At first, you should listen three to four times. Don’t care much if you can’t listen accurately or miss the words. Just to help you to be acquaintance with the pronunciation and intonation of the speaker.

Why you have to learn listening skill first, please refer to this post: Big Secret for Mastering and Getting Fluent 4 English Skill Quickly

2. Reading

AZUZ: There are a whole lot of people in this world who love pandas just because they`re cute. Whether or not you agree with them, you can`t say pandas are graceful, at least not this one at the national zoo. First, he gets stuck and then hilariously covers his head like he`s ashamed, and after a few moments, the inevitable happens.

• Get stuck in: to start doing something enthusiastically
• Hilarious /hɪˈi.əs/ (adj): extremely funny and causing a lot of laughter

The zoo says he`s fine, that pandas are built to withstand falls from trees and shortly afterward, he`s up climbing again.

• Withstand(v) /wɪðˈstænd/: to be strong enough not to be harmed or destroyed by something

Panda fall, panda go bamboom! May fall he should try a different tree, like one strong as oak, a type less willowy that wouldn`t cause whipping, one more spruce up. There are deciduously better options, someone should have a conifierence with him so he doesn`t get left in the larch.

3. Vocabulary 

1. Get stuck in (phrasal verb): to start doing something enthusiastically
2. Hilarious /hɪˈi.əs/ (adj): extremely funny and causing a lot of laughter
3. Withstand(v) /wɪðˈstænd/: to be strong enough not to be harmed or destroyed by something
4. Willowy(adj) /ˈwɪl.əʊ.i/: (especially of a woman) graceful (= moving smoothly and attractively) and thin, tall, thin, and graceful
5. Oak(n) /əʊk/: a large tree that is common in northern countries, or the hard wood of this tree
6. Whipping(n) /ˈwɪp.ɪŋ/: an occasion when someone is punished by being hit with a whip or a belt
7. Spruce(n) /spruːs/: to improve the appearance of someone or something
8. Deciduous (adj)/dɪˈsɪdʒ.u.əs/: deciduous trees lose all their leaves each autumn. Trees that keep their leaves all year round are called evergreen.
9. Larch (n) /lɑːtʃ/: a tall tree that grows in cold northern countries and has leaves shaped like needles that it loses in winter

4. Listen Again

Souce: https://edition.cnn.com/cnn10

At first, you should listen three to four times. Don’t care much if you can’t listen accurately or miss the words. Just to help you to be acquaintance with the pronunciation and intonation of the speaker.

Why you have to learn listening skill first, please refer to this post: Big Secret for Mastering and Getting Fluent 4 English Skill Quickly

2. Reading

Next story is about a CNN Hero named Neal Bermas, a businessman who`d traveled the world but was stopped suddenly by something he saw in Vietnam back in 1999. It led him to create STREETS International, an organization that offers help with the career path to threatened people between the ages of 16 and 22. By the end of this year, almost 250 people will have completed the program.

NEAL BERMAS, CNN HERO: I first came to Vietnam almost 20 years ago. There were bands of these four homeless kids on the streets and they were begging for milk, not for money. It touched me in the way that I couldn`t divorce myself from it.

• Divorce(v) /dɪˈvɔːs/: to completely separate one thing from another so that they are not connected in any way

What`s this fish called? Is it sea bass, no?

I`m a classic New Yorker. I`m passionate and I`m full of energy. I also did a lot of consulting for hotels and restaurants.

I knew the opportunities and so I thought, well, we start to build a bridge here in Vietnam. I was just crazy enough to think that I could make that happen and here we are.

Hello, everybody.

CROWD: Hello!

BERMAS: The young people in our program come from the whole country, all kinds of very, very difficult past. We have kids with HIV background, kids from leprosy villages. Some were already been trafficked sometimes more than once.

• Leprosy(n)/ˈrə.si/: a serious disease that affects the skin, nerves, and bones and can cause people’s fingers and toes to fall off
• Traffic (v): to buy and sell goods illegally

The banana breads are done.

BERMAS: We offer a structured program for 18 months, either in culinary or hospitality, and a very extensive and important life goes program.

• Culinary(adj) /ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ri/: connected with cooking or kitchens

Eating healthy.

