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  1. hey everyone uh my name is wes this is interactive english thank you guys so much for joining me today uh
  2. so this lesson is all about um it's it's it's about immigration is the topic that we're going to be learning
  3. today but it is a reading and vocabulary lesson so let me kind of explain what we're going to do
  4. uh i've chosen this topic um which is something that i think all of us can relate to in one way or another
  5. immigration it's something it's something that's happening all over the world people will move to other countries to live permanently for
  6. work or for education or more opportunities and what we're going to do is look at a few different articles that
  7. are related to immigration and i'm going to pick out some useful vocabulary words that i think will help you
  8. uh with with your comprehension that if you're going to talk about this topic or perhaps you're reading another
  9. article about this topic or you're even listening to um a news report then i think this is going to help you better understand um immigration
  10. and it's it's just going to help you build your overall vocabulary okay so let's let's begin with uh the the other thing i wanted to
  11. tell you about is that you may notice that uh this on this video there's like a donate button or uh this video is a fundraiser because
  12. what we've decided to do my wife and i and our little girl uh emmy we've decided that this month because it's we're we're getting to the end of 2000
  13. um 2020 it hasn't been a very good year i think that most of us would agree that this year has not been the best because of the pandemic
  14. what we want to do is we want to highlight some different uh charities that we think are doing some good work uh
  15. and we're gonna make a donation and we've just decided to make the video like a fundraising event if other people would like to make a
  16. donation if you don't want to that that's perfectly fine um but we're going to look at let me show you and we're going to kind of lead
  17. into it i'm going to come back to this at the end of the lesson so we're going to highlight freedom
  18. university and we're going to kind of lead into this throughout the lesson i'm going to start with some articles
  19. we'll go over the vocabulary and then eventually uh at the end i'll talk to you a little bit about freedom university what they're doing
  20. why we chose to highlight this charity and give you a little more information about that but that's just something we wanted to do
  21. this month so next saturday and the following saturday it's going to be the same thing we're going to do reading and vocabulary about a topic
  22. and i'm gonna be doing some fundraising and highlight uh a charity i do want to give a quick little uh shout out to everybody with me hello
  23. uh cthulhu solo welcome excellent new member awesome uh hi takayo nekla uh maggie good morning um
  24. gertrudis how are you angela thank you guys for joining me so what i really hope is that after this lesson
  25. you'll be able to understand the topic a little more as well as build your vocabulary because i do i have a
  26. i have a vocabulary list for you guys which we're going to get to all of these words uh after we do some reading and what i
  27. will do is i will include all of this down in the description i will include links to the articles
  28. if you would like to read them because we're only going to read parts of the article i'll also include a list of the
  29. vocabulary words in case you want to review so the reason why i chose immigration i mentioned this before that i think it's
  30. something that everybody understands because it pretty much in all countries there are immigrants that may be living
  31. there for work or for education or perhaps there are people that you know that are maybe trying to
  32. immigrate to other countries so let's start with this article um right here okay and this is just talking about um
  33. around the world all right how do people view immigrants and in this research study that they did it said more people
  34. in most countries view them as a strength rather than a burden let's look at two of those words
  35. right there in that title right there i wanted to basically been because our topic is immigration to
  36. talk about immigrant and uh if you don't know what a burden means so right here if we go over to our vocabulary list okay here we go
  37. so an immigrant as you can see is a person who comes to a different country to live there permanently and you would refer to
  38. this person as an immigrant now this is a noun because we're talking about a person but be aware that you could use this as
  39. a verb to um to immigrate uh or as a noun immigration all right and the meaning is pretty much
  40. the meaning is the same because you're always going to be referring to people that move to a different country in order to live there permanently now
  41. again i'm going to throw some other vocabulary at you be careful because another word that's similar
  42. um emigrate uh whoops maybe i misspelled that emigrate is talking about a person who leaves
  43. um a country in order to move to another one this is something some people might confuse those words
  44. um to immigrate or to emigrate with an e so immigrate you're really going to the country emigrate you're leaving the country so the way that you
  45. understand the difference would be the preposition that follows you immigrate to another country because you're going
  46. to there and you would emigrate from because you're leaving a country so you emigrate from another country so this good
  47. vocabulary and sometimes those those words may be confused so um another what i want to say because uh
  48. another reason why i'm doing i chose this topic is because i think there are a lot of people um that watch
  49. these lessons that are uh immigrants that may be living in the united states which is where i am from i'm from the u.s and i
