词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Listener Questions

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: November 14, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: November 17, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, English teacher Lida Baker answers some of your questions. RS: Starting with this fro

词汇大师-- An Earl and a Whirl

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more from our interview with Philip Dodd, author of the new book The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium: From Joseph P. Frisbie to Roy Jacuzzi, How Everyday Items Were Named for Extraordin

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slangman: Energy-Related Slang

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: August 28, 2003 SOUND: Seagulls, ship horn AA: I'm Avi Arditti, with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the catch of the day, terms from the sea. Lots of nautical expressions have washed ashore into everyday

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Carnival Jargon

Broadcast: May 27, 2004 Memorial Day weekend is almost here, and with it, the unofficial start of America's summer season. Traditionally, Memorial Day is the busiest day in the year for traveling carnivals with their trained animals, games of chance

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slangman: Political Terms ('Cindere

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: November 7, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: November 10, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- slang and idioms in American politics. RS: Tuesday was Election Day, and Slangman Da

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Pronunciation of North American Eng

AA: I'm Avi Arditti; Rosanne Skirble is away. This week on Wordmaster: pronunciation the North American way. Our guest is Colleen Meyers. She teaches English to international teaching assistants at the University of Minnesota. She's also a co-author

词汇大师-- "Punctuation Rap"

Punctuation Rap PUNK, PUNK, PUNCTUATION PUNK, PUNK, PUNCTUATION I am a QUESTION MARK, what do I do? I'm at the end of questions, like Where? What? or Who? PUNK, PUNK, PUNCTUATION PUNK, PUNK, PUNCTUATION I am a PERIOD, that means full stop, At the end

词汇大师-- Slang in the World of Hooky Bulls

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster: two more interviews with English teachers in Russia. I was there last month at the invitation of the English Language Office at the American Embassy in Moscow, to talk about VOA's Special English progr

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: War and English Teachin

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: April 3, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster -- it's time for our monthly visit with English teacher Lida Baker. She writes textbooks and she teaches in the American Language Center at the University of C

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Exceptional Verbs

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: August 15, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: August 18, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble is away. With me this week on Wordmaster is our English teacher friend Lida Baker in Los Angeles, to talk about a few verbs

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--The Oxford Dictionary

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: August 26, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a guide to some political talk in America. This week, reporters asked President Bush about a television commercial that attacked the V

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Linguistic Diversity in Action

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: August 19, 2004 A new map released by the Modern Language Association shows which languages are spoken where in the United States. According to the MLA map, a 33-square-kilometer area south of Los Angeles is one of the mo

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Wordcount.org

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 2, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: counting words. RS: If you wanted to show people the 88,000 most common words in English, how would you do it? Jonathan Harris thoug

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Common Sentence Errors

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 8, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti. Rosanne Skirble is away. But with me from Los Angeles this week on Wordmaster is English teacher Lida Baker. LB: What we're going to talk about today is four types of common sentence erro

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Crafting a Complaint

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: October 7, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a lesson in complaining. RS: English teacher Lida Baker is with us from Los Angeles to discuss a topic suggested by one of our listene

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Easy English Times

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: May 6, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti, and this week on Wordmaster -- English made easy. There's a newspaper in California called Easy English Times. It's written for English learners, and it started in 1996. I met the publishe

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Encouraging English 2

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: June 26, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we chat again with English teacher Lida Baker in Los Angeles about how to encourage English learners to speak up in class. RS: This we

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Encouraging English Lea

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: June 19, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- encouraging English learners to talk in class. RS: We asked English teacher Lida Baker in Los Angeles how she gets conversation starte

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Native American Influence on Englis

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 23, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: with the National Museum of the American Indian opening in Washington, we look at Native American influence on the English language

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Political Rhetoric in America,Part

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: February 5, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we continue our discussion of American political rhetoric. RS: The Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University says two times