English Recordings

Hi! My name is Matheus, I'm nineteen years old, and I really enjoy all kinds of art. I love drawing, acting, doing funny voices, and even singing, although I don't think I'm very good at it, in my opinion.

Hello! My name is Matheus, and I'm nineteen years old. I have a deep passion for various forms of art. Drawing, acting, impersonating funny voices, and even singing are all activities that bring me immense joy, despite my belief that I may not be particularly skilled in singing. I find great fulfillment in expressing myself creatively through these artistic outlets.

1. I am wearing a black jacket and a red tie.
2. She is wearing a blue hoodie and green trousers.
3. He is wearing a tracksuit and trainers.
4. I am wearing a cardigan because it is cold today.
5. My favourite tank top is yellow.

On the Scottish border, near where Scotland touches England, there is a ruined castle called Dunneclan. A group of English tourists on their way to Edinburgh stopped and got off the bus to visit the castle. ¬ They went up the tower to see the place where many people had been tortured and murdered through history. When they got to the top of the stairs, they were met by a small and ugly figure, wearing heavy metal boots and a red hat, coloured by the blood of his victims. It was too late to run away...If you go to Dunneclan today, you can still see the carcass of an English bus parked outside the castle...

A long long time ago, wee Jimmy McFadden was going home along the loch when he met a beautiful horse. Its skin was smooth, like the skin of a seal and its mane was dripping with water. Jimmy McFadden approached and touched the horse; but it wasn’t warm at all: in fact its skin felt very very cold. ¬ The boy realised that this was not a real horse, but a malevolent animal. Unfortunately, it was too late to run away. The power of the water-horse was irresistible and Jimmy McFadden was like hypnotised: he climbed on the horse’s back, and the horse galloped into the water of the loch, taking the young boy with him, and drowning him. Jimmy was never seen again.

In the 1970s, experts started to make the frightening claim that the world’s rapidly increasing population would exceed the planet’s limited resources, leading to an environmental disaster. The number of people would continue to rise while the amount of food would stay the same so that a famine was inevitable. Implementing a firm strategy to control the population was necessary if a disaster was to be avoided.

The proposed actions for managing the population boom varied from reasonable to ridiculous. Moreover, there was a general feeling that extreme measures would need to be taken if moderate control failed to solve the problem. Even though none of the proposals from the population control activists was ever completely carried out, the world didn't fall apart. So where did all these doomsayers go wrong?

The total world population continues to increase. By contrast, the rate of growth is declining. The rate of world population was at its highest in the 1970s and has been falling ever since. Experts predict the world population will stabilize at around 9 billion sometime before 2056.

So the focus of the problem of 'overpopulation' has now shifted from a global crisis to an urban dilemma. There has been a drastic switch of people moving from the countryside to the city in search of jobs and a higher standard of living. This, together with the flood of immigrants to certain cities, has led to an overpopulation of urban areas. Whenever such conditions exist, these swarming cities are faced with numerous difficulties, namely: limited housing, a strain on In the 1970s, experts started to make the frightening claim that the world’s rapidly increasing population would exceed the planet’s limited resources, leading to an environmental disaster. The number of people would continue to rise while the amount of food would stay the same so that a famine was inevitable. Implementing a firm strategy to control the population was necessary if a disaster was to be avoided.

The proposed actions for managing the population boom varied from reasonable to ridiculous. Moreover, there was a general feeling that extreme measures would need to be taken if moderate control failed to solve the problem. Even though none of the proposals from the population control activists was ever completely carried out, the world didn't fall apart. So where did all these doomsayers go wrong?

The total world population continues to increase. By contrast, the rate of growth is declining. The rate of world population was at its highest in the 1970s and has been falling ever since. Experts predict the world population will stabilize at around 9 billion sometime before 2056.

So the focus of the problem of 'overpopulation' has now shifted from a global crisis to an urban dilemma. There has been a drastic switch of people moving from the countryside to the city in search of jobs and a higher standard of living. This, together with the flood of immigrants to certain cities, has led to an overpopulation of urban areas. Whenever such conditions exist, these swarming cities are faced with numerous difficulties, namely: limited housing, a strain on the sanitation systems, and a lack of drinkable water.

To deal with housing issues as a result of overpopulation, cities have been forced to create low-income housing - though that alone is not enough to solve the problem. Consequently, shantytowns full of illegal squatters can be found in and around the outskirts.

These slums are characterized by a lack of roads and little access to clean drinking water and sanitation. One official response to these slums is to tear down the shanties and evict the squatters. However, this has just resulted in the slums relocating elsewhere.

Then there were plans for relocation: moving the illegal squatters to a temporary camp while more low-income housing dwellings were built. Although this seemed the best solution, it often failed. The inhabitants could not adapt to their new residences and often resold their flats to return to more familiar surroundings.

