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English Audio Request

rhinosan
276 Words / 1 Recordings / 2 Comments
Note to recorder:

This is a conversation between a man and a woman.
Natural speed, please.


W: Could you take a look at these slides? Tell me if you see any spelling mistakes.
M: "The Discovery of Penicillin ― Alexander Fleming." Did you go back to high school when I wasn't looking?
W: No, it's my daughter's. She has to present this in class and I'm going to get it printed on heavy board for her at the copy shop tonight.
M: I see. Okay, looks good. Why is there a picture of some shoes in here?
W: That's some of the color she's included throughout. After Fleming came across the specific mold that led to penicillin, he tried to find out if other molds had the same antibacterial effect. So he looked for samples on books, cheese, and even asked friends for their old moldy shoes.
M: Love it. Moving on… okay… hold it again. What is "mold juice"?
W: That's what Fleming originally called the broth he grew the mold in and which contented the antibacterial substance the mold produced. He named the fluid penicillin in 1929, and that eventually became the name of the drug.
M:: Thank goodness. Who'd want to be injected with "mold juice"? Right, coming to the end… uh-oh, has she included that story about Winston Churchill's father paying for Fleming's medical education?
W: Yes, because Fleming's father saved Churchill from drowning when Churchill was young.
M: I hate to tell you this, but that's not true.
W: Oh no, really?
M: Really. The third part of the myth is that Fleming then saved Churchill with penicillin when he got pneumonia in 1943, but that's not true, either. I hope she has time to change it.

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  • Alexander Fleming ( recorded by BridEilis ), Connemara accent,Galway accent,Irish accent

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    W: Could you take a look at these slides? Tell me if you see any spelling mistakes.
    M: "The Discovery of Penicillin ― Alexander Fleming." Did you go back to high school when I wasn't looking?
    W: No, it's my daughter's. She has to present this in class and I'm going to get it printed on heavy board for her at the copy shop tonight.
    M: I see. Okay, looks good. Why is there a picture of some shoes in here?
    W: That's some of the color she's included throughout. After Fleming came across the specific mold that led to penicillin, he tried to find out if other molds had the same antibacterial effect. So he looked for samples on books, cheese, and even asked friends for their old moldy shoes.
    M: Love it. Moving on… okay… hold it again. What is "mold juice"?
    W: That's what Fleming originally called the broth he grew the mold in and which contented the antibacterial substance the mold produced. He named the fluid penicillin in 1929, and that eventually became the name of the drug.
    M:: Thank goodness. Who'd want to be injected with "mold juice"? Right, coming to the end… uh-oh, has she included that story about Winston Churchill's father paying for Fleming's medical education?
    W: Yes, because Fleming's father saved Churchill from drowning when Churchill was young.
    M: I hate to tell you this, but that's not true.
    W: Oh no, really?
    M: Really. The third part of the myth is that Fleming then saved Churchill with penicillin when he got pneumonia in 1943, but that's not true, either. I hope she has time to change it.

Comments

BridEilis
Feb. 22, 2014

Sorry I missed the spelling mistake on the first read-through.
"contented" - should be "contained".

"That's some of the color she's included throughout." - I don't understand why you used "color" here.

rhinosan
Feb. 24, 2014

Thank you for your recording and corrections.
I checked the original script and it says "color" singular.
And "contented" was my typo. Thank you for pointing out.

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