语言小点心:Fire Away

1. What does fire away mean?: a) you can ask me anything you want b) it's safe to fire the gun c) I think I can smell something burning 2. Which other expression has the same meaning as fire away? 3. Is fire away a friendly or unfriendly thing to sa

语言小贴士:Hit The Road

1. If you hit the road, what do you do? a) start a very long car journey b) have a traffic accident c) leave somewhere to go somewhere else 2. Who recorded the famous song, 'Hit The Road Jack'? 3. Why does Nina have to hit the road herself now? Toda

语言小贴士:大发雷霆

1. To blow your top means: a) to suddenly become excited b) to slowly become excited c) to suddenly become angry d) to slowly become angry 2. What does Nina think of when she/he hears the expression blow your top? 3. Which other English expression m

词汇大师-- When Netspeak Enters Formal Writing

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster: an example of how English teachers at one high school are trying to get students to keep the language of the Internet where it belongs. Jodi Schenck teaches at Rothberg Comprehensive High School in the

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 4, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: As a new school year gets under way in the United States, English teacher Lida Baker joins us to talk about informality in the class

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Front Matter Matters

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the second part of our conversation with Erin McKean, editor-in-chief of American dictionaries for Oxford University Press. RS: We start by talking about the proper way to get to

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Peace terms

AA: This is Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster -- the language of peace. Robert Johansen is a professor at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He says peace has a guarded place in the American voca

词汇大师-- Helping Students to 'Step Out of Apathy'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: how an English teacher found an unexpected lesson in the Nazi Final Solution -- Hitler's effort to exterminate the Jewish people during World War Two. RS: The Holocaust was in the

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Speaking of Alabama, Part 1

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a lesson in regional English in the American South. RS: And to give you that lesson is a woman who wrote to us from Alabama named Donna Akins. Donna Akins is not an English teache

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Meet Two More English Teachers

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: meet two more English teachers. RS: Qu Gang teaches in the world's biggest country, China. He is a member of the National Foreign Language Teaching and Research Association. Doug

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--'We're Americans, We're Not Refugee

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: What to call the homeless of Hurricane Katrina? RS: Some have called them refugees. We asked Oxford English Dictionary consultant Ben Zimmer for a history of this word. BEN ZIMMER

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--New TOEFL

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the new TOEFL. RS: TOEFL is the Test of English as a Foreign Language. It's required by many colleges and universities in the United States and elsewhere as a measure of a student

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Don't Parrot Cliches

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: We continue our discussion with University of Delaware English Professor Ben Yagoda about his recent book called The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing. RS: He based th

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slangman: Stress-Related Terms

(Recorded March 19, earlier in the day of the outbreak of war in Iraq, for Coast to Coast) AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we offer a few minutes of relief with a look at some stress-related slang. RS: We got

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--TESOL Convention

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: March 25, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and today on Wordmaster -- it's TESOL time! RS: Next week is the thirty-eighth annual convention of the group known as TESOL: Teachers of English to Speakers of Oth

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Present Perfect Tense

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: August 12, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: practice makes perfect. RS: With us from Los Angeles is English teacher Lida Baker to explain a part of grammar that makes English lea

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Baseball in American English

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 15, 2004 INTRODUCTION: Major League Baseball had its All Star Game Tuesday night. And, for the seventh time in the last eight years, top players from the American League defeated the National League. That means the A

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Proverbs in American English, Part

Broadcast on VOA News Now: November 10, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: proverbs in American English. RS: It's tempting to call Wolfang Mieder the proverbial expert from out-of-town. A professor of German a

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--'Field Guide to Gestures'

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 25, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the language of non-verbal communication. Two writers, Melissa Wagner and Nancy Armstrong, have put together a book of one-hundre

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

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: January 29, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- political rhetoric in America. RS: This time, Howard Dean didn't scream. He finished what he called a solid second behind John Kerr