英语访谈对话 391 The Neighborhood
Todd: OK, Keith, we're back here in the city. I'm going to ask you some questions about where you live. First, is there a libray by your house? Keith: No, no libraries near me. Todd: No, that's too bad. Do you like to read? Keith: Sure, I love to rea
英语访谈对话 392 Thailand and America
Thailand is so different from where I used to live in America. First of all, in my neighborhood there are many stray dogs, dogs with no home. During the day, they lay around and sleep and at night they fight and make a lot of noise barking and howlin
英语访谈对话 393 April Fools Day
April 1st is an unofficial holiday in the United States called April Fool's day. In the past, April 1st used to be celebrated as the New Year. And then in the year, I think, 1592, or something like that, the official New Year was changed to January 1
英语访谈对话 394 Video Games
I can't remember what this toy was called but I had this very interesting, basically it was, like a robot car you could program in how forward you wanted it to go and then, when it would stop and after it would stopped, if it was going to make a righ
英语访谈对话 395 The Prank
When I was in elementary school, in the 1980's teacher's used to use film projectors so they would put the, they'd put the film reals on the projector and it always took them a long time. It seems like there were always technical difficulties, just l
英语访谈对话 396 Classroom Technology
Everyone talks about how kids these days use technology much more than in the past, but when I think back to my childhood, I remember how technology was a huge part of my life. The first thing is the cassette tape, especially when I was in high schoo
英语访谈对话 397 Easter Sunday
Easter is a holiday celebrated in March on the Sunday after the full moon, or on the Sunday after the first day of spring which I think is March 23rd. So it would be the Sunday after March 23rd. Easter is a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrect
英语访谈对话 399 The Crash
We have a lot of great ski areas in Colorado so I started skiing at a very early age. I think I was about 5 or 6 years old when I began and one time I went up the chair lift and on the first run down in the morning I was skiing on a pretty icy sectio
英语访谈对话 400 The Injury
I ended up in the hospital once after a baseball practice. What happened was, I was on first base trying to run to second base, as you might know in baseball that's called stealing a base, so as I was stealing second base I tried to slide and rather
英语访谈对话 401 Movie Review
Todd: Howard, you said you saw the movie The Aviator. Howard: Ah, yes, with Leonardo DiCaprio. Todd: OK. What is the movie about? Howard: Well, The Aviator refers to the character, Howard Hughes. Todd: OK, who was Howard Hughes? Howard: Well, Howard
英语访谈对话 402 Home Vacation
OK, now I'll talk about my winter vacation. This winter vacation I spent two weeks in my hometown which is Daytona Beach, Florida. It was wonderful. The weather was warm every day. It was sunny every day and the temperature was almost 80 degrees. I v
英语访谈对话 403 Aussie Animals
There are many dangerous animals in Australia like the crocodile for example. When I was in Australia I saw many crocodiles when I was in the north and they did look very scary with their big jaws and lots of teeth. It was quite scary. We saw them fr
英语访谈对话 404 Ireland
I come from Ireland. It's a small country in the west of Europe. It's just next to the United Kingdom. The Irish flag has three colors: green, white and orange. You often see the Irish flag above important buildings like the government building, or t
英语访谈对话 405 Australia
The Australian flag has the Union Jack in the top left-hand corner. The rest of the flag is dark blue and then it has six white stars on it. I think they represent six different states in Australia, but I'm not really sure. My favorite city in Austra
英语访谈对话 406 Knitting
When I was a little girl, I used to knit all the time. I used to knit jumpers and hats and scarves. I even used to knit little dolls sometimes: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for example. When you knit with two needles you can put the thread or the
