听播客学英语 110 咬指甲

Do you bite your finger nails? No dont answer that question. I dont really want to know. Biting your nails is a bad habit which will lead to premature baldness and make you unattractive to the opposite sex. Instead, we are going to talk football in t

听播客学英语 109 气味

In the last podcast, I said that I would tell you how Birmingham did in their match against Aston Villa. Well, they lost 5-1. Sorry, Birmingham! Birmingham could still stay in the Premiership next season, but things are not looking good. The nail-bit

听播客学英语 108 修车

My car does not go. I dont know what is wrong with it. The engine wont start. The car will not move. What shall I do? I will get the car repaired. That means I will not repair the car myself. I will ask someone else to do it, and they will repair the

听播客学英语 107 如何保持温暖

If you visit upland areas of Britain places like the mountains of Scotland, or Wales, or the Pennine Hills in northern England you will see a lot of sheep. Many of the sheep are in places where there are no walls or hedges to keep them in their field

听播客学英语 106 银行假日

Irene, who lives in Germany, is a regular listener to these podcasts. She has sent me an e-mail to suggest that I make a podcast about bank holidays in England and the way that we celebrate them. Most countries have public holidays at various times o

听播客学英语 105 尼斯湖水怪

In the last podcast, we talked about the Loch Ness monster, and we met Steve Feltham, who has spent the last 17 years living beside Loch Ness, looking for the monster. On the website today, you will find a YouTube video. In the video, Steve Feltham t

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 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