In this episode we're going to help you bust some cultural myths about the UK and British people

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Comment on the website from Fleudy:
Good afternoon,I have a problem with my English.
I’ve been learning English for two years and I know a lot of words and grammar, but my big problem is the listening.
This problem have (has) been hitting(bugging) me for a long time. Please tell me what I can do to improve it.

Listen to podcasts. Search Google for your hobbies and interests and then type the word 'podcast' (for example, 'football podcast', 'movie podcast', 'tech podcast')
Also search on itunes, Google Play, ivoox, and use podcast apps like Stitcher.

http://www.apple.com/lae/itunes/ 
https://play.google.com/store?hl=en 
https://www.stitcher.com/ 

Also listen to English music and films in origianl version (and this podcast!)

Listener Feedback from Ando from Mexico
Great pronunciation! Mexicans eat a lot of tacos. The Spanish dance Flamenco, go to bullfights and are lazy because they always have a siesta and leave everything until mañana!

What about the UK?

Let’s bust some cultural myths!

1. Everyone in England speaks with either a London Cockney accent or posh like the Queen.

2. We're always drinking tea. India, Turkey, China and Ireland drink more (per head of population).
Brits drink almost as much coffee as tea. "Come round for tea" = come to our house for the evening meal.

3. We all know Sean Connery, Mick Jagger, David Beckham and The Queen personally.

4. Everyone lives in London or in houses like Downtown Abbey.

5. The food is terrible! Britain has four restaurants that have a 3 michelin stars and has the 4th, 5th and 9th best restaurant in the world, according to Trip Advisor (http://uk.businessinsider.com/tripadvisors-best-restaurants-in-the-world-2015-2015-10?r=US&IR=T) Gordon Ramsey, Jamie Oliver, Heston Blumenthal

6. It's always raining (Britain is number 46th in a list of worldwide average rainfall,
this is above countries such as New Zealand (29th) and even the USA (25th)).
It drizzles a lot in the UK.
Brits speak about the weather a lot and it's also common to see rain and bad weather in British art. Winters are longer than summer in the UK.
Do the British always carry umbrellas?

7. All Brits have bad teeth - a study by the OECD, published in The Economist, shows that Brits have some of the healthiest teeth in the world. ( http://www.economist.com/node/15060097 )

8. British people hate Europeans and North Americans.

9. The British are very reserved and unfriendly.

10 We drink warm beer.

11. The English sometimes confuse “British” with “English”, as do non-British people
(see inglespodcast.com/52) ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/05/24/phrasal-verbs-with-up-england-britain-great-britain-and-the-uk-gerunds-and-infinitives-asking-for-directions-airc52/ )

It can be difficult to tell the difference between the accents of Canadians and North Americans and between Australians and New Zealanders

How would you stereotype the Chinese? The Germans? The Brazilians? The French? (which adjectives would you use?)

How much do you think I live up to an English stereotype?

Say some adjectives and I’ll tell you which nationality you’re stereotyping.

HEAVEN
“Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian, and it’s all organised by the Swiss”

HELL
“Hell is where the police are German, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it’s all organised by the Italians.”

Thoughts on Cuisine:
“The Europeans have good food. The British have...good table manners!”

Quotes from George Mikes - a Hungarian writer who came to the UK for a few weeks, but ended up staying, obtaining British nationality and writing about the British -
“The British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.”

“An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.”

“The British - as the whole world, particularly the British, keep saying - are the most fair-minded people in the world.
After the Second World War they declared: ‘Let’s be fair. We’ve been Top Nation for centuries. We have done splendidly well once again. Now we must give others a chance. Let’s decline’.”

Audio message from Santiago from Argentina: Reverse culture shock

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How are you feeling? How do you feel? Are you in the mood to practise English with us?
We’re looking at feelings vocabulary today in Aprender Inglés con Reza y Craig.

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Hello Craig, this is Alberto, again. (Luis Alberto Diaz Garcia - email)
¨Please help me with a doubt. When (do) I have to use "to me" or "for me".
For example when people are talking about some topic and you have to give your opinion. Is it "to me" or "for me"?
Another example when you are in a restaurant and your girlfriend asks for fish and you ask for your meal after her (immediately). Is it "for me only salad" or "to me only salad"?
I will appreciate your help. Keep doing your excellent podcast!!
Bye guys

In this episode we're going to help you talk about your feelings.
Listener Feedback: Audio feedback from Mamen

commute is a verb. I commute to work every day.
Noun: I listened to Aprender Inglés with Reza during my commute.
I am a commuter. I commute to work every day. I have a 20-minute commute.

Feelings
I feel sad, lonely, afraid, blue, depressed, down, stressed
I feel happy, positive, wonderful, enthusiastic, energetic, confident, healthy

Voice message from Ana from Mexico: How does Ana feel and why?
(Ana from Mexico feels disappointed, upset. She doesn't feel well - because of her level of English)
I wrote to Ana and asked her for to tell us a bit more about her profession and which jobs has she applied for. She answered by email:
“I'm a manufacturing engineer and I have applied for these kind of jobs, such as a project engineer, process engineer and others jobs related to manufacturing.
I think I have not been accepted because the level of English they need is advanced, it is because global companies work with people around the world. It is required to talk about specifications of machines, materials, measures, tolerances, and more,especially over negotiations in money.”

I think her English is very, very good.
Suggestions: italki / Monica Stocker's FITA course.

Episode 43 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/02/21/how-to-have-a-job-interview-in-english-and-work-vocabulary-airc43/  )
Episode 58 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/07/05/job-interview-questions-airc58/  )

My job interview ebook and audio.

Are the following positive or negative feelings?

Anxious - ansioso/a
Ashamed - avergonzado/a - "Craig is ashamed of his level of Spanish."
Astonished (amazed, surprised) - asombrado - "We are astonished at the number of listeners we have."
Awful (horrible, terrible) - espantoso/a
Bored (uninterested) - aburrido/a
Concerned (worried) - preocupado/a
Confused - confundido
Contented (satisfied) - contento/a, satisfecho/a
Disappointed - decepcionado, desilusionado
Ecstatic (very, very happy, joyful) - extático/a
Embarrassed (self-conscious) - avergonzado/a
Excited - entusiasmado/a
Furious (very, very angry) - furioso/a
Guilty - culpable
Hopeful (optimistic) - optimista
Inadequate (insufficient) - deficiente, inapropiado/a, inadecuado/a
Inferior - inferior
Insecure - inseguro/a
Irritated - irritado, enojado/a
Jealous - celoso/a / envious - envidioso/a What's the difference between jealousy (celos) and envy (envidia)?
Envy is when you want what someone else has, but jealousy is when you're worried someone's trying to take what you have.
Envy is a reaction to lacking something.
Jealousy is a reaction to the threat of losing something (usually someone).
“I’m envious of my friends town house and office space.” Are you a jealous person?
Mad / angry - enfadado / crazy about (in a positive way) "I'm mad about podcasting."
Peaceful - tranquilo/a
Proud - orgulloso/a
Scared (afraid) - aterrorizado, asustado
Sensitive - sensible
Suspicious - sospechoso "That man looks suspicious." / "I feel suspicious of my neighbour."
Threatened (in danger) - amenazado
Vulnerable - vulnerable
Worthless - despreciable / (cosa) sin valor - "This old painting is worthless."

How did you feel when we won the podcasting award in 2015?
How did you feel when we didn’t win it this year?
How do you feel when someone catches you doing something you shouldn’t be doing?
How do you feel when your neighbours make a lot of noise or stop you from sleeping when you need to get up early the next day?
How did you feel when you heard about Brexit or Trump’s election victory?
What achievement do you feel proud of?
Is there anything you feel ashamed of?
How do you feel about Mickey Mouse?
What makes you feel bored?
When was the last time you felt surprised?

‘THE WHEEL OF FEELINGS’ AT INGLESPDCAST.COM/134

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Adverbial clauses, linkers and conjunctions - AIRC133

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In this episode we're going to help you with Adverbial clauses, linkers, conjunctions etc

Audio feedback from Edu from Peru
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Listener Feedback: Bruno Schvidah from Brazil sent us an email.
My name is Bruno and I am from Brazil but recently living in Copenhagen!
My weak side has been "adverbial clauses and linkers" I would really like to go through that!
For now, I wish you all a great Friday!
All the best, Bruno

We're sorry it's taken us so long to answer your question, Bruno.
We spoke about some linking words in Episode 55 (but, even though/although, however, in spite of/despite) ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/06/14/linking-words-but-even-thoughalthough-however-in-spite-ofdespite-etc-shopping-expressions-airc55/ )

What Are Adverbial Clauses?
"An adverbial clause is a group of words which does what an adverb does.

Adverbial clauses (like all clauses) contain a subject and a verb. For example:

"I eat dark chocolate daily."
(normal adverb)

"I'm going to eat dark chocolate until you tell me to stop."
(adverbial clause = "until you tell me to stop")

More examples:
I never knew how wonderful life could be until I started podcasting.

I'll let you know as soon as I publish this episode.

Now that we've eaten, we can have some of that chocolate cake.

Adverbial clauses don’t have to speak about time. They can also be about contrast, cause and effect, condition etc.

Contrast:I had some chocolate cake even though I was full. (even though = aunque)

Cause and effect: I’ve put on weight this month because I’ve been eating so much cake.

Condition: I’m not going to Disneyland unless you come with me. (unless = a menos que, a no ser que)

More linkers:

In spite of / Despite - “I bought an iphone in spite of the price.” (in spite of/despite = a pesar de)
They go at the beginning or in the middle of a sentence.
“Reza arrived on time despite / in spite of missing the bus”

Instead of (en vez de, en lugar de)
“This year we’re having roast lamb for Christmas dinner instead of turkey.”

Although (aunque) / though / even though / in spite of the fact that (a pesar de que) - “Although/Even though/Though I was full, I had another piece of cake.”

"Even though" is more emphatic than "although".

“Though” can also go at the end of a second sentence in informal English:

These connectors are followed by a complete sentence. They can be placed at the beginning or in the middle of the sentence. If they are at the beginning we put a comma after the clause.

"I had another piece of cake, although I was full."

“In spite of the fact that the neighbours were making a noise, we decided to record this podcast.”

“Reza loves Berta. She rarely thinks about him, though.”

"I'm sorry, we don't have any chocolate cake. We've got some biscuits, though."

However (sin embargo) / nevertheless/nonetheless (no obstante) / even so (aun así)
At/Near the start of a second sentence:

“I was really tired. Even so, I decided to go out for a beer.” (sin embargo, aun así)

“Craig’s on a diet. However, he can’t lose any weight.”

“I didn’t like the price. Nevertheless/Nonetheless, I bought it.”

Or at the end of a second sentence in informal English:
“I didn’t like the price. I bought it, nonetheless.”

While / whereas (mientras que)
In the middle or at the start of a sentence:
“Our last podcast was really interesting, whereas/while this one is a bit boring.”
“While/whereas the last podcast was really interesting, this one is a bit boring:”

On the one hand / on the other hand (por un lado / por el otro lado)
Links two contrasting ideas. “On the one hand” can be omitted:
(On the one hand,) I think that technology has helped society in the areas of health, work, education etc. On the other hand we might be too dependant on technology and maybe to addicted to it as well.

On the contrary - al contrario
Some people say that people can’t change. On the contrary, I think they can!

We can use linkers to add information:

Moreover (además) / furthermore / besides (además) / in addition (to) (además (de)) / as well as (además de) / apart from (aparte de) / what’s more (además; lo que es más, y encima) / on top of that (además) / as well = too (también) at the end of a sentence

“In addition to jazz music, Craig also likes rap.”
Besides music and podcasting, what other hobbies do you have at the moment? - It's a nice day for a walk, and besides, I need the exercise.
I think you owe me an apology. Furthermore, you need to apologise to my wife.
Your company did not inform us of the building work in the hotel. Moreover, no compensation was offered.
Juan was at the meeting, as well as Sara and Maria.
‘Apart from Spanish, Reza also speaks French”.
“He's ugly and what's more, he's not very nice.”
"What a day! First I woke up late, then the car wouldn't start, and on top of that, I dropped my phone and broke it."
She likes tea. She likes coffee as well/too.

We can use linkers to show consequences and results:

As a result (of) (debido a,como resultado, como consecuencia) / therefore (por lo tanto, por eso) / consequently, as a consequence (en consecuencia, y entonces, y por eso) / for this reason

“Reza and I work very hard on this podcast. As a result, it’s becoming one of the most popular learning English podcasts in itunes.”
“I think, therefore I am.” - pienso, luego existo
“I wanted it; consequently, I bought it.”
“I don’t think I can help you develop this product, and for this reason I’m out.” - Shark tank

We can also use linkers to show reasons and causes:

Because (of) (a causa de, debido a) / as / since / seeing that / on account of / due to (debido a) / due to the fact that (debido a que) / owing to / owing to the fact that

As/Since/Because Craig loves Mickey Mouse (clause), he wants to visit Disney Land, Orlando.
Because of Craig’s love for Mickey Mouse (noun phrase, not clause), he wants to visit Disney Land, Orlando.

“Because of / on account of / owing to / due to our sponsor, italki we are able to continue with this podcast.”

Compare:
“We didn’t record podcasts yesterday due to* work.”
“We didn’t record podcasts yesterday due to the fact that* we were both working.”

(*also owing to and owing to the fact that)

“As / Since / Seeing that we’re hungry, we should break for lunch now.”

In order to = a more formal version of INFINITIVE / so as to
Theses conjunctions explain the purpose of something. They are more common in written English.
Reza and I started this podcast (in order) to help you improve your English.
We started our Patreon program so as to be able to pay for full transcriptions for these podcasts (go to https://www.patreon.com/inglespodcast for more details)

All the same (de todas formas, a pesar de todo)
“They offered to pay me 30 euros per hour, but I turned down the job all the same.”

We can use some linking words to show the order and sequence of things

First of all / Firstly / To begin with / To start with / In the first place (en primer lugar, antes que nada)
Second / Secondly (en segundo lugar)
Third / Thirdly (en tercer lugar)
After that / Then (después de eso, después) / Next (luego)
Finally, Lastly (por fin, por último, finalmente)
Last but not least (por último, si bien no menos importante)

Linkers for summarizing

In short / To sum up / In conclusion (en resumen, para concluir, resumir)
All in all (en suma)
In brief (en resumen)
In short (en resumen)
On the whole (en general)

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On next week's episode: Feelings Vocabulary in English

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Puedes contestar las preguntas de comprensión y obtener ayuda con el vocabulario difícil en esta entrevista en inglespodcast.com   

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Vocabulary

urge = deseo, impulso
stipend = beca
funky (bars) = de moda, en la onda
it rings a bell = it seems familiar
(insurance) policy = póliza
to set up = instalar, montar
to struggle (to have difficulty) = costar
risky = arriesgado/a
to own = poseer, ser dueño de
to put (something) off = posponer
to go all in = echar el resto, ir con todo, apostar todo
overlap = coincidencia
to outsource = subcontratar
to scale = modificar la escala
deadline = fecha tope, fecha límite
to procrastinate = posponer, dejar para después
to run into someone = tropezarse con, encontrarse con 

In this episode we're going to help you improve your pronunciation with linking sounds. How words join together in connected speech - because WE DO NOT SPEAK LIKE ROBOTS DO WE?

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Audio message from Jose from Mexico.

Audio message from Mamen: doubt and hesitate

Doubt
I doubt if we can help her. Why are you hesitating?
Doubt = dudar “I doubt if we’ll be making a special Christmas podcast this year.”
“I doubt that I’ll be eating turkey on Christmas day.”
“Did you have doubts about the consistency of this podcast when we first started?”

To doubt means to lack confidence in something; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.
To hesitate means to stop or pause before making a decision or doing something.
(dudar , vacilar)

Expressions with doubt
there is some doubt about it = sobre esto existen dudas
beyond doubt = fuera de duda
beyond all reasonable doubt = más allá de toda duda
to cast doubt on = poner en duda
to clear up sb's doubts = sacar a algn de dudas
to have one's doubts about sth = tener sus dudas acerca de algo
no doubt! = ¡sin duda!
to throw doubt on = poner en duda
without (a) doubt = sin duda (alguna)

to hesitate to do sth = dudar en hacer algo
“When I did a bungy jump, I hesitated before I jumped, but I had no doubt it was safe.”
Don’t hesitate to contact us, send Reza an email.
Don't hesitate to ask us = no vaciles en pedírnoslo, no dejes de pedírnoslo
To hesitate before doing sth = dudar antes de hacer algo
What do you hesitate before doing?

Connected speech. Why do native English speakers connect their speech? We try to say the most we can in the shortest possible time.

English is a stress-timed language. Spanish is a syllable-timed language.

1 - 2 - 3 - 4
1 and 2 and 3 and 4
1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4
1 and then a 2 and then a 3 and then a 4

CATS CHASE MICE
the CATS CHASE MICE
the CATS CHASE the MICE
the cats will CHASE the MICE
the CATS will have CHASED the MICE

"here and there" Do you pronounce the 'r' at the end of 'here'
"more examples"
"A doctor or a lawyer"
"We never ever thought we'd love podcasting"
"The biscuits are in the cupboard"
“This is a better episode than last week’s.”

Does the first word have to end in an ‘r’ sound, and the second begin with a vowel sound (like better and episode)?

law and order (‘r’ sound)
Pasta and cheese (‘r’ sound)

Go away (‘w’ sound)
No, I can’t (‘w’ sound)

She isn’t there (‘y’ sound)
Tea and biscuits (‘y’ sound)

Consonant + vowel sound (link the sounds together when a consonant is followed by a vowel)
I need it = I needit
Say a word = saya word
Read a text = reada text

Consonant + consonant (if the consonant is the same sound, just pronounce it once)
Big girl = bigirl
Best teacher = besteacher
Good day = gooday (or G’day if you’re Australian!)
Take the fast train = fastrain

I needto stopeating chocolate = I need to stop eating chocolate.
Playa songon ya violin = Play a song on your violin.
Are ya gonna sitdown or standup? = Are you going to sit down or stand up?

Other examples - dictation:

Wacha gonna do? = What are you going to do?

I’ve gotta geta lotavit = I’ve got to get a lot of it

She can’tavarrivedearly = She can’t have arrived early

Sendusanemail = send us an email

I’ve never bininafrica = I’ve never been in Africa ('Nicola's been in Benin, Africa')

Wadaya do? = What do you do? (for a living)

Pickitupoff the floor = pick it up off the floor

He mustav eatenitall = He must have eaten it all

A similar thing happens in Spanish also - cortado, cuñado, pringado

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In this episode we're going to talk about ghosts and the supernatural an idea from Liliana from Colombia who sent us this voice message

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Feedback: Bruno Schvidah from Brazil
My name is Bruno and I am from Brazil but recently living in Copenhagen!
My weak side has been "adverbial clauses and linkers" I would really like to go through that!
For now, I wish you all a great Friday!
All the best, Bruno

Episode 32
Although / even though / despite / in spite of - http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/10/09/im-just-a-poor-english-teacher-im-happy-though-airc32/ 

Episode 55
but, even though/although, however, in spite of/despite - http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/06/14/linking-words-but-even-thoughalthough-however-in-spite-ofdespite-etc-shopping-expressions-airc55/ 

Go and listen to those two episodes, Bruno and if there are linking words, conjunctions that we did not mention, please tell us and we will talk about them in a future episode of Aprender Inglés con Reza y Craig.

Audio Feedback from Roberto from Mexico.
How do you believe that the place where you learn a language affects the way you speak?
A student from Argentina who learned from a teacher from the US and then came to Spain speaks with an American accent.
Friends from the UK who have learned Spanish in Argentina, Mexico and Peru speak very differently to the way I do.

Liliana also sent us an email. Comment by Lili Corne from Colombia, Cali
Hello , the podcast was fantastic today, I would like to talk some day about ghosts, for example, Do you believe in ghosts? I have an experience about that!

Vocabulary

Ghost, ghastly, phantom - fantasma
To haunt - encantar - a haunted house
Spooky - espeluznante
Words for the devil - el diablo: lucifer, the beast, Satan, 666, beelzebub, The Prince of Darkness
Evil - mal, vil
Curse - una maldición
Demons and angels
To terrify - aterrorizar a , terrifying - espantoso/a “I was terrified” / “It was a terrifying experience”
To scare - asustar, aterrorizar, scary
Fear (noun) - niedo, to fear - temer
To be afraid(adj.) - tener miedo
Fright (noun) - susto - I caught/had a fright
Frighten (verb) - asustar a
Frightening (adj.)
Frightful (adj.) a frightful shock
To scream - gritar (a blood curdling/spine chilling scream)
To howl (like a werewolf) gritar, aullar
The afterlife, life after death - el más allá, ultratumba
Coffin - ataúd
To bury - enterrar
Cemetery - cementerio
Grave - tumba, gravestone - lápida mortuoria
Gruesome - repelente - “a gruesome killing”
Eerie - inquietante, escalofriante - an eerie silence
Witch - bruja - broomstick - palo de escoba , to cackle - reírse a carcajadas, to cast a spell - embrujar , witchcraft/sorcery - brujería, wand - varita
fairies - las hadas
wizard - mago, hechicero
Zombie

Discussion

Afterlife - What happens to a person’s soul or spirit after they die (to die, death, he died or passed away)

Astral projection - the process whereby our etheric body, spirit or mind separates from the physical body, while maintaining a level of consciousnes (out of body experiences).

Channeling - Uses communication with the paranormal through a state of trance.

Dowsing - To be able to find underground water and/or underground minerals

Ley lines - hypothetical alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths.

ESP - Extrasensory perception (ESP) is the knowledge of external objects or events. A sixth sense beyond the five man already uses. Animals seem to have it.
What are the 5 senses? (hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste)

Past Life Recall - To remember or have mental flashes about living in another lifetime.

Reincarnation -The belief that a person's soul will, following bodily death, inhabit a new body in a long cycle of rebirths.

Telepathy - To know what others are thinking as if to hear thoughts in your head. Thought transference including the sending and receiving of thoughts.

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In this episode we're going to help you improve your marketing vocabulary

Audio feedback from Maria Jose from Cordoba
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Listener Feedback: Maite
Hi Craig!
First of all I have to say that your English podcasts are by far the best. I've never seen such magnificent podcasts.
Well, I'd like you to teach me vocabulary about marketing issues because I'm doing a degree in marketing and market research and I want to get more vocabulary skills.
That's all folks!
Thanks in advance for being as you are.
Maite

"Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships." - wikipedia

Does marketing have good or bad connotations?

Marketing is activities of a company associated with buying and selling a product or service.
People who work in marketing try to get the attention of target audiences by using slogans, packaging design, celebrity endorsements and general media exposure.

Marketing is everything a company does to acquire customers and maintain a relationship with them. Is this necessarily a bad thing?

Even the small tasks like writing thank-you letters, returning phone calls and emails promptly and meeting with a past client for coffee can be thought of as marketing.

The ultimate goal of marketing is to match a company's products and services to the people who need and want them, thereby ensuring profitability.

Vocabulary

brand / make / label
consumer
distribution - delivering the product to the customer
end-user - the person, customer who is the ultimate (and so real) user of a product
launch - lanzar
E-commerce – buying and selling of products or services over the Internet.
E-marketing – Promotion of products and services over the Internet
market research
Market niche – Small but profitable segment (segmento) of a market in which a company is a specialist
market share
Inbound Marketing - marketing activities that draw visitors in, rather than marketers having to go out to get prospects' attention.
packaging
Engagement Rate - A popular social media metric used to describe the amount of interaction (likes, shares, comments etc.) a piece of content receives. Interactions like these tell you that your messages are resonating with your fans and followers.
keywords - the topics that webpages get indexed for in search results by engines like Google
Product range/line – products of a particular type manufactured and/or sold by a company
Product positioning – consumer perception of a product as compared to it’s competition.

Product placement – a form of advertisement, when a company pays for a product to be seen in films and TV programs.
Corporate image – The way society views a company.
trademark - special symbol, design, word etc used to represent a product or firm
sponsor
Lead - A person or company who's shown interest in a product or service in some way, shape, or form. Perhaps they filled out a form, subscribed to a blog, or shared their contact information in exchange for something.
Landing Page - A landing page is a website page containing a form that is used for lead generation.
Conversion Rate - The percentage of people who completed a desired action on a single web page, such as filling out a form. Pages with high conversion rates are performing well, while pages with low conversion rates are performing poorly.
Bounce Rate - The percentage of people who land on a page on your website and then leave without clicking on anything else or navigating to any other pages on your site. (to bounce = rebotar)

Marketing Acronyms

ROI - Return on Investment - The formula for ROI is: Gain from Investment minus Cost of Investment

SEO - Search Engine Optimization - The practice of enhancing where a webpage appears in search results.

