Real English Conversations has great English conversations for intermediate to advanced English learners. You can improve and Learn English conversational skills to feel and sound more natural in your new language. Come to our website to get transcripts of the conversations, a slower version of the audio or practice writing your English in our member forum. Listen to English conversations with your hosts, Amy and Curtis, who are conversational English teachers. Our audio is not a lesson! It is designed for you to hear the conversational American English sounds while listening to interesting, engaging and fun dialogues between Amy & Curtis.
Filling a perceived gap in Ripperature, Curtis examines how 14 London newspapers covered the Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper in 1888. Curtis begins with a brief account of the crimes and a description of the impoverished East End of London, where the murders occurred. He then devotes three chapters to the state of Victorian journalism, with emphasis on how murders and other sensational news were reported.
The Alden children visit a family friend at his apple orchard, which is rumored to be haunted, but instead of a ghost they find that some of the family's valuable antiques are being stolen. Benny is determined to find the ghost that haunts Seymour Curtis' apple orchard, but a more earthly crime becomes important.
