FREE TIME Ann McGregor On Fridays I come home from the BBC at about 2.00 in the afternoon and I just relax. On Friday evenings I don`t go out, but sometimes a friend comes for dinner. He or she brings the wine and I cook the meal. I love cooking! We listen to music or [...]

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WORK Sister Mary comes from Ireland. She is a nun and she lives and works in a girls` school in Cork. She teaches French and Spanish. She likes her job and she loves the green countryside of Ireland. She goes walking in her free time.

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PEOPLE Numbers 5 20 16 32 50 12

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HELLO! A Hello. My name`s Jenny. What`s your name? B Anna. A Where are you from, Anna? B I`m from New York.

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Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. Today’s word is belittle. It was first used by Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. Many years ago, a French naturalist, the Count de Buffon, wrote some books about natural history. The books were a great success even though some critics did [...]

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Now, the Special English program, Words and Their Stories. Every people has its own way of saying things, its own special expressions. These are the living speech of a people. And a story can be told about each of them.

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Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. Every language has its ways of expressing strong emotions — surprise, shock, anger.

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