THAT'S ENGLISH - LEVEL 3

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1 Listen to the podcast without reading the text.

2 Listen to the podcast for a second time and quickly write a few notes about what you hear.

3 Read the text with the podcast as you listen for the third time.

4 Read aloud with the podcast.

5 Try to explain what you have heard in your own words.

Word of the Day

Play pedagogue discuss
Definition:	(noun) Someone who educates young people.
Synonyms:	educator
Usage:	My grandfather was a born pedagogue; it gave him great pleasure to impart information.

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This Day in History

Jonathan Pollard Pleads Guilty to Espionage Charges (1986)

After leaving graduate school in 1979, Pollard immediately began applying for intelligence positions, and landed one at the US Naval Investigative Service (NIS). In 1985, after he had attained a high level of clearance, coworkers noticed that he was accessing a huge number of documents for seemingly no reason. He was arrested and, the following year, pled guilty to selling secrets to Israel. He was sentenced to life in prison. What early clues nearly derailed his career before it started? More... Discuss

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Today's Birthday

François Quesnay (1694)

While serving as consulting physician to Louis XV at Versailles, Quesnay developed an interest in economics. In his 1758 Tableau économique, he described the relationship between the different economic classes of society and the flow of payments among them, and he developed the concept of economic balance used by many later economic analysts. An advocate of laissez-faire economics, he believed that all wealth originated with the land. What school of economics is he credited with founding? More...

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