English language instruction is a big part of what we do.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If I have good English, I can talk to the guests.

BERMAS: You`ll do great.

Beautiful.

The flagship eatery is our restaurant. It`s traditional Vietnamese food.

• Flagship(n) ˈflæɡ.ʃɪp/: the best or most important product, idea, building

We have a rather large stretch of a campus between the housing where our young people live, our training center, our three different eateries. So, all the kids get a bicycle when they come to the program.

• Stretch(v) /stretʃ/: to cause something to reach, often as far as possible, in a particular direction
• Stretch(n) /stretʃ/: a continuous area of land or water (example: This particular stretch of coast is especially popular with hikers.)

Part of the process of selecting and then getting to know our trainees is we see wherever they`re from.

How is mom?

All the young people in our program come from poverty. Poverty without enough to eat. Poverty without electricity, without plumbing.

• Poverty(n) /ˈpɒv.ə.ti/: the condition of being extremely poor

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Before, we hungry a lot in my family here.

Mr. Neal, he helps me to know about how to cooking and English, listening. I get a good job so I had get some money for my family now.

BERMAS: She was employee of the year last year. She just finished STREETS a few years ago. It`s an amazing story.

We raised the aspirations of the whole village and the whole village starts to think about, oh, maybe my kid too.

• Aspiration(n) /ˌæs.pɪˈreɪ.ʃən/: something that you hope to achieve

At the end of 18 months, 100 percent of our kids are fully employed, mostly in four and five star international hotels.

There were certainly moments I thought, are you sure you really want to give up the Upper West Side of Manhattan and come live in Vietnam? But, of course, I did and it was probably the best if not certainly the most meaningful decision I made in my adult life.

3. Vocabulary 

1. Divorce(v) /dɪˈvɔːs/: to completely separate one thing from another so that they are not connected in any way
2. eprosy(n)/ˈrə.si/: a serious disease that affects the skin, nerves, and bones and can cause people’s fingers and toes to fall off
3. Traffic (v): to buy and sell goods illegally
4. Culinary(adj) /ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ri/: connected with cooking or kitchens
5. Flagship(n) ˈflæɡ.ʃɪp/: the best or most important product, idea, building
6. Stretch(v) /stretʃ/: to cause something to reach, often as far as possible, in a particular direction
7. Stretch(n) /stretʃ/: a continuous area of land or water (example: This particular stretch of coast is especially popular with hikers.)
8. Poverty(n) /ˈpɒv.ə.ti/: the condition of being extremely poor
9. Aspiration(n) /ˌæs.pɪˈreɪ.ʃən/: something that you hope to achieve

4. Listen Again

Souce: https://edition.cnn.com/cnn10

At first, you should listen three to four times. Don’t care much if you can’t listen accurately or miss the words. Just to help you to be acquaintance with the pronunciation and intonation of the speaker.

Why you have to learn listening skill first, please refer to this post: Big Secret for Mastering and Getting Fluent 4 English Skill Quickly

2. Reading

AZUZ (voice-over): Ten-second trivia:

What is the biggest factor in the price of gasoline (gas)?

Taxes, crude oil, distribution or refining costs?

The cost of crude oil is by far the biggest factor in what you pay for a gallon of gasoline.

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNNMONEY, CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Hitting the road? This will likely be the most expensive summer driving season in years. Filling up the tank will cost 14 percent more than last summer. Summer gas already tends to be more expensive, because federal and state laws require cleaner fuel for the busy and hot summer months.

But what else goes into the cost of filling up?

• Go into (phrasal verb): to start doing a particular type of work

Well, those refining costs and profits are the smallest slice of what you pay at the pump. There`s also the cost of shipping and selling the gas itself and that depends on where you live. So do taxes, they make up about a fifth of the cost of your gasoline. But the biggest factor, it`s the price of crude oil and it`s rising.

• Refining(n): /rɪˈfaɪnɪŋ/: the process of making different products from a basic product, usually oil or sugar
• Crude(adj): /kruːd/ : oil from underground that has not yet been made into other products
• Slice(n) /slaɪs/: a flat piece of food that has been cut from something larger

AZUZ: There`s several reasons for that. One, the global economy is improving. When that`s at good shape, the demand for oil increases, causing its price to rise.

