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Lessons 51 to 60, newest first. Each one is free to listen to. See every lesson on one page.
2.1 - Jobs & Work - Zapp! English Listening
"Are we working?" Tom asks, about thirty seconds into a conversation about work. Katie decides that yes, they probably are. What follows is one of the most honest talks we've recorded about working from home: the freedom to start when you like and wear what you like, and the slow…
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2.14 - Time - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Ask someone how old they are in decades and you get a pause. Katie tries it in this episode, and the answer comes back: "three and a third". That sets the tone for the whole recording — one time word, one real answer, and a bit of teasing. Later she…
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2.13 - Around the Home - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
One of our speakers starts by describing the thing that takes smoke out of a house, then adds that it was "useful at Christmas time...for Father Christmas". Another explains that a fence goes around your property and is used to... Katie jumps in with "...stop dogs coming in?" and Tom…
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2.12 - Computers - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Katie asks a simple question — how clean is your computer screen? — and gets one of the more honest answers we've recorded: "It's not clean. It's disgusting." A moment later comes the admission, "I don't think I've ever cleaned my computer screen." That's the sort of thing that happens…
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2.11 - Things in the House - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Katie asks a simple question — how many pillows do you have on your bed? — and the answers turn into small portraits of two very different homes. One speaker has room for approximately, four hangers...for my clothes. Another has three sinks, one of which is mostly used as "a…
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2.10 - Describing Things - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
"keys...are made of this, and...so are knives and forks and spoons" — that's Donnie, working his way towards the word metal without ever saying it. That's the game in this episode. Two speakers describe seventeen everyday words, one at a time, and your job is to name each one before…
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3.32 - Numbers & amounts - Zapp! English Listening
Katie gives Tom a number — seventy-five — and he works through birthdays, a grandparent's age, pairs of shoes and even ice creams before the penny drops. When it does, we get one of our more honest moments on tape: "I can't believe I'm admitting on...on a recording device that…
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2.9 - Describing Appearance - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
One of our speakers gets to the end of her thoughts on facial hair and concludes: "if I could have my way, I would make both of them illegal!" Before that, one of the hosts owns up to being "worried about going bald", and the other admits, "I would love…
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3.32 - Numbers & Amounts - Zapp! English Colloquial
"I'm sitting in the park with Donnie," Katie says, and then starts describing idioms without ever saying them. Some Donnie gets instantly — the face of a man who hasn't shaved by the end of the day, the mind that only runs on one track. One stops him completely: "Wow…
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2.8 - Education & Learning - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
One of our speakers remembers a psychology lecture that was always scheduled for five o'clock on a Friday evening, given in "a very monotone voice, like this, slowly". The verdict: "I don't think I learned anything from a whole trimester" of it. A philosophy lecturer at the same university had…
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