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5 things to know before the 2023.

Tour de.

France.

Are you watching the Tour de France?

Let me know in the comments.

To be honest, I am not.

I'm not much.

Of a sports.

Fan.

But I know.

That it's.

A very popular.

Event around the world 25th start outside France now Notice here we're talking about

5 things.

So this is the first.

Thing to know and you may have noticed that here I said France and.

Here, I said.

France.

That's because the name of the competition is Tour de France, Tour de France.

The pronunciation is the French pronunciation, and in French pronunciation you would say

France, France.

But in English we pronounce the name of the country France Ants.

So a more nasal, a sound ants 25th start outside France.

So when I'm referring to the country.

I will say it like.

How I say it in English France, but I will pronounce.

The title the.

Way that most people pronounce it.

Which is tour?

De France.

The tour will kick off outside.

France for the 25th time notice.

Here they have the.

25th time we need an article here because 25th.

Is an ordinal number and.

We always use articles with.

Ordinal numbers, for example I.

Work on the 4th.

Floor the 4th floor.

So you can't just say I work on 4th floor.

This is grammatically incorrect.

You have to say.

The 4th floor so.

Don't make that mistake.

Let's also look at kickoff.

This is.

Another word.

For start, for start.

When you officially.

Start.

And we generally use this when you.

Officially start A.

Project in a work context, an event in a sports context.

Kickoff, Kickoff.

So.

This means start now we also.

Use this.

As a noun, so you can say when is the.

Kickoff.

The kickoff.

And I know it's a noun because I have an.

Article without it.

When is kickoff?

That doesn't sound right.

When is the kickoff, and this would be something specific when is.

The project kickoff for.

Example, and it's asking when does.

The project kickoff, That would be the verb.

Form.

When does the?

Project kick off.

And that simply means.

Start but just.

Know that we do commonly use this in the noun form and the verb form.

The tour.

Will kick off outside France for the 25th time.

It will be the second start again ordinal number second.

So we have an article the I'll highlight that for you so you remember.

It will be the second start from the Spanish Basque country after San Sebastian in 1992,

after two stages entirely in Spain, the peloton.

Heads for.

Bayonne in France.

Heads.

For we use.

Head four or two.

Talking about the direction you're going, so the direction you're going.

Direction you're going.

For example, let's head to the mall.

Let's head to.

The mall.

So this is saying let's go to the mall.

It's just the direction you're going.

Let's go.

To the mall, it's very commonly.

Used.

Let's go.

To the mall.

Here.

When you use.

For.

It's more referring to the.

Place as a.

Entirety, which you can do, let's head.

For the beach, but you could also say let's head to the beach because for is.

Only used in.

Specific cases.

And it might be difficult to understand when to.

Use it because.

Of that, I recommend just using.

Two, because it's always.

Correct.

The peloton heads to Bayonne.

In France, that is.

Correct.

So I.

Recommend using two now the peloton.

This confused me because when I hear peloton I think the brand the brand Peloton just like

Nike is a brand have.

You ever heard?

Of Peloton stationary bikes.

So this is.

A peloton.

Is simply a stationary.

Bike so I.

Didn't understand what this meant when I first read the.

Article.

Because I am not familiar with the Tour de France or the Cycling World.

So I put.

This in the dictionary and I learned that in a bike race, peloton refers to the main

or largest group.

Of riders so A.

Peloton.

Is a group.

Of riders and it's the main or largest, but we only.

Use this specific to a bike race.

So I hope that makes you feel a little better, because even myself as an English.

Teacher I.

Learn new vocabulary all the time.

Especially when it's.

Specific to a.

Industry like the cycling industry or medical industry.

Industries that I'm not that familiar with.

So now we both learned what a peloton is.

I put the definition here.

Let's continue.

Cities pay dearly.

When you pay.

Dearly.

Dearly in this case implies a lot.

I had to.

Pay dearly for a ticket to the.

Tour de France, that means you.

Had to pay a.

Lot of money I had to pay.

Dearly for a ticket to the tour.

De France which I'm.

Sure is true.

It's probably quite.

Expensive.

Especially to get good seats as well.

Cities pay dearly for the right to host the.

Grand de par.

Which race?

Organizers insist expands the international influence of one of the biggest sporting events

in the world.

OK, the Grand de par, de par and French means.

To leave or to start, so it's the big start, so.

When you.

Start the race.

Of course, French speakers are probably going to correct that and give the more accurate

description, but that's how myself as an English.

Speaker would describe it, so they insist, they say.

And they say.

With a lot of belief or a lot of?

Opinion behind that, they say it once and then keep saying it, they insist, expands

the international influence.

Of one of the biggest sporting events in the world which they're saying the Tour de France.

I didn't know the Tour de France.

Was that popular?

To be honest, but probably.

Just because I.

Don't follow cycling so to insist it's you.

You say it forcefully.

I guess that would be.

How I would explain it?

To say.

Something forcefully, so sometimes someone might say.

They might offer you something like oh.

Please.

Have.

A piece of.

Cake.

And then you might say, Oh no, no.

