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Find your Dream Job - Introduction
  • English

Find your Dream Job - Introduction

In this course, we will create a powerful and articulate Personal Statement and create an ideal company profile to help you formulate an application for the job that fits you best. In day one, we will do introductions, and talk about some of our goals for the course.

  • Theory
  • Upper Intermediate
  • English
Reed Miller
Reed Miller
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Exploring the history and industry of chocolate.
  • English

Exploring the history and industry of chocolate.

BOB DOUGHTY: I'm Bob Doughty. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we travel around the world exploring the history of chocolate. Its story begins with a plant whose scientific name, Theobroma cacao, means "food of the gods." For centuries, people have been enjoying the rich flavor of chocolate, a product made from this plant. Join us as we tell about the history of chocolate and how it is produced. We will also meet Jane Morris, a chocolate maker in Washington, DC. (MUSIC) BOB DOUGHTY: Most people today think of chocolate as something sweet to eat or drink than can be easily found in stores around the world. It might surprise you that chocolate was once highly treasured. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Historians believe the Maya people of Central America first learned to farm cacao plants around two thousand years ago. The Maya took the cacao trees from the rainforests and grew them in their gardens. They cooked the cacao seeds, then crushed them into a soft paste. They mixed the paste with water and flavorful spices to make an unsweetened chocolate drink. The Maya poured the chocolate drink back and forth between two containers so that the liquid had a layer of bubbles, or foam. Cacao and chocolate were an important part of Maya culture. There are often images of cacao plants on Maya buildings and art objects. Ruling families drank chocolate at special ceremonies. And, even poorer members of society could enjoy the drink once in a while.

  • Podcast
  • Intermediate
  • English
Eugeniia Klimutina
Eugeniia Klimutina
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Test
  • English

Test

Introductory class to understand the level of English

  • Theory with exercises
  • Elementary
  • English
Maria  Nekrasova
Maria Nekrasova