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In this lesson, we'll read a news article together so you can improve all areas of your English.
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You'll expand your vocabulary, learn advanced grammar, and improve your pronunciation at the same time.
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And this article discusses Barack Obama's reaction to Donald Trump's recent decision to ban media from the White House.
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Welcome back to J4S English.
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Of course, I'm Jennifer Nell let's get started.
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Our headline, Obama not surprised by Trump's media ban calls issue of freedom foundational.
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So here we have Obama not surprised and we have a single quote here
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which suggests that these words came directly from Obama's mouth.
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Now grammatically you need the verb to be.
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Obama is not surprised, stating as a present fact, because this is in the past,
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the story is in the past.
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You could also say Obama was not surprised when he found out that Trump banned the media.
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So you can use a present fact is or a past was, but of course your verb to be has to match with the subject he
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and you need that because the structure is to be surprised surprised functions as an adjective
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and you need the verb to be now
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that pronunciation soft d sound surprised surprised surprised by but
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that d basically disappears in connected speech Obama not surprised by Trump's media ban.
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So this apostrophe S is because the media ban belongs to Trump.
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And if something is banned, for example, smoking is banned in many public places.
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Cell phones might be banned in certain places as well.
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It means it is officially not allowed.
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So the media is officially not allowed that's the media ban you could talk about a cell phone ban
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or a smoking ban let's review these two sentences smoking is
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banned in all public areas the government banned smoking what do
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you notice between the two well the first sentence is the
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passive form it describes what is banned the second sentence is the active form.
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The government is doing the action, the action being banning, saying not allowed.
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So in this case, the main verb is to ban conjugated in the past.
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Here, the verb is to be banned and banned is in the third form.
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Obama not surprised by Trump's media ban, Trump banned the media.
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That's the active form.
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The media was banned by Trump.
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That's the passive form calls.
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So he calls Obama calls issue of press freedom foundational.
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So in this case, it's not hello.
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Hello.
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It's not to call is to identify.
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So he identified the issue of press freedom, freedom of the press as foundational.
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Now, remember with sentence structure changes, if I change the word from call to identify,
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you have to think about what other changes may need to take place.
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You call something, something, but you identify something as something.
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So if you use identify, you need the preposition as before what you identify it as, but not with call.
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Don't worry about taking these notes.
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I summarize everything in a free lesson PDF.
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Now let's keep reading on Friday.
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So of course the preposition on with a day of the week on Friday,
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September 18th, 2026, Trump announced on true social.
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So notice you announce something on a platform, but they didn't mention the something yet.
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So announced on a platform.
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Now they're mentioning what he announced.
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So it's possible to change that sentence structure like we're doing now.
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Trump announced on true social that he was banning.
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Remember, we talked about that.
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Trump bans the media.
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The media was banned by Trump.
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So this is the active form.
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It's in the past continuous to talk about an action that took place over a period of time.
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It suggests that there's some process involved.
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He needed to perhaps do multiple things in order for this action to take place.
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He was banning CNN, MSNOW, formerly MSNBC, and Politico.
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So these are the media outlets.
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The companies are often called media outlets, outlets.
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It just means media company, but for whatever reason, it's common to use the term outlet instead of company.
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So the media outlets, the media companies, CNN, MSNOW, Politico, the names of the companies, the outlets from the White House.
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So he's banning the companies from something, just like you could say,
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we're banning smoking from the park or from the office, from the mall.
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So you can use from,
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and then a specific location from the white house effective immediately okay
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so effective immediately meaning we're not telling you
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and then this ban takes effect two weeks later to give you time to prepare it's now effective immediately
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so this is a great two -word phrase to have in your vocabulary especially
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if you are in a position of control that could be simply as a parent.
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Well, then you could say this effective immediately.
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lesson trump said the outlets ah good thing i explained this
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because now you know that this means companies
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but we use this specifically with media
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so the media companies the outlets you could add the word media
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but it's not required because it's obvious so the media outlets repeatedly
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so happening again and again not just once repeatedly reported what he called fiction and lies so of course fiction is
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made up.