LTV - Lifetime Value - A prediction of the net profit attributed to the entire future relationship with a customer.

CAC - Customer Acquisition Cost - Your total Sales and Marketing cost.

CTR - Clickthrough Rate - The percentage of your audience that advances (or clicks through) from one part of your website to the next step of your marketing campaign.

CTA - Call-to-Action - a text link, button, image, or some type of web link that encourages a website visitor to visit a landing page and become of lead. Some examples of CTAs are “Subscribe Now” or “Download this PDF document Today.”

B2C (Business-to-Consumer) - sells to consumers (Amazon, Apple)

B2B (Business-to-Business) - sells to other businesses (google)

API - Application Programming Interface - a series of rules in computer programming, which allow an application to extract information from a service and use that information
either in their own application or in data analyses.
It's kind of like a phone for applications to have conversations. Example: The inglespodcast app in itunes and Android.

Questions
What's the most annoying thing that marketers do in order to sell you stuff?

Which, if any, of these advertising methods would you take notice of:
website banners
email spam
phone calls - telemarketing
street advertising
TV/radio commercials
fliers on you car, in your postbox
newspaper/magazine ads
word of mouth
pre-roll ads on YouTube
podcast ads

Why do you think marketing has become so much more important in recent years?

Reza strongly objects to any public money being spent by councils or government on advertisements merely reminding you how good they (supposedly) are. What are your feelings on this?

Is sponsorship of major events really necessary, or just purely self-interested marketing for the sponsor?

Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man: https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man 

Joan Boluda - Marketing online https://boluda.com/ 

Jason Van Orden and Jeremy Frandsen http://www.internetbusinessmastery.com/ 

Online Marketing Made Easy - Amy Porterfield http://www.amyporterfield.com/category/podcast/ 

Pat Flynn - Smart Passive Income http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/ 

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Andrew Walkely and I worked at the same language school in Valancia when Andrew was living here with his family a few years ago.
But he left Valencia and we lost touch with each other, as people do, so I was really pleased to meet up with him at a teaching conference in the Uk this year.
We had lunch together during the conference and he told me about an exciting new project he's
started in London so I wanted to bring him on the podcast to speak about it.

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Vocabulary
freelance - independiente, autónomo/a
to set up (a company)
rolayties
bizzare
joint venture - empresa conjunta
redevelopment - remodelación, reurbanización
council estate - un barrio de viviendas de alquiler subvencionadas por el ayuntamiento.

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Feedback: Email from Rafael alba garcia
I've just listened to the new podcast and I found it very interesting with these nine words in Spanish. Episode 127: http://www.inglespodcast.com/2016/10/30/9-spanish-words-we-need-in-english-airc127/  
Muy bien descritas esas nueve palabras, pero con la explicación de «ya», en mi opinión Reza no ha estado del todo (a bit) exacto, porque cuando en español se hace una pregunta, (por ejemplo).... ¿quieres un vaso de agua? o ¿tu eres Craig?, los españoles no solemos contestar «ya».....otra cosa es que yo diga....¡Tú eres Craig!, (afirmación), entonces Craig puede contestar, ya, (ya lo sé)

Audio Feedback: Ivan from Valencia

We spoke about time clauses with the present perfect in Episode 18 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/03/24/present-perfect-fig-rolls-with-special-guest-bea-airc18/ ) Specifically STILL / ALREADY / JUST / YET / SO FAR (often used with the present perfect)
AGO / LAST WEEK, MONTH / YESTERDAY / IN 2006 (Often used with the past simple)

More time expressions

AFTER - I made coffee after Reza arrived. / After Reza arrived, I made coffee.
I'll have a shower after you.
What are you doing after we finish recording?

More uses of after:
expressions
day after day - día tras día. What are the same mistakes you keep correcting in your classes day after day.
one after the other - uno tras otro. I can’t stop eating chocolates. Once I start, I eat them one after the other.
one excuse after another - excusas y más excusas. When I ask my students for hand in their writing homework I get a load odd excuses, one after the other.
after you! - ¡pase usted!, ¡usted primero!

behind
close the door after you - cierra la puerta al salir or cuando salgas
I'm tired of cleaning up after you - estoy cansado de ir detrás de ti limpiándolo todo

Looking for
She's after a husband - Va en pos de un marido
They're all after the same thing - Todos van a por lo mismo
What is he after? - ¿Qué pretende?
I see what you're after - Ya caigo, ya comprendo lo que quieres decir; (hostile) ya te he calado

in view of - después de
After all I've done for you - Después de / Con todo lo que he hecho por ti
He can't go back after what he's done - Después de lo que ha hecho no puede volver

BEFORE - we had lunch before we started recording. We taught classes before we had lunch.

Different uses of before

anteriormente
Have you been here before? - ¿Habías estado aquí anteriormente?

rather than
I would die before I would criticize her. - Moriría antes de criticarla.

in front of
He stood before the crowd and raised his arms. - Él se paró ante la multitud y levantó los brazos.
I stood before my students and made a fool of myself.

por delante
She has her whole career before her. - Ella tiene toda una carrera por delante

antes que
Personally, I'd eat pizza before caviar or truffles. - Personalmente, prefiero comer pizza antes que caviar o trufas.
I’d prefer to eat chocolate before food.

ante
They performed an open-air concert before a huge audience. - Dieron un concierto al aire libre ante un numeroso público.

WHEN (cuando) - I was making coffee when Reza arrived.

WHILE (mientras) - I was making coffee while Reza was testing the microphone. (during the time that)

While/When Reza was living in Salamanca, he met Patricia.

BY THE TIME - What do you hope to have done by the time you’ve retired? (future perfect)
By the time we get to the station the train will have gone!

AS SOON AS - (tan pronto como) I will pay for your ticket as soon as you make the reservation. - Tan pronto como hagan la reserva pagaré la factura.
As soon as this podcast is published it goes to iTunes and all the other podcast applications.

ASAP (AS SOON AS POSSIBLE) Lo antes posible. We must record some more podcasts as soon as possible!
I’ll let you know as soon as possible.

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IN THE END (al fin y al cabo, al final) We had some technical problems with the podcast today, but we recorded all of it in the end.

AT THE END (al final - at the final stages of something, at the point when something finishes) What happened at the end of the film?
The toilet is at the end of the hall.

AT LAST (al fin, por fin) - we managed to meet this. Week, at last. Finally!

DURING (durante) How many times have I hit the pause button during this podcast?

I've been living in Valencia FOR 15 years.

during the war
during my childhood
during the podcast
during the lesson
during the revolution etc.

for a year
for a few minutes
for a while
for a couple of weeks
for ages etc.

EVER (alguna vez) / NEVER (nunca) Have you ever been to Florence?
Craig’s never been to Florence.

"Reza has never eaten crocodile meat" or "Reza hasn't ever eaten crocodile meat."

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In this episode we're going to help you understand and use vague language. What are you doing later this evening? - I’ve got to sort out some stuff at home. (What stuff?)

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Listener Feedback: A question from Vanessa in my FCE class: What is the difference between "even though" and "even so"? When do you use the first and when do you use the second?

EVEN THOUGH = aunque, a pesar de que - "I decided to walk to the library even though it was raining." / "Decidí caminar hasta la biblioteca aunque estaba lloviendo."

EVEN SO = aun así - "I know you don't like vegetables, darling. Even so, you must eat them." / "Ya sé que no te gustan las verduras cariño. Pero aun así te las tienes que comer."

Vague language - not distinct (vago/a)

Sometimes vague language is bad:
How much does this cost? - Around 15 quid, more or less.
Legal contracts and documents, for example, shouldn’t be vague.
When we speak though, we often use vague language.

What did you do yesterday morning?

I took the number 19 bus into the centre of Valencia and bought a pair of blue shoes and a beige pair of shorts in El Corte Inglés. Then I met Michelle for coffee in Starbucks at 12.30.

I went into town to get a few things and then I met a friend for coffee. (more natural)

Vague language
STUFF - There’s so much stuff in my bag. / Clean all that stuff off the floor. (stuff is uncountable: “A lot of stuff” / “Lots of stuff.” / “Much stuff” / “Loads of stuff.”
What’s that stuff you use to make your hair soft?
THINGS - Pass me that thing/thingy on the table. / Don’t forget to take all those things with you when you go.

Are you going to that thing this weekend?
Have you got a lot of stuff to do tonight? (I've got a few bits and bobs/bits and pieces/odds and sods to do)

Vague language for numbers and quantities
Loads of
A few
A couple
Lots of
...ish
More or less

How many emails do you think I got yesterday in the Mansión Inglés and Inglespodcast email accounts?
I got 117 emails yesterday - I got loads of emails yesterday.

Reza had 5 biscuits with his tea. - Reza had a few biscuits with his tea.

Vague language to make a list shorter
…..and that kind/sort of thing
….and so on
…..etcetera (etc)
….and things like that
….or something
….or something like that

What do you like to do at weekends? - Sleep in ‘till late. go to the beach, meet up with friends, listen to podcasts, read, drink beer and watch TV series. - You know, sleep in drink beer with friends, that kind of thing. (Don’t give EVERY DETAIL)

What kind of food do you eat when you’re home in Belfast?
Meat, potatoes, stew and things like that.

He’s got a flash new sports car; a Jaguar or BMW or something.

Vague language to be indirect
Do you want to go back to that French restaurant?
Not really, it’s expensive. (direct)
Not really, it’s kind of expensive. / Not really, it’s a bit expensive. (more indirect)

What do you think of Tom?
He sort of annoys me sometimes. (‘sort of’ makes the criticism softer)

I kind of don’t really feel like going out tonight. (indirect) = I want to stay in! (direct)

about/around

Let’s meet at 11 to record the podcasts. (direct)
Let’s meet about/around 11 to record the podcasts. (indirect)

Can you get here at 11?
Can you get here around 11? (Using rising intonation also makes this more indirect, softer and polite - less like an order)

Approximately / roughly
Approximately - I can do this for you for approximately 250 euros.
Roughly - There’s roughly 16 in the class.

Vague language when you’ve forgotten a name or a word.
Thingy - Pass me that thingy on the table.
Whatsit / What’s it called - Where's the whatsit that you change channels with?
You'd better tell whatsit - what's his name - the guy in charge of the conference.
Thingamajig - Take out the plastic thingamajig and then put the batteries in.
What’s it called? / What do you call it? - I need to open this bottle of wine, but I haven’t got a ….what’s is called?...the thing you open bottles with…....ahh! a corkscrew!
Whatshisname / whatshername / whatshisface / whatsherface (What is her face?) - I got an email from er...whatshisname? Er..y’know, that bloke from Madrid this morning. (not used in written English and N OT used in person to someone’s face! XHey, you, whatsyourface, can you pass the wine?X

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On next week's episode: Time clauses (a question from Ivan from Valencia)

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Listener Feedback: Javier from Tolasa
What's the difference between 'life expectation' and 'life expectancy' (and also 'life span')?

Life expectancy usually refers to the amount of years left in one's life based on the person's current age.
Life span refers to the average total duration of a lifetime within specific groups

9 Spanish Words We Need in English

1.GUIRI: a foreigner, usually a tourist, who happens to be in Spain and stands out as being pretty obviously not a local. (GRINGO in Central/South America)

En España los guiris hacen más ruido que los españoles. SAYS WHO? I COMPLETELY DISAGREE!

Do you wear sandals and socks? Walk on the sunny side of the street in August?
“Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun!”

2. ESTRENAR: to wear or use something for the first time.

Wear for the first time
Make a debut in a job or in a new post or position
(Films in the cinema) Premiere, release a film, to perform for the first time.

3. ESPABILAR - To liven up, to hurry up, to get one's act together, to wake up, to get a move on, move yourself!
¡Espabila o el banco estará cerrado! - Get your arse in gear or the bank will be closed!

4. CACHONDEO - Messing and joking around
cachondearse = laugh at, (slang - take the mickey), (formal - to mock, ridicule) - “No te enfades, que estoy de cachondeo, no lo digo en serio.”
(falta de seriedad) - a joke a laugh “Esto es un cachondeo, aquí nadie hace lo que debe hacer.”

5. AUTÓNOMO - A registered self-employed person, independent, self-sufficient. The word also refers to freelancers and contractors.
“Es una mujer autónoma que vive independiente.” - She's a self-sufficient woman who lives independently.

6. PAGAFANTAS - 'Fanta buyer', it usually refers to guys who buy drinks for girls and treat them nicely, but never actually get anywhere in the relationship. (a mug, chump)
eg. Reza, quite often

7. FUNCIONARIO - clerk, civil servant, official (oposiciones)
“La ambición de mi primo es ser funcionario.”

8. ALTA/BAJA (These words have multiple meanings) - sign on/off the dole (el paro) or social security or many other things, register/unregister (something), statement of fitness for work/sick line
DAR DE ALTA: to be discharged from hospital / to join an organization, to register
DAR DE BAJA: to unsubscribe

9. YA (Reza both loves and hates this word in equal measure because its shortness can be very useful or very sarcastic) - “Yes”, “That’s right”, “Told you (so)”, “I see (what you mean)”, “Stop (talking)”, “Yes, I already know (that)”, “Yes, I’ve already done that”, “About time/At last”, “That’s quite enough”, “Is that it/all?”

Ahora mismo (now): “Quiero que entres en casa ya.” - I want you to go into the house now. / “Ya se acabó” - it's all over now

Anteriormente (already): “La policía ya había detenido al ladrón en dos ocasiones.” - The police had already detained the thief on two occasions.

¡Basta ya! - Stop it already!, Enough already!, Enough!, Knock it off!

ya entiendo - I see
¡ya lo sé! - I know!
ya, pero ... - yes, but ...
¡ya, ya! - yes, yes!, oh, yes!, oh, sure! (irony)
ya, y luego viste un burro volando - ¿no? sure, and pigs might fly! (irony)
esto ya es un robo - this really is robbery

GOING FORWARD

As a valued literary stakeholder all are
Welcome to this key verse
In which you can decide how we
Will go forward together into the future.

A future full, so full,
Of a raft of broad-ranging initiatives
In which we must all pool resources
By supporting this latest proposal, going forward.

Due to present unavoidable circumstances
Words must be properly managed
And targeted primarily only to
Those most in need of them.

Should any mistruth occur, per se,
In accordance with best practice
It will be swiftly dealt with
And those responsible will be held accountable.

In terms of teamwork and leadership
Verbal synergy will be the
Benchmark and core competency
In the most encompassing global sense.

In the face of growing misconception
It now only remains for me
To tender my resignation in a
Bid to quell mounting concern that
These lines are not fit for purpose

Reza Shah

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Alternative Medicine - AIRC126

In this episode we'll be speaking about alternative medicine (aromatherapy, acupuncture etc.)

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Voice message from Pilar from Madrid

Email from Carlos
"I am trying now to get the Cambridge First Certificate, so I was looking for some audios in the internet in order to train my listening skills when I found your podcasts by chance.

I´d like to tell you that not only are your podcasts really useful to improve my listening and grammar skills, but they are also very funny, I have a good time with them. (I really enjoy them).
Actually, I usually go running twice or three times a week and I do that listening to your episodes. Sometimes you guys make me laugh and people who look at me running and laughing. They probably think that I am absolutely crazy.

Does that happen to you Reza, when you’re reading on the bus or train?

Alternative medicine
Email from Eva Garcia Romo
Hello Craig!
It’s me again! Sorry, but nowadays I teach English in a wellness clinic to therapists, personal trainers and so on, and I really need your help to talk about vocabulary and expressions in this area.
Would it be possible to have something about this in a podcast?
Thanks in advance for your always kind help.
Best regards
Eva

Wikipedia: "Alternative medicine is any practice that is put forward as (presented as) having the healing effects of medicine,
but does not originate from evidence gathered using the scientific method. Nor is it part of biomedicine, nor contradicted by scientific evidence or established science."

Examples include new and traditional medicine practices such as homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, energy medicine, various forms of acupuncture, acupressure, traditional Chinese medicine, cupping, Ayurvedic medicine, Sekkotsu, Reiki, Bach flowers remedies, aromatherapy, Alexander technique, crystal healing, Shiatsu, reflexology, chromotherapy/colour therapy and Christian faith healing.

We don’t have time to speak about ALL the difference types, but we’re going to look at four kinds of alternative medicine and see if we believe that they actually work.

We’ll look at HOMEOPATHY, ACUPUNCTURE, AROMATHERAPY and The ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

Vocab:
To treat (treatment), to treat someone FOR something “I’m being treated for high uric acid.”
Placebo = a fake treatment with no physical/scientific basis for success, often used in clinical trials
(Do/carry out/conduct) research
Scientific studies
Pseudoscience - a claim, belief, or practice presented as scientific, but which does not follow scientific method.
A charlatan = someone who pretends (fingir) to know something that s/he really doesn’t
“Mind over matter” = believing that your thoughts can in themselves produce physical effects
To cash in (on something) = to make money from a popular trend or fad
eg. “The shopkeeper is cashing in on the popularity of crystal healing by starting to sell expensive healing crystals in his shop.”
A practitioner = a person who practices (alternative/conventional) medicine
Conventional medicine = not alternative medicine (eg. radiation chemotherapy)
New Age = the modern equivalent of the hippie/flower power movement

HOMEOPATHY
What is homeopathy?
“Homeopathy is a natural form of medicine used by over 200 million people worldwide to treat both acute and chronic conditions. It is based on the principle of ‘like cures like’. In other words, a substance taken in small amounts will cure the same symptoms it causes if it were taken in large amounts.

The holistic nature of homeopathy means each person is treated as a unique individual and their body, mind, spirit and emotions are all considered in the management and prevention of disease. Taking all these factors into account a homeopath will select the most appropriate medicine based on the individual’s specific symptoms and personal level of health to stimulate their own healing ability.

Homeopathic medicines are safe to use as they rarely cause side-effects. This means when used appropriately under the guidance of a qualified homeopath they can be taken by people of all ages, including babies, children and pregnant or breastfeeding women.” (source: The British Homeopathic Association)

Homeopathy isn’t just taking herbal medicine. Caffeine is prescribed by homeopaths (under the name 'coffea') as a treatment for insomnia.

Wikipedia: Homeopathic preparations are not effective for treating any condition; large-scale studies have found homeopathy to be no more effective than a placebo, suggesting that any positive feelings that follow treatment are only due to the placebo effect and normal recovery from illness.

http://www.quackwatch.com/  - “Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions”

ACUPUNCTURE
What is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a key component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) involving thin needles being inserted into the body. TCM theory and practice are not based upon scientific knowledge, and acupuncture is commonly described as pseudoscience. There is a diverse range of acupuncture theories, involving different philosophies. Techniques vary depending on the country. It is most often used for pain relief, though it is also used for a wide range of other conditions. It is generally only used in combination with other forms of treatment.

The conclusions of many trials and numerous systematic reviews of acupuncture are largely inconsistent.
An overview of medical reviews found that acupuncture is not effective for a wide range of conditions. It may be effective for only chemotherapy-induced nausea/vomiting, postoperative nausea/vomiting, and idiopathic headache. It may alleviate certain kinds of pain. Evidence suggests that short-term treatment with acupuncture does not produce long-term benefits. Some research results suggest acupuncture can alleviate pain, though the majority of research suggests that acupuncture's effects are mainly due to placebo.

Craig has tried acupuncture to alleviate a uric acid attack.
Reza has had success with acupuncture to increase his energy levels.

AROMATHERAPY
What is Aromatherapy?
Aromatherapy is the practice of using the natural oils extracted from flowers, bark (corteza), stems (tallos), leaves (hojas), roots (raizes) or other parts of a plant to enhance psychological and physical well-being.

The inhaled aroma from these "essential" oils is widely believed to stimulate brain function. Essential oils can also be absorbed through the skin, where they travel through the bloodstream and can promote whole-body healing. (source: www.aromatherapy.com/ )

There is no good medical evidence that aromatherapy can either prevent or cure any disease, but it might help improve general well-being. (source: Wikipedia)

THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
The Alexander Technique (developed in the 1890’s), named after Frederick Matthias Alexander, is an educational process that develops the ability to realign posture and to avoid unnecessary muscular and mental tension.
Alexander believed the individual's self-awareness (conciencia de sí mismo) could be inaccurate, resulting in unnecessary muscular tension such as when standing or sitting with body weight unevenly distributed, holding one's head incorrectly, walking or running inefficiently, and responding to stressful stimuli in an exaggerated way.
Alexander said that those who habitually "misused" their muscles could not trust their feelings (sensory appreciation) when carrying out activities or responding to situations emotionally.

The effectiveness of the Alexander Technique is uncertain because of insufficient evidence. There is evidence suggesting the Alexander Technique is helpful for long-term back pain, long-term neck pain, and may help people cope with Parkinson's disease, but little evidence that it helps any other medical conditions.

From http://www.alexandertechnique.com/  
"The Alexander technique is a way of learning how you can get rid of harmful tension in your body."
The Alexander Technique is a way to feel better, and move in a more relaxed and comfortable way... the way nature intended.

An Alexander Technique teacher helps you to identify and lose the harmful habits you have built up over a lifetime of stress and learn to move more freely.

The Alexander Technique is for you if you are ready to feel more comfortable in your own body.
The Alexander Technique can also help you if:

You suffer from repetitive strain injury or carpal tunnel syndrome (trapped nerve). (strain = esfuerzo, estrés, esguince, presión, tensión)
You have a backache or stiff neck and shoulders (tortícolis) .
You become uncomfortable when sitting at your computer for long periods of time.
You are a singer, musician, actor, dancer or athlete and feel you are not performing at your full potential.

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In this episode we look at phrasal verbs with take and get in answer to a voice message from Ivan.

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Listener Feedback: Manuel Tarazona from Paterna

Hello podcasters, I'm writing a new letter to you while I'm listening (to) the drug episode when I've just finished my holidays. Drugs Episode 118 - http://www.inglespodcast.com/2016/08/28/drugs-and-addiction-airc118/  
I hope you could talk about playing music in a future episode: instruments, amplifiers, speakers.....
I play guitar with my friends and I'm interesting about (interested in) that vocabulary. Thanks you for your podcasts and go on!
A big hug for you from Manuel.
Paterna.
We spoke about music vocabulary in Episode 27 - http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/07/14/its-cheap-at-half-the-price-airc27/ 

Voice message: Drug episode from anonymous (Messy - desordenado): Drugs and Addiction Episode 118

Ivan Ballester- voice message TAKE and GET phrasal verbs (voice message stops after 90 seconds)
Here are some of the more common uses of TAKE and GET as phrasal verbs:

TAKE

Take off (clothes) Doctor: “Take your shirt off, please.” "Please take off your shoes before you go inside."
(despegar) "What time does your plane take off?"
Take off (a person, to impersonate) “Can you take off Donald Trump?”
(when a business or career is successful) "Our podcast has really taken off this year."
(to leave) "What time are you taking off today?", (take time off) "I'm taking a couple of days off work."

Take up (accept an offer) “Not many students wanted to take up the offer of free classes at 7 o’clock in the morning.”
(occupy) “Craig’s Mickey Mouse memorabilia takes up a lot of space in his bedroom.“ “Podcasting takes up a lot of time.”
(start doing) Take up a hobby

Take on (employ new people): "Our company’s expanding and we’re going to take on more employees." / (engañar) "You were taken on with that car.
It's not worth 4,000 euros." / (challenge/fight/compete against) "Although Goliath was a giant, David took him on and won.” "Who are valencia taking on next week?"

Take over a business (take control). Also a noun "There's been a take over." "When my sister comes to visit she always takes over."
“Who will take over from the current President in the next elections?”

Take out (sacar, to remove from a place) “Craig suspiciously took out a huge bar of dark chocolate from his briefcase.”
(salir con alguien) "I'm taking out a girl from work on Friday. I'm taking her out for dinner."

Take down (to write on paper, to dismantle/remove) "Take this down." = "Write this on paper" / "We're taking down the light in our dining room."

Take back (to return) "This camera is too complicated for me. I'm taking it back to the shop for a refund."
(admit saying something wrong) “I wrongly accused Jack of cheating. I’m sorry and I take it back.”

Take after (resemble, parecerse a) “Mary has a big nose, just like her mother. Mary takes after her mother.” “I take after my dad.”

