Aha, it's time for the story. The why what's happening in this picture and what is the purpose? Here we go. The man on the motorcycle His name's Steve. Steve came to the prison this morning because his wife is being released today. Huh?

His wife was sentenced to five years in prison for running a motorcycle gang which was heavily involved in extortion and landscaping. Okay, pronunciation repeat after me. The man on the motorcycle is named Steve. Steve came to the prison this morning because his wife is being released today. His wife was sentenced to five years in prison. In for running a motorcycle gang, which was heavily involved in extortion and landscaping.

Okay, so let's take a look at some of this vocabulary and quickly take a drink. Mm hmm. So Steve is on his way to the prison. He's came to the prison. He's coming to the prison, because his wife is being released today. So, if someone has been released from prison, that means they have finished their time there.

Right? So if the court said or the law says you have to go to jail or prison for 10 years, and suddenly the 10 years are finished, well, you're going to be released. It means let go right. So you don't have to stay in there anymore. So his wife is being released today. Hmm.

So his wife was sentenced to five years. sentenced means the judge said, huh, you're going to jail for five years. Hmm. So that was the court's decision sentence is the punishment. sentenced to five years in prison? for running for controlling for manipulating for being in charge of a motorcycle gang?

Hmm. Well, let's take a look. You've got to be plenty of images for motorcycle gang. There we go. motorcycle gang. Uh huh.

Okay, so somewhere like a club where they just kind of get together and maybe have fun and talk about motorcycles. However, other motorcycle gangs are criminal elements of society. They do bad things and they steal and Robin kill and murder and bye Like crime and stuff like that, right? Okay, so this would be a motorcycle gang and what they might look like, let's go back. So Steve's wife, she was in charge of a motorcycle gang. And this motorcycle gang wasn't interested in playing baseball or football or you know, video games.

They were heavily involved, which means really involved with a lot of intensity involved in extortion and landscaping. Now this is an interesting mix. First, let's see what is landscaping and we'll take a look at an image. landscaping is taking care of gardens and the lawns and making them look beautiful. So we could say maybe like a landscaping company, right? So they come and you pay them Maybe a monthly fee or per time fee, I don't know.

And they make your yard look beautiful. All right, so this motorcycle gang that Steve's wife ran was involved in landscaping. However, there's this nice word here called extortion. All right, so let's take a look at extortion must be illegal if she ended up in jail. So let's take a look. dictionary.

Ooh, wait First we'll see if we can find images extortion. That would help. extortion or huh? This picture shows it up right here real nice. Uh huh. Don't tell anyone but give me the money.

All right. Let's see. Let's get a nice thick scenario meaning for extortion and we'll hear the pronunciation too. Okay, extortion, extortion, extortion, extortion, extortion. Right, here we go. The practice of obtaining of getting something especially money through force or threats hmm he used bribery and extortion to build himself a huge art stuffed mentioned.

Alright, so his mansion has a lot of expensive paintings and stuff. So extortion is when the mob let's find a picture of the mob. Alright, the mob they come to your store and they say, hey, you need a little security in the store owners like no, I think we're fine. We don't have any problems in the Mavs like no, you need some security or the motorcycle gang says you need security. And then the store owners like No, not really. We're good.

We're good. In the the mom's like okay, we'll see and later Have someone from the mob come and attack the store? Maybe they throw something and break a window or they steal or something. Then the mob comes back. And they're like, Oh, we noticed something happened. You need security.

And then the store owner starts to realize that the person who wrecked his store broke into the stores actually a person from the mob, and the mob just wants him to pay them money. So you will pay us money for protection, which is actually protection from the mob. So you pay us and then we won't hurt you. So there's the force right in the meaning. The practice of obtaining something especially money through force or threats, so the mob or the motorcycle gangs they threatened to hurt you break down your store, burn your store if you don't pay them money. Hmm, that's so good.

The government doesn't really like that. Uh huh. because it deals in messes with free enterprise and good business, right? All right. And eventually it was possible the business owner might go out of business because he's losing his profits and his ability to pay for running his business paying his employees and stuff like that. Okay, so let's take a look.

So the gang which wasn't heavily involved in extortion and landscaping Ah, what an interesting mix. All right, so Steve is coming to pick up his wife because she just got out of prison she's released today. As continue. Steve was a high ranking member of the motorcycle gang. However, because he provided important testimony against his wife, he was granted immunity. Steve made a deal with the government and didn't have to go to prison.

Wonderful. Pretty pronunciation repeat after me. Steve was hiring. Member of the motorcycle game. That would be his wife's motorcycle gang look sorry, repeat after me. Steve was a high ranking member of the motorcycle gang.

However, because he provided important testimony against his wife, he was granted immunity. Steve made a deal with the government and didn't have to go to prison. Okay, let's talk about the book heavier is getting juicy. So we find out that Steve was actually part of his wife's motorcycle gang. He was high ranking. You remember the idiom from abl lingo, idioms, Abel lingo on Instagram, high up high up is similar to high ranking.