Two, political instability. Economic trouble in Venezuela, the ongoing civil war in Syria, uncertainty over the Iran nuclear deal, all of these things can cause oil prices to go up.

Three, major exporters of oil are pumping less of it. Some of them like Saudi Arabia want crude prices to be higher. Countries whose economies are dependent on oil sales generally have higher revenues when crude prices go up.

A downside to all of this though is what happens here.

• Downside(n) /ˈdaʊn.saɪd/: a disadvantage of a situation

The American Automobile Association says the U.S. national average for a gallon of gas is $2.86. That`s 52 cents higher per gallon than it was a year ago. And though it`s nowhere near the record of $4.11, hit in 2008, gas prices can eventually hurt the U.S. economy if they climb too high.

3. Vocabulary 

1. Go into (phrasal verb): to start doing a particular type of work
2. Refining(n): /rɪˈfaɪnɪŋ/: the process of making different products from a basic product, usually oil or sugar
3. Crude(adj): /kruːd/ : oil from underground that has not yet been made into other products
4. Slice(n) /slaɪs/: a flat piece of food that has been cut from something larger
5. Downside(n) /ˈdaʊn.saɪd/: a disadvantage of a situation

4. Listen Again

Souce: https://edition.cnn.com/cnn10

At first, you should listen three to four times. Don’t care much if you can’t listen accurately or miss the words. Just to help you to be acquaintance with the pronunciation and intonation of the speaker.

After listening, take the script of this dialogue below, read out loud and slowly to remember how the word is pronounced and highlight as well look for the meaning of all the useful words includes collocations, idioms, phrasal.

When you understand the words, listen again around 1-2 times to figure out the content of dialogue

Why you have to learn listening skill first, please refer to this post: Big Secret for Mastering and Getting Fluent 4 English Skill Quickly

How to Speak English Fluently like American Speakers in 1 Month – Part 1,2

verbs

2. Reading

Great to see you watching as we kick off (start) a new week of CNN 10. Our season runs through Friday, June 1st. So, we have three weeks left on the air, starting today.

• Kick off (phrasal verb): start
• Run through (phrasal verb): to look at, examine, or deal with a set of things, especially quickly

And we start today with a by-the-numbers look at the dangerous situation on Hawaii`s big island. That`s where the notoriously active Kilauea volcano has been erupting again for about a week and a half now.

Something to sure look out for while visiting Hawaii.

• Notoriously(adv) /nəʊˈtɔː.ri.əs/: famous for something bad

The first number we have is almost 2,000. It`s how many residents have been evacuated since the volcano started this eruption. Dozens of homes have been destroyed by lava.

• Evacuate (v) /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/: to move people from a dangerous place to somewhere safe

Next, 12. That`s the distance in miles away from the crater that ash plumes could cover if an explosive eruption occurs. Scientists expect more of those in the days ahead and new lava flows are also possible.

• Crater /ˈkreɪ.tər/: the round hole at the top of a volcano, or a hole in the ground similar to this
• Ash(n) /æʃ/: the soft grey or black powder that is left after a substance

Two-point-nine million is the estimated cost in dollars that Hawaiian officials expect will be needed to protect residents affected by the eruption and that`s for the next 30 days. U.S. President Donald Trump declared a major disaster in Hawaii on Friday. What does that is free up federal money and resources to help those affected?

Eighteen is the number of fissures, cracks on the ground where lava is seeping or spewing out, all caused by this eruption. Some of the fissures are miles away from Kilauea`s crater itself.

• Fissure (n)/ˈfɪʃ.ər/: a deep, narrow crack in rock or the earth
• Seep(v) /siːp/: spread slowly out of a hole
• Spew(v) /spjuː/: If something spews liquid or gas, or liquid or gas spews from something, it flows out in large amounts

And that last number here is 1924. That`s the year when the Kilauea Volcano last behaved like this, according to some scientists. It was active for about three weeks then, sending ash high into the air and blasting blocks, weighing as much as 14 tons.

Now for a scientific look at how this eruption is playing out beneath the surface.

