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Tom opens this one with a hint rather than a greeting: “It’s time for lunch.” Katie’s answer is “Not yet.” Lunch has to be earned — no food until he has guessed every colloquial expression she describes, and they are all about time. He gets as far as “Please!” before …
Katie opens by telling Clare this is probably bad timing: Clare has just said she’s hungry. “Yes, I’m always hungry,” she replies, and then spends the next few minutes guessing food idioms anyway. She gets the breadwinner almost instantly, works out the bacon one by asking “Ah! Is this about …
Listen nowZapp! English Colloquial 2.16 – Food (& Ingredients)
Katie asks Tom how much cash he has in his pocket. “Absolutely nothing,” he says. That’s the honest starting point for this episode: two people sitting outside, agreeing that money “becomes very important if you don’t have any”, and working through the informal English we use to say we have …
Katie describes a place that’s old, dirty and thoroughly unpleasant, and asks Tom for the word. His first guess is far too rude to print, so Katie steers him: “slightly more polite. Begins with d.” Out comes a dump — and Tom immediately explains why the image works, since a …
Katie opens this one with a small lie. She tells Clare they’re going to talk about her favourite topic, and Clare’s reaction is instant: “Oh no it’s not computers!” The topic is computers and technology, and there are four expressions to guess. Clare gets the first two straight away, has …
Listen nowZapp! English Colloquial 2.12 – Computers & Technology
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 …
Listen nowZapp! English Colloquial 2.11 – Things in the House
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 …
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 …
Listen nowZapp! English Colloquial 2.9 – Describing Appearance!
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. When to play hooky and to cut class are added, that’s five …
Listen nowZapp! English Colloquial 2.8 – Education & Learning
Katie starts this one 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 corner …