English Recordings

A nice school.
1 - Where is your school?
2 - It is only three miles away from my house.
3 - Is it a nice school?
4 - Yeah, the teachers are kind, very patient with the
kids and they explain well, so it is easy to understand.
5 - And last question: What is your favourite subject at
school?
6 - Definitely English. Mr. Johnson is fantastic. He's
the best teacher in the world.

A typical morning.
1 - What time do you get up?
2 - I usually get up at half-past six.
3 - And then, what do you do?
4 - Well, I get dressed, have breakfast, brush my teeth,
and take my backpack before going to school. Nothing
special.
5 - And what do you take to school?
6 - I take my copybooks and pens to take notes.

What are you doing?
1 - Where are you, Julia?
2 - I am in my bedroom.
3 - What are you doing?
4 - I am doing my homework. We have a math test
tomorrow morning, so I need to study.
5 - Do you need anything?
6 - Well, I don't need anything mum, thanks.

Mary’s timetable
Hello ! My name is Mary ! I’m 11 years old and I’m in year7. I’m British and I study in Cambridge. I love school !
My favourite subjects are Art and Music because I like drawing and I enjoy singing too. But I don’t like Maths, it is too difficult. I like English very much, and French and Spanish of course because it is important to learn a foreign language.
Let me tell you about my timetable : every day school starts with assembly at 8:45. Sometimes it is boring !
On Mondays, we start lessons at 9:00 with Spanish. Then we have English before break. We have Music just before lunch time.
By the way, I have a packed lunch at noon.
On Tuesday mornings, we study science after break and then English. We have a double period of PE after lunch, which is really fun !
On Wednesdays, we have IT from 11:50 to 12:40 and finish the day with Music.
My favourite day is Thursday as we have a double period of Art at the end of the day and English and Spanish at periods 3 and 4.
Finally, on Fridays, we start the day with Science and just after lunch we study History.
What about you ? What is your timetable like in France ?
I’m really glad to be your penfriend ! Write back soon !
Mary

I left Iraq in 2006 with my three children due to the escalated situation back there. There was a civil war in Iraq and due to my background and my husband’s, we were subject to persecution and threats by different parties.

I left my home country so as to get more experience and because I wanted to learn about different cuisine. I came here since people are more accepting of people from other parts of the world.

I left Congo because of political problems. In our country things are not going well; people are starving every day, students are not going to school, there’s no freedom and you can’t even express yourself.

I came to Britain to have a better life. My parents and I, we left Sri Lanka when I was twelve years old, and we had to flee the country because of civil war and because the lives of both my parents were in danger.

I'm here to kill the king and take his crown.

The refrigerator story

Dumbledore is walking home from work in Hogwarts. On the way he gets very hungry. He goes into the nearest house without knocking and gets one cup of pudding out of the refrigerator. He eats the pudding and keeps walking home.
Then he gets very thirsty. He goes into the nearest house without knocking and gets a bottle of vodka out of the refrigerator. He drinks 3 glasses and keeps walking home.
Of course, soon after that he is very sleepy. He goes into the nearest house without knocking and lies down on the floor under the Christmas tree, and falls asleep.
When the owners come home and see Dumbledore snoring under their Christmas tree, they decide not to wake him up. They cover him with a warm blanket and let him sleep until the morning.