听播客学英语 185 如何到达

Today we will learn something about the word arrive. I will tell you when to say arrive at and when to say arrive in. And I will also tell you that you must never say arrive to! Kevin and Joanne are going to visit their friend Amy, who lives in Glasg

听播客学英语 186 海难

This podcast uses words and expressions about ships and the sea. These words may be new to you, so on the podcast website I have linked some of them to definitions in the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary. But if you are listening on iTunes or a

听播客学英语 188 撇号灾难

In a podcast last week, I talked about apostrophes the little commas that we sometimes write above letters in English. Do you know the rules about when to write an apostrophe, and when not to write one? You should write an apostrophe; 1. when you lea

听播客学英语 189 贝克汉姆

David Beckham is a famous football player. He played for Manchester United in the years when Manchester United won everything they could possibly win. And he was captain of the England football team. But in the past few years his football career has

听播客学英语 190 新年愿望

I have a poem for you today. It is called New Year Resolution, and it is by Edrey Allott. She does not tell us what her New Year resolution is. She just says that she knows that she should have done it a long time ago, but this year she really will.

听播客学英语 191 Work out

Todays podcast is about working out. There is a grammar and vocabulary note which explains that the expression to work out has two different meanings. If you are listening on iTunes or an iPod, you will need to go to the podcast website to read the n

听播客学英语 192 沉迷

Happy New Year to all of you. I have been making these podcasts now for exactly a year. It has been great fun and I am very grateful to all of you who listen to them. At the beginning of January, many people make New Year resolutions. That means that

听播客学英语 193 圣诞屋

Bling? Whats bling? Bling is a modern slang word for jewellery. But not any sort of jewellery. Jewellery is bling if: it is big it is brightly coloured it is loud and tasteless there is lots of it it is really in your face Jewellery is not bling if i

听播客学英语 194 圣诞市场

In December, in many towns in Germany and other countries in northern Europe, there are Christmas markets. Some of them are very famous, and tourists come from a long distance to explore the markets, buy Christmas gifts and enjoy the atmosphere. Here

听播客学英语 187 果酱

One of the strangest things about English people is what we eat for breakfast. Some people have a cooked breakfast, with bacon and eggs and sausages. But most people are far too busy to cook things for breakfast. So they have a nice cup of tea or cof

听播客学英语 202 豪饮巡航

In Britain, there are heavy taxes on alcoholic drinks and on tobacco. But in France, the taxes on these things are lower. A European Union Regulation says that, when we travel to other EU countries, we may bring back with us anything that we have bou

听播客学英语 195 圣诞老人

Today I am going to talk to you about Santa Claus. Santa Claus, or Father Christmas, is a jolly man with a red suit and a white beard. He brings children presents in the night before Christmas Day. He arrives on a sleigh pulled by reindeer. Normally,

听播客学英语 196 哑剧

This podcast is about the expression to join in. If I join in some activity, I take part in it, or become involved in it with other people. Here are some examples: Kevin and George are discussing football. Matt is also interested in football, so he j

听播客学英语 197 给我一个简单的生活

It is a long time since we had any poetry on these podcasts. My friend Margaret has just written a light-hearted poem about, well, about how she wants a simple life without the things that make the modern world so stressful. Before I read the poem, I

听播客学英语 198 墙纸

This is just a postscript to the last podcast about Tomma Abts winning the Turner prize. You remember that the leader of the Stuckists said that Tommas paintings made 1950s wallpaper look profound. Well, I see that yesterday an art critic in a leadin

听播客学英语 199 Tomma 获得特纳奖

Every year, a prize is awarded to an artist who is British born or who works in Britain. It is called the Turner prize. It is named after the famous British artist J M W Turner. In previous years, some of the art and artists which have won the Turner

听播客学英语 201 邻居和足球

Sometimes things happen that make you think that the world has gone mad. Christopher works in a bank. In fact, he has a senior job in the bank and is very well paid. He lives in a posh part of London called Kensington. The people who live in his stre

听播客学英语 203 不穿衣服节

Most British children wear school uniform to go to school. They have to. The school rules say that the children have to wear school uniform at school. What sort of school uniform? Well, my younger children are both at secondary school. My daughter ha

听播客学英语 204 日产费加罗出售

In the early 1990s, the Nissan car company in Japan built a small sports car called the Nissan Figaro. There is a picture of one on the website. It has a retro look. That means that it was designed to look old-fashioned as if it had been built in the

听播客学英语 205 机器坏了

In our lives we have lots of machines and electrical equipment things like cars and washing machines, video recorders and mobile phones. Most of the time they work OK. But sometimes they do not. Todays podcast is about the words we use when something