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Are you ready to read an article from the BBC  with me? 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 wouldn't 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 all of the lessons that we reviewed  today. Welcome back to JForrest English training.  

Of course I'm Jennifer and this is your place  to become a fluent confident English speaker.  

Let's get started. Welcome to our article. You  probably recognize these two celebrities. Will  

Smith and Chris Rock. Let me read the headline of  our article. Will Smith says bottled rage led him  

to slap Chris Rock at the Oscars. So this is very  important to understand our article. So slab this  

is a slap it's a verb to slap. It's very commonly  associated with violence so in a negative way,  

however, you could slap a mosquito or a  fly on your arm for example. So you can  

use it in other contexts but more commonly  use in violence fighting between two people.  

Okay, let me explain this because I believe  this is mentioned again. Bottled rage,  

bottled rage. So rage, of course is an emotion it  means to be very, very, very, very angry. Okay,  

that's rage now. What does bottled rage me all  huddled? Imagine here we have a bottle right and  

the water is in the bottle and it can't get out  right? So if you have a bottled emotion rage,  

anger, jealousy, hatred, generally a negative  emotion it means that emotion is inside of you  

and can't get out just like the water can't  get out of this bottle. So it's when you have  

an emotion and you do not express it. You keep  it inside of you. So if you keep anger, rage,  

jealousy, hatred inside of you, eventually it can  come out and you might do something violent like  

slap someone. Let's continue on Will Smith has  said his bottled rage led hand to slap comedian  

Chris Rock. Here's our comedian Chris Rock  onstage at the Oscars in March. The actor has been  

interviewed for the first time since the incident  which he described as a horrible horrific night.  

Horrific dishes are great adjective. A lot of  times students will use very common adjectives  

good or bad because it's the ones they know. But  adding more advanced adjectives will make your  

English sound more advanced and will give you more  color to your language as well. A horrific night  

so this is a very very, very bad night. That's the  how you can think of it. have very very bad night.  

So if somebody asks you, how was your day, you  could say I had a horrific day, which means very,  

very bad. Or you can describe an event that  was horrific. That was very very bad. When  

I saw Will Smith slop, Chris wrong. That was  horrific. So you can say I had I had a horrific  

day. All right. Let's move on. appearing on The  Daily Show with Trevor Noah. He said I was going  

through something that night you know now are he  is Will Smith so just remember that through the  

story he unless said otherwise is Will Smith. I  was going through so I Will Smith. I was going  

through something that night, you know. So  he's describing what happened that night  

when he slapped the comedian Chris Rock that  horrific night I was going through something  

to go through something. This is an expression  and we use this day to experience something  

difficult in our lives. And we use this more as  a general expression when we don't really want  

to specify what it is. So when somebody asks  you what's wrong, you seem upset. You can just  

say I'm going through a lot right now. I'm going  through a lot right now. And that's just general  

but it lets the person know you're experiencing  something difficult. Now they might follow up and  

say well what Tell Me More and then you can say  I lost my job. My car was in an accident. My mom  

got sick so you can list the difficult things in  your life. So we use this as a general statement.  

What's wrong? I'm going through a lot right now.  I'm going through a lot right now. Now notice it's  

our verb to be. So are sorry, not our verb to  be. Our verb is go. So that's the verb you're  

going to conjugate. Now here it's in the past  continuous that's why we have I was going I was  

going and here it's in the Present Continuous on  going because you're experiencing the difficulty  

right now. Not that that justifies my behavior  at all. So Will Smith is saying the fact he was  

experiencing something difficult. That's not  an excuse. If something justifies something,  

it's an excuse. It says it's okay that I slapped  him because I was going through something but he's  

saying that doesn't justify it. That's not an  excuse. So you can think of this as an excuse.  

Or remember they're using it in the negative  an excuse not that that justifies my behavior.  

It's not an excuse. Smith added that there  were many nuances and complexities to it,  

but added I just I lost it. I lost  it. Now notice here I lost it.  

What do you think that it is? I lost it what  what did he lose his keys his wallet? Know,  

when we use this in a general sense. I lost  it. And I know what the context of the story  

is he slapped someone. I know that it means his  sense of control. Over himself, his emotions,  

his actions. I lost it. So we use this in  the sense I lost it yesterday in the meeting.  

So maybe you're in this meeting, and your coworker  said she couldn't finish the project and you  

lost it. Why do you mean you couldn't finish the  project that's unacceptable. And you get really,  

really angry you lose control of your emotions,  your actions. You get taken over by the emotion  

maybe the bottled the bottled emotion,  your bottled anger, your bottled rage.  

So I lost it. This is an expression. Hopefully you  don't have to use it too often because it's not a  

positive expression. So to lose it. This means to  lose control over your emotions or your actions  

as well because you might just start yelling  at your coworker, but you didn't really want  

to you feel really bad after but in that moment,  you just couldn't control it. You lost control.  

