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00:00:00,060 --> 00:00:08,Today we're going to read a news article together
and you're going to learn a lot of vocabulary,

00:00:08,230 --> 00:00:15,grammar and even pronunciation naturally by
reading this article with me. This is an article

00:00:15,370 --> 00:00:22,in the very popular online magazine Time Out
New York and this article is about one of

00:00:22,010 --> 00:00:29,the most iconic buildings in New York and
in the world. The Statue of Liberty. Welcome

00:00:29,810 --> 00:00:35,back to JForrest English training, of course
I'm Jennifer and this is your place to become

00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:44,a fluent confident English speaker. Let's
get started. To read this article, we need

00:00:44,260 --> 00:00:50,to go onto my computer. So let's go on to
my computer now and start the lesson. Welcome

00:00:50,031 --> 00:00:56,to my computer. As you can see our famous
landmark, the Statue of Liberty. So let's

00:00:56,420 --> 00:01:04,begin our article. The title is "You can finally
climb on top of the crown of the Statue of

00:01:04,479 --> 00:01:12,Liberty again". Now just in case you don't
know what the crown is, here's our Statue

00:01:12,590 --> 00:01:20,of Liberty. So the crown is this top part
right here. And of course it looks like what

00:01:20,289 --> 00:01:28,a king, queen, any royalty, what they wear
on their head and that is the crown. So you

00:01:28,439 --> 00:01:36,could climb, climb up to the crown. That would
be pretty cool, wouldn't it? Why was the Statue

00:01:36,340 --> 00:01:44,of Liberty crown closed until now? Let's find
out. Following a two and a half year closure

00:01:44,979 --> 00:01:52,caused by the COVID 19 pandemic, the Crown
portion of the Statue of Liberty has officially

00:01:52,310 --> 00:02:01,reopened to the public this week. So let's
look right here, two and a half year. Now

00:02:01,649 --> 00:02:10,two and a half, a half is of course point
five right, so two and a half. That is 2.5.

00:02:10,690 --> 00:02:21,But why does it say year? And why doesn't
it say years? That's because right here, two

00:02:21,291 --> 00:02:29,and a half, this is an adjective two and a
half year. This whole thing is describing

00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:39,what type of closure it was, okay? And that's
why year does not have a plural, because adjectives

00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:48,don't have singular and plurals. This will
make more sense if you look at it like, I

00:02:48,420 --> 00:02:59,took a 30 day vacation. Okay, so notice here,
I took a vacation. This is grammatically correct.

00:02:59,180 --> 00:03:04,What type of vacation, a short vacation a
long vacation a relaxing vacation. All of

00:03:04,980 --> 00:03:12,those are adjectives but I can also use a
time period as an adjective. I took a 30 day

00:03:12,860 --> 00:03:24,vacation a 30 month vacation a 30 minute vacation
compared to I took a vacation or 30 days.

00:03:24,470 --> 00:03:35,Now here is our noun 30 days, which means
to be singular or plural. If it were one day

00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:43,obviously singular. 30 more than one so days.
That is why you don't have an S here. I hear

00:03:43,870 --> 00:03:51,this mistake a lot from students. What else?
Oh, let's look at this re opened when you

00:03:51,459 --> 00:04:06,add re in front of a verb it means to do it
again. Okay, so I could say I re watched the

00:04:06,910 --> 00:04:16,movie. I can't think of a movie name. I really
watched the movie. So this means I watched

00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:26,the movie again. I watched the movie again.
So this is my verb. Watch is just in the past

00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:33,simple and I'm adding rate. You can add a
dash there or you don't have to. It's optional.

00:04:33,750 --> 00:04:39,In terms of spelling. I see it more commonly
without the dash but as you can see here in

00:04:39,850 --> 00:04:48,the article, they do have a dash, but your
boss might say, hey, Julio, can you redo the

00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:58,report? Can you redo the report? He's asking
you how to do it again. Can you redo the report?

00:04:58,050 --> 00:05:06,So that's a very useful word to put in front
of a verb notice the pronunciation re re redo

00:05:06,330 --> 00:05:16,rewatch reopen, remake. If you've been trying
to visit the destination since March of 2020,

00:05:16,490 --> 00:05:22,though, you might have to wait a tad bit longer.
Tickets to access the crowd are basically

00:05:22,550 --> 00:05:29,sold out through October. Make sure to reserve
your past for a future date. Right here. So

00:05:29,110 --> 00:05:36,you can reserve your past if you'd like. Okay,
notice here What verb tense is this? The present

00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:45,perfect continuous have or has depending on
the subject you have is just a contraction.

