Learn English with NEWS | Elon Musk | Interesting News Story

Welcome to JForrest English training. I'm  Jennifer. And today we're going to learn English  

with the news. We're going to read a newspaper  article together so you can add a lot of advanced  

vocabulary, Advanced grammar and learn correct  pronunciation. Let's get started. Let me read the

headline.

SpaceX rocket explosion, illustrates Elon musk's  Successful Failure formula. All right here

Here. Let's take a look at illustrate the verb to  

illustrate the verb illustrate. Means to  show the meaning or truth of something

more

clearly. And it's usually  when you give an example,  

so in this clay case, they're  saying that the rocket explosion

is

an example of this Successful Failure formula. So  this explosion illustrates it makes it more clear.

Or this formula. So you might  say we need we need to illustrate  

the project success for the investors.  So you need to make the Project's

success

clear for the investors and a great  way you can do that is by giving  

some sort of an example. So it is  a very common verb use especially

especially in a business

context or a more formal academic context.

So let's continue on and

hear this

picture illustrates the  explosion, the rocket explosion.

Okay, our article, this spectacular explosion  spectacular is an adjective and it means really  

exciting or interesting, so it's describing  the explosion. Now, of course, an explosion  

is generally a negative thing, but keep in mind,  nobody was hurt during this explosion and when you  

saw it, you just wanted to keep looking at it in  the sense that it was very interesting. Now, we

So you spectacular in a different way to mean,  great or really great. So if you're telling your  

friend, I just got a promotion, she could say,  that's great news, that's amazing news. That's  

wonderful news, that's spectacular news. So  you can use it in that context as well. And  

in this case, it doesn't mean interesting per  se, I guess it could mean exciting but it's

Really just another way of saying, great  that's spectacular. You can just leave it at  

that that's spectacular. Or you could say that  spectacular news referring to the promotion.  

So it's very common, especially when we want  to be really extreme, like, it's better than  

great. It's spectacular. The spectacular,  explosion of SpaceX new starship, rocket.

Is after its first flight test. So

its

first flight test, this was the first time  this rocket was launched is when it goes into  

the sky. When the rocket was launched, its first  flight test and is the latest illustration now,  

you know what this means, it more clearly  demonstrates. This Successful Failure model  

business formula that serves Elon musk's company.

Any, well, experts said, on Thursday. So what  is a Successful Failure? Business formula. It's  

something they talk about more in the article  but basically failure sounds like a bad thing,  

right? But a Successful Failure is when you try  something you don't succeed but you learn from it  

and because you learn from it, it's not actually  a failure because you're benefiting from it.

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fluent Academy today. Okay, let's continue on  rather than seeing the fiery disintegration of

must

colossal. Next Generation Starship  system as a setback. Okay,  

let's stop here because there's quite  a lot in this one part of the sentence.  

First, let's start here, rather than I  know we're going to have a comparison

Rather than is used for comparisons  and notice for our sentence structure,  

we have rather than plus Jaren which  is our verb with Ing and I'm using the  

Jaron because then is a preposition and  we always use gerrans after preposition.  

So rather than x this entire part of the  sentence can be considered X and then we'll

compare it to why the next part of the  sentence rather than seeing the fiery  

disintegration here. Fiery is an adjective and  it means bright red and this represents fire.  

So when you describe something as fiery, you're  saying it looks like fire and that makes sense.

Because there was fire in the explosion. So  of course an explosion could be described as  

fiery. It's bright red now, they didn't say  explosion. They said disintegration, listen,  

disintegration Sinha, gration,  disintegration when something

disintegrates

it means you have something hole and  then it breaks down into smaller and

And smaller parts. So to illustrate  what disintegration means to illustrate,  

to show you more clearly with an example.  The first thing I thought of is a piece of  

paper. If you light a piece of paper on fire  is going to disintegrate, is going to go from  

one solid piece of paper to small parts.  That is disintegrates it disintegrates so.

In our example, with the article, the  rocket ship was one solid part and then  

it exploded and disintegrated.  So, rather than seeing the fiery  

disintegration of must colossal. Really big  colossal. Next Generation Starship system  

as a setback asset bank is something  negative. It means that you're moving.

Farther away from your ultimate goal  from your ultimate achievement. That  

would be a setback. The definition of a  setback is something that happens like  

the rocket ship exploding and it delays  or prevents a process from developing. So  

and that process from developing would  be successfully launching the rocket.

So that's a setback expert said,  the dramatic loss of the rocket

ship

would help accelerate development  of the vehicle. So, accelerate,  

notice my pronunciation pronunciation here.  Accelerate economic, there's a little bit  

of a sound accelerate accelerate,  and when you accelerate something,  

it means you move it forward more  quickly. So, to move forward faster.

