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CONSTELAÇÕES CRÍSTICAS PODCASTEpisódio 276 - ARTÉTIPO COCRIACIONAL II - CONSTELAÇÕES CRÍSTICAS PODCASTE