英语博客-北美风情 147、Garden-Variety

图片1 Culips is not your garden-variety podcast! In this episode, we give you fun and interesting idioms to say that something is average and common. You could describe items or places as garden-variety or run-of-the-mill. You could also say that s

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英语博客-北美风情 137、Holidays throughout the year.

图片1 Happy New Year everybody! We hope your 2011 is going very well so far. Now that we have 2011 in front of us, we have lots of other holidays to look forward to. Jessie and Maura do a general overview of the statutory holidays in Canada, when t

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英语博客-北美风情 136、Christmas Questions.....

图片1 Happy Holidays wherever you are! This year we asked what people wanted to know about the holiday season in Canada and we got some questions! In this episode, Harp and Maura answer these questions, talking about clementines and whether Christm

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英语博客-北美风情 135、Dibs!

图片1 In todays episode were going to look at an expression that you can use to say that something is yours. To make a claim that something or some activity belongs to you, you can call dibs. Its a funny little word with some variations that we als

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英语博客-北美风情 134、Tips for Canadian job intervi

图片1 Harp is back by popular demand with more advice on looking for work. This time Harp gives advice on everything about the interview process. She talks about how to prepare, what to do during the interview, and how to follow up afterwards. Youl

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英语博客-北美风情 133、A taste of your own medicine

图片1 Have you ever given someone a taste of their own medicine? Has anyone ever given you a taste of your own? Shawn gave Angela a taste of her own medicine. This means that Shawn treated Angela in the same bad way that she had been treating him.

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英语博客-北美风情 132、Baby talk

图片1 Babies are special little people that have vocabulary special to them. In this episode, we look at vocabulary for before the baby gets here, when the mother is in labour, and after the baby is born and starts to grow. Do you know what a onesi

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英语博客-北美风情 131、It happened out of the blue!

图片1 Sometimes life is unpredictable and things happen out of the blue. Sometimes people say things that seem to come from out of nowhere. In situations like this you might react by saying, Where did that come from?, or I didnt see that coming. Yo

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英语博客-北美风情 130、Word Blends like fantabulous

图片1 Languages are always evolving and changing. Here we look at a pretty modern trend in English, which is to make new words by blending two words together. Sometimes these two words have similar meanings, and sometimes they have opposite meaning

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英语博客-北美风情 128、The art of telling stories in

图片1 Listen to this! That is just one of the ways that people begin stories to get peoples attention. We discuss ways to begin stories in English, and also how people use the present tense to tell a story in the past! People often exaggerate when

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英语博客-北美风情 127、What’s the big deal?

图片1 This episode is about how people react to different situations. Some people have big reactions to situations that are not important. In these cases, we can use to blow something out of proportion, to make a mountain out of a molehill, or to m

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英语博客-北美风情 126、Air travel

图片1 Everyone at Culips is a traveler. And if you are learning English, then maybe you also like to visit other countries and experience different cultures. Taking airplanes is part of the fun of traveling, and there is lots of special vocabulary

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英语博客-北美风情 125、We hope that you are ...

图片1 In this episode we are talking about expressions used to mean that you like something or someone. We look at the popular expressions to be into or to be crazy about something or someone. We also look at to be big on something or to be a big s

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英语博客-北美风情 124、Working for a Living

图片1 Are you working right now? Are you thinking about coming to Canada to work? Are you going to working one day? I think thats about everybody! Listen to this episode to find out about working in Canada. Harp and Maura talk about what it is like

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英语博客-北美风情 123、Would you ever butter someone

图片1 Have you ever needed something from someone a lot? Maybe you needed someone to do something for you so much that you buttered them up first. Do you know someone who is a sweet talker and often gets what they want? Or would you kiss someones b

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英语博客-北美风情 129、Snack time!

图片1 Our eating habits around the world are so different, from the food to eat, to the time we eat, to what we eat. But no matter where you are or where youre from, you snack! In this episode Maura and Harp talk about popular snack habits in Canad

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英语博客-北美风情 218 A Canadian Childhood

We were all kids once! But depending on where you live in the world, this can be quite a different experience. In this episode, Harp and Maura talk about the stuff that Canadian kids have to do, like chores, and the stuff that kids mostly want do, li

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英语博客-北美风情 213、Birds of a feather flock together

Do you know anyone else just like you? Sometimes we see two people who act or look or even think alike. It happens often enough that weve even got some expressions in English for it! The next time you see two people who look a lot alike, you can tell

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英语博客-北美风情 214、Maura’s road trip: What actually happened

This past July, Culips podcast host Maura took a road trip west through the United States, into the Rocky Mountains, and then east back across Canada. Before she left, she shared her plans in the Culips episode Mauras Road Trip, and now shes back wit

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英语博客-北美风情 215、Never look a gift horse in the mouth

You cant always get what you want, but you should appreciate what is given to you. This episode is about accepting what people give you and not being critical, even if it is not exactly what you wanted. We have some very old expressions in English to

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