  

is supposed to protect people with disabilities  including severe allergies. But the only  

protection the website offers is advice choose  an airline that does not allow cats in carriers.

Cabins call ahead and check with your doctor.  

Alright, so here this is the advice. We have  our noun here and you can see those three  

points. That's what she advises using our verb.  That's what she advises you do. Now, let's go  

back here. There were a lot of very long names.  Those are just the names of these specific group.

Oops, or this specific act, you can just ignore  those. Pretty much. What can I show you here?  

We have raised awareness, raised is the verb you  would use. You can also use increase awareness,  

increase awareness. But raise is a very  common verb with the word awareness,  

so you can add that to your vocabulary.

Now, notice we have since 1985 and when  I see the word sense I can look back,  

and I already know that my sentence is  going to be in the present. Perfect.  

Now what verb tense? Do? We have here?  We have been trying, we've been trying,  

we've been trying. This is the present perfect.  Continuous present. Perfect continuous.

And it shows an action that started in the  past and continues until now. So when did  

this action start? Well, it started in 1985.  So that was the start Point 1985 and then it's  

continued all the way until now, and it will  continue until some unknown time in the future.

So not too much on this last page  because it was mainly those long groups,  

those long organizations. So what I'll do now  is I will read the article from start to finish  

so you can focus on my pronunciation and you can  imitate my pronunciation as well. And remember,  

you can also look in the description of this  video to get the link that summarizes all the know

So I made so now I'll read the article from start  to finish. Should cats be allowed on airplanes at  

the Bogota airport as passengers replacing their  carry-ons laptops and purses in bins. Inching,  

their way on the conveyor belt for inspection. One  items, stood out. It was a cat and its owner was  

putting it into a cabin. Ready case, for most  Travelers, this would hardly be noticeable.

Yet for me alarm Bells rang. I am severely  allergic to cats, vulnerable to allergic,  

asthma and account, was going to be sharing my  cabin during the six, our Air Canada flight,  

why are cats allowed? Yes, Dong's are also  permitted in the cabin yet twice as many people  

are allergic to cats as two dogs, according  to the American College of Allergy Asthma and

Mew, ology dangers of exposure. So what  is account allergic passenger to do?  

Take medications that help prevent symptoms,  advises Randolph. This includes a non-drowsy  

antihistamine taken an hour before the flight  and 2 pi halves of a rescue inhaler, 15 minutes  

before boarding, a mask used to protect against  covid-19, could help prevent the down dirt,

From getting into your Airways, a HEPA  air filter which most airplanes. Say  

they use could also help but not if a cat is  sitting next to you, is anything being done?  

Is there any progress in at least making the  public and the airline industry aware of the  

cat. Allergy problem, we have been trying to raise  awareness of cat allergy in cabins sends 1985

Five notes, tonyia winders president of the  Virginia based Global allergy Airways, patient,  

platform and 82. Member network of patient based  groups including the Asthma and Allergy Network  

winders points to the Federal, Aviation  administration's air carrier access act,  

which is supposed to protect people with  disabilities, including severe allergies.

Yes. But the only protection the website offers is  advice choose an airline that does not allow cats  

in cabins, call ahead and check with your doctor  amazing job with that article. Now we're going  

to move on to the next article. Feel free to take  a pause, get a cup of tea if you like, and let's  

continue on, Welcome to our article. This is a  light-hearted article about pets in the workplace.

It's so let me read the headline, pet perks,  tempt staff back into the workplace. There's  

already some great vocabulary in this headline  right here. For example, the word perk do,  

you know what a perk is? A perk. This is a noun  and it's an advantage or something extra. This  

can be money or goods and you're given because  of your job. So of course, you get your salary.

Yeah, but perks are additional, for example, I  could say, if I want to recruit you to work for my  

company, I could say our company offers, amazing  perks. Now, what are those perks? Free lunches,  

so you get your salary, your paycheck,  but you also get free lunches. So that  

will save you money. So it's like you're  getting paid more free lunches, free gym.

Memberships and free language classes,  those are some amazing perks, right?  

What about you do? You get any  perks from your company? If you do,  

share some examples in the chat below. Okay? So  pet perks. So these are perks related to pets,  

pet perks, tempt staff back into  the office. So let's take a look.

Look at this tempt, this is a verb tempt  and this means to make someone want to have  

or do something. So in our specific  topic they're talking about wanting  

the staff the employees to come back to  the office. So to not work at home and  

to work physically in the office. So how are  they going to tempt you? How are they going?

