听播客学英语 231 a sotry

Recently. I found a fascinating web site. It is the story of Alderley Edge, which is a village south of Manchester. The site contains a lot of maps, pictures and documents about the history of the village, and sound files in which people who live in

听播客学英语 233 你忘了我的茶

Last week, the police in Denia in eastern Spain made a gruesome discovery. They found a decomposing body in a rubbish tip underneath a motorway bridge. The body was that of Colin Nodes, who was British, and a criminal with a long and colourful histor

听播客学英语 234 取得联系

You know what the word touch means. As I type these words, my fingers touch the computer keyboard. If I touch something hot, I will burn myself. But what does it mean if I say that I am in touch with someone? Here are some examples. I have a friend.

听播客学英语 230 硬件

You are listening to this podcast on a computer, or perhaps you have downloaded it from a computer to an MP3 player. So I am sure that you know what the words hardware and software mean. Hardware means the computer itself and other machines which are

听播客学英语 235 大胆的走

Do you remember Star Trek? Star Trek was a science-fiction TV series which began in the 1960s. Later there were 10 Star Trek films. In Star Trek, the characters explore the galaxy and discover new worlds. They defend civilisation from aliens who wish

听播客学英语 236 看起来要下雨

Sometimes, when we talk about something which we think has happened, or which we think will happen, we use the expression it looks like. There are dark clouds in the sky. You think that it will soon start to rain. What do you say? I think it is going

听播客学英语 237 温网公开赛

The Wimbledon Tennis Championships 2006 have begun. Wimbledon is a place in south-west London. Tennis championships have taken place there every year since 1877. And, because this is England, there are important traditions about tennis at Wimbledon.

听播客学英语 238 特里和特里

I have a video for you today. It is about Terry and his wife, who is also called Terry (Terry is a name which both men and women can have). Together they tell the story of how they first met, and how over 50 years later they got married. Terry (the m

听播客学英语 239 失物招领

It is summer. And in the summer, people including politicians go on holiday. And this means that the newspapers are sometimes short of real news to print. British journalists sometimes call this time of year the silly season, because of the silly sto

听播客学英语 252 习惯

Last time, June told us about what she used to do when she was young. You remember that we say used to about things which happened in the past, not once but many times, or which happened continuously. But you know that English is not simple! We can u

听播客学英语 253 过去做的事

Used to we use this expression very often in English when we want to talk about things which happened in the past, not once, but many times, or things which happened continuously. For example. When I was young, we used to go on holiday by the sea. Th

听播客学英语 254 我的自行车丢了

In English, if we say that something HAS GONE, or that something IS GONE, we mean that it has disappeared. If I say that my money has all gone, I mean that I dont have any money any more. Maybe someone has stolen it. Maybe I have spent it all. If I s

听播客学英语 245 足球

Some of you have e-mailed me to say that you would like a podcast about English words for things that happen in a football match. There are many important people at a football match. There are the players 11 on each side. There are the substitutes wh

听播客学英语 241 夏天

Summer has reached England at last. For the past week the sun has shone and the birds have sung. There is a very old English song, from the thirteenth century, about the arrival of summer. It is written in mediaeval English, which is difficult to und

听播客学英语 242 走的太快

If you had been in Manchester one day last year, you might have seen a man taking down a road sign, and then carrying it away and putting it up again on a different road. What was going on? It happened like this. In Britain, if you are driving a car,

听播客学英语 240 害怕

You know what afraid means, dont you? If I am afraid, I am frightened or scared. If I am very afraid, I could say that I am terrified. When we want to talk about the thing that makes us afraid, we say afraid of. Some people are afraid of flying in ae

听播客学英语 243 悲惨事件

A few days ago, the newspapers reported a tragic incident in Manchester. Kally, a 15-year old girl, had split up from her boyfriend Josh, who was 18. A few days later, Josh came round to Kallys house. People nearby heard Kally and Josh arguing. Then

听播客学英语 244 你们这样做是故意的...

Kevin has bought a new jumper. It has brown, orange and beige stripes. Kevin likes his jumper very much. Joanne hates it. The colours are awful and it makes you look fat, she says. A few days later Joanne puts some washing in the washing machine. Kev

听播客学英语 246 生日

Photo by brewrat/flickr What is a Birthday ? When Im young, its cake and candles. Can I blow them out You bet ! When Im in my teens and twenties, an excuse for going wild. Shall we have a noisy party oh yes ! Im not a child ! When I reach the 30/40 m

听播客学英语 247 get

In English, we use the word get (or its past tense got) very often. Sometimes we say get by itself; sometimes we say get as part of a phrasal verb such as get in or get up. And we use get/got to mean many different things. If I get a newspaper, it me