2024-11-28
34 分钟⭐ My annual BLACK FRIDAY SALE IS HAPPENING NOW! Sign up for Premium Content for a HUGE savings: ➡️ https://bit.ly/44822TQ In this episode, we’re taking a ride through the fascinating history of the Ferris wheel while learning some tricky irregular verbs along the way! Together, we’ll explore how this iconic amusement ride came to life as a bold attempt to rival the Eiffel Tower at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Practice the terms, hear them in a variety of contexts and then take a quiz to test what you've learned! At the very end, we'll go through fun facts about the Ferris Wheel. Did you know the original Ferris wheel was dynamited? Or that Ain Dubai is the tallest Ferris wheel in the world, standing at a jaw-dropping 820 feet? So, let’s ride through history, learn some grammar, and have a little fun together. Let’s do it! 🎡 // TOP-RATED ENGLISH RESOURCES ○ Season 4 ➡️ https://bit.ly/3rF36k4 (at a discount when you purchase Season 1, 2 and 3 as a bundle) ○ Premium Content (Seasons 1, 2 and 3) ➡️ https://bit.ly/44822TQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hi, everybody.
My name is Shawna and this is the American English Podcast.
My goal here is to teach you the English spoken in the United States through common expressions, pronunciation tips, and interesting cultural snippets or stories.
I hope to keep this fun, useful and interesting.
Let's do it.
Welcome to today's English lesson.
We're going to be talking about the history of one of the most famous rides in the world, the Ferris wheel.
Do you know what a Ferris wheel is?
Through my research, I discovered that in many languages, this ride is simply called the giant wheel.
Hodeganci in Portuguese, Riesenrad in German.
But in English, it's Ferris wheel because the man who made the first one was named George Ferris.
Today you'll hear the story of how and why the first Ferris wheel came to life.
But that's not all.
As I tell the story today, you'll hear many irregular past tense verbs.
Words like think, pay, and choose.
In the past, they're thought, paid, and chose.
They don't follow the usual rules for the past tense, so they don't have ED endings.
They're unique.
And 10 of them in the story.
Well, a few more than that, but they require some memorization.