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3.13 - Problems & Difficulties - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
A cockroach in the flat, a driving test failed first time, and rent found "literally the day, that it's due". That's what came up when Katie asked two speakers how they handle problems and difficulties. One of them admits to being "quite stubborn and pig-headed about things"; the other says…
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3.28 - Holidays (Vacations) - Zapp! English Listening
A wet grey beach in the south west of England, covered in little coils of sand left by burrowing animals, and a small boy "screaming at the top of my voice thinking there were squiggly worms everywhere". That's Alec's first memory of a family holiday — and his family took…
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3.14 - Health & Fitness - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie opens this one by asking why a butcher's dog might be fit. The answer she gets — "It would be eating...meat" — goes nowhere useful, and the two of them end up laughing at an idiom that barely makes sense to the people who say it. That is most…
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3.12 - The Senses - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Katie says she hates "the sound of fingers scratching down a blackboard", and Tom answers with a heartfelt "Oh God yeah." A few clips later he's explaining the expression "silent but violent or silent but deadly", and Katie's verdict is immediate: "That's disgusting!" That's roughly where a unit about the…
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3.27 - Wonders of the World - Zapp! English Listening
Tom sets a trap in the first thirty seconds: name the Seven Wonders of the World, and no looking. Chris manages the Great Wall and the pyramids, then stalls — and it turns out there are fourteen to remember, seven ancient and seven modern. "No wouldn't have been able to…
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3.13 - Problems & Difficulties - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie sets up the first clue: you open an exam paper and it's on something you know nothing about. Amanda offers "I was thinking I'm stuck." — a perfectly good answer, but not the one Katie is fishing for. The expression she wants involves a creek, and a paddle that…
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3.11 - Discussing Life Changes - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Ask two people about change and you get very different answers. In this episode Katie asks about England's weather and Alec decides that changeable "was probably, invented" for it, before adding "Or unpredictable." Later, Stuart hears the phrase queue switcher and stops dead: "what the hell's a queue switcher?" Between…
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3.26 - Cooking & recipes - Zapp! English Listening
Asked whether she's a good cook, Molly answers with one word — "No." — and then adds, "End of story for that one." A minute later she notices what she's doing: "That's twice I've said end of story." That's what happens when you ask a group of people about food…
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3.12 - The Senses - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie asks for the phrase "as deaf as…" and Tom hesitates: "Erm…is this to do with doors?" His answer — "As deaf as a doornail? Doormouse?" — gets a gentle correction: "No I think that’s dead as a doornail." That mix-up is exactly why this unit exists. We sat down…
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3.10 - Rules & Obligations - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Tom can't name a single written rule in his building. There's no notice, no list, nothing on a board — just what he calls "unwritten rules" about noise after eleven and not renovating the flat without permission. Katie's reply is the sort of thing you only get in real conversation…
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