Truck Drives into People: Advanced English for IELTS and TOEFL

welcome back to another English lesson this is the first English lesson of 2025 and we have more bad news I know that thumbnail says 10 dead but right before I recorded this English lesson it has been changed there are now 15 people who have died in the City of New Orleans last night on the first day of 2025 together we will watch a news clip about this tragic story then I will come back and teach you all of the difficult terms the English phrasal verbs the English idioms that you might hear when watching the news and there are 20 or 30 other people who have been injured my heart goes out to anyone who lost a family member in this tragedy we will talk about terms like confirming Mass casualties Etc phrasal verbs like plowed we will talk about the City of New Orleans this happened on Bourbon Street and football is not the most important thing of course but it is affecting a major football game that is happening in New Orleans and that is called the Sugar Bowl we'll talk about the term hellbent on all handson deck and many more that will help you in your next English conversation or if you are studying for the IELTS or TOEFL exam let's watch the news clip together and then I will come back and teach you some English Fox News Alert let's go back to Alexis McAdams with more details Alexis yeah so we just got into our news room some breaking news Fox News Now confirming Griff that the suspect in this ongoing investigation that they're calling a mass casualty that left 10 people dead and others injured is a man who is now dead they're waiting on his name his age etc for each of the terms I will have a picture I will have the term in a sentence to help you understand the term this first one confirming it means checking to make sure something is true police are confirming how many people were hurt she is confirming her plane ticket it's always good to confirm your travel plans before you get to the airport when you hear casualties in English think people who were killed