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Today you're going to learn English with the news.

We're going to read 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 iPhone  

found in perfect condition after  plummeting 16,000 feet from plane.

So it looks like this is the  plane and this is the iPhone.

But to understand the connection here, you  need to know some of the key vocabulary.

So first, let's review plummeting.

The verb is to plummet, plummet, and this  simply means to fall very quickly or suddenly.

So you could say the iPhone fell from the plane,  

but if you say the iPhone plummeted because  it's a verb, so that would be in the past.

Simple, the iPhone plummeted from the plane.

It sounds more dramatic.

So to plummet now.

Now you understand that this iPhone fell  16,000 feet and it's in perfect condition,  

which means it isn't broken.

It isn't scratched.

It isn't cracked.

It's in perfect condition.

That's pretty impressive.

Now, in headlines, they often omit  auxiliary verbs or articles that aren't  

essential to understand the meaning,  but they are essential grammatically.

So let me fill in the remaining  words that were omitted.

So first, an iPhone.

And because iPhone I is a vowel, so you  use an iPhone is a singular countable noun.

So I would say I have an iPhone.

I wouldn't say I have iPhone.

That's grammatically incorrect.

I have an iPhone.

An iPhone was found, so the full  structure is to be found to be,  

and this is conjugated in the past.

Simple.

An iPhone was found in perfect condition  after plummeting 16,000 feet from a plane.

Now notice I chose the article All for  plane and iPhone because all means any.

We're not talking about a specific iPhone.

We're not talking about a specific  plane yet in this headline.

It's just any As we continue on, it  will turn into a specific iPhone.

The one that plummeted.

But for the headline, we can simply use Ah.

So now let's continue and find out what happened  to this iPhone, an Alaska Airlines flight.

So notice here, now we're in the full article,  and they will use articles auxiliary verbs.

Because it's required grammatically for  headlines, it's common to omit those.

But when you're in the full  article, you must include them.

An Alaska Airlines flight, So all flight.

But now Alaska Airlines gives  more information about the flight,  

and our article is next to a vowel, so we need an.

An Alaska Airlines flight had to make an emergency  landing Friday after part of the fuselage.

Fuselage.

So the fuselage.

This is the main body of an airplane.

Part of the fuselage blew out, so it  sounds like there was an explosion  

sucking several items out of the main cabin.

So sucking several items out.

It sounds like when there was this explosion,  the items were forcefully removed from the plane.

So that's the phrasal verb suck out sucking  several items out of the main cabin.

The main cabin is the part of the plane where  you would be sitting when you're on a plane.

That's the main cabin.

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Well, Apple's marketing team is going  to have a field day with this one.

Of course, Apple is the maker of the iPhone.

So let's talk about to have a field day.

By saying that Apple's marketing  team is going to have a field day,  

it means they're going to take  advantage of an opportunity.

Of course, the marketing team is the the team  that creates the promotions, the advertisements.

So how are they going to take advantage of this?

Well, they're going to say  this iPhone is so strong you  

can drop it out of an airplane  and it won't even get cracked.

You can definitely have a field day with the story  and come up with a lot of creative marketing.

So that's what this expression means.

On Friday, Alaska Airlines flight 1282  was travelling from Oregon to California  

when it had to make an emergency landing  after a door plug suddenly ripped off.

So ripped off is we use this a lot.

Imagine I have a Band-Aid on my hand.

A bandage Band-Aid is what  we call it in North America.

So a lot.

The expression is you should just rip it off  because if you try to take a Band-Aid off very  

slowly, it's actually painful, more painful than  if you just go like this and you just rip it off.

So when something when you rip something  off, it means it comes off very suddenly.

So this plug was on the door and  then it was suddenly ripped off.

So a door plug suddenly ripped off  causing part of the fuselage to blow out.

So this is the same verb to blow out.

Previously we saw it in the past simple blew  out, but now this is just the infinitive  

fuselage to blow out and creating a  large gaping hole in the main cabin.

