English Recordings

According to me, Learning English is not a subject so it's skill you need to improve. Nowadays you have many choice for your English.

(A Letter)
Dear Helen,
Don't be angry with me for my long silence, but really I was too busy to write.
As you know, I left school in June and began to prepare for my entrance exams to the University. As both
my mother and father are teachers I have made up my mind to be a teacher too. I think teaching is a noble
profession.
I had to take four exams and passed all of them with excellent marks. So I'm glad to tell you that now I'm a
first-year student at the Moscow State Teacher Training University.
I should like to show you the main building of our University. I can't help admiring this fine old building
with its beautiful columns. The first students entered it more than 120 years ago.
It goes without saying we, students, are very proud of this fact.
There are 18 faculties at our University which train teachers in many subjects: Russian, Literature,
Mathematics, Physics, Geography, Chemistry, Biology, Foreign languages and others. Many well-known
professors teach at our University.
We have good libraries and reading-rooms and for those who go in for sports there are good gymnasiums
and a stadium.
At present we have quite a lot of work as we have English practice, Grammar and Phonetics, Linguistics,
History of our native land and other subjects. There is an English speaking club at our faculty. It gives us a
good opportunity to master the language, but I don't take part in it yet. I'm working hard at my
pronunciation. There is a good language laboratory at our faculty where we work with cassette-recorders. It
helps us to find out our mistakes and to get rid of them in the shortest possible time.
So that's the latest news about myself. Please write to me about your life and studies.
My best regards to your parents.
Yours,
Ann.

Number 1 :
He is American. He was born on February 17, 1963, in New York City. He is considered the greatest basketball player of all time. He played in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls and became famous. He is 1.98 meters tall and his nickname is Air Jordan, because he can jump high. Nowadays, he is a billionaire and he owns a basketball team called the Charlotte Hornets. He is...

Number 2:
He was born on September 13, 1916, in the United Kingdom, in Wales. He was a pilot during World War 1, and then became a spy for MI6. In 1943, he wrote his first children book and became a very famous author. Some of his most famous books are: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Gremlins, and Matilda. He died on November 23, 1990. He is...

Number 3:
He is a famous and anonymous street artist. He is British. He started making street art in 1990, in England. His art is a combination of dark humour and graffiti. He is...

Number 4:
He was born on August 29, 1958, in the United States of America. When he was 5 years old, he was the lead singer of a group called the Jackson 5. At 13 years old, he started a solo career, and later became one of the most famous singers. His nickname is “The King of Pop”. Some of his most famous songs are: Thriller, Billie Jean, Beat it and Bad. He is...

Old Gwilym

Old Gwilym Evans started off one fine morning to walk across the Eagle Hills to a distant town, to buy some cheese. On his way, in a lonely part of the hills, he found a golden guinea, which he quickly put into his pocket.
When he got to the town, instead of buying his provisions, he went into an alehouse, and sat drinking and singing, when he thought it was time to go home. While he was drinking, an old woman with a basket came in, and sat beside him, but she left before him. After the parting glass he got up and reeled through the town, quite forgetting to buy his cheese; and as he got among the hills they seemed to dance up and down before him, and he seemed to be walking on air. When he got near the lonely spot where he had found the money he heard some sweet music, and a number of fairies crossed his path and began dancing all round him, and then as he looked up he saw some brightly-lighted houses before him on the hill. And as he was thinking, and watching the fairies, one came and begged him to come into the house and sit down.
So he followed her in, and found the house was all gold inside it, and the fairies were dancing and singing, and they brought him anything he wanted for supper, and then they put him to bed.
Gwilym slept heavily, and when he awoke turned round, for he felt very cold, and his body seemed covered with prickles; so he sat up and rubbed his eyes, and found that he was quite naked and lying in a bunch of gorse.
When he found himself in this plight he hurried home, and told his wife, and she was very angry with him for spending all the money and bringing no cheese home, and then he told her his adventures.
“Oh, you bad man!” she said, “the fairies gave you money and you spent it wrongly, so they were sure to take their revenge.”

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Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom. It is the northern half of the island of Great Britain, along with many other islands, with about five million people living there. To the south of Scotland is England, the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Irish Sea to the south-east.

Scotland was once an independent country and had its own monarch, but is now in a union with England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which is called the United Kingdom.

Even though Scotland is not independent, throughout history it has had its own legal system, church, schools and culture.

Since 1999, Scotland has had its own parliament, the Scottish Parliament.

On 18 September 2014, a referendum on independence from the United Kingdom took place. A majority (55%) voted to stay in the United Kingdom.

The Flag of Scotland is blue with a white diagonal cross. This is the cross of Saint Andrew, who is the patron saint of Scotland.

The capital city of Scotland is Edinburgh on the east coast, but the biggest city is Glasgow on the west coast. Other cities in Scotland are Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Perth and Stirling.

Could you please help me with understanding the sentence: "A slippery torque converter masks the power deficit until you hit an on-ramp."

Does slippery mean "unreliable"? Or it's just normal characteristic of a torque converter?

And what does "hit an on-ramp" mean? Does it mean that the power deficit becomes obvious when the car goes up a steep slope?

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