00:05:45,410 --> 00:05:57,B E. So this is you have you have equals you
as a contraction, then we have been and then

00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:02,we have our verb in ING so that's the present
perfect continuous and we use this for an

00:06:02,830 --> 00:06:11,action that started in the past, but continues
until now and we want to stress the continuation

00:06:11,210 --> 00:06:21,of the action. That's the i n g. I've been
trying to book my ticket since March since

00:06:21,850 --> 00:06:40,2020 cents this morning. Now you could also
say for two hours for two years for five days.

00:06:40,530 --> 00:06:47,So when we have a period of time we use for
and then we use sent with a specific date.

00:06:47,379 --> 00:06:56,I like this one a tad bit a tad bit. This
is a very natural vocabulary choice and it

00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:07,means a little bit a little bit a tad. So
you might say I was a tad late today, through

00:07:07,490 --> 00:07:15,here. I was late today. How late were you?
Just a little right so you could say I was

00:07:15,690 --> 00:07:21,a little that's very common. You probably
know it. Here's a new fun natural expression

00:07:21,319 --> 00:07:29,that's very common. I was a tad late today.
You need this article. Ah, you might say I'm

00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:40,a tad tired today. So this is saying I'm a
little tired or she's tired. hungry right

00:07:40,130 --> 00:07:51,now. Right now she's a tad a little tad. Tad
don't forget that article. Let's move on.

00:07:51,169 --> 00:07:57,According to CNN, the National Park Service,
which manages the landmark was attempting

00:07:57,409 --> 00:08:03,to hold a soft reopening without too much
advertisement in late October to celebrate

00:08:03,580 --> 00:08:15,the 136th anniversary of the statues dedication
in 1886. Okay, so here we have reopening again,

00:08:15,379 --> 00:08:26,here we had re open. Now we're having re opening.
So they're opening it again, opening it again.

00:08:26,370 --> 00:08:31,Re opening I don't think there's anything
else I want to teach you here. If you have

00:08:31,860 --> 00:08:37,comments about any of this just put your comments
in the chat and I will try to answer them

00:08:37,010 --> 00:08:44,or record a future video. This is a good one.
I hope you already use this in your vocabulary.

00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:53,But according to someone or something. This
is a very professional formal business vocabulary.

00:08:53,680 --> 00:09:02,The CNN is a newspaper Media Group, so that
is considered a something but you could have

00:09:02,860 --> 00:09:11,a someone according to Brad, Brad, the reporter
with The CNN according to Brad according to

00:09:11,140 --> 00:09:22,my mom agreeing to my boss according to the
news report, so it can be a someone or something.

00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:30,Don't forget this too. And don't forget it's
an i n g according to. Alas, folks g***t so

00:09:30,161 --> 00:09:36,excited about the announcement that those
in charge had no choice but to work on a full

00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:45,fledged opening this month. You're probably
wondering what this alas means. This is an

00:09:45,089 --> 00:09:50,adverb. It's a little bit outdated. To be
honest. I don't think you'll hear it that

00:09:50,780 --> 00:09:59,often. But it is interesting. You might hear
it in movies more so it's an advert to express

00:09:59,589 --> 00:10:09,disappoint disappointment, basically disappointment.
So I might say I wanted to go to the party.

00:10:09,670 --> 00:10:18,But alas, I had to work. So here is the sentence
is correct without it was not necessary. But

00:10:18,690 --> 00:10:24,I had to work. I wanted to go to the party
but I had to work. You don't know what my

00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:31,tone is. And ** I upset that I missed the
party? ** I relieved that I missed the party?

00:10:31,490 --> 00:10:39,If I add a last? You know, I'm upset because
it's used to express disappointment. I want

00:10:39,209 --> 00:10:49,it to go to the party. But alas, I had to
work. Alas, alas But alas, I had to work.

00:10:49,660 --> 00:10:56,We had to hire people to get them up to speed
to effectively run Crown corporations. Gerri

00:10:56,839 --> 00:11:03,Willis, a spokesperson for Statue of Liberty
National Monument and Ellis Island said to

00:11:03,540 --> 00:11:13,CNN, okay, we had to hire people when you
hire someone, it means you bring them into

00:11:13,029 --> 00:11:21,your company as an employee, as a worker,
you give someone a job, right? So it's a very

00:11:21,110 --> 00:11:34,useful verb. This is a verb to give someone
a job to hire someone. Now, to get someone

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