English Recordings

I'm gonna give you to the count of three.

My wife Margaret and I were sitting behind a rock on the top of a mountain in the Highlands one day, nobody else around, perfectly silent, and Margaret said, 'I just heard a telephone bell ringing.'
'Oh,' I said, 'Margaret, there are no telephone kiosks up here.' But in the silence of the hills, you can imagine anything. I said, 'I often imagine things. I've heard babies crying in this silence. I've thought I heard symphony orchestra,' and Margaret said, 'I’m sure I heard a telephone ringing.' She got up and went round the back of the rock and there was a cow with a bell around its neck.

This is the question I love to ask new clients. Management often focus their energy on the Sales and Marketing departments, because they generate money for the company. But many employees believe that it is their own department that is the most important.
Two departments point out that they save money for the company: the Finance Department, because it controls the spending of all the others departments, and the Purchasing Department, because it buys products at low prices. But in Accounts they say that money in the bank is more important: it is their department that invoices customers and collects the Money.

Cliques
Excluded
Concluded
To be an idea
Not a person,
A thing.
How do you break the barier
Of a closely knit ring ?
A prep,
A jock,
A punk,
A hick.
All to each other
Together they stick.
Following rules where none had been writ,
Based upon the clothes you wear,
The places you sit.
Personalities change,
Hair is styled
Where once you were outspoken,
Now you are mild.
Why this change
So suddenly come ?
What, oh what,
Has school to you done ?

I’m really into series, especially sci-fi ones. My favourite is definitely “Stranger things”. It's such a cool series and I’ll tell you why!
First, the atmosphere. It’s so creepy and mysterious, you know? It makes you jumpy if you watch it at night. I just love it.
Second, the characters. Even if they are from the 80s, you just feel so close to them!
Third, the plot’s really gripping, full of cliffhangers. It makes you want to watch another episode as soon as you’ve finished one. It’s completely addictive! What about you? What do you think? Tell me!

I’m really into series, especially sci-fi ones. My favourite is definitely “Stranger things”. It's such a cool series and I’ll tell you why!
First, the atmosphere. It’s so creepy and mysterious, you know? It makes you jumpy if you watch it at night. I just love it.
Second, the characters. Even if they are from the 80s, you just feel so close to them!
Third, the plot’s really gripping, full of cliffhangers. It makes you want to watch another episode as soon as you’ve finished one. It’s completely addictive! What about you? What do you think? Tell me!

The teachers in my school consume a lot of plastic because they need markers to write every day on the whiteboard.
When the marker is empty, they put it in a bin, and therefore they put it in the nature or in the ocean.
The teachers should use a pen made of wood instead of a marker made of plastic. It’s an easy way to stop using plastic. Everybody should do it.
If everybody did it, it would be better for the environment.
However, a pen made of wood is more expensive and it’s harder to clean the board.

Madison: Hey, Adam? How are you doing? What's wrong?

Adam: Oh, I overslept again. How do YOU manage your time?

Madison: It's pretty easy. My daily routine is always planned.

Adam: Tell me! How?

Madison: Well, I wake up and take a shower at 6 am every morning. I brush my teeth and wash my face. At 7 am I dress up and cook my breakfast. I eat boiled eggs and drink black coffee every day. At 7.40 am I start my car and drive to work. At 8 am I start my workday.
What time do you wake up?

Adam: Usually I wake up at 10 am, get up, eat pizza for breakfast, and then I go to bed again. I never wake up earlier because I don’t like it. At 12 pm I have lunch and go to work. My boss is always angry. What do you do after work?

Madison: At 12 pm I have lunch and by 4 pm I finish all my work. Sometimes I meet with my friends after work. We go to a restaurant or go for a walk. By 10 pm I go to bed. Adam, you should be more organized.

Adam: Ok, I will try. Thank you.

A – American
B – beach
C – coconut
D – dance
E – English
F – flag
G – goose
H – Honolulu
I – island
J – jungle
K – kilometres
L – lizard
M – map
N – nature
O – ocean
P – pineapple
Q – quiet
R – relax
S – surf
T – turtle
U – Ukulele
V - volcano
W - wave
X – explore
Y – yellow
Z - zoo

Welcome!
Goodbye vacation!
Hello to school!
Hello new class,
Goodbye old pool,
Vacation time is over,
School time is here,
Now we welcome
a new school year!