听播客学英语 46 建房子

Todays podcast is about the names of different occupations, and about Harry and June and their new house. Harry is a retired school head teacher. He and his wife June want to move from London to live in Devon in the south-west of England. Devon is a

听播客学英语 52 snow

It is very cold here in England, and there is lots of snow on the ground. What do you think about snow? Yes, snow can be cold and wet and miserable. But it can also change familiar things our houses and gardens, our streets and our cities into someth

听播客学英语 53 Running out of things!

Today, we are going to run out of things. To run out of something is a phrasal verb. It is one of the hundreds of phrasal verbs in English, and I know you love phrasal verbs! Like most of the other English phrasal verbs, there is no easy way to remem

听播客学英语 54 改名

Every year the BBC asks its TV viewers to give money to a special appeal called Children in Need. The money is used to help charities which work with sick or disadvantaged children. The last Children in Need day was last Friday. For the whole evening

听播客学英语 55 生日快乐

That was Mr Chuck Berry. He was riding along in his automobile, and he is here to help us celebrate a special birthday. Yes, dear listeners, this week saw the 50th birthday of Britains first motorway. Germany and Italy built their first motorways bef

听播客学英语 56 泰晤士河失踪

What do we mean if we say that something is missing? We mean that it has disappeared, that it has gone! Suppose I put my car keys down on the table. A few minutes later, I look for them but they are gone. I am sure they were on the table. They were o

听播客学英语 58 如何处理旧沙发

Today we learn about how to get rid of things. Kevin and Joanne have an old sofa. In fact, it used to be Kevins sofa in the good old days when he was a student and before he had met Joanne. The sofa is dirty and stained, because Kevin has spilled bee

听播客学英语 59 宝藏

Before beginning todays podcast, I need to explain a few words. The first word is treasure. Treasure means things which are very valuable; generally, treasure means things made of gold or silver or precious stones. The second word is hoard. If someon

听播客学英语 57 Tall stories

Today we discover the word tall, and we learn about tall stories. I guess you know what tall means in your own language if you dont, stop listening now and look the word up in a dictionary. Here are some examples of the way we use tall. We can talk a

听播客学英语 71 帮助

I am sorry it has been so long since my last podcast. Thank you to all of you who sent me e-mails to ask what had happened and when would my next podcast be. No. I am not ill. No, I am not dead. No, I am not bored with podcasting. No, I have not run

听播客学英语 60 我不能忍受

This podcast is about bear. You all know what a bear is. It is a big, furry animal that likes eating honey. There is a picture of a bear on the website. He is from a zoo in northern Spain, where there are still some bears in the wild. However, that i

听播客学英语 61 群岛

Today we are going to visit St Kilda. St Kilda is a small group of islands in the north Atlantic, far to the west of Scotland. It is the home of tens of thousands of sea birds. In fact, St Kilda is one of the most important places for sea birds anywh

听播客学英语 63 我的意思是

Today we meet the English expression I meant to. Meant is the past tense of mean, and I know you all know what mean means. (Sorry, there are a lot of means in that sentence!) I guess you often ask, What does this word mean? or you say Now I understan

听播客学英语 64 Royal Ascot

Today we go horse racing, and we meet people with lots of money and no dress-sense! Ascot is a small town, south-west of London, and close to the royal castle at Windsor. In 1711, Queen Anne went horse-riding from Windsor, and discovered Ascot. She d

听播客学英语 65 旅游

We have more about canal boats in todays podcast. It was late afternoon when we arrived at the boatyard to find our canal boat. One of the staff took us round the boat, to show us how things worked. Then he gave me the keys. The boat was ours, for th

听播客学英语 66 运河

In the podcast about Mr Speaker, I told you that I was going on holiday. I said that I would be the captain of a ship and sail away to new and interesting places. So, where did I go on my ship? Perhaps I sailed across the Atlantic. Perhaps I visited

听播客学英语 67 黑色上衣

Today, I will tell you about black jumper day , and we will meet the English expression to leave for somewhere. In a podcast a very long time ago, in November 2006, I told you that most English children wear a school uniform to go to school. My daugh

听播客学英语 68 再见议长先生

Who is Mr Speaker? Mr Speaker is the chairman of our House of Commons, in Parliament. He is called the Speaker of the House of Commons because, several hundred years ago, it was his job to speak to the King, to tell the King what Parliament wanted, a

听播客学英语 69 桂冠诗人

Britain has a new Poet Laureate. Already, I hear you asking, What is he talking about? We know what a poet is it is someone who writes poetry. But what is this laureate thing? You may know that the ancient Greeks used to place a crown made of laurel

听播客学英语 70 犹豫

Two weeks ago, a man called Clement Freud died. He was 84 years old. He was a remarkable man, and very well-known and liked in Britain. He made us laugh, and I thought I would make a short podcast about him. Clement was born in Berlin in Germany. His