Chatterbox #283 – Plogging

Culips Everyday English Podcast

Culips English Podcast

Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

4.8 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Have you heard about the newest trend that combines a daily walk or jog with picking up litter? If not, you’re not alone. It’s called plogging, and in this Chatterbox episode Andrew and Anna explain it, how it came to be called plogging, and why it’s becoming a popular activity for many people around the world. The Chatterbox series is designed for intermediate and advanced English learners. Podcasts and audio lessons are a great way to improve your English listening skills. Culips’ Chatterbox episodes feature natural, unedited conversations between native speakers, so you can build your English vocabulary and learn about the new ways people are cleaning up their neighbourhoods. Fun facts Since first appearing in Sweden in 2016, plogging has spread around the world. In 2019, it was estimated that 2 million people plogged daily in over 100 countries. Expressions included in the study guide Fair play The [something] circuit Fair game Free box One man’s trash is another man’s treasure To clean up [one’s] act Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Step On by Jahzzar Photo Credit: Edoardo Frezet (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name is Andrew and my name is Anna and you're listening to the
0:08.5	Culeps English podcast. cast.
0:18.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to Culeps. This is Chatterbox, the Kuleps series
0:21.0	for intermediate and advanced English learners that features natural unedited conversations
0:26.8	between native speakers about compelling topics, trending current events, or even a hot issue and today I'm joined by my co-host
0:36.5	Anna and I have a question for you right off the start of this episode. Okay.
0:43.0	The question is, have you ever heard of plugging before?
0:48.0	Never.
0:50.0	This is completely new for me.
0:52.0	Plogging is a new term.
0:54.4	I've learned something new today.
0:56.3	Plogging, okay, it's new to you
0:58.6	and it was new to me until I read an article about it recently and it's a new trend and I thought it would make for a great episode here so that's the topic for this episode everyone we are going to talk about plogging and if you're like Anna and me and you don't really know what this is don't worry we'll break it down and explain it to you in just a moment but before we do I want to let everyone know about the
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1:39.9	English with Q-Lup's and by becoming a Q- Kuleps member you'll also support us and keep allowing us to make
1:46.5	English lessons for people all over the world so it's really a win-win. There's also a bunch of other extras that you'll get when you become a member.
1:55.9	So to sign up and get the study guide for this episode, just visit QLips.com.
2:14.7	We also wanted to give our shout out to our listener, Saylish One, from Japan, who left us a lovely comment in a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. Say the one you wrote, I like listening to Kuleps Podcast.
2:18.9	Sound quality is great.
2:21.0	Topics are diverse. I enjoy listening. Thank you guys.
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