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Lessons 131 to 140, newest first. Each one is free to listen to. See every lesson on one page.
3.2 - Children - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
One of the speakers in this episode is explaining why she never needed a dummy as a child — she sucked her thumb instead, and her parents painted something horrible-tasting on her thumbnail to stop her. It didn't work: "just between you and me, I still do it every now…
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3.1 - Clothes & Fashion - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Someone admits, straight-faced, that they don't like tight underwear because they "prefer to let things breathe" — and that's roughly ninety seconds into the recording. This unit is built as a guessing game: we recorded Katie and Tom answering questions about what they wear, then bleeped out the key word…
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3.19 - Age and life stages - Zapp! English Listening
"How old are you?" is the easy question. The two that follow it — what's been your favourite age, and is age important or is it just a number? — are the ones that make people hesitate, laugh, and start telling stories. We put all three to eight different people…
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3.5 - Culture - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie gives a hint: "Very, very big Asian country." Amanda gets it instantly — Chinese whispers — and then admits she used to play the game in a circle at school. That's how this whole episode works. Katie describes twelve colloquial expressions about culture without saying them, Amanda guesses, and…
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3.18 - Alcohol and drinking - Zapp! English Listening
"Twenty five units a night?!" That's Tom's reaction when Hannah works out, quite cheerfully, how much her boyfriend gets through on a Saturday. The legal guideline, as Tom points out, is twenty one a week. Hannah calls it "pretty average". We recorded the first part of this episode over the…
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3.4 - Travel - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie opens this one outdoors: "I’m sitting here in the park, on a very nice day, with Cathy." Moments later she breaks off mid-clue to laugh at the "people travelling around the park in the background". The game is simple — Katie describes a colloquial travel expression, Cathy guesses it…
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3.17 - Chance & probability - Zapp! English Listening
Katie arrived with a list of statistics she'd found online, and a simple game: guess the odds. What are the chances of being attacked by a shark? Of having twins? Of being struck by lightning? Tom and Mark guess, argue, do rough mental arithmetic, and by the end Katie is…
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3.16 - Superstitions - Zapp! English Listening
A crew is two weeks into an around-the-world race. Someone opens a sack of food and pulls out chocolate Easter bunnies, a surprise from one of the wives. The French sailor on board takes the lot and throws them into the sea, because rabbits are unlucky on a boat. "That…
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3.3 - Incidents & Accidents - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie asks for the one English word that covers feeling tired, something breaking and something not working properly. Tom gets it in about two seconds: "Knackered." From there the two of them work through everything that can go wrong in a day — a cock up, the shit hitting the…
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3.2 - Children - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie is sitting in the park with Mark, and her clue is a question: what attaches your foot to your leg? Two seconds later Mark has it — ankle biters. Asked whether he actually likes ankle biters, one of the speakers answers "Not overly", then suggests children improve later, "if…
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