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Hi, I'm Lisa.

People who are truly fluent in English can easily understand the vocabulary and the expressions in news articles. And they not only know the meaning of the words, but they can pronounce them correctly.

I selected this specific article because it has a lot of good vocabulary that advanced learners of English should know. And it contains some words that my students often mispronounce.

The article is from the Los Angeles Times newspaper. It talks about some recent news about Elon Musk. I think most people know who he is. He's the owner of SpaceX, Tesla, X, formerly Twitter, and other companies.

After we learn the words, I will pause to give you a chance to repeat so that you can practice your pronunciation. There's a lot to learn in this video.

Let's get started.

The headline of the article is:

“Elon Musk becomes world's first trillionaire. Here's what 1 trillion can buy.”

And the first sentence of the article says:

“Catapulted by the market debut of his rocket company SpaceX, Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire.”

You know the word millionaire and billionaire, and there's also trillionaire.

This is a million, and a billion is 1 followed by 9 zeros, and a trillion is 1 followed by 12 zeros. So, 1 million millions is a trillion.

And the article says:

“If you were to put the money together, it would go to the moon and back over 200 times.”

The article also says it would be $122 for every person on Earth.

Let's look at the pronunciation of some words.

This is a word that most non-native speakers struggle with. Have you been pronouncing it correctly? Let me teach you how to say it perfectly.

Look at the W and the R. We're going to ignore the O, and we're going to say “were.” So, the O is silent.

Were.

And then, we put a schwa sound between the R and the L.

Earl. Earl.

You can visualize it like this:

World. World.

But don't say “old,” just say “old.”

World. World.

Or maybe this helps:

World. World.

You say it.

Say this:

All over the world.

It's a worldwide company.

You say it.

And now, you can say it perfectly.

Let's look at the TR of this word.

We don't say “truh,” we say “truh.” The TR combination changes the sound a little bit.

Repeat after me:

Try.

Trust.

Training.

Or in the middle of the word:

Control.

We don't say “control,” we say “control.”

Introduce.