  50. i kind of wanted to again i think that is an important topic it's an important topic in the us and we are going to focus
  51. um some of the articles afterwards about the the us and what's going on so i wanted to talk to you about those first
  52. a couple words like uh immigrants are more than a strength and a burden an immigrant person who comes to a different country
  53. to live there permanently a burden would be talking about something that is a heavy load that you carry now often you might say that
  54. you're carrying something it's heavy and you're like oh this is a burden it's too difficult
  55. in this context the article is saying well immigrants are a strength it's a good thing if they're saying it's a burden then
  56. people would say oh it's not a good thing so be aware of that context as to how people are using it
  57. so let's go back to um let's go to our article all right what i'm going to do is i'm just going to read
  58. some of the article and then i'll talk to you about a few more words as we go through this and again there
  59. are i will leave links down in the description all right so it's talking about public divided on
  60. immigrants willingness to adopt host country's customs so i'm going to read some because we're going to come back to that
  61. word adopt all right so if we go down and i'll just read a little bit of this so it says majorities of publics
  62. in top migrant destination countries say immigrants strengthen their countries according to a 2018 pew research center survey of 18
  63. countries that host half of the world's migrants in in ten of the countries surveyed
  64. majorities view immigrants as a strength rather than a burden among them are some of the largest migrant receiving countries in the world the united states
  65. germany the united kingdom france canada and australia each hosting more than 7 million immigrants in 2017. by contrast in five countries surveyed
  66. hungry greece south africa russia and israel see immigrants as a burden to their countries with the exception of russia
  67. those countries each have fewer than 5 million immigrants meanwhile public uh just read the rest of that
  68. meanwhile public opinion on the impact of immigrants is divided in the netherlands in italy and poland more say immigrants
  69. are a burden while substantial shares in these countries do not lean one way or the other
  70. 31 or 20 respectively okay so let's go back and talk about this first part um because this is part of i think um
  71. immigration when people come to live in another country and then that first that that subtitle where it says public's divided on immigrants his
  72. willingness to adopt host country's customs so let's look at that word adopt because i think it's very important
  73. um adopt and adapt when you're talking about immigration so if i go back over here to our vocabulary list if you want to
  74. know what the difference is so we talked about the difference between um to immigrate is to go to another country to emigrate
  75. is to leave a country adopt is when you start to accept you accept or you start to use something new
  76. so it basically becomes a part of your customs to adapt is to change in order to survive or become more comfortable in a
  77. situation so if you think about let's think about immigration if you go to another country and you're
  78. going to live there i think first off most people would adapt they're becoming they're trying to
  79. become comfortable in this new country perhaps it's a new language a new job new traditions new food and
  80. you want to adapt over time people may likely adopt to some of these customs and norms and traditions
  81. and then it becomes part of their lives so let me give you an example um we just had the in in the united states
  82. you just had the the thanksgiving holiday so for example somebody may move to the united states
  83. um from any country in south america central america africa asia it doesn't matter but perhaps somebody moves from a country
  84. that does not celebrate thanksgiving and then they start living in the u.s and over time they may start celebrating
  85. this holiday it's not really it's not a religious holiday it's really uh part of u.s history so that that is
  86. one example as to how people may adopt and they start celebrating a holiday such as thanksgiving so this can be um
  87. again when you think of immigration again this is something that people might talk about whether or not people are adopting to a country
  88. and the culture and the traditions or maybe they're they're not adopting so the one thing i definitely want you guys to distinguish is the
  89. difference between adapt and adopt i think first people will adapt and then over time they will adopt
  90. certain traditions the next word it's talking about a migrant because again these are words that are very similar when you think of immigrant
  91. or migrant a migrant it refers to a person who travels to a different country or place
  92. temporarily usually to find work so one thing you may notice in some of these articles or if you're listening to a news report
  93. people may use immigrant and then they may use the word migrant and you might be wondering well why why are they using these different words
  94. the the one difference i want you to understand is when you think of an immigrant think of that that is somebody who is more
  95. permanent that you are planning to stay in that country a migrant is possibly it's just going to be temporary you're going to live in another country and
  96. then you're you're going to leave for example i've lived in some different countries teaching english i
  97. i've i've never really stayed i was in korea for three years um the dominican republic for one year in namibia for one year
  98. and i guess you could say that i i was more of a migrant i was there working temporarily and then i left the reason why i think
  99. people will use them um together sometimes is because typically somebody may come to another country
  100. as a migrant and then they end up staying perhaps they fall in love they get married perhaps they
