听播客学英语 210 牙齿
How are your teeth? How often do you go to the dentist? Here is part of a poem by Pam Ayres. Oh, I wish Id looked after my teeth, And spotted the perils beneath, All the toffees I chewed, And the sweet sticky food, Oh, I wish Id looked after my teeth
听播客学英语 211 如何打造家具
In this podcast, we meet the expression the trouble is that (which means the problem is that.). We also discover several different ways of getting things wrong upside down, back to front and inside out. Kevin and Joanne sat on their sofa and looked a
听播客学英语 212 灾难
At 9.25am on Friday 21 October 1966, the police officer on duty at Merthyr Tydfyl police station in South Wales answered a telephone call. I have been asked to inform you that there has been a landslide, said the caller. The tip has come down on the
听播客学英语 213 周末在威尔士
I am sorry about the problems that some of you had last weekend in downloading new episodes of Listen to English. We have now fixed the problem, and I hope you will have no more difficulties. Todays podcast is about the expressions I had better do (s
听播客学英语 214 黑斯廷斯战役
Last weekend was a famous anniversary. No, not my birthday. Not the anniversary of the last time England won the World Cup. It was the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, which took place 940 years ago at a place called (appropriately) Battle, whi
听播客学英语 215 健康
week our government published a report on how healthy we English are. There was some good news. The number of people who smoke has continued to fall. We live longer than any previous generation. Deaths of young children (infant mortality) are the low
听播客学英语 216 安东尼·霍尔国王
In 1931, the King of England came to Birmingham. He stood on a soapbox in Bull Ring Market and spoke to his people. Actually, he wasnt the King of England at all. His name was Anthony Hall. He had been born in London, and had been an ambulance driver
听播客学英语 217 关于你的一切
In this podcast I use words which are useful when we talk about numbers, especially when we want to talk about the information that numbers give us. The podcast is also about you, my listeners, because I know quite a lot about you. How do I know abou
听播客学英语 218 海绵
This is the tragic story of a monkey called Spongebob. Spongebob is a Bolivian squirrel Monkey. Squirrel monkeys are quite small about the size of a European or North American squirrel, which is perhaps why they are called squirrel monkeys. Spongebob
听播客学英语 219 长跑
There are lots of English idioms and expressions in this podcast. I have explained them in a Grammar and Vocabulary note. Go to the podcasts website to see this note. Kevin and Joanne were reading the local newspaper. There were news stories like Loc
听播客学英语 220 Probably, definitely, maybe....
Often we need words to explain how probable something is. Lets look at some examples. Will it rain today? There are dark clouds in the sky. It will definitely rain Will it rain today? There are no clouds in the sky. It will certainly not rain this mo
听播客学英语 221 和电脑交谈
Joan is a computer programme. She talks a lot. In fact, talking is what she does best. She can hold conversations with people so well that she has won a $2000 prize for being the most human-like computer programme in the world. Joan does not contain
听播客学英语 222 罗宾汉
There is an English legend about a man called Robin Hood. According to the legend, Robin Hood lived in the late 12th or early 13th century, at the time of King John. (People say that King John was the worst king that England ever had). Robin Hood liv
听播客学英语 223 比较
Todays podcast is about how to make comparisons in English. I am talking to my friend Anna. She comes from Canada and she is going to tell us about some of the differences she has seen between Canada and England. I first came to England in January 20
听播客学英语 224 霍比特人
Are you less than 170cm tall? Do you have hairy feet and toes? You do? Then there may be a job for you. Let me explain. You have probably heard of the writer JRR Tolkien. He wrote the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and a number of other books. His boo