And then they'll say no, I insist, so I want you.

To have a.

Piece of cake.

I'm saying it again and I'm seeing it forcefully.

And then you'll be.

Like, OK, I'll have a piece of cake.

So I wrote that dialogue here for you.

Let's continue.

So the next point is.

That it's a very.

Mountainous, mountainous simply means that there.

Are a lot.

Of mountains.

So it's an adjective describing it.

A lot of mountains, very mountainous.

So is your.

City A mountainous city.

Are there?

A lot of mountains or a.

Lot of hills.

In your city, my city is not very mountainous, I would say.

With nearly 56,000 meters here, nearly means almost, so it's an approximation almost with

nearly 50.

6000 meters.

Of climbing.

A record.

30 passes, 5 French mountain ranges.

So that's why they're.

Describing it as mountainous, there are 5 French mountain ranges in this one area and

a single time trial this.

Tour.

Presents a tough.

Profile that.

Favors climbers.

So if you are a good.

Climber on a.

Bike, of course.

So if you're.

Good at going up, steep hills, going down, going back up, then the race.

The tour favors you, Which?

Means you are in a better position to to win, so you might say.

The company favors men over women.

You hear that, A?

Lot.

The company.

Favors.

Male applicants over female applicants, which obviously is not a very good thing.

So they're giving the preference towards the company favors.

So in this case the.

Tour favors.

Climbers.

You'll notice here that.

Favors has a.

You in it, and mine does not.

This article is from the Guardian, which?

Is a.

British news article and in spelling in British spelling they add a you between.

OR.

And then in American English we don't add a U between O&R.

The pronunciation is.

Exactly the.

Same favors, favors.

No difference in pronunciation.

Both spellings are correct.

But if you're.

Writing in American English, then you.

Should use the.

American spelling and if you're writing in British English.

You should use the.

British spelling.

Arnax headline.

Now I googled how to pronounce these names and I probably won't say them correctly, but

I.

Tried, I tried.

So I'm sorry if I don't say them.

Correctly polgachar.

This one was a little easier for me, Polgachar.

Vingar.

Ving Gore.

Ving Gore.

Ving Gore.

I think it was Ving Gore.

Polka, Char ving, Gore summit.

Duel, duel, duel.

Notice the pronunciation here.

Duel.

Duel.

When there is.

A duel it means there are.

Two people competing.

Against each other a.

Duel.

You don't hear this a lot in an everyday context, but definitely in a sports competition.

That's.

What you do and because they identify two people.

You can use dual dual.

Jonas Ving.

Gore.

Winner last year after a second place in 2021.

OK, so he won the Tour de France in 2022.

And in 2021 he came in second.

So he came in second and Slovenian.

Polgachar.

The 2020 and 2021 champion.

So remember Vingar?

Ving Gore.

Was.

The winner in 2022.

But Polgachar was.

The winner in 2021, But then.

Ving.

Gore was the.

Runner up.

So he came in second place in 2021 when Polka Char won, and then when Polka Char won in

2021.

Ving Gore.

Was the runner up?

So they've been neck and neck, neck and neck.

That's a good idiom, these two, I'm not going to say their names again.

They've been.

Neck and neck.

For years.

So neck and neck is when two competitors are.

Level level is right here, or just slightly above, slightly below each.

Other and have an equal chance of winning, so either one could easily win the Tour de

France.

Yet polka chars.

Form remains unknown after breaking his wrist on April 23rd for.

Vin.

Gore.

The question first concerns his ability.

To resist the pressure of.

Defending his title because right now.

He is the title holder.

Because he won the last Tour to France.

So who do you think will win?

I have.

No idea who these people are.

So I'm going to choose.

Oh, guitar cuz.

His name was easier for me to pronounce.

Who do?

You think will win?

Share in the comments.

Safety in spotlight.

This is our next point, the death of the Swiss.

Rider.

Gino Mader mid June mid is.

The middle.

Of June, You can just say mid June, mid June.

So someone might say, oh, when is that?

Report do.

Mid next week it's due mid next week, so which means the middle of next week, so Wednesday.

It's.

Due mid next.

Week or.

I'm taking vacation in mid-september.

For example in the.

Middle of.

September, so the second week of September is not.

Precise but.

Somewhere around the middle.

Mid June, descending a mountain, descending.

Going down a mountain in the Tour of Switzerland.

I did not know there was.

A tour of.

Switzerland.

The Tour of.

Switzerland plunged the peloton.

Remember, the peloton was a.

Group of.

Riders in A.

Bike race so.

Think of just a.

Group of cyclists.

That's the peloton plunged.

This is when you move.

Or fall quickly.

And suddenly, and often a long distance as well, plunge, so to move.

Or fall.

And in this case most.

Likely it's it's fall.

He fell so on his bike so he's.

Cycling.

And then he plunged.

So just imagine he's here and then all of a sudden he's just gone somewhere.

Quite far.

So to move.

Fall.

Quickly, suddenly, like unexpectedly plunge the peloton into disarray.

Disarray.

'S chaos because they're all.

Cycling in a very organized way, but then.

