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Lessons 131 to 140, newest first. Each one is free to listen to. See every lesson on one page.

3.1 - Clothes & Fashion - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Someone admits, straight-faced, that they don't like tight underwear because they "prefer to let things breathe" — and that's roughly ninety seconds into the recording. This unit is built as a guessing game: we recorded Katie and Tom answering questions about what they wear, then bleeped out the key word…
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3.19 - Age and life stages - Zapp! English Listening
"How old are you?" is the easy question. The two that follow it — what's been your favourite age, and is age important or is it just a number? — are the ones that make people hesitate, laugh, and start telling stories. We put all three to eight different people…
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3.5 - Culture - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie gives a hint: "Very, very big Asian country." Amanda gets it instantly — Chinese whispers — and then admits she used to play the game in a circle at school. That's how this whole episode works. Katie describes twelve colloquial expressions about culture without saying them, Amanda guesses, and…
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3.18 - Alcohol and drinking - Zapp! English Listening
"Twenty five units a night?!" That's Tom's reaction when Hannah works out, quite cheerfully, how much her boyfriend gets through on a Saturday. The legal guideline, as Tom points out, is twenty one a week. Hannah calls it "pretty average". We recorded the first part of this episode over the…
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3.4 - Travel - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie opens this one outdoors: "I’m sitting here in the park, on a very nice day, with Cathy." Moments later she breaks off mid-clue to laugh at the "people travelling around the park in the background". The game is simple — Katie describes a colloquial travel expression, Cathy guesses it…
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3.17 - Chance & probability - Zapp! English Listening
Katie arrived with a list of statistics she'd found online, and a simple game: guess the odds. What are the chances of being attacked by a shark? Of having twins? Of being struck by lightning? Tom and Mark guess, argue, do rough mental arithmetic, and by the end Katie is…
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3.16 - Superstitions - Zapp! English Listening
A crew is two weeks into an around-the-world race. Someone opens a sack of food and pulls out chocolate Easter bunnies, a surprise from one of the wives. The French sailor on board takes the lot and throws them into the sea, because rabbits are unlucky on a boat. "That…
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3.3 - Incidents & Accidents - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie asks for the one English word that covers feeling tired, something breaking and something not working properly. Tom gets it in about two seconds: "Knackered." From there the two of them work through everything that can go wrong in a day — a cock up, the shit hitting the…
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3.2 - Children - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie is sitting in the park with Mark, and her clue is a question: what attaches your foot to your leg? Two seconds later Mark has it — ankle biters. Asked whether he actually likes ankle biters, one of the speakers answers "Not overly", then suggests children improve later, "if…
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3.1 - Clothes & Fashion - Zapp! English Colloquial
We set Amanda a challenge: Katie describes an English expression, Amanda has to name it, and every answer hides an item of clothing. It works better than it sounds. When the clue is "a piece of underwear for women", Amanda reasons her way there out loud; when the answer is…
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