Emma Raducanu ended Britain’s 44-year wait for a women’s Grand Slam singles champion as she beat Leylah Fernandez to win the US Open in the most thrilling style.
The 18-year-old ended her scarcely believable run in New York with a 6-4 6-3 win over her 19-year-old Canadian opponent in a high-quality final. Rob and Catherine talk about the vocabulary from this story so you can talk about it too.
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Video chapters:
0:00 – Introduction
0:30 – Story
1:32 – Headline 1: Emma Raducanu: Teenager’s US Open run captures imagination
4:50 – Headline 2: The Guardian: Anatomy of a tennis sensation:
Emma Raducanu’s run to final is no fluke
7:36 – Headline 3: Metro: How New York has fallen for Britain’s tennis sensation Emma Raducanu
11:00 – Language summary
The story:
Emma Raducanu has ended Britain’s 44 year wait for a women’s Grand Slam singles champion after beating Canada’s Leylah Fernandez to win the US Open. The 18-year-old star saw off her opponent 6-4, 6-3, not having dropped a set throughout the tournament.
Key words and phrases:
captures (someone’s) imagination
makes people interested and excited
• His films captured the imagination of sci-fi fans everywhere.
• Her success has captured the imagination of tennis fans around the world.
fluke
something that happens by luck or chance and not skill
• The snowstorm is a fluke – it’s summer!
• Winning the game was a fluke – we hadn’t done any training!
fallen for
suddenly started loving someone
• Phillip has fallen for the woman who works in accounts.
• It looks like she’s fallen for an older man.
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🎒 Their success has captured the imagination of ballet fans around the world.
🎒 The rain is a fluke _ it's spring .
🎒 It looks like he's fallen for an actress.
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u r a phenomenon, Catrine , when u teach sth it sticks to my mind ur explanation is magical
By chance and by fluke are they the same?
I'm captured by your explanations.
I've watched "BBC Learning English" for 3 months I still fell for her accent a lot, Your accent captures my imagination.
This channel has captured my imagination – I can learn anything from you. The English I'm using nowadays isn't a fluke – it came by learning from you. I have fallen for you, guys. Keep it up.😎
I passed my ielts exam by fluke because i didnot prepare anything
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What does it mean:
Emma's run
Hi thanks for the good work,
I just didn't get the first headline:
Run what does it mean please
Tq for your explanation
Fallen for fluke captures imagination
This video captured my imagination
Thank you, I like your programmes.
😍😍😍
In Italy they translate fluke with a good result : a hit of the bottom
I've fallen for your British accent.😁
Clearing competitive is not a fluke.Even I have fallen for Emma raducone .
By fluke, I got this channel but I've started falling for your videos because they always capture my imagination
Thanks a lot.
Thank you for the clear explanation. Could be better if the Summary screen stays a little bit longer say 10 seconds.
Emma played well. Not a luck
I watched that match, she's really played incredibly in final. I love sports so much and I'm sportsman as well.
I have fallen for a big scam when I discovered that I have been passed all my educational years by fluke depending on just retention not understanding,now I'm sad and desperate
Good ol Rob is back 👏👏👏
I have fallen for your BBC programms!!! Thanks..
You all are doing fantastic work, i learned three vocabulary from the lesson and tried it on bbc website and i got 3 outta 3! I will never forget these. Thank you soo much. 😍
Hello everyone
Ok
Completed 9/14/21
thank you rob 😀 I have audiobooks with reading on my channel for those who like audiobooks and learning english with story
Captures sb's imagination
I've been reading and watching international news since I started to learn English. It really captures my imagination. Sometimes you feel so involved in topics that you end up writing comments everywhere. I think that has helped me improve my English skills.
Fluke
Some people say that he cemented his greatness with that goal, but honestly, as far as I'm concerned, it was just a fluke.
Fall for
I feel so embarrassed when I think about that epoch of my life in which I fell for a girl. I was so clumsy. Then, I realized it was an unrequited love.
Rob looks different today.
Neeraj chopra's historic gold medal win in Tokyo olympics captured our imagination🇮🇳
I've just fallen for your programmes. I'm so fond of it! 😀
I fallen for Aryna Sabalenka. She was a super, super, super amazing tennis player
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