To make you want to. It's another way of saying,  convince tempt you convinced, you make you want  

to. Well, they can offer you some perks. And  in this case, some pet perks. Do you have any  

pets? Do you think pet perks would be a good  way to tempt someone to come into the office?

Let's continue on with our article mr.  Griffin who I assume is this man in  

the picture with these two adorable  dogs mr. Griffin. Who is head of it  

for marketing agency? Rise at seven turns up at  its Sheffield headquarters with his furry friends,  

Jesse, and Oscar. So, furry friends,  this is a cute and Casual way of saying

The word pet so you could say, I have pets. I have  two pets. I have two furry friends and those are  

your pets, of course. So I'll write that here.  Pets. And the names of his dogs are Jesse and  

Oscar. I don't know which one is, which? Okay,  now let's take a look at this. He turns up at

It's Sheffield headquarters. So a headquarter  is the main office of a company. For example,  

Google's headquarter is in California. I  don't know if that is true or not is just  

an example. So, this company's headquarters  is in Sheffield. I don't know where that is.  

Now he turns up at its Sheffield headquarters the

location of the office turns up. This is another  way of saying arrived. It's a casual way, but a  

very common way and the verb turn up is a phrasal  verb. This is very commonly used. For example,  

what time did you turn up at the party  last night? What time did you turn up?

You can use this in more casual situations, but  here they're using it in a more professional  

situation. But this is a more casual informal  article, this isn't a scholarly article or an  

academic article, so that's why they're  using this. Casual phrasal verb, turn up,  

let's continue on.

Rise allowing dogs. Remember his company  is called rise at 7:00 so they're just  

shortening it to rise. Rise, allowing  dogs, the company allowing dogs in the  

office has meant that I've been able  to take both my Collies Collies. This  

is a type of dog. So this is the breed the  breed. So we use that specific word breed.

Breed of dog. And that means the type  of dog and here, the breed is Collies,  

which is actually short for. What are they?  I believe, they're Border Collies Border  

Collies. Is the long name and then  people just commonly call them call. He's  

so I just Googled it to make sure  and yes, the breed is border.

Molly, but I spelled it wrong. So I need to  correct that and notice border collie, dog,  

breed. And then you can look at the  different pictures for this breed or

find

out more information. So I just  corrected the spelling here. Now,  

what's your favorite breed of dog? I really  love Labs which is short for Labrador Retriever,  

but everybody just calls them the short  form which is Labs, what's your favorite

Breed of dog, feel free to share that in the  comments. Okay, so here this man, mr. Griffin,  

he can take his two dogs, Jesse an Oscar into  the office so that his company allowing him to  

do that. That is a perk. So here I could say our  cough, our company offers amazing perks. Like you

Bring your dog into the office. That is an example  of a perk for this company. Let's continue on,  

they get to meet new people. In this case, the  day is the dogs. They get to meet new people  

have new experiences and I get to spend  more time in work with my colleagues. So,  

there are some benefits for the  dogs. They get to socialize.

Eyes meet new people, and there's some  benefits for him mr. Griffin, which is  

he gets to interact with his colleagues.  He gets to work with his colleagues. So,  

do you think bringing a pet into the office?  Is a good idea? Is that a good perk? Would  

that tempt using our vocabulary, with that tempt  you to return to work, if you were allowed to,

Bring your furry friend, your pet. Okay, let's  continue on. It's a complete win-win situation.  

Now, I already explained what the win when is  remember? He listed some benefits for the dogs,  

the dogs win. They get to socialize, he  wins because he gets to work with his  

colleagues and the company wins because the  company has the employees at work, which is

Is what the company wants. So it's a win-win.  Everybody gets what they want. So this is a good  

expression to have especially when both parties  have an advantage. It's a win-win. It's a win-win  

situation. I like this, as far as I'm concerned,  this is a great way to express an opinion.  

Let me share an opinion as far  as I'm concerned and then you

Can list your opinion. Perks are a great  way to tempt people to return, to work to  

return to in-person work. Of course, in person,  work as far as I'm concerned. And then, this is  

simply my opinion. Now, you can put  our expression at the beginning.

Or you can add it at the end so you can State your  opinion. Perks are a great way to tempt people to  

return to in-person work as far as I'm concerned,  and then you can just add it. So you can add it  

at the beginning or at the end. So, feel free to  practice sharing your opinion related, to perks,  

or pet perks in the comments and use this  expression. As far as notice we have our verb,

Be, I'm concerned. So, if you were going to  talk about a group opinion, you could say as  

far as we're concerned as far as he's concerned,  mr. Griffin? Right, as far as I'm concerned, so  

don't forget your verb to be and to conjugate that  let's continue on like millions of other people.  

