Inglés - A2.2 - Episode 5 - Talking about pets

10 Questions

Who hosts the podcast mentioned in the text?

Ravi and Tess

What is the name of the student from West London who wants to meet Didier Drogba?

Olu

Which location in New Zealand became Hobbiton?

Matamata

What is Carolina studying?

Environmental Science

What is the topic of Tom's discussion?

Regular and irregular verbs in English

What is the third column in the list of irregular verbs?

Past participle form

What is the name of Tess's new pet?

A brown tabby

Who won the quiz called "Beginning With"?

Jason

What is the role of Peter Jackson in the Lord of the Rings films?

Director

What is the effect of the Lord of the Rings trilogy on tourism in New Zealand?

Increased tourism by 8%

Study Notes

The podcast is hosted by Ravi and Tess, with Gordon as their producer.
Tess has a new kitten, a brown tabby, but hasn't decided on a name yet.
Olu, a student from West London, wants to meet Didier Drogba, a footballer from Ivory Coast who does charity work for Unicef.
Jason from Durham and Vineeta from Plymouth participate in a quiz called "Beginning With," where they have to answer questions starting with a given letter.
Jason wins the quiz with three correct answers.
Graham Baxter from New Zealand talks about the filming locations of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which were mostly in New Zealand.
Peter Jackson, the director of the films, is from Wellington, New Zealand.
New Zealand has diverse scenery, which was used to create the fantastic worlds in the films.
Matamata became Hobbiton, and Queenstown became the Eregion Hills, among other locations.
People in New Zealand are proud of their country's role in the films.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy increased tourism in New Zealand by 8%.
The Lord of the Rings website has had over a billion visitors.
Listeners are invited to share information about the countryside in their country.
A poll on whether people prefer cats or dogs was conducted.
Carolina has arrived in Newcastle and met her new flatmates.
Carolina's flatmates are Emily, Jenny, Charlotte, and Beth.
Carolina's flatmates are helping her register for her course.
Carolina is studying Environmental Science.
Gordon told a joke about a three-legged chicken.
Tom discussed regular and irregular verbs in English.
Regular verbs form the past tense by adding "E,D" or "D" to the base form.
Irregular verbs do not follow this rule and have different past tense forms.
"Fly" is an example of an irregular verb with three forms: "fly", "flew", and "flown".
The first column in the list of irregular verbs is the base form, not the present tense.
The second column is the past simple form.
The third column is the past participle form.
The base form is used in many different ways, including with "going to" to talk about the future and with "do" and "did" to make questions.
The past simple form is used to talk about past events.
The past participle form is used with auxiliary verbs to form perfect tenses.
Some common English verbs are irregular and have different past tense forms.