Podcast for 7/1/24 Contents:
Mario Ritter Jr. and Ashley Thompson host today's Learning English show.
00:53 First: Guinness World Records recently recognized a 41-year-old Brazilian man for having the world’s largest collection of soccer shirts. Cassio Brandão has collected 6,101 shirts since 2000. Mario Ritter Jr. has his story.
04:16 Next: The company Southern California Edison agreed to buy 400 megawatts of electricity from Fervo Energy, a company that uses the Earth’s heat to make electricity for homes and industry. Anna Matteo reports about the deal and the energy production process.
09:08 Then: It is back to Mario Ritter for a report from Denmark. The country aims to approve a measure that will tax every cow and pig in the country because of the methane gas they release. The government says it is part of an effort to reduce the nation’s carbon gas emissions.
15:07 Next: Two American astronauts have been delayed at the International Space Station (ISS) while engineers try to fix problems with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Bryan Lynn has that story for this week's Science and Technology Report.
20:56 Finally: The LE Lesson of the Day. Andrew Smith and Jill Robbins base their instruction on the LE video series Let's Learn English Level 2. Andrew and Jill look at episode 3. How do we express a connection, or relativity, between two past events? Auxiliary verbs, past participles and more ahead!
Mario and Ashley close the show
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