TWO HOUR ENGLISH LESSON - Learn English Through Stories And Improve Your Fluency

Hello and welcome to this two hour English lesson.  

This is a long lesson but you're going to love  it because you're going to learn English through  

stories. And in this lesson, we're going to read  four different news articles together. And from  

these news articles, you're going to learn a lot  of advanced grammar, complex sentence structure,  

and natural vocabulary and even correct  pronunciation. So through this lesson,  

it will be divided into four parts. You will  read one story, you'll learn all the key words  

and then we'll move on to the next story.  Welcome back to JForrestEnglish training.  

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

Let's go onto my computer now and look at  our first article that we'll read together.

Hello, and welcome to our article. Let me read  the title for you. Most metaverse users don't  

even make it a month, WSJ reports. Now we're  talking about the metaverse. The metaverse. And  

you might recognize this avatar, this cartoon.  This looks like Mark Zuckerberg, doesn't it?  

The founder of Facebook. Well, Mark Zuckerberg  created the metaverse, which is a virtual reality  

universe. I have never used Metaverse, have  you? But that's what we're talking about in this  

article. So Metaverse is the name of the virtual  reality world that Mark Zuckerberg has created.  

And WSJ. I'll just point out that this  stands for The Wall Street Journal,  

Wall Street Journal. Since it's the most common  most popular newspaper in the world. We use an  

acronym. An acronym is when you take a word,  and you shorten it by just using each first  

letter of that word. So you already know and  hopefully use some common acronyms. For example,  

FYI, what does this stand for? For your  information? So we take f y i, another one.  

What does this stand for? As soon as possible? So  it's important to understand how to use acronyms.  

Now let's continue with our article. Inside the  horizon worlds platform, meta is struggling to  

keep users engaged with glitchy features and empty  worlds. Meta is the company that owns Facebook,  

and the company that owns metaverse. Remember  Metaverse is the virtual real virtual reality  

world created by Mark Zuckerberg and  Mark Zuckerberg created the company Mehta  

and her horizon worlds platform. I'm assuming this  is the platform where the metaverse is hosted.  

Let's look at this glitchy This is a  great adjective to add to your vocabulary,  

especially when we're talking about technology.  

Now glitchy This is an adjective. And we use  this when something doesn't work properly.  

So something doesn't work properly. Or you  could say it doesn't work, as it should.  

So let's say you have an app that is supposed  to organize your photos for you. But the app  

doesn't organize them properly. It doesn't put the  correct dates together. It doesn't put the correct  

users together whenever you go on the app. You  open it and then it shuts down and it causes  

your whole phone to freeze and restart. It's  not working properly. It's not working as it  

should. Then you could say this app this app  is glitchy, glitchy. So as an adjective here,  

you could say something and then you use a verb  to be and then you use our adjective glitchy. Now  

of course you need to conjugate your verb so you  could say these features are glitchy and you would  

conjugate your verb. Notice the pronunciation,  glitchy, glitchy, glitchy, a great adjectives  

specific for technology. Let's continue on  with a $400 price tag to access the platform  

via the quest to headset. The Metaverse isn't  yet assessable to the casual user. Those who do  

get a chance to try the Tech experience baffling  branded content, persistent bugs and empty world  

with no user interactions. All right, we have  another great adjective here. baffling, baffling.  

Again, this is an adjective and we know it's  an adjective, because it's describing are now  

they experience content. What type of content  baffling content. In this case we actually have  

two adjectives because branded is functioning  as an adjective. Branded simply means that you  

see the company's brand when you're on  the app. So you're on the app and you  

might see the metal logo, the Facebook logo  or on the bottom it says Metaverse powered  

by Metaverse and maybe you see that brand a  lot. So that's branded content. Now baffling,  

this is another word for confusing confusing  is a great, great adjective to have confusing.  

Now you could also again use it with  the verb to be and say, I am baffled  

by the content. So here this is in the passive  form, and it's in the passive form because the  

subject is receiving the action. I'm baffled  if it were the active form you could say the  

content baffles me. The content baffles me.  So here we're using it as a verb to baffle.  

To baffle and then we commonly  used to baffle someone.  

And remember, it's the same as confused so  the content confuses me. I'm confused by the  

content. Now we also as you saw can use it  as an adjective, and you can say the content  

is confused. Oh, is baffling, baffling.  So notice our different forms adjective,  

and then we have it as an active verb and our  passive verb of course in the passive form you  

need the verb to be so you can say she is baffled  by the content. And if it were in the past,  

you could say she was baffled by the  content. So definitely add this word  

to your vocabulary and get comfortable  with the different ways you can use it.  

Persistent This is a great adjective as  well. When something is persistent. It  

means it lasts a long time it lasts longer  than you want or longer than you expect.  

So they're saying the bugs in a technology  world and technology vocabulary, bugs are  

problems. So again, you can say there are a lot  of bugs with the software. There are a lot of  

problems with the software. We generally use  this specifically with technology vocabulary,  

so persistent bugs. This means  bugs that last a long time,  

longer than expected needed or wanted. So  persistent bugs, that's a great adjective as well.  

Let's start our next paragraph. Even  employees appear not to enjoy the platform,  

saying there is a quality problem. Last month, in  response to user complaints, meta put the horizon  

platform into lockdown pausing the rollout of  new features. While it works to improve the user  

experience of existing elements in the virtual  reality world. The Wall Street Journal reported.  

So remember here we have our acronym,  which was W S. J. You just take the  

first letter from each word, the Wall  Street Journal, the WSJ, report it  

now, everyone knows what lockdown is because  of course we all experienced that. So you know,  

when you put the platform into lockdown, you're  basically freezing it you're not allowing  

anything new to happen. You're keeping it in a  static state. This is a great expression here,  

though rollout of the rollout of this means the  introduction of new features. So introduction  

so for example, we can say the company  is rolling out new features. This month.  

Our phrasal verb roll out this simply means  introduce the company is introducing new  

features. Now because this is our verb you can  conjugate this in different subjects of course,  

or in different conjugations in different time  references. So, right now we have this in the  

Present Continuous because it's taking place  right now this month or in the near future,  

depending on the context. But if it's already  completed, you could say the company rolled  

out new features. Now what do I need to do with  this this month? Last month, last month, because  

it's in the past simple, so I can't use this  month, if I view this month as a future action  

the company rolled out new features last month,  technically I could say this month. If for  

example, right now it is the 15th for example,  but the features were introduced on the fifth.  

Now that is in the past, but it's still this  month, this month. So you can say this month  

with a past simple as long as you're talking about  a time period that is complete that in the past.  

