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3. Jeff Bezos Gets Married in Venice | English Listening, Vocabulary, Pronunciation

3. Jeff Bezos Gets Married in Venice | English Listening, Vocabulary, Pronunciation

Update: 2025-07-02
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Improve your English with real news stories with me, Karen.


This week, take a trip to Venice for the wedding of Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez. In this episode, you’ll hear what happened, why some people didn’t like it, and learn useful English words/phrases to describe events and behaviour.


I’ll explain their meanings, and give you pronunciation tips.


VOCABULARY

1. staged (adj)

2. go off without a hitch (phr)

3. backlash (n)

4. beam (v)

5. tacky (adj)


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NEWS ARTICLE on this story

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx5g4vjz07o

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3. Jeff Bezos Gets Married in Venice | English Listening, Vocabulary, Pronunciation

3. Jeff Bezos Gets Married in Venice | English Listening, Vocabulary, Pronunciation

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