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美语听力与发音技巧 第7期（冠词“a”） Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on using or omitting the English article “a” correctly. There’s no single rule

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Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Todays tip is on using or omitting the English article a correctly.今天的主题是a这个冠词的使用 Theres no single rule that explains how to choose whether you should use a, use the or not use any

美语口音训练第一册06

Staircase Intonation So what is intonation in American English? What do Americans do? We go up and down staircases. We start high and end low. Every time we want to stress a word or an idea, we just start a new staircase. That sounds simple enough,

英语博客-北美风情 2、Catch Word #1 “Turn”

图片1 In this episode we look at verbs and nouns with the word turn; Turn on, turn off, turn up, and turn down! When we add a different preposition on the end the meaning changes and here we talk about all their meanings. So turn on this episode an

VOA慢速英语--在日常生活中的不定式

Imagine you are in an American city. While standing along the street, you hear someone asking for directions. What's the best way to get to the airport? Continue straight and take the second right. It will only take about five minutes. Thanks! I'm ru

词汇大师-- Advice Not 'Advices'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: A listener, Akbar Gandi in Iran, is asking for an explanation of countable and uncountable nouns and the difference between a name and a noun. RS: English teacher Lida Baker has t

英语语法：189 Less Versus Fewer

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is less versus fewer. Less and fewer are easy to mix up. They mean the same thingthe opposite of morebut you use them in different circumstances (1). The basic rule is that you use less with mass nouns and fewer with

VOA慢速英语2018--Foods We Count...or Don't

You probably know a lot of food words, such as bread, apple and rice. But knowing which foods are countable and which are not can be tricky. In todays Ask a Teacher, Abdo from Sudan writes: Question: How do I know which foods can be plural? For examp

英语语法：17 People Versus Entities

Grammar Girl here. Aliza in Alaska recently asked whether she should use who or that to refer to a board of directors. Today we're going to decide whether companies are people or things; in other words, whether you use the relative pronoun who or tha

【简明语法】1. 名词

名词可以分为专有名词（ Proper Nouns ）和普通名词 (Common Nouns) ，专有名词是某个（些）人，地方，机构等专有的名称，如 Beijing ， China 等。普通名词是一

每日一词【509】stereotype：成见

今天我们要学的词是stereotype。 Stereotype, 有成见的意思。 Stereotypes based on gender, race and age are all wrong, 基于性别、种族和年龄的成见都是错误的。美国最近的好几项研究都显示，老年人其实要比

美国文化脱口秀 第584期:中国人起英语名的三大错误

起英语名的三大忌 中国人起英语名，要避免三大错误： 1.Don't make up names: 不要造名字 常见的错误：为了呼应自己的汉语名或者喜欢某个词的意思，而选了做英语名。 常见奇怪的名字：Dragon,

【英音模仿秀】变性人去男厕还是女厕

模仿句子：At issue, a White House directive earlier this month that all students be allowed to use the toilet that matches their gender identity rather than their sex at birth. 本月初（5月）白宫下达的一条指示饱受争议：所有学

新西兰英语 517 Voting in the election

Only 73% of registered voters chose to vote on Saturday. This is the lowest percentage since 1887. 3,053,705 people are registered to vote but only 2.2m people voted. Although it is too early to know all the details, it seems that young people are no

VOA慢速英语2019--The Rules of Word Stress, Part 1

In English, syllable stress is hugely important for communication. The word stress here means saying part of a word louder and holding the sound a little longer than other parts. For example: movie. I said MO- a little louder and longer than -vie. If

新西兰英语 444 Safer driving over the weekend

Queens Birthday weekend finished in New Zealand with no deaths from road crashes. This is amazing. It is the first holiday weekend since 1951 when there have been no deaths on the roads. It is possible that the high cost of petrol means that there we

美式英语正音训练第3期:阶梯状语调

Staircase Intonation So what is intonation in American English? What do Americans do? We go up and down staircases. We start high and end low. Every time we want to stress a word or an idea, we just start a new staircase. That sounds simple enough, b

听播客学英语 214 黑斯廷斯战役

Last weekend was a famous anniversary. No, not my birthday. Not the anniversary of the last time England won the World Cup. It was the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, which took place 940 years ago at a place called (appropriately) Battle, whi

听播客学英语 280 下雪

Today it is snowing. This is unusual. In England nowadays, it does not snow as often as it used to. Where I live, we get only one or two light falls of snow every winter. And when there is even a moderate fall of snow, there is chaos on the roads and

VOA慢速英语2019--Travel, Trip or Journey?

In todays Ask a Teacher, our reader Leopoldo asks about three commonly confused travel words. Here is the question: Question: Hi! Can you explain when it is correct to use trip, journey or travel? Thank you for your answer. Leopoldo Answer: Hello, Le