  101. continue working at this job and they stay in the country and then they become an immigrant because it's going to be more permanent so
  102. again i know i'm i'm giving you words and trying to really give you a little bit of a nuance so you understand the difference so an
  103. immigrant think of a person who is more going to stay and live permanently a migrant is somebody that
  104. may be there just temporarily but if they stay then you could say they are really becoming an immigrant uh
  105. substantial uh in the article we saw let's go back how was it used um so they're talking about
  106. um substantial because i wanted to go over that word for you ah so it says while a substantial in these countries do not lean one way or the
  107. other substantial is just talking about a large or no it's just talking about a value size or an amount of something
  108. often you're going to follow this word um with the word amount a substantial amount of something so if you're talking about
  109. substantial it just refers to a large large in size value or or importance another thing that i thought was
  110. interesting about this article many of you don't you may not know i am from the united states but right now i live in hungary uh
  111. and i found this interesting because in hungary according to this research uh most people view immigrants as a burden
  112. that it's not really um perhaps a very strong immigrant friendly country but this is actually where i am right
  113. now um i'm living in hungary i don't i would not say that i'm going to stay so again i'd probably i'd be more of a migrant
  114. i'm here i'm living uh i'm working and then i may move somewhere else all right so that is the first article
  115. kind of just talking about immigration in general now what i want to do is look at the next one okay and talk about which which talks about
  116. more immigration in the united states so again this is a little more of this is definitely more of an advanced article
  117. uh i would say so let's go back to the site right here um okay and this is the next article that i wanted to look at so
  118. let's see hold on one second okay so this article is talking about a new paradigm um a new paradigm for humane and
  119. effective immigration enforcement this is from the center for american progress i will go ahead and tell you
  120. this is a more liberal um a liberal organization so again this article is more about the immigration
  121. policy in the united states the organization does not agree with it they don't like it and that is um the reason for this
  122. article but there are some useful words i think that are related to immigration so a new paradigm for humane
  123. and effective immigration enforcement you kind of get the idea let's look at some of the vocabulary that
  124. um i think is useful so if you're wondering well what is a paradigm a paradigm is talking about a model for something in this case
  125. it's talking about the way the government is trying to handle immigration so the paradigm it's trying to say we need a
  126. new paradigm a new model for handling immigration one that is humane and effective so if you if you're talking about something
  127. is humane it is an adjective and it just means kind of like showing sharing uh kindness
  128. care and showing sympathy towards others especially people that might be suffering in some way so this again it's saying that it does
  129. not agree with the u.s policy on immigration you need a new paradigm one that is more humane
  130. so let's again i'm going to read some of this um and then we'll talk a little bit about it so let me go down
  131. here over here to the article ah okay so again i'll read you can just listen and follow along and then we'll look at some of the
  132. vocabulary it says in recent decades detention and deportation have become the entirety of america's immigration enforcement strategy
  133. this will strike many perhaps even most americans as both intuitive and inevitable how else is a nation uh to enforce its
  134. immigration laws but u.s immigration and customs enforcement ice which is the the government agency
  135. that handles immigration and customs ice is for sure um ice mass detention and deportation strategy
  136. is in fact both a sharp break from historic norms and neither the only nor the most effective way to enforce
  137. immigration law as a result of isis unprecedented mass deportation agenda the united states now spends more on federal immigration enforcement
  138. than all federal criminal law enforcement combined and has removed more than twice as many people in the first two decades of the
  139. 21st century as the entire previous history of the united states the brutality and enormous investment of
  140. immigration enforcement have created a well-documented humanitarian disaster that is increasingly driven the american public to reject
  141. isis heavy-handed tactics however less well-organized are the ways in which the agency's enforcement enforcement-only approach
  142. has utterly failed as a law enforcement strategy let's look at some of those words again i told you that this
  143. is from um this organization is very critical of the immigration policy they want a new paradigm a new model and let's look at some of those other words
  144. um from this article right here so we're talking about a detention center which detention uh if somebody it comes into the country
  145. illegally the in the us these people might end up in a in detention they call it detention and what that refers to is
  146. um the act of detaining somebody to detain is to keep somebody in one place and they have these detention centers
  147. which people might equate to kind of like a jail until they figure out okay uh until the people are deported so then
  148. you have that next word um deportation is talking about the act of forcing somebody to leave a country especially someone that
  149. does not have a right to be there deportation is uh the noun so we're talking about the noun deportation