Disarray would be.

Now they're all cycling in completely different directions.

So there is a lot of chaos.

So chaos disarray.

Chaos not organized, I guess you can think of it.

Chaos not organized and reignited.

So.

Here we have.

Ignited, which means when you ignite something, you start something.

We commonly.

Use this with fire so.

You can ignite.

A BBQ because there's a fire.

Involved in that which means to start.

The BBQ So.

Ignite, ignite is the verb.

And then reignite.

Is to start.

Again, SO reignited the debate it implies.

Over safety.

So it implies in the past.

They were.

Debating safety concerns.

And now because.

It.

Reignited his death reignited the debate.

So now they're debating again.

So they debated.

They stopped and now they're debating again.

Reignited.

So restarted.

You can think of it as restarted, restarted.

The debate over.

Safety accustomed to exceeding 100 kilometers an hour downhill.

Many.

Riders shared their.

Apprehension while recalling that danger is an integral.

Part of their sport.

So an integral.

Part of.

An essential part.

Of.

That's difficult.

That danger is an essential part of cycling.

I don't know if I would want.

To be a cyclist.

In that case, I wonder why danger is an essential part of cycling.

That doesn't seem right to me, but I am not a cyclist.

Accustomed to this is another way of simply saying that.

They're familiar.

With so when they're talking about the.

Riders, the riders are.

Familiar with exceeding 100 kilometers.

It's something that they do a lot.

So they're.

Comfortable doing it.

So they're familiar.

With, they're comfortable with because they've done.

It many many times familiar with or comfortable with because they've done it many times comfortable

with exceeding.

I would not want to exceed 100 kilometers.

Think of a car going 100 kilometers.

Now imagine yourself on a bike downhill.

That would be.

Terrifying for me, OK?

Our last point COVID concerns as in the last three tours, staff, journalists and guests

will have to wear masks when in contact with.

Writers.

OK, so.

Staff, journalists and guests have to wear masks and this.

Has been the situation for the last.

Three tours because they said as.

In the last three tours, So they're saying this is what it's going to be now and that's

also.

What it was like?

In 2022 one and 2020, so they have to wear masks when in contact.

With riders who are advised.

Now this who?

Are it's the riders?

The riders?

Are advised.

To avoid selfies and autographs, autographs is.

When you sign your name, can I have your autograph?

Oh sure.

And then they sign their name and they give it.

To you.

Can I have your autograph?

So do you have anyone anyone's autograph?

Anyone famous can I have your autograph?

I don't think I have anyone's autograph.

Anyone famous?

OK, avoid is a.

Gerund verb.

You don't see it here because they don't have a verb.

They're using a noun, but.

If it were a verb, you would say they're advised to avoid What would be the verb.

You would need to turn this advised.

To avoid selfies, What if?

I wanted to put this into.

A verb.

What would it be?

Do you know?

Advised to avoid.

Taking selfies because.

You take a.

Picture and a.

Selfie is a.

Picture and we need the jaron verb and avoid taking selfies and giving autographs because

that's Can I have?

Sure I can.

Give you.

My autograph so avoid taking selfies and giving.

Autographs, so verb.

Gerund Verb.

Because avoid is.

A gerund verb.

And those are the five things you need to know about the Tour de France.

I certainly learned a lot about the Tour de France because it's something I do not follow

and really know nothing about.

So now what?

I'll do is.

I'll read the.

Article from start to finish, and this time you can focus on my pronunciation, but don't

learn the pronunciation of those.

2.

Cyclists names because I'm not exactly sure how to pronounce them, but I did my best.

Five things to know before the 2023 Tour de France 25th start outside France The Tour

will kick off outside France for the 25th time.

It will be the second start from the Spanish Basque country after San Sebastian in 1992.

After two stages.

Entirely in Spain, the peloton heads for Bayonne in France.

Cities pay dearly for the right to host.

The Grand de Pas.

Which race?

Organizers insist expands the international influence of one of the biggest sporting events

in the world, a very mountainous race.

With nearly 56,000 meters of climbing.

A record 30.

Passes 5 French mountain ranges and a single time trial this.

Tour.

Presents a tough.

Profile that.

Favors climbers Pogachar Ving Gore Summit.

Duel.

Jonas Ving Gore.

Winner last year after a second place in 2021 and Slovenian Pogachar, the 2020 and 2021

champion then runner up in 2022, are the.

Big favorites yet Pogachar's.

Form remains unknown after breaking his wrist on April 23rd.

For Vin Gore.

The question first concerns his.

Ability to resist the pressure of.

Defending his title safety in spotlight.

The death of the.

Swiss rider.

Gino Mater mid June, descending a mountain in the Tour de Switzerland, plunged the peloton

into disarray and reignited.

The debate over.

Safety accustomed to exceeding 100 kilometers an hour downhill.

Many riders shared their apprehension while recalling that danger is an integral.

Part of their sport.

COVID concerns as in the last three tours, staff, journalists and guests will have to

wear masks when in contact with.

Riders who are?

Advised.

To avoid selfies.

And autographs.

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