Reading Practice (Improve Your PRONUNCIATION In English

Today you’ll improve your pronunciation in English with reading practice. 🥳Want to sound like a native English speaker in only 90 days? Join the FINALLY FLUENT ACADEMY and have ME as your personal English coach ➡ 🎁 Download your FREE SPEAKING GUIDE here ➡️ 🔴 Download your free lesson PDF here ➡️ CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Welcome 0048: - Read Along 5:15 - Sentence Analysis 21:52 - Free Speaking Guide TRANSCRIPT: Welcome back to JForrest English. I’m Jennifer. And today, I have a reading exercise for you to help you improve your English pronunciation. First, I’m going to read an article in full from start to finish and you can focus on my pronunciation. Next, I’m going to read one sentence at a time and I’m going to pronounce some of the more difficult words. So you can imitate my pronunciation. I’ll read the sentence again. And when I do this, you can read the sentence out loud and imitate my pronunciation. Does that sound like fun? So now I’ll read the article in full from start to finish. Let’s get started. The electric car revolution: is it realistic or optimistic? Governments and motor manufacturers around the world are throwing money and resources into the development of electric vehicles. But can electric power really replace the internal combustion engine before the middle of the century? Maybe it can, but this is by no means certain. Electric vehicles have arrived. With technology led by Tesla, and all of the world’s major car manufacturers following along behind, electric vehicles are now a common sight on the roads of most developed countries. Yet the situation in less developed countries is rather different; the only African country to have started the change to electric vehicles is South Africa and even there, electric vehicles still account for less than % of the total number of cars on the roads. In South America, the situation is better, with all Latin American countries beginning the move towards electric vehicles, particularly Columbia which, in 2020, had a third of the continent’s total electric car fleet. In Russia, the wealthy are investing in imported electric cars, but no electric cars are yet manufactured locally, while in India the government is promoting the purchase of electric vehicles with tax exemptions and other incentives. So electric cars have arrived, and their share of the market is increasing almost worldwide. Does this mean, therefore, that the world is on track to phase out the use of gas-driven vehicles in less than thirty years? And does it mean that electric vehicles are the sustainable solution to our transport needs for the second half of the century? Unfortunately, to the disappointment of some people, the answer to both of these questions has to be “no“. The massive development of electric vehicles can only be possible if two conditions are met. Firstly the expansion of electric vehicle manufacturing is dependent on the fragile ability of manufacturers to source vastly increased quantities of vital components and elements without which electric vehicles cannot operate. Secondly, few countries currently have electricity grids that are anywhere near being able to cope with the huge increase in demand for electricity that will accompany any rapid growth in electric vehicle ownership. Without adequate supplies of all the vital ingredients of electric motors and batteries, or without power supplies that are able to provide the electricity needed to recharge millions of electric batteries every day (as well as supplying the current we need for everything else, such as lighting, heating, trains and electric devices), the electric car revolution will run up against insoluble problems. Governments and vehicle manufacturers are fully aware of these issues, but the consensus among policy-makers seems to be that somehow technology will come up with the answers, as it often has in the past. Analysts also predict that changing social attitudes and environmental awareness will lead to a reduction in private vehicle use and a fall in the numbers of vehicles on the roads. This prediction is likely to be right, though not necessarily for those reasons alone; any shortage of essential components will force up the cost of electric vehicles, and any shortage of battery recharging facilities or capacity will discourage people from buying electric vehicles... TRANSCRIPT CONTINUES IN LESSON 🎯 WATCH THIS NEXT: 🤓 ADVANCED ENGLISH VOCABULARY: 😎 TOP PHRASAL VERBS: 🤩 ADVANCED ENGLISH GRAMMAR: 🥳 CONFUSING ENGLISH WORDS: 🔴 SUBSCRIBE: #jforrestenglish #learnenglish #englishvocabulary #englishpronunciation