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You have in the genre of books,
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you have nonfiction like an autobiography and you have fiction like Harry Potter.
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The story is made up.
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So it's not necessarily that fiction is a lie.
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It's that it's created.
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It's make belief like Harry Potter,
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what he calls fiction and lies and suggested other outlets,
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remember other media outlets, other companies could also be banned.
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So could also be banned.
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So remember to be banned because in this case is the passive voice because they're talking about the subject,
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the outlets receiving the action, not doing the action
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so other outlets could be banned so here we have the modal could
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which is a modal of possibility so it could rain
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that doesn't mean it will rain it's just a possibility now remember grammatically you need your modal plus base verb
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which is why we have could be
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because it's to be banned in the passive voice
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so here b is not conjugated because it's modal plus base verb just like
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if you say it could rain to rain that's the base verb modal plus base verb remember
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that and in the active voice if you wanted to put this part in the active voice You could say,
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and suggested, and suggested, he could ban other outlets.
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So in this case, the subject, he, Trump, is doing the action.
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He could ban.
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So in this case, the verb is to ban.
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Here, it's to be banned.
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But in the active, it's to ban.
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That's why, again, we have modal plus base verb, but the base verb is ban, not be.
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And suggested he could ban other outlets now there's no reason
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to write it in the active voice this is simply for you to see different structures
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and to understand the grammatical difference so it's a great exercise for you to do
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is simply try to make these changes on your own as
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a form of practice let's keep going the ban what do
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you notice about this compared to what we are just talking about well we were talking about ban as a verb,
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whether it's in the passive or the active.
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But in this case, it's not a verb because you have an article and articles come before nouns.
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So in this case, the ban, this is a noun, is simply viewing it as a thing.
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So the ban became real the next morning.
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So if something becomes real in this context, you mean, it means that the effect of it is known.
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So those media outlets were not allowed into the White House.
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I know that's what they're going to say before I read any more, simply because they say became real.
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And they were talking about the three outlets and they also said effective immediately.
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So I know they weren't allowed to enter the White House
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the ban became real the next morning September 19th journalists from all three outlets
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because remember the outlet is the company the journalists are the people who work at the company
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and report the news of course
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so journalists from all three outlets attempted to enter the White House and discovered that their credentials have been deactivated or confiscated,
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which is exactly what I said.
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I don't even need to read more to know
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that those journalists were not allowed to enter the White House because the ban was from the White House.
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And that's why I was able to accurately tell the story just based on this sentence.
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so here attempted because they tried
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so they try to enter attempted is a more advanced more
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formal way of saying try to do something attempt to do something
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so you have your it's a regular sentence structure
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so we have our verb attempt or try
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and then we have the infinitive now here attempt this verb ends on a t
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so this ed will be pronounced as it attempted attempted
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and it adds that extra syllable attempted attempted to enter the white house
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and discovered you could also use the phrasal verb found out
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discovered is a more formal way of saying found out and discovered that their credentials have been deactivated or confiscated.
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So deactivated, a credential, you can think of it as your ID card
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that you scan and it allows you to enter the building.
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So deactivated, I scan and the door does not open.
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So that would be deactivated.
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My card no longer works.
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Now they're using deactivated because they're changing it from the state of activated to not activate it.
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So you add D to talk about that transition.
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If it's the reverse, if it's not activated and you want to change it to activate it, what would you say?
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Reactivated.
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So here we have deactivated.
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The opposite would be reactivated.
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So deactivated, the card doesn't work or confiscated.
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A security person took the card away and said that does not belong to you anymore.
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That would be confiscated.
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Let's keep reading.
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Commenting on the ban.
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So here we have the noun form and you comment on something.
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So you provide your response, your reaction, or your opinion.
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Commenting on the ban, former President Barack Obama said the issue of a free press was foundational.
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So this is from our headline.
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And they have, again, just like in the headline, they have this specific word in quotes because that word came from Obama's mouth.
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Now, maybe the other words didn't necessarily because they changed the grammar or sentence structure or word choice,
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but they wanted you as the reader to know that this word is what he said.