Because these traditional methods have failed, cities are continually challenged with finding an answer to the issue of urban slums. An Argentine architect, Jorge Mario Jauregui, provided a new solution, which cleaned up the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Jauregui's approach was to assimilate the shantytowns into the city framework by transforming them into real neighborhoods. This has meant replacing muddy dirt paths with paved sidewalks, creating streets capable of supporting traffic, building sewer systems and cleaning up polluted rivers, and providing communities with social centers, clinics, and daycare centers. These changes have allowed the residents of the slums to participate in the life of the city.

999 emergency. What’s your emergency?

Oh my God... I... I can't believe it...

Calm down. Try and take deep breath, I'm staying with you. Can you tell me what happened?

It's my wife, Hermione.... she... she is lying unconscious on the floor, in a puddle of blood. I can't wake her up. I think she's dead!There's a knife!

Have you checked to see if your wife is dead?Is she breathing?

I don’t think so.

I see. Where are you calling from ?

The garden.

No, I mean what’ s the address?

4 Murder Alley, Baker Street.

Who are you, sir?

I’m her husband, Mr La Fonta.

Ok Mr La Fonta. I'll have a police officer on his way to check it out. Stay on the line until someone gets there and do not touch anything.

Give the caterpillar an orange, an apple and a pear.
Give the caterpillar a plum, a strawberry and a pear.
Give the caterpillar a strawberry, an apple and a pear.
Give the caterpillar an orange, a leaf and a plum.
Give the caterpillar a leaf, a pear and an apple.
Give the caterpillar three oranges, two plums and one apple.
Give the caterpillar four apples, one leaf and six pears.
Give the caterpillar ten apples and two strawberries.
Give the caterpillar nine pears, five plums and six leaves.
Give the caterpillar three leaves, five apples and eight oranges.
Give the caterpillar seven pears, two plums and five apples.
Give the caterpillar four leaves, six strawberries and nine plums.

Hi, guys, so, my name is Elizabeth and I'm a customer care manager with eCare, and I've been working for Coke for twelve years now. I'm responsible for the customer care team here in Japan. On a regular day, I join a lot of meetings, I take care of ongoing projects and I'm responsible for some financial analyses. Well, I also help my team with personal development. As for our goals, our consumer is the most important person in the world, and our objective is to give them the best experience possible.
Flat coke? Terrible, and we're going to fix this.
No fizz? We got your back.
Unsual taste? Don't worry! Help is on the way.
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And we also care a lot for the brand, yeah, we REALLY want to protect it and avoid ANY kind of crisis.
[pause]
Yeah, I believe that's all. Thank you so much.

It's a massive country, nearly one and a half thousand kilometres at its widest, I guess. But it's the distance north to south that gives it its variety of climate zones. Awesome, really! Down south you've got the sub-Antarctic tundra. There're some wooded areas but the low temperatures mean you don't get much in the way of that, even up through the rolling steppes of Patagonia. There you can see the glaciers, and it’s really the way the sunlight reflects off them early in the morning that gets me every time. There’s some rainforest, too, and as I’m from Queensland, I’m used to the precipitation and temperature of the subtropics, although the swamps and marshes were much more challenging than I expected. I was dreaming of home as the tropical storms broke every night whilst we trekked along jungle trails, pulling off leeches and dreaming of paella. Argentina has all the variety and meteorological range of weather but in a lot of ways it’s mellower. What was really special was being able to travel from a pleasant temperate climate to an arid desert all in one bus journey. Argentina’s big, but Australia’s bigger. I would gladly recommend a visit to this wonderful country to anyone seeking adventure and spectacular natural beauty, ranging from beautiful mountain vistas to long low grasslands and everything in between.

Horace Walpole – Otrante Castle
The Castle of Otranto is a Gothic novel written by Horace Walpole and published in 1764. It is widely considered as the first Gothic novel and is known for its blend of horror, mystery, and romance.
The novel takes place in the medieval castle of Otranto, where strange and supernatural events occur, leading to a series of dramatic twists and turns in the lives of the castle's inhabitants.
The protagonist, Prince Manfred, is driven by his desire for power and is willing to do whatever it takes to retain his hold on the castle, even if it means resorting to dark and evil means.
The novel explores themes of love, family, and inheritance, as well as the power of destiny and the consequences of greed and ambition. With its dark and foreboding atmosphere,

Edgar Allan Poe –The Oval Portrait
"The Oval Portrait" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, involving the disturbing circumstances of a portrait in a castle. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842.
The tale begins with an injured narrator seeking refuge in an abandoned mansion. The narrator spends his time admiring the paintings that decorate the strangely shaped room.
Upon moving in the caslte with a candle the narrator discovers a painting depicting the head and shoulders of a young girl. As he investigates the painting, he discovers her tragic history

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of the most famous pieces of English literature, and is considered to be a defining book of the gothic horror genre
It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange events between his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.