Remember, the main cabin is  where you sit as a passenger.

A gaping hole is a very large hole.

So there was absolutely no need to say a large  gaping hole, because gaping does mean very large.

So this large should be deleted.

But you need to keep that  article because it's a hole.

And then gaping describes the  hole, a hole, a gaping hole.

In the main cabin, The incident occurred  shortly after takeoff, so takeoff.

This is the noun form.

So the verb is to take off, to take off.

And this is when the plane leaves the ground.

So this is the same thing.

It's when the plane leaves the ground.

But it's just referring to it as a something  because it's the noun form after takeoff.

So you hear this from the flight attendants.

They'll say, keep your seat belt  fastened until after takeoff.

So after the plane is fully in the  air, you can remove your seat belt.

So this is the noun form, and the verb  form is to take off after takeoff.

And no one was seriously hurt.

Thank goodness 'cause it sounds  quite serious, but several items,  

including a child shirt that he was wearing,  were sucked out of the Boeing aircraft.

So again, we know what suck out they  were forcefully removed so the child  

did not throw his shirt out of the plane.

It was sucked out.

It was forcefully removed from the plane.

But keep in mind, this was the  shirt the child was wearing.

Imagine how terrifying that must  have been for the passengers.

Thank goodness nobody was seriously hurt.

Now notice they say nobody was seriously hurt.

So this implies that people were  hurt, but their injuries were minor.

So maybe someone sprained their arm  or have a few cuts on their face.

But it's not life threatening.

It's not serious.

Now let's take a look at this verb conjugation,  

because we have two be sucked out  and then this is the past simple.

But notice that it's were, so it's  conjugated with a plural subject.

They were sucked out.

But if we go back here, we see that  the last reference is a child's shirt.

So this is a singular, but this were is  not being conjugated with the child shirt.

So for the conjugation purposes you have to delete  

everything between these dashes and  this verb to be were in the past.

Simple is being conjugated with several  items, but several items were sucked out  

of the Boeing aircraft and then between the  dashes gives more information about the items.

So that's a very important grammar note, and  to be honest, sometimes even native speakers  

make mistakes with this and they conjugate the  verb with the last noun which is incorrect.

I'll highlight the were for you.

So you remember items were another  item that flew from the plane.

So here we could say that was sucked out of  the plane because it was forcefully removed.

So I'll write that for you.

And I wrote that because I want  you to see the grammar required.

We have the verb to be conjugated in the past.

Simple sucked out.

And then you also have the preposition of  

the plane because here flew from  uses different sentence structure.

Another item that was sucked  out of the plane and plunged.

So here, before we have plummeted,  which means fell quickly plunged is  

another way of saying to fall  quickly plunged 16,000 feet.

Remember that they're both verbs,  and they're conjugated in the past.

Simple and plunged.

16,000 feet was a new generation iPhone  that was found in pretty stellar condition.

Stellar is a casual, informal way  of saying very good or excellent.

That movie was stellar.

That movie was very good.

That movie was excellent.

The iPhone that was found in pretty  stellar condition on an Oregon roadside,  

according to a social media user, Sean  Bates, who said he discovered the device.

And if you weren't sure, roadside.

It just means the side of the road.

So the cars are on the road, but  they're usually in the middle.

So the roadside is when you take your car and you  go to the side of the road, that's the roadside.

So he didn't find the phone  in the middle of the road.

It was on the roadside, so not  where the cars usually travel.

More out of the way.

Let's continue in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Remember, Twitter is now called X.

Do you call it XI?

Still call it Twitter all the time.

In a post on X, Formerly Twitter base published  

a photo of the smartphone which  lacked any scratches or cracks.

So if it lacks something,  it means it doesn't have it.

So it's another way of saying which  didn't have any scratches or cracks.

The screen was also conveniently  unlocked, though it's unclear why.

The use of conveniently is  quite important here because  

it suggests that there is some doubt around this.

Why was the phone unlocked?

People never leave their phones unlocked.

