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--> SLOW English news to help you Understand English. Follow along with the words at YourOwnEnglishTutor.com/podcasts. Click the red button to have the podcast and transcript delivered directly to your inbox each week. The News, May 20, 2015 Entende Inglês - Understand English - the news in SLOW English At Your Own English Tutor we are passionate about helping you improve your English! It is May 20, 2015 and now the News presented by YourOwnEnglishTutor.com. Hello English learners! Welcome to our Entende Inglês - Understand English podcast. My name is Leanne. Peter and Addie and I, produce this news podcast in SLOW English every week to help you improve your English. P: Hi. I’m Peter. You can get the words to follow along with our podcast at YourOwnEnglishTutor.com/podcasts. If you want the podcast and the words delivered directly to your inbox each week, click the red button near the top of the page. L: What stories do we have today Peter? P: Canadian students are winning big prizes in the U.S. with their science fair projects. To help improve its economy, Brazil plans to cut its budget and is making deals with the Chinese. Airbags are being recalled and turtle parts are being re-made! We end off with a story that may be the end of caribou in western Canada. L: So we begin and end in Canada. Smart students A Canadian high school student’s science project has earned him U.S.$75,000 at the world’s biggest science fair in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Seventeen year old Raymond Wang has designed an air intake system that would improve air quality and decrease the spread of germs on airplanes.  The system would reduce pathogen inhalation concentrations by up to 55 times according to organizers of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.  It would also improve the availability of fresh air in the cabin by more than 190%. Organizers also said that Wang’s proposed modifications can be easily and economically incorporated into existing aircraft, saving countless lives in the event of a future pandemic. Wang said he got the idea after recent epidemics of Ebola and decided to research other diseases such as H1N1 and SARS.  He felt that something could be done to reduce the spread of germs by creating personalized ventilation zones by redirecting the air around each passenger. Wang has filed a patent for his design and intends to use his $75,000 to do more research.  He thinks that his invention could be installed on an airp

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--> SLOW English news to help you Understand English. Follow along with the words at YourOwnEnglishTutor.com/podcasts. Click the red button to have the podcast and transcript delivered directly to your inbox each week. The News, May 6, 2015 Entende Inglês - Understand English - the news in SLOW English At Your Own English Tutor we are passionate about helping you improve your English! It is May 6, 2015 and now the News presented by YourOwnEnglishTutor.com. Hi! Welcome to our Entende Inglês - Understand English podcast. My name is Leanne. Peter and Addie and I, produce this news podcast in SLOW English every week to help you improve your English. We would love to hear from you. What kind of stories do you want to hear? How can we improve our podcast to better help you? Send your comments and questions to YourOwnEnglishTutor@gmail.com, or leave a message on the YourOwnEnglishTutor.com website under a podcast post or on the Contact Us page. P: Hi. I’m Peter. If you want the words to follow along with our podcast, go to our website, YourOwnEnglishTutor.com/podcasts.  The words are now included in each podcast post. If you want the podcast and the words delivered directly to your inbox each week, you can request them by clicking the red button near the top of the page. L: Thank you for sharing our Entende Inglês - Understand English podcast with your friends. If you know someone else who wants to improve their English, please share with them too. We have also added a Donate button on the podcast page of our website. If you find our podcasts helpful, and if you are able, a donation to support the podcast would be much appreciated. What stories do we have today Peter? P: Airline profits have been soaring, while McDonald’s stock prices have been falling. You may have already heard, but we have a royal announcement from Great Britain. In Berlin, Germany, there was a surprise in the bananas. It’s not what you might be thinking either. We learn about some large animals that are at risk, and we end up here in Prince Edward Island, Canada for our last story. L: Okay, I’ll start us off. Airlines show big profits The latest U.S. Department of Transportation report on U.S. airlines shows that pre-tax operating profits increased in 2014 to US$14.6 billion, up from US$11.3 billion in 2013. A big component of the revenue continues to be the fees that many airlines put in place beginning in 2008 when fuel prices spiked upwards and the airlines were

--> Understand English with your SLOW English news and the words to follow along at YourOwnEnglishTutor.com/podcasts. Click the red button to have the podcast and transcript delivered directly to your inbox each week. Entende Inglês - Understand English - the news in SLOW English At Your Own English Tutor we are passionate about helping you improve your English! It is April 29, 2015 and now the News presented by YourOwnEnglishTutor.com. L: Hi! Welcome to our Entende Inglês - Understand English podcast. My name is Leanne. Peter and Addie and I, produce this news podcast in SLOW English every week to help you improve your English. We would love to hear from you. What kind of stories do you want to hear? How can we improve our podcast to better help you? Send your comments and questions to YourOwnEnglishTutor@gmail.com, or leave a message on the YourOwnEnglishTutor.com website under a podcast post or on the Contact Us page. P: Hi. I’m Peter. If you want the words to follow along with our podcast, go to our website, YourOwnEnglishTutor.com/podcasts.  The words are now included in each podcast post. If you want the podcast and the words delivered directly to your inbox each week, you can request them by clicking the red button near the top of the page. L: Thank you for sharing our Entende Inglês - Understand English podcast with your friends. If you know someone else who wants to improve their English, please share with them too. We have also added a Donate button on the podcast page of our website. If you find our podcasts helpful, and if you are able, a donation to support the podcast would be much appreciated. What stories do we have today Peter? P: There has been some recent volcano activity in different parts of the world, and there has also been lots of activity with the Apple watch. In Brazil, some of the people involved in the Petrobras scandal have been convicted and sentenced. As temperatures rise in the northern hemisphere, people have to remember not to leave pets and children in parked cars. There’s been a new study on how pollution could affect your brain, and not in a good way. The Japanese are breaking records with a new high speed train in their efforts to reduce the travel time between Osaka and Tokyo. We end up at Wimbledon where they’ve put a ban on a new device. L: Where are these active volcanoes Peter? Active Volcanoes Volcanoes have been erupting in different parts of the world, disrupting flights among other thi