Smith stormed the stage at the Hollywood award  ceremony after rock made a joke about Smith  

wife Jada has shaved head that's kind of a tongue  twister. She has the hair loss condition alopecia.  

Now notice how in the article they explain  what alopecia is because it's not a very  

common condition. They explain it's a hair loss  condition. And it's a hair loss condition for  

women because men unfortunately, lose their hair  and we call that bald to be bald to be evolved  

to be bald. This describes a man with no  head hair, no head hair right to be bald,  

but we don't usually associate that with  women. So there's a condition when women  

lose their hair is called alocasia. Now  I want to point out these apostrophe S's  

in the in this case, the apostrophe as is used  to show possession, possession. So, Smith wife,  

the wife belongs to Smith to Will Smith, and then  they're saying her name Jada. That's his wife's  

name Jada. Now but the shaved head belongs to  Jada. So that's why there is an apostrophe as  

the shaved head belongs to Jada and she had is  when you would go like this. And then you get  

rid of all your hair. That would be a shaved head.  I believe. It looks like his head is shaved here.  

So he would go like this and then the hair is very  close to his his scalp. That's a shaved head. Now,  

very common for men but not that common for  women. And the comedian Chris Rock. He made a  

joke about Will Smith wives shaved head so shaved  head we talked about what this is shaved head.  

Hurt people hurt people. I understand how  shocking that was for people. He told Noah  

Noah is the TV show host remember he went Will  Smith went on The Daily Show with the host Trevor  

Noah. So Will Smith is saying this to the TV  show host No. I understand how shocking that  

was for people. So shocking. This is a great  adjective. Just look at my face right now.  

That is shocking. What? So when you receive  news and it causes you to go what you lost  

your job what? But shocking is generally used  in a negative context because we might go  

in more of a positive you just got engaged.  That's amazing. But that's more surprise,  

which is can be a more positive emotion but  generally shocking when we describe something  

as shocking. There's a negative emotion in there.  So when Will Smith slapped the comedian? Imagine  

what the audience did. They would have  gone Oh, shocking. How shocking. That was.  

I was gone. That was a rage that had been  bottled for a really long time. So again,  

that emotion it's inside and you're not letting  it out. You're not expressing your emotion.  

So because we've seen this a few times, we do  have some common expressions generally we say  

you shouldn't bottle your emotions. Sometimes  we add the optional preposition up to create  

a phrasal verb to bottle up. You should  have bottle up your emotions, which means  

you shouldn't keep your emotions  inside of you. You should express  

them. So to express your emotion  is when you might say to someone,  

hey, you hurt my feelings today. Or I felt  really sad today. Instead of just keeping it  

inside of you and not expressing it. bottling  it up inside of you. He said he also understood  

the pain he had caused and recalled the reaction  of his nine year old Matthew that night. So Will  

Smith nine year old Matthew watched the award  ceremony and saw his uncle slapped someone  

and the reaction is when you go oh, and that's the  shock that could be the reaction now nephew. This  

describes a boy it's used for males and it's  your siblings child. So your siblings child.  

Your siblings, male child, it has to be for a  male Now notice I have my apostrophe s because the  

child belongs to your sibling and sibling is your  brother or sister. sibling is gender neutral. It  

can be for brother or sister it does not matter  sibling, but nephew is only used for the male  

child of your sibling. Now we have a separate word  for the female child. Do you know what that is?  

Your sibling, female child. This is nice.  Nice, nice. Your siblings, female child.  

Nice. So you might have a niece and a  nephew or just a nephew or just a nice  

he's the sweetest little boy Smith said. We came  home and he had stayed up late to see his uncle  

will and we're sitting in my kitchen and he's  on my lap and he's holding the Oscar. And he's  

just like, Why did you hit that man? Oil? Oh,  that's really sad. Why did you hit that man?  

Now hit can be a slap. It's the same thing.  So when I slap you I would never do that.  

When I slap someone, I also hit them. It's the  same thing. bullet hit is more general. So this  

is also hit but this is also called a punch. So  hit is a category and then within that category,  

you have a slab you have a  punch and other forms as well.  

So we have I'll just write the ones I shared.  So we have slab this is when your hand is open.  

I don't necessarily like teaching these violent  words. Hopefully you don't use them but I guess  

you'll see them on movies and stuff. Slap and  then punch is when your fist is closed punch.  

It was a mass mass so to describe something  as a mess, this is a negative. It's saying,  

Well imagine your room you might know this  from a room in your house. Your kitchen is  

a mess. There's things everywhere.  It's the opposite of clean. So we  

use this to describe a situation that  is the opposite of an ideal situation.  