• Beneath(preposition) /bɪˈniːθ/: a lower position than someone or something
• Play out (phrasal verb): it happens and develops

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

IVAN CABRERA, CNN METEOROLOGIST: This is the layout here of Leilani Estates. There`s the evacuation zone. There are closed roads. The new fissures have impacted the eastern area. So, we`ll continue to monitor that, but this whole area, folks have been taken out of the way with good reason as you can imagine, as these things continue to pop out just every few hours, every day or so.

• Folk(n) /fəʊk/: people, especially those of a particular group or type
• Pop out (phrasal verb): suddenly come out, if words pop out, you say them suddenly without thinking about it first (example: I didn’t mean to say that – it just popped out.)

This is the lake, of course. This is the account (ph) that I`ve been showing you the last few days, noticing that as the lake drained its lava, it went underground and that`s the lava that`s coming up to the fissures. I think again, that`s going to be the main threat.

• Drain(v) /dreɪn/: to let liquid flow away from something

Notice as this continues to go down over the last several days, and one of our last pictures here, we can`t see the lava anymore. That`s an infrared camera, so the red you`re seeing there, that basically just heats signature here.

• Infrared(adj) /ˌɪn.frəˈred/: Infrared light is a type of light that feels warm but cannot be seen

So, as that lava drops into the crater and into the basically a water table, let`s talk about what could potentially happen as far as this explosive eruption here as we check in with our volcano. There`s the lava and again what happens is, you get these rocks that will continue to fall down and that will create a blockage. And I don`t have to tell you what happens with the kinds of temperatures we`re seeing in here. We`re talking about temperatures well into 1,500 to 2,000 Celsius, right?

• Water table(n): the level below the Earth’s surface where water is found
• Blockage (n) /ˈblɒk.ɪdʒ/: something that stops something else passing through
• Well(n): a deep hole in the ground from which you can get water, oil, or gas

Those rocks blocking that passageway at some point are going to give and once that goes into the water tables as you see there, we`re going to have

• Passageway(n) /ˈpæsɪdʒweɪ/: a long narrow area with walls on each side that leads from one room or place to another 

watch out — quite an explosion here.

But again, I`m really not too concerned about this. It`s going to be a spectacular eruption when it happens, but I think, Cyril, because they have evacuated people out of the way, these boulders would sometimes can be the size of a school bus are not going to be impacting many folks. This is going to be within a few meters of the crater here and before that happens, you must imagine people will be getting out of the way, and that`s why they
closed the National Volcano Park there on the big island.

• Boulder(n) /ˈbəʊl.dər/: a very large rock

3. Vocabulary 

1. Kick off (phrasal verb): start
2. Run through (phrasal verb): to look at, examine, or deal with a set of things, especially quickly
3. Notoriously(adv) /nəʊˈtɔː.ri.əs/: famous for something bad
4. Evacuate (v) /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/: to move people from a dangerous place to somewhere safe
5. Crater /ˈkreɪ.tər/: the round hole at the top of a volcano, or a hole in the ground similar to this
6. Ash(n) /æʃ/: the soft grey or black powder that is left after a substance
7. Fissure (n)/ˈfɪʃ.ər/: a deep, narrow crack in rock or the earth
8. Seep(v) /siːp/: spread slowly out of a hole
9. Spew(v) /spjuː/: If something spews liquid or gas, or liquid or gas spews from something, it flows out in large amounts
10. Beneath (preposition) /bɪˈniːθ/: a lower position than someone or something
11. Play out (phrasal verb): it happens and develops:
12. Folk(n) /fəʊk/: people, especially those of a particular group or type
13. Pop out (phrasal verb): suddenly come out, if words pop out, you say them suddenly without thinking about it first (example: I didn’t mean to say that – it just popped out.)
14. Drain(v) /dreɪn/: to let liquid flow away from something
15. Infrared(adj) /ˌɪn.frəˈred/: Infrared light is a type of light that feels warm but cannot be seen
16. Water table(n): the level below the Earth’s surface where water is found
17. Blockage (n) /ˈblɒk.ɪdʒ/: something that stops something else passing through
18. Well(n): a deep hole in the ground from which you can get water, oil, or gas
19. Passageway(n) /ˈpæsɪdʒweɪ/: a long narrow area with walls on each side that leads from one room or place to another 
20. Boulder(n) /ˈbəʊl.dər/: a very large rock

4. Listen Again

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