All right, so roll out. That's a great business  vocabulary. We generally use this with companies,  

but you could use it for example with the  government, you could say the government  

plans to roll out its new tax credit.  

Next year, for example. So I want to show  you our phrasal verb in a different sentence  

structure here. It's in the infinitive plan to  roll out its new tax credit. We need it without  

the apostrophe because it's possessive. If you  have it with the apostrophe, it's it is which  

is grammatically incorrect. It's new tax credit  next year. So again, this simply means introduce  

let's continue on. Internal statistics WSJ  reported indicate that only 9% of world's built  

by users are ever visited by at least 50 people.  While most never received any visit at all.  

Indicates is a more formal way of saying set.  Internal statistics said that, so indicate that  

now here we have it in the present simple form.  Of course, you could put it in the past indicated  

because it's a verb. So instead of saying said,  you can use indicate that's a more formal word.  

Another more formal choice that's great for  your academic or business vocabulary could be  

state, internal statistics state that indicate  that state that those are both more formal ways  

of simply saying say only 9% of world's built  by users are ever visited by at least 50 people.  

So here at least, this is taking our  number and saying 50 is the minimum  

at least 50 There could be more than 50 but  there isn't less than 50. So you might say  

we need to finish at least  50% of the project today.  

So you're this means a minimum of 50% It's great  if you finish 55% 60% 70% or even 100%. That's  

okay, but if you've finished 40% That's not okay,  because you need at least 50% a minimum of 50%.  

Less concern continue on internal documents  show Mehta has fallen far short of its goals  

for regular monthly users. The company  initially had set a goal of 500,000  

monthly users by the end of 2022, but has changed  that figure to 280,000. The document shows the  

documents show the platform has less than 200,000  current users. All right, so notice our numbers.  

I know sometimes students have difficulty with  numbers. Your best thing to do is go into a  

numbers based article, something with a  lot of statistics and just practice those  

numbers 500 And then three zeros represent  1000 500,000. Now we don't add an S to the  

number because the S is here. The plural  is on users. So I do not say 500 1000s  

1000s with an S at the end. I don't say that  you say 500,000 users so our plural is on users  

280,000 Now you do not need to say and  you do not need to say 280,000 No 280,000  

And again, no US 200,000 Again, are as is here.  

Let's look at this to fall short. To  fall short. This is a great expression  

we set a big goal, but we fell short. Now  notice here in the article they see set a  

goal. So with goal, the verb you use is set. We  don't really say I made a goal. I made a goal to  

reach 500,000 users the best choice for  the verb is I set a goal I set a goal.  

So we sent a big goal, but we fell short.  What does this mean? This means you did not  

reach your goal. So when you fall short, you  don't achieve your objective to fall short.  

To fall short. You don't reach your objective.  Whatever your objective is, it could be to get  

a specific mark on the IELTS or it could be to  get a promotion next year or to read a certain  

number of books this month. But if you don't reach  your objective you can say well, I fell short.  

Now notice here, they have an adverb, or they fell  far short. So this is just saying, how short did  

you fall? How far away were you from accomplishing  the goal? So let's say the goal is here.  

And they were way way way back there. You  could say they fell are short, but maybe  

if they were close right here, you wouldn't use  the word far because they were somewhat close.  

So for this one, I would say you don't need to  use it. It isn't that commonly used, but the  

expression is to fall short. And notice is here  what verb isn't conjugated with metta has fallen  

short, has fallen short. It's the present perfect.  So we have I fell short that's in the past. I've  

fallen short. That's in the present. Continue  present perfect. And this is the past simple.  

Let's continue on. Most users generally  don't return to the app after the first  

month. Well more than half of quest two headsets  are out of views within six months WSJ recorded.  

So here within six months, this is saying six  months or less or less, so it could be five 5.543  

but not seven or more, or even not 6.5 or more.  So six months or less, so your boss might say  

we need to roll out the new feature with n  

two weeks. So it could be one and a half weeks,  one week, three days, but it can't be two and a  

half weeks. So it can be less than two weeks  but it cannot be more than if you say within  

in light of the low user retention feature  glitches and high costs of access. Insider  

previously reported some investors have  raised questions about metas 15 billion  

investment in reality labs, the business  segment responsible for the metaverse.  

This is a great expression here in light of  and then you have something now when we use  

this it means you're considering the something so  there's something here is the low user retention  

is another way of saying because of that's  how you can think of it and the most simplest  

context because of the low user retention when  we consider when we acknowledge because of it's  

a more formal way and it's a great expression TO  HAVE TO YOUR more formal vocabulary, your business  

vocabulary or your academic vocabulary. You can  say in light of the weather. We canceled our trip  

and you probably recognize this this  you probably recognize this more with  

because because of the weather we canceled  our trip. Now this is a more every day.  

Contacts. So I would likely use because of  in light of sounds a little too formal. So  

what I would do is probably change this to a  more professional context and say, in light of  

the recession, we postponed the rollouts so the  rollout is the introduction of the new features.  

Currently, it's unclear where the metaverse fit  in the Investment Framework WSJ reported, Derr,  

all of a sound Joe, lead product manager for  horizon and the metaverse platform wrote in  

a memo, we are overdue for a reassessment  of how we invest and allocate resources.  

Let's look at this we are overdue. The sentence  structure is to be overdue or and then something  

this means that this something is taking longer  than you expect it this something should have  

happened sooner. So they're saying if  they're overdue, for a reassessment,  

it means we should have reassessed earlier.  reassessing is taking too long. So you might say  

our company is overdue for  a new marketing proposal.  

So this marketing proposal should have been  introduced or rolled out sooner. It's taking too  

long. So that's another great business expression.  Now, you can use this in a more everyday context,  

because you might say the my assignment is  overdue, which means that your assignment  

is late. That's basically what it means to be  late. It means that you should have submitted  

that assignment sooner. You should have submitted  it sooner. It's late. My assignment is overdue.  

This paper is overdue. It's late, you should have  submitted it sooner. So a very useful expression.  

So that's the end of our article. Now you know a  little bit more about Mark Zuckerberg Metaverse,  

and are you going to use the metaverse?  Have you used the metaverse? You can  

share that in the comments below.  And I hope you enjoyed this article.

Amazing job with that article. Now feel  free to take a break, if you'd like,  

get a cup of tea and then come back  and we'll move on to the next article.

Welcome to our article,  the title is Anna May Wong,  

who is this woman? Does she look familiar  to you? Doesn't look familiar to me. Anna  

May Wong actress becomes first Asian  American on US currency. Now currency.  

