In this episode, Mark calls up the Mosquito City University Engineering Faculty in hope of interviewing someone about the hydrogen engine.

Have you ever read Swedenborg? Do you know what a ’scrim’ is? Listen to two guys talk about it.

Synopsis: International Business Story is a business scenario that is based on the events around the tragic story of some children who were poisoned because of attempts to cut costs by replacing pharmaceutical chemicals with …

Synopsis: The Obsession is a story that was told to me by a student from Oman. It is about human relationships and emotions and the grammar focus is past simple tense and past continuous tense. …

What do Oranjeboom, Ghana, and CSIS have in common? A Canadian man named Burke, whose parents were teachers who worked in different countries when he was a child. Listen to Burke talk about it.

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A group of friends start to talk about Dogon villages in Africa and end up talking about nationalism.
Mark: What is the Dogon village like?
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Mark ran into a Japanese guy at a travel agent in Rishikesh.
The Japanese Guy: Do you think I ought to take a local bus all …

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Mark: So Eran what part of Israel do you come from?
Eran: I am from Rishon. Rishon le Zion.
Mark: From where?
Eran: Rishon …

There are two important past tenses. They are past simple tense and past continuous tense.
Past simple tense looks like this:
I came to India two days ago. When did you arrive?
I arrived a month ago.
Let’s look …

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Mark: So… so Dahi, what part of Ireland do you come from?
Dahi: I am from Cork. It is in the very south.
Mark: …