Okay so let's look at this particular

article all right so this this article as

I said is about these space Rockets
So i'll read the the article i'll read it
twice and then i'll focus on the
particular words that i've
highlighted and give you my
particular meaning to them okay so
as I said it's from The Guardian
newspaper the largest and most
powerful rocket ever built has
blasted off from Texas but blew up
within minutes in a test flight that
its makers spacex hope will be the
first step on a human Journey to
Mars it appeared that the two
sections of the rocket system the
booster and cruise vessel were
unable to separate properly after
takeoff possibly causing the
spacecraft to fail it was not
 immediately clear whether the
rocket exploded spontaneously or
if the flight determination system
was activated a Fail-Safe that
destroys the spacecraft to prevent it
from veering too far off course
spacex had previously cautioned
that the chances of success were
low and at the aim of the test flight
was to gather data regardless of
whether the full mission was
achieved employees at spacex
cheered even after rocket
disintegrated the uncrewed sub
orbital test marked the first fully
stacked trial in which the Starship
Cruise vessel which is designed to
eventually carry up to 100
astronauts was placed on top of the
super heavy booster rocket whose
33 Raptor engines provided the
 immense thrust needed almost as
long as three passenger Jets the
mammoth spacecraft stands 10
meters taller than the Saturn V
rocket that sent humans to the
moon in 1969. Elon Musk the
founder of spacex gained the
necessary approval last week from
the Federal Aviation
Administration for the launch to go
ahead both the upper and lower
segments of the system are
designed to power themselves
safely back to Earth for a soft
Landing so that they can be reused
musk says the reusability of
rockets makes space flight
significantly cheaper than what
NASA could offer unlike NASA
which attempts to avoid risk
spacex has a record of showing a
 willingness to have test flights
explode with musk saying the
private Venture benefits from
understanding what goes wrong
spacex built its own Spaceport
named Starbase on the Gulf of
Mexico in Boca Chica Texas to
launch its Rockets several other
starships are already in production
for future tests musk said he
developed Starship previously
named the bfr in Brackets heavily
hinted to mean big rocket close the
brackets so that humans can
eventually become an
interplanetary species to do this he
intends to begin the colonization of
Mars which he said is needed to
preserve Humanity in case a planet
destroy an event such as nuclear
war or an asteroid strike wipes out
 life on earth end of story so this is
an article written and produced in
the Guardian newspaper
specifically about Mr Elon Musk
but not about his car industry that
the Tesla but about his space
exploration and his willingness to
spend his own money to build
certain space rockets in his attempt
to help the space Venture and to
find a place where we might be
able to live so i'll read it now the
second time okay so the largest and
most powerful rocket ever built has
blasted off from Texas but blew up
within minutes in a test flight that
its makers spacex hope will be the
first step on a human Journey to
Mars it appeared that the two
sections of the rocket system the
booster and cruise vessel were
 unable to separate properly after
takeoff possibly causing the
spacecraft to fail it was not
immediately clear whether the
rocket exploded spontaneously or
if the flight termination system was
activated a failed safe that destroys
the spacecraft to prevent it from
veering too far off course spacex
had previously cautioned that the
chances of success were low and
not the aim of the test flight was to
gather data regardless of whether
the full mission was achieved
employees at spacex cheered even
after the rocket disintegrated the
young crude sub-orbital test
marked the first fully stacked trial
in which the Starship Cruise vessel
which is designed to eventually
carry up to 100 astronauts was
 placed on top of the super heavy
booster rocket whose 33 Raptor
engines provided the immense
thrust needed almost as long as
three passenger Jets the mammoth
spacecraft stands 10 meters taller
than the Saturn V rocket that sent
humans to the moon in 1969. Elon
Musk the founder of spacex gained
the necessary approval last week
from the Federal Aviation
Administration for the launch to go
ahead both the upper and lower
segments of the system are
designed to power themselves
safely back to Earth for a soft
Landing so that they can be reused
musk says the reusability of
rockets makes space flight
significantly cheaper than what
NASA could offer unlike NASA
 which attempts to avoid risk
spacex has a record of showing a
willingness to have test flights
explode with musk saying the
private Venture benefits from
understanding what goes wrong
spacex builds its own Spaceport
named star base on the Gulf of
Mexico in Boca Chica Texas to
launch its Rockets several other
starships are already in production
for future tests musk said he
developed Starship previously
named bfr which heavily hinted to
mean big rocket so that humans
can eventually become an
interplanetary species to do this he
intends to begin the colonization of
Mars which he said is needed to
preserve Humanity in case a planet
destroying event such as nuclear
war or an asteroid strike wipes out
life on Earth okay so that's the end
of the particular article so I'm
going to now go through the words
i've highlighted and explain what
they mean so we've got 13
particular words and phrases some
of them are phrasal verbs and i'll
explain what they mean so the first
one to blast off so when something
blasts off like a space rocket it
leaves the ground and the blast is
that explosion or the when the
petrol or the fuel is ignited and you
hear the countdown you know ten
nine eight seven six five four three
two one blast off and then that's
when the rocket finally leaves the
Earth so to blast off means to get
that thrust that boost to push the
rocket up into space blast off
 second blow up okay now in this
particular article what we mean by
blow up is that the rocket failed
and there was a massive explosion
within four seconds of leaving the
Earth so the the whole rocket blew
up and was destroyed yeah so blow
up is about a fuel or powder
gunpowder exploding or igniting
and causing a massive explosion
and everything is destroyed so in
this case it blew up but you can
also use blow up when you talk
about let's say your bicycle tire if
you're a flat tire and there's no air
you have to blow it up don't mean
to you explode it but you pump air
into the tire so that you can cycle
home and also if you're celebrating
on a party and you're getting the
balloons ready you have to blow
 up the balloons put the air into the
balloons to celebrate the birthday
yeah so to blast off number one
number two blow up number three
the word we have here is
spontaneously just be careful with
the pronunciation spontaneously