This is another word for money. So currency is  just describing the money in the US currency  

is in dollars. Or coins in paper bills or  coins. So currency is another word for money.  

actress Anna May Wong is set to become the first  Asian American to be featured on US currency.  

Basically what the title said. Now here this is  a great expression to be set to become. So what  

do you notice here? What is this to become? This  is an infinitive and infinitive. And what kind  

of verb is this? Well, of course the verb to be  right. Now this is important because it helps you  

understand the sentence structure for expressions,  because this expression is formed with the verb be  

and then set be set. And then we have our  infinitive. Now, in this case, the infinitive is  

to become, we could change the infinitive verb to  something else. And then notice we have our verb  

conjugated with our subject. Who is the subject?  Anna May Wong? Of course, so our subject is she  

and that's why it is is she is set to become and  what does this mean be set to? And infinitive so  

this simply means, be ready to or be prepared to  so you can use it in the same way. You might say.  

For example, I'm set to present at tomorrow's  meeting. So my verb to be is conjugated with  

the subject. I, we have our verb sent, which  doesn't change and then we have our infinitive.  

In this case, my verb is present, and  the infinitive doesn't change also,  

so the only thing you're conjugating is the verb  to be on set to present at tomorrow's meeting.  

Now native speakers will frequently add the  word all for no reason at all. It doesn't add  

anything to the meaning of it. I'm all set.  I'm all set to go to the mall. I'm ready to  

go to the mall. You don't have to do that.  It's just optional. So you can say I'm set  

set to go to the airport, for example.  I'm ready to go. I'm prepared to go.  

She will appear as part of an effort  to feature notable women on American  

quarters. Wong who is considered the  first Chinese American film star in  

Hollywood is the fifth and final woman to be  individually featured on the coin this year.  

Okay on the coin, what coin are we talking about?  A little listening comprehension quiz for you. On  

the coin, the coin which coin well the coin  is here, the quarter the quarter. This can  

be tricky for you. If you're not familiar with  American currency, which again means so quarter  

is a type of coin, which is why we haven't  here and the value is 25 cents or point two  

5.25 of $1 that's the value of a  quarter. So doesn't get you very much.  

Now I want to talk about pronunciation  because I hear a lot of mistakes with  

the pronunciation of women, women. This  is well I'll ask you is this singular  

or plural singular or plural? women, women.  Notable women this is plural. So one woman,  

two women. I want you to notice my pronunciation.  One woman woke up woman, woman to wit at women,  

two women 112 Women. good pronunciation tip for  you to practice. All right now, keep in mind this  

quarter because I know there's a picture of  the quarter below so you'll get to see this  

and remember a corridor is a coin as its currency  and it's worth 25 cents or point two five of $1.  

The quarter will enter general circulation on  Monday. To enter general circulation. This is  

a very formal way of saying will be used by  people so you will get it when you go to a  

store. When you go to the bank. You will receive  it. I don't think you really need to know that  

for your vocabulary. It's quite formal, but for  listening comprehension for reading comprehension  

now you know what it means. It what does it  represent it? The quarter, the quarter that's the  

is it the quarter will feature President George  Washington on one side and long on the other. So  

we have this coin. There's two sides of the coin.  One side is the President the other side wall.  

ventures Gibson director of the US Mint,  called Wong a courageous advocate who champion  

for increased representation and more multi  dimensional roles for Asian American actors.  

No cure this is a good word to have in your  vocabulary. It's quite normal, but we use this  

often in a business context and you will see it a  lot when you're reading anything from the news. So  

you hear in this case they're using it as a now  she was an advocate. Notice I have a courageous  

advocate because right now advocate is separated  by my adjective courageous. So because of that  

this is our adjective because of that. I need my  article ah, because our goes with courageous but  

if I just have advocate and no adjective in front  of it, then I need an and advocate because we use  

and when you have a vowel sound about sound before  an advocate. So you can say she was an advocate.  

This is the noun we very commonly use  this as a verb form. She advocated for  

Asian American actors she advocated for when you  advocate for notice or preposition choice here.  

You don't advocate to advocate on advocate in  you advocate for when you're learning vocabulary,  

it's very helpful to learn the prepositions when  you learn the words because if you don't use the  

correct preposition, it will be grammatically  incorrect and it won't sound very good either.  

She advocated for Asian American actors, so you  can advocate for someone. This would be a someone,  

a group of people. You can also advocate for  something. So you might say she advocated or  

increased representation. So this is a some thing.  Our preposition doesn't change we still need or in  

both cases something something increased  representation or someone Asian American  

actors and when you advocate for someone or  something, you act as a representative for  

them a supporter for them. You want to promote  their views and you want to promote their cause  

whatever that pause may be, so you're supporting  them. It's just a more formal way of saying it a  

very common in a newspaper context. You'll hear  it a lot in the media and it is a good business.  

verb to have as well. This quarter oh, we're going  to see the quarter are you excited? Dun dun dun.  

Here's the quarter. So remember, this is worth 25  cents, or one quarter of $1 point two five of $1  

one quarter that's why it's called Porter. So this  is a coin. Remember? Coin. A coin. The name of the  

coin is a quarter there are different coins. In  American currency. And remember currency is money.  

So this is a type of currency and the  type of coin it is is a quarter. This is a  

very nice quarter, isn't it? So if you're  in the US right now you can go to a store  

go to a bank and you might receive this coin you  might receive this quarter. That would be pretty  

cool. And remember on the other side, we have  president was it George Washington, I believe  

this quarter is designed to reflect the breadth  and depth of accomplishments by Anna May Wong  

who overcame challenges and obstacles she  faced during her lifetime. She said let's  

look at breadth and depth. Now breadth is the  range so if someone has a breadth of knowledge,  

it means their knowledge is why on many different  subjects, and daps you can think of as this way so  

you have all these different subjects. Let's say  one subject is politics. And then you have your  

dabs of politics, so you know many different  subjects, that's your breadth of knowledge  

and then within each subject, you know all a  lot about that subject and that's your depth  

so that's a great expression we have we usually  use breadth and depth in terms of knowledge. Here  

you can see they're doing it with accomplishment,  so she could have a breadth of accomplishments,  

maybe accomplishments as an actress  accomplishments as a teacher accomplishments as  

an advocate. And then within each accomplishment,  she has a depth of accomplishment. So she has  

many different times that she advocated or many  different times that she was a successful actress  

let's oh, here's our lovely quarter. Again,  I really like to see one in person now. Let's  

move on. One was born in Los Angeles in 1905  1905. Notice how I'm pronouncing this as Oh,  

the number is 00123. I have $0 in my bank account,  

hopefully you don't need to say that. I  have $0 in my bank account. Hopefully not  

you. Now of course not. Is this 00123 But  I wouldn't say 19 05. I would for dates.  