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It wasn't just their choice foundational means fundamental or essential.
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And in this case, they're referring to it as a principle.
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Now let's go back to commenting because here, this is a gerund verb.
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You could absolutely use this as a noun, which is very common.
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Do you have any comments?
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Do you have any comments?
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Extremely common.
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You'll use this every single day in certain contexts, especially if you work in media.
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So this is the noun form, any, because it's plural.
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Do you have any comments?
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Do you want to comment?
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Now, if you use the verb form and you specify what comes next, then you use the preposition on.
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So this is the verb to comment.
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And then of course you conjugate that she commented on the recent ban and then the noun let's keep reading.
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So again, we have quotation marks.
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So we know more direct words from Barack Obama and we know the subject he's commenting on Trump's media ban.
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The free press, the idea that the government cannot discriminate against
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or pick on or bully or exclude somebody because they don't like the criticism that's being leveled at them,
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that is a foundational issue.
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So notice here, the free press, and then all of this is additional.
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The free press is a foundational issue.
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That would be the pure grammatical structure.
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Including that references back to what he said, the additional information he provided.
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And the additional information he provided,
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Well, it gives what he views is the definition of the free press.
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So these qualities are what make up a free press.
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Notice the spelling of cannot.
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It's one word.
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It's not two words can space not.
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It's always one word.
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now the contracted form which natives use most of the time is can't cannot does
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sound slightly more formal but native speakers use cannot more
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so to emphasize i cannot believe you did that
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that sounds more emphasized than saying i can't believe you did that i cannot believe that
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so we use it not because i wanted to sound more formal in
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that situation i wanted to emphasize it
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so i used cannot over can't that's how natives realistically use the difference between can't
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and cannot now pick on is a very common phrasal verb not necessarily in an official government context
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but more in an everyday context.
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So to pick on someone means to treat someone unfairly or meanly.
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This is commonly used with kids in school.
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So if you're a parent and you have two or more kids, you might say to one, don't pick on your brother.
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That's something that my parents said to me and my brother repeatedly.
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So it's basically saying, don't be mean don't be mean to your brother
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or sister don't pick on your brother now you can also
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use this with other family members you can also use it with friends as well
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so very commonly used especially with young kids not as commonly used with adults
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or in a professional context like it's being used here
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and one other thing that may not be familiar is
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because they don't like the criticism that being leveled at them So the criticism,
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the negative words, the negative comments that's being leveled at them, leveled in this context simply means directed at them.
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So if the criticism was leveled at me, it means I'm receiving the criticism.
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I'm the target of the criticism.
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Let's keep reading on September 21st, the three organizations sued.
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So the three organizations, the three outlets that were banned sued,
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arguing that the government had revoked their credentials.
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Remember, we learned that the credentials were deactivated or confiscated.
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So revoke, reverse the credentials.
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So credential, you have official permission to do something or to access something.
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Now, if that's revoked, you no longer have that permission.
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So the government had revoked their credentials
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because it objected to their reporting without giving them notice or an opportunity to challenge the decision.
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So this is the reason why they sued.
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So they went to the legal system and said, this is not right.
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They sued.
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Now notice here, this subject is it because it objected to the reporting.
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Previously, they talked about Trump's ban.
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So Trump as a subject would be he, but they sued the government,
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not necessarily Trump as a person.
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So the government is the subject.
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So that's why it's it, it as the pronoun matches the government on September 24th.
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So here we had 21st. They sued the 24th on September 24th,
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federal judge Timothy Kelly, temporarily ordered the White House to restore their access for 14 days.
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Ah, so remember we learned deactivated.
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So they're going to restore their access.
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It means they're going to give the access back.
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So the pass that was deactivated, what is it now going to be?
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reactivated.
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Good thing I taught you that because that's exactly what happened here.
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Temporarily ordered the White House to restore their access for 14 days.
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So temporarily, of course, temporary means not permanent.
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So here it was a period of 14 days and restore, remember to give it back.
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He found they were likely to succeed.
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So he being the judge, Timothy Kelly, the judge, and they being the three media outlets,
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he found they were likely to succeed with their lawsuit
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because they sued the government on their claim that the government violated their due process rights.
