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The Pig's Ear
by Patrick Jackson
These stories will help you improve your English listening skills. Listen as many times as necessary. I am speaking at a natural speed so don't worry if you can't understand everything. Please feel free to leave comments or questions about the content. Or even post your answers and I'll check them for you!
Episodes
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From a Japanese Classroom
No questions this time. Of course, it's more important to communicate in a cheerful and positive way than to worry too much about little grammar slips but can you spot any here? Not too many, I think.
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In Town
Well...! Here are the boys I teach letting their hair down to 'In Town'... If you feel like joining in, the lyrics are In town, we buy candy In town, we get haircuts In town, we mail letters In town, we shop for shoes In town, we borrow books In town, we go to a movie In town, we visit a museum…
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You Must be Joking!
No questions this time. How many of these jokes you can 'get'? Good luck!
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Big Fat Lies (Not difficult: 3 mins)
1. What type of a book is Patrick recommending? 2. Who did Patrick tell the lies to? 3. Why should kids worry about drinking milk? 4. How can kids play a film about cows? 5. What is a tomato? 6. When was the can opener invented? 7. What percentage of fishes are afraid of water? 8. What do people…
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The Big Pig Turns 40 (Natural Speed/V. Difficult)
1. What is Patrick's mother's hobby? 2. What is Yuko's hobby? 3. What was Sara's father's name? 4. What is Carolyn's brother's name? 5. What 3 things does Ami believe in? 6. What does Patrick like to do with his friends? 7. What 4 things are Patrick scared of? 8. Do Patrick's old students always...
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A Piggy Day Out (children speaking)
1. How is Patrick spending lots of time during his holidays? 2. What are Patrick's children's names and ages? 3. Who invited Patrick's family to go to a movie? 4. Why was Wilbur worried? 5. How did Charlotte the spider help Wilbur? 6. What did Wilbur win? 7. Kai said "Don't you ....." 8. What did...
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Potato Bootlegs (music and chat)
The background to those catchy tunes. Thanks Brian! Find out more on http://potatopals.blogspot.com/
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Potato Pals "At School"
This is the song "At School" from Potato Pals Series 1 The pictures are a. My rough drawings which were magicked into b. Rie Kimura's beautiful finished potatoes The music is by Brian Cullen who I didn't have lunch with on Tuesday. The photo is not at school...it's in the pub!
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Potato Pals In the Morning
This is a song from the Potato Pals series which I wrote a couple of years ago for young learners. The music is by my friend Brian Cullen, a fellow Irishman living in Nagoya. The pictures are of my daughter,Ami. There are no questions this week! You can find out more about Potato Pals on my blog…
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The Real Japan!
1. Where was the speech contest held? 2. According to the first speaker, what is the number one reason for Snoopy’s popularity? 3. What did the first study say was a danger associated with left-handedness? 4. What did the second, more positive study of left-handedness say? 5. What are the…
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Letters (Intermediate/5 mins)
1. How did Patrick find people to write to? 2. What 3 things did Patrick’s students write in their letters? 3. Where did the first letter come from? 4. How did the class read the letters? 5. What had the girl from Thailand done? 6. How did they learn about Turkish food? 7. What 2 things did the...
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Happy Halloween
1. What ghost do Koreans find most scary? 2. What does she look like? 3. Why did she become a ghost? 4. Who does she haunt? 5. What does a gumiho look like? 6. What does a gumiho change into? 7. What does a gumiho do to its victims? 8. What do gumihos wish to be 9. What do many Korean and…
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Mirror to Japan (advanced/ 3.5 minutes)
This story is about a questionnaire we sent to some foreigners asking for their thoughts on Japan. We got a good range of answers. 1. How many questions did the students write? 2. Who had met the Emperor? 3. What was the second question? 4. How did Patrick’s male friend answer the second…
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The Violence of the Goats (pretty fast/ 5 mins)
This week we had a terrible accident...in my junior high school English conversation class!!! 1. Where does Patrick teach? 2. What did Patrick want to introduce his students to? 3. What lived under the bridge? 4. Why did the goats want to cross the river? 5. Why wasn’t the little goat eaten? 6.…
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A Lucky Break! (3.5 minutes. Advanced)
In which I get lucky and end up becoming an ELT author. 1. What country did Patrick come from? 2. When did Patrick move to Japan? 3. What was the name of the first language school that Patrick worked for? 4. What did the school owner do to help the teachers? 5. What was Patrick’s assistant’s…
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The Magic Bus (3 minutes)
You had better believe in miracles. They do happen sometimes. 1. What is one reason that Patrick loves being a school teacher? 2. How long did Patrick spend ion Europe? 3. Who came from Japan to visit Marlborough? 4. What did the visitors do every morning? 5. How far was Patrick’s sister’s house...
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August (upper intermediate/5 mins)
In which I spend a lot of sleepless nights. 1. Why did Patrick start working in restaurants? 2. Why did Patrick want to work as a waiter rather than a dishwasher? 3. How did Patrick get a job in U2’s restaurant? 4. Why did Patrick sleep through his lessons at university? 5. Why did U2’s…
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Snow (intermediate/4 mins)
1. Where did Patrick’s grandmother come from? 2. What is Patrick’s uncle’s name? 3. What was the artificial snow for? 4. What is the capital of Denmark? 5. How did Lars get the idea to make pillows out of snow? 6. Why did Lars make a pillow and snow factory in Ireland 7. Why couldn’t we run the...
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Mungo Park (Upper Intermediate/ 4 minutes)
1. How many years after Patrick's father's death did his mother remarry? 2. Where does the name Mungo come from? 3. Where did the original Mungo Park travel? 4. What was the name of the river he went to explore? 5. Which modern-day countries does this river flow through? 6. What 4 things gave…
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Father's Day.
1. What year did Patrick’s father die? 2. What was Patrick’s mother wearing? 3. How did Patrick know his mother had been crying? 4. What had happened to Patrick’s father? 5. What was Patrick’s father’s job? 6. What company had Patrick’s father worked for? 7. Where had he been going? 8. How many...
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Whoops (Lower Intermediate/2.5 minutes)
1. What is Patrick's daughter's name? 2. How old is she? 3. What was the first thing they thought of buying as a present? 4. Why aren't flowers a good idea? 5. What two pets did they think of buying? 6. How much was the parrot? 7. How many colours was the parrot? 8. What did they eat and drink…
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Tortilla! (4 minutes/intermediate)
1. What is another name for tortilla? 2. Where did Patrick learn about tortilla? 3. What 2 kinds of vegetable do you need? 4. What kind of oil should you use? 5. How do you make sure not to burn the ingredients? 6. How many potatoes do you need? 7. About how long does it take to make? 8. What do...
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Parrots in Pakistan (4 mins/intermediate)
1. When did Patrick visit Pakistan? 2. What do some people in Pakistan do for good luck? 3. What is Patrick's Pakistani friend called? 4. How many parrots did Patrick buy? 5. What happened during the night? 6. What lie was written on Patrick's sign? 7. What did the lucky man give to Patrick? 8....
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On Yer Bike (4 mins/intermediate)
1. Where was Patrick heading at the start of the story? 2. Who was he with? 3. What unusual thing did somebody ask him to do? 4. What was the relationship between the women? 5. Why did they need help? 6. What was Patrick surprised by? 7. How long did she stay on the bicycle? 8. Why did she want…
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These stories will help you improve your English listening skills. Listen as many times as necessary. I am speaking at a natural speed so don't worry if you can't understand everything. Please feel free to leave comments or questions about the content. Or even post your answers and I'll check them for you!
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Patrick Jackson
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