Let me continue here with our date. So with date,  you pronounce it as oh that's the pronunciation  

1905 1905. That's the pronunciation here. But if  I'm telling someone my own number, I might say  

I could say 0019. If this was part of my phone  number, or oh, oh, one nine. So you can do either  

with phone number zero, or Oh, both of them are  quite common, to be honest. So with phone numbers,  

addresses even I live at  0019 or Oh one nine addresses  

and money you would say zero so for  money you would definitely say zero  

but for deeds, we would say Oh 1905 Wong was born  in Los Angeles in 1905. To Chinese immigrants. Her  

name at birth was Wong Lu some I'm not sure how to  pronounce that. But later in life, she adopted the  

stage name of Anna May Wong and I'm sure this is  exactly why she changed her name because Americans  

don't know how to pronounce that unfortunately.  Formed by joining her English and family and  

she was cast in her first role as an extra  in the film The Red lounge and continue to  

take on smaller parts and telephones.  Roll in the tool of the seat in 1922.  

You probably don't know these movies,  maybe you do. I don't know these movies.  

Let's look at this here. Did I want to show you  Okay, first of all, when you're cast in a movie  

role, this is a verb specific or the entertainment  industry so you can be cast in a TV show, a play,  

movie, anything that you perform in and that is  used for the entertainment industry. It means  

that she was hired for the job but they don't use  this vocabulary in the entertainment industry.  

This is why when you're learning a language  is so important to understand the specific  

industry you're in and then learn the terms and  the vocabulary of that industry. If you're in  

the medical industry, or if you're a lawyer or  an engineer, you're going to have very specific  

vocabulary to your industry and you need to learn  that vocabulary. So if you're in the entertainment  

industry, you should probably already know this  verb to be cast in a role. So anyone else would  

just say she was hired for the job. This is in a  regular context, not the entertainment industry.  

Okay, here we have a great phrasal verb to  take on to take on. When you take something  

on you accept responsibility for a project or a  task. In this case, she accepted responsibility  

for a part which is a part of a movie so  she was in the movie for a portion of time.  

Your boss for example, might  say can you take on this client?  

Which means Can you accept responsibility  for this client? For this job?  

Or I took on too many projects last month. So  last month, you said yes, I can do that. Yes,  

I can do that. Yes. I can do that. You accepted  responsibility for different tasks or different  

assignments, but it was too much. Or you  might say, sorry, I can't take that on right  

now. I already have a lot on my plate and  teaching you a bonus expression right here.  

The expression is to have a lot on and then one's  plate the one in this case is me. So I'm changing  

it to mine but I might say you have a lot on your  plate. She has a lot on her plate. He has a lot  

on his plate. They have a lot on their plate.  Now that means to be very busy. Do you have a  

lot on one's plate is an idiom and it means  to be very busy. So that could be the reason  

why you can't take that on that being whatever  project it is. I can't take on that project. I  

can't take that on. I have a lot on my plate.  So that's a great idiom for you to start using.  

She appeared in more than 60 movies across her  career. That's a lot of movies that's impressive,  

including silent films and one of her first one  of the first made in Technicolor interesting.  

One was also the first Asian American lead actor  in the US television show, the gallery of Madame  

Hui small in which she played a Chinese detective  after facing discrimination in the US she traveled  

to Europe to work in English, French and  German films. I like this expression here  

after and then you have a gerund. This is a great  sentence structure for you to use to sound quite  

advanced so you can say after graduating, I moved  abroad after improving my English I took on more  

public speaking so you accepted responsibility for  I took on more public speaking after improving.  

Now you could absolutely say after I improved  and then everything else would be the same.  

But notice in this case, we're using a gerund verb  and in this case I'm using subject and then my  

verb is going to be conjugated in the past simple  because the action is complete. After I graduated,  

I moved abroad. After graduating,  I moved abroad. To me this sounds  

very natural. It has a nice flow to it and  it sounds more advanced than saying after I  

graduated. So I highly recommend you add this to  your vocabulary. Remember it is after plus Gerrans  

after plus Geron which is your verb in ing.  

How much do we have? Oh eight. We're  almost done here. She was awarded  

a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in  1960 and die the following year, aged 56.  

Jemma Chan, known for appearing in Crazy Rich  Asians and Marvel's Eternals is set to portray  

Wong and an upcoming biopic about the stars life.  Oh, so we're going to have a movie coming out  

about long in the near future. Now here's our  expression again is set to what does this mean?  

is prepared to or ready to. And remember, it's to  be set and then infinitive. So here our infinitive  

is to portray and our verb to be is conjugated  with he she it because what's the subject? In  

this case? Our subject is Gemma Chan. Our subject  is quite far removed from our verb which happens  

a lot in spoken English, of course, but it  happens equally in Britain English. All of  

this in the commas is just extra additional  information, but our subject is Gemma Chan,  

and our verb is conjugated with the  subject. She's ready to portray Wong  

the American women, the American women quarters  program, so this is one name of something the  

American women quarters program. Remember our  pronunciation of women with with women women.  

The American women quarters program  began this year and will feature five  

women each year until 2025. Native  Hawaiian hula teacher, Edith Kyla  

cannot go ole cannot go late, has been  named as one of the selections for 2023.  

So they're talking about a different corner so  remember our quarter so in 2023 is going to be  

the Hawaiian hula teacher who's going to be on  the quarter so you can look over to that as well.  

has been named as one of the selections  for 2023. So that was the end of the  

article. There was one other thing I  wanted to explain before we wrap up,  

which means to end before we wrap up  before we end, the following your age 56  

I see a lot of mistakes with age so you  can say she was if the sets when she died.  

So this is correct. You can also say she was 56  years old. Why when she died? Not as cracked.  

How about this one? She was it  the six years when she died?  

What do you think she was 56 years when she died?  Is this correct? or incorrect? What do you think?  

This is incorrect. You can't see that. I see this  a lot. So you have two options when seeing age.  

You can say just the number 56 She was 56 or you  can include years old. 56 years old. Those are  

your two options. This is not correct. You  cannot just say yours. You either have to  

get rid of it, or you have to add old but this by  itself is not correct. So make sure you don't say  

that one. And then is the end of the article so  I hope you enjoyed learning about our actress who  

is on the quarter. Anna May Wong and remember you  can watch that upcoming movie about her as going  

to be played by Gemma chan so that would be quite  interesting. So I hope you enjoyed the article.