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So due process here without giving them notice or an opportunity to challenge the decision that would be considered due process.
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I'm not a lawyer by either both of these or at least the opportunity to challenge the decision.
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That's due process because remember innocent until proven guilty,
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but their passes were revoked immediately before they were proven guilty by a court of law.
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So that's due process.
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Again, I'm not a lawyer.
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That is my understanding of the language.
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The government violated their due process rights.
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So your right means it's in the constitution is legally binding due process rights
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and said there was little evidence so little evidence there was not a lot of
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so instead of not a lot of you can say there
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was little evidence i had little time there was little evidence supporting the administration's national security justification.
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So a justification is, this is why I did this.
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And the did this is revoke their access.
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This is why I banned them.
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So the justification is, I banned them for national security reasons.
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That's all I know about the issue is just this line.
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I don't know anything beyond national security reasons.
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What type of national security, I'm not sure.
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Later that day, so we're on the 24th, later that day, journalists from CNN,
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MSNOW, and Politico, the three outlets that were banned, later that day, journalists from CNN,
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MSNOW, and Politico were allowed back into the White House.
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So this means their access was restored.
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Now, their past was reactivated.
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And because their past was reactivated, they were allowed to access.
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So their access was restored.
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However, the judge's order is temporary.
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So remember only 14 days and the legal battle over the ban.
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So in this case, the legal battle over identifies the subject.
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The legal battle regarding on the topic of the legal battle over the ban is expected to continue
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because 14 days was temporary and these organizations have sued the government.
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So now they'll have to go to court and have a legally binding decision.
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That's the end of the article so now I'll read the article from start to finish, and you can focus on my pronunciation.
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Obama not surprised by Trump's media ban.
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Calls issue of press freedom foundational.
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On Friday, September 18th, 2026, Trump announced on True Social that he was banning CNN,
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MSNOW, formerly MSNBC, and Politico from the White House, effective immediately.
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Trump said the outlets repeatedly reported what he called fiction and lies and suggested other outlets could also be banned.
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The ban became real the next morning, September 19th.
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Journalists from all three outlets attempted to enter the White House and discover that their credentials had been deactivated or confiscated.
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Commenting on the ban, former President Barack Obama said the issue of a free press was foundational.
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The free press, the idea that the government cannot discriminate against
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or pick on or bully or exclude somebody because they don't like the criticism that's being leveled at them,
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that is a foundational issue.
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On September 21st, the three organizations sued, arguing that the government had revoked their credentials
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because it objected to their reporting without giving them notice
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or an opportunity to challenge the decision on september 24th federal
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judge timothy kelly temporarily ordered the white house to restore their
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access for 14 days he found they were likely to succeed on their claim
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that the government violated their due process rights and said there was little evidence supporting the administration's national security justification.
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Later that day, journalists from CNN, MSNOW, and Politico were allowed back into the White House.
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However, the judge's order is temporary and the legal battle over the ban is expected to continue.
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outlet Substantiv/ˈaʊtlɛt/Ausgang, Auslass
verb Substantiv/vɝb/Verb, Verbum
sue Verb/sjuː/verklagen, klagen
journalist Substantiv/ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/Journalist, Journalistin
lesson Substantiv/ˈlɛs.ən/Lehrstunde, Stunde
restore Verb/ɹɪˈstoɹ/wiederherstellen, restaurieren
fiction Substantiv/ˈfɪkʃən/Fiktion, Belletristik
announce Verb/əˈnaʊn(t)s/ankündigen, verkünden
noun Substantiv/naʊn/Dingwort, Gegenstandswort
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temporary Adjektiv/ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/zeitweilig, temporär
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Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst

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Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tutis banned · might be banned · be banned
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  • Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: fiction /ˈfɪkʃən/, justification /ˌd͡ʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, transition /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/
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  • /dʒ/ — stimmhaft, nicht „tsch“: journalist /ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/, justification /ˌd͡ʒʌstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, conjugate /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/, gerund /ˈd͡ʒɛɹənd/

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