Take in (comprehend, understand) “Susan was very attentive to my story. She took in every detail.” "I listened to his presentation, but I couldn't take anything in."
(make clothes smaller) "I need to take this jacket in. It's too baggy."

Take up (make shorter) "If your trousers are too long, you take them up."

GET

get up (levantarse) "What time did you get up this morning?"

get over (recover from) “It takes time to get over a serious illness/divorce.” "It can take time to get over a relationship."

get by (arreglarse) "Do you think you'll be able to get by on a Spanish pension?"

get away (go on holiday, escapar, fugarse) “She likes to get away at Easter, if she can.” "We're hoping to get away for a few days to visit Mamen in Huesca."

Get away with (escape unpunished) “The robber tried to get away with the crime, but the police caught her.” “I wonder if I can get away with not paying my taxes this year.”

Get on (subir) “We got on the bus/bikes and departed/left.”

Get on with (continue without delay) “Stop telling silly jokes and get on with the podcast, Reza!”

Get on/along with sb (llevarse bien con) "I get along very well with my sister." "Angeles doesn't get on very well with my mum." “Craig and Reza get along/on like a house on fire.”

Get out (salir, escapar) "Get out!" - ¡Fuera de aquí! "Get out of the way!" - ¡apártate!, "Have you ever thought of getting out of teaching?"

Get out of (avoid doing something) “Tom always gets out of paying for anything. He’s very stingy.”

Get into (meterse en) "I got into a taxi and came straight home."
(engancharse con) "I've recently got into making videos for Facebook."

Get around (moverse, desplazarse) "It's quite easy to get around the center of Valencia."

Get down (desanimar, depress) "Is anything getting you down?" “Rainy days and Mondays always get me down,” said Karen Carpinter.

The Carpenters – Rainy Days and Mondays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HopFNfdoRSE

Get down to (to begin something seriously) “Shall we get down to business, ladies and gentlemen?” “Let’s get down to it.”

Get across (communicate something) “We try hard to get our points across to you, dear listeners!”

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On next week's episode: We don't know yet!

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In this episode we'll be speaking about avoiding repetition. Not saying 'thank you' all the time or repeating expressions like 'How are you?'

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Listener Feedback: Fransisco from Granada
Voice message - good news! Francisco Espínola from Granada passed his FCE exam!
Thanks for your comments, Francisco. Wonderful pronunciation and not one mistake!

Itunes reviews thank yous to everyone who has taken the time to write a short for us.
It's because of you that we are one of the best podcasts for learning English in itunes - the most visible.

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Comment on the website from Rafael:
Hello Reza and Craig, very interesting this episode speaking about drugs - Episode 118  http://www.inglespodcast.com/2016/08/28/drugs-and-addiction-airc118/  
Me ha gustado mucho todo lo que comentáis. Lo ha hecho como siempre, muy bien.

Hablais de las adicciones en las que se toman algunas sustancias químicas,
pero habéis pasado por alto una adicción muy potente que es la "ludopatía" o la afición por el juego, (ya sea cartas, lotería o las máquinas tragaperras - slot machines, fruit machines, one-armed bandit)

Muchas personas se enganchan sin tomar ninguna droga, Es curioso como la química del cerebro crea sus propias sustancias para que la gente quede muy enganchada
de personas que lo han perdido todo, sin tomar absolutamente ninguna sustancia química.

También he recordado una canción de John Lennon, que se llamaba "Cold Turkey" ahora ya sé lo que significaba, "el mono".
Saludos, Rafael.

to gamble - apostar, jugar

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Voice message from Elisa from Finland - She hates dependent prepositions! Time flies and the show must go on.

Hi, this is Javier from Tolosa. One question, please.
Episode 119 - http://www.inglespodcast.com/2016/09/04/getting-dressed-and-undressed-airc119/ 
What do you wear for work (usually – as a habit)
You always say that after preposition goes -ing, then I do not understand "...for work", why it is not "... for working" or "What do your wear TO work"
Thanks for helping me. A hug.
Javier González
Tolosa (Gipuzkoa)

PREPOSITION + ___ing VERB
But also PREPOSITION + NOUN/PRONOUN
eg. What do you wear for/to work. CORRECT. “For” or “to” are prepositions and “work” is a noun.
“Work” can be a noun or a verb.

Voice message from David Martinez, Alcoy. FCE September.

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How Not to Repeat Yourself in English

Saying ‘Can you repeat that, please?’
Alternatives:
Sorry?
Sorry, I didn't get/catch that.
Sorry, what was that (you said)?
I'm afraid I don't follow (you) (formal)
Come again? (informal)

saying 'hello' and 'How are you?'
Alternatives:
Alright?
What's up?
How's it going?
How are you doing?
How are things?
'bout you! (Belfast greeting - 'How about you?)
Ey up! (Greeting in the North of England)
Whatcha! (What you)

Saying 'Thank You'
Alternatives:
Thanks
Cheers!
Much appreciated
I owe you one
Many thanks
Thanks a bunch

Saying 'That's very, very good'
Alternatives:
That's amazing, fantastic, unbelievable, wonderful, awesome, out of this world!

Saying 'That's very, very bad'
Alternatives:
That's terrible, awful, horrible, disgusting

Saying 'I'm sorry'
Alternatives;
I'm really/very/extremely/so sorry
I apologise
I can't apologise enough
Please forgive me
It won't happen again!

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On next week's episode: Phrasal Verbs with TAKE and GET (request from Ivan Ballester)

And now, as promised, let's hear from Mónica Stocker from El Blog Para Aprender Inglés

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The difference between ALL and EVERYTHING | FIX, MANAGE, MAKE IT and FIGURE OUT - AIRC123

In this episode we speak about the difference between ALL and EVERYTHING | FIX, MANAGE, MAKE IT and FIGURE OUT
and your feedback and questions that you sent us during the summer.

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We recieved a Voice message from Hellen Jimenez from Costa Rica.

As Helen said, you can find a free grammar reference at http://www.mansioningles.com/  . There is also grammar in our free courses and
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Listener Feedback: Ivan from Cuba
Hi guys I'm Ivan and I'm Cuban that’s why my situation here with the internet is kind of complicated but I will always find a way to get your episodes.
I wanted to say that you guys are great and I believe truly in what you do.
I'd like to ask you about the use of ALL and EVERYTHING. That's all, thank you.

ALL and EVERYTHING = 100% of something or of a group

ALL

All + uncountable/plural countable nouns
eg. He ate all the food. (uncountable noun) / These students are all my friends. (plural countable noun)

Pronoun + all
eg.Craig and I love you all./ We all love holidays. / It all seemed a bit strange, from start to finish./ They all came to see us. / We love you all / We love all of our listeners.

All of + object form of pronoun (Compare with Pronoun + all)
eg. Craig and I love all of you.

We all love holidays / All of us love holidays.

It all semed a bit strange / All of it seemed a bit strange.

They all came to see us. / All of them came to see us.

All = all of + determiner (the, this, those, my, etc.) “All of” is more common in American Eng.

eg. Craig’s eaten all (of) the chocolate.

The listeners had heard all (of) my jokes before.

BUT COMPARE:
Not all podcasts are popular. (Talking about podcasts in general. No “the”; no “of”)
Not all (of) the podcasts are popular. (Talking about specific podcasts. eg. Aprender inglés con Reza y Craig podcasts.)

All's well with me at the moment.

All that matters is that YOU improve your English. (the only thing that matters.....)

All (that) I ever wanted was for Berta to love me.

All he wants now is to get a divorce.

'All' often goes with 'that' - We say Is everything finished? ~ Yes, everything is finished. (Not XIs all finishedX)

EVERYTHING

Everything = All + relative clause
eg. Reza gave Berta everything, but she still wasn’t satisfied. = Reza gave Berta all (that) he had, but she still wasn’t satisfied.
The bad businessman lost everything. = The bad businessman lost all (that) he owned.

EVERYTHING is usually used as a pronoun:
Everything is OK. / I did some work, but I didn't finish everything.

Everything substitutes 'other things', for example, "I had to reply to emails, make some images, record a podcast, phone my co-worker, post on Facebook.......but I didn't have enough time and I didn't do everything.

All = Everything/Everybody - dramatic/ poetic/ old-fashioned English
eg. I saw you with your new boyfriend last night. Tell me all/everything!
Newspaper headline: “Ship sinks. All are dead. No survivors.”

All = nothing more/the only thing(s)
eg. All (that) I ever wanted was for Berta to love me.
All we did was a friendly kiss on the cheek - nothing more. I promise!

Hi Craig! I am Karla from Costa Rica... I just wanted to thank you for this excellent tool that allows me to
practice and improve my English.
I am going to start a new job having interaction with people from different countries in Europe,
so I was concerned about accents and slang words.
As any language, I think it is about learning through daily interaction, right? Any advice? Thanks again!

Speak to people (Italki, language exchanges)
Listen to podcasts and watch TV series in English (Netflix, YouTube)

Mamen - Biescas, Huesca
Hi guys
Thank you so much for keeping working on your podcast so hard during the summer
We all appreciate your big effort!
This podcast had been so useful 'cause you get (give) me the opportunity to learn and improve every day
I wonder if you could help me with some issues that I always have.
Please, could you explain the difference between : fix, manage, figured out, make it?
I've heard these verbs in so many situations and it's a bit confusing.
Thank you so much
Hope you could manage or what ever with the hot summer.
BIG KISS

FIX - a problem/something broken/a time

(mend, repair) - arreglar, reparar: “I took my broken watch to the watchmaker to have it fixed.”

“This company is losing money and we’d better fix it soon before it’s too late!”

“I need to fix our ceiling fan."

Fix (attach) 'I'll fix this piece of paper to the wall.”

Fix a price - 'We've fixed the price of our First Certificate course download at 17 euros.' ( http://store.mansioningles.net/downloads/first-certificate-course/ )

Fix a time: “We have to fix a time tomorrow for our meeting.”

Fix food (make/prepare food) “Can I fix you a sandwich?” / "Say, can I fix you a drink."

“Fix your eyes on this.”

“The game/election/boxing match was fixed.” (fix=arreglar)

MANAGE = direct/be able to

(organize) - dirigir, manejar, gestionar: “Henry manages a small family business.”

“In the UK, my sister managed a small team of 4 office clerks.”

manage (control): “How do public school teachers manage a class of 30 or 40 kids?”

manage (get by, survive) - arreglarse: “I don't know how single parents can manage if they're both looking after children.”

manage (succeed) - conseguir, lograr: “Can you manage to get there by one o’clock?” / “It's difficult to release a podcast episode every single week, but we manage.”

FIGURE OUT - a puzzle/a solution

figured out (solve) - resolver, solucionar: “Today’s crossword is too hard to figure out.” / “It's difficult for me to figure out maths problems.” ('work out' is more British English)

“They lost their home to the bank and had to figure out what to do next.”

figure out (understand) - comprender - 'I finally figured out why my ceiling fan wouldn't stop.'

'I couldn't figure it out' / I couldn't work it out'

MAKE IT = attend/come/arrive/get to the end/survive

make it (succeed): llegar a lo más alto, triunfar: “When you win an award for your podcast, you know you've finally made it!”

make it (make sure that it is) - asegurar que: "Bring me a cup of tea and make it snappy!" - 'Make it quick.'

Make it (arrive on time): “I’m having a party at my house tomorrow. I hope you can make it?” / “I thought I was going to miss the beginning of the film, but I made it.”

“We got lost on our way to Peter’s house. We made it as far as the park.”

“Listen to me, your Captain, men! This is going to be a hard battle. Not all of you will make it.” (survive)

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On next week's episode: How Not to Repeat Yourself in English

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In this episode we look at the difference between too and enough and vocabulary connected to religion.

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Listener Feedback: Wesling Rojas
"I want to improve my speaking but I don't know how to do it. Please just give me some advices (advice/pieces of advice/some advice)."

You must speak! 'You can´t make an omelette if you don't break a few eggs!' Practice, practice, practice!

Who can you speak to and practise with?

1. Go to an English-speaking country.

2. Find English native speakers in your area.

3. Go to a language exchange (un intercambio) in a bar or cafe.

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5. Find a foreign boyfriend or girlfriend

6. Arrange to meet up with work colleagues or friends and speak English together for an hour a week.

7. Speak English at home to your family and friends.

8. Record yourself speaking English on your mobile phone and play it back.

Too and Enough

too - demasiado
enough - no bastante

Reza's TOO poor to buy designer clothes.

Designer clothes are TOO EXPENSIVE. (TOO + ADJECTIVE)

Reza doesn't have ENOUGH MONEY. (ENOUGH + NOUN)

TOO goes before an adjective or an adverb. 'It's too expensive' / 'She speaks too quickly.'
ENOUGH goes before the noun. - 'I don't have enough money.'

ENOUGH goes after adjectives - 'Are you warm enough?' / 'Is your coffee strong enough?'

ENOUGH often goes with the negative NOT. 'I'm NOT warm ENOUGH.'

You can use ENOUGH AFTER a verb - 'Podcasters do NOT get paid ENOUGH money.' / 'You're NOT studying ENOUGH.'

RELIGION

Religious (noun) - a religious person
Christian religion - Catholics and Protestants
Greek Orthodox
Jews follow the Jewish religion called Judaism.
Muslims (Moslem) follow the Islamic religion called Islam.
If you are a religious person, you have faith.
to pray - rezar
Hindus pray in a temple
Jews pray in a temple (US) / Synagogue (UK)
Hindus follow hinduism
Buddhists follow Buddhism
Agnostic - Does not know if there is a God or not.
Atheist - Does not believe in God.
Christians pray in a church
Muslims pray in a mosque
Buddhists pray in a temple
Sikhs wear a turban on their heads
A catholic priest (priest - cura, sacerdote
vicar (in the Anglican church) - pastor, vicario
monk - monje - monks live in a monastery
nun - monja - nuns live in a convent
to take a vow of silence - voto de silencio
holy - santo
the symbol of Christianity is the cross

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My friend Innes is a keen fisherman, and when he came to visit me last summer I asked him about fishing and if he goes fishing in the rain.

There are comprehension questions and translated vocabulary from this interview at: http://www.inglespodcast.com/Innes 

In this episode we're going to help you improve your collocations with the verbs keep, save and go.

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KEEP (guardar, conservar)

“Don't drink all the water. We need to keep some for tomorrow.”
Quedarse con - “I’ve decided to keep this microphone and not return it to the shop.”
Guardar, almacenar - “Where do you keep the sugar?’
Criar - “My aunt Mary has kept bees for over forty years.”
Seguir (continue) - ‘He kept working until six o'clock.’ / ‘Keep walking until you get to the beach.’

keep a promise (make and break)
keep a secret - Are you good or bad at keeping secrets?
keep an appointment (make and cancel)
keep calm (and carry on) - mantener la calma / tranquilizarse
keep in touch (with) - seguir en contacto / get in touch
Keep in mind - no olvidar, tener en cuenta
keep quiet
keep the change
keep it real! - ¡sé sincero!
keep your chin up
keep taking the tablets!
keep your nose out of someone’s business
keep your hair on! = Don’t get angry!
keep well out of it/something

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SAVE
save money
save someone a seat - Would you mind saving me a seat? / Would you like me to save you a seat?
save someone's life
save space - that’s very important in my flat
save time
save someone the trouble
save something to the hard disk/a USB

GO
go somewhere physically - go to the supermarket (remember the preposition TO - Have you been to Paris?), go abroad / overseas
go jogging, skiing, sailing, snowboarding, trekking, fishing etc
go bald - quedarse calvo
go grey - encanecerse
go out of business / go bankrupt - ir a la quiebra, bancarrota
go blind - ciego/a / deaf - sordo/a
go crazy / mad - He’s gone completely mad!
go wild - enloquecer
go dark - oscurecer
go missing - My phone’s gone missing
go online - I’ll just go online and check my emails
go to war - Would you go to war to defend your country?

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On next week's episode: Too, Enough and Religion Vocabulary

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In this episode we're going to help you with some common collocations with the verbs BREAK, CATCH & PAY

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Listener Feedback: Hi excelente podcast, this is my first time writing, I know this podcast will help me to improve my English. Could you please help me with collocations.
Thanks
Adriana Salazar

BREAK - smash, fracture a bone, shatter, stop functioning, descansar, hacer pausa
To physically break something: break a glass / break a limb (arm or leg)
break someone's heart
break a habit - to break a bad habit, replace it with a good one
break a promise (make, keep a promise)
break a record - Have we broken the record for the most podcasts recorded in 3 days?
break the ice - What are your favourite ‘ice-breakers’?
break the law - Have you ever broken the law?
break the news to someone
break the rules ‘Rules are made to be broken’
break wind = to expel air via the anus (to fart)

CATCH
coger, pillar (por sorpresa-he was caught stealing a car), atrapar, agarrar, pescar (to catch a fish),
catch a ball - coger
catch a bus/train - coger/tomar (in Argentina)
catch a/the cold/flu/your death
catch a thief
catch fire
catch sight of
catch your breath - recuperar el aliento
catch someone's eye/attention - a waiter in a restaurant
catch someone red-handed/at it
Where's the catch? - ¿Cuál es la trampa?
There must be a catch here somewhere - Aquí debe de haber trampa
(I'll) catch you later! (informal) ¡nos vemos!
You can catch me at my office.

PAY
Pay with money: pay a fine / pay the bill / pay cash/by credit card
You can also pay a/the price (as a consequence of something)
pay attention - presta atención
pay someone a compliment - hacer cumplidos a algn (to return the compliment)
pay someone a visit
pay your respects (when someone dies / passes away)
pay for your mistakes

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On next week's episode: Common Collocations with KEEP, SAVE and GO

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Getting Dressed and Undressed - AIRC119

In this episode we're going to help you get undressed (and dressed)! They’ll be a live unzipping by Reza and a live unbuttoning by Craig. If you don’t know what that means, you need to listen to this podcast?

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Feedback: Elisa from Finland
Hi,
After the last episode I had my palm read ;) And guess what, my future seems to be brilliant. The lady told me that she can see two men and probably one dog ...
Both men were bald but the dog was hairy... One of the men had a tattoo on the top of his head... something like Mickey Mouse..
But the main thing was that they had a big announcement in their hands: We are podcasting forever!
Elisa

We spoke about clothes on Episode 7 http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/01/31/aprender-ingles-con-reza-y-craig-7/ 

More vocabulary on mansioningles.com http://www.mansioningles.com/vocabulario10.htm  

To get up, get dressed, get undressed How long does it take you to get dressed? Do you get dressed as soon as you get up?
To put on your clothes/ to take off your clothes
To do up/undo... buttons, a zip, your coat, shirt etc.
To button/unbutton a coat, shirt, (or anything with buttons)
To zip up/unzip
To tie/untie (a knot)
To buckle/unbuckle (a belt, shoes with a buckle - hebilla)
To do up = to tie your shoelaces
Underwear: pants (shorts US - calzoncillos), knickers (panties US), tights (panty hose US), vest (camiseta sin mangas in the UK, chaleco in the US), socks, bra
Stockings (medias) and suspenders (garters US)
High heel(ed) shoes = high heels - tacones
To get dressed up - arreglado/a
To wear clothes -
What are you wearing? (now)
What did you wear yesterday? (past)
What do you wear for work (usually - as a habit)

Collar - cuello, cuff - puño, fly - bragueta ‘Your fly is down. Zip it up.’, ‘You’re flying low’, seam - costura, strap - correa, v-neck, inside pocket, sleeveless

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Discussion
Which sock/shoe do you put on first, left or right?
What’s your favourite material? Wool, silk, cotton, linen, leather, synthetic (nylon, polyester)
What’s the last item of clothing you bought? Do you wait for the sales?
What’s your favourite item of clothing?
Do you judge people by their clothes?
Zips or buttons, which do you prefer?
Belts or braces (suspenders US) - tirantes?
How many pairs of shoes have you got?
Boxers or Y-fronts?
What’s the best length for a gentleman’s sock?
Do you think that the clothes we wear reflect what is inside us ?

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On next week's episode: Common Collocations with BREAK, CATCH and PAY

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Drugs and Addiction - AIRC118

In this episode we're going to help you increase your vocabulary around taking drugs and addiction.

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Last week economics and investment trends and this week drugs and addiction!

Listener Feedback: Segundo Davila de Peru

Soy un Peruano que viaja mucho soy Ingeniero, todo el tiempo estoy estudiando Inglés sin terminar, actualmente me encuentro de viaje de trabajo en Marruecos. He encontrado  sus podcasts y me interesan mucho, son muy prácticos, mi nivel es casi intermedio, favor sus recomendaciones para ver que me conviene adquirir de sus productos pero para descargar y pago con tarjeta de crédito.

Drugs and Addiction

to be addicted to

to have an addiction (to)

an addict

an addictive substance

What is addiction? Quote from Psychology Today website:

"Addiction is a condition that results when a person ingests a substance (e.g., alcohol, cocaine, nicotine) or engages in an activity (e.g., gambling, sex, shopping) that can be pleasurable but the continued use/act of which becomes compulsive and interferes with ordinary life responsibilities, such as work, relationships, or health.

Users may not be aware that their behavior is out of control and causing problems for themselves and others."

abstinence - A deliberate decision to avoid harmful behaviors, including sexual activity before marriage, tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. (verb - to abstain from doing something)

addictive drug - A substance that causes physiological or psychological dependence.

psychological dependence - A condition in which a person believes that a drug is needed in order to feel good or function normally.

physiological dependence - A condition in which the user has a chemical need for the drug.

stimulant - A drug that increases the action of the central nervous system, heart, and other organs.

nicotine withdrawal - The process that occurs in the body when nicotine is no longer used. (Cravings, discomfort.)

intoxication - The state in which the body is poisoned by alcohol or another substance and the person's physical and mental control is significantly reduced.

(tipsy-drunk-sloshed-pissed-stoned-high-plastered-hammered-wasted-three sheets to the wind-inebriated-out of it-completely gone-as pissed as a fart

Opposite: (stone-cold) sober  (sobriety - living without alcohol), straight, tea total

To be on/off the wagon (on the water wagon - to drink water instead of alcohol)

detoxification - A process in which the body adjusts to functioning without alcohol.

euphoria - A feeling of intense well-being or elation.

gateway drug - A drug whose use increases the likelihood that a person will use other harmful drugs. Cigarettes, Marijuana and Alcohol are the 3 of these.

Overdose - taking too much of a drug which cause death

Withdrawal - Unpleasant reactions that occur when a person who is physically dependent on a drug no longer takes it.

“Cold turkey” - A colloquial expression describing the extreme discomfort of withdrawal symptoms from drugs.

Hangover/to be hungover - the unpleasant feeling the day after drinking too much

“Hair of the dog” - A colloquial expression describing the (dubious) idea that the best way to cure a hangover is to drink a little bit more.

Common drugs -

heroin, cocaine, crack, speed = amphetamines, e’s/E= ecstasy, acid = LSD, magic mushrooms

a doobie - a joint - a spliff

marijuana - grass - weed - dope - cannabis

uppers/downers

alcohol = “booze = sauce = grog = hooch = a tipple”

tobacco = baccy

Cigarettes = “cigs = ciggies = tabs = fags”

alcoholism - an alcoholic

substance abuse

(to be) in denial

a drug addict - junkie  

dealer - a pusher

to shoot up

to chase the dragon

to pop pills

Discussion

Should some drugs be made legal? Which ones?

Should alcohol or tobacco be made illegal?

Do you know anyone who has had addiction problems?

What are some of the characteristics of drunk people?

Is sugar addictive? What about tea, coffee, and chocolate?

What other things can people get addicted to?

Do you know how much alcohol is in beer/wine?/Whisky? - % proof

If heroin were legal, would there be less crime? For example, burglary and robbery.

Are some people more easily addicted to drugs than others?

Do some people have addictive personalities?

Craig has identified and recognised his addiction. But can he ever truly stay off dark chocolate?

Are Aprender con Reza y Craig podcasts addictive? We hope so and are unashamed dealers!