  150. and the verb is to deport so again uh we can use this in different ways uh the meaning is kind of the same
  151. to uh whoops sorry i'm gonna add to deport and then you might be referring to a person so to to deport
  152. someone is when you would be making this person leave the country to deport so this is the situation where people
  153. might be detained again i'm now using the word in different ways they may be detained and kept somewhere
  154. and then later on then they are deported they are made to leave the country and they talk about this word i chose to
  155. use this word the article mentions unprecedented this is a word that we've heard i think a lot in 2020 especially in the united states
  156. people talk about things that are happening it's never happened before you would say that it's
  157. unprecedented so again this article is critical very critical of the u.s policy the immigration policy that they don't like it people are
  158. detained and then deported and the other thing they say it also goes against the historic norms so this kind of gets into the
  159. history a little more of the history of the united states that traditionally historically i think the united states is viewed as a country
  160. that has always been very open to accepting immigrants and people coming to the u.s for work uh for education to just start a new life
  161. it has a history like that and what this article was criticizing is that they're saying well we're moving away from that history
  162. not really just in the last four years but in the last couple of decades they they've really become a little more aggressive
  163. with um detaining illegal immigrants and deporting them and that is why this article was asking for a new paradigm
  164. again i'm trying to use these words again so that you may start to recognize them a new paradigm a new model that they want uh that is more humane
  165. that is showing a little more kindness a little more caring all right so again um these words are going to be down in the description
  166. if you would like to review i would encourage you um i'm also going to leave links to these articles if you want to keep following up on them
  167. alright uh let's uh let's look at the last one and then at the end i'll try to take some questions if you guys have them
  168. the last article kind of involves the charity that i want to highlight which is freedom university so if we go back over to uh
  169. the website um right here okay so here this is freedom university educating undocumented
  170. young people in georgia so this is kind of like an informal university and it's talking about undocumented young people
  171. i'll i'll explain this um a little more in just a bit so it says um if somebody is uh an immigrant you know that this person
  172. is now they they live in another country and they're doing so permanently if you say somebody is undocumented did i have that word
  173. uh let's see down here um yes okay just so uh we can go ahead and look at this so if something is
  174. undocumented uh you can say it's not supported by written proof so you can use this word
  175. in different ways but if you're talking about a person who is undocumented it would be a person who is
  176. living in the country that they they don't have documentation that says they can stay there that they can live there and you may hear
  177. people talk about an undocumented immigrant so those that's like a collocation you may hear those words used together
  178. people might refer to an undocumented immigrant a person who is living in another country but they don't have papers they may not have
  179. a visa to support that so this article let's go back to it and then i'm going to read a little portion of it and then we'll look at some other words
  180. so it says fewer than one percent of the 11.2 million u.s undocumented undocumented immigrants have completed any type of college degree in the united
  181. states and only 16 percent of undocumented college-age young people are enrolled in institutions of higher
  182. learning this is the result of many factors including restrictive policies in some states an exclusion from all forms of federal financial aid across
  183. the country dr laura mikko soltis is working to change this she leads freedom university in atlanta a modern
  184. day freedom school for undocumented young people that offers free college level classes college application assistance
  185. and liberatory spaces for learning her goal is to empower undocumented young people and advance their human right to
  186. education okay so it's talking about uh providing undocumented uh students these are college-age students with
  187. higher learning and she hopes to empower them okay so let's look at to go back there those are the words that i'm going to
  188. focus on so higher learning is talking about college or university level so if you ever see those two words
  189. somebody's talking about higher learning they're just talking about college or university and in this case it's offering uh undocumented students
  190. higher classes of higher learning hoping to empower them if you want to empower somebody it means that you want to
  191. give them the authority or freedom to do something i think all of this can agree that um education is so
  192. important education is very important and it definitely empowers people it provides people with more opportunities to work and make more
  193. money uh it provides people with opportunities to communicate with others like right now like this interactive english
  194. the whole channel is about trying to help you practice and improve your english skills which hopefully will
  195. empower you later on if you want to get a job or perhaps if you're traveling and you can communicate with people so that is what freedom university is
  196. all about um i've actually i discovered freedom university to just show you give you a little bit of a background as
  197. to how i came across it it was actually um this uh it's kind of like a documentary is it's somebody who's a comedian