Phones are always unlocked.

So it was convenient that the phone was unlocked.

It was beneficial for the person.

But listen to this sentence.

Oh, she conveniently forgot  to clean the office kitchen.

So the fact that she forgot this chore,  this task, it was beneficial for her  

because she didn't have to clean it and  maybe someone else cleaned it instead.

Oh, how convenient.

You forgot to clean it.

Oh, how convenient.

You forgot your gloves, so now you  don't have to clean the kitchen.

So we use it in more of a sarcastic way, a way of  showing that we don't really trust the situation.

We think that something unusual is happening,  

so it's unusual that the phone  was unlocked, is what it suggests.

The screen was also conveniently unlocked, though  it's unclear why, and showed an emailed Alaska  

Airlines baggage receipt for a flight from  Oregon to California that was sent Thursday.

So not only was this phone unlocked, it also  happened to have the baggage receipt on it.

So that seems perhaps a little suspicious.

That's what the article is suggesting, at least.

Bates, remember Bates is the man who found the  phone that plunged 16,000 feet from the plane.

Bates also published A TikTok about  his discovery in which he says he  

wanted an excuse to go on a walk when  he heard a report about Flight 1282,  

which included a request for area residents to  alert the National Transportation Safety Board.

This is simply a government body in  charge of Transportation Safety if  

any items from the flight were  found, So Bates was at home.

He saw this alert from this government body  saying please help us locate any items.

So he saw that as an excuse to go on a walk.

So in this case, the excuse is the reason why.

So let's say he's working and he wanted to go  on a walk, but he's working, so he shouldn't.

He should work.

But then he saw this alert.

So now he has an excuse.

He has a reason why he should go on a walk.

I wrote that for you.

Let's continue.

I was, of course, a little skeptical at first,  

Bates says in a video about how  he felt upon finding the phone.

So if you're skeptical, it means you're  not sure if something is true or not.

So let's see.

Say you see an advertisement that says this  product will help you become fluent in one hour.

Is that true?

I don't know.

I'm a little skeptical.

So you're not sure if  something is accurate or true.

Skeptical is the adjective, so you  need the verb to be to be skeptical.

So here's the verb and notice it's in the past.

Simple.

I was of course, a little skeptical at first,  

Bates says in his video about how  he felt upon finding the phone.

I was thinking this could have  just been thrown out of a car,  

or someone dropped it while they were jogging.

So these are the other thoughts  he had when he found the phone.

And that's the end of the 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.

Let's do that now.

iPhone found in perfect condition after  plummeting 16,000 feet from plane.

An Alaska Airlines flight had to make  an emergency landing Friday after parts  

of the fuselage blew out, sucking  several items out of the main cabin.

Well, Apple's marketing team is going to  have a field day with this one on Friday.

Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was travelling  from Oregon to California when it had to  

make an emergency landing after  a door plug suddenly ripped off,  

causing part of the fuselage to blow out and  creating a large gaping hole in the main cabin.

The incident occurred shortly after takeoff and  no one was seriously hurt, with several items,  

including a child's shirt that he was wearing  were sucked out of the Boeing aircraft.

Another item that flew from the plane  and plunged 16,000 feet was a new  

generation iPhone that was found in pretty  stellar condition on an Oregon roadside,  

according to a social media user, Sean  Bates, who said he discovered the device.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Bates  published a photo of the smartphone,  

which lacked any scratches or cracks.

The screen was also conveniently unlocked, though  it's unclear why, and showed an emailed Alaska  

Airlines baggage receipt for a flight from  Oregon to California that was sent Thursday.

James also published a tick tock about his  discovery, in which he says he wanted an excuse to  

go on a walk when he heard a report about Flight  1282, which included a request for area residents  

to alert the National Transportation Safety  Board if any items from the flight were found.

I was, of course, a little skeptical at first,  

Bates says in his video about how  he felt upon finding the phone.

I was thinking this could have  just been thrown out of a car  

or someone dropped it while they were jogging.

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