Lesson Four Section One: News in Brief Tapescript 1. Another American has been kidnapped in West Beirut. Fifty-three-year-old Frank Reed was abducted by four gunmen this morning. Islamic Jihad claimed...
Lesson Three Section One: News in Brief 1. IBM, following the lead of General Motors, announced today it's pulling out of South Africa. Like General Motors, IBM says it's selling its South African hol...
Lesson Two Section One: News in Brief Tapescript 1. Iran's official news agency said today former US National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane and four other Americans were jailed in Tehran for five...
1. Freed American hostage, David Jacobsen, appealed today for the release of the remaining captives in Lebanon, saying, "Those guys are in hell and we've got to get them home." Jacobsen made his remar...
Lesson 38 Learning How to ApologizeWhat are the hardest words to pronounce in English? It seems that I'm sorry are the two most difficult words for most people to say. Perhaps this difficulty lies in the so-called losing of face phrase; when a person...
Lesson 37 The Germanic LanguagesMost people have heard of the Tower of Babel story in the Bible. According to this story, long ago all people spoke the same language. Later, however, they were punished by speaking a great number of different tongues....
Hello, everybody, welcome again to Radio English on Sunday. This is Bruce,/ and this is Peter,/ Welcome back. Today we look at unit thirty six, Vancouver: Asia's Newest City. Mmm, ..read the first paragraph or two, and then we can clear up this unusu...
Hello everyone, welcome again to Radio English on Sunday. This is Bruce,/ and this is Peter. / Today we are on page two hundred ninety seven, unit thirty five. Today we take a look at our hot animal of this book. We've given you a look at some of nat...
Hello everybody, welcome again to Radio English on Sunday. This is Bruce,/ And this is Peter. / Today on page two hundred eighty eight, we take a look at unit thirty four, which is called English small talk topics, what is ok and what is not? Now wai...
again to Radio English on Sunday. This is Bruce,/ and this is Peter. / Today on page two hundred seventy nine, unit thirty three, Peter and I ask you this question: Do you remember your tickets? /.. /I thought you had them. / Me? What ..you got ..tic...