  198. and they do these documentaries and they highlight a serious topic and they try to do it in a little bit more of an entertaining way so that
  199. people may pay attention to it but this is the right here it says up top there the terrifying situations undocumented people face i will put
  200. another link down in the description if you would like to watch this video it's great for your listening practice and it will help you understand a little
  201. bit more about what freedom university is all about but i told you that again this uh this lesson right here
  202. is a fundraiser my wife and i and emmy we're gonna make a 50 donation to freedom university um which is right here you can see the site
  203. uh and again i'll leave a link in the description and it's really talking about
  204. un empowering these young people that are undocumented to give them a better chance because in the united states um this is
  205. like a side topic there are there's a thing called well daca which refers to basically that some uh maybe immigrants came to
  206. united states they were undocumented they had children there so the children also maybe they didn't have uh documentation
  207. because their parents the came there illegally and because of that they well they grew up in the united states and
  208. some of them they still don't have documentations but the united states is their home they are american and they don't have
  209. the documentation it's a it's not a good situation again it's become very political and they it
  210. i don't think there is any clear resolution at this point obviously in my personal opinion these people should definitely stay they should have
  211. their documentation but some of the students i think at this university that that's kind of what they would fall into they've lived in the u.s
  212. their whole life but they're not able to receive the same opportunities as some other people because they are undocumented so that's
  213. what freedom university is um if and if you want to make a donation they do the donations through this other organization um
  214. called the the praxis project so that is actually the the donation goes to the practice project who supports
  215. freedom university and just so you know the praxis project um they they are a movement they do a lot of different initiatives
  216. helping out with uh equality for all racial equality um education like freedom university and that is the organization that
  217. accepts the donations on behalf of freedom university and supports freedom university i don't know if freedom university could
  218. not uh register as a a charitable organization on their own again watch the video it will give you a lot
  219. more information about it but this is the this is the organization that we that i wanted to highlight
  220. that i think is doing a great job that's doing a very important work uh and yeah if you guys want to get involved support people's
  221. uh education you can make a donation uh click on that donate button and even if you even if you can't right now i completely understand that check
  222. out the website i think it's always good to read this information practice your reading skills go on to the
  223. praxis project website as well because if anything you're reading about something that's good and something that's positive i
  224. think there's so much if you're reading like newspaper articles so much of it is just negative it's good
  225. to actually read something that is inspiring that makes you feel good so even if you can't make a donation that's okay
  226. i'd still encourage you go on those websites read a little bit more about it practice your language skills and it's just i think it just makes people feel
  227. better at least that's that's my opinion so i i hope that you guys learn some new words um again i will put these words down below in the
  228. description these are all the words that we talked about from the article that i think will help you understand
  229. a little bit more about the the topic of immigration which is an important topic which i think all of us can relate to
  230. because i think countries from all over the world um the the world is becoming a lot more connected
  231. um i like i told you i've lived in several different countries uh and and in my opinion i think that's a good thing
  232. i i think it's great that we're all being connected that we can communicate with each other um it's it's something that's positive
  233. i hope this was useful again i apologize i know that uh the the streaming i don't know if it cut in and out a little bit
  234. uh because of because of my shoddy internet uh but i i hope you learned uh some new words
  235. and uh thank you guys again for for joining me sorry it wasn't as much of a back and forth with you guys who are
  236. in the chat uh because of the type of lesson it is there's so many different windows that i'm having to jump back and forth between
  237. the the articles the vocabulary i'm trying to look in the chat uh to see what's going on but thank you guys
  238. uh so much mohammed zanat uh adir um brayan know about uh just give some quick shout outs at the end
  239. saad uh angela canule uh thank you guys um thank you for joining the the uh new member uh
  240. ka kathu kathushillo sorry if i mispronounce names um always good to see members and patrons takayo
  241. catrudus maggie um thank you guys so much for being here i hope that you enjoy the rest of your weekend and again next week
  242. what i want to do this month we're going to highlight uh some different charities uh make a donation
  243. i'm going to do the lesson as a bit of a fundraiser and just try to have it be a little more positive
  244. and and try to end the year on a little more of a positive note because 2020 has well it's it's kind of just sucked all right so we're gonna try to focus on
  245. something a little more positive and highlight some of these charities uh olga peter uh naoko mario great to see you uh mary
  246. uh roshan hope you guys have a wonderful weekend and