听播客学英语 62 卷土重来

Hello, and welcome back to Listen to English. I hope you all had a good summer break. Today, I will tell you about an expression which you often see in the newspapers making a comeback. What does it mean, to make a comeback? Imagine that you are a po

听播客学英语 82 圣诞购物

In todays podcast, we have a serious discussion of the state of the world economy, and we go Christmas shopping with Kevin and Joanne. As I am sure you know, there are some big problems in the worlds economy at present. There is a recession (that is,

听播客学英语 75 劳伦的眼睛

Britain has a new celebrity. Her name is Lauren Luke, and she is how shall I describe her? Not a film star, exactly. No, she is a video star, a YouTube video star in fact. Lauren is 27. She lives with her mother, her 10 year old son, her sister, two

听播客学英语 77 我们爱雪

When English people meet each other, they generally start their conversation by talking about the weather. Its nice weather we are having, they say. Or, Its a bit cold for the time of year. This week we have had a big national conversation all about

听播客学英语 78 大幅削减

It has been more than two weeks since my last podcast. I have two excuses. The first is that I have had another bout of flu not badly, but enough to make it difficult to do anything like writing or recording a podcast. My second excuse is much more e

听播客学英语 79 如何来跟踪孩子

Do you know the English expression to keep track of something? If you keep track of something, you always have a good, up-to-date knowledge of it. Here are some examples to help you understand the way we use the expression. Molly is an air-traffic co

听播客学英语 80 饼干

A Happy New Year, everyone. Many thanks to all of you who sent e-mails to wish me a speedy recovery from the flu. I am now much better thank you. Todays podcast is a delayed Christmas podcast. I would have made it before Christmas, but I was unwell s

听播客学英语 81 我病了

I am ill. I have flu. I have been sent to bed with a hot water bottle and my teddy bear until I am better. So I have not had time this week to make a proper podcast. I hope to have time in a few days. But maybe this is a good opportunity to give you

听播客学英语 83 学习语言

I read an interesting story in the newspaper last week. It said that researchers at University College London had measured the brains of people who are bilingual (that is, people who speak two languages well) and also the brains of people who spoke o

听播客学英语 84 火车大劫案

I think you know the English word famous. If someone is famous, it means that everyone has heard of them, that they are well-known. So, Beethoven was a famous composer, and the Eifel Tower is a famous landmark in Paris. But, suppose that someone is w

听播客学英语 85 你能告诉区别吗？

Today we visit Second Life, and we learn the English expression to tell the difference. My daughter likes chocolate cake. Last week I made a chocolate cake. I also bought a chocolate cake at the supermarket. I gave my daughter a little piece of each

听播客学英语 86 罐子和瓶子

There was a story in the newspapers recently about a couple called John and Ann Till. They live near a town called Petersfield in south-east England, and earlier this year they got married. They wanted to go on a honeymoon to the United States after

听播客学英语 87 我想跳舞

I am sorry that there was no podcast last week. It was half-term week, the week in the middle of the school term when the children have a holiday. We went to Dorset, on the south coast of England, to visit my mother-in -law, so there was no time to m

听播客学英语 88 注意距离

In todays podcast, I am going to talk about the English word mind, and about some expressions which contain the word mind. Your mind means the things which happen inside your head, or inside your brain your thinking, in other words. We can say, for e

听播客学英语 89 英格兰守护神

In Christian tradition, a saint means someone whom the Church recognises as having led a particularly good and holy life. There are lots of Christian saints. The Roman Catholic church recognises more than 10,000 of them. You cant be recognised as a s

听播客学英语 76 怪物

Todays podcast is about a childs toy, and a TV journalist. The childs toy is a golliwog. A golliwog is a soft toy, a sort of doll. There is a picture of a golliwog on the website, and I hope on your iPod screens. The Golly in the picture is wearing b

听播客学英语 90 更新

In todays podcast, I am going to talk about the English word up-to-date. Well, it is really three words up, to and date normally we spell it with hyphens in between but we can think of up-to-date as a single word. Up-to-date is an adjective. It means

听播客学英语 91 预制件

Near to where I live, there is a group of small houses. They are bungalows that is, they are single-storey houses. There are gardens in front of the houses, and behind them; and most of the gardens are well-kept. There is something unusual about the

听播客学英语 92 丢失和寻找

Alexandre Monteiro has sent me an e-mail asking about the difference between the words seek, find and look. I hope that this podcast will help him, and other people. I guess you know the English verb to lose. The past tense is lost. If you lose your

听播客学英语 93 如何进入厨房

I have some poetry for you in todays podcast. It is a poem by a woman called Susie Paskins, and it is called How to enter the kitchen. Let me first explain what the poem is about. Susie has a problem. There is a mouse in her kitchen! She knows that t