Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30-minute program from the Voice of America.

I'm Brian Lynn.

I'm Annameteo.

This program is made for English learners, so we speak a bit slower, and we use words and sentences, especially written for people learning English.

Here are the stories we have for you on today's program.

On today's show, Katie Weaver talks about an organization called Giving Tuesday.

I will return with words in their stories.

I will explain how we use the term gangbusters and where it comes from.

Then Andrew Smith brings us ask a teacher.

He will talk about how to use the words it and that.

And we will finish the 30 minutes with American Stories. The story today is the

Cask of Amontiato from Edgar Allan Poe. But first, here is Katie Weaver. Since its start in

2012, giving Tuesday, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving has become one of the biggest

money-raising days of the year for nonprofits in the United States. In 2022 and 2023,

Giving Tuesday raised $3.3.1 billion for charity or aid organizations,

as estimated by Giving Tuesday.

This year, Giving Tuesday is on December 3rd.

The Giving Tuesday hashtag started as a project of the 92nd Street Y in New York City in 2012.

It became an independent organization in 2020.

It has grown into a worldwide organization of local groups that support giving in their communities,

often on different dates that have local importance, like holidays.

Now, giving Tuesday the nonprofit also gathers researchers studying everyday giving.

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