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Vocabulary for Today's Podcast

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(an) example

(to) get along

old-fashioned

(the) fifth grade

(to) work out

married couples

(a) broken home

(to) harm

(to) realize

(to be) better off

(to) separate

(to) stay

My Views on Divorce
An Audio Story

Today is Thursday, March 22nd, 2007, and this is the ESL Help Desk inviting you to listen to today's podcast. Today's podcast is following up a prior podcast that focused on the present perfect verb tense. In addition, we are also going to listen to an audio story from the Easy Writer CD-ROM, to a story written by Tung Mei Ni, entitled "My Views on Divorce".

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We chose this story for today's podcast because Tung Mei effectively uses the present perfect verb tense in her essay. Tung Mei wrote this essay in her college ESL class. If you would like to read the full essay while listening to the audio, please become a member of our "Inner Circle" and gain access to all the Easy Writer essays.

Since they came to this country, their lives have gone in different directions.

They made the difficult decision to seek a divorce and now they have been divorced for more than five years.

Many married couples don't realize that their children would be better off if the parents had separated than if they had stayed together.

To listen to only the audio story, "My Views on Divorce", click here!

Next week we hope to continue our discussion of the present perfect tense and we hope you'll tune in!

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Divorce Kit photo Copyright, Christina Kennedy.

Answers to Last Week's Homework

main verb	I	He	They
break	I have broken I've broken	he has broken he's broken	they have broken they've broken
give	I have given I've given	he has given he's given	they have given they've given
see	I have seen I've seen	he has seen he's seen	they have seen they've seen