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

I'm Anna Mateo.

And I'm Brian Lynn.

This program is aimed at English learners, so we speak slowly, and we use words and phrases

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Today on the show, Anna Mateo brings us words and their stories.

Jill Robbins has a story on the recapture of some escaped monkeys in South Carolina,

and John Russell reports on how conflicts have affected efforts to deal with dropping levels of the Dead Sea.

Today's program also includes our weekly science report, and Andrew Smith and Jill Robbins present the lesson of the day.

This time they discuss how to use forms of the word go to express future plans and events.

But first, here is Jill Robbins.

Officials in the southern U.S. state of South Carolina have recaptured the last of 43 monkeys

who escaped from a farm that raises monkeys in early November.

The chief executive of Alpha Genesis Research Center, Greg Westergard, said the final

four recaptured monkeys appeared to be in good health.

The remaining monkeys had spent weeks living in the woods and even experienced a rare snowstorm.

Alpha Genesis is a company that offers services to biomedical researchers.

Some locals call it the monkey farm.

The animals, all female rhesus macaque monkeys, escaped from the grounds of the

company on November 6. Police who investigated the incident said the monkeys escaped when an employee

did not fully secure their enclosure.

Westergard explained in November that workers were supposed to lock one gate

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