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Homeowners are waking up this morning to another interest rate rise, with the RBA increasing the cash rate to 4 .85%.
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The RBA Governor is warning of a recession -like economy, telling Australians they'll likely feel poorer.
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We'll go live to Emily Saunders, who joins us from Parliament House.
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Emily, this is the fifth hike this year.
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Good morning, Tom, it is and some economists warn the chance of an actual recession could be as high as 50%.
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But even if that doesn't happen, after hiking the cash rate to an 18 -year high,
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RBA Governor Michelle Bullock says it will feel like we're in one.
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This is the RBA's way of trying to tame stubborn inflation, which is right now sitting at 4 .3%.
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Now, the latest forecast doesn't show it to be coming back down to its target range until late next year.
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That's nine months later than we were initially expecting.
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers insists the government's budget spending isn't the cause of this, pointing the finger at high oil prices.
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He did say, though, he will play a helpful role, Tom, in trying to bring it back down.
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OK, Emily, thank you.
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Former police officers will be part of a specialist security squad deployed to polling booths in Victoria for this month's state election.
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Live now to Christina Hearn at Victoria's State Parliament.
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Chris, good morning.
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What will they be on the lookout for?
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Sylvia, they'll be looking for things like intimidation, behaviour, disinformation tactics or just dirty tricks,
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even honest mistakes, anything that might break election laws.
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The Victorian Electoral Commission is concerned about the large number of new candidates
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and therefore are the number of inexperienced volunteers at polling booths.
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This all does come as a 60 -year -old
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One Nation volunteer recovers in hospital with a fractured skull
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and also brain bleed after allegedly being bashed with a baseball bat after confronting a man
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and a teenager who are pulling down
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One Nation signs outside his talkie home.
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Here's the One Nation leader.
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This is the problem with this country.
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This is the problem with Victoria.
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This should not be happening.
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Victorian Premier Ben Carroll says he is in ongoing talks with the Victorian Police Chief to ensure safety
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and security at the November 28 election.
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Sylvia.
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Christina Hearn, thank you.
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We have some breaking news in Melbourne now where a person has died
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and two others have been injured after a fiery crash in the city's south -east.
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The car was split in half and burst into flames after smashing into a power pole in Quaysborough just before 1am.
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There are reports the car was speeding before the crash.
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Spanish authorities have identified two
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Australians among dozens of passengers killed in the high -speed train collision in Spain.
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69 people died when the two trains collided, derailing carriages and trapping dozens of people in Toledo last week.
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Family members of the victims have been notified.
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Wild weather has left its mark across Queensland with giant hailstones, damaging winds and an incredible amount of lightning.
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Live to Carla Tuma on the Gold Coast.
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Carla, just how intense did those storms get?
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They were incredibly intense, Jane.
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A powerful line of storms swept across southern Queensland yesterday afternoon and evening.
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We saw some significant hail fall, including some rather large stones, one measuring five centimetres recorded near Warwick.
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We also had a wind gust of up to 106 kilometres an hour recorded near Toowoomba.
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But it was the lightning that was really putting on a show yesterday today,
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at least 180 ,000 lightning strikes recorded across southern Queensland.
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Here on the Gold Coast and in Brisbane, this wild weather plunged many homes and businesses into darkness,
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more than 2 ,200 properties losing power.
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Though thankfully, Jane, most of that power has now been restored as of this morning.
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That is good news, Carla.
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Thank you.
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Passengers across Europe have faced mid -air disruptions after a string of bomb threats forced several planes to make emergency landings.
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Live to Mimi Becker in London.
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Mimi, what happened?
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Jane, seven planes had to be searched after all landing safely after a series of bomb threats were made.
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Now, airports right across Europe were impacted.
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This plane being forced to land in Warsaw, Poland, while two Rhine air passenger planes were caught up in this security scare as well.