Amazing job with that article. Are you ready  to move on to the next one? Let's do it!

Welcome to our article, you may recognize this man  he's the new British prime minister. The title of  

our article is inside the fortune a Britain's new  prime minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata  

Murthy. Now, right off the bat, let's look at  this because we're going to see this a lot in  

the article. The fortune inside the fortune of  what is this? Well, fortune is a noun. Let me  

get my pen out. Fortune is a noun, and this simply  means a large amount of money. So it's a very good  

thing. You definitely want to have our fortune in  your bank account or to your name. So unfortunate.  

This is a noun, and it's a large  let me move myself a large amount  

of money. But here's the thing. It doesn't  have to just be cash. It could be money,  

assets in the form of goods such as poverty.  So we'll see here about his wife Akshata. Her  

goods are in the form of investments of stocks  ownership in companies which when you sell that  

it becomes money but for now it's considered  a good and it can also be property. So if you  

own many different homes around the world, and you  sold all of those, you would have like Li a large  

amounts of money. So you could say a fortune.  Now we use this a lot. You might say for example,  

she inherited a fortune when her  grand mother died. So she inherited  

money over time property or it could have  been good as well. She inherited a fortune.  

We also say she's worse, a fortune. So here to  be worse. This is just how much money or assets  

you have. And by saying off fortune, we're  talking about a large a large amount, she's  

worth a fortune. So the new prime minister of  Britain is worth a fortune. The UK is a new prime  

minister and his wife, the daughter of an Indian  tech billionaire, have a collective net worth  

higher than the personal fortune of King Charles  the third. So here we're seeing our noun again,  

the personal fortune. So this is the amount of  money goods or property belonging to King Charles.  

Now notice here we have an article, just  remember that this is an exception, an exception,  

proper nouns like the names of countries, the  names of people, the names of cities, don't take  

an article, but there are exceptions and UK we  don't say UK is a beautiful country. We say the  

UK is a beautiful country, just like we say. The  Can you think of another one with an exception?  

The obviously the USA right? We don't say USA we  say the USA is a beautiful country, but then we  

would say Switzerland is a beautiful country. We  would not say the Switzerland does Switzerland No.  

Just Switzerland. So remember, this is an  exception adding an article to a proper noun.  

You just have to memorize which countries  take an article there aren't very many.  

All right. Now, notice here have our conjugation  is in the form have remember has for he she it  

and then have for I have you have we have they  have well what's the subject here? Because it  

can make it difficult when your subject is  separated from your noun. So here, all of  

this information is additional information. It  doesn't have anything to do with the conjugation  

of our now. Our subject is the UK is new prime  minister, which is this man and his wife. So  

what's the subject? This man and his wife? They  they that's the subject and that's why we have  

have they have a collective that worse. So all  of this equals they as a subject. So always ask  

yourself when you're thinking about what verb do  I need? Always ask yourself what's my subject,  

and it's easiest to turn it into. I you he she  it we are they to understand the conjugation.  

After winning the contest for leadership of the  Conservative Party, Rishi Sunak is set to become  

the United Kingdom's next prime minister,  that will make him the most powerful person  

in the country. The 42 year old former finance  minister and investment banker is already among  

the UK richest, largely thanks to the fortune  held by his wife Akshata Murthy. Let's look  

at this. What do you notice about our verb or  verb is winning? What's the conjugation here?  

It is in the gerund form. Gerund. This is a  gerund. And you know why? That because we have,  

of course, we have our verb, and then you  add ing verb + ing. Now why why is this in  

the gerund form? Why not? The Present Simple Why  not the past simple because of the word after.  

And what is so important about the word after  that requires a gerund verb. Do you know  

it's a preposition and we always use a gerund  verb after preposition so preposition plus  

Jaren we have after so we put winning after  winning the contest for leadership. Okay.  

The most powerful person in the country.  

Notice here we have the 42 year old this  is being used as an adjective. We could say  

he is 42 years old. And notice I have  the s on yours because it's more than  

one. So it's plural and you need to add  the s to plural nouns plural nouns, you  

add s or ES. But this is not a noun. It's an  adjective and we don't add SS to adjectives.  

So this is an adjective. The former finance  minister, Minister, what type of former finance  

minister providing more information  by stating his age, the 42 year old  

so you might say for example, the 50  year old movie or the 100 year old helps,  

for example, so these are being used  as adjectives because I could say  

the 100 year old so I can get rid of  that and it's just the house what type  

of house I'm going to provide more  information, the 100 year old house,  

the movie, what type of movie  the 50 year old movie adjectives  

so here we see the fortune held by his wife  held is just saying that it belongs to her  

I like this here. Thanks to of course, you know  how to use the word. Thank you. Thank you for your  

compliment. Thank you for I'll just do an easier  one. Thank you for the gift, something everybody  

understands. Thank you for the gift. You can never  say first of all, you can never say things you  

that is always incorrect. You have to say thank  you. But you could also say thanks or the gift.  

Notice my preposition choice is for thanks  for thank you for what do you notice up here  

thanks to hmm, because it's being used in  an entirely different way. Sure. We have the  

word thanks. But I'm not showing appreciation.  Here's how this is used. Thanks to something  

or someone. This is the sentence structure. We  only use things in this case you cannot say thank  

you to. Okay. Thank you to someone or something.  You cannot say that. So I'm going to cross this  

out. You can't say that this is incorrect.  One or something? Let me give you an example  

sentence. Thanks. Thanks to Jennifer's amazing  lessons. I've improved my English or you could  

say I got the job. I got the job. I was offered  the job. Thanks to Jennifer's amazing lessons.  

So the easiest way to understand what this means  and notice here, this is a sum thing even though  

it has my name is honest someone because  it's actually things to the lessons, but I'm  

just saying which lessons and I'm providing more  information, things to Jennifer's amazing lessons.  

I got the job. What we can  do is change the sentence  

structure and use a different word to  understand the meaning. I got the job.  

Jennifer's amazing lessons. Do you know how  I would complete this? Do you have any idea  

what I would put here? I got the job because I'm  structure we're just reversing it. So the reason  

why comes before the results. This is the result  and this is the reason why. So you might say  

I'll give you one more example sentence  I'm running out of room here. I could say  

thanks to COVID I had to cancel my vacation.  So notice this is a negative. The word thinks  

in your mind you probably think it's always  a positive and it is when I say thank you,  

but this is a totally different sentence  structure. Thanks to something or someone  

this is a something I'm providing the reason why I  had to cancel my vacation because of COVID Thanks  

to COVID I had to cancel my vacation. I highly  suggest you practices in the comments below  

because it's a very common sentence structure. It  will help you sound very advanced. So try it both  

ways. Write it with thanks to and then change  it and use because that will really help you  

feel comfortable using the sentence structure. So  try that in the comments. And let's continue on.  

