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Lessons 71 to 80, newest first. Each one is free to listen to. See every lesson on one page.

3.25 - Memory - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Asked whether she has a good memory, Katie starts with "Er not bad. Not bad", then talks herself out of it: "I forget silly things." Birthdays are the worst — "I need reminding about twenty seven times". Donnie writes his daily tasks on paper to refresh his memory, and mentions…
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2.3 - Describing People (& Character) - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
The first conversation opens with someone noting that it is mid-winter and yet "it's almost like summer". Then Katie starts the guessing game. She asks whether Tom is dishonest, he answers "No. I'm very, very honest." and she turns straight to the microphone: "Do we believe him?" That is the…
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3.26 - Cooking & Recipes - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie opens this one with a confession: "This is a very hungry Katie, sitting in Tom's apartment, talking to Amanda." Amanda replies in kind, then adds that she'll be listening "Amidst the sound of my stomach rumbling." That's the setup for the whole recording — one speaker describing colloquial expressions…
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3.24 - Honesty & Lying - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Three students to a desk, an opening in the desk you can slip papers through, and a third of the test each to revise. That was "the system" that one of our speakers and her classmates used to cheat in school tests, and she explains it to Katie in some…
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2.2 - Living with People - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
One of our speakers moved house recently and did the whole thing on foot: "we did it all, on foot...with suitcases". Another explains that she does the washing up and the ironing herself, "because I live alone, and if I don't do it, it won't be done, it's as simple…
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3.25 - Memory - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie sets Tom a guessing game and he starts badly: it's hot, and by his own admission "my brain is slowing down". When she asks what you call a bad memory, all he can manage at first is "Like a kitchen utensil?" — which is, admittedly, correct. Eighteen minutes later…
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3.23 - Controversial Issues - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
"They say, that you should always avoid talking about three things in polite conversation," Donnie tells Katie at the start of this episode. Sex, politics and religion. Katie's reply: "Makes for a very boring conversation though doesn't it?" So we ignored the advice. Over two unscripted English conversations, Katie talks…
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2.1 - Jobs & Work - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
One of the speakers in this episode explains that he finished his professional training largely for the pay rise it would bring — and then admits it came to "Only maybe fifty...pence" an hour. Another describes leaving university, signing on for unemployment benefit and ending up in a pub, "serving…
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3.24 - Honesty & Lying - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie asks Donnie for a word that means a really big lie. He stalls, then checks: "does it involve a colour?" It doesn't — but seconds later he lands on whopper and immediately tries it out on her: "If I told you I used to be an astronaut…?" That is…
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3.22 - News - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
"I will neither confirm nor deny that this is true." Donnie remembers that line from Bill Clinton, and it turns out to be a neat way into the language of news, because two of the most useful verbs in journalism are sitting right there in it. In this Level 3…
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