英语博客-北美风情 14、Blind Date part 2

图片1 Jen gets mixed up and Rick is a couch potato! Do you already know these funny expressions? After finding out about Jens date in part 1 of Catching Up, she asks Rick about his night. Find out what is new with him.

英语博客-北美风情 16、Expressions with CLEAR

图片1 Do you know all the meanings of the word clear? Do you understand them clearly? Here we try to make some of the definitions crystal clear for you! We look at things that are clear cut, discuss how to clear the table and clear your throat, and

英语博客-北美风情 15、Expression: In Da House

图片1 Robin and Maura are in da house! What does that mean? A real music lover heard this and wrote in to find out what it is all about.

英语博客-北美风情 13、Expressions with LOOK

图片1 You dont need to look up these definitions in the dictionary. Just listen to this episode where we look at some of the possibilities with the verb look! To look like, look down, look up and look forward to are the expressions that we examine

英语博客-北美风情 12、Pronunciation: Want vs Won’t

图片1 The question this time is a pronunciation question. How can we hear the difference between want and wont. It is true that they are very similar, but there are some differences and here we explain them for you.

英语博客-北美风情 11、Pronunciation: Can vs. Can’t

Today were going to look at a question about pronunciation. Lets listen to David from Greece. I am having a difficult time telling the difference between cant and can. Their meanings are totally opposite of each other. Help me better understand the p

英语博客-北美风情 87、Slang: To bug someone

图片1 Many of you have probably heard of the word bug. Most people know it as a noun, but it can also be used as a verb, like to bug a person. Do you think that bugging a person would be good or bad? Do you think someone would like to be bugged? Ch

英语博客-北美风情 86、Slang: Chicken!

图片1 Are you a chicken? In this episode we look at a familiar word but show you how it can be used in another way. Most of you probably know that a chicken is a kind of bird. And you can also probably imagine a chicken dinner. There is another fun

英语博客-北美风情 85、Slang: Dude!

图片1 Dude! This word is very popular nowadays, especially with young people. You can often hear this word in movies and television shows, or with your Native English speaker friends. It has been around for awhile but young people are using the wor

英语博客-北美风情 84、Canadian Food, Comfort Food

图片1 Everyone eats, but we all have different habits and favorite foods. The food you eat is often cultural. In this episode Harp and Maura try to explain what Canadian food is. They also talk about comfort food and what typical North American com

英语博客-北美风情 80、To be caught red-handed

图片1 When people commit crimes sometimes they get caught! That person may be caught in the act of doing it, and if you are caught in the act then we can say that you were caught red-handed. Another similar expression that is almost never used in a

英语博客-北美风情 79、Expression: Wing it

图片1 At Culips, we plan our episodes in advance, we dont just wing it. You can be specific and say that people can wing presentations or speeches, or you can simply say wing it. When you are not prepared, but you have to do something, you should t

英语博客-北美风情 78、To bite off more than you can

图片1 If you bite off more than you can chew things might be difficult for you. This expression might sound like it is talking about eating but dont be fooled it is not. Another expression with a similar meaning is to get in over your head. You can

英语博客-北美风情 83、Pet Peeves

图片1 Everyone has personal pet peeves that bother you. Someones pet peeves are usually cultural. Pet peeves are usually small, day-to-day things. Are you curious about what pet peeves are now? Listen to this episode to find out what they are. All

英语博客-北美风情 69、White lies vs. brutal honesty

图片1 Sometimes we dont want to be rude and so we need to tell a little white lie. Other times it may be important to be completely honest, and this is called brutal honesty. When is it OK to tell a white lie and when is it necessary to be brutally

英语博客-北美风情 73、Expression: Mum’s the word

图片1 If you want to tell someone to keep something a secret or promise to keep a secret for someone else you can use this expression: mums the word. At first it seems like a strange expressionmum is the word? Weird. But you will see it is not so c

英语博客-北美风情 72、Culture: Wedding anniversaries

图片1 Eliza from China emailed to ask us about Wedding Anniversaries. Here we talk about different ways to wish someone a happy anniversary, what couples do on their anniversaries and the special names of some anniversaries. If youre married or not

英语博客-北美风情 71、There are plenty of fish in th

图片1 Many different languages around the world have this expression. Do you have this expression in your language? Listen to this episode about There are plenty of fish in the sea and see if you recognize a similar expression in your native langua

英语博客-北美风情 68、Expression: Get it over with

图片1 Sometimes studying another language is really hard. We wish we could just get it over with and speak the language well. That is todays expression to get something over with. We usually use this expression when we have an obligation to do some

英语博客-北美风情 67、Expression: Rain check

图片1 The expression rain check in this episode has a few different meanings. The first one is described in the transcript below. And of course is connected to rain. Another kind of rain check is used in a story. And another one is used when people