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On next week's episode: Getting Dressed and Undressed

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In this episode we're going to help you speak about the economy and discussing trends

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We spoke about money vocabulary and the economy in Episode 46 

Discussing Trends - upward and downward trends

Verbs/Nouns - DOWN

to decline/a decline
to go down
to drop/a drop
to fall/a fall
to decrease/a decrease
to dip/a dip
to slide - deslizar /a slide

More extreme-

to plummet
to halve/a halving
to plunge/a plunge
to nosedive/a nosedive
to tumble/a tumble
___________________________________________

UP

to rise (intransitive = no object)/a rise
to raise (transitive = with object)/a raise
to go up
to increase/ an increase
to improve/ an improvement
to grow/ a growth
to recover (from a previous fall)/ a recovery
to peak (to a maximum point)/ a peak

More extreme-

to shoot up
to hockeystick (US)
to skyrocket/ a skyrocketing (uncommon) *NOT a skyrocket
to double, triple/ a doubling/tripling
to rocket/ a rocketing (uncommon) *NOT a rocket
to soar/ a soar

___________________________________________________

UP AND DOWN OR STABLE

to fluctuate/ a fluctuation
to level off or out/a level(l)ing off or out
to hold steady
to flatline/flatlining
to even out/an evening out (but *NOT with your friends in this case!)

Adjective + Noun phrases / Verb + Adverb phrases

a significant increase/to increase significantly
a slight drop/to drop slightly
a noticeable decline/to decline noticeably
a gradual recovery/to recover gradually
a steep rise/to rise steeply
a substantial growth/to grow substantially
a sharp decrease/to decrease sharply
a dramatic jump/to jump dramatically
a moderate recovery/to recover moderately
a steady improvement/to improve steadily

Examples-

There has been a steady rise in the number of unemployed people in recent years.
The figures show a sharp decline in the number of homeowners this year.
Compared to last year’s figures, this year has seen a significant increase of 40% so far.
We can see a slight drop of 2% compared to last week, according to theses statistics
The figures show (that) the number of homeowners has declined sharply this year.
The chart shows how car sales have plummeted since the crisis by 67%.
The table shows (that) the amount has flatlined at 8 million tonnes.
As the graph demonstrates, a dramatic price increase/increase in price occurred last month.
In recent years the percentage of homeless people in Spain has risen sharply.
There has been a slight improvement in our team’s ball possession this season.
As you can see from the diagram, the ratio of men to women is currently 2:1 (two to one).
Sales rose by 10% from 32,000 to 32,320. This meant an increase of 320.
The present fluctuation in prices makes future predictions difficult.
The amount of plastic polluting the seas looks set to continue rising, according to the figures.
Half of all those interviewed said they had bought 2 or more handheld devices over the last 5 years.

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On next week's episode: Drugs and Addiction

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The music in this podcast is by Pitx. The track is called 'See You Later'

In this episode we're going to help you revise and practise prepositions that are commonly found after some popular nouns.

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Listener Feedback: Mamen
Mamen listens to podcasts while walking the dog. That's a great idea!
“It’s been a while since I've spoken to you”
Thanks for the invitation to visit Biescas. We'll try to make it up there at the end of the summer.
Have a wonderful summer!

A dependent preposition is a preposition that always follows the same expression; for example, we say 'interested in' and not 'interested on' or 'interested about'.
As we saw in the previous two episodes, dependent prepositions can depend on a verb or adjective, as well as a noun.

There are dependent prepositions which go before certain nouns and others that go after certain nouns.

IN
in agreement - Are we in agreement with the way English should be taught?
in doubt - I’m in doubt about which course to write next.
in a hurry - Are you in a hurry to finish this podcast?
increase/decrease in - rise/fall in "There’s been a fall in the value of the euro and the pound."
difficulty in/with - Is there anything you’re having difficulty with?

OF
(take) advantage of - Take advantage of these podcasts and the free courses on mansioningles.com ( http://www.mansioningles.com/NuevoCurso.htm )
as a result of - As a result of this podcast we’ve met some wonderful people.

ABOUT
information about/on - Where can listeners find information about/on FCE courses? On the Mansión Inglés website ( http://store.mansioningles.net/downloads/first-certificate-course/ )
anxiety about - She feels a lot of anxiety about her test tomorrow.

ON
on strike - Have you ever gone on strike?
on average - How much coffee do you drink on average?
on the whole - On the whole, are you pleased with life in Valencia?
opinion on (attitude towards) - What's your attitude towards underage drinking?

AT
at risk - Do you think the EU is at risk? Will it break up?
at fault - I apologise. I am at fault. Sorry!

FOR
need for - There’s a need for good government. / There’s a need for change.
reason for - What’s the reason for the indecision in Spanish politics?
taste for - There’s a well-known podcaster with a taste for dark chocolate.

UNDER
under guarantee/warranty - have you got anything at home that's still under guarantee?
under age - Did you drink alcohol when you were under age?

TO
solution to - I’m afraid they had no solution to our problem.

PREPOSITIONS BEFORE AND AFTER A NOUN
in answer to - In answer to our request, we were given some help.
for the love of ... - “Don’t do it, for the love of God!”
in lieu of (= in place of, instead of) - My boss gave me a day off work in lieu of extra pay.

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Listener Feedback: Gaby from Peru
English teacher working with accountants Episodes 24 and 46 - money verbs Episode 24 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/06/05/money-money-money-must-be-funny-in-the-rich-mans-world-airc24/ ) Money vocabulary and the economy: ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/03/20/say-and-tell-economy-and-money-vocabulary-and-idioms-airc46/ ) (
What does she like?/What is she like? Episode 44 - ‘like’ and ‘as’ ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/02/28/the-difference-between-like-and-as-and-the-pronunciation-of-can-and-cant-airc44/ )

Episode 117 is going to be about describing trends

‘Thanks a bunch!’ - we love you too, Gaby! I think this YouTube video will help you with 'like': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6xU2G_FOYM

A dependent preposition is a preposition that always follows the same expression;
for example, we say 'interested in' and not 'interested on' or 'interested about'.

AT
good/bad/fantastic/awful…. at - Craig's bad at tennis. Reza's awful at time keeping.
mad/angry at* - My girlfriend’s mad/angry at me for forgetting her birthday.

ABOUT
excited about - Is there anything you're excited about?
sorry for/about - Is there anything you’re sorry for?
crazy/mad* about - What food are you crazy about?
un/happy about - She wasn’t happy about her exam result
enthusiastic about - We’re enthusiastic about podcasting

IN
un/interested in - What are you interested in at the moment?
un/successful in - Steve Jobs was extremely successful in business.
deficient in - Peter’s poor diet is deficient in vitamins

OF
sick of / tired of - Craig’s getting a bit tired of Reza’s old jokes
proud of - What have you done in your life that you're proud of?
afraid/frightened of - What are you afraid/frightened of?
typical of - It’s typical of him to cancel at the last minute
fond of (= keen on) - We’re rather fond of “dulce de leche”
guilty of - The suspect was found guilty of murder.

WITH
dis/pleased with - The headmaster was pleased with the new student’s progress.
dis/satisfied with - I am extremely dissatisfied with the poor service in this restaurant.
disgusted with - She was disgusted with her new friend’s bad table manners.
crowded with - Valencia is crowded with people during the busy Fallas festival.
content with - Reza’s pretty content with his new shoes.

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TO
(to be/get) used to - The EU may have to get used to the British no longer being a member soon. (Revise 'used to', 'to get used to' and 'to be used to' here: http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/01/31/aprender-ingles-con-reza-y-craig-6/
sensitive to - You should try to be sensitive to my spouse’s needs.
similar to - Bob writes in a similar way to me

FROM
different from - Canada’s climate is very different from Bolivia’s.
safe from - The refugees went far away to be safe from the war.

FOR
famous for - Scotland is famous for its beautiful highland scenery and whisky.
convenient for - The number 23 bus is very convenient for getting to the shopping centre.

ON
intent on - The terrorist was intent on causing destruction.
keen on (= fond of) - We’re rather keen on “dulce de leche”

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Listener Feedback: Maria from Barcelona

VERBS and PREPOSITIONS

A dependent preposition is a preposition that always follows the same expression; for example, we say 'interested in' (and NOT X 'interested on' or 'interested about'X).

for
Apologise for - He apologised for being late. You can also ‘apologise to someone’
Apply for - I applied for the job but I didn’t get it.
Ask for - How do you ask for a coffee in French?
Pay for (something consumed/something you shouldn’t have done) - Who’s paying for the beers?
I’ll pay for you. = I’ll pay for what you’ve consumed. (NB. “I’ll pay you” has a different meaning. My boss pays me 800 euros a month)
You’ve insulted me in public - you’ll pay for that! ( = I’ll make you pay for what you shouldn’t have done).
Wait for - I’ll wait for you outside the cinema. When was the last time you waited for someone?

about
Worry about - Don’t worry about it! - Don’t worry, be happy! Are you worrying about anything?
Complain about - Have you complained about anything recently?
Argue about something - When was the last time you argued about something? (to argue with someone)
Know about - Craig knows a lot about Mickey Mouse! (But he doesn’t know Mickey Mouse personally. He hasn’t met him, though it is his dream...) Reza knows a lot about music and English grammar.

from
Protect from - This spray should protect you from mosquitoes. Do you use anything to protect your skin from the sun?
Recovered from - To recover from an illness / a hangover / a shock (to get over = to recover from)
Suffer from - I suffer from a bad back. My brother-in-law suffers from a sticky mattress.

in
Get in - It’s hard to get in the local golf club. They don’t accept many new members.
Believe in - Do you believe in life after death?
Specialise in - Reza and Craig specialise in creating podcasts
Succeed in - You have to work hard if you want to succeed in life.

VERBS AFTER PREPOSITIONS ARE ALWAYS GERUNDS (verb + ing - "I apolgide for BEING late.")

of
Approve of - My parents didn’t used to approve of my friends
Smell of - This T-shirt smells of sweat. What does the beach smell of? What does Rusafa smell of? Answer - it smells of hipsters, bohemians, tourists (and gunpowder in Fallas!)
Think of - I’m thinking of the good times we had in London. (think about - what are you thinking about?)

on
Base on (often passive) - Can you think of any films that were based on the book?
Concentrate on - If I have music playing in the background, I can’t concentrate on any work.
Agree on/about - What don’t we agree on/about?
Congratulate someone on - I’d like to congratulate you on your promotion
Decide on - Have you decided on what you’re doing for Christmas?

to
Listen to + object - She listens to pop music. What kind of music do you like to listen to?
Introduce someone to - I’d like to introduce you to my wife. Craig's going to introduce Reza to Rap music.

with
Agree with - I agree with everything you’ve said. (NB.- NOT XI’m agreeX)
Argue with someone - I often argue with my sister.

at
Laugh at - What was the last thing you laughed at?
Look at - What are you looking at? Are you looking at me? I’m looking at you!
Smile at - Try smiling at people in the street next time you go out.

Combining prepositions with one verb -
Reza apologised to Craig for arriving late again.
She didn’t agree with her friends on/about the choice of restaurant.
I complained about the faulty product to Customer Services.
They argued with their friends about where to go on holiday.
The student apologised to the teacher for not doing the homework.

Using more than one verb + dependent preposition -
I know about Tom congratulating Dick on getting the job.
She listened to me asking for forgiveness and said nothing.
Bill didn’t approve of us listening to our workmates’ private phone conversations.

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Hello and welcome to Mansion Interviews, a podcast that gives me an excuse to talk to interesting people and gives you an opportunity to improve your English and listening skills.

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1. Whose idea was it to move to Spain?

Sheila's
Pete's 
Both of them

2. In the UK, Sheila worked

as a teacher
in finance 
as a travel agent

3. Which of the following does Pete NOT give as a reason for liking Spanish life

the friendliness of Spanish people
the way of life
the food 
the weather
the relaxed atmosphere

4. What was the problem with Sheila and Pete's inflatable bed?

It had a puncture
It was very uncomfortable
It was too expensive

5. If you've 'got a bee in your bonnet'

you have been stung by an insect
you are preoccupied or obsessed with an idea
you appreciate nature and beautiful scenery

6. Which of the following is NOT part of Sheila's day?

looking after her plants
studying finance
creating home-made greeting cards
eating correctly
exercising

7. One of Pete's hobbies is

surfing
stamp collecting
fishing
golf

8. What annoys Sheila?

North Americans
people who don't use their common sense
drunk, loud British people

How did Sheila feel after writing her 'reverse bucket list'?

very fortunate
Very sad
very old
very organized

Levante Cricket Club
http://www.levantecc.com/default.aspx 

The Bucket List - Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman
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Vocabulary
to be 'up for it' = to want to do something
to set foot in = to visit or go to a place
blue chip company - compañías de primera línea, de primer orden
copious - copioso/a, abundante
infuriating - exasperante, irritante
season ticket holder - abonado
blessed - afortunado/a, bendecido
to be done and dusted = be completely finished or ready
to envisage - imaginar, concebir
laid back - despreocupado/a, tranquilo/a
itchy, twitchy - impaciente, ansioso/a
to give it a go - probarlo, intentarlo
to be down to - ser cuestión de, ser esencialmente, depender de
to be full of oneself - egotistical, believing oneself to be superior to others
to cringe - avergonzarse, encogerse de miedo
unscathed - ileso/a
gravestone - lápida
to overflow - rebosar, desbordarse

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In this episode: Causative verbs Make, Let, Get, Help and Have

Causative verbs Make, Let, Get, Help and Have

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Causative verbs cause something else to happen

MAKE: to force someone to do something. - forzar
Make + someone + verb

Did someone make you wear that shirt?
All British schools make their pupils wear a uniform.
My dad made me apologize to the neighbour.
The policeman made me pay a fine.
Craig says he didn’t want to eat the chocolate; a little voice in his head made him eat it.
My mum always made me eat up all my greens (greens = vegetables)

LET: to allow someone to do something. - dar permiso
let + someone + verb

Reza let me play his violin.
Craig let Reza use his new microphone.
Craig wouldn’t let anyone share his bar of dark chocolate.
My boss won't let me have a day off.
My parents never let me stay out late when I was a kid.
Craig won’t let you say anything bad about Mickey Mouse!

GET: to convince someone to do something - convencer
get + someone + to + verb

I got my students to do the homework by giving them chocolate.
What's a good way to get students to read more?
The government are spending more money on TV ads to get people to vote.
People have tried to get Craig to give up chocolate....in vain.
Craig has tried to get Reza to shut up at times...in vain.
The naughty children got another child to steal biscuits for them.

HELP: to help someone do something - ayudar
help + someone + verb / help + someone + to + verb

Reza helps me (to) produce this podcast.
What helps you (to) unwind? (to unwind - relajarse)
Does chocolate help you (to) forget your problems?
Will you help us (to) spread the word by recommending us to your friends?
Do you think this podcast helps our listeners (to) improve their English?
Reza and Craig will help you (to) improve your English and take it to the next level!

HAVE: to give someone the responsibility to do something - dar alguien la responsibilidad
have + someone + verb (see AIRC112 for the causative use of have)

I'll have my lawyer send you the contract.
I had my secretary book the hotel.
Please have the waiter bring the wine list.
We had the porter carry our bags up to the room.
We’re having our son organise our anniversary celebration for us.
Could you have the doorman hail a taxi for me, please?

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Listener Feedback: email from Jaime from Alicante - Hi Reza and Craig. Thank you for the podcast. I listen every week. Please speak about the causative in English. I don’t understand when (I) have to use ‘get’ and when ‘have’?

We spoke about the passive in general in episode 17 

When did you get your hair cut?

Reza didn’t cut his hair. Someone cut it for him.

Causative - have/get + object + past participle

He had/got his hair (object) cut (past participle)

Change to the causative:
She didn’t pierce her nose herself, she had her nose pierced.
He didn’t paint his flat (himself)…he had his flat painted.
We won’t cook our meals...We'll have our meals cooked
They didn’t repair their washing machine….They had their washing machine repaired
I didn’t alter my suit...…. (to take up the trousers/sleeves) - I had my suit altered.
She didn’t clean her flat….She had her flat cleaned.
He doesn’t service his car…He has his car serviced.
I didn’t fix my computer….I had my computer fixed.
You aren’t taking your own blood pressure...You're having your blood pressure taken.
He didn’t frame that picture himself….he got that picture framed.
He didn’t fill his tooth himself….He got his tooth filled.
She wasn’t cleaning that rug…..She was having that rug cleaned.
We ourselves hadn’t checked the gas installation…We'd had the gas installation checked.
I haven’t revoked my own driving licence…I've had my driving licence revoked.
I wouldn’t examine my injury...I'd have my injury examined.

When was the last time you had your photo taken?
Can you have your blood pressure taken in a pharmacy in your country?
Would you ever consider having a tattoo done?
What are the advantages of having your head completely shaved?
Should we have our bags searched on all public transport for security reasons?
How often do you get your hair cut?
Did you have your tonsils (=amígdalas) taken out (when you were a child)?
Have you ever thought about getting your ear pierced?
Have you ever had your wallet/purse stolen?
Have you ever had your inside leg measured?
Have you ever had your palm read/fortune told?

Will Reza ever finally get his flat done up (to do up - reformar)?

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Feedback: Valentina - Valentina is taking the CAE Exam

Do you use Google maps?

Questions you may hear
How do I get to the beach?
Excuse me, Where is the nearest supermarket?
Can you tell me where the train station is?

We practised indirect questions with Nicola in episode 50 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/05/11/indirect-questions-and-travel-in-morocco-with-special-guest-nicola-airc50/ )

Do you know where the nearest petrol station is?

Can you tell me how to get to the post office, please?
Could you tell me where the town hall is, please?
Do you know where the nearest petrol station is?
Do you know where I might find a cash machine/an ATM?
Excuse me, I’m looking for a bank.
Are you from around here? Do you live here?
Would you mind telling me the way to the police station?
Do/Would you happen to know where the nearest book shop is?
Can you direct me to the hospital, please?
Do you know anywhere around/near here that sells batteries?
Is this the way to the city centre?
Excuse me, is there a bus stop nearby?

Giving directions
The easiest way is to…
The quickest way is to…
The best way is to…
If I were you, I’d…
It depends on whether you’re going by car/driving or on foot/walking

You’ll probably hear:
Turn left/right (take a left/right) = girar/torcer/doblar a la izquierda/derecha
Go straight ahead = sigue hacía adelante/recto/todo seguido (drive straight ahead, walk straight ahead)
Go straight, go left, go right, go through
go up, go down, go along this street = ir por ésta calle
It’s on your left/right (on your left/right hand side) = está a su derecha/izquierda
It’s on the corner = está en la esquina
It’s opposite the station = está en frente de la estación
Stay on + road/street name for + distance or time
Go over the lights/bridge = pase el semáforo/la puente
Go past the park = pase el parque
Take the first/second on the right/left = tome la primera/segunda a la derecha/izquierda
Keep going = continúe, sigua

Use connecting words:
after that
before that
then
next
when you get to…go…
finally, at the end

Other useful expressions:
It’s just around the corner
It’s not far.
It’s a bit of a way. / It’s quite far
It’s about a 10-minute walk.
It’s about 20 minutes on the bus - It's a 20-minute bus ride.

You’ll see a big tree/red building/petrol station on the left.
You’ll go past a police station.
It’s opposite the post office.

It’s on + street name (eg. It’s on Oxford Street)
It’s next to
It’s opposite
It’s near
It’s around the corner from (the supermarket)

Turn right at the next street
Get in the left lane
Go one more block (block - manzana), then turn right
At the next traffic lights turn
It’s going to be on your right

Make sure that the other person understood your directions. Say: “Did you get all that?”
And repeat the directions a second time.

If you don’t know the way
I’m sorry, I’m not from here
I’m afraid I can’t help you
Sorry, I don’t know my way around here

You could ask in the shop
Ask the bus driver.
Follow me. I’ll show you the way.
Do you want me to draw you a map?

The Argentinian cafe Dulce de Leche in Reza's area is 'a victim of its own success'

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Customer Service - AIRC110

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Feedback from Sonia Nieves
Hola,
soy usuaria y seguidora de su pagina web que me es muy util.
Pero ultimamente estoy teniendo problemas con mi inglés.
Trabajo en atención al cliente dentro del sector del fitness y no sé como
comunicarme bien con los clientes. Ejemplos: hacer un alta, darse de baja, dejar dinero en deposito

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to register - hacer un alta
to cancel (your) registration - darse de baja
account number - numero de cuenta
to put down a deposit / to pay a deposit - dejar dinero en deposito
How can I help you? - ¿Cómo puedo ayudarle?
What seems to be the problem? - ¿Qué problema está teniendo?
What happened exactly? - ¿Qué sucedió exactamente?
I can solve that problem. - Puedo resolver ese problema.
I don’t know, but I will find out. - No sé, pero lo averiguaré.
How would you like to pay? - ¿Cómo le gustaría pagar?
Will you be paying by credit card? - Va a pagar con tarjeta de crédito?
May I see some identification? - ¿Puedo ver alguna identificación?
I'm sorry, do you have another card? - ¿Tiene otra tarjeta?
I'm afraid it hasn't been accepted - Me temo que no ha sido aceptada

You may hear:
May I speak to your supervisor? -¿Podría hablar con su supervisor/a?
I'd like to speak to the person in charge, please. - Me gustaría hablar con la persona a cargo.
I'd like to make a complaint. I'd like to complain.
Is there anything else I can help you with.

(Use polite rising and falling intonation, smile and use eye contact and positive body language!)

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In this episode: Extreme sports
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Extreme sports
We’ve spoken about sport in general: inglespodcast.com/17 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/03/12/the-fallas-festival-is-organized-anarchy-airc17/ )
inglespodcast. com/26 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/07/01/a-big-girls-blouse-airc26/ )

Definition (Wikipedia): Extreme sports (also called action sports and adventure sports) is a popular term for certain activities perceived as having a high level of inherent danger.
These activities often involve speed, height, a high level of physical exertion, and highly specialized gear.

bungee jumping
hang gliding
paragliding
parachuting
skydiving
wingsuiting
base jumping
ice climbing
mountaineering
rock climbing
paintball
Kite boarding/surfing
windsurfing
sky surfing
surfing
skateboarding
Street luge
mountain biking
White-water rafting
Water skiing
Cliff diving/jumping
tightrope walking
slack line walking
Highlining

Expressions & Discussion:
To GO + ….ing (skiiing, surfing etc) Have you ever been?
To take a risk (arriesgar) - a risk taker - risky sports
put yourself at risk, expose yourself to danger
An adrenaline junkie - to get the adrenaline pumping
A natural aversion to risk
A daredevil - someone who dares to do risky things
to dare - atreverse - "I dare you to go basejumping."
"Don't you dare do that!"
To play safe - lack courage of nerve to do (sth)
To go for it
To go all out
To seek a thrill - A thrill seeker

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In this episode: Air Travel (we're going to help you communicate better when you travel by air)

Listener Feedback: Alba from Madrid:
Remind and remember. What's the difference?

Remember is when you think of a memory, a past experience (un recuerdo):
I remember the first time I arrived in Valencia.
Do you remember the first time you saw valencia or Spain?
I remember arriving in Valencia. (remember + verb + ing)

Remember is also the opposite of forget,
Remember to bring the notes to the podcasting session (remember + infinitive) - don't forget!
Remember to thank our sponsors at the end of the podcast.

Remind is when a person or a thing makes you think about something:
This app on my phone reminds me to take my medicine
Hey Reza, remind me to thank our sponsors at the end of the episode.

People are reminded of things. (it doesn't appear in their head) - I heard a particular song and was reminded of when I first met my wife.
People remember things. (it does appear in their head)

REMEMBER = Person doing it themselves
REMIND = Other person (or thing) making someone else remember.

What's been your most memorable lesson as a teacher? (What do you remember most vividly?)

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Air Travel vocabulary

Airfare (bus fare, train fare, taxi fare etc)
To check in (aisle seat/window seat) - Fly - flight (domestic/international - short/long haul)
fly - flew - flown (to fly - verb / fly - noun = mosca/bragueta) "I have an open flight" - vuelo abierto)
Red-eye flight - early morning/night flight
Boarding pass
Economy/Business/First class
Upgrade
In-flight service
gate
Excess baggage
Luggage allowance
Hand luggage (carry-on)
On board
Turbulence - turbulencia
Overhead locker
To Take off - to land / a take-off - a landing
Cabin
Cabin crew - steward(ess)/ air hostess/ flight attendant
purser - auxiliar de vuelo
Cockpit = Flight deck
Flight crew - captain/ first officer/ second officer
Ground staff - check-in staff/ baggage handler/ maintenance staff/
Runway
To taxi “The plane is taxiing before take-off”
To cruise “We are now cruising at 20,000 feet”
Jet lag - Lost In Transaltion. Bill Murray & Scarlett Johansson (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/)
Private jet/plane
Jet/Propellor plane
Control tower
ATC = air traffic controller (If you’re still not sure what this means, watch the news at Easter every year when they announce that French ATCs are on their annual strike for EVEN MORE money and it’s had a knock-on effect on all European flights. Then you’ll understand! You can set your watch by it.)
Baggage reclaim
Baggage carousel
Duty free
Customs/ Passport control
Airport security

Discussion

Do you enjoy travelling by air?
What are your pet hates when it comes to flying?
Have you ever flown first class or business class?
What’s the worst flight you’ve ever had?

