[单词大师] 第338课:Teacher Sees 'Big Push' to Promote English as a Foreig 日期:2010-06-25 16:34:43 点击:116 好评:2
AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: meet an English teacher in the United Arab Emirates. She stopped by the VOA Special English booth at the recent TESOL convention, for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. It took place i...
[单词大师] 第337课:To Catch On to Phrasal Verbs, It Helps to Hook Up With 日期:2010-06-25 16:34:06 点击:49 好评:0
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- English teacher Lida Baker joins us from Los Angeles to talk about phrasal verbs. RS: The first word is a verb. The second word, sometimes even a third, is usually a preposition...
[单词大师] 第336课:Hunting for the Snark in Sarcasm and Anonymous Express 日期:2010-06-25 16:33:34 点击:33 好评:0
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER, we talk with David Denby. He's a film critic for the New Yorker magazine and author of a new book. In it, he attacks a form of expression used increasingly in public discourse in...
[单词大师] 第335课:Recession Spawns an Expanding Lexicon for a Shrinking 日期:2010-06-25 16:32:53 点击:29 好评:0
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: terms from the recession. Dictionary editor Ben Zimmer is back with us. And it sounds like he's going to start with a popular term these days, shovel-ready. (Sound of shoveling) B...
[单词大师] 第334课:Moving Beyond 'It's This or It's This' in Discussing C 日期:2010-06-25 16:32:25 点击:22 好评:0
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more of our conversation with Kelly Maxwell, co-director of the Program on Intergroup Relations at the University of Michigan. The program centers on a class called Intergroup Dia...
[单词大师] 第333课:Teaching Students How to Use Dialogue to Bridge Social 日期:2010-06-25 16:31:57 点击:53 好评:0
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we talk with Kelly Maxwell, co-director of the Program on Intergroup Relations at the University of Michigan. The program began about twenty years ago as a way to promote dialogue...
[单词大师] 第332课:Wanna, Gonna, Hafta: Getting Relaxed With Reduced Form 日期:2010-06-25 16:31:22 点击:27 好评:0
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: reduced forms in spoken American English. RS: We're talking about forms like whaddaya -- meaning what do you, as in whaddaya say? Whaddaya Say? is also the title of a popular teac...
[单词大师] 第331课:US Hospitals, Courts Struggle With Growing Demand for 日期:2010-06-25 16:30:36 点击:28 好评:0
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on WORDMASTER: we look at the growing need for interpreters in American hospitals and courts ... RS: And how technology is addressing shortages. AA: We start with health care. Faith Lapidus has o...
[单词大师] 第330课:A Prenup: The Legal Language of Love for Couples About 日期:2010-06-25 16:29:52 点击:54 好评:0
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: What does prenup mean? That's a question from listener Muhammad Ali in Karachi, Pakistan. RS: A prenup is a prenuptial agreement, a contract between two people before they marry a...
[单词大师] 第329课:Words of Comfort for an Unfortunate Event Other Than a 日期:2010-06-25 16:29:14 点击:42 好评:0
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more advice about expressions of sympathy. RS: Last month, English teacher Lida Baker talked about things to say. Now we move on to writing. LIDA BAKER: I think if you're writing...
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