听播客学英语 289 巧克力狂

In the last episode about the penguin we used the SOTHATconstruction. (He enjoyed it so much, that I am taking him again today!) Very often English people leave out the word THAT. We say simply He enjoyed it so much, I am taking him again today! You

听播客学英语 294 虱子

Last time we had mouse mice. This time it is louse lice. Headlice are tiny creatures which are sometimes found on peoples heads or in their hair. The eggs that these creatures lay are called nits. Often we do not like to talk about such things. But i

听播客学英语 02 学校晚餐

This is one of the school meals which Martha Payne photographed for her blog. She had carrot soup, pasta with meat and vegetables and more carrot, and yoghurt. Today we visit Scotland, to find out what a Scottish schoolgirl thinks of her school meals

听播客学英语 03 枯燥和乏味

Dull, twinned with Boring Do you know the English word dull? Dull is the opposite of bright. Often it means uninteresting. We can talk about dull weather, which means cloudy weather, probably some rain and certainly no sunshine. We can talk about a d

听播客学英语 05 英格兰的最新旅游景点

A traffic jam on the M25 motorway. Are you planning a visit to England? Are you thinking to yourself, What shall we do in England? Are there any really special places that we must go to when we are there? You are? Good, then this podcast is for you.

听播客学英语 06 每况愈下

We have an expression in English going to the dogs. If something is going to the dogs, it means that everything seems to be getting worse and worse. There is a special sort of English person perhaps you have met one who will tell you that England is

听播客学英语 07 卢肯勋爵无法应付

Lord Lucan. Have you seen this man? He cannot cope with life abroad. Today I am going to tell you about Lord Lucan. But first we need to talk about the verb to cope. Helen has three children. They are all less than five years old, which means that no

听播客学英语 08 在雨中唱歌

This young lady is singing in the rain, and dancing in the rain, and splashing in the puddles in the rain. If you are as old as I am, you probably remember a Hollywood film called Singing in the Rain. That was Gene Kelly singing a song from that film

听播客学英语 11 一年中最可怕的一天

Some very scary Halloween pumpkins. Photo by Pedro J Ferreira/flickr Today is 31 October, and it is the scariest day of the year. Do you know the verb to scare? If you scare someone, you frighten them, you make them afraid. So, scary means frightenin

听播客学英语 12 灰衣修士鲍比

In the podcast today, we will talk about fact and fiction. A fact is something which is true; something which I, or someone else, can prove to be true. For instance, it is a fact that the earth is round. And fiction is the opposite of fact. It means

听播客学英语 13 在泰晤士河游泳

The River Thames at Lechlade. The swans are waiting to attack David Walliams as he swims past. Listen to English has had a long summer break, but now I am back with a few more podcasts to help you improve your English listening skills. I want to remi

听播客学英语 14 早餐

Todays podcast is about breakfast. Probably most people think of breakfast as the meal you eat at the beginning of the day, when you first wake up. However, it is more complicated than that. First, lets look at what the word breakfast really means. A

听播客学英语 15 礼仪

We have a saying in English Manners maketh man. Maketh is an old form of makes or make. So the expression means that, if you want to be a real man, you have to have good manners. Manners means the way that you behave to other people, particularly in

听播客学英语 01 中年危机

Do you know what I mean when I say that someone is middle-aged? If you are middle-aged you are probably 40 years old or older. You have stopped being interested in pop music. You dont go to night clubs any more. You have sold the motor-bike which you

听播客学英语 73 铃声对你说什么？

Do you know the word impact? Impact means the action of hitting something with a lot of force. So, if two cars hit each other, we can talk about the impact of the collision. But generally we use impact in a figurative way we use it to mean a big effe

听播客学英语 10 熊猫

One of the new pandas at Edinburgh Zoo, enjoying a snack of bamboo shoots. This is a new Listen to English podcast, the first for a very long time. No, I am not dead, as some of you seem to think. Nor am I ill, nor have I run away to the Caribbean wi

听播客学英语 09 南极

Do you know what centenary means? It means the 100-year anniversary of something. This week is the centenary of the arrival at the South Pole of the first British explorers , led by Captain Robert Scott. The English word Arctic means the area of the