I'll say would help accelerate development.  So to move that development forward faster.  

So that's the Successful Failure formula because  by failing they're actually able to accelerate  

the development so it is not a setback because  remember a setback is something that delays you  

it prevents you from reaching your goal. Okay,  let's continue on a lot of advanced vocabulary.

Cab you Larry in this article SpaceX Executives  hailed, the first flight for achieving the major  

objective of getting the vehicle off  the ground. Let's review the verb hail.  

So, the executives hailed, the flight test  for achieving. In this case, the verb Hale  

is to publicly praise or show approval.  So they're saying, congratulations it did.

Great job, they're praising at they're showing  approval for a person, but in this case,  

it's an achievement. It's the first flight test,  and they're hailing it because it achieved a

major

objective and that objective was simply getting  off the ground. So, getting off the ground is  

simply when you leave the ground. So that's when  the rocket launches into the air, it got off.

The ground and notice here we have two Jaren  verbs verbs with ing. Do you know why do you  

know why it's Chiva NG and getting are both in the  gerund form? Well it's because they both follow  

a preposition for achieving all of getting.  And remember whenever you have a preposition,  

your next verb needs to be in the  ing form. So pay attention to that.

So the first flight test was hailed because  it's achieved this major objective of getting  

the flight off the ground of launching  while providing a wealth of data that  

will advance Starships development Advance.  This is another way of saying accelerate,  

but accelerate remember it has the meaning of  quickly. So accelerate to me here, remember it?

Right here, move forward, faster or quickly,  but Advanced just means move forward. So if  

you want to make it sound stronger, instead of  using Advanced, which just means move forward,  

you could use accelerate, which means  move forward quickly. So I'll put here,  

move forward. And then remember accelerate means  move forward quickly. All right, there we go.

Let's continue on reesman reisman. I'm  not sure how to pronounce this last name,  

to be honest. I'll say reissman. Reissman  called the Starship. Test flight,  

a Hallmark of a SpaceX strategy. Let's take a  look at this sentence structure. All Hallmark of  

something. This is an expression, a  Hallmark of and it is used to say a typical

Or a feature of a person or thing. So if something  is a typical characteristic, it means is just a  

very common or normal characteristic for that  person or a thing. So this test flight is a  

normal characteristic or feature of space a  tax strategy, to give you a simple example.  

You could say, studying is a Hallmark of a  student and it simply means that studying is a

A very common characteristic of a student, but  remember that sentence structure? Our expression  

is all Hallmark of and then the something or  someone. Now, if you want to use a verb, you could  

notice here. This is our Jaren verb,  because we're starting the sentence  

as a general sentence. This is called a  Jaron statement. Studying, is a Hallmark of

Being a student. So you could have a verb  here but because of is a preposition, you

need

the verb and ing the Jaren verb. So  testing' is a Hallmark of a SpaceX  

strategy that says must company  apart from traditional aerospace  

companies before we move on. Let's take  a look at this. That sense must company.

Apart to set someone or something. In this case,  it's must company. So it's as something to set  

someone or something apart, what does this  mean? This is a really great expression, an  

advanced expression. So it means to show someone  or something, simply to be different or special.

So, the fact that they have these test flights and  they embrace, the failure from the test flights,  

it means that they're different from other  companies or their special. So you could say,  

speaking English fluently  

sets me apart from other applicants. So  let's say you're applying to a job and there

Are many, many other applicants, but  you speak English fluently. This makes  

you different or special in a positive  way. It sets you apart all the other  

applicants are here but because  you speak English fluently, now,  

you're special or different. So the  person interviewing you is going to

hire you over the other  applicants. It sets you apart.

And this is one of the reason why you're  improving your English skills, right? So

this sets Elon Musk company apart from traditional  aerospace companies and even NASA by embracing

the

failure, when the consequences of failure are low,  

okay? So they're adding those the consequences  of failure. Well those are the negative

impacts

that results from the failure. So one  of the consequences of this failure is

They don't have a rocket ship  anymore. Their rocket ship

has

exploded and that rocket ship probably  cost a lot of money. So that's one  

of the consequences of failure but  they're seeing the consequences are

low. So not numerous not very

many no astronauts were  aboard. So aboard means on the

rocket, they weren't on the rocket. The  rocket was empty because it was cruel is

As the crew represents the people who

are

hired to fly the ship the vehicle.  So when you're on a plane or a train

or a bus, maybe not a bus, but definitely  a train and a plane. There are crew,  

you have the flight attendants, the  people who show you to your seed. Serve,  

you your drink, answer. Your  questions are there to keep.

