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Hi and welcome to the English Listening World podcast episode number 394. This podcast is for listening practice. I have 35 words and expressions highlighted in today's story for you to get practice listening to. In particular, the expression 'as … as' is repeated. I will put the full list of highlighted words in the description below. Today's episode is about Peter and his question about New York. # Questions 1. What did Peter love to read about? 2. Why did Henry Hudson explore the Hudson river? 3. Who settled by the Hudson river first? 4. How did the English get New York? 5. Why was the Erie Canal im...

Hi and welcome to the English Listening World podcast episode number 393. This podcast is for listening practice. I have 29 words and expressions highlighted in today's story for you to get practice listening to. In particular, the expression 'as … as' is repeated. I will put the full list of highlighted words in the description below. Today's episode is about Eddie and an unusual math contest. # Questions 1. How much did Eddie love math? 2. What was different about the math contest? 3. Who came to the contest with Eddie? 4. Eddie remembered his Dad's words. What were they? 5. What kind of problem was the last pr...

Hi and welcome to the English Listening World podcast episode number 392. This podcast is for listening practice. I have 26 words and expressions highlighted in today's story for you to get practice listening to. In particular, the expression 'as … as' is repeated. I will put the full list of highlighted words in the description below. 'Today's episode is about Jack and his golf tournament. # Questions 1. Why did Jack go to the golf course every weekend? 2. How did Jack feel at the start of the tournament? 3. What happened on the first few holes? 4. Where did something amazing happen? 5. How many times did Ja...

Hi Welcome to the Extensive English Listening podcast of English Listening World. This episode’s story is about a grown woman and her teddy bear, and her fears. This is episode 391, and I’ll start with pre-listening questions. Think about the questions while you listen. Try to answer them for fun, too. The answers to the questions are at the end of the video. ## Questions 1. Janet was lucky because her parents could pay for her apartment. Why was she nervous? 2. What did Janet discover in her room as she was packing? 3. What did one of her new friends major in at s...

Hi. This is English listening practice. I’m gonna give you some questions before I tell the story. Then I’ll tell the story. At the end I’ll answer the questions. Try to answer the questions yourself for fun. The story is about Tom and his troubles, his struggle and his discovery . # Questions 1. What was troubling Tom? 2. What did he do about it? 3. Why did he travel to India? 4. Why did he learn Sanskrit? 5. What did he find? ### Tom was Troubled When Tom was a boy, he was happy. He grew up in a middle class family, with lots of toy...

Hi, this is a listening practice podcast. It’s a story. The story is about John. In this episode, I have included some questions. If you like, you can listen to find the answers to the questions. I will include the answers at the end of the video. Pre-listening questions 1. John was going to Japan. What was one thing John wanted to do in Japan? 2. What surprised and shocked John when he saw the map near the temple? 3. Why did John think there must be a mistake? 4. What did the man working at the shrine tell John? 5. What is the di...

Hi and welcome to the Les Perras podcast episode number 388. This podcast is for listening practice. I have over 50 words and expressions highlighted in today's story for you to get practice listening to. In particular, the expressions 'keep going' and 'once or twice' are repeated. I will put the full list of highlighted words in the description below. 'Today's episode is about Anna and her discovery in New Zealand. Anna was sweating. She had just arrived in New Zealand for the first time and she was alone. She had to prove to her father that she was strong enough to...

Hi and welcome to the Les Perras podcast episode number 387. This podcast is for listening practice. I have over 25 words and expressions highlighted in today's story for you to get practice listening to. In particular, the expression 'never forget' is repeated. I will put the full list of highlighted words in the description below. 'Today's episode is about Julia and her promise to climb Mt Everest. Julia had to climb Mt Everest. Her father had climbed it. Her mother had ==encouraged== her. Then her job ==got in the way==. Now she had put it == on the back burner==s too...

Jerry had to write a report. He had to choose a famous person, and write about them from a different angle. If he got a good mark, he could pass this course, but if he got an average mark, he might fail. He had to write very good. That meant he had to write something original. He was very bad at being original. Hi and welcome to the Les Perras Podcast episode number 386. This episode is about Einstein. ## Einstein was Great Jerry thought that Einstein was great. Not writing about his greatness would miss the point. Jerry did NOT want...

Monica was devastated. The people from her party left five minutes earlier. But her party was a flop. They said her cooking tasted like it was made from a recipe. She wanted to go to bed and cry all night. The worst thing was: She HAD cooked from recipes. That was the moment she decided to become a good cook. On her way to becoming a good cook, she had four turning points and made a surprising decision at the end. Hi and welcome to the Les Perras podcast, episode number 385. Today’s episode is centred on recipes. ## Bad Food Mo...