英语博客-北美风情 205、This episode’s a nail-biter

Some movies and television shows can be very tense and dramatic, and weve got a handful of expressions to talk about them. This episodes all about the exciting things we see on screen or read in books that keep us wanting to know more and make us anx

英语博客-北美风情 203、Board games aren’t boring!

Who doesnt like to play games? Weve got an episode for you all about board games, which ones are popular in Canada and which ones Harp and Maura have memories of playing. Have you heard of The Game of Life? Do you know Monopoly? Listen and learn here

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

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

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.

英语博客-北美风情 138、Shopping

图片1 Before Christmas people are shopping for presents to give to their loved ones. After Christmas people shop to find things for themselves on sale. Some people love to go to the mall all the time and others like to stay away. In this episode Ha

英语博客-北美风情 142、Don’t cry over spilled milk

图片1 It is always good advice to accept things in the past that you cannot change, and thats what this episode is all about! Dont cry over spilled milk is an expression that warns against being stuck in the past too much. As usual, we look at diff

英语博客-北美风情 143、Who doesn’t love a good boo

图片1 In this episode we are talking about books! Harp and Maura review some of their favourite books and talk about why they love them. Youll also hear about different kinds of books, book-to-movie-adaptations, and e-books, the latest trend in boo

英语博客-北美风情 145、Stress!!

图片1 Winter can be stressful and depressing for some people, especially in Canada. Today were going to talk about things people get stressed about and techniques for how to cope with stress. We also use and explain expressions associated with stre

英语博客-北美风情 146、Another Canadian Winter

图片1 Its March, and winter is still not finished in Montreal and Canada. Since Harp and Maura love to talk about the weather they decided to devote an entire episode to discussing it. They talk about all the things people do during winter, how sno

英语博客-北美风情 10、Catch Word #4 “Put”

图片1 Where did you put your bag? Did you put it up or down? Or did you put it away? Here we are looking at the different meanings with the word put. Have you ever had to put up with a very boring English lesson? We hope not!

英语博客-北美风情 5、Catch Word #3 “Break”

图片1 There are also many verbs containing the work break. At Culips we always try to break expressions down for you; To break something down means to break it into smaller parts and explain it. Other break verbs in this episode for you include bre

英语博客-北美风情 43、Idiom: Out of it

图片1 How are you feeling today? Are you a bit out of it? Here we look at a common expression for not quite feeling awake or present. Maybe Canadians are always sleepy because we use this expression often! Learn about it and similar expressions in

英语博客-北美风情 46、How do you end emails?

图片1 Are most of you out there writing emails in English? Are you getting bored with ending your emails the same way all the time? Well, then this episode is for you! Here we discuss which email endings are appropriate and when to use them. We als

英语博客-北美风情 52、Culture: Happy Valentine’s D

图片1 Its one week until Valentines Day and to get you in the mood for love we are uploading our episode a week early! Maura talks a bit about the history of Valentines Day to start and then we listen to a REAL conversation between Robin and Harp a

英语博客-北美风情 66、Expression: To pull strings

图片1 Sometimes it is not easy to get what we want. What we want could be a job or tickets to a really popular show. In these cases, sometimes we can pull strings to get what we want. When people pull some strings, they use power to get what they w

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 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 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 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.