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Lessons 111 to 120, newest first. Each one is free to listen to. See every lesson on one page.
3.10 - Rules & Obligations - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Tom can't name a single written rule in his building. There's no notice, no list, nothing on a board — just what he calls "unwritten rules" about noise after eleven and not renovating the flat without permission. Katie's reply is the sort of thing you only get in real conversation…
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3.25 - Memory - Zapp! English Listening
Katie asks whether anyone forgets people's birthdays. Stuart answers "Always." Tom adds "Everyone's." Then Katie admits she has "been known, to forget my mum's and my dad's birthdays" and says, with some pride, "Beat that!" That is roughly the level of competence on display for the next sixteen minutes. This…
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3.11 - Discussing life changes - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie announces the format and Mark answers with one dry word: "Hopefully." What follows is ten colloquial expressions about change, described one at a time, with Mark guessing. Some he gets instantly. Others he circles — "so it’s what fourth hand? Or the car has been moved on" — before…
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3.9 - Globalisation - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Katie opens by calling globalisation "bit of a hot topic", and Alec answers with "the huge umbrella term of globalisation" — a sigh, a pause, and then a careful list of positives and negatives. That hesitation is the point. This is what fluent speakers actually sound like when they are…
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3.24 - Honesty and lying - Zapp! English Listening
A black and white striped blouse with see-through black lace sleeves, a huge bow on the front and enormous gold buttons. It was a kind gift, offered by a colleague, and one of our speakers admits it "just sent me into a huge rage". That story comes near the end…
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3.10 - Rules & Obligations (Audio Podcast) - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie opens this one with "Hi, I’m sitting in the park." A few minutes later the background gets the better of her: "I’d like to lay the law down with those parrots; they can just stop squawking!" In between, she and Donnie work through ten colloquial expressions about rules, control…
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3.8 - The Future - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
A bed that sits you up, waits for you to stand on a pressure pad, and if you don't, tips sideways — "so it basically threw you out of bed". That's the sort of future our speakers imagine in this episode. Between them they cover cancer research, a bathroom mirror…
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3.23 - Controversial Issues - Zapp! English Listening
Katie hands Tom and Stuart a list of subjects people can't agree on, and the first one is swearing. Within a minute they've decided it isn't really controversial any more — on a bus in England, Katie reckons, "probably one in four words" is a swear word. Then it gets…
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3.9 - Globalisation - Zapp! English Colloquial
"OK, so I'm back in the park, with Cathy," Katie says, and then sets up a guessing game: she describes a situation, Cathy has to produce the expression. Someone you can't wake up? Cathy gets there — "dead to the world" — then immediately says she'd probably use something else…
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3.7 - Entertainment - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
We started this one by pointing out the obvious: Katie and Tom were sitting outside a cafe, under "another umbrella in the sun", chatting — which, as Katie says, means "I suppose entertaining ourselves now aren't we?" From there the conversation goes where a lot of real conversations about entertainment…
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