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In this episode: (we're going to help you communicate more effectively when you go to the doctor)

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to make an appointment 'I'd like to make an appointment to see Dr.Smith'
boil - forúnculo, furúnculo - inflamed, red, tender, wound weeping puss (to weep - llorar, supurar)

Words to describe pain

ADJ. - painful, sore, aching, agonizing

VERB PHRASES - It hurts, It’s killing me, It stings, It aches, It smarts

ACHES & PAINS COLLOCATIONS - acute pain, gripping pain, severe pain, agonizing pain, chronic pain, crippling pain, burning pain, stabbing pain (to stab - apuñalar) sharp pain,
dull pain, shooting pain, stinging pain, throbbing pain, unbearable pain, dull ache, nagging ache/pain, stomachache, backache, headache, bellyache

surgery - cirugía / doctor's office (UK) - consultorio
GP = general practitioner- médico de cabecera

Questions your doctor might ask:

Where does it hurt?
What seems to be the trouble?
What are your symptoms?
Do you mind if I examine you?/ I’m just going to examine you (now).
Does this hurt? [DOCTOR TOUCHES YOU]
Does it hurt if/when I do this? [DOCTOR TOUCHES YOU]
Can/Could you describe the pain, please?
Lie down/on the couch, please.
Can/Could you take off your + ITEM OF CLOTHING, please?
Can/Could you take of your clothes, please? [MAYBE ALL, OR DOWN TO YOUR UNDERWEAR]
Can you strip off (your clothes), please? [MAYBE ALL, OR DOWN TO YOUR UNDERWEAR]
Can/Could you take (nice) (big) deep breaths for me…
...In …..and….out….
Say AARRR
Have you had this before?
When did the pain start? - How long have you had this?
Are you taking anything for it?
Are you allergic to any medicine/medication?
rash - sarpullido, erupción
itchy - prurito, picazón, picor
I’m going to (I need to) take some blood.
I’m going to (I need to) run some tests.
You’ll need/have to make a follow-up/further appointment for + DAY/MONTH
Don’t worry! You won’t feel a thing. (Beware! This is often a lie and the doctor proceeds to do something painful to you.)
You may/might feel a little prick (now)....(You will! The doctor inserts a needle in you)

Health idioms:

I'm feeling a bit off colour - poorly (Tom and Dick - sick)
under the weather
in bad shape
as right as rain
back on my feet
in the best of health
full of beans
as fit as a fiddle
out of sorts
off colour
not (feeling) the greatest/that great - classic British understatement. In fact, you probably feel...bloody awful!

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Doctor jokes

Patient- Doctor, doctor. Everyone keeps ignoring me.
Doc- Next!

Patient- Doctor, doctor. Can you advise me about condoms for family planning, please?
Doc- Certainly, sir. There are three sizes: small, medium and liar (mentiroso)!

Patient- Doctor, doctor. As you can see, I have five legs!
Doc- No problem, madam! Just wear these special knickers here - they’ll fit you like a glove.

Patient: Doctor, I think I’m a dog
Doctor: Would you please get off that sofa, sir!

Patient;: Doctor, I have a piece of lettuce coming out of my bum
Doctor: I’m afraid that’s only the tip of the iceberg!

Patient: Doctor, On my bum I’ve got a big bruise that looks like a strawberry
Doctor: I’ll give you some cream to put on it.

Patient: Doctor, doctor, I've eaten something that disagrees with me.
Doctor: No you haven't!

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In this episode: Civil Engineering

Listener Feedback: Audio Feedback - Mamen

Listener Feedback: Alfredo - Should we go to Italy and teach English? Only if there's homemade Italian food!

I'm Pablo, a civil engineer who has moved to UK last January.

I usually hear (listen to) all ours (your) podcast (your podcasts), and I think that it is a big help in order to improve my listening and vocabulary.

In (At) this moment, I am looking for a job as (an) engineer in Cambridge or around (in/around Cambridge).

If you accept some ideas for podcast, I would like that you talk (I would like you to talk) some day about engineering.
Perhaps, this topic is not too general in terms of vocabulary but is only an idea!! haha!

I think you are doing a very good job with the podcasts, I hope to continue hearing it (listening to them)!

Thank you for your time.

Definition: Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment,
including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams and buildings.

Technical English for Civil Engineers: ( http://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/13698/1/technical_english_for_civil_engineers_construction_basics.pdf )
Free PDF with exercises: ( http://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/english-for-special-purposes-engineering-vocabulary-list-dictation-speaking.pdf )
Oxford Dictionary ( http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199534463.001.0001/acref-9780199534463 )

English For Engineering ( https://www.bookdepository.com/Cambridge-English-for-Engineering-Students-Book-with-Audio-CDs-2-Jeremy-Day/9780521715188 )

Vocabulary

crane - grúa (grúa can also be a towtruck)
ditch - zanja, cuneta, acequia (to ditch something/someone - deshacerse de - "My bag was too heavy, so I ditched some clothes."
to drain/a drain (drainage) - desague
sewer - alcantarillado
overflow - derramarse, rebosar
a bridge - puente (to bridge differences of opinion) - Don't burn your bridges
to/a dam - presa
steel - acero (stainless steel)
iron - hierro (to iron = planchar)
concrete - hormigón
to cement /(some) cement (UNCOUNT.) - cemento - to cement a relationship
brick - ladrillo, de ladrillo
to tarmac/(some) tarmac (UNCOUNT.)- asfalto
scaffolding - andamio/s, andamiaje
pavement (UK) sidewalk (US) - acera, pavimento (andén LaAm. - platform)
to pave
blueprint - heliografía, cianográfica, anteproyecto
survey (of a house) - examen, inspección "to carry out/conduct a survey" (to survey - evaluar, valorar, inspeccionar) a surveyor

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The London Accent and Cockney Rhyming Slang - AIRC105

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In this episode: The London Accent and Cockney Rhyming Slang (we're going to help you.....)

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Listener Feedback: Audio feedback Juan, Colombia: Job in call centre, cockney accent a "bottle of beer". "Got to get a lot of it."

Listen to the Eastenders TV series for examples of the London cockney accent: https://www.youtube.com/user/EastEnders

Cockney Rhyming slang - A type of slang in which a words are replaced by a words or phrases they rhyme with.

Apple and pears = stairs

To hide meaning from the law and/or to exclude outsiders

List of slang:

( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Cockney_rhyming_slang  )
( http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/  )
( http://www.phespirit.info/cockney/slang_to_english.htm  )

to have a butcher's (hook) = a look

She's brown bread = She's dead

(Aunt) Joanna - piano

Boat race - face

North and South = mouth

Ruby Murray (popular singer in the 1950s born in Belfast) = curry

Rub-a-dub-dub = pub (public house)

pig's ear = beer

George Raft = draught

Gregory Peck = neck

plates of meat = feet

Pen and Ink = stink

Porky = pork pie = lie, e.g. "He's telling porkies!

jam jar = car

jugs (of beer) = ears

Adam and Eve = believe = as in "would you Adam and Eve it?"

dog and bone = phone

whistle (and flute) = suit

trouble (and strife) = wife

Tom and Dick = sick

china (plate) = mate

Tea leaf = thief

Rosie = Rosie Lee = tea e.g. "Have a cup of Rosie"

Brahms and Liszt = “pissed” = drunk

Would you Adam and Eve it, I was down the rub-a-dub-dub with the trouble having a couple of pigs when a tea leaf nicked my wallet!

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There’s a bit of rhyming slang outside London in the UK, but it’s almost not known at all outside its own environment. For example:

BELFAST-
corn beef = “deef” = deaf ('mutton' or 'Mutt and Jeff' = 'deaf' in cockney rhyming slang)

tatie bread = dead (tatie bread is potato bread)

mince pies = eyes

a wee duke = a quick look

NEWCASTLE-
a deek = a quick peek

MANCHESTER-
Newtons = teeth (from “Newton Heath”, rhymes with “teeth”). In London they use 'Hampstead Heath' as rhyming slang for teeth.

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In this episode: The top ten things to do when you go to London

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The Top Ten Things To Do In London

1. Take the Tour bus Hop-on, Hop-off ( http://www.hop-on-hop-off-bus.com/london-bus-tours?rmsrc=1&_$ja=tsid:36801|cid:84561677|agid:3254651717|tid:kwd-575308100|crid:74449058957|nw:g|rnd:17010139799610906521|dvc:c|adp:1t3&gclid=CjwKEAjw6sC5BRCogcaY_dKZ2nESJABsZihxnh1rMbQv-z-4HfLbzTLx48xSgGSzSUv6sismqITnRhoC3U7w_wcB )
1 day 28 euros
bus + boat combo 38 euros
guide in different languages
9am - 5.30pm (summer)

2. Have lunch in a London Pub
The 10 best London pubs for food: ( http://www.thedailymeal.com/travel/10-best-london-pubs-food )
Sunday roasts - lunch not dinner
Around 7,000 pubs in the London area try real ale. Pay for the drinks at the bar. Buy rounds. It's not custonmary to tip the barstaff

3. Have a picnic in Hyde Park
Not far from Buckingham Palace (Tube: Hyde Park Corner)
You can visit the state rooms in Buckingham palace: ( https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/buckinghampalace/plan-your-visit/how-to-get-there )

Hyde Park Corner (Piccadilly line)
Knightsbridge (Piccadilly line)
Queensway (Central line)
Lancaster Gate (Central line)
Marble Arch (Central line)

Speaker's corner and The Serpentine lake

Also Green Park (Green Park Tube) Have tea at the Ritz!
St.James's Park: (St James's Park Tube / Westminster) - Prettiest Park
Kensington gardens (next to Hyde Park): (High Street Kensington Tube)
Regent's Park - famous for roses and landscaping. Originally Henry Vlll's hunting grounds: Baker Street / Great Portland Street Tube

4. London Eye
Fast Track: 28 pounds or buy a combo ticket. Book in advance ( https://www.londoneye.com/ ) Open 10am until 9.30pm
Closest tube: Waterloo station. Near Westminster Bridge on the South Bank.

5. Covent Garden
Tube: Covent Garden
Open Mon-Fri 10am - 8pm
Sat 9am-8pm
Sun. Midday-6pm
Pubs after work, market, street performers, shelter from the rain, ballet. Close to Leicester Square and Soho

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6. Visit The British Museum. A huge collection from around the world. It’s free. ( http://www.britishmuseum.org/system_pages/homepage-experiments/8-support-the-museum.aspx?e=8&utm_expid=58524307-0.A2aqN-2GSXSlctAnOitE8A.8&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.es%2F )

7. Go on a literary tour. eg. Follow the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Charles Dickens, etc.

Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j7uAimpx3k

London walks and literary tours:
http://www.walks.com/standalone/literary_london_walks/default.aspx

Free Tours by Foot: http://www.freetoursbyfoot.com/literary-london-self-guided-tour/

8. According to Reza’s parents, Horniman Museum. (http://www.horniman.ac.uk/about) Reza hasn’t been yet, but plans to. They’ve always raved about its quirkiness and it’s free. A lesser-known gem.

How to get around the city: walking - the tube/underground (Oyster card cheaper than a travel card - Tube, DLR, MBNA Thames Clippers river bus service, London Overground and most National Rail services in London.
3 pounds (non-refundable) have special offers for tourists and promotions. You can add more credit. Normal oyster cards cost 5 pounds (refundable)
( http://www.visitlondon.com/traveller-information/getting-around-london/oyster?ref=mosaic#RscIe3vcbwMebLH1.97 )

A one day off-peak travel card (by zones) after 9.30 Mon-Fri, all day sat and Sun.

Time Out London: ( http://www.timeout.com/london )
Trip Advisor: ( https://www.tripadvisor.es/ )

destinoreinounido.com - Beatriz Ramírez: ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/10/14/mansion-interviews-beatriz-ramirez-from-destinoreinounido-com/ )

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In this episode: we're going to help you expand your Urban slang vocabulary and practise more mispronounced words

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More mispronounced words
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( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2016/03/28/commonly-mispronounced-words-airc94/ )

dubbed - doblado
nurse - enfermera
surgeon - cirujano
judge - juez, juzgar
patient - paciente
lively - animado/a, alegre
sociable - sociable
beard - barba
moustache - bigote
chemist - farmacia, farmacéutico/a / chemistry - química
butcher - carnicero/a
weird - raro/a, extraño/a (That's weird! - ¡Qué raro!) 'He's a wierdo'
mechanic - mecánico
cough - tos, toser
headache - dolor de cabeza
drought - sequía (flood - inundación )
hitch hiking - autostop, a dedo

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Urban slang

chillax - calm down and relax (chill + relax)
Selfie - a picture one takes of herself or himself, usually with a camera phone, and often with the purpose of uploading it to social media sites
to freak out - to be in a heightened emotional state, such as that of fear, anger, or excitement
A crapella — singing (badly) while listening to music through headphones
Amazeballs — something that is amazing or unbelievable
Askhole — an individual who asks ridiculous, obnoxious or irrelevant questions (this is often chronic behavior)
Awesome sauce — something that is more awesome than awesome (awesome topped with awesome sauce)
Beer me — please, get me a beer (can also be used figuratively to ask for anything to be passed or retrieved for the speaker)
Cougar — an older woman who prefers the romantic company of much-younger men (sugar daddy)
Ego surfing — using a search engine to look for references about yourself
F-bomb — using the word f*** in an inappropriate setting
Fanboy/fangirl — refers to a devotee of a particular product/company/person (i.e., Apple fanboi,
Foodie — someone who enjoys food for pleasure; gastronome
Frankenfood — genetically modified or otherwise processed food that isn't found in nature
Fro-yo — frozen yogurt
Man cave — a room or other space set aside for a man where he can decorate and behave (with or without his friends) as he sees fit
Ninja sex — silent sexual intercourse in order to avoid awaking a sleeping roommate
Snail mail — the use of the regular postal service rather than email
Sniff test — an olfactory exam of a previously worn (dirty) item of clothing to determine whether it's acceptable to wear again
Sweet — an intensive that expresses satisfaction or indicates awesomeness (usually with a prolonged vowel sound)
YOLO — (you only live once) an initialism used to express a carpe diem (seize the day) sentiment in relation to a silly, stupid or irresponsible act (e.g., I'm wearing two different colored socks because YOLO)

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Lifestyles and classroom language- AIRC102

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In this episode: Lifestyles and classroom language (we're going to help you with useful classroom expressions and talk about different lifestyles and ways of living, social groups etc)

Listener Feedback: Manuel - Paterna (Valencia)
Hi Craig, Hi Reza:
I've been listening to your podcast many months ago (for many months) while I'm doing my house-work, at the gym, in the garden.....
It's a wonderful way to improve English and I hope you'll reach at least one thousand episodes and I could stand listening to.
I'd like, if you don't mind, to hear about how to use "thank" in English, the noun and the verb because It's a bit confuse (confusing) to me.
Thanks for your time and go on!
Manuel

to thank (verb) - agradecer a alguien por algo (thank you for the coffee)
To say thank you to someone - thank you for listening to this podcast and writing a review on iTunes!
thanks - gracias (informal) cheers! (UK)
to give thanks for something - We give thanks for the love of our family. - Damos gracias por el amor de nuestra familia.
Thanksgiving - Día de Acción de Gracias

Ironic use: Who do we have to thank for this mess? - ¿A quién debemos dar las gracias por este desastre? / Thanks a lot!

Thank you so much. (Many thanks) - muchísimas gracias
thank you very much (many thanks) - muchas gracias
Thank you for all your help. - Le agradezco toda su ayuda.
I can't thank you enough. I can never thank you enough. A big/huge thank you!
Do British people say thank you more than the Spanish?

Classroom language – What does this mean?
How do you say _____ in English?
How do you spell it? How do you pronounce it? How do you pronounce/translate ____?
What’s the difference between ______ and ________?
Could you tell me ____? Can you explain _____?
Could you write it, please?

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LIFESTYLE

Nuclear family - A nuclear family or elementary family is a family group consisting of a pair of adults and their children.
This is in contrast to a single-parent family, to the larger extended family, and to a family with more than two parents.

Modern family - When my parents were married, the ideal family consisted of a mother, father, two kids and a house in the suburbs.
The traditional family unit has evolved with extended families, single parents, gay parents, adoption and no children.

Jet setter - The definition of a jet setter is a person who travels frequently - Someone in high society with a glamorous life.
An example of a jet setter is someone who flies off to Paris to shop.

Millennials – Millennials (also known as the Millennial Generation or Generation Y) follow Generation X.
There are no precise dates for when the generation starts and ends; most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to around 2000.

Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western Post–World War II baby boom.
Most demographers and commentators use birth dates ranging from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.

Yuppies - A yuppie - short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional") is defined by one source as being "a young college-educated adult who has a job that pays a lot of money and who lives and works in or near a large city".
This acronym first came into use in the early 1980s.

Dot-commer - a person who owns or works for a dot-com

Nouveau riche - people who have recently acquired wealth, typically those perceived as ostentatious or lacking in good taste.
New money / old money

Social climber - a person who is anxious to gain a higher social status.

Social misfit - A social misfit is generally thought of as someone who has different views on culture and doesn't fit in with most others in society.

Benefits, dole, scrounger/sponger - a person who borrows from or lives off others.
On the dole - to be unemployed

Jailbird - a person who often ends up in prison

A good for nothing - un gandul

Opportunist - a person who takes advantage of opportunities as and when they arise, regardless of planning or principle.

happy-go-lucky - not worried about anything, laid back, easy going

A traditionalist - Adherence to tradition, especially in cultural or religious practice.

hipster - Members of the subculture typically do not self-identify as hipsters, and the word hipster is often used as a pejorative to describe someone who is pretentious and overly trendy.
(hip – adjective) - en la onda de.

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Cars and Driving - AIRC101

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In this episode: Cars and driving (we're going to help you expand your vocabulary)

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Listener Feedback: Nelson Garanhani, Brazil

Dear Craig and Reza. I come from Brazil and I started to learn English two years ago.
I’m a doctor and I have a son that is veterinarian. Yesterday, after listening to this episode, inglespodcast.com/97
I sent it to him and later he told me that the podcast was really interesting, useful and he had fun, too!
I’m feeling happy for having (to have) the opportunity to listen to your brilliants (brilliant) podcasts.
Many thanks!
Nelson, Garanhani, Brazil
p.s. Sorry (for) my mistakes

Audio Feedback Antonio (for the 100th episode)
I Xmust toX say (I must say)
I want to Xmake you a questionX (ask you a question)
Will handwriting disappear in 60, 70 years from now?

Cars and driving

driving license (driver's license US) - to take/pass a driving test
brake, handbrake, clutch - embrague, accelerator, gas pedal (US), baby seat, seatbelt, boot (UK)/trunk (US), bonnet (UK)/hood (US), steering Wheel - volante,
windscreen (UK)/windshield (US), rear window, rear-view mirror, wing mirror, number plate (UK)/license plate (US), jack - gato, puncture - pinchazo, tyre (UK)/tire (US) - neumático, airbags, GPS (Global Positioning System)
bumper (UK)/fender (US) - parachoques/paragolpes, to reverse - dar marcha atrás, to put it in gear, gears, stick shift (US) - cambio manual, exhaust (pipe) - tubo de escape,
(spare) tyre, headlights - faros, indicator - intermitente, car horn/hooter - claxon

to double park
To give someone a lift/ride
to run someone to the station/To run someone over
Back seat driver
To put the peddle to the metal – to put your foot down – to step on the gas - to sink the boot - to give it some wellie

Expressions with drive:
To drive someone round the bend/mad - up the wall!
to drive a hard bargain
to drive the price up/down

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to drive a point home
to be the driving force (the community of inglespodcast is the driving force behind our podcasts)
What are you driving at?
to be in the driving seat
drive the porcelain bus - To vomit profusely into the toilet, usually as the result of drinking excessive amounts of alcohol.
"John was driving the porcelain bus for the rest of the night after his seventh tequila shot."
"My wife drove me to drink and I didn't have the decency to thank her!" - WC Fields

Discussion
How old were you when you got your licence? - How long have you been driving?
What do you remember about your driving test?
Have you ever had an accident?
Which countries drive on the left? India, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, Malta (more than 50!)
Romans drove on the left. France changed to the right first. The British Empire influence many countries to drive on the left.

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In this episode: Congratulations on 100 episodes of AIRC and open champagne! Also, how to pass the FCE speaking exam, the word LAST and the difference the prepositions between OF and FOR

Listener feedback from Mamen who passed her speaking test

Listener Feedback: Sergio
My name is Sergio. It is not my first time writing to you.
I listen to your podcast everyday and I have listened some podcasts about the FCE Exam, and I would like to know which is the 'required' (or minimum) level to pass the exam.

I mean, I have studied English for many years, and I use it very often at my work. Perhaps, I should try to improve my vocabulary in general, but I think I can follow a normal conversation with a native speaker.

I have listened to some podcasts, as I said before, about some of your students doing a FCE speaking exam, and I would like to know if they could pass the exam.
Could you tell me a podcast number/episode in which I could listen to a person who 'pass' (has passed) the exam, please?

Bea and Tatania speaking test: PAssFCE episode 14 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/06/18/full-fce-speaking-test-with-bea-and-tatiana-passfce14-2/ )

Audio feedback from Nadia from Morocco who has improved her English and can now communicate much better with her clients.

Audio feedback from Elisa from Finland

Feedback from Marga Arroyas

Hola Reza and Craig,

This is my first mail to any of you and....

I could tell you how wonderful you are... I could tell you how nice it is listening to you and how much I learn when doing it... I could tell you I´ve downloaded all your podcasts...
I could tell you I listen to them as much as possible (when cooking, driving or even sleeping)... I could tell you you are the best English teachers I´ve ever had...
I could tell you how English has helped me in my life... I could, I could, but I won´t...

I´ll just say THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!!!!!!!
Not kisses, not hugs... just a DULCE DE LECHE RECIPE.

If you can´t convince Reza to make "dulde de leche turrón" I would be more than happy to make turrón for both of you.
Something I´ve always loved is cooking!!! and... living in Valencia, just like you, it won´t be any problem to make the turrón and take it to any place you like. Seriously! please think about it!

By the way... there is a place called "Dulce de leche" in Valencia where EVERYTHING they sell is made of DULCE DE LECHE. In fact, there are two places, one in calle Jesús and the other in calle Cuba....
isn´t is where Reza lives? doesn´t he know about it?. ( http://pasteleriadulcedeleche.com ).

Have a nice they and think about my "offer" of making turrón for you!

Happily,
Marga

What do you think, shall we take Marga up on her offer? Yes, we'd like to take Marga up on her offer (to take someone up on an offer - to accet the offer)

Javier G (basque country) - Sent a voice message - listening from 2010!
Hi my friends Craig and Reza, I am Javier G from the Basque Country but I am right now in Phoenix (Arizona), I have come for three months like a turist (as a tourist) to improve my English and I have to go back in the middle of May.

I am improving my English a lot because I am trying to engage with native speakers. Right now I have 10 people to teach Spanish and to learn english, face to face,

2 hours (one in spanish and the other one in English), this is the deal...

But I am writing to you to tell you that last week we were in LA (California), my friend had a meeting there, and his partner from Argentina gave him this box with "Alfajores rellenos con dulce de leche",

and this remained me you (reminded me OF you). I send you a picture of the box. I am sorry, we ate all of them. They were really good.

The American accent is too dificult to undestand especially on TV o when the native speakers are talking among themselves.

If a native speaker is talking to you, it is easier because you konw about the topic you are talking (about).

I continue here in my dead time (spare time) with your podcasts...

Thank you very much. Javier G.

Charley Pride - Is Anybody going to San Antone Lyrics ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMR6Qt_Rubw )

Audio feedback: Javier from Colombia: LAST

last - último/a
What was the last book you read? - ¿Cuál es el último libro que has leído?
Do you want the last biscuit?

last - durar
The speech lasted thirty minutes. - El discurso duró treinta minutos.
How long will this podcast last today?

last - survive, sobrevivir
Do you think this podcast will last?
How long would you last in a zombie apocalypse?

