In this story Selby visits Sovereign Hill, a reconstruction of a 19th century Australian gold mining town that attracted many Chinese. First, listen to the guide use another word that means reconstruction:

Re-creation means the same as reconstruction. The town is a model built at the place where the Australian gold rush began. So what does the re-creation show us?

It 'depicts' or shows how new arrivals – people who have just arrived – would have lived. Notice that she says 'would have lived' instead of 'lived'. Listen again:

You use 'would have' and a past participle such as 'lived' for situations in the past that are in some sense not real. You could also use 'might' instead of 'would' to express the same thing and say “it's how new arrivals 'might have lived'.” Next, listen for another use of 'would':

Would you like that – you use would for polite questions. So does he like it?

He said 'it's interesting'. –ing forms such as interesting are often used as adjectives. But how else are they used?

He's 'getting' on a coach and 'heading' towards the 'pan for gold', the place where you try to find gold in the water. Getting and heading are the present continuous tense, which is the –ing form with the verb to be or am such as in I am or I'm. I'm getting on, I'm heading towards. You use the present continuous for an action happening now. Listen again:

Next, listen for the –ing form again:

I'm 'going to' find. 'Going to' is a phrase that means you intend to do something in the future. He's 'going to' find some gold. So does he?

No nugget here – a nugget is a lump of gold. We'll finish with a re-creation of a nugget that would make Selby rich if it were real: