🇺🇸 Reading Practice (Improve Your FLUENCY in English)

Today you'll improve your fluency in English with a reading practice lesson. 🥳Want to sound like a native English speaker in only 90 days? Join the FINALLY FLUENT ACADEMY and have ME as your personal English coach ➡https://jforrestenglish.com/ffa 🎁 Download your FREE SPEAKING GUIDE here ➡️ https://jforrestenglish.com/free-guide/ 🔴 Download the lesson PDF here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19gst... CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Welcome 00:18 – Article Review 02:52 – Free Lesson PDF 13:16 – Finally Fluent Academy 26:34 – Read Along TRANSCRIPT: Welcome back to JForrest English. I'm Jennifer. And today we're going to read a news article together. A very hot topic in the news right now so you can improve your reading skills, expand your vocabulary, and learn advanced grammar concepts. Let's get started. Let me read the headline: Trump classified documents trial date set for August 14th. First, let's talk about classified. Classified is an adjective. It describes the documents. And in this case, by saying classified, they mean documents that are officially secret. Officially secret. You can imagine that certain government documents are not available for you and I, the public, to see. They're classified. They're officially secret. So a government official might say, sorry, I can't provide that information to you. It's classified. So you often see the adjective form as to be plus adjective. To be classified. Sorry, that information is classified. Trump classified documents trial date set for. This is a very useful phrasal verb when you are determining a date or time. The date is set for August 14th. This means the official scheduled time that everyone agrees to is August 14th. Very commonly used in a work context and social context as well. Someone might ask, have you set a date for the conference yet? Now here, have you set a date for the conference yet? If everyone you're talking to knows you're talking about the conference and you don't need to mention it, you can say have you set a date yet? Have you set a date yet? And then you only need to include "for" if you're referencing the specific event. Or in this case, notice how the event comes first. Trial date. That's the event, the trial, so you might say: The conference was set for and then you can have a specific time or date. It might be set for Tuesday, set for July 13th, set for 3:00 o'clock PM. So you can also use for plus a specific date or time. I created a free lesson PDF that summarizes everything that we're reviewing together, so you can look in the description for the link to download the free lesson PDF. Let's continue. A Florida federal judge on Tuesday scheduled the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump for his alleged illegal retention of classified government documents to begin. August 14th, so here notice they changed the set for to scheduled for August 14th. It's the exact same thing. Now let's take a look at retention. To understand why Donald Trump is facing these allegations, you need to know retention. Retention of means that you kept it, you kept this information, you retained the information. So this comes from the verb to retain, retain. This may be a verb that you're familiar with because when you learn new vocabulary, you learn it today, but a lot of students have the problem of not retaining the knowledge. So they don't keep the knowledge. They they lose it. They forget the knowledge. So you need to learn all of these expressions and then you need to retain the expressions. So the verb retain is not necessarily a negative thing. But in this case, Donald Trump retained classified documents. He kept them when he apparently shouldn't have. That is the issue at hand. Now let's take a look at this, His alleged, notice, this pronunciation. We have a G, so we just want a very soft D sound, alleged, alleged, alleged, alleged illegal retention by using the adjective alleged. They're letting you know that right now this is not a fact. So it is not a fact that Donald Trump retained illegal classified documents because they used this adjective alleged. So you could say he's an alleged thief. A thief is someone who steals, steals money, cars, whatever. TRANSCRIPT CONTINUES IN LESSON 🎯 WATCH THIS NEXT: 🤓 ADVANCED ENGLISH VOCABULARY: https://tinyurl.com/mspfd529 😎 TOP PHRASAL VERBS: https://tinyurl.com/2s4jjaw2 🤩 ADVANCED ENGLISH GRAMMAR: https://tinyurl.com/mvwxdec5 🥳 CONFUSING ENGLISH WORDS: https://tinyurl.com/yz9xzv3c 🔴 SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/jforresteng... Subscribe for more videos to help you feel confident speaking English in public. #JForrestEnglish #LearnEnglish #ReadingPractice #englishfluency #c1 #c2