Frank drops Mark off near and overpass in downtown Brooklyn. Mark will get a table at a nearby café while Frank finds a parking spot.

Mark and Frank finish work and then get into the car to start their drive into the city, where Frank will introduce Mark to his friends.

After an enjoyable game of golf with Peter Bestluck, Mark learns something very surprising about Mosquito City; something that impresses Mark tremendously.

Have you ever seen a rhinoceros? Still in the limo on the way to the golf course, Mark and Peter talk about rhinos and how dangerous they are.

Miyako’s Education (Lower Intermediate Level)

Episode 1: An Australian student is in Japan.
Language: What is your name? Where are you from?
Grammar: “be” verb patterns
Episode 2: A Japanese student introduces her friend.
Language “Who is that?”, “This is…”, …

Sitting on a black leather sofa, Mark interview’s Peter Bestluck, the richest man in Mosquito City. What do they talk about? Listen and find out.

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John: Hi, Yumie, have you heard the news?
Yumie: The TV news?
John: No, Miyako’s news! She’s going to go to Oz. She’s going to be there …

by Mark White (2005)
We learn our first language easily. As we hear sounds we connect them to things and ideas and then after we have built up a repertoire of sounds/words that we understand, we …

The Business Trip is an English dialog series with questions and answers for beginning learners. It is about Mr. Tanaka, who travels to the United States on a business trip. It contains …

In this episode, Mark meets a very interesting woman in the park. While they are having a friendly chat, Mark notices that she has an odd pet sitting next to her. What might it be?