听播客学英语 21 我很幸运

Like lots of people, I have Google as the home page on my web browser. On the Google page, there is a search box where I can type what I am looking for. For example, I can type English lessons if I want to find web sites which teach people English. U

听播客学英语 22 鬼村

Today, we will visit a little village on the south coast of England. Its name is Tyneham, and it is a ghost village. What does ghost village mean? It means that the village is deserted, there is no-one there. Many of the houses, the church and the sc

听播客学英语 23 一个专横的播客

Before we begin, I have an apology to make. In the last podcast, about the Archers, I talked about a woman whom I called Helen Carter and her new baby. I should have said Helen Archer. I do not know why I got her name wrong. Perhaps I am getting old.

听播客学英语 25 Bootifull!

This podcast is about turkeys. I dont mean the country Turkey, of course. I mean the big birds that many people eat at Christmas. There is a picture on the website if you want to know what a turkey looks like. A few days ago, the newspapers reported

听播客学英语 26 威廉和凯特订婚了！

Last week, the newspapers and television told us about an engagement. An engagement is when two people decide to get married. We say that the couple are engaged to be married, or simply that they are engaged. The engagement which was announced last w

听播客学英语 27 灯塔人

Britain is an island. We are surrounded by sea. Nowdays, you can get here by plane, or by train through the Channel Tunnel. But before planes were invented, and the Channel Tunnel was built, the only way to come to Britain was by sea. The seas around

听播客学英语 20 money

There was an important anniversary this week. Forty years ago, on 15 February 1971, Britain changed its currency, that is, its money system. This is what happened. When I was a child in the fifties and sixties, Britain had a wonderfully complicated c

听播客学英语 28 提防

Todays podcast is about taking care! I want you to imagine that you are visiting England. You and some friends decide to go for a walk in the country. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and all is right with the world. You walk through a prett

听播客学英语 29 是马还是狗

A long time ago, I made a podcast about graffiti, and the graffiti artist called Banksy. Graffiti means pictures or writing painted illegally on a wall or a building, or the side of a train or a bus. Many people think that graffiti are unsightly. We

听播客学英语 30 去上大学

In English, it is the little words that cause the problems. Big words like misappropriation or truthfulness are easy. If you do not understand what they mean, you can look them up in a dictionary. But little words like up, down, on and off are diffic

听播客学英语 74 失去

Today we are going to miss things! Miss is a word which we can use in several different ways. Here are some of them. Kevin is at a football match. United, the team which he supports, is losing 1-0, and there is only five minutes before the final whis

听播客学英语 72 狐狸和母鸡

I like hens. When I was a child, my grandmother kept hens. When we visited her, we could help her feed the hens. We thought she had hundreds of hens, but actually I think she had 40 or 50. They lived in hen houses in her garden, and during the day th

听播客学英语 298 撞人

To bump into something means to collide with something, or to knock against something. But in colloquial speech, it also means to meet someone unexpectedly. For instance. Today I went to the supermarket. Unfortunately, as I was parking my car, I bump

听播客学英语 297 重建伦敦

HAHA HA! Boom Boom! That was Basil Brush. He appeared in our last episode. He is a fox, and a favourite character on childrens television in Britain. Every time he cracks a joke, he shouts: HAHAHA! Boom Boom! I have included a little picture of Basil

听播客学英语 296 nothing

In English we have several names for the number zero (0). Sometimes we call it zero. Sometimes we call it nought. Sometimes we say O just like the letter O. James Bond was double o seven 007. In most cases, you can use any of these three zero, nought

听播客学英语 295 老鼠

Here is a poem by Rose Fyleman. It is called Mice. I think mice Are rather nice. Their tails are long, Their faces small, They havent any Chins at all. Their ears are pink, Their teeth are white, They run about the house at night. They nibble things

听播客学英语 293 make up

The idiom to make up has at least three different meanings. First, it can mean to invent, for example, a story. The story is not true it did not really happen it came from my imagination. I made it up. Second, make-up is the stuff women put on their

听播客学英语 292 欢笑声

The Sound of Your Laughter To my Children, and yours too. The sound of your laughter Is what pulls me through The harshest winter The sound of your laughter Makes every bright summer day Brighter The sound of your laughter Is what gets me up in the m

听播客学英语 291 生病

My voice today sounds rather strange, doest it? Yes I have flu, and I am recording this podcast in bed. And in this podcast we will introduce or revise some vocabulary related to being ill. Kevin, the hero of our soap opera, Podcast People, fells ver

听播客学英语 290 企鹅

There was once a man who had a pet Penguin. One day, he took his Penguin for a walk. A Policeman saw him and walked over. He said What are you doing with that Penguin? The man said Im taking him for a walk, officer The Policeman stared at the man and