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Audio feedback: Mamen: 'of' and 'for' "I listened on my commute" (you are a commuter)

OF

Used for belonging to, relating to, or connected to:

The secret OF success is never give up. What's the secret OF happiness? (related to, belonging to or connected to happiness)
The first section of this podcast is celebrating our listeners' successes. The successes OF our listeners. (Often we use the possessive instead of 'OF' (Reza's tea, Craig's biscuit)
Have you ever dreamed OF being rich and famous? (be careful of the pronunciation of 'of' in connected speech)

When you're refering to things:

We started this podcast in October OF 2000.
There's a picture OF you and Berta in episode 97.
I got a discount of 40% on my new jacket. (Easier to say 'I got a 40% discount')

The centre of the city - the city centre

Used for possession - She's a friend of my neighbour (She's my neighbour's friend)

Used to indicate an amount or number:

I've had 3 cups of coffee already.
There's a large number of people listening to this podcast.
I only got 5 hours OF sleep last night. I only slept FOR (para) 5 hours.

formed from: material - hecho de)
Translate: Está hecha de plástico. - This is made of plastic.

The connection between nouns
Translate: La economía es la causa de la crisis. - The economy is the cause OF the crisis (or the reason FOR the crisis)

FOR

FOR can be used to speak about time or duration:

We've been podcasting FOR nearly 3 years.
How long did you go to Cornwall FOR? (Reza was in Cornwal for four days - NOT Xduring four daysX)
This is all we have FOR this podcast. That's it FOR now.

The interview with Becky from Cornwall: Episode 25 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/06/19/cream-teas-and-hotdogs-airc25/ )

Use FOR to show the use of something:

This device is FOR recording audio.
Reza and I wear headphones FOR monitoring the audio.

You can also use FOR to mean 'because of':

I am so happy for you.
We feel deeply sorry for your loss.
Reza and I don't really like the noise and the crowds during the Fallas festival in Valencia in March. FOR this reason, we often travel during this time.

Compared to a standard
It's warm for this time of year. - Hace mucho calor para esta época del año.

In somebody's place, instead of somebody
Translate: No quiero hacer el trabajo por él. - I don't want to do his work for him.

In order to get something/someone
Fue a por leche. Volverá enseguida. - He went out for some milk. He'll be back soon.

In favour of something:
Reza was for the plan, but Craig was against it. - Reza estaba por hacerlo, pero Craig estaba en contra.

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Audio feedback from Angeles, Valencia

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Listener Feedback: Sergio Casillas
My name is Sergio and I am from Spain. I live in Madrid and I would like to add a word that most of Spanish people (most Spanish people) pronounce in a wrong way is 'blood'.

I have to say that at the beginning I pronounced it wrong by saying 'blud' (because of the 'oo') like most Spanish people (except surgeons or murders).
Kind regards, Sergio

Commonly Mispronounced Words, episode 94 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2016/03/28/commonly-mispronounced-words-airc94/ )

The weather (vocabulary from http://www.mansioningles.com/vocabulario45.htm )

Climate - Clima What's the difference between 'weather' and 'climate'?
Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time.

Good weather:
Sunny - Soleado
The sun is shining, It's sunny - Hace sol
Fine - bueno
Bright, clear - Despejado (It's a lovely day)
To be hot, To be warm - Hacer calor
Heatwave - Ola de calor (Drought - Sequía / flood - inundación)
shade (protection from the sun) - sombra (shadow - the shape or form made by something that blocks out light)
Wind - Viento (it's windy)
Breeze - Brisa

Bad weather:
Cloud - Nube (it's cloudy - Nublado)
Rain - Lluvia
It's raining - Está lloviendo
Downpour, shower - Aguacero, Chaparrón, Chubasco
a spell - temporada, rato
Rainbow - Arco iris

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain - R=red, O=orange, Y=yellow, G=green, B=blue, I=indigo, V=violet

Cool - Fresco
chilly - frio (I'm a bit chilly)
It is very cold - Hace mucho frío
Dull - gris
Mist, fog - neblina, Bruma, Niebla (It's misty, foggy)
snow - nieve (It's snowing)
Hail - Granizo
Frost - Escarcha
Storm - tormenta
Thunder - trueno
Lightning - relámpago, rayo
Damp - Húmedo
Humidity - humedad (It's humid - which countries have a humid climate?)

Temperature is measured in degrees: it's 22 degrees C, it's 78 degrees F. It's 2 below zero.

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boiling, baking, roasting, sweltering - very, very hot
freezing, ice-cold - very, very cold
overcast, a blanket of cloud - nublado

Talking about the weather
Nice day, isn't it?
What a lovely/beautiful day!
Is it cold out?
What’s the weather like? (What was the weather like?)
Lovely weather for the time of year
Nice weather for ducks!
What's the forecast for tomorrow? (forecast - predicción, pronóstico)
I'm hot (not XI have heatX), cold, freezing (I'm freezing me estoy congelando), boiling (estoy hirviendo)
How reliable is the weather forecast? Do you pay attention to it? Do you use an app or get the forecast from the TV/radio?
Predicting extreme weather: tsunamis, hurricanes, tornados.

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In this episode: 20 Phrasal Verbs that English students should know

Marie: inglespodcast.com/54

You can learn phrasal verbs by grouping the verb: take on, take after, take away, take over

by the particle: take off, put off, give off, get off

by topics or vocabulary areas: CLOTHES:take sth. off, put sth. on, try sth. on, get into sth., go with sth.

Common phrasal verbs you should know:

1. give up (darse por vencido/dejar de) - put it on the top shelf (I’ve given up bread)
2. grow up (crecer) - plants grow, people grow up - Where did you grow up?
3. go on (partir, salir) - I’m going on holiday, on a (business) trip / Where are you going to? I’m going on a trip to Birmingham next month

to go on a date - also ‘seguir’/’continuar - go on, what were you saying? - go on a diet

4. go away (irse fuera) I’m going away for the weekend / Go away! (get lost!) ¡váyase! , ¡lárguese!
5. go out - (salir) - I’m going out for lunch/for a beer - Are you going out this weekend?
6. look forward to (tener muchas ganas de, esperar con ansia) What are you looking forward to?
7. look after (cuidar de) take care of Have you ever looked after anyone’s flat?

http://www.mindmyhouse.com/ and https://www.trustedhousesitters.com/ (house/flat/cat/dog sitting)

8. look up (buscar) look up to (respetar, admirar) Who do you look up to?
9. put up with (tolerar, aguantar) I can’t put up with them any longer, you’ll just have to put up with it I’ve been putting up with the noise during the Fallas festival.
10. turn on/off/up/down (encender, apagar, subir o bajar el volumen de (turn down is also rechazar) Have you ever turned down a job? I’ve turned down offers to do stuff.
11. take off (quitarse) What’s the custom before you go into a Japanese home?
12. put on (weight, clothes) (ponerse) I’ve put on a lot of weight recently
13. put/write down (apuntar, anotar) You don’t need to put down these phrasal verbs, you can find them at inglespodcast.com/98
14. find out (descubrir) Do you know what I found out about Birmingham? Birmingham is home to Cadbury's Chocolate. George and his brother Richard Cadbury moved their successful chocolate manufacturing business from Bull Street, Birmingham to Bournville in 1879.
15. get rid of (deshacerse de) Is there anything you’d like to get rid of in your flat? - clothes that are too small
16. break up (with) - romper (con), separarse (de) Famous celebrity breakups in 2015: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, Britney Spears and Charlie Ebersol, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale
17. carry on (seguir) - Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the British government in 1939 in preparation for the Second World War.

2.45 million copies were printed but it was hardly ever displayed. A copy was rediscovered in 2000 and used to market products. Another poster was:

"Your courage, your cheerfulness your resolution will bring us victory."

18. call back / phone back (devolver la llamada) - If someone’s out or busy you phone them back.
19. get on/off (subirse, abordar, llevarse bien - bajarse) - get in/out (of)
20. run out of (quedarse sin, acabar) run out of the house! I’ve run out of milk, biscuits, bread, phrasal verbs!

Use apps like memrise to learn phrasal verbs: https://www.memrise.com/

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In this episode: veterinary Vocabulary

Eva Garcia Romo
Good morning!
I am an English teacher and regular user of your internet courses, they are helping
my students improve their English.
I've started an intensive course for a worker in a veterinary clinic, whose
clients are mainly English.
I was wondering if you have some specific course for this purpose?
Many thanks, Eva.

We can look at some words and expressions. For a comprehensive list of veterinary terms, go to: http://www.petmd.com/veterinaryterms

Baby animals; dog - puppy, sheep - lamb, cow - calf (and whale - calf), cat - kitten, horse - foal, pig - piglet, bear - cub

a flock of birds
a herd of cattle/elephants
a school of fish
a pack of dogs/wolves (1 wolf, 2 wolves)
a clutter of cats
a crowd of people
a parliament of owls (owl - búho)
an army of frogs!?!

Some useful expressions for dog/cat owners in an English-speaking environment

feed - pienso (to feed an animal)
dog passport
to chip a dog/cat = ponerle el chip al perro/gato
vet’s/veterinary fees
desparasitar = to delouse
flea = pulga
delouse - despiojar
flea collar = collar desparasitorios
on a leash/lead = con correa
to spay/neuter = esterilizar
to be in heat = estar en celo
to go walkies = caminar con el perro
to walk the dog/to take the dog for a walk/take the dog out
animal rescue centre = centro de rescate de animales
to put down an animal / to put an animal to sleep - sacrificar, poner a dormir
- My dog has completed quarantine = Mi perro ha completado su estancia de cuarentena
- My dog has its vaccinations and tests up to date = Mi perro tiene las vacunas y analíticas en regla
- My cat’s taking its medication = Mi gato está tomando esta medicación
- My dog bit me when I went to touch it's tail = Mi perro me ha mordido cuando he ido a tocarle la cola
- My cat has ripped off its dressing/bandage = Mi gato se ha deshecho el vendaje

Idioms/Sayings with a metaphorical meaning

“Let sleeping dogs lie” - Leave something alone if it might cause trouble.
“Its bark is worse than its bite” - When someone acts or behaves in a threatening way but is relatively harmless.
“Every dog has its day” - everyone will have good luck or success at some point in their lives.
a dog’s dinner/breakfast - a complete mess: give it to the dog!
in the doghouse - Somewhere you don't want to be. When one's partner is displeased with them for one or more reasons.
“I was in the doghouse yesterday for getting home late after work and missing the meal my wife made for us, so I bought her some flowers this morning.” (source: Urban dictionary)
hair of the dog - alcohol you drink with the aim of lessening the effects of a hangover.
“to see a man about a dog” - a way of saying that you do not want to tell them where you are really going, especially when you are going to the toilet I won't be long. I'm just going to see a man about a dog.
barking up the wrong tree - to make the wrong choice; to ask the wrong person; to follow the wrong course.
doggy bag
dogfight - when to aeroplanes fight
catfight - when two womwn fight
mad dog - a crazy person
shaggy dog story
“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”
puppy love
dogging - this is where people meet up in car parks and watch each other having sex. Sometimes other people join in, but its mainly about watching and getting off on it!
dog-eared
top dog
dog eat dog
dogged (determined)
bitch - female dog and…..(verb) Word used to describe the act of whining excessively. Stop bitching about it!
(noun) a malicious, unpleasant, selfish person, especially a woman. “She’s a right bitch!”
Modern-day servant; A person who performs tasks for another, usually degrading in status. - Get me a drink, bitch! (used excessively in Breaking Bad)
Life’s a bitch! - Life’s hard.
son of a bitch - a person (especially a man) who you strongly dislike or hate “He’s a son of a bitch” Plural - sons of bitches.
cat/catty
pussy - female genitalia, cowardly man - cobarde
to pussyfoot
“Cat got/cut your tongue?”
fickle - caprichoso/a
trunk - elephants' nose
abattoir, slaughterhouse - matadero

Discussion questions:

If you were re-born as an animal, which one would you choose?
Is a vet a good career choice? Do you know any vets?

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In this episode: Nature and the Environment

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Listener Feedback: Jose's Vampire story.
We asked you to send us a story practising the narrative tenses, especially the past perfect simple and continuous from episode 91 with Mike ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2016/02/22/past-perfect-simple-and-continuous-with-mike-hardinge-airc91/ )
Here's Jose's wonderful vampire story.

Vocabulary/Expressions:

forest / wood - bosque
lake - lago
lagoon - laguna
wildlife
lough (Ireland) / loch (Scotland) = lake
river - rio
to flow - fluir
stream
hill - colina - hilly (adjective)
mountain - mountainous
gorge - garganza
valley
landscape
scenery
view - vista
wild, wildlife
farm, farming, farmer
crops
fields
harvest
to irrigate
to live off the land
to plant/sow - sembrar
seeds - semillas
to plough
country bumpkin
city slicker
city V country dweller
to dwell - vivir
to go trekking
the countryside = the country
rural areas
pollution - contaminación
recycling - recyclable
to be/go green
eco-friendly = environmentally friendly = green
pest
pesticides, insecticides
sustainable
produce
organic farming/food/production/produce
nature conservation
protected area, nature reserve
GM farming/food/produce
bland - soso
“the birds and the bees”
pollinate - pollination
“Let nature take its course”
Mother Nature

Discussion questions:

Should we worry so much about environmental protection at the cost of not exploiting useful natural resources?
How in tune with nature are you?
How important is sustainable farming to you?
What do you think about GM?
Albert Einstein is famously supposed to have claimed that if bees disappeared off the face of the earth, the human race would consequently also disappear within 4 years.
Reza believes bees are more important than humans for the survival of Earth. (He isn’t joking.) Do you agree/disagree?
Reza believes humans are the only creatures that commit senseless acts which destroy nature and our environment. We are our own worst enemy. What do you think?

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In this episode: Technology Vocabulary

Listener Feedback: Sergio

My name is Sergio and I am from Spain. I work in a very important Hotel in Madrid, and we speak very often with our company mates (colleagues/workmates) from Paris, London or Hong Kong,

so I looked for a way to improve my English level, and I found your podcast two months ago.

As I work in the computer department, it is possible for me to be listening to you most of the time while I am working, so I use to (usually) listen to three or four of your podcast (podcasts) daily.

(Go to episode 6 to revise 'used to', 'be used to' and 'get used to') http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/01/31/aprender-ingles-con-reza-y-craig-6/

I have to say THANK YOU. I have noticed that since I subscribed to your podcasts, I have improved my listening skills much more than I expected!

Well, I would like to ask you about two things. First, I was looking for a podcast related with (to) computers, but I couldn't find anything.

Could you speak in a future podcast about computers? I mean, common phrasal verbs, vocabulary or expressions, whatever. The second question is about 'tag questions'.

I would like to know some tips or tricks to use them fluently. I try to use them, but I have to think hard about them, so I sound strange when using them.

(We spoke about tag questions in episode 20) http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/04/14/reza-doesnt-like-raw-eggs-does-he-airc20/

These two websites are where you can find Craig's favourite technology podcasts:

https://twit.tv/
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/series/techweekly

Technology vocab revisited (covered in inglespodcast/28) Speak on Blab with Bea, Mamen, Mª Carmen: http://www.inglespodcast.com/blab/

Vocabulary revision from episode 28:
to cut = cortar
to copy = copiar
to paste = pegar
to print (print out/print off) = imprimir
to delete = borrar (to erase (US) / to rub out (UK) – eraser / rubber = goma
file = archivo
folder = carpeta (moqueta = carpet)
save as = guardar como
to select = seleccionar
to insert = insertar
to compress = comprimir
to search = buscar

New vocabulary:

What's the difference between device/gadget/appliance?

Inspector Gadget: Magic Gadget ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sevz3B88MiI )

to turn on/off (to hibernate)
to download to/from
to plug in/unplug, a plug
a network / to network (with people)
a desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile device
WiFi
hard disc
pen drive/ USB
storage space
to defragment
to format
to scan (for viruses)
to back up / make a back-up (copy)
to burn (onto a disc, etc.)
to boot up
to reboot / restart
operating system
browser
hyperlink
(to take a) screenshot
zip file
CPU - Central Processing Unit
caps lock
undo / redo

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Discussion

What's your favourite piece of tech?
Is there anything you're saving up for?
Why is it so important to have the lastest device, smart phone etc?
Why do some people dislike technology?
At what age should a child have their own phone?

Does technology have a positive or negative effect on our lives?
How do you see technology developing and evolving in the future in areas like education, travel, medicine, the military etc?

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In this episode: Commonly mispronounced words

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Listener Feedback: Juan Gabriel

1) ¿Por qué en la frase- estos son vuestros vaqueros"are these your jeans?" se pone antes la palabra "are" que la de "these" por que seria son estos vuestros vaqueros. Explicamelo por que el intercambio de palabras no me aclaro.

-Because the order in a question is: TO BE(Are) + SUBJECT(these) +.....?

2) Otra duda que tengo es el significado de "QUE" si es what por que en la frase ¡Que baratos¡ se escribe con that´s "that´s cheap" (OR “How cheap!”) que significado tiene la palabra 'that´s'?

- It can be dangerous to try to translate directly from Spanish to English. In this example, the translation of ¡Qué barato! is "That's cheap!" or "How cheap!".

3) Otra duda de las que tengo es por que cuando le preguntas a alguien tienes que poner al principio "do you". Por ejemplo - "Do you work in an office?" que significado tienen las palabras "do you"?

- "Do you..." is used to indicate the question form in present simple.

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Commonly mispronounced words

muscle - músculo (mussel - mejillón)
cupboard - armario
catastrophe - catástofe
apostrophe - apóstrofo
recipe - receta
receipt - recibo
niece - sobrina
nephew - sobrino
skiing - esquí
blouse - blusa
suit - traje
necklace - collar
striped - rayado/a
goggles - gafas para nadar, gafas de protección
chef - jefe de cocina, cocinero profesional
toaster - tostador
Tuesday (martes) & Thursday (jueves)
Friday - viernes
script - guion
crisps - papas fritas (de bolsa)
wasps - avispas
would (modal auxiliary verb)
big - grande
bag - bolsa
pub
since - desde, desde entonces
though - aunque, sin embargo
through - a través de, altravesar
thorough - al fondo, riguroso/a
daughter - hija (TRANSLATE “Mi hija es médico” AND SAY IT OUT LOUD! - My daughter is a doctor)
chemist - farmacéutico, farmacéutica / chemistry - química
stomach - estómago
REZA’S FAVOURITE MISPRONUNCIATION BY SPANISH SPEAKERS = stomachache - dolor de estómago
knee - rodilla
friend - amigo/a
parents - padres
cousin - primo/a
hungry - tener hambre, hambriento/a (The word 'hangry', a mixture of hungry and angry, does exist in the urban dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hangry )
phrasal verb - NOT “frazzle verb”!
Spain/Spanish
stop - parar, terminar, detenerse, dejar de
honest - sincero/a, honesto/a
hotel
Europe/European/euro
boat - barco
cut - cortar
to live - vivir - VERB; live - ADJ./ADV - en directo, en vivo
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, etc…
comfortable - cómodo/a
vegetable - verdura
fruit - fruta
chocolate - chocolate
quite - bastante, muy & quiet - silencioso/a
Edinburgh
pretty - bonito/a, precioso/a, hermoso/a, guapo/a
one
sheet & s**t (ship & sheep)

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On next week's episode: Technology Vocabulary

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Hello and welcome to Mansion Interviews, a podcast which gives me an excuse to talk to interesting people while at the same time improving your English.
Today you'll be listening to Elsie Escobar, who speaks with an American English accent. The interview is a bit longer than usual,
but Elsie speaks so well and so clearly that I'm sure you'll have no problem in following the conversation.

Remember, you can improve your listening with comprehension questions and find some help with difficult words from this interview at inglespodcast.com/elsie And there's some rich vocabulary in this interview.
Elsie speaks about the cinema, earthquakes, yoga, food, Barcelona, and much much more, so use the vocabulary help you as you listen. Let me introduce to you now the delighfully charming Elsie Escobar.

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1. Where does Elsie live now?

LA (los Angeles)
Pittsburgh
North Carolina
Colorado

2. Which of the following does Elsie NOT say she heard while she was growing up in El Salvador?

helicopters
tanks
bombs
gunfire

3. How would you describe Elsie's current view on acting?

she wishes she was back in Hollywood staring in films
She regrets the experience because she didn't become a big Hollywood star
She thinks she would have been more successful if she'd had a better agent
She can't imagine acting now because her life and priorities have changed

4. What is Libsyn?

an internet bandwidth company
a media production company that makes videos and podcasts for itunes
a podcast hosting service
an online community of people who want to be happy

5. Why doesn't Elsie teach yoga classes anymore?

It's too far to drive
It's not worth it financially
She doesn't have time because of her family
She moved and doesn't have enough students now

6. When Elsie was younger, she found it hard to meditate because

there was something negative in her life that she couldn't ignore
She saw a lot of elephants
she went out to too many parties with her friends
there were too many different types of meditation practices to choose from

7. She Podcasts is

a podcast that talks about men
a podcast that has a mainly male audience
a podcast that focuses on female podcasters and new media
a podcast that speaks about flies, particulary when they are on the wall

8. When was Elsie in Barcelona?

2016
4 years ago
last year
2006

9. Which of the following does Elsie NOT mention as a possible filling for 'pupusas'

bacon
beans
shredded pork
cheese

Answers
North Carolina
tanks
She can't imagine acting now because her life and priorities have changed
A podcast hosting service
It's not worth it financially
there was something negative in her life that she couldn't ignore
a podcast that focuses on female podcasters and new media
2006
bacon

Vocabulary

to immerse yourself in [sth] - sumergirse en
to be immersed in something - estar metido de lleno
to be out in the boondocks - en el quinto pino / off the beaten track - fuera de los caminos
packed (with people) - abarrotado/a
store - tienda
trash - basura
curfew - toque de queda
to muddle - desordenar, hacer un lío
earthquake - terremoto
drive - motivación, deseo, fuerza interna, impulso
audition - audición, prueba
role - papel
to cast - dar un papel
blink - parpadear
maid - criada
creative outlet (means of expression) -salida
to keep an eye on - estar atento, echar un ojo
hiatus (break) - interrupción
ROI (return on investment) - rendimiento de las inversiones
to start from scratch - empezar de zero, empezar desde el principio
substance abuse - abuso de sustancias
mat - alfombra, alfombrilla
to bargain - regatear, negociar
off kilter - torcido/a, descentrado/a, desequilibrado/a
shift - mover
a clean slate - una pizarra limpia, una pizarra en blanco
stickler - rigorista, insistente
chore - tarea rutinaria, faena
liberal arts - artes liberales, humanidades
toddler (1-2 year old child) - bebé mayor
enamored with - enamorado de
alignment - alineamiento
point of view - punto de vista

Elsie's interview on lasunnecracia.com: http://www.lasunnecracia.com/2016/01/la-sunnecracia-93-libsyn-y-el.html

She Podcasts: https://www.shepodcasts.com/

The Feed: http://thefeed.libsyn.com/

Elsi's Yoga Kula: http://elsiesyogakula.com/

A huge 'Thank you' to Elsie for her time. I was very bad because I forgot to ask Elsie where you can find her online:

She Podcasts: https://www.shepodcasts.com/

The Feed: http://thefeed.libsyn.com/

http://elsiesyogakula.com/

Twitter: @YoGeek

If you want to hear Elsie speaking more about her role as Happiness Community Manager at Libsyn, you can find her Spanish interview on lasunnecracia.com. A link to that interview, together with links to other things we spoke about, can be found at www.inglespodcast.com/elsie 

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With over 40 years of teaching between us, Reza and Craig will help you improve your English and take it to the next level.

In this episode: Your questions answered: How to start and finish emails, the English ‘subjuntivo’, the difference between ‘avoid’ and ‘prevent’ and more of your questions and comments.

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Thanks to our good friend Javier for the olive oil.

How to start and finish emails

Reza responds to emails using a similar level of formality (or informality) as the person who sends the email.

FORMAL

Beginning a formal email:

Dear John, Mr. Smith (Mrs/Miss/Ms) - Yours Sincerely,

miss - single
mrs.- married
ms - single or married

Dear Sir/Madam - Yours Faithfully,

Hi, Good morning/afternoon/evening (Reza would not choose these greetings for formal emails unless the other person used them first)

Reza is a bit of a stickler (stickler - rigorista, insistente)

Ending a formal email:

Best wishes, All the best, Warm regards, Best regards, Kind regards,

I look forward to/I'm looking forward to + (verb) + ing (Reza would choose not to use contractions, like "I'm", in a formal email).