spontaneously it's spontaneously
spontaneously and when something
happens spontaneously it happens
without being planned so in this
case the rocket exploded
spontaneously it it just happened
nobody was expecting it so when
something happens very suddenly
without being planned then it can
be spontaneous a spontaneous
reaction spontaneously so it's a of
course an adverb spontaneously
number four another phrasal verb
to Veer off now make sure it's
 Veer off not fear it's Veer off you
leave the direction of the track in
which you are going so you alter
your course yeah so to Veer off so
if you're driving on the mode wafer
for example you might Veer off to
the left or Veer off to the right to
avoid an accident on the motor
way to Veer off to to go on to
another Lane so that you can make
the exit a little easier so to Veer off
course in which we're talking about
here in the rocket they try to avoid
it veering off so they wanted to go
on a certain trajectory into the air
but if there's some explosion it
might Veer off left or right and
then cause more problems okay so
to Veer off means to change
direction number five this
integrated so the rocket
 disintegrated so when something
disintegrates it breaks up into a
thousand pieces so there was the
explosion and Then followed by a
great fire and the whole rocket
disintegrated so very few parts and
pieces left so they were scattered
everywhere presumably in the
ocean but it totally disintegrated so
when something falls apart it
disintegrates it falls into pieces
good number six fully stacked now
fully stacked means everything in
place so in this case they were
using the Rockets strapped to the
back or attached to the back of
another rocket so this is what they
mean stacked one on top of the
other so this is the first time that
the rocket had been fully stacked
previously they had used bits and
pieces but not fully stacked in this
case they had everything together
attached to each other so fully
stacked means complete and ready
to take off fully stacked number
seven is an adjective immense
something immense means really
great really big yeah so an
immense occurrence so for
example a an earthquake could be
in an immense occurrence so a
huge thunder and lightning storm
could be an immense a
meteorological experience okay so
something immense means really
really big yeah so something can
have an immense impact on your
life not just a one impact but
something significant something
great so passing the exam failing
exam the death of a parent
 whatever it might be can have an
immense impact on your life so
here this explosion had an
immense impact on the plans and
another adjective that means big is
Mammoth so Mammoth like the
the big elephants from the
prehistoric ages there their their
Mammoth says or something
Mammoth means really really big
huge yeah okay so a mammoth
task means a very very big task a
task that perhaps you will not be
able to achieve mammoth to gain
an approval or to gain approval for
something so he went to the the
aviation authorities to gain
approval to get approval to launch
his rocket so when you gain
approval you get the permission to
do it okay so you gain their
 approval you gain that trust means
to get to get something you didn't
have before to gain approval and
number 10 Venture Adventure is
something that you haven't tried
before a new Venture could be a
new business for example that you
set up this is a venture into space
so the space rocket going up to see
how far it can go and could it
eventually take astronauts to the
planet Mars well that's a a new
Venture that hasn't been tried or
tested so Venture is something new
something interesting something
never tried before something risky
yeah a risk Venture and then
number 11 hinted and we had in
the in the article heavily hinted
when we hint at something we give
some information to try and get
people to take an interest he hinted
that he would retire he didn't say
that he was actually going to retire
but he hinted that perhaps he's tired
and perhaps it would be time for
somebody else to take over the
business so he hinted that some
changes might take place okay so
when we hint we give a little bit of
information that might suggest
what we are planning for the future
number 12 to intend when we
intend to do something it's our plan
we intend to take this further we
may not but that's our plan is to
take it further so we intend doing
this I intend writing to the school
to complain that's my plan when I
get home I might think differently
about it I intend lodging a
complaint to the police department
 about the way they treated me
when they stopped me at the traffic
lights so it's your intention yeah
you intend to do something and
then finally number 13 to wipe out
well now it has a couple of
meanings so you know if there was
as they talk in the article about a
nuclear strike that would wipe out
lots and lots of people over a huge
vast area so that would be to wipe
out to destroy okay but we can
simply you know write on the
Blackboard in school and then the
teacher wipes out what she wrote
okay so just uses a cloth so just
simply cleans the green or the
Blackboard in in the school room
but if you want to wipe out the
population of generations then you
drop an atom or some other type of
 nuclear bomb explosion and that
will certainly wipe out millions of
people so that's quite drastic but if
you just want to wipe out the
writing on the Blackboard you use
a cloth you might want to wipe out
the records of your email so you
delete some of your emails to wipe
out okay so there are words taken
from the article blast off blow up
spontaneously just be careful with
the pronunciation spontaneously to
Veer off means to change direction
disintegrated fall into lots of little
pieces fully stacked means
everything on top of each other as
needed immense something huge
Mammoth again a huge task
Mammoth task to gain approval so
to get something and that you
hadn't received before in this case
 approval to launch the rocket
Adventure yes some risk some
some achievement you some new
Venture that you want to try in this
case sending a rocket to Mars
hinted heavily hinted so to tell
people yeah I really am going to
retire or hinted that something
might happen next week to intend
what your intention is I intend
doing this I intend doing that I
intend going to bed early you
might not get there early but you
intend doing that and then finally
to wipe out wipe out the population
by dropping a nuclear bomb or
exploding a nuclear rocket or to
wipe out what's written on the
Blackboard then you just use a
cloth and you clean the Blackboard
so it's not so serious thank you
okay so that's our article and those
are the words that I highlighted
hopefully you get an understanding
of the meaning from how I read it
what you should do if you can is
read the article a couple of times
again make sure you understand
the words make sure you
understand how they're used and
also listen out for intonation and
pronunciation in relation to the
words.

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