Basic listening skills let's understand the vocabularies and the grammatical points of this story. So the vocabularies are married, divorced, former Gamble's gamble, addicted bet. Beauty Contest. When and lose the grammar that I'm going to explain for you are used to preposition plus verb and IMG what adjective and noun and such adjective and now I will explain all of these grammatical points for you. And I will explain why do we use them? Let's start with the vocabularies.
Merit what's the meaning government merit. merit means having a wife or husband, for example, a married couple, or we've been happily married for five years. Married as you can see in the picture, the man and the woman are married. The next word is divorced. Divorced means married in the past but not now married. For example, we can say she's divorced.
She's not married anymore. The next word is former former off or in an earlier time, before the prison time or in the past. So when you speak about something that before prison time we say former, for example, his former wife, or a former employer. gamble as you can see that Picture gamble means to do something that involves risks that might result in loss of money or failure. hoping to get money or achieve success. gamble.
I love to gamble. But we should be careful because sometimes we can lose a lot of money. addicted I think that means unable to stop taking drugs or doing something as a habit addictive. Some people are addicted to smoking some people are addicted to watching TV. So we have different addiction. bets.
That means to risk money on the result of an event or a competition, such as a horse race in the hope of winning more money. bets beauty contests beauty contests a competition in which women are judged on how physically attractive they are, we call it beauty contests. Very nice word, beauty contest. Win. Win means to achieve first position and or get a prize in a competition, election, flight, etc. win and lose is the opposite.
To lose means to no longer have something because you don't know where it is. For example, I've lost my tickets or he's always losing his car keys. Okay, now let's understand the grammar and go to the next part.