Maybe you're the president or the vice president or the CEO, you have a lot of control in the company, or in this case, the game. So Steve was a high ranking member of the motorcycle gang. Hmm. So his wife was the boss. And he was he had some position, which was powerful and high up in the organization. However, because Steve provided because he gave important testimony against his wife, he was granted immunity.

Hmm. So first, let's take a look at testimony. What is testimony? All right, here we go. Let's first we'll take a look. Well, maybe we'll look find an image first see if we can make the connection so you can understand what is testimony and it's testimony in court.

It could be in court. And so it's, you know, telling the judge and telling the jury what happened, what you witnessed. Let's take a look. Here we go. testimony. Right.

Nice. Oh, pronunciation, testimony, testimony, testimony, a formal written or spoken statement. So it could be written on a piece of paper or a formal document or it's spoken, especially one given in court. All right, and testimony. Testimony testimony is a kind of evidence and evidence is what the government needs to be able to prove or show that someone broke the law. So Steve, ah, maybe the government caught Steve and they're like, Ah, you know, we noticed you have a landscaping company but You're also forcing the local business owners to pay you for protection.

And if they don't pay you, you beat them up, you destroy their stores. So that is illegal. You can't force people to pay you money and, you know, saying that you'll hurt them if they don't pay you. So maybe the government said, Hey, Steve, we hear You're not the boss in this motorcycle gang. But if you tell us about the boss, then we won't put you in jail. We won't put you in prison.

We will grant you immunity. immunity means that you won't get in trouble. Aha. In exchange, they're they're doing a trade. You give us the evidence about your wife, who is the top dog in this organization, and we will give you immunity. So let's take a look at immunity.

Right here we are. immunity pronunciation community. Community. That's right. Okay. Here we go.

And it could be like medical, that's not what we're going for we're going for. Here we go protection or exemption from something, it means an exemption means you don't, you don't get your kind of special. The other thing, most of the bad things might happen to some people, but you made a deal. So the bad things won't happen to you, you get protection from it, especially an obligation or penalty. So because Steve was part of the motorcycle gang, and he did some bad stuff, all by itself, he would probably have to go to prison for a long time. However, because he agreed to talk with the government and give them evidence.

They decided to give him immunity, which is basically a get out of jail free card means that you're not going to go to prison, but, you know, someone else will. In this case, Steve's wife had to go to prison. So Steve made it deal to get immunity. Steve made a deal with the government and didn't have to go to prison. Aren't we wondering what the wife thinks? Hmm, okay, let's move forward.

Steve still loves his wife and is hoping that she will forgive him for betraying her. Despite receiving daily letters, stating that she plans to kill him immediately. Steve believes they can patch up their relationship. In about 15 minutes, we'll find out how Steve's day we'll go. Huh? pronunciation repeat after me.

Steve still loves his wife and is hoping that she will forgive him for betraying her Despite receiving daily letters stating that she plans to Kill him immediately. Steve believes they can patch up their relationship. In about 15 minutes, we'll find out how Steve's day we'll go. Okay, let's talk about some vocabulary and phrases here. All right. So Steve is coming to the prison to pick up his wife cuz he still loves her.

Even though he's one of the main reasons that she's in prison. Right? Crazy, though he's hoping that she will forgive him that she will say off. Don't worry, baby. No, you had to do it. I still love you.

Or B train her Hmm. So in B train and There's the verb betray. Let's take a look what does betray me. Hmm It's fine the dictionary who betrays someone? Oh no. Okay hmm okay.

So expose one's country, a group or a person to danger by treacherously evil in an evil way giving information to an enemy. So expose means to open, allow access. Alright, so allowing access to danger. So he's putting his wife in danger because he gave information to the enemy. It was the government right he gave testimony and they give gave him immunity. Though, someone had to go to prison and it was the wife.

So betrayed means that you break someone's trust in you, right? You tell someone trust you. They believe that you that you will support them and You will never hurt them and they can trust you. But if you betray someone, you break that trust. Okay? All right.

So despite, even though he gets daily letters every day, stating are saying that she plans to kill him immediately. So every day, Steve, Steve gets a letter from his wife from prison saying, I will kill you. Steve still thinks that they can patch up their relationship. patch up means to fix to make it all better. We can fix our relationship, baby. I know we had a difficult time but we can patch it up.

We can fix it. All right. So patch up is an useful idiom. It can be for fixing something fixing a car fixing a tire you patch up the tire, but it can also be for a relationship. Mm hmm. So in about 15 minutes, we'll find out how Steve's day will go.

We say 15 minutes because he probably has to go through security has to, he has to park his motorcycle at the prison parking lot, go through security and go inside and meet up with his wife. I imagine if she's a little bit smart, she might be Oh, I'm so happy to see you. But when they're out, there's no other prison officials or police around. Steve probably doesn't want to go to sleep at night. Okay, all right. So today we did the English lesson, idled the ride.

The theme was transportation. And we had this guy in the motorcycle Steve on his way to visit his wife in prison. All right, so we talked about the setting the background, the time, the place, the location. And we also talked about the action which are the people the movements, what's happening in this picture, and we talked about the story. The reason why is this picture taking place what is going to happen and stuff like that? Okay, so let me give you our motto here at Abel lingo, improve your English become more valuable all right