The man who planted trees (11 May 2017)
BBC podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p052jh4k
Justification
One of my favourite activities to practice and perfect my English is listening to BBC. When I have a couple of free minutes I browse their web and find interesting stories to listen to. The one I chose for this artefact is one of them. Already the title (The man who build his rainforest) reminded me of this old story – The man who planted trees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYlsIZXCQa4 and I knew I wanted to know more about this Brazilian man. A report from foreign country also promised a non-native accent which are sometimes hard to understand.
Reflection
I didn’t have any major problems understanding the speakers. The one with the thicker accent (I assume it was the interpreter) sometimes pronounced some words in a strange way a bit – pasture, pure etc. But listening to it twice was enough for me to get it. The grammar used wasn’t very complicated and I had known most of the vocabulary, though I don’t use them actively. So from now I will try to focus on using:
Barren
Cattle grazing
Pasture
Astonishing
Wildlife
Peaks of a mountain
Recuperate