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Lessons 141 to 150, newest first. Each one is free to listen to. See every lesson on one page.
3.1 - Clothes & Fashion - Zapp! English Colloquial
We set Amanda a challenge: Katie describes an English expression, Amanda has to name it, and every answer hides an item of clothing. It works better than it sounds. When the clue is "a piece of underwear for women", Amanda reasons her way there out loud; when the answer is…
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3.15 - Love and Marriage - Zapp! English Listening
Tiku won't go speed dating, and it isn't nerves. She's tall, and sitting down opposite a stranger for three minutes tells you nothing about how tall they are: "I don't know how tall they'll be!" That's where this episode starts — Katie asking how people in Britain actually meet each…
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3.14 - Health and Fitness - Zapp! English Listening
Katie's first question in this episode is four words long: "Stuart, are you fit?" The reply is a question back — "Good looking, or healthy?" — because in British slang, fit doesn't only mean healthy. That small misunderstanding sets up the whole recording. We asked a series of people the…
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3.13 - Problems and difficulties - Zapp! English Listening
Katie hands the group a task: four difficult things — breaking up with someone, learning to drive, moving house, and borrowing or lending money — and one job, to put them in order. Tom's first reaction is "Tricky, tricky." Twenty minutes later the group reaches a verdict, and it's "There…
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3.12 - The senses - Zapp! English Listening
One of our speakers, Alec, smelt vinegar the day before we recorded, and it threw him straight back to the English seaside — chips on a windy beach — even though, as he points out, he was by the sea anyway. That kind of accident is what this episode is…
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3.11 - Discussing life changes - Zapp! English Listening
Ask someone what has changed in the last five years and you rarely get a neat answer. We put that question to six people, and one of them boils half a decade down to a dog: “I used to have a very nice, clean house, now I have a very…
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3.10 - Rules & obligations - Zapp! English Listening
A police officer walks up to a cheeky sixteen-year-old and says he'll shut him up himself: "if you don't shut up I'll clip you". That's Niall, talking to Katie about what he thinks has gone wrong with discipline. Twenty minutes later the same conversation has moved on to jamón hanging…
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3.9 - Globalisation (USA: Globalization) - Zapp! English Listening
One of the speakers remembers looking at the number of chickens exported from Britain to the Netherlands in a single year, and the number imported back the other way: millions upon millions in each direction. Katie's verdict is immediate — "It's complete insanity." That's the trick of this unit. Nobody…
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3.8 - The Future - Zapp! English Listening
One of our speakers works in transport, and his prediction is blunt: "no wheels. That's got to be the next step" — trains that are magnetically levitated, cars that fly, and little scooters you stand on. Another thinks we'll stop carrying phones altogether because "it'll all be internal, it'll be…
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3.7 - Entertainment - Zapp! English Listening
Tom ends this episode by saying he'd be "very happy to throw my television off the balcony". Before that, we hear three people describe what they actually do with their free time — one of them "attempting to play the guitar" alone in the house, another listing eleven different outdoor…
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