听播客学英语 120 Rhubarb
In this podcast, we are going to meet some words about food some very English sorts of food. Look out for these words rhubarb, pie, crumble, chutney, custard. A lot of people who visit England think that English food is very strange. A lot of English
听播客学英语 121 语言
Last week a woman called Marie Smith Jones died. She was 89 years old and she lived in Alaska in North America. Marie was the last person alive to speak a language called Eyak. Eyak is, or was, one of the native North American languages. Linguists ha
听播客学英语 122 游泳通道
This week we meet the verb to swim; and we also meet a famous swimmer, called Captain Webb. The verb to swim is one of a very small group of English verbs where there are three different vowel sounds in three different tenses, like this: I swim I swa
听播客学英语 123 to hold you
Hello, everyone. It is very good to be making a new podcast. My internet connection is working again. Thank you very much for your patience, and a big thank you in particular to all those of you who sent me e-mails saying how sorry you were about my
听播客学英语 124 失意
On the day after Christmas Day the day we call Boxing Day in England something terrible happened. My internet connection stopped working. I could not surf the net. I could not read my e-mails. I could not check my website or upload new podcasts. The
听播客学英语 125 新年
It is 2008. Happy New Year, everyone. What did you do during the Christmas and New Year holiday? How did you celebrate New Year? Traditionally in England, Christmas was our big winter celebration. Scotland was different. In Scotland, New Year was the
听播客学英语 126 圣诞故事
[This podcast is longer than normal. The first part of the transcript is below. The second part is here and can also be download as a pdf file.] When you learn a new language, often it is the little words that cause the big problems. I am learning Ge
听播客学英语 127 世界上没有这样古怪的乡亲
In todays podcast, we are going to meet three English expressions. The first one is to get away with something. If you do something bad, and nobody discovers what you did, or they do not find out that it was you who did the bad thing, then we can say
听播客学英语 128 说话谈话
Valeriy, who lives in Russia, has sent me an e-mail. He asks whether I can make a podcast about these words say, tell, speak and talk. Well, that is easy, I thought. So I sat down to write a podcast about when we use say and when we use tell and so o
听播客学英语 129 特朗普先生的高尔夫球场
We go to Scotland again today for our podcast. But first I must introduce you to an English expression to turn something into something else. What does turn into mean? The easiest way of explaining is to give you an example. Do you remember the fairy
听播客学英语 130 岛屿
Andy Strangeway is a painter and decorator. He lives in Yorkshire in the north of England. When I say that he is a painter, I do not mean that he paints pictures. No; he paints peoples houses, and puts up wallpaper in their sitting rooms. That is his
听播客学英语 131 艾米来到伯明翰
Today, Listen to English visits the world of British pop music. I started by doing some research. Who is Amy Winehouse? I asked my children. There was silence. The children sighed and rolled their eyes. It is very embarrassing for them to have a pare
听播客学英语 132 圣诞火鸡
It is the middle of November. It is time to start thinking about Christmas. It is time to think about Christmas cards, and what present to buy for Uncle George.(A nice tie perhaps, except that we bought him a tie last year and the year before). And s
听播客学英语 133 Remembering
The First World War ended on 11 November 1918. Nearly 1 million British servicemen and civilians died in the war. After the war, people thought that it was important to find ways to remember those who had been killed. So, throughout Britain, towns an
听播客学英语 134 我有一个梦想......
Have you a dream? I mean, is there something that you would really like to do in your life such as travelling round the world, or writing a best-selling novel, or climbing Mount Everest, or learning a new language. Good. It is important that we have