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One was flying from Manchester to Spain and Vision shows sniffer dogs there searching
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that plane as well as all of the luggage on board.
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Scandinavian Airlines, Polish Airline Lot
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and Whiz Air were also caught up in this security scare with planes forced to land across Spain, Italy, Bulgaria and Poland.
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Now, no explosive devices have been found and at this stage there's not an official link between all of the bomb threats,
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but that will form part of this investigation, Jane.
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Mimi, thank you.
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Speculation is rife that David Jones will be forced to close stores as the retailer's financial troubles deepen.
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Live to Andrea Crothers in Brisbane.
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Andrea, just how dire is this situation?
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Well, Jane, the latest cause for concern is after David Jones missed a
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crucial reporting deadline to lodge its financial reports with the corporate regulator ASIC.
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And the financial warnings have been rumbling because you have seen a 95 and a half million loss last financial year.
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The year before that, $74 million.
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Its lender has reportedly tipped in $10 million just to keep stock on shelves over Christmas.
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Some suppliers with roaring stock over concerns about whether David Jones can actually pay.
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And nine newspapers this morning, well, they're reporting of the 38 stores across Australia and New Zealand,
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as much as two thirds of those could be closed down
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so david jones for almost 200 years has been part of the australian retail landscape
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now there are serious questions over just how much of
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that will remain jane andrea thank you donald trump says he will move to israel
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and become prime minister
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if the u .s turns on him today at the midterm elections
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we have team coverage for you across key locations in the United States.
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First to Lauren Tomasi in Washington, D .C.
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Lauren, this is a big day for the U .S.
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President.
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Enormous, Jane.
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The midterms very much is a referendum on his presidency
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and today Donald Trump will be behind closed doors inside the White House.
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He has no public events planned but certainly we'll be watching these results come in closely.
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Today, he says that these rallies he's been undertaking for weeks now on the campaign trail,
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he believes, have made a difference and will make an impact on voters as they head to the polling booths today.
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But I can tell you cost of living is the thing that is at the top of everyone's mind here.
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And one of the impacts on the cost of living has certainly been the Iran war.
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It is driving up petrol prices so much.
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This is now a record high for petrol prices to be on election day.
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And today Donald Trump says he doesn't believe the Iran war is a war at all.
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He made those comments on Fox News this morning.
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Also going on to talk about his approval ratings in Israel.
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I'm at 99 % approval rating in Israel.
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Can you believe it?
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In fact, if people ever got tired of me in the US, I'll move to Israel and become prime minister.
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I will note that as Donald Trump heads into these midterms today, he is at a record low approval rating here in the United States,
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hovering around the 30 % range.
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Look, as we head into this polling day,
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one of the things we're watching here is the amount of election monitors who are heading out to the polling booths,
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more than 1 ,000 of them.
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That is a record for today.
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And it all comes down to just a few key states,
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a few key races, and those results will start coming in from 10am Australian Eastern Daylight Time, Jane.
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OK, Lauren, thank you.
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Now to Reid Butler in Austin, Texas.
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Reid, you've been out all day with the voters.
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What is the feeling like where you are?
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Well, there's a sense of enthusiasm among
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Democrats because they feel like they've got the momentum here and according to the polls, they do.
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And it is pretty amazing looking at different battleground states across the United States.
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All seven of them, Democrats, are either ahead of the Republican competitors or they're polling incredibly competitively,
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including in Kansas, which is nuts when you hear this stat.
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If the Democrat Senate hopeful is elected today, it'll be the first time that has happened since 1932.
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Why?
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Well, because people there are concerned and angered by Trump's tariffs.
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Here in Texas, I'm at the Texas University in Austin right now, it's also a really interesting race.
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Austin is considered to be kind of hipster central of a very conservative Texas.
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And this bloke, James Tallarico, is from Austin.
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He is potentially, in polling very well, potentially going to be elected today to be the senator from Texas.