Reza and Craig both agree that it's better to be more formal in exam emails and letters.

It's always better to be more formal than to risk offending someone by being too informal.

INFORMAL

Beginning an informal email:

Hi, Hello, How's it going? What's up? Hey there! G'day (Australian greeting)

Ending an informal email:

Love, Lots of love, hugs, Cheers! kisses, see you soon!
Thanks,See you Tuesday,
Until Friday,

Feedback: Javier from Burgos

Javier found us around episode 44 and went back to Nº1. Now he needs more than one episode per week because he's listened to all of them!
I'm used to listening to a daily podcast of you (must be true, he said "listening TO"!), If I were the President of the Government I would declare your podcasts "of national interest"
and I would enact a law forcing you to release a podcast every day. Poor Craig and Reza!

A doubt I sometimes have is trouble translating our Spanish "subjuntivo" into English.

Certain expressions are clear to me, such as the typical "verb + pronoun + to inf" (I told you to come earlier), and some others such as using certain verbs with the bare infinitive (recommend, suggest):
I recommend that you study more /It is recommended that you study more.

My doubt is with other examples apart from the aforementioned, such as: "No creo que vaya a la fiesta" = I don't think I go / will go to the party. Which one is correct? Both?

Besides, concerning the examples with the bare infinitive, I think that with some verbs there is only that possibility, I mean: "I recommend that you go the party" is OK but you can't say "I recommend you to go to the party".

But with other verbs, are both possibilities allowed?. For instance: "I asked that Mark submit his assignment" MAYBE YOU ASKED MARK’S TUTOR TO ASK MARK TO SUBMIT IT and "I asked Mark to submit his assignment". YOU ASKED MARK DIRECTLY

So, my enquiry is: which verbs are only used with the bare infinitive and which verbs can be used with both structures?.

Best regards from Burgos,
Javier

Nobody really agrees what the subjunctive is and when it should be used. Many grammar books and English teachers disagree.

The past subjunctive is the same as the past indicative. The exception is the verb TO BE: I were, you were, he/sh/it were (for example, as used in the second conditional "If I WERE you, I would.....")

The present subjunctive is the same as the past subjunctive, except for the 3rd person 's' which is sometimes (but not always) removed: "I recommend he TRAVEL without any luggage."

The present subjunctive is more common in American English than British English.

The present subjunctive of the verb TO BE is 'BE' for all forms of the verb (I BE, you BE, he/she/it BE etc).

Example, "If there be any reason why this man and woman should not be married....."

Some verbs which can take the subjunctive include:

advise - "Passengers are advised that the 5:15 train to Swindon has been cancelled." / "I advise that he NOT go there." (negative subjunctive)

ask - "I ask that he accompany us." / I ask that you put the gun down on the floor, sir."

demand - "I demand that you give back the money."

insist - "We insist that all passengers check in before 6pm."

propose - "I propose we meet after dinner for a cocktail."

recommend - "I recommend that students not write on their question paper."

request - "We request that all guests remove their muddy boots before entering the lobby."

suggest - "I suggest that we have a break for coffee after this podcast."

Some expressions sometimes go with, or use, the subjunctive:

It's a good idea....... - "It's a good idea that she stay (subjunctive) / stays (indictative) behind."

"God save the Queen." / "Long live the Queen."

Audio feedback: Antonio Prieto from Cadiz (thank you for your podcast) - XI've been hearing youX - listening to you.

Here's some audio feedback from Antonio Prieto.

Another question we have been asked, and I'm sorry, I can't remember who asked us this, but it's about the two verbs 'avoid' and 'prevent'.

What’s the difference between to avoid (evitar, esquivar) and to prevent (prevenir, evitar)?

To prevent is to take action to stop something before it starts. To avoid is to just stay away from something. (more active / engagement/deployment to stop something happening???)
"My dad prevented me from going to the rave." (prevent someone FROM doing something)
Example: Getting the flu shot would be prevention, hiding in your home and not having contact with anyone until the end of flu season would be avoidance.
"I avoided speaking to John" - (avoid + gerund)

Listener Feedback: Javier G from the Basque country - audio feedback - not because he says how much he likes the podcast, but because he is practising his English.
(listen TO you, Good use of present perfect 'I've downloaded all your podcasts', 'I've learned a lot of English with you.' and 'do sport' (not Xpractise sportX)

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My name is Paloma and I live in Segovia.
I listened to your podcast just a month ago when I luckily came across them looking for some listenings and I must say you two are doing a wonderful work (a wonderful job) which I am very grateful for.
Now, making profit of your kindness (taking advantage of), I wonder if you could clarify this sentence: "I hope you don't mind my asking", which I believe is correct, instead of "I hope you don't mind me asking" or "I hope you don't mind if I ask", ....
I am not sure which one is best, I always use the first one though, and when and how to use it.
Thank you in advance.
P.S. If (OR- NOT BOTH-) whenever you happen to come to Segovia, please let me know. I will be delighted to show you my little but beautiful town.
Kisses. Paloma

Audio Feedback Maria Jose - Past Perfuct Continuous - episode 91 with Mike: ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2016/02/22/past-perfect-simple-and-continuous-with-mike-hardinge-airc91/ )

Emilia - Email
Me podrian aclarar unas dudas por favor?
Cómo es correcto decir:

1."I turn 16 this Sunday." or "I am turning 16 this Sunday." (Present simple is better - (used here for timetabled events and schedules in the future. Another example; "The train leaves at 6pm" - fixed future time).

(“I will turn…” is also possible. Future simple for a future fact)

2."The festival starts in the evening." (Present simple - fixed future time) or "The festival is starting in the evening." (Present continuous - Future plan/arrangement)
Both are correct. Also, “The festival is going to start…” (to be going to+INFIN. - Future intention is also possible)

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Hello and welcome to Mansion Interviews, a podcast which gives me an excuse to talk to interesting people while at the same time improving your English.

Today we're speaking with the lovely Nic Burmester from the ex.pat podcast happylifemove (happylifemove.com).

On her podcast, Nic interviews people who have changed countries (like me and Nic!) to find a better and happier life

Nic is orginally from Germany and now she lives in Brighton on the South coast of England.

There are a few seconds of bad audio at the beginning of our chat. We were having some problems with Skype, but it gets better so please don't stop listening. Keep going and I'm sure you'll enjoy the conversation.

You can improve your listening with comprehension questions and find some help with difficult words from this interview at inglespodcast.com/nic

Vocabulary

train tracks
to hang out
work ethic - ética de trabajo
a Christmas temp - a temporary worker for the Christmas period
to keep (someone) on - to continue employing someone after a temporary period
to network - to form relationships (contactar con gente/hacer contactos en el mundo de los negocios)
to cope with - hacer frente a, manejar, apañarse
to go with the flow - to take a relaxed approach - dejarse llevar
pebble - guijarro
flair - estilo, clase
shandy - clara, cerveza con limonada
skills - habilidad, talento
to give (you) an edge - dar(te) una ventaja
to take (someone) up on (something) - aceptar
to cuddle - abrazar(se)
yearning - deseo, ansia
basement - sótano
potion - poción

Nic suggests the following websites:

Meeting people abroad:

http://www.meetup.com/

https://www.couchsurfing.com/

https://www.internations.org/

"Are You Being Served?" British sitcom (situation comedy) from the 1970's) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e5spfGz1qc&list=PLUOxCrDh0oVdzF9o9Pf66QqehEMtR1qlb

If you would like to be a guest on Nic's podcast, send her an email: <nic@happylifemove.com>

Always a pleasure to chat to Nic, and I hope we can have her back on Mansion Interviews in the near future. You can check out Nic's website at: happylifemove.com) http://www.happylifemove.com/

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We'll help you improve your English and take it to the next level.
Today we are joined by Martin.

In this episode: The Order of Adjectives Before a Noun

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This week’s feedback: Alfredo (audio feedback)

Alfredo asks how he can improve his accent. People say that when he speaks English he has a strong Italian accent. How can he improve this?

Don't worry about your Italian accent, Alfredo. The most important thing is that people understand you when you speak.

It tickles my fancy = it appeals to me, I like it

The Order of Adjectives Before a Noun

Sometimes we use more than one adjective in front of a noun:

He’s a fat old man. (not Xold fatX)
She's an attractive, French businesswoman.
Martin's got an old, yellow bike.

colour blind - daltónico

We usually have one or two adjectives before a noun. Three is unusual:

This is a boring, expensive, thick English text book.

Adjectives usually (but not always) come in this order:

1. Opinion
2. Size
3. Age
4. Shape
5. Colour
6. Origin (nationality)
7. Material

Other Qualities could include, for example, thin (Thickness), light (Weight), warm (Clothes), etc.

A warm leather jacket.
A beautiful warm day.

bulky - voluminoso/a

A heavy, bulky Swiss suitcase

Numbers come first:

One lovely German woman.
six large eggs.
half a dozen free-range eggs.
My second big chance

Use commas when there’s more than one adjective: A wonderful, long, relaxing holiday. (but sometimes commas are not used with short, common adjectives: lovely blue eyes, a tall dark stranger.)

Occasionally, adjectives come AFTER nouns. for example in fixed expressions like 'president elect', 'secretary general', 'God Almighty!'

All things/Everything/Anything/Anywhere etc

All things culinary excite me; Anything Greek interests Mike.

Some adjectives CAN’T come before a noun. They come after the verb. (Predicative)

The boy is asleep/afraid/awake/alone/alike/alright. (NOT “the asleep/alone/etc. boy”)

Most begin with letter “a______”

Practice

house (modern, attractive)
dog (black, huge)
day (lovely, sunny)
nose (red, large)
face (round, friendly)
phone (expensive, Japanese)
car (new, sports, red)
boots (leather, black, sexy)
table (modern, glass, ugly)

Discussion

Describe the following (using no more than 2 adjectives):

your flat
the clothes you’re wearing
one another! Martin/Craig/Reza
Valencia
the room we're in
our favourite possession
your last holiday
your first girlfriend/boyfriend
your wife/husband/current partner (if different to above!!)
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Past Perfect Simple and Continuous with Mike Hardinge - AIRC91

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With over 40 years of teaching between us, we'll help you improve your English and take it to the next level.
Welcome Mike! [44 years, so that totals 84 years of teaching experience between us!]

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In this episode: The past perfect simple and continuous with special guest Mike Hardinge

What is the Past Perfect?

Use: The Past Perfect is the past before the past. When we are already talking about the past and we want to talk about an earlier past time.
It can be in a Simple or Continuous/Progressive form.

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

Something that happened before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past.
Focus tends to be on the completion of the action/state, not the continuity of it.

Form: had/ ’d + past participle (had eaten, had been, had forgotten, had seen etc)

Let’s see where the past perfect simple fits in. To do this we have to look at a much more ‘important’ tense ‘the past simple’.
The past simple forms the basis of a narrative; it gives us a sequence of events:

Maybe last night
(1) you stayed up (didn’t go to bed) to watch a film and (2) went to bed too late. In the morning, (3) you didn’t hear your alarm.
(4) You woke up late. (5) You got dressed in an awful hurry, (6) didn’t have breakfast and (7) rushed out of the house.
Then (8) you realised you HAD FORGOTTEN your keys.

The verbs in the story have a ‘fixed’ order, except for ‘had forgotten’, which takes us back to before or during when (5) you got dressed - maybe you put on another jacket or before (7) you rushed out of the house - you didn’t check to see if you had your keys.

Past perfect simple usually takes us back to a previous stage of a narrative.

It is very useful for giving reasons:

You couldn’t get back into your house (why?) because you HAD FORGOTTEN your keys.
or obviously it could be a negative action, an action not taken, which is the case here:
you couldn’t get back into your house because you HADN'T TAKEN your keys.

If you had gone to bed at the right time, none of this would have happened.

Examples: When Mike arrived, we had already recorded a podcast
I’d never seen such an excellent system for learning phrasal verbs before I saw Mike’s CD.
After she’d studied Mike’s phrasal verb CD, she understood the subject much better.
We’d had our old printer for 8 years before we bought that new one. (two ‘hads’. “ ’d” = “had”)

Question:(different word order) Had you ever won an award before you won in Manchester last year?
Negative: (with NOT) I hadn’t/had not studied Spanish, before I came to Spain.

Reza arrived late. By the time he arrived, we had already ordered our food from the waiter.
As soon as he’d lit/he had lit his cigarette, the bus arrived at the stop.
No sooner had he lit (OBLIGATORY INVERSION) his cigarette than the bus arrived at the stop.
Reza and Craig spoke about INVERSION in episode 78 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/11/22/sentence-inversions-airc78/ )

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Use: Focus tends to be on the continuity of the activity/process. Something that started in the past and continued up to a particular time in the past.
Can be used for more temporary actions/situations or a repeated action or a longer action interrupted by another action. Often there’s evidence that the action had been continuing more or less up to point.

I HAD LIVED in Salamanca for two years before I came to Valencia. (use simple to stress the completed action)
I HAD BEEN LIVING in Salamanca for two years before I came to Valencia. (use continuous to stress the continuity of an action that may, or may not, be unfinished)

Present perfect simple: I HAVE READ fifteen books this year. (focus on the number of books completed)
Present perfect continuous: I'VE BEEN READING the last Harry Potter book and I can't understand a word. (focus on the continuous action)

Past perfect simple: Valencia HAD BEEN PLAYING very well before the new manager.
Past perfect continuous: Valencia HAD WON 15 games before the new manager.

Form: had/ ’d been + -ing form of the verb

Back to MIke's forgotten keys story. You can’t have a bare narrative with no description and maintain interest, so:

Last night....
(1) you stayed up (didn’t go to bed) to watch a film. IT WAS A REALLY GREAT FILM ABOUT DRAGONS AND MONSTERS AND HEROES WERE FLYING ABOUT ALL OVER THE PLACE. As a result,
(2) you went to bed too late. THE BED WASN’T MADE BUT YOU WERE TOO TIRED TO WORRY. In the morning,
(3) you didn’t hear your alarm. THIS WAS HARDLY SURPRISING.
(4) You woke up late.
(5) You got dressed in an awful hurry, THE ROOM WAS IN A TERRIBLE MESS, THINGS WERE LYING EVERYWHERE.
(6) You didn’t have time for any breakfast and you
(7) rushed out of the house, like a bat out of hell. It was only after you HAD CLOSED the door that
(8) you realised you HAD FORGOTTEN your keys.

Description with WAS, WERE, HAD or PAST CONTINUOUS makes the narrative more palatable (rico/a, apetitoso/a).

The past perfect continuous can add to this description.

YOU HAD BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD AND WANTED TO GIVE YOURSELF A TREAT, so you stayed up to watch a film….you didn’t hear your alarm.
You woke up late. ACTUALLY YOU HADN'T BEEN SLEEPING VERY WELL RECENTLY...YOU HADN’T BEEN LIVING IN THE FLAT FOR VERY LONG.

The past perfect continuous is very useful for giving background description to a story, in a similar way as the past continuous tense.

Compare: When I woke up yesterday it was raining. - The rain was falling when I woke up
When I woke up yesterday it had been raining. - The rain wasn’t falling when I woke up. It had (recently) stopped. The ground was still wet.

Use the past perfect in 3rd conditional 'if' sentences:

If I hadn't drunk so much whisky on Saturday night, I wouldn't have felt so bad on Sunday morning.

If Craig HAD GOT MARRIED when he was 22, he'd have had a family at a very yound age.
If Reza HADN'T STAYED in Valencia, he might have gone to Sardinia.
If Mike's parents HAD TAKEN him abroad when he was really young, he would have learnt another language.
If Mike HADN'T BROUGHT his daughter to Spain, she wouldn't have learnt Spanish.

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The past perfect is also used in reported speech:

"I HAD never MET Mike before I started working at the school." - Craig said that he HAD never MET Mike before he started working at the school.

It's often ok to use the past simple instead of the past perfect, especially when there is a time expression:

Bill had been married twice before he met Susan. (past perfect) - Bill was married twice before he met Susan. (past simple)

Time expressions

Mike's Basque Beret (boina)

"I haven't seen Mike's beret before." / "I haven't seen Mike in a beret before."
"It's the first time I have seen Mike's beret." / "It's the first time I have seen Mike in a beret."

Looking back, and talking about the past, you could say, "It was the first time I had seen Mike's beret." / "It was the first time I had seen Mike in (or wearing) a beret."

It's three months since I spoke English / It's three months since I've spoken English.

It was three months since he had spoken English.

More time expressions often used with the past perfect: by the time, before, after, as soon as, no sooner.....than....., up to then/that moment

and 'because' for giving reasons: "He was very dirty BECAUSE he had just been walking in the rain."

Craig went to bed early last night because he'd been exercising and he was very tired.

Practice

Tell a story and use the past perfect.

Craig: You are a Zombie.
Reza: You woke up naked on a park bench this morning. (to cut a long story short - "en resumen", "resumiendo", "y te la hago corta".....)
Mike: You started speaking fluent Chinese for no apparent reason. (the long and the short of it is....."en resumen", "resumiendo", "y te la hago corta".....)

Thanks Mike! You can find Mike's website and his CD on how to learn phrasal verbs at: http://mikehardinge.com/

...and now it's your turn to practise your English. We want you to practise the past perfect and record yourself saying 4 or 5 sentences using the past perfect. Mix it up with past perfect simple and past perfect continuous and make sure the sentences are true for you. Or tell us a real or imaginary story similar to ours. Send us a voice message at speakpipe.com/inglespodcast (90 seconds - need an app for mobile)

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Listener Feedback: Rafael
Reza, tú lo haces bastante bien lo de pronunciar español, sin embargo a Craig si, que le cuesta un poco más, y no acabo de entenderlo porque a veces he oído los años que lleva Craig en España, ¡y son muchos!
Creo que alguna vez habéis dicho que lleváis desde 1998....a veces pienso en ello y me imagino viviendo en Inglaterra tantos años y (creo) que hablaría inglés como un nativo....
(bueno, tampoco estoy muy seguro de ello) os pido perdón, porque la mayoría de las veces os escribo en español, pero, aunque os lo entiendo todo....no soy capaz de "colocar este rollo" (get this out/across) en inglés....
Bueno, espero que Craig no se moleste con mi comentario y si fuera así, le pido disculpas por adelantado...Un saludo afectuoso, Rafael

Hi Craig and Reza,
How are you doing? I'm Pepe Calvo, a 51 years old (51-year-old) self-taught English student. I started to learn English on my own in my mid-forties and thanks to the Internet and the help from podcasts like yours I think I'm getting it.
From the beginning I also started to practise with English natives, who are retired and live nearby, and it was tough but now I'm really proud to be able to follow a conversation more or less fluently.

I don't spend any time studying, nor do I do exercises and things like that, I think the key is to listen to English - the more you can, the better, and in addition, speak, read, write and watch
(documentaries are my favourites) in English as much as you can. I call it "my little linguistic immersion" and I think it works, doesn't it?
Nowadays, I am listening to your podcasts but I'm not up to date with them yet and I'm wondering if you’ve already got the ‘dulce de leche’ recipe, have you? If not, it is the least I can do for you to express my gratitude.
It is really easy, my mom used to make it when I was a kid, here you are:

https://cookpad.com/es/recetas/129294-dulce-de-leche-con-leche-condensada-en-olla-rapida

Thank you very, very much for your generosity sharing your work for free, it is a great help for people like me, I really appreciate it! I live in Tortosa, not too far from you, if there is something more I can do for you, you only have to ask.
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Compound adjectives

The journey lasts 3 hours - It's a three-hour journey
It's a 10 kilometre trip - The trip is 10 kilometres
How to avoid personal questions

How to avoid personal questions

What kind of questions, and in what kind of situations, could be difficult, inappropriate and/or embarrassing?

Filling in a form
applying for a service or product (online or face to face)
meeting someone for the first time and making small talk
job interviews

(to deflect - desviar)

Are the following expressions “Asking a personal question”(Q) or “Responding to a personal question”(R)?

Why do you ask? (R)
That’s got nothing to do with you. (R)
I know this is a bit personal, but... (Q)
Can I ask you a personal question? (Q)
That’s rather a personal question. (R)
I hope you don’t mind me asking, but…(Q)
I’m afraid that’s none of your business. (R)
I’d rather not answer that (if you don’t mind). (R)
I know this is a bit nosey, but…(Q) (nosey = entrometido/a, indiscreto/a, 'meter las narices')
Mind your own business! (R) SHOWS ANNOYANCE
I don’t mean to pry, but….(Q) - (to pry - entrometerse)
I’m sorry to say I’m not prepared to answer that. (R)
No comment. (R)
I don’t want/wish to comment on that. (R)
If you don’t mind m, I’d like to ask....(Q)
Would it bother you if I asked…(Q)
I’ll understand if you don’t want/wish to answer, but…(Q)
I’d rather you asked me something else. (R)
Forgive me for asking, but…(Q)
If it’s not too personal,...(Q)
Let’s change the topic, (shall we?) (R)
You’ve got some nerve asking that! (R) SHOWS ANNOYANCE
That’s for me to know (and you to find out - SHOWS PLAYFULNESS) (R)

Practice:

I know this is a bit nosey, but how much money do you earn? - Let's change the topic, shall we?
Forgive me for asking, but are you married? - I'd rather not answer that if you don't mind.
I don't mean to pry, but how much do you weigh? - Why do you ask? Perhaps we should move on to another topic.
I hope you don't mind me asking, but how much rent do you pay for your flat? - Why do you ask?
I hope you don't mind me asking, but have you ever taken drugs? - No comment!
Forgive me for asking, but how much did you pay for that shirt? - Let's change the topic.
How old are you? - Let's change the topic, shall we?
I know this is a bit nosey, but who did you vote for in the last election? - I'd rather not answer that, if you don't mind.
Have you got a boy/girlfriend?
Do you fancy anybody? / Do you have a crush on anybody?
I know this is a bit personal, but how many people have you slept with? - I'd rather not answer that, if you don't mind.
Did you sleep with her/him last night? - Mind your own business!!
How do you make your humous so tasty? What's your secret recipe/ingredient?
I don't want to pry, but what size trousers do you take? What size are you?

(to have a crush on someone - encapricharse con alguien)

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Discussion:

Are there any other questions that you don’t like answering?

vague - vago/a, impreciso/a

...and now it's your turn to practise your English. We want you to tell us about a time when you were asked a personal question.
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On next week's episode: The Past Perfect tense (simple and continuous) with special guest (and published author) Mike Hardinge

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Grow your grammar, vocalize your vocabulary and perfect your pronunciation

In this episode: politics and government vocabulary

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Listener Feedback: Gabriela (Peru - living in Australia)

Hi, Reza and Craig. I am from Peru, but at the moment I am living in Australia.
My native language is Spanish and now I am learning English and it's interesting.
Thank you for your help, I listen to your podcasts very often and I like how you explain all of the subjects.
Sorry for my mistakes in this message.
Can you speak about verb tenses? How do I know if I'm using the correct tenses in my speaking or writing? Thank you so much for your answer.

It's very difficult to speak about ALL of the verb tenses in English in one podcast episode, Gabriela. We suggest you go to inglespodcast.com and type in the verb tenses into the search box.
Listen to all the past episodes in which we have spoken about verb tenses.

False friend: estar constipado - to have a cold / to be constipated - estar estreñido

Politics and Government

Vocabulary:

politics - política (don't forget that the word 'politics' has an 's' in English)
politician - político
political - político
policy - política, plan de acción
government - gobierno (coalition - coalición - a temporary alliance for combined action, especially of political parties forming a government.
"a coalition between Liberals and Conservatives")
to govern - gobernar
party - partido
Conservative Party - partido conservador - right-wing - de derecha
(very right-wing = fascist - fascista
Labour Party - partido laborista - left-wing - de izquierda
very left-wing = communist
liberal (líberal) - liberal
Republican Party - partido republicano
Democratic Party - partido demócrata
to run for president (to run for office) - ser candidato a presidente
democracy (n) - democracia
democrat - demócrata
democratic (adj.) - democrático
to elect - elegir
to vote - votar
(a general) election - elección (local/regional elections)
ballot - votación
campaign - campaña
candidate - candidato
electorate - electorado
(a government) minister - ministro
ministry - ministerio
opposition - oposición
parliament - parlamento
poll - encuesta, votación
poling station - the place where you vote in an election
referendum - referendum
socialist - socialista
capitalist - capitalista
nationalist - nacionalista
monarchist - monárquico
regionalist - regionalista

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Questions:

How old were you when you first voted? - Reza was in his early 20s. Craig has never voted. (to abstain - abstenerse)

What characteristics should a good politician have? - Craig: honesty, motivating, idealistic, believe in the common good, serve the public
Reza: honesty, to keep their word.

