In today's news, a Lord of the Rings inspired tale about three Italians returning a lost ring! We’ll also practise using the word ‘little’ with nouns.

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Tesla's new 'flying' car!

In the episode we also look at how to use direct and reported speech.

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In today's news story, a man saves up all of his coins to buy himself a big present!

In the grammar section, we look at using the gerund (verb-ing) after prepositions, verbs and phrases. Try the exercise to practise also available on Patreon: patreon.com/learnenglishwithben

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