English Recordings

Listen to the riddles!
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Riddle number 1
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Who am I?
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I’m perfect for the afternoon break
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I’m a pastry
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I’m definitely American
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I’m light and tasty
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My key ingredient is a vegetable
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I'm ...

Riddle number 2

Who am I?
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I’m perfect for the afternoon break
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I’m a pastry
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I’m definitely American
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I’m light and tasty
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My key ingredient is a vegetable
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I'm ...

Title: Pastries and treats

PART 1: Listen

1.cheescake
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2.carrot cake
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3.pancake
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4.scone
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5.crumble
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6-apple pie
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7.brownie
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8.waffle
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9.le gâteau patate
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10. Chocolate cake
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PART 2: listen to the sentences

A. I'm an American pastry
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B. I'm a Bristish treat
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C. I'm a local treat
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D. I'm a Belgian treat
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E. I'm a French cake
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PART 3: Listen to the adjectives

1.Fudgy
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2. Creamy
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3. Light
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4.Savoury
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5. White
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6.Delicious
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7.Yummy
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8. Tasty
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9. Fluffy
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10.Crusty
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11. Sweet
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12. Delicate

“America Is A Gun

England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.

Brazil is football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona's hand.
Germany, an oompah band.
America is a gun.

Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.

Japan is a thermal spring.
Scotland is a highland fling.
Oh, better to be anything
than America as a gun.”

― Brian Bilston

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Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States. Obama's wife is Michelle. Obama's first daughter is Malia. She is 20 years old. Obama's second daughter is Sasha. She is 19 years old. The family has two dogs called Sunny and Bo.

Hello ! My name is Alex. I am 14 years old. I have two sisters : Charlotte and Lucy. They are 11 years old. I have a father. His name is George. I have a mother. Her name is Sabrina. They are divorced. I have a stepmother : Mary and a stepbrother : Connor. He is 16 years old. I also have 1 uncle and 3 cousins.

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Hello!
My name is Jamie Oliver. I am a famous British chef. I specialize in Italian cookery.
I was born in 1975 near London. My parents had a pub and I started working in their kitchen when I was eight.
I love cooking, obviously, but I'm also interested in sports and I enjoy traveling abroad, especially to Italy.
I am married. My wife is called Juliette. Her nickname is Jools. We have five children together: three daughters ( Poppy, Daisy and Petal) and two sons (Buddy and River).
We live in Essex but I work in London where I have several restaurants and where I record my TV culinary shows.
My other activities are TV shows and writing cookery books. They are very popular.
So my days are really busy.
I often meet my staff at one of my restaurant, then I go to the BBC studios and meet with the producers and I shoot a TV show a week. I also invent, try and write no=ew recipes.
My favourite social media is Twitter and I also have a website : www.jamieoliver.com

A) Sixty point zero seventy six

B) Eighty three percent

C) Forty two thousand one hundred forty five

D) Ninety eight million six hundred forty thousand two hundred forty fivr

E) Seven billion four hundred fifty six million two hundred thirty four thousand nine hundred eighty five

Guy Fawkes and the language of plots

By Liz Walter on November 1, 2017

In November 1605, a man called Guy Fawkes was discovered in the cellar of the House of Lords in London, along with 36 barrels of gunpowder (a powder used to cause explosions). His intention was to blow up King James I and the whole of parliament because of their hostility to Catholics.

The plan became known as the Gunpowder Plot, and it is remembered in the UK on November 5th every year with bonfires and firework displays. Originally, this festival was known as ‘Gunpowder Treason Day’ (treason means doing something to harm your country or your king or queen), but we now call it ‘Bonfire Night’, ‘Fireworks Night’ or ‘Guy Fawkes Night’.

In honour of this anniversary, this post will be about plots and rebellions. Let’s start with a few nice phrases and collocations. Firstly, we say that people hatch a plot (think of it). They may want to overthrow a government/regime or – slightly more informally – to topple it. A group of people who have been exploited may rise up against their oppressors (the people who have controlled them), and when groups of people go outside to protest together, we say that they take to the streets.

Another word for a secret plot is a conspiracy, and the people who take part in it are conspirators. When a large group of people try to challenge a government or someone who controls them, we call it an uprising, while the word rebellion is used both for violent actions aimed at trying to change a political system, or for less dramatic protests against authority, for example by members of a political party against its leader.

A coup involves taking control from a government suddenly and often forcefully. It is usually carried out by a small or fairly small group of people (often military figures), while a revolution usually involves more widespread action from civilians. The people involved are known as revolutionaries. A mutiny is an uprising of soldiers or sailors, who become mutineers.

Someone who publicly criticizes their government (especially in a regime that does not allow free speech) is a dissident. Someone who encourages other people to take part in protests or rebellions is an agitator and people who actually fight against their government are insurgents. The most dominant person in a group of plotters is known as the ringleader.

So, as we see, there are plenty of words and phrases connected with plotting. But what happened to Guy Fawkes? Well, he certainly paid the price for his actions. After being tortured to make him give the names of the other plotters, he was executed by the extremely gruesome punishment for treason at that time: by being hung, drawn and quartered.