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Lessons 31 to 40, newest first. Each one is free to listen to. See every lesson on one page.

2.2 - Zapp! English Academic Vocabulary
Near the end of this unit, Katie and Keith work through all the ways English uses range — a car's petrol tank, a weather forecast, a golf driving range, a product that comes in different colours — until Katie can't resist: "Range has a range of uses." That is more…
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2.1 - Looking for a Job - Zapp! English Vocabulary for Work
Somebody in this recording explains that for their job, being friendly and polite is essential, while knowing "how to pull a pint" before you start is merely desirable — "it's pretty simple to pick up". That distinction, essential versus desirable, is exactly the wording you'll meet in real job advertisements…
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2.1 - Zapp! English Academic Vocabulary
Katie asks a simple question about the word function and gets a very English answer. "Do you have a function?" she says, and after the laughter dies down the conversation turns into a proper explanation: phones that make calls, send emails and take photographs, and "Multi-functional devices." Then Katie adds…
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2.11 - Things in the House - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie opens this one by telling Tom where they are: "We're in your house." "Yes we're in my bedroom," he replies. From there the rules are simple — Katie describes an informal expression, Tom has to finish it. Some he gets instantly. One of them ends the conversation early, because…
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2.10 - Describing Things - Zapp! English Colloquial
Tom arrives hungry — "I’m very good thanks. Quite hungry, looking forward to lunch." — and Katie sets the terms straight away: lunch comes after he has guessed the words. "Well you better get them right or I’m going to eat your lunch." What follows is a run through the…
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2.9 - Describing Appearance! - Zapp! English Colloquial
A few minutes before we pressed record, Clare had already used one of the words on Katie's list without noticing. So Katie only had to start the definition — "a way to describe somebody that you think is really physically attractive" — and Clare finished it for her: "Hot!" From…
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2.9 - Describing Appearance - Zapp! English Listening
One speaker says her hands "look like an old farmer's hands". Another says "currently I'm sporting a big curly moustache", which he offers as proof that appearances aren't that important to him. A third does the maths on his own age out loud: "I'll be forty in...four months time. Five…
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2.8 - Education & Learning - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie asks for the expression that means leaving the house for school and never arriving. Tom offers to play truant, then to skive off, then to bunk off — all correct, none of them the one she wanted. Katie adds to play hooky and to cut class, which makes five…
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2.8 - Education & Learning - Zapp! English Listening
Somewhere in this recording, a classroom gets divided in half: "Right boys – go over here, you’re going to make a spaceship. Girls – go over there and saw that piece of wood in half." That's how one of our speakers remembers her metalwork lessons. A few minutes earlier, geography…
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2.7 - In Town - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie starts the second conversation with a confession: “we’re not really in town at the moment, we’re on the edge of town in a park aren’t we?” Which is fitting, because almost none of the expressions in this unit are about towns either. A crossroads becomes a life decision, a…
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