American English Podcast

S4E198 - Irregular Verbs: The Survival Story of Hugh Glass

Published: September 4, 2025

Duration: 35:44

What happens when you’re attacked by a grizzly bear, left for dead, and forced to crawl nearly 200 miles to survive? That’s the true story, or perhaps just the legend, of Hugh Glass, a 19th-century frontiersman whose incredible survival story inspired books and Hollywood films like The Revenant.

In this episode, you’ll:

Hear the dramatic survival story of Hugh Glass.

Learn and review 10+ irregular past tense verbs in context (ran, tore, bit, beat, lay, wore, told, dealt, stole, and more).

Discover how legends grow through “embellishment” — when details get added to make a...