Learning Through Conversation

Lord of the lip

For the past week I have taken up residence in England, specifically in Castle Thornbury which you can see behind me. Having been surrounded by so much beauty I've indulged in a great many of the traditional English extra-curricula activities including archery, fencing, swashbuckling and the occasion..
Jul 02,2015

The Eagle has landed

On 20th July 1969 about 600 million people watched and listened to the moon landing. I can remember the feelings of watching it on television. The amazement of seeing this thing happening millions of miles away and you could see it in your own sitting room. It was incredible...
Jul 02,2015

Los 33

33 miners, 69 days. The San José mine has been the focus of a global news story for over two months. But what about the miners? For this week's podcastsinenglish.com we're looking at the physical and mental consequences of that event...
Jul 02,2015

The long-distance runner extra

When I was at school I always enjoyed running anyway and then I stopped for a few years but then in the early 1980's there was quite a big boom.....
Jul 02,2015

The long-distance runner

I sat on the settee at home and I watched in 1993, I watched the marathon and I said to my husband, “I'd really like to do a marathon”. So I applied and I... fortunate enough to be accepted so throughout that whole year I gradually increased the amount of miles I was running each week so through ..
Jul 02,2015

The big mac

Well, the… the special thing about this Macintosh um… was it was the first computer, the first personal computer, to feature a mouse. And I remember being taught how to use the mouse and it was very innovative at that time...
Jul 02,2015

London Olympics extra

Well, this is the biggest ever security operation in peacetime UK. It's involving all members of the armed services from the special operations, the SAS, and the navy's biggest warship is going to be moored in the Thames and there's restriction on airspace...
Jul 02,2015

London Olympics

Well, I think that leads nicely into the legacy actually Richard because the Olympic Stadium, the Olympic Park, is based in the East End of London which is, traditionally, a hard-up area, it's a poorer area of London and one of the things that they said was, we will regenerate this area. There is a n..
Jul 02,2015

Trial by jury

For us it's interesting that the Oscar Pistorius case will not have a jury and the reason that the politician's wife is hitting the headlines is because the jury recently couldn't reach a verdict and they're having to do a whole retrial...
Jul 02,2015

Ironman!

So a triathlon involves swimming followed by a cycle and then a run. And the swim, the cycle and the run can vary in length depending on the race so there’s varying different lengths of triathlons...
Jul 02,2015