English Listening Practice - Five a Day #43.5

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  Hello and welcome to the English Like and Aided podcast.

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  My name is Anna and you're listening to Week 43,

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  Day 5 of your English Five a Day, the second season.

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  Today is Friday and that means I'm going to bring together all the vocabulary that we've looked at this week in one big story

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  because learning vocabulary and context.

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  Learning anything in context is so much more useful and effective than learning lists.

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  So if you've been listening this week, fantastic.

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  You're going to have your learning reinforced with this story.

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  But if you're jumping in here and you haven't managed to listen to the earlier episodes from this week,

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  don't worry.

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  Stick around because listening in general is useful.

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  especially when it's an entertaining story.

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  So, without further ado, I'm going to introduce my story.

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  The pond that refused to die.

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  For years, at the bottom of my garden there has been a pond.

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  When I first built it, I imagined a peaceful little oasis.

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  I pictured golden fish gliding gracefully beneath the surface,

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  lily pads floating gently on top, dragonflies hovering in the sunshine.

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  It was meant to be a place of beauty and calm,

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  somewhere I could sit with a cup of tea and feel at peace.

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