Manifolds with smooth structure

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One of the remark in my lecture notes said:

In dimension $\leq 3$, every topological manifold has a unique smooth structure (up to diffeomorphism.)

I don't quite understand what is a structure in a manifold. Can you give me some examples, say what is a smooth structure of $S^2=$ surface of unit sphere in $ \mathbb{R^3}$