That's how I would describe it. It being the  situation so the situation in this case, the  

incident at the Oscars when he slapped someone,  this situation was a mess. So it's the opposite of  

ideal opposite of ideal which is a good situation  right? So I might say the meeting was a mess. The  

meeting was a mess, which describes the meeting  as negative many negative things happened,  

but you would have to ask me what happened because  it's not clear. So it's just a general nonspecific  

term to see that something negative happened but  you have to say, why? What happened? And then and  

then you could explain the client lost it when  we told her were over budget. Remember? Remember  

we talked about to lose it the client cannot  control her emotions. Or her actions. What  

do you mean you're over budget This is  unacceptable and the client lost it. So  

the meeting was a mass. You can also use  this for a room in your house the kitchen.  

My Kitchen is on mass. Now in this case, it's  saying it's dirty or not organized. That would be  

the definition of when you describe a room a room  as um as dirty or not organized. The interview on  

The Late Night US TV talk show was the first time  Smith had been publicly challenged about attack.  

Smith will know if he understood the often  quoted theory that hurt people hurt people  

discussing the background to his Oscars  assault. That actor said it was a lot of  

things. It was the little boy that watched  his father beat up his mother, you know,  

all of that just bubbled up in the moment. That's  not who I want to be. So to beat someone up. This  

means to violently attack someone so it has a  very negative meaning, especially when we're  

talking about all their violently attacking a  mother right? So to buy on land violently attack.  

And you can do that obviously by hitting someone  slapping someone punching someone to violently  

attack. Now notice it's a phrasal verb to beat  up. So we have this preposition up is formed  

with the verb beat which you conjugate and then  you add the preposition up. Okay to bubble up.  

Think back to our when our emotions were bottled  up right there inside you're not expressing them.  

Now imagine this is a fizzy drink, like Coca Cola  or Sprite or something like that. If I shake it,  

and that's Coke, when I open this, what's going to  happen if I shake a carbonated drink and I open it  

is going to x below. That is the meaning of bubble  because remember your emotions are bottled up, but  

then they bubble up they all come to the surface  at once. So it's another way of seeing explode.  

All of that just bubbled up  so you can say it's loaded.  

In that moment and notice bubble up is also  a phrasal verb. We have our bubble and our  

preposition. That's not who I want to be.  Well, I'm glad to hear that Will Smith. Smith  

has opened up before about  growing up in an abusive home.  

So an abusive home this is a home where you  either witness violence like he witnessed his  

father beat up his mother or he also could have  received violence himself. So it's possible that  

his father also beat him that is what we would  describe an abusive home. Now grow up. I find  

a lot of students notice or know how to use this  but often I see mistakes because they forget that  

it's a phrasal verb you need the verb role. And  the preposition. So when you grow up in a home,  

or you can grow up in a specific city, that means  that is where you were raised. That's where you  

were a child and then you became older and older  and older and became an adult. So you might say  

I live in Florida now but I grew up in Texas. So  then this means I spent most of my time when I  

was a child. And when I was becoming an adult,  that time when I grew up, I spent it in Texas.  

Now remember our verb is grow so this is in the  past simple I grew up in Texas don't forget that  

preposition. Now the last thing I will share  with you is our phrasal verb open up to open up  

so to open up about something  is when you share information  

about a a negative or simply a  personal events in your life.  

So Will Smith is saying he bottled up his emotions  he kept them inside. But then eventually he  

decided to open up he decided to share that  information. So he maybe he told his close  

friends. Maybe he told some a therapist even or he  told some family members about the abuse that he  

experienced. As a child so he shared that personal  information. So that is another great phrasal  

verb. So now you have a lot of new vocabulary  from this article. I am going to read this article  

from start to finish so you can focus on the  pronunciation on interrupted so I'll do that now.  

Will Smith says bottled rage led him to slap  Chris Rock at the Oscars. Will Smith has said  

his bottled rage led him to slap comedian Chris  Rock on stage at the Oscars in March. The actor  

has been interviewed for the first time since  the incident which he described as a horrific  

night appearing on The Daily Show with Trevor  Noah. He said I was going through something  

that night you know? Not that that justifies  my behavior at all. Smith added that there were  

many nuances and complexities to it. But on it  I just I lost it. Smith stormed the stage at the  

Hollywood award ceremony after rock made a joke  about Smith's wife Jada has shaved head. She has  

a hair loss condition alocasia hurt people hurt  people. I understand how shocking that was for  

people. He told Noah I was gone. That was a range  that had been bottled for a really long time.  

He said he also understood the pain he had caused  and recalled the reaction of his nine year old  

nephew that night. He's the sweetest little boy  Smith said. We came home and he had stayed up late  

to see his uncle will and we're sitting in the  kitchen and he's on my lap and he's holding the  

Oscar. And he's just like, Why did you hit that  mountain uncle? Well, it was a mess. The interview  

on The Late Night US TV talk show was the first  time Smith had been publicly challenged about  

the attack. Smith will know what he understood the  often quoted theory that hurt people hurt people  

discussing the background to his Oscars  assault. That actor said it was a lot of  

things. It was the little boy that watched  his father beat up his mother you know  

all of that just bubbled up in that  moment. That's not who I want to be.  

Smith has opened up before about growing up in  an abusive home. Amazing job with this lesson.  

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