Did I read this all yet? No, I did not. Okay,  Murthy 42. That's how old she is. Sometimes in  

articles you will just see the number Murthy 42.  That's her age. Murthy. 42 is the daughter of nr.  

Narayana Murthy, the co founder and retired  chairman of Indian tech giant info side whose  

net worth is estimated by forms at or point  $5 billion, billion and then I say the word  

dollars with an s because it's plural. And notice  how I vocalize this or point five or point $5  

billion her own zero point again 0.93%  stake in the publicly traded digital  

services consulting firm is worth  $715 million than I vocalized as  

making up the vast majority of her and soon  X combined fortunate. All together Forbes  

estimating Sunak and his wife Murthy are worth  roughly $810 million more than a quarter of a  

billion dollars richer than the 500 million  personal fortune of King Charles the third  

Sunak and Murthy didn't immediately respond to a  request for comment. Okay, all of this is talking  

about what their fortune their fortune a large  amounts of money. Obviously when we're getting  

into millions and we're talking about billions  here we can definitely consider that a fortune.  

I like this. This is quite common to add the vast  majority. The word vast isn't needed. Honestly,  

because majority already means 75% 80% the  largest portion vast is just emphasizing that  

the vast majority. So instead of 75%, which is  a majority majority is basically anything over  

50 But that we could probably say anything over 75  so that word is there simply to make it stronger.  

So this is to emphasize the word majority. You  do see this a lot the word the vast majority  

of the Fortune. All right, and just remember how  we vocalized the point and the word dollars when  

we're talking about money. Let's move on here  as the new prime minister Sunak will now move  

to 10 Downing Street next door to his former  residents when he served as Boris Johnson's  

Chancellor from February 2020 to July this  year. You'll also have access to checkers,  

the sitting Prime Minister's 60s, century  countryside retreat and bunkie Buckinghamshire.  

All right, go back for a second here  

okay, just wanted to point this word out  as our preposition to but how is it being  

represented because we have February 2022  July. So when we're talking about a range,  

so you can think of that range just as let's  just say x to y, and we use the preposition  

to and this is when we're expressing  a range so you might say for example  

today I'm on available from from two, I'll  say four to six, four to six. Now notice  

I forgot to add this word because it's  not just X to Y, it's from x to y.  

I changed. At first I had to, but I changed it to  four simply because for teaching purposes two to  

six. So the pronunciation is exactly the same two  to six. But a native speaker is going to pronounce  

this to more of a reduced sound and is going to  sound like to so if I do have the number two I  

would say I'm unavailable from two to six to to  two to six, two to six, or to six three to 612  

to 612, noon, noon to six whatever your time may  be. You might say I'm on vacation from Monday  

to Friday, for example, Monday to Friday to  Monday to Friday. That's simply how a native  

speaker is going to pronounce this in a natural  conversation. You don't have to pronounce it  

like that. You can definitely say Monday to Friday  and pronounce it fully. Just get comfortable with  

hearing it as a reduced sound. Monday to Friday.  Let's move on to our last page of the article.  

But much like the British monarch Sunak and Murthy  who married in August 2009 in a two day ceremony  

in Bangalore, India. And have two daughters  have their own personal real estate portfolio.  

The couple owns four homes spread across the UK  and California worth an estimated $18.3 million  

so remember remember what I was  talking about before when our subject  

is far removed from the next part of our  sentence. So here again we have have exactly  

the same verb and conjugation we saw before. Now  notice our verb is here, where is the subject  

is actually quite divided. So we take away all the  information between these dashes and our subject  

is actually right here. So again, in written form,  in spoken form, as well. Our subject can be far  

removed from the verb. So when you're writing or  when you're speaking, you have to remember what  

your subject is when you're thinking about your  verb conjugation. Of course, this is a lot easier  

to do in writing because you can think about it in  spoken English. You have to just say it instantly  

so you don't have as much time to think that's  why it's so helpful to practice. in written form,  

get comfortable with this. Okay, let's  move on to I believe our our last section  

some of let me see some of Murphy's business  ventures haven't been successful. She had a  

fashion label based in California Akshata  designs which hat which she set up in 2010  

and shut down two years later. Murthy is also a  director at and owns a small stake in boutique  

gym chain dig may fitness, which was hit hard  by the COVID 19 pandemic and was forced to shut  

down forced to shut two of its six locations.  Earlier this year. All right, so here we have  

the phrasal verb shut down and set up. This  is perfect because they're opposites. And  

it's great because if you understand the  meaning of one, you can just think okay,  

what's the opposite of that meaning and then you  know the opposite. So you've learned two phrasal  

verbs in one. So that's awesome. To set something  up in a business context, you always have to think  

what's my context? In this case, we're talking  about a business a company. You can also think of,  

for example, a new project or a new area of  an existing business, but when you to set  

I'll just say to set a business up because  that's the context. This simply means to  

to establish, which is I guess a more  formal way of simply saying to start  

to set the business up so she set up X  shot Akshata designs, she established it,  

she started it, she created it, she  sent it off it being the business.  

So she set action at shatter designs off in 2010.  The sentence structure is just simply different,  

which she set off in 2010. So if set up is to  establish or start, then what is shut down it's  

the opposite. So what's the opposite of to start?  It's to end so when you shut down a business,  

you permanently close it. This phrasal verb became  very widespread. During the pandemic because a  

lot of businesses had to shut down they had to  permanently close. So let me look. Let me write  

this out for you. Let me move myself here. So to  shunt a business down is to permanently close.  

So this is a great set to practice in the comments  below because you have to set up and then you have  

the opposite to shut to shut down. Now notice  we have the preposition in before you state.  

The date was set up in the fall. This spring was  set up in March was set up in 2012 for example.  

Okay, and finally our last paragraph. It's unclear  how much Sunak earns in finance but his new gig as  

prime minister comes with a sizeable pay bomb.  He'll now make more than $185,000 a year nearly  

double his $95,000 wage as a member of parliament.  All right. A pay bump is a pay increase.  

So that's just another way of saying a pay  increase which means you're making more money.  

A pay bump a pay increase. sizeable  means large large and as you can see,  

it was more than double or nearly double,  nearly double so that is sizeable nearly double.  

All right, so now you know all about the  new prime minister and his wife and you  

know about how he earned his fortune.  So I hope you enjoyed this article.