Keep you safe. Those people are the crew.

But this was a cruelest flight which means  there were no people aboard. And the rocket  

was flown almost entirely over water from the  Gulf Coast star base facility in south Texas to  

avoid possible injuries or property damage  on the ground from falling debris, debris

So the rocket explodes, right? The rocket is  one solid piece, but when it explodes all of  

those small pieces are considered, debris,  it's the, the small pieces, the garbage,  

the wreckage, that results from a crash  and explosion, that would be the debris.

All right, let's continue on. Reesman said SpaceX  saves more money in the long run. So in the long  

run, this means over a longer period of time,  over a longer period of time. So you might say  

learning English is difficult, but

It's worth it in the long run. So in the long run,  

over a longer period of time. It's worth  it. Meaning there are many, many advantages,  

more advantages than disadvantages,  and why is it worth it, ultimately.

Being fluent will set me apart. It will  mean to me different or special compared  

to other people. Like the people  who also want the same job as you.

So it saves money in the long run  over a longer period of time. Because  

obviously today it cost the company a lot  of money because they're their rocket ship  

exploded but in the long run over a longer  period of time. It will save money and it  

takes less time to identify and correct  engineering. Flaws, a flaw is an error or

Or a mistake. It's an imperfection. So it's  something that makes something less perfect.  

You could take anything like this  water bottle but let's say there's  

a little Mark on it. A black mark on  it. When I bought the bottle and I saw,  

what is this? There's a flaw because it  makes it less perfect. It's an error or

A mistake or something. That makes  it less perfect. That's a flaw.

We use this in our personalities as well. You  could say, my lack of patience is one of my flaws.  

So it's something that makes me less perfect.  It's a mistake. You could consider that as well.

All right, so they need to correct these  imperfections. These mistakes, these Flaws  

by taking more risks in the development process  rather than and we already discussed why this  

is in the ing form rather than keeping a large  team working for years and years and years. Now,  

normally we just say for years, but notice for  years means many years rather than keeping a large

Team working for years. So that years here means  many years, it could be three. It could be 15,  

there's no set definition of what it  means. It just means many for years,  

but notice they add and years and years,  they do that to be dramatic to make it  

sound like it's likely to be 15 and not 3.  So is likely to be a longer period of time.

I'm that's why they included these years and years  and years to get it perfect before you even try,  

she said the risks of a single flight tests  were small in comparison to the ambitious  

gains at stake. So at stink, this is what  is available to be 1 or achieved at stake.

Available to be one or achieved.  

Now the gains at stake. Well, what are the  gains if the test was successful then they  

would have achieved all of the information  they got from having that test flight,  

they would have achieved their ultimate goals,  whatever they may be, the gains are what you.

Get what you gain. So that's how  it's being used here. Now notice,  

they have in comparison to you could also  just say compared to, they're the same  

thing. We're small compared to the ambitious  gains at stake in comparison to. So the risks,

Were small compared to the gains that could have  been achieved if the test had been successful  

and that is the end of our  article. So now what I will do,  

I will read it from start to finish and  this time you can focus on my pronunciation.

SpaceX rocket explosion illustrates  Elon Musk, Successful Failure formula  

the spectacular explosion as SpaceX new starship  rocket minutes. After its first flight test,  

is the latest illustration of a Successful  Failure. Business formula the serves Elon  

Musk company. Well, experts said, on Thursday,  rather than seeing the fiery disintegration, mmm.

Must colossal. Next-generation Starship  system. As a setback expert said,  

the dramatic loss of the rocket ship would  help accelerate development of the vehicle  

SpaceX Executives hailed. The first flight for  achieving the major objective of getting in the  

vehicle off the ground, while providing a wealth  of data that will advance Starships development.

Riesman called the Starship. Test flight  a Hallmark of a SpaceX strategy that sets  

must company apart from traditional  aerospace companies and even NASA by  

embracing the failure, when the  consequences of failure are low.  

No astronauts were aboard for the cruelest flight  and the rocket was flown almost entirely over  

water from the Gulf Coast Starbase facility  in south Texas to avoid possible injuries or

Property damage on the ground from falling  debris, reisman and SpaceX saves more money  

in the long run and takes less time to identify  and correct engineering Flaws by taking more risks  

in the development process, rather than keeping a  large team working for years and years and years  

trying to get it perfect before you even try it.  She said the risks of a single flight tests were

Small in comparison to the ambitious gains at  stake. Amazing job with this lesson. Now make  

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