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Lessons 91 to 100, newest first. Each one is free to listen to. See every lesson on one page.
3.17 - Chance & Probability - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Asked whether certainty really exists, Jon doesn't hesitate: "If it rains and you are outside in the street, you will get wet." Katie's reply is two words — "Like death" — and both of them laugh. That's the tone of this unit. We take sixteen words and phrases for talking…
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3.18 - Alcohol & Drinking - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie asks Mark for the most common way to say drunk, and he sighs before answering: "There are many." He isn't exaggerating. Over fourteen minutes the two of them work through ten colloquial expressions for alcohol, drinking and being drunk — and when Katie asks for a polite, indirect one…
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3.16 - Superstitions - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Katie starts by admitting she's "a bit…maybe a bit gullible" about mirrors, cracks in the pavement and black cats. Tom's answer is short: "Where's the evidence?" Her reply is rather good — "if there was evidence it wouldn't be a superstition". Then, two minutes later, he lets slip that "I…
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3.31 - The Environment - Zapp! English Listening
Everyone we asked said they recycle. Almost everyone then admitted they fly far too much. That gap — between what people believe and what they actually do — is what makes this unit worth listening to. Katie calls herself "a bit of a hypocrite". Amanda finishes her answer and realises…
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3.17 - Chance & Probability - Zapp! English Colloquial
It's a hot morning, we're sitting on the beach, and Katie asks Tom to guess an informal word for lucky. He tries "You're so lucky?", then "You're so fortunate?", then offers fluky — which works, just isn't the one she has in mind. The answer is jammy. That's the shape…
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3.15 - Love & Marriage - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
One of our speakers studied Spanish for a year because they'd been asked to be best man at a wedding in Spain and assumed a speech was compulsory. The day before, a friend admitted the whole thing was a wind-up — Spanish weddings don't have best man speeches. "So he…
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3.30 - Shopping - Zapp! English Listening
You go in for toilet roll and you come out with forty-six rolls. That's what happens when you're a sucker for a BOGOF, as one of our hosts cheerfully admits in this episode — and the other one has never even heard the word. "You’ve never heard of BOGOFs?" Katie…
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3.16 - Superstitions - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie sets up the game, and Mark answers with the line that opens the whole unit: "I hope so. I don't want to let the listeners down." From there it's eleven colloquial expressions about luck and superstition, described by Katie and guessed out loud by Mark — sometimes on the…
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3.14 - Health & Fitness - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Katie opens by assuming Stuart must be "quite the Mr flexible" because he goes rock climbing. He isn't having it: yoga "absolutely kills me", he says, and he can "barely touch my toes" until he's been at it for an hour. From there the conversation moves through stretching, twisting, sun…
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3.29 - Advertising - Zapp! English Listening
Katie can still sing every word of a carpet freshener advert from the 1980s: "You do the Shake and Vac and put the freshness back". She admits she has no idea whether it worked, only that it was memorable. That's the starting point for this episode — five people trying…
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