Mr. Griffin got his dogs, during the pandemic, did  you get any pets during the pandemic actually? I

I did I got a cat during the pandemic and  then I got a second cat a year later. So  

now I have two cats, but bringing cats into the  office is not a good perk because cats are not  

meant to go into the office.  They wouldn't enjoy that at all.  

Okay. With most of us home working  home working, to be honest, I don't

Year, it written like this, when I saw this  home working, I thought of doing homework.  

This is not an expression. I commonly see  what I commonly see is working from home,  

working from home. Now, this is an article  from the BBC. So perhaps this expression  

home working is common in British English.  I don't know if that is true or not, but in

American English. Honestly, I have never seen  home working. I thought doing homework for me,  

I would say with most of us working from home  working from home. So if you are learning  

American English, I would recommend using  working from home with most of us working  

from home. At the time as a result of  lockdowns, there was a huge surge sir

Urge surge is an increase and when you see  a surge it generally represents a sudden,  

a quick increase and a big increase and increase  quickly and in the amount of the increase is quite  

large so it would go from 10 to 80. In 2 hours,  that would be a surge. We see this a lot with

gas prices, right? Gasp prices have increased  quickly but the amount of the increase is a lot.  

It didn't just increase by a couple cents,  it increased by a couple dollars increase.  

SO gas prices have surged gas, prices have  surged. There was a huge surge in pet ownership

So, during the pandemic, many people bought pets.  So, the amount of people buying pets increased  

quickly and the number was quite large as people  wanted increase companionship companionship.

While having dogs in the workplace is likely to  remain a rarity a rarity, a rarity. This comes  

from the adverb of frequency rare rarely,  which means not not a lot not frequently.  

So they're saying that dogs in the  workplace is not going to be common. It's

Going to be a rarity. Something  that doesn't happen a lot.  

This example is part of a wider Trend companies,  introducing new incentives and incentive could  

be a perk, and incentive is just something to  try to get you to do something specific. And  

a perk is a type of incentive. So what perk is  a type of incentive to try to make staff have

Pierre to come into the office more often  

job, search engine ads una. I'm not familiar  with this site ads. Una says that the number  

of adverts, this is another difference probably  between British English and American English. We  

don't say adverts in American English, we just  say adds the number of ads which is short for

advertisement advertisement. So we  just take ad from that advertisement,  

the number of ads that highlight in office,  perks has now more than doubled. So we  

could probably say has surged has surged  since before the start of the pandemic.

So now people are searching for in office  perks as part of their job, search criteria,  

they want perks, the increase incentives  range from free exercise and language classes,  

that would be a great perk for you, right?  If your company offered free English training  

to complementary food and  subsidized childcare. Okay, so they

Range from to from to, when you use the word  range from, you're going to have one end from  

this to this and you're going to have a  range, right? So you could say our Prices  

range from $100. So that is the lowest price  to $500. That's the range of the prices from to

Let me write that for you. Our  Prices range from $100 to $500  

so here they use range from to. Now notice this  word complementary, food, complementary food.  

What does that mean? It means free, it's  just another way of saying free free food.

Sized. If your child care is subsidized. It  is not free because that would probably be  

very expensive. It is not free, but it  is reduced. So the the cost is reduced,  

which means likely the employer will  pay some of the childcare, but you still  

have to pay the majority of the childcare,  that would be subsidized. So in this case,

Reduced, but complementary, that  means free. Let's continue on  

employees, aren't in a rush to return to the  office, which means they're not doing it quickly,  

because if you're in a rush it means you're  moving quickly. So Rush Moving quickly. But  

notice they are not in a rush to return to the  office. So what about you? Are you in a row?

To return to the office or know, after enjoying  the improved work-life balance. That came,  

from remote working remote working of course,  is another way of saying working from home.  

But remote is a broader category because home,  I'm home right now. I'm working from home,  

but if I were in a hotel room in  another city, but I was recording this.

Listen, I'm not technically working from  home because I don't live in that hotel in  

a different city, but I am working remotely. So,  working from home is a category of remote work.

Says, Paul Lewis Chief marketing officer at Ed's  una. As a result companies are desperate to find  

new and unique ways. Toulour employees back  Lu, ER, is another way of saying tempt tempt  

to tempt, the definitions are slightly  different between temps and luer,  

but they have the same overall  meaning toulour is to persuade.

