English Recordings

• What is your name?
• How old are you?
• Are you male or female?
• Are you married or single?
• What is your occupation? (=job)
• Are you able to (=can you) read and write?
• What country are you from?
• What is your race?
• What is the name and address of a relative from your native country?
• What is your final destination in America?
• Who paid for your passage?
• How much money do you have with you?
• Have you been to America before?
• Are you meeting a relative here in America? Who?
• Have you been in a prison, almshouse, or institution for care of the insane?
• Are you a polygamist? Are you an anarchist?
• Are you coming to America for a job? Where will you work? • What is the condition of your health?
• Are you deformed or crippled?
• How tall are you?
• What color are your eyes/hair?
• Do you have any identifying marks? (scars, birthmarks, tattoos)
• Where were you born? (list country and city)
• Who was the first President of America?
• What are the colors of our flag?
• How many stripes are on our flag? How many stars?
• What is the 4th of July?
• What is the Constitution?
• What are the three branches in our government?
• Which President freed the slaves?
• Can you name the 13 original Colonies?
• Who signs bills into law?
• Who is the current President of the United States?
• What is America’s national anthem called?

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Hello, my name is Jude. I am 18 years old. I am from Australia. I am Australian.
I live in Sidney. It is not the capital city. The capital city is Canberra.
The flag of my country is beautiful. It has three colors : blue, red and white.
There is a blue background with six stars. The stars are white. The big star has seven branches. The seven branches represent the seven states in Australia.
The five other stars represent a constellation: the Southern cross.
On my flag, there is also the flag of the United Kingdom. It is composed of a red cross and a white cross.

How are you today?
I'm nervous
I'm bored
I'm sad
I'm sleepy
I'm tired
I'm angry
I'm hot
I'm confident
I'm hungry
I'm happy
I'm sick
I'm good

What's the weather like today?
It's sunny
It's rainy
It's cloudy
It's breezy
It's snowy
It's drizzling
It's windy
It's foggy
It's stormy
It's gray
There are some sunny spells
It's hailing
It's chilly
It's cold
It's cool
It's freezing
It's hot
It's icy
It's mild
It's warm

a disease
an illness
a stomach ache
a toothache
an earache
a cut
a burn
a cold
a bruise
a broken arm
a broken leg
a sore throat
a headache
a bump
the flu
a cough
a fever
a backache
a runny nose
what's wrong with him?
what's wrong with her?
what's wrong with them?

Good morning
Good afternoon
You can sit down
You may sit down
How are you today?
I'm good because it's my birthday today
I'm a little tired because I went to bed late
I'm so-so because I have a test in French this morning
What's the date today?
Is anybody missing today?
Ben is absent
Ben is missing
Laura and Ben are absent
Nobody is absent
Why is Ben absent?
Why are Ben and Laura absent?
I think he has a stomach ache
Maybe they have an appointment
What's the weather like?
Are you ready for the five questions?
Yes, we are
Ok, let's start!
Can you name an English-speaking country?
Can you explain the lesson?
Can you describe Big Ben?
Can you spell "entertainment"?
What's the English for "bizarre"?
What's the French for "strange"?
Can you conjugate "Be" at the present tense?
Thank you everybody. Miss, I'm done.

Thanks for calling the local College Job Center. We have lots of jobs just for you.
Our first job is at the local radio station. We need a DJ. This person needs to work from 5 to 8 in the morning, morning people, on Saturday and Sunday. This is perfect for people who love music. You need to have a good clear voice, and if you like to go out and stay late and, you know, party on Saturday and Sunday, this job is not for you.
Alright, we also got a job for people that love animals. The local pet care company needs people to walk dogs for people when they're out of town, so if you like dogs, you like exercise, and you know, you want to be outside, this is a good job for you. It pays ten dollars an hour, but hours very. It summer there's lots of work because people are out of town, but in winter, not so much, so it kind of depends, but still, if you like animals, it's a good job.

Now if you want a job where you don't have to talk to people and you like good physical work, then you should work for the university bookstore. They need people in their warehouse. Basically the books come in. You got to take the books out of the boxed and stack them in the warehouse. It pays pretty good. It's fifteen dollars an hour. The hours are flexible but you got to work at least twenty hours a week, so if you need lots of money and you want to work hard this is a good job for you.

This is probably our best job. It pays twenty dollars an hour. We need somebody to work with the university president, but you got to know computers. You must know Excel, Powerpoint, and Word. You need to be able to type sixty words a minute. And you have to have good phone skills. But job pays twenty dollars an hour and it's twenty hours a week so it's really good for students if you need to make a lot of money.

Also, it looks like we have a job at the university movie theater. They need ushers and ticket collectors, so the pay's not so great - only seven dollars an hour - but the hours are pretty good, about twenty hours a week, but you get to see movies for free. You get free popcorn. Things like that. The bad thing about his job, is you got to work Friday and Saturdays. They say that's very important. Everybody must work Friday and Saturday night.

We have one more job if you're interested. If you have a car, you must have your own car, the pizza palace is looking for people do deliver pizzas on campus. Basically you deliver pizzas. You got to move quick to get the pizzas there as soon as people order them, but it's a nice job if you like to drive, you like to be by yourself, but you like to meet people. The pay is eight dollars an hour and you get tips. So usually they say it works out to about fifteen dollars an hour with tips. Oh, another thing. You got to work weekends - Friday and Saturday night.

OK, those are all the jobs at the job center. Hopefully you found something just for you.

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The Republic of India lies in South East Asia between China, Pakistan, and Nepal.
Its capital city is New Delhi.
In Delhi, you can visit the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial. Gandhi played an important role in the independence of India in 1947.
From 1858 to 1947, India was ruled by the British.
The most visited monument in India is the Taj Mahal. It is located in the city of Agra. Jaipur: Indians call this city the Pink city because it was painted in pink, the colour of hospitality, in 1876 to welcome the Prince of Wales.
One of the most populated cities is Mumbai. It is on the western coast of India.
Kolkata is in the north east of India.