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Lessons 31 to 40, newest first. Each one is free to listen to. See every lesson on one page.
2.2 - Zapp! English Academic Vocabulary
Near the end of this unit, Katie and Keith work through all the ways English uses range — a car's petrol tank, a weather forecast, a golf driving range, a product that comes in different colours — until Katie can't resist: "Range has a range of uses." That is more…
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2.1 - Looking for a Job - Zapp! English Vocabulary for Work
Somebody in this recording explains that for their job, being friendly and polite is essential, while knowing "how to pull a pint" before you start is merely desirable — "it's pretty simple to pick up". That distinction, essential versus desirable, is exactly the wording you'll meet in real job advertisements…
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2.1 - Zapp! English Academic Vocabulary
Katie asks a simple question about the word function and gets a very English answer. "Do you have a function?" she says, and after the laughter dies down the conversation turns into a proper explanation: phones that make calls, send emails and take photographs, and "Multi-functional devices." Then Katie adds…
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Halloween Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Ask an English speaker what scares them at Halloween and you might expect ghosts. In this recording you get wasps and cockroaches. Before that, we work through ten words and phrases you need at this time of year, from to give someone a fright to spooky, with a pause after…
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2.11 - Things in the House - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie opens this one by telling Tom where they are: "We're in your house." "Yes we're in my bedroom," he replies. From there the rules are simple — Katie describes an informal expression, Tom has to finish it. Some he gets instantly. One of them ends the conversation early, because…
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2.10 - Describing Things - Zapp! English Colloquial
Tom arrives hungry — "I’m very good thanks. Quite hungry, looking forward to lunch." — and Katie sets the terms straight away: lunch comes after he has guessed the words. "Well you better get them right or I’m going to eat your lunch." What follows is a run through the…
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2.9 - Describing Appearance! - Zapp! English Colloquial
A few minutes before we pressed record, Clare had already used one of the words on Katie's list without noticing. So Katie only had to start the definition — "a way to describe somebody that you think is really physically attractive" — and Clare finished it for her: "Hot!" From…
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2.9 - Describing Appearance - Zapp! English Listening
One speaker says her hands "look like an old farmer's hands". Another says "currently I'm sporting a big curly moustache", which he offers as proof that appearances aren't that important to him. A third does the maths on his own age out loud: "I'll be forty in...four months time. Five…
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2.8 - Education & Learning - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie asks for the expression that means leaving the house for school and never arriving. Tom offers to play truant, then to skive off, then to bunk off — all correct, none of them the one she wanted. Katie adds to play hooky and to cut class, which makes five…
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2.8 - Education & Learning - Zapp! English Listening
Somewhere in this recording, a classroom gets divided in half: "Right boys – go over here, you’re going to make a spaceship. Girls – go over there and saw that piece of wood in half." That's how one of our speakers remembers her metalwork lessons. A few minutes earlier, geography…
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