ancient civilization

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 1,131 – Visiting an Archaeological Site.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 1,131. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

Go to ESLPod.com and download the Learning Guide for this episode. What’s in the Learning Guide? It has a complete transcript of everything I say and a whole lot more.

This episode is a dialogue between Lillian and Bruce about going to an archaeological site – a place where we find out what people were like many, many years ago before we had Wikipedia. Let’s get started.

Lillian: Look at this! I’m going to take this home as a souvenir.

Bruce: You can’t do that. That might be an artifact of some kind. It belongs to this archaeological site.

Lillian: It’s just a rock. No one will miss it.

Bruce: That’s not the point. Everything here should be preserved. That’s the point of doing