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And to put that into some perspective, Jane, It's like someone from Fitzroy in Melbourne being dropped into far north Queensland
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and winning enough votes there to win the whole race.
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It is a big deal, and this is largely because of anger from Donald Trump.
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And, Jane, it is Donald Trump who is set to potentially be held accountable by the Democrats
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if they do win Congress today.
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It is absolutely fascinating.
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Imagine him trying to sell an oat latte at a rodeo, and he sells out.
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That's basically what...
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Tallarico's offering right now.
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Crazy.
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Okay, Reid Butler there live in Austin, Texas following all the developments for us this morning.
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Thank you.
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Back home now and the champagne is still flowing for the owners of the Melbourne Cup winner
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Point of Law, celebrating their four and a half million dollar payday at a Melbourne restaurant last night with the famous trophy in tow.
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We always believe, we always thought no matter whether it was raining last night
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or this morning in Melbourne
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or whatever the conditions were I thought it was absolutely
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you know it was it was very very good chance of winning so it was just a brilliant day today.
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And what a win
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it was the racehorse formerly owned by King Charles storming home
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to claim the cup handing trainer Kieran Marr a historic first second and third but for part owner
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Kerry Good the victory carries a special meaning his daughter
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Ash was killed in the Bondi Junction stabbing attack in 2024.
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Yeah I'll just say to all my friends.
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Ash is looking down.
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She'll say, Dad, you deserve this.
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It's your day.
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So yeah, she's looking down.
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Away from the track, Flemington was bursting with colour.
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From fabulous fashions to Robbie Williams, the race that stops the nation certainly delivered.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “RBA hands down rate rise; Security crackdown at Victorian voting booths”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: jane, across, polling. This video has 159 sentences and 1815 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:15. The speaker talks at a natural 161 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| jane noun | /d͡ʒeɪn/ | A female client of a prostitute. |
| poll noun | /poʊl/ | A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. |
| booth noun | /buθ/ | A small stall for the display and sale of goods. |
| potentially adverb | /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/ | In a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way. |
| passenger noun | /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ | One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew. |
| lightning noun | /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/ | A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth. |
| anger noun | /ˈæŋɡə/ | A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm… |
| intense adjective | /ɪnˈtɛns/ | Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering. |
| incredibly adverb | /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/ | In an incredible manner; not to be believed. |
| volunteer noun | /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/ | One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay. |
| rat noun | /ɹæt/ | Any of the numerous members of several rodent families that usually have short limbs, a pointy snout, a long, hairless tail, and a body length greater than… |
| burst verb | /bɜːst/ | To break from internal pressure. |
| voter noun | /ˈvoʊtɚ/ | Someone who votes or is entitled to vote. |
| scare verb | /skɛɚ/ | To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. |
| elect verb | /ɪˈlɛkt/ | To choose or make a decision (to do something). |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| look down verb | To lower one's eyes; to direct one's look downwards. | |
| back down verb | To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously had, or has planned to have. | |
| close down verb | /kləʊzˈdaʊn/ | To stop trading as a business. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| come down to verb | To reach by moving down or reducing. | |
| drive up verb | To cause or force a price, quantity, rate, etc. to increase. | |
| pull down verb | To make (something) lower (especially of clothes). | |
| sell out verb | To sell all of a supply or stock of something. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- That's nine months later than we were initially expecting.
- Can you believe it?
- Reid, you've been out all day with the voters.
- What is the feeling like where you are?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have been rumbling · he's been undertaking |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has died · have been injured · have identified |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being bashed · have been injured · was split |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | inflation, which is · Kansas, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 20 contractions and reduced forms, such as doesn't, I'll, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: booth /buθ/, enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, recession /ɹɪˈsɛʃn̩/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/, specialist /ˈspɛʃəlɪst/, inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, presidency /ˈpɹɛzɪdənsi/, reportedly /ɹɪˈpɔːtɪdli/, momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like jane, poll, booth.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.