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Lessons 121 to 130, newest first. Each one is free to listen to. See every lesson on one page.
3.22 - News - Zapp! English Listening
Katie asks Tom to explain what a reader will find on Page Three of a particular English newspaper. His answer: "a fantastic pair of breasts." She calls it strange; he calls it "an institution". From there the conversation moves through phone hacking at the News of the World, the Daily…
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3.8 - The Future - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie opens with a prompt: "Pigs…?" Tom, without pausing, answers "Arse?" A second later he's laughing and correcting himself — "Ignore me everyone! Pigs might fly." That's the first thirty seconds of this one, and it sets the tone. Ten colloquial expressions about the future, one host describing them, the…
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3.6 - Humour/Humor - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
A man walks down the street checking himself out in every shop window. "he thinks he's the bee's knees", one of our speakers says — until he steps into one of the little holes around the pavement trees, and bashes his head. "it was absolutely hilarious." Katie asks the obvious…
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3.21 - Movies & cinema - Zapp! English Listening
A film from 1960, black and white, a secretary who steals forty thousand dollars, a motel called Bates' Motel, and "violins that are screeching in the background". Ben describes all of it without once saying the title, and your job is to work it out before the answer arrives. That's…
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3.7 - Entertainment - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie sets Mark a simple task: she describes an expression, he guesses it. Her first clue is about the weekend after a long week at work, when you just don't want to do much. Mark's first guess is "Go to the pub?" Katie laughs and admits, "Well yes...", then narrows…
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3.5 - Culture - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Ask a British person about the stereotype of a British person and you get an honest answer. Niall describes a Briton "lying in the gutter in a pair of shorts" on a Spanish island, admits "some of it is true", then explains how learning please and thank you in the…
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3.20 - Crime & punishment - Zapp! English Listening
A thief steals a laptop, is advised to go back and apologise, is invited into the house, makes small talk — and then, while the owner is flushing the toilet, walks out with the replacement laptop. That story arrives near the end of this conversation, and it lands like a…
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3.6 - Humour - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie opens by asking Tom where they are, and he answers: "Sitting on Sitges beach, in the sun, under an umbrella." Then she warns him his brain is about to start working. "Try me," he says. What follows is thirteen minutes of guessing games about humour, laughter and teasing —…
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3.4 - Travel - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Which is worse, take-off or landing? One of our speakers says "I hate take off…I hate being in the air and I hate landing", which doesn't narrow it down much. Tom has an answer ready: "Take-off is. Because you've got the whole journey in front of you, the whole flight."…
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3.3 - Incidents & Accidents - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
A wrist that looked like a humpback bridge. A pair of flip flops on a wet, smooth pavement. Three breakdowns on the same stretch of motorway, on the way to three different gigs. This unit teaches sixteen words for things going wrong, and the answers we recorded are full of…
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