You are doing so awesome! Take a quick break,  

if you need, and let's move on to  the final article in this lesson.

Welcome to my computer. As you can see our  famous landmark, the Statue of Liberty. So  

let's begin our article. The title is "You can  finally climb on top of the crown of the Statue  

of Liberty again". Now just in case you don't  know what the crown is, here's our Statue of  

Liberty. So the crown is this top part right here.  And of course it looks like what a king, queen,  

any royalty, what they wear on their head and that  is the crown. So you could climb, climb up to the  

crown. That would be pretty cool, wouldn't it?  Why was the Statue of Liberty crown closed until  

now? Let's find out. Following a two and a half  year closure caused by the COVID 19 pandemic,  

the Crown portion of the Statue of Liberty has  officially reopened to the public this week.  

So let's look right here, two and a half  year. Now two and a half, a half is of  

course point five right, so two and a half. That  is 2.5. But why does it say year? And why doesn't  

it say years? That's because right here, two and  a half, this is an adjective two and a half year.  

This whole thing is describing what type of  closure it was, okay? And that's why year does  

not have a plural, because adjectives don't have  singular and plurals. This will make more sense  

if you look at it like, I took a 30  day vacation. Okay, so notice here,  

I took a vacation. This is grammatically correct.  What type of vacation, a short vacation a long  

vacation a relaxing vacation. All of those are  adjectives but I can also use a time period as  

an adjective. I took a 30 day vacation a 30 month  vacation a 30 minute vacation compared to I took a  

vacation or 30 days. Now here is our noun 30 days,  which means to be singular or plural. If it were  

one day obviously singular. 30 more than one so  days. That is why you don't have an S here. I hear  

this mistake a lot from students. What else?  Oh, let's look at this re opened when you add  

re in front of a verb it means to do it again.  Okay, so I could say I re watched the movie. I  

can't think of a movie name. I really watched the  movie. So this means I watched the movie again.  

I watched the movie again. So this is my verb.  Watch is just in the past simple and I'm adding  

rate. You can add a dash there or you don't have  to. It's optional. In terms of spelling. I see it  

more commonly without the dash but as you can  see here in the article, they do have a dash,  

but your boss might say, hey, Julio, can you  redo the report? Can you redo the report? He's  

asking you how to do it again. Can you  redo the report? So that's a very useful  

word to put in front of a verb notice the  pronunciation re re redo rewatch reopen, remake.  

If you've been trying to visit the destination  since March of 2020, though, you might have to  

wait a tad bit longer. Tickets to access the crowd  are basically sold out through October. Make sure  

to reserve your past for a future date. Right  here. So you can reserve your past if you'd like.  

Okay, notice here What verb tense is this? The  present perfect continuous have or has depending  

on the subject you have is just a contraction.  B E. So this is you have you have equals  

you as a contraction, then we have been and then  we have our verb in ING so that's the present  

perfect continuous and we use this for an action  that started in the past, but continues until  

now and we want to stress the continuation  of the action. That's the i n g. I've been  

trying to book my ticket since March since 2020  cents this morning. Now you could also say for  

two hours for two years for five days. So when we  have a period of time we use for and then we use  

sent with a specific date. I like this one a tad  bit a tad bit. This is a very natural vocabulary  

choice and it means a little bit a little bit  a tad. So you might say I was a tad late today,  

through here. I was late today. How late  were you? Just a little right so you could  

say I was a little that's very common. You  probably know it. Here's a new fun natural  

expression that's very common. I was a tad late  today. You need this article. Ah, you might say  

I'm a tad tired today. So this is saying I'm a  little tired or she's tired. hungry right now.  

Right now she's a tad a little tad. Tad  don't forget that article. Let's move on.  

According to CNN, the National Park Service,  which manages the landmark was attempting  

to hold a soft reopening without too much  advertisement in late October to celebrate  

the 136th anniversary of the statues dedication  in 1886. Okay, so here we have reopening again,  

here we had re open. Now we're having re opening.  So they're opening it again, opening it again. Re  

opening I don't think there's anything else I want  to teach you here. If you have comments about any  

of this just put your comments in the chat and I  will try to answer them or record a future video.  

This is a good one. I hope you already use this  in your vocabulary. But according to someone  

or something. This is a very professional formal  business vocabulary. The CNN is a newspaper Media  

Group, so that is considered a something but you  could have a someone according to Brad, Brad, the  

reporter with The CNN according to Brad according  to my mom agreeing to my boss according to  

the news report, so it can be a someone or  something. Don't forget this too. And don't  

forget it's an i n g according to. Alas, folks got  so excited about the announcement that those in  

charge had no choice but to work on a full fledged  opening this month. You're probably wondering what  

this alas means. This is an adverb. It's a little  bit outdated. To be honest. I don't think you'll  

hear it that often. But it is interesting.  You might hear it in movies more so it's an  

advert to express disappoint disappointment,  basically disappointment. So I might say  

I wanted to go to the party. But alas, I had  to work. So here is the sentence is correct  

without it was not necessary. But I had to work.  I wanted to go to the party but I had to work.  

You don't know what my tone is. And am I upset  that I missed the party? Am I relieved that I  

missed the party? If I add a last? You know, I'm  upset because it's used to express disappointment.  

I want it to go to the party. But alas, I had  to work. Alas, alas But alas, I had to work.  

We had to hire people to get them up to speed to  effectively run Crown corporations. Gerri Willis,  

a spokesperson for Statue of Liberty National  Monument and Ellis Island said to CNN, okay,  

we had to hire people when you hire someone,  it means you bring them into your company as  

an employee, as a worker, you give someone a job,  right? So it's a very useful verb. This is a verb  

to give someone a job to hire someone.  

Now, to get someone up to speed to get someone up  to speed. This is a great expression this means  

to get someone up to speed okay? This means to  give someone the information that they need to do  

the job or do the task. So if you were just hired  to manage a project, but the project was already  

in progress, you need to know a lot of different  things about that project. What is the timeline?  

What's the budget who's doing what who is in  charge of what what has already been accomplished?  

So if I share all that information with you, I'm  doing it because I want to bring you up to speed.  

So this is the information you need to have. And  this is the information you have. So I want you  

to I want to bring you up to speed which means to  make sure your knowledge is where it needs to be.  

