听播客学英语 270 棺材
I have another video for you today. It has been made by Carol. She paints coffins. She tells us that she started about ten years ago. People ask her how she GOT INTO painting coffins. She woke up one morning and knew that she wanted to paint coffins
听播客学英语 271 橡树和槐树
In the last podcast I talked about daffodils and the arrival of Spring. Soon the leaves will start to open on the trees. There is an old proverb in English about how the opening of the leaves in Spring can tell us how much rain we will have in the Su
听播客学英语 272 废话
We have had some quite serious podcasts recently, so here for a change is some complete nonsense. Early in the morning in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other Drew their swords and shot each other
听播客学英语 273 水仙
Soon it will be spring, and the spring flowers will appear in our gardens and in the countryside. Among these will be the daffodils, which are yellow, trumpet shaped flowers, which many people grow in their gardens, but which also grow in the wild. W
听播客学英语 274 金钱
This Podcast uses words which are about getting money and paying for things. Some of the words may not be in your dictionary. If you do not understand something, send me an e-mail ([email protected]) and I will try to explain. Kevin is goin
听播客学英语 275 沙发
A couch is a sofa, such as people have in their sitting-rooms, often in front of the television. Some people spend a lot of time sitting on the couch watching television, and probably getting fat for want of exercise. We have a name for such people i
听播客学英语 276 恶作剧
A boy and his friends find a coin. They make a small hole in it. They then tie a piece of cotton thread through the hole, and take the coin and the thread to the park near their home. They put the coin down on a path where someone walking by will see
听播客学英语 277 在超市
I am in my local supermarket. I am here to do some shopping. You are here to practice the English names of fruit and vegetables. During the winter, there are only a few English grown vegetables in the shops. The main ones are potatoes, carrots, leeks
听播客学英语 278 Robbery
Colin Dixon is the manager of a secure depot where bank notes are stored for the Bank of England. On 21 February he was kidnapped by two men posing as police officers. His wife and eight year old son were also abducted. The kidnappers then forced Mr
听播客学英语 279 今天的英国
This podcast is about listening to numbers. I have left the numbers out of the written text, so you will have to listen carefully to understand. Send me an e-mail if need help. What is Britain really like? How do British people really live when we ar
听播客学英语 280 下雪
Today it is snowing. This is unusual. In England nowadays, it does not snow as often as it used to. Where I live, we get only one or two light falls of snow every winter. And when there is even a moderate fall of snow, there is chaos on the roads and
听播客学英语 281 一天没有你
Here is another one of Margarets poems. It is called A Day Without You. A day without you is like a garden with no rain, having no air to breathe, no nourishment. A day without you is like having no friends, being imprisoned, and trapped inside mysel
听播客学英语 282 南瓜
I have found a short video for you to watch. But first, I will explain what the video is about, and some of the words that are used in it. The video is about John. His hobby is growing pumpkins (in a secret location in the South of England!). He is t
听播客学英语 283 干旱
Have you visited England? What do you remember about your visit? How about our English weather? It always rains in England, doesnt it? Well, actually, no often it does not rain. In fact, for the past 14 months rainfall in many parts of England has be
听播客学英语 284 贝基和克雷格
Last week in Birmingham Becky and Craig met each other for the first time; a few minutes later they got married. Along with about 250 other people, they had entered a competition organised by the Birmingham radio station BRMB. The prize was a wedding