--> Understand English here with your SLOW English news and the transcript (the words) at YourOwnEnglishTutor.com/podcasts. Click the red button to have the podcast and transcript delivered directly to your inbox each week.     Entende Inglês - Understand English - the news in SLOW English At Your Own English Tutor we are passionate about helping you improve your English! It is April 22, 2015 and now the News presented by YourOwnEnglishTutor.com. Hi! Welcome to our Entende Inglês - Understand English podcast. My name is Leanne. Peter and Addie and I, produce this news podcast in SLOW English every week to help you improve your English. We want to hear from you. What do you like about our podcasts? What kind of stories do you want to hear? How can we improve our podcast to better help you? Send your comments and questions to YourOwnEnglishTutor@gmail.com, or leave a message on the YourOwnEnglishTutor.com website under a podcast post or on the Contact Us page. This week we have Christopher filling in for Peter. C: Hi. I’m Christopher. You can follow along with the words to our podcast by going to our website, YourOwnEnglishTutor.com/podcasts. If you want the podcast and the words delivered directly to your inbox each week, you can request them by clicking the red button near the top of that page. L: Thank you for sharing our Entende Inglês - Understand English podcast with your friends. If you know someone else who wants to improve their English, please share with them too. We have also added a Donate button on the podcast page of our website. If you find our podcasts helpful, and if you are able, a donation to support the podcast would be much appreciated. What stories do we have today Christopher? C: Our first story sounds almost unbelievable. A 65 year old woman is pregnant, and that’s not even the most unbelievable part of the story. In Brazil iPhone production is not going quite as planned, and the results are in on a study of sleep patterns in toddlers. Some new cancer drugs are being tested by a Swiss drug maker. They could generate a lot of income and better yet, save a lot of lives. Do you ever wonder what happens to the loose change that sometimes gets forgotten by people going through security at the airport? Well we’re going to tell you. We end off today with some news on a sticky situation with honey bees in Seattle. L: We have lots of interesting stories this week. I’ll get us started. Senior to have quadruplets A

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--> Here is your SLOW English news with the transcript at YourOwnEnglishTutor.com/podcasts. Click the red button to have it delivered directly to your inbox each week Entende Inglês - Understand English - the news in SLOW English At Your Own English Tutor we are passionate about helping you improve your English! It is April 8, 2015 and now the News presented by YourOwnEnglishTutor.com. Hi! Welcome to our Entende Inglês - Understand English podcast. My name is Leanne. Peter and Addie and I, have been producing our podcast of news from Brazil in SLOW English for over a year now. We have been getting listeners from many different parts of the world, so we are going to broaden the scope of our stories. P: Hi. I’m Peter. We have been sending the words to the podcasts to people who requested them. From now on, we will post the words together with our podcasts, at YourOwnEnglishTutor.com/podcasts for anyone to use. We will deliver both the podcast and the words directly to your inbox each week if you request them by clicking the red button near the top of that page. L: We’d like to get some feedback from you. What do you like about our podcasts? What do you not like?  What kind of stories do you want to hear? Please send your comments, feedback and questions to YourOwnEnglishTutor@gmail.com, or leave a message on the YourOwnEnglishTutor.com website under a podcast post or on the Contact Us page. And thank you for sharing with your friends. If you know someone else who wants to improve their English, please share with them too. L: What stories do we have today, Peter? P: Another scandal is brewing in Brazil, and the conditions are right for an epidemic. Good things are happening in Costa Rica and Bolivia. Then we have some animal stories about big bunnies, unfortunate animals that have become roadkill, and pooch poo. L: Oh dear. Tell us about Brazil’s latest scandal. More kickbacks in Brazil Another huge kickback scheme, one that may be even bigger than the one at Petrobras, has been uncovered by police in Brazil.  An investigation that began in 2013, has found that workers at the Government agency responsible for collecting fines levied by Brazil’s Internal Revenue Service, have been receiving kickbacks in exchange for throwing out fines. Employees at the agency known as CARF, would reduce or throw out altogether fines of companies for unpaid or undeclared taxes in exchange for a percentage of the fines. Federal Police said, “CARF em

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