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Katie gives a clue: a word that means very crowded, beginning with r. Before she gets there, Laura offers “heaving” instead — not the answer, but good enough that Katie stops to praise it. Then “Rammed.” arrives, and the guessing game rolls on through sardines, Piccadilly Circus and the moment …
Halfway through explaining why it’s better to leave early, Katie is interrupted by the birds. One of the hosts is recording outdoors and breaks off to complain about “very noisy parrots” — “My ears hurt.” We kept it in, because that’s what real conversation sounds like. Around the parrots, we …
Katie asks where Tom hangs out. The answer: “I hang out, in front of my computer.” Her verdict, delivered to the microphone rather than to him — “This is why he hasn’t got as many mates as he used to have.” That’s the tone of this unit. Katie describes an …
Katie asks Clare whether she is as stubborn as a mule. Clare admits she can be, “when I think I’m right, which…honestly is most of the time”. A minute earlier Katie had asked what a mule actually is, and Clare answered, cheerfully, “To be honest I have no idea!” — …
Listen nowZapp! English Colloquial 2.3 – Describing People & Character
The episode opens with Katie asking “Where are we?” and the answer coming back: “In my bedroom.” “That sounds a bit strange!” she admits — and then, sitting on the bed, she starts describing colloquial expressions for Tom to guess. All ten are about living with people, or living near …
Katie sets the trap in the first minute. Imagine you did something wrong at work, and now the job is gone: “They said, Get lost! Don’t come back!” What happened to you? Clare answers with three options at once — laid off, fired, sacked — and then has to explain …