77 – Ringo Lingo https://ringolingo.com Free ESL English Dictations and Tools for English Learners Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:42:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/ringolingo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cropped-icon-r.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 77 – Ringo Lingo https://ringolingo.com 32 32 200435589 Wingsuit Flying https://ringolingo.com/dictation/wingsuit-flyig/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 14:13:50 +0000 https://ringolingo.com/?post_type=dictation&p=94 Wingsuit flying is an extreme sport? that combines skydiving and flying.? A wingsuit is a jumpsuit with fabric? between the legs and under the arms.? The fabric between the legs and along? the side of the body is extended into? a wing-like shape and this gives the wingsuit its name.?

The wings have airpockets which give? the pilot more control over their flying.? The wingsuit allows a skydiver to? glide through the air, much like a flying squirrel.

]]> 94 How Many Sausages Would It Take To Surround the World? https://ringolingo.com/dictation/how-many-sausages-would-it-take-to-surround-the-world/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:35:53 +0000 https://ringolingo.com/?post_type=dictation&p=88 Have you ever asked yourself how many? sausages it would take to surround the world??

Well, the answer is one large one!? Or, to be more precise, 421,842,105.?

How is this calculated?? We know the Earth’s circumference is? 40,075 kilometres which is 40,075,000,000 mm.? We also know that the average? pork sausage is 95mm in length.?

Therefore, if we divide 40,075,000,000 by 95? (the size of one sausage),? we get the total of 421,842,105 sausages.? Wow!

]]> 88 Harry Potter https://ringolingo.com/dictation/harry-potter/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:11:27 +0000 https://ringolingo.com/?post_type=dictation&p=60 Harry Potter is the central character? in a series of seven novels written? by the British Author J. K. Rowling.? The books about a young wizard and his friends were reported? to have sold more than 500 million copies by 2018.? That makes it the best selling book series of all time.? Perhaps a large part of their success is the fact? that while they were written for children,? many adults have also enjoyed reading the stories.

]]> 60 Live Aid https://ringolingo.com/dictation/live-aid/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 08:54:00 +0000 https://ringolingo.com/?post_type=dictation&p=54 Held in 1985, the charity concert Live Aid was one of the? largest live television events of all time,? being held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia.? It’s estimated that 1.9 billion people in? 150 different countries viewed the event.? That means about 40% of all the people in? the world saw at least some of the concert.? It’s been estimated that the concerts raised a? total of $150 million for famine relief? in the African country of Ethiopia.

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