Now, this is very commonly used with two verbs  to get someone up to speed or to bring someone  

up to speed I think I use to bring someone up to  speed and some of my examples because that's the  

one I use more frequently. But I also here get  someone up to speed. Both of these verbs are  

acceptable and they both have the same meaning.  So this is an excellent expression. To bring  

to bring someone up to speed Okay, to give  someone the information they need to complete  

a task. Now that task might be a job. It could  be something more casual as well. Why was the  

Statue of Liberty crown close? Great question.  On March 16 2020, the National Park Service  

shuttered all operations at the Statue  of Liberty in reaction to the pandemic  

this is only used in a business context the verb  is to shutter and this means to permanently close  

to permanently close. So when a company or  a business permanently closes, you can say  

the board shuttered that company. The board  closed the company. The government shuttered  

that company. This could also be used in  the passive. The company was shuttered.  

But again, this is very specifically a business  verb. You won't use it outside of this context.  

Although portions of the monument started  welcoming visitors once more. The pedestal deck,  

for example, has been operating since July  of 2021. The crown itself remained closed.  

I don't think there's anything  there I need to teach you.  

Willis told CNN that a variety of factors  contributed to the delayed reopening,  

including state and federal pandemic restrictions  and dealing with a record low hiring pool.  

This is a useful expression. Low, record low.  So of course you can have highs and lows. So  

let's say the average low is about here. Let's use  the weather so let's say in winter, in your city,  

the temperature is 10 degrees Celsius. But and  that's the average temperature but then one year  

your city had a record low so it went down to  five degrees Celsius or three degrees Celsius.  

So that means it was a record it was a new  accomplishment and note worthy of that.  

So a record low means lower than average, lower  than normally it is now hiring pool. A hiring  

pool describes the amount of people available  to be hired. And remember, we already learned  

what that meant up here. When you hire someone,  you give them a job. So if I want to be hired,  

it means I want to receive a job. So to be hired.  This is when you receive a job, to be higher to  

receive a job to hire someone is to give someone  a job. These are two must know verbs and make  

sure you don't confuse them because I  could say, I was hired by the company.  

The company hired me. So passive I'm receiving  the job. Active the company is giving the job.  

And remember hiring pool is just the availability  of people able to be hired. So maybe there are  

100 people in the hiring pool. 100 people.  But it could also be a million people. It  

could be five people. The number could be any  number at all. So we'll just say 500 people.  

How do I get to the Statue of Liberty crown? Great  question. Would be visitors need to buy tickets in  

advance, which include a round trip ferry ride  to Liberty Island and usually a pitstop at the  

Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration  as well. Certainly a must see in of itself.  

All right. There's some great vocabulary  here for travel vocabulary, round trip,  

round trip. So a round trip means you go and  you return a one way trip is you go that's it.  

So of course you need a round trip because  you need to come back. It's an island. You  

can't be stuck on the island, right? So  it makes sense that it's a round trip,  

but you might commonly purchase a one way ticket  to Spain, because you want to stay in Spain for  

a longer period of time or after that you might  go to another country, but you don't necessarily  

want to go to Spain and come back if you do  then that's our round trip. Ticket to Spain.  

Up hit stop. This is when you go from destination  A to B but you need to do something in the middle.  

So maybe I'm going from my house to my office.  But I need to make up pitstop at the bank and  

take out some money or deposit some money or I  need to make a pit stop at the grocery store and  

buy some milk or I need to make a pit stop at the  mall and buy a new pair of shoes. So you're going  

from A to B but then you stopped somewhere  before so a pit stop. Pit is an adjective is  

just describing what type of stop a pit stop  a temporary stop when going from point A to B  

and is a temporary stop for a specific purpose,  

such as to buy milk or to purchase  something else or to drop something off  

the pastor's will also grant you access  to the Liberty National Monument,  

the pedestal and the crown of the monument.  The Statue of Liberty museum with its three  

interactive galleries and the grounds  of Liberty Island and Ellis Island.  

Once on premise, you will have to climb in  stories. There's 215 stairs to be precise,  

to reach the statues pedestal and another one  162 stairs to actually get to the crown. In case  

you were wondering, there is an elevator but it  peaks out the pedestal portion of the monument.  

Needless to say the extra workout to climb  all the way to the top is absolutely worth it.  

All right. This is a Muslim expression right  here to be worth it. Do you see the verb to be?  

Is right here to be worth it. So you could say  

climbing to the top is worth it. So this is our  something. This is commonly used as a gerund  

expression. Notice here climbing to the top I  might say visiting the top that that would be a  

good gerund verb visiting the top what happened to  the rest of mine? I don't know where the rest of  

the text went. Sorry about that. Visiting the top  is worth it. Seeing the top climbing to the top.  

So a gerund verb going to the top. Taking pictures  at the top is worth it. Now you could also  

say it is it it's worth it to climb to the top. So  you can absolutely see this and it's grammatically  

correct. We're starting with our subject are  ever worth it. And then to climb to the top  

this is grammatically correct. This I would say  is more common. So the exact translation would  

be climbing to the top is worth it. And this  gives you the chance to use a more advanced  

structure and use a gerund verb and let's  look at right here as well. Needless to say,  

this is all very advanced expression it will  help you sound professional. Needless to say.  

This is an expression that means information isn't  surprising. So it's expected. Needless to say the  

extra workout to climb all the way to the top is  absolutely worth it. So this is a way of saying  

climbing to the top is worth it. But that's not  surprising, right? Because let's look at the  

top. If you came all the way to New York, and you  visited the Statue of Liberty, why would you stay  

down here at the bottom, when you can go to the  top? Wouldn't it be worth it to go to the top?  

Of course it would. Needless to say it's not  surprising. It's expected that I would say it's  

worth it. And of course you wouldn't do that  right? I would totally want to go to the top.  

In fact, I've been to New York many times.  I've been to the Statue of Liberty and I'm  

embarrassed to say I didn't even know you could  go to the top. So I'm a little bit embarrassed  

about that. And now I want to go to the top.  What about you? Have you seen the Statue of  

Liberty in person? Did you know you could go  to the top? Okay, needless to say, I might say  

let's say it's been a very, very busy week at work  extremely busy. Our record breaking busy week.  

Now I might say tomorrow is Friday and needless  to say, we all need a break. So it's Friday, which  

means it's the weekend. It's time for you to relax  and recover from the busy, busy busy week. And of  

course I'm saying we need a break but that's  expected it's obvious we need a break because  

we just had a very busy week. Needless to say.  Needless to say, I might even say something like  

needless to say as a language  learner, it's important  

to expand your vocabulary. So my sentences as a  language learner, it's important to expand your  

vocabulary, but I'm adding this expression to  let you know well this isn't very surprising is  

it? Do you know this expected needless to say an  excellent expression to add to your vocabulary.  

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