English Recordings

Hi, nice to meet you! How are you doing today ?
My name is Christophe and I’m forty six years old. How old are you?
I come from North in France but I live in the east, in Burgundy.
It’s near a city called Dijon / It’s in the South-East of Paris.
I have been learning English for several months and I think I made huge progress since the beginning.
Now I would like to improve my pronunciation and my spoken English!
I am married and I have three sons. Two teenagers and one little boy : The oldest has sixteen years old, the second has thirteen, and the youngest has seven.
What about you ? Do you have any children ?
I work at a big company place as an engineer.
And you, What do you do for a living?

Traveling Lets You Disconnect From Your Daily Life
This is closely related to my previous point. We tend to get so caught up in our daily lives that sometimes, by simply sticking around, we may do ourselves more harm
than good. Your boss is taking over your life? Kids are driving you mad? Your parents are trying to make you live the life they want? How long do you think you can handle this pressure before you burst and everything falls apart?

Sometimes it is best to take a step back, take a deep breath and take go that Tower Bridge selfie. In all seriousness, travel is not a bad option - it is the most natural way of inducing the feeling you miss someone or that you are missed. The trick is to leave with a bit of preparation to avoid making a mistake during your journey. Plus, if you're flying, you better start thinking about booking your tickets sooner than later.

box, bugs.
there is bugs in this box.
bugs, box.

The youngest person to sail across the Atlantic

Mary is talking about the first record she broke.
Listen to her report.

My first sailing experience was when my dad took me on his boat in 1997. I was only 6 years old but I wasn’t even seasick ! My mother likes sailing too, so I guess it’s a family thing.

My dad participated in many races but I couldn’t go with him because I was too young, so I was a bit frustrated to just be a spectator.

That’s when I came up with the idea of becoming the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic. It was just a crazy idea then, but my dad agreed to help me achieve my dream.

Since then, I’ ve practiced almost every day. Finally, two weeks ago I started my journey : I left the French coast for New- York in the USA.
The start was really difficult because I was a bit scared of all the cargo ships passing in the Atlantic. Some of them were really massive and I had to watch out all the time.

But finally, everything went as planned. The journey was fine, especially at night when I could see the stars and the moon and there was nobody around me !

When I came back, I discovered I had a fan club! I don’t know what to think about it, because I don’t feel like a hero, but it’s good to know that many people like what I did. Now, I’ve got to plan a new adventure.Maybe the Pacific ?

US election polls tracker: who is leading in the swing states?
As the presidential campaign heats up, the Guardian is tracking the latest polling in eight states that could decide the election.
Joe Biden is leading Donald Trump in the national polls for the presidential election.
But that doesn’t guarantee the Democratic candidate victory. Hillary Clinton also had a clear lead over Trump in the polls for almost the entire 2016 campaign. She ended up losing in the electoral college.
Because the presidential voting system assigns each state a number of electoral college votes, which go to the state’s victor regardless of the margin of victory, a handful swing states will probably decide the election and be targeted heavily by campaigners.

1. This morning, I could have gotten to class on time.

2. The movie shows how social media purposefully manipulates people.

3. It effects teenagers in such a way that suicide rates have been rising.

The danger of stereotypes is that we end up taking action based on them before we find out if the people in front of us really reflect that stereotype. Stereotypes tend to be outdated and rather broad.
You need to find out exactly what sort of people you are working wit and if you look at the cultural curve on this, you will find that broadly the majority of the population will fit not a set of characteristics, a stereotype or a generalisation as we prefer to say. But there will always be people at the edges who will be deviant from that population.
I think probably the best thing to say is to make broad generalisations and then go and test them out and keep testing them out because culture is fluid, it changes and with the globalisation of the world and business, people are moving around a great deal more so they may spend periods of time abroad themselves. So they may not be exactly like the broad sterotype at all.
BBC.CO.UK

Hello

A political party is an organization of citizens who have similar ideas on how the country should be run. Parties support their candidates in local, state, and national elections. The two largest U.S. political parties are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. GOP is a nickname for the Republican Party. The initials stand for "Grand Old Party". The elephant is their official mascot, it represents strength and pride. The donkey is the democrats' mascot, it stands for bravery and intelligence. The states that mainly support and vote for Democratic candidates in presidential elections are usually shown in blue on U.S. election maps. The states that mainly support and vote for Republican candidates in presidential elections are usually shown in red.

what is a psychopath?
People often tend to use the term as a synonym for a ‘crazy’ person,
and the dictionary defines a psychopath as ‘a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behaviour’.
Generally speaking, psychopaths are confident, charming, egocentric, irresponsible people who exhibit a lack of empathy, generally blame other people for their own problems, and often behave in an anti-social and even violent manner.
The condition is thought to be genetic, rather than something that develops as a result
of life experiences.
So now that we know what one is, what are your chances of meeting one? Well, it can depend on where you work. According to the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute magazine , on Wall Street and within other sectors of the financial industry - especially where enormous amounts of money can be made - an incredible 10% of traders exhibit psychopathic tendencies.
These ‘financial psychopaths’, as they are sometimes known, often become successful in their fields by exploiting these very traits.
However, fortunately this percentage drops considerably for the the general population: only about 1% exhibit such tendencies, which seems like a very low number … until you realise that for every 100 Facebook friends you have, one of them may be a psychopath!