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Lessons 61 to 70, newest first. Each one is free to listen to. See every lesson on one page.
3.31 - The Environment - Zapp! English Colloquial
"Hello Thomas." That's how this one opens, with Katie and Tom sitting somewhere Tom describes as "a clean, Spanish blue flag beach", about to talk about the environment. Within two minutes Katie has admitted, "I try not to throw things out, which is why my house is full of rubbish,"…
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2.7 - In Town - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
A woman describes something with three colours that stops and starts traffic, and adds that when they're all red at once it takes you "twice as long to get anywhere" on a scooter. That's traffic lights. Then a circular thing that slows cars down, where "there seems to be a…
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3.30 - Shopping - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie offers the phrase on the never never and Amanda doesn't recognise it at all: "I have never never heard that before." A moment later Tom cuts in with "Plastic fantastic!" and the three of them agree that every way of buying a sofa you can't yet afford is a…
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2.6 - City Life - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Somebody has to describe the word district without saying it, and ends up here: "a zone where there is lots of...sex or pornography or prostitution, might be described as the red light..." That is the shape of this episode. Two native speakers talk around fifteen words about city life, and…
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3.29 - Advertising - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie sets up a sentence and stops halfway: I need that like a…? Cathy has a go — "A…a gun?" — which is not the answer, but it is a very reasonable guess. The phrase Katie is after is I need it like a hole in my head, and after…
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3.27 - Wonders of the World - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Fifty steps, by Katie's count, stand between the pavement and the view in this episode. The reward, as Tom puts it, is "A panoramic view of the entire city." — Barcelona below, the sea behind it, the Sagrada Família unfinished in the middle distance. Tom insists "Yeah but the views…
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2.5 - Danger! - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
"Are you ready to guess some words on the topic of danger?" Katie asks, and Tom answers, "I'm ready and very excited." Thirty seconds later he has guessed a bomb and to explode, then adds, "Yeah, but I still like bombs." Katie's verdict: "Typical boy." From there the two of…
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3.28 - Holidays (Vacations) - Zapp! English Colloquial
When Katie asks for the Australian word for very small men's swimming trunks, Donnie doesn't guess the word — he guesses the crime: "Is this… related to illegal transportation of a small bird?" The answer is budgie smugglers, and Katie admits the explanation is only a theory: "We think that's…
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3.26 - Cooking & Recipes - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Someone explains that the secret to a good Yorkshire pudding is sieving the flour "from very high up", so the lumps go and the air gets in — then admits, "I still can't do that." Someone else can't be bothered to peel oranges, so she chops them into quarters and…
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2.4 - Friends & Family - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Katie offers a saying — "Strangers are just friends you haven't met yet" — and gets a counter-saying straight back: "Friends are just strangers who won't go away." Then, immediately, a small retraction: "that's a...a little bit pesi...pessimistic". That exchange tells you what this Level 2 unit is like. Real…
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