Have your political views changed much during your lifetime? Reza: No, but he is more understanding these days. He would never let his political views get in the way of friendship.
Craig used to be very left wing. In recent years he's moved a little bit more to the right.
to strike - hacer huelga

Should voting be compulsory? Reza used to think so, but now he thinks people shouldn't be made to vote.

(Voting is compulsory in 22 states worldwide - 12 Latin American countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Congo, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Greece, Honduras, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, Nauru (the smallest state in the South Pacific), Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Singapore, Thailand, Uruguay)

Would you vote for an actor or actress who campaigns for a government position? Reza would (if they were politically aware)

Do most people really care who runs the country as long as they have a high standard of living?

I'm going to lay my cards on the table - voy a mojarme (to lay your cards on the table - poner las cartas sobre la mesa)
Reza feels strongly that 65 people should not own half of the world's wealth. He thinks something should be done about that.

Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? - Neither Reza nor Craig will be hoping that Donald Trump wins the US election.

...and now it's your turn to practise your English. We want you to tell us your opinion on politics and answer some of the questions that we asked in this podcast......Send us a voice message and tell us what you think. inglespodcast.com - speakpipe

Send us an email with a comment or question to craig@inglespodcast.com or belfastreza@gmail.com.

On next week's episode: How to NOT answer personal questions!

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Hello and welcome to Mansion Interviews, a podcast which gives me an excuse to talk to interesting people while at the same time improving your English.

Now today we're going to listen to a chat I had with the wonderfully interesting Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat who is an English teacher based in London, but I met her in Sitges, near Barcelona.

Shanthi has a wonderful blog and obviously we speak about that, and many other things besides, so let's not waste any time, let me introduce you to Shanthi from englishwithatwist.com.

You can improve your listening with comprehension questions and find some help with difficult words from this interview at inglespodcast.com/shanthi . I suggest you go to the webpage, look at the show notes because this episode with Shanthi is particularly rich in vocabulary.

Puedes contestar las preguntas de comprensión y obtener ayuda con el vocabulario difícil en esta entrevista en inglespodcast.com  

You can answer listening comprehension questions and get help with difficult vocabulary in this interview at inglespodcast.com 

Vocabulary

to backtrack - retroceder, volver atrás
awkward - incómodo, torpe
vivacious - vivaz, animado
to frown upon - no ver con buenos ojos, estar mal visto
rusty - oxidado (my Italian is pretty rusty - me falta práctica en italiano, tengo el italiano muy olvidado)
to end up - terminar, acabar
from scratch - desde cero
to be thrown into the deep end - to be made to do something difficult without being prepared for it or being given any help
carefree - sin preocupaciones
to merge - fusionarse, unirse
to make redundant - despedir / to be made redundant - ser despedido (por reducción de plantilla), quedar sin trabajo
human resources - recursos humanos
handkerchief - pañuelo
to regurgitate - repetir mecánicamente
buzzword - palabra de moda
to come across - encontrarse con
patterns - pautas
to trigger an idea - desencadenar una idea
to come up with - inventarse
to embark (on) - embarcarse en, lanzarse
boost - levantar, alzar, incrementar
I can't stand - No puedo soportar
to waffle - decir chorradas, dar vueltas / to waffle on - enrollarse
how on earth...? - como demonios....?

Shanthi's blog post on setting language-learning goals:

http://englishwithatwist.com/2015/12/29/5-tips-on-how-to-make-and-keep-your-news-year-resolution-to-improve-your-english/

It was so much fun talking with Shanthi. Don't forget you can find her website, her blog and the services she offers at: englishwithatwist.com

Thank you to you for listening to this Mansion Interview. You can find more podcasts to improve your English at inglespodcast.com and you can study English free at mansioningles.com

If you enjoyed this podcast, please go to iTunes and give us some stars and maybe a short review so that more people can find our podcasts.

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If you are a new listener to this award-winning podcast, welcome!
With over 40 years of teaching between us, Reza and Craig will help you improve your English and take it to the next level.
Grow your grammar, vocalize your vocabulary and perfect your pronunciation.

Reza is 'blowing his own trumpet'!

In this episode: The Past Continuous

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Listener Feedback: Javier from Burgos

This is Javier from Burgos. I am a lecturer of environmental chemistry at the University of Burgos.
I would like to congratulate you on your podcasts. I have found them very useful to improve my listening skills.
I am quite used to reading and writing in English due to my job (mostly scientific papers writen in an academic and formal style)
but my oral and listening skills are not at the same level.

The other day, my eldest son got the "Play Station" as a Christmas present.
He was playing a game where the characters were speaking in American English.
They talked so fast and probably used a lot of slang that I could hardly understand a thing. It was so frustrating!
I know that your podcasts have an educational purpose and you make an effort to speak clearly and more or less slowly.
I understand you reasonably well when you speak but the event regarding my son's game left me shattered (destrozado, destruido).

Well, I guess that it is all a matter of time (spending time listening and listening) and never giving up.

Finally, I would like to tell you that your podcasts are a good fun and you are funny too.
I have seen your photos on your podcast webpage and you "have a face of good people"
(I am afraid that I have not translated properly the Spanish sentence: "tenéis cara de buenas personas" - you look/seem nice).
But, who is Reza and who is Craig in the picture?. Who is the one wearing glasses and who is the one holding a cup (of tea, I guess)?
(Reza's the one wearing glasses and Craig is drinking tea)

If only one of you were eating biscuits, I would know who it is, ja, ja. Sorry for the joke!

Kind regards from Burgos,

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When do we use the past continuous?

At the beginning of a story:
This morning, when I went out to get some milk, the sun was shining, the birds we singing, people were driving to work and walking to school...

To talk about something which happened at a particular moment in the past, often starting before that moment and continuing after it.

Example: What were you doing at 10 o'clock this morning?
At 10 o'clock this morning Craig was working on his computer.
Reza was having a shower.

I was making tea when Reza rang the bell. (compare with:”Reza rang the bell, he came in, I made tea, I took out the biscuits.”)

Use the present continuous when two actions are happening parallel to one onother in the past:

As I was making tea, Reza was telling me about his weekend.

While Reza was preparing the dinner, his girlfriend was watching TV.

I was dreaming about this beautiful girl when suddenly my alarm clock rang.

What were you doing at 9 o’clock last night?
Where were you at 11 am yesterday morning?

¡OJO! Not all long actions in the past are expressed with the past continuous tense. ("Reza lived in Salamanca for two years." - Past simple)

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We also use the past continuous:

for something that was happening again and again:

I was practising Spanish every day for at least an hour.
He was having an affair with his secretary.
They were always eating in expensive restaurants.

with verbs which show change or growth:

My two daughters were growing up quickly.
My Spanish was improving.
My hair was going grey.

How do you form the past continuous? - Use the past of the verb TO BE (was/were) + ing - Examples: “I was editing a podcast when my mum rang.” / “Reza and I were having a beer when we saw a student walk past.”

The question form: "What were you doing yeasterday at 11am?"

The negative form: "I was NOT watching TV this morning." - "We were not drinking beer." - Contractions: "I wasn't watching TV, I was working on my computer." - "We weren't drinking beer, we were having a conversation."

"I was wondering if you'd like to come out to dinner tonight."

...and now it's your turn to practise your English. We want you to give us some personal examples of past continuous and present perfect continuous. Answer the question: "What were you doing when you were listening to this podcast?"

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On next week's episode: Politics and Government

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In this episode: Academic English

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Elisa from Finland sent us a message for the Christmas episode inglespodcast/82. ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/12/20/reza-and-craigs-christmas-special-airc82/ )

She said "you guys sang surprisingly well" - She also gave some inside information on Santa's sleigh and recommends people visit the website santapark.com. Elisa said, "Santa Claus lives here in the Santa Park with Mrs Claus and Elves!"
(I thought it was "Elvis"!)

We also have a voice message from our good friend Mamen from Biescas. She listened to episode 81 about British and American English pronunciation differences : inglespodcast.com/81

( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/12/13/british-and-american-english-pronunciation-differences-airc81/ ).

Here is Mamen practising the different pronunciation of US and UK English……

There are reasons why Mamen is improving her English:
-She’s engaging with the language.
-She’s taking the time to practise speaking, record her voice, coming on Blab. (inglespodcast.com/blab)
-She’s enthusiastic about learning.

Listener Feedback: Jesús Vélez
Hi Craig and Reza! Thanks for your podcast, I think it's fantastic. It's a huge help for "travelers" (commuters): my journey from my home to job (work) is about 120 km (1 hour...).
I use your podcast to take my English to the next level. Currently, I'm preparing my C1. Would you mind to speak (speaking) about academic English?
For example keywords I must use in the university with some colleagues, research concepts (paper, article, stay, fellowship...)
I think there's a lot of material on the internet, but it's a disaster... There's no order at all.

Thanks in advance (excuse me for my poor English) and continue with the programs!
Kind regards, Jesús Vélez

ACADEMIC ENGLISH

Academic English style is generally evident in a:
Journal (like a technical/academic magazine); Text book; Essay; Academic article; Report; Dissertation; Thesis; etc. WRITTEN
Lecture; Talk; Workshop; Presentation; Tutorial; Seminar; Conference; etc. SPOKEN

Different style of language compared to General English. Key features include:

More abstract, more impersonal, more structured, more organised, usually formal (written), often more technical, often more complex, avoids ambiguity, may include references to other sources.

-Avoid personal pronouns, eg. I, me, you, us, etc.

-Use the Passive (to be impersonal):
eg. the liquid was heated to 20 degrees C; it can be seen that the species evolved.

-Avoid contractions in written academic Eng., but usually OK spoken:
eg. It will not be resolved (not “won’t”); the conclusions are not definitive (not “aren’t”)

-Nominalisation = using nouns rather than verbs. This sounds more academic:
eg. “...the Norman invasion of Britain in 1066, provoking a huge linguistic change.” is better than “...when the Normans invaded Britain in 1066 and it provoked a huge change.”

-Use plenty of linking words or signpost your discourse:

eg. Firstly; Secondly; Next; A further point; Finally; Lastly - LISTING

Moreover; In addition (to); Additionally; Furthermore; What is more - ADDING INFO.

However; Nevertheless; Nonetheless; Despite; In spite of; Whereas; Whilst; Although; Albeit; Notwithstanding; Be that as it may; On the other hand - CONTRAST/CONCESSION

For example/instance; As an/one example; As exemplified by___; To illustrate - EXAMPLE

According to Smith (1987); As Smith (1987) said; Smith (1987) wrote/stated - REFERENCE

In conclusion; To conclude; To sum up; In brief; All in all; In short - CONCLUSION

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Common university campus terms:

There are usually several departments in one faculty eg. the Department of Physics in the Science Faculty

bachelor’s degree; master’s degree - comes after or is longer than a bachelor’s degree

eg. She has a BA (Bachelor of Arts) in History; He’s doing an MSc in Mathematics (Master of Science) at Oxford.

a doctorate or PhD - the highest post-graduate uni. qualification, requiring a few years of study, research and a doctoral thesis

an undergraduate - a student studying on a bachelor’s (first) degree course

a graduate - a person who has completed a bachelor’s degree course

a post-graduate - a person who is studying on a higher course after passing their first degree

a fellow - someone who (temporarily) teaches/researches (and perhaps still studies on a post-graduate course) at a university, but not a full lecturer

a fellowship - the job given to a fellow

a lecturer - a person who gives lectures at a university

a professor - an experienced, distinguished, more senior lecturer (NOT the same as teacher)

a grant - money given by the govt. to help support students throughout the year, depending on their financial situation

a scholarship - money given by a university/college/school/company to a student because they won it or are poor but talented.

halls of residence - official university accommodation on campus, usually a large block

vice-chancellor (VC)- the top person in charge of a university (the dean in a North American college)

pro-vice-chancellor (PVC)/deputy-vice-chancellor (DVC) - second in command, under the vice-chancellor

higher education (HE) - tertiary-level education, ie. higher than primary and secondary education

eg. university, college, medical school, etc.

For the most common vocabulary used to study at HE level, the Academic Word List:
http://ksngo.org/images/download/LDOCE_AWL.pdf

Reza has taught Academic English at Queen’s University, Belfast and the University of Ulster. Here are a few well known books he has used:
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Academic-English-Edition-Longman/dp/0131523597

http://www.amazon.com/Presenting-English-Successful-Presentations-Updated/dp/1111832277

http://www.cambridge.org/us/cambridgeenglish/catalog/english-academic-purposes/academic-vocabulary-use/academic-vocabulary-use-answers
An example unit from the book:
http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/89397/excerpt/9780521689397_excerpt.pdf

A great place to listen to talks and lectures on just about any (academic) topic:
https://www.ted.com/talks

...and now it's your turn to practise your English. We want you to tell us if you have had experience of academic English. Have you been to university? Do you have a degree? Send us a voice message and tell us what you think. speakpipe.com/inglespodcast (90 seconds - need an app for mobile)

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Hello and welcome to Mansion Interviews, a podcast which gives me an excuse to talk to interesting people while at the same time improving your English.

Today I'm speaking to a good friend of mine, Danny. I've known Danny for many years and he happens to be North American which is good news for you because many listeners have been asking me about the differences between American and British English. So Danny jumped on Skype and we compared vocabulary differences between US and UK English. Acually, I tested him to see how much British English vocabulary he knows. So what do you think? Did he pass the test? More importantly, do you know these vocabulary differences? Let's see. There are no comprehension questions becuase this isn't an interview listening practice,

but you will find a complete list of the vocabulary we talk about at http://www.inglespodcast.com/danny/  

Where do you live and where is your accent from?

Danny has a mid-western accent from Detroit, Michegan. He now lives in Ann Arbor, Michegan.

Test your British-American English vocabulary. Do you know the American word for the following common British English vocabulary?

We'll start off easy to warm you up. I say the British English word, you say the American English word

lift - elevator (asensor)
flat - apartment (piso, apartamento)
holiday - vacation (vacaciones)
autumn - fall (otoño)
a queue / to queue up - a line / to stand in line (cola / hacer cola) - to stand/wait 'on line' on the East Coast of the USA.
bill - check (cuenta)
quid - buck (50 quid - 50 bucks / a 50-pound note - a 50 dollar bill - billete)
shopping centre - shopping mall (centro comercial)

CLOTHES
trainers - gym shoes/sneakers (zapatillas de deporte)
tights - panty hose (medias)
knickers - panties (bragas)
vest - undershirt/T-shirt (chaleco)

ALCOHOL
barman / barmaid - bartender (barman)
stag night / hen night - bachelor/bachelorette party (despedida de soltero/a)
pub crawl - bar hop (ir de chateo, ir de copas, recorrido por bares)
beer mat - coaster (posavasos)

BABIES
nappy - diaper (pañales)
dummy - pacifier (chupete)
pram - baby buggy / baby carriage (cochecito de niño)

FOOD
crisps - (potato) chips (papas)
take-away (food) - carry-out (food) (comida para llevar)

IN THE HOUSE
cooker - range, stove (cocina (los fuegos)
tap - faucet (grifo)
rubbish bin / dustbin - garbage can / trash can (cubo / contenedor de basura)
estate agent - real estate agent / realtor (inmobilario/a)
post code - zip code (codigo postal)
torch - flashlight (linterna)

IN THE STREET
pavement - sidewalk (acera)
zebra crossing - pedestrian crossing / pedestrian crosswalk (paso de cebra)
roundabout - roundabout / traffic circle (rotonda)
car park - parking lot (parking)
petrol station - gas station (gasolinera)
motorway - highway, freeway, expressway (autopista)
flyover - overpass (paso elevado)
busker - street performer (músico callejero)
skip - dumpster (contenedor)
lorry - truck (camión)
cash point (machine) - ATM (cajero automático)

WORK
CV - resumé (curriculum)
to sack - to fire (despedir)
redundancy - layoff (desempleo / to make (s.o.) redundant - to lay (s.o.) off
public limited company (plc) - LLC / incorporated company (inc.) (sociedad anónima (s.a.)

Feeling confident? Now they get harder!

anorak - raincoat / windbreaker (anorak)
rubber - condom or eraser (goma)
wellies (wellingtons) - rubber boots (botas de goma)
wally - jerk, idiot (tonto)
off licence - liquor store (bodega)
fish slice - spatula (paleta)

SLANG
brolly - umbrella (paraguas)
loo, bog - john (lavabo, water)
toilet - restroom
knackered - tired, whipped, exhausted (agotado)
mate - friend, buddy, pal (amigo)

Many thanks to to my good friend, my old mate, my long-time pal, buddy and all round good guy Danny from Detroit, Michegan. Thanks, man!

And thank you for listening. If you have any comments or questions, or if you just want to say 'hi' you can send an email to craig@inglespodcast.com or send me a voice

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There's a detailed list of American and British English Vocabulary with Spànish translations at mansioningles.com and there is a link to this on the website at inglespodcast.com/danny

http://www.mansioningles.com/vocabulario63.htm 

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In this episode: Pronunciation | Silent Letters

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We practised the pronunciation of some words that have silent letters in episode 38
( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/12/21/must-ought-to-and-should-vocabulary-in-the-home-the-kitchen-and-pronunciation-of-difficult-words-airc38/ )

Today we're going to give you a longer list and focus on groups of words that have the same silent letter.

Silent letters (I say the Spanish word, you say the English word before you hear it)

/t/
listen - escuchar
soften - ablandarse, suaveizarse
whistle - silbar (chiflar in Mexico)
fasten - atar, abrochar
Christmas - Navidad
castle - castillo

/k/
knife - cuchillo
knee - rodilla
knowledge - knowledge
knit - tejer, hacer punto
knob - pomo, picaporte (a knob of butter)
know - conocer, saber
knot - nudo

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/p/
receipt - recibo
pseudonym - seudónimo
psychic - psíquico/a
psychology - psicología
psychiatry - psiquiatría
pneumatic - neumático

/b/
climb - subir, ascender, escalar
debt - deuda
subtle - sutil
comb - peinilla, peine, peineta
numb - entumecido/a, adormecido, insensible
dumb - tonto/a, estúpido/a
doubt - dudar, duda
womb - útero
lamb - cordero
tomb - tumba, sepulcro

/h/
hour - hora
hourly - una vez por hora
honest - honesto/a
heir / heiress - heredero / heredera
honour - honor
honourable - honorable (dishonourable)

/e/
site
language
ride
note
care
curve

/t/
gourmet
debut

/ed/
stopped
kissed
helped
travelled

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In this episode: News and current affairs Vocabulary

The News (news is an uncountable noun - some news, a piece of news, I have good/bad news)

a newspaper (a paper): National/local paper, Daily paper
What's the difference between a tabloid and a broadsheet?
the gutter press - gutter = alcantarilla, canaleta - newspapers that focus on sensational journalism, usually about the lives of famous people.
phone tapping - pinchazo telefónico
reporter - periodista
headlines - titular, cabecera
foreign correspondent - corresponsal extranjero, corresponsal en el extranjero
anchorman - presentador
foreign, international news / home, national news
editor / editorial
to write a column / to write a piece (blog post)
researcher - investigador, investigadora
journalism - journalist, photo-journalist
articles - artículo
supplements
circulation (readership) - tirada
proof reader - a person who checks for errors
fact checker - a person who makes sure the facts are correct
deadline - fecha límite, fecha tope
to bury the lead -
to cover a story - to report on an event or development
in-depth coverage of something - a thorough analysis of something
to verify - to check that something is correct
eyewitness reports - descriptions of what happened by people who actually saw an event take place
breaking news - news which is just coming in - noticia de última hora
link-bait (wordreference.com: Enlace de Internet "cebo", "anzuelo", destinado a atraer la atención del internauta)
hot off the press - very recent news. It's just happened or it's happening now!

· newsagent (UK) = vendedor/a de periódicos / newsagent's, news-stand = quiosco de prensa
· newsreader (UK) / newscaster (USA) = presentador de noticias
· news item = noticia
· news report / newscast (USA) = programa informativo
newsflash

Recommended resources:

Vocabulary from Lessons 17 and 18 of the Mansion Ingles Intermediate course:
( http://www.mansioningles.com/cursointer/cursointer17_1.htm )
( http://www.mansioningles.com/cursointer/cursointer18_6.htm )

YouTube: bbclearningenglish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOz6GCqXtt0 (striving, offset, revolutionary advances, ambassadors)
The vocabulary seems difficult at first, but Words repeat frequently in news stories.

VOA Learning English: ( https://www.youtube.com/user/VOALearningEnglish )

Listen to the BBC news: ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio ) The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. (On iPlayer)
How many separate news stories do you hear? What are they about? COuntry? City? Problem? Names of people?

The news is a good subject for small talk:

Isn't it terrible what's happening in Syria?
Have you heard how bad the weather is in the UK?
What about Valencia last week? Did you see the game?
Who do you think will win the election?

Where do you tend to get your news from? Blogs? Twitter? TV? Radio? Newspapers? Other people? Mobile phone apps? (BBC, Reuters)
Do you read magazines? Time? Newsweek? The Economist?

What's your opinion on citizen journalism?
citizen journalism - a new expression describing the kind of journalism based on images,
audio and reports sent in to news groups by ordinary members of the public who witnessed events.

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...and now it's your turn to practise your English. How do you get your news? Have you heard any good news lately?
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On next week's episode: Pronunciation | Silent Letters

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Getting Married and Wedding vocabulary - AIRC84

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In this episode: Weddings, getting married and what to say on the Big Day!

Listener Feedback: Rafel
A very interesting episode, but here in Spain we have lost the custom of sending letters or cards. I dont remenber if I've ever sent or received one.
I only find letters from the bank in the letter box with a receipt (bank statement) inside.
But nowadays with the internet people congratulate one another much more with applications such as WHAT'S APP.

(Episode 79 - What to write in greeting cards ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/11/29/what-to-write-in-greeting-cards-airc79/ )
Rafel, there were some mistakes in your email which I have corrected and you can see the correct version in the shownotes at inglespodcast.com/84

Weddings - The Big Day!

to get married TO someone / to marry someone / to get divorced FROM someone
a priest marries you
to be engaged, an engagement party/ring (fiancée - the woman / financé - the man), to pop the question, to get down on one knee (to propose), to make wedding vows (vow = strong promise - juramento)
church / registry offoce (Registro Civil)

People:

priest/minister/justice of the peace: person who legally marries the couple
bride: woman getting married (novia)
groom: man getting married (novio)
best man: groom’s best friend or closest family member (witness to the marriage and person responsible for the ring and stag night (UK) bachelor party (US) (despedida de soltero) - despedida de soltera = hen night
maid of honour: bride’s best friend or closest family member (witness to the marriage)
bridesmaids: other female friends or family members who accompaby the bride
guests /gests)
caterers / barstaff
Newlywed(s) - People who have just married are referred to as "newlyweds."

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Other vocabulary:

reception
to make a speech (not very common at Spanish weddings)
tuxedo - esmoquin
a wedding dress with a veil
honeymoon
carry/throw a bouquet (of flowers)
to walk down the aisle
to get cold feet

How to make small talk at a wedding:

Where should I sit?
How do you know the bride and groom?
Have you tried the caviar? It's delicious!
Which one is the best man?
Would you like some more wine?
Can I get you another glass of champagne?
Pay a compliment: I like your dress, shirt, jacket, necklace. Where did you get it?
Would you mind taking a photo?
What do you think of the music?
I thought the soup was very interesting/different/unusual.
Do you like DANCING? / Would you like TO DANCE?

What to say to the bride and/or groom after the wedding:

Congratulations!
You look stunning. (very beautiful)
You look handsome. (very good looking; say to males)
Your dress is gorgeous/amazing/brathtaking (it takes my breath away).
The food was delicious.
Thank you for inviting us.
We really enjoyed ourselves. / We had a wonderful time.
The wedding was beautiful.
When’s the honeymoon? / Where are you going? (Not XWhere will you goX)

...and now it's your turn to practise your English. We want you to tell us about the last wedding you went to. Who got married? What was it like? Did you enjoy it?
If you are already married, what was your wedding like? What do you remember? If you're planning a wedding, what would be your dream wedding? What's your opinion of wedding? Are they
a waste of money, or the best day of your life?

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On next week's episode: Listening to The News - News and currect affairs vocabulary

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