Fun short podcast to help you prepare for ESL situations.

Let’s Warm Up

Diction Warmup 5/21/22

nside a dimly lit cave, a group of people sit huddled around glowing amphoras. These vessels are no ordinary pottery; they're meticulously painted with images of legendary wrestlers, engaged in eternal combat. The flickering light from a small fire casts these images onto the walls, animating the wrestlers in a primitive, captivating dance of shadows.



The cave's inhabitants watch these images, interpreting the epic battles as the ultimate expression of wrestling. They debate the techniques, celebrate the victories, and mourn the defeats, all from the moving images on the amphoras. To them, these representations are the entirety of wrestling—there is no world beyond the wrestlers on the pottery.


Nikostratos, ever the curious and skeptical cat, notices a sliver of light peeking through a crack in the cave wall. The murals and their tales don't satisfy his curiosity. One day, driven by a particularly pungent smell of the outside world—a mix of fresh earth and sweat—he finds a loose stone and wiggles his way through the crack.

Everything Zenified 

Wrestling, skeptical Cats, and Allegory of the Cave

When we talk about Lionel Messi, it's easy to talk about numbers. He has been named the best men's player in the world eight times. He has won one World Cup, four European Champions League trophies and an Olympic gold medal.

He has scored more than 800 goals for his clubs and his country.

But these numbers only tell some of the story. It's also his balance, the way he moves his feet, slides the ball through another player's legs and finds space on the field.

Soccer is often called "the beautiful game," and for many people, no one has ever played it quite as beautifully as Messi.

His story began in Rosario, Argentina, where he was born in 1987. There, when he was a child, he played for a club called Newell's Old Boys.

Clubs around the world soon heard about the young star in South America, and aged 13 he moved with his family to Spain, where he joined FC Barcelona's junior team.

By the age of 16, he was already playing for the club's adult team. Goals, then trophies, came quickly, and he never looked back.

He was soon a global star, and one of the world's highest paid sportspeople.

Messi left Barcelona in 2021, having scored more goals for the club than anyone else. He joined Paris Saint-Germain, and then, two years later, Inter Miami in the US.

In 2022, he was Argentina's captain and the star player in his country's World Cup win. Messi, at just 170 centimeters tall, had become a giant of the sport.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

A Giant of the Sport: The Lionel Messi Story

Paola is finally in Italy, her adventure begins! Let's also see some useful phrases for taking a taxi in Italy.

Un viaggio pieno di sorprese! 

Capitolo 2: il taxi

It might be useful to watch an anime and read a manga in English when it comes to building up your vocab. Check out "The Promised Neverland" to enjoy the process to the fullest!

All About English and How You Learn It!

"The Promised Neverland" Is a Fun Manga & Anime to Learn English!

please listen the questions first and tell me the meaning of "在...上“


A: nǐ kàn dào wǒ de shū le mɑ ？ 
A: 你 看  到  我 的 书  了 吗 ？ 
B ： shén me shū ？ 
B ： 什   么 书  ？ 
A ： yì běn xué xí hàn yǔ de shū 。 
A ： 一 本  学  习 汉  语 的 书  。 
B ： zài zhuō zi shànɡ ā  
B ： 在  桌   子 上    啊 
A: ā  ！ kàn dào le ， xiè xie 
A: 啊 ！ 看  到  了 ， 谢  谢  
B: bú kè qi ， zhè yì nián nǐ zài xué xí shànɡ yǒu hěn dà jìn bù ！ 
B: 不 客 气 ， 这  一 年   你 在  学  习 上    有  很  大 进  步 ！ 


Laura cheng Chinese

Laura Chinese dialogue about"在...上“

Today's podcast will either be "awfully" good or "pretty" bad!
Yes, English is confusing. Sorry!

The Social Evolutionary

Weird Words in English

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10YhQG1UAr_tBFEnK0vuTMbHtY8lLrAin/view?usp=drivesdk

Teacher Joseph's Podcast

The Death Penalty and the Conditional Tenses (with transcript for study)

Song Lyrics: I Don't Want to Play House by Tammy Wynette