Someone to do to do something or go  somewhere to persuade. Someone is to  

try to convince someone to try to get someone  to do something, or to go somewhere, usually,  

by offering them something. Hey, if you come to  the restaurant with me, I'll buy you lunch. I'm  

trying to lure you to the restaurant with me. I'm  trying to tempt you to come to the restaurant.

Want with me. So they're very similar tempt  to me is more common because honestly,  

when I hear luer we generally use it in, oh,  more negative situation. For example, the man  

lured the child into the into his van and then  obviously something negative happened, right? So

When I hear lure, there's usually a negative  result as that person is persuaded to go  

somewhere or do something or the scammer lured me  in and then stole all my money. So, although the  

meanings are generally the same, I specifically  here, tempt more in- context, use more when

When the result is negative and in the news,  often the result can be very negative talking  

about murder or death, for example, but  tempt is generally more neutral. I don't  

hear it specifically used in - and when I hear  the word tempt, I don't think instantly of  

negative news stories. So because of that,  I would probably just use the word tempt.

At Central London, based financial planning  firm. First wealth, whew. That was a mouthful.  

So at the company, first wealth, and this is  just information about the where they located  

they're located in central London. That's where  they're based. Based is another word for located,  

where a canadian-based company, where  a North american-based Company, whereas

Central London based company. And then what? What  type of company of financial planning firm? Firm  

is just another word for company. Commonly  used with financial services, lawyers very  

specific companies but it's just another word  for company at Central London, based financial  

planning firm. First wealth. That's a mouthful  at the company. First Wells workers are being

I'm tempted back again. Tempted back so they  are trying to convince them to do something  

attempt to convince someone to do  something back via free sessions at  

a nearby gym. So this is the perk the  free sessions at a nearby gem. This is

Is a perk, an example of a perk.

Let me write this here park. This is all perk.  I wrote it as a full sentence because this is a  

noun. So, I want you to see that as the singular  noun, you need the article, this is a perk,  

but of course with plural nouns,  we don't use the article so I could

say

these are perks. Now, of course,  

this is just one perk so we need more  than one, but I'm just showing you

You grammatically, we don't  need that article here, but  

because this is singular, we need that article.

So how about this? As a perk with this  tempt you to go back to the office,  

if you got free sessions at a  gym, so free gym membership,  

beauty treatments are another incentive.  That companies are booking to get their  

staff excited about coming into the office.  So this is another perk. This is a perk

Is a perk and the perk is beauty treatments.  That's an interesting one. I can't imagine  

what kind of beauty treatments you would get. I  guess it's not in the office. It could be after  

work on your lunch break, you could go get a  manicure or a pedicure or whatever you want.  

So beauty treatments are another.  You could just say our another perk,  

they're using the word incentive.  Remember perk is a type of in

Incentive beauty treatments are  another perk that companies are  

booking to get their staff excited about  coming into the office. So you can also say  

that companies are booking to  tempt their staff into the office.

Temp, their staff into the office,  

and that's the end of the article. So, now,  what I'll do is, I'll go to the top and I'll  

read the article from start to finish, and  you can follow along with my pronunciation,  

ped perks temp staff back into the office mr.  Griffin, who is head of it for marketing agency,  

rise at seven, turns up at it. Sheffield  headquarters with his furry friends, Jessie.

And Oscar rise allowing dogs in the office  has meant that I've been able to take both  

my colleagues in. He says they get to meet new  people have new experiences and I get to spend  

more time in work with my colleagues.  It's a complete win-win situation. As  

far as I'm concerned like millions of  other people. Mr. Griffin got his dogs,  

during the pandemic, with most of us  home working at the time, as a result of

Lockdowns, there was a huge surge in pet  ownership as people wanted increase companionship  

while having dogs. In the workplace is  likely to remain. A rarity. This example,  

is part of a wider Trend companies.  Introducing new incentives. To try  

to make staff happier to come into the  office. More often job. Search engine as  

una says that the number of adverts that  highlight in office, perks has now more

Then doubled since before the start of the  pandemic, the increase incentives range  

from free exercise and language classes, to  complementary food and subsidized. Health Care  

employees aren't in a rush to return to  the office. After enjoying the improved  

work-life balance. That came from remote  working says, Paul Lewis. Chief marketing  

officer at Ed's una. As a result companies  are desperate to find new and unique ways to

newer employees back to the office and Central  London based financial planning firm. First  

wealth workers are being tempted back via, free  sessions at a nearby gym. Beauty treatments are  

another incentive. That companies are booking  to get their staff excited about coming into  

the office. I'll mazing job with this lesson.  If you're up for it, I have another lesson  

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Guide where I share six tips on how to  speak English fluently and confidently,  

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