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Lessons 81 to 90, newest first. Each one is free to listen to. See every lesson on one page.
3.22 - News - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
"I will neither confirm nor deny that this is true." Donnie remembers that line from Bill Clinton, and it turns out to be a neat way into the language of news, because two of the most useful verbs in journalism are sitting right there in it. In this Level 3…
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3.23 - Controversial Issues - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie opens with "We're at the beach!", and a few minutes later she is being deliberately provoked with a steak: "Oh, look at that lovely, juicy meat over there, Katie, look at that steak." That is one way to demonstrate to wind someone up. This episode gathers fourteen colloquial expressions…
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3.21 - Movies & Cinema - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Someone in this episode admits they will not go near a horror film: "I do not like to be…scared." The images stay in her head all night. Someone else has a much bigger complaint about the cinema — trailers that ruin everything: "I know who…who falls in love, who dies…
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3.22 - News - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie asks Tom what you call a journalist who writes low-quality articles for a low-quality paper. He gets it first time: a hack. Then she asks for the collective word for those papers, and things slow down — he tries "The tabloids?", then admits "I keep thinking of Red Tops…
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3.20 - Crime & Punishment - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Ask two people what the difference is between murder and manslaughter and you get exactly what we recorded here: a long, cheerful disagreement that ends with Katie admitting, "So the answer to that one is we don't know." That's the honest version of a topic learners meet constantly in the…
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3.21 - Movies & Cinema - Zapp! English Colloquial
Katie opens this one with "Hi, this is Katie on a lovely day at the beach with Thomas." Then she starts describing film expressions and Tom has to guess them. He gets close quickly — "Is it to do with tears?" — but he also stalls, argues with the vocabulary…
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3.19 - Age & Life Stages - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Asked whether she considers herself middle-aged, our first speaker says no. She's thirty-four, and back in her teens she thought middle age began in the late thirties — so now, she says, she's "pushing that back a bit" and "hoping I've got a few years of… youth, left in me."…
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3.20 - Crime & Punishment - Zapp! English Colloquial
"OK, so I'm in the park again with Donnie." That's how this one starts, and within a minute Katie is warning listeners about two words for the police that they might hear on television but should never say themselves. Donnie gets both, then can't resist: "Can you smell bacon?" From…
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3.18 - Alcohol & Drinking - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation
Ask for a half in an English pub and, as Stuart describes it, you get "A half, what's wrong with you?" — to which Katie adds the standard follow-up, "You big girl." He calls the whole thing "a bit pathetic", then admits he gives in anyway: "I end up toeing…
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3.19 - Age & Life Stages - Zapp! English Colloquial
Ask for an expression meaning "too old" and you might get "Over the hump? The bump? No!" — which is exactly what happens in the first minute of this episode. Katie is in a park with Cathy, describing colloquial expressions while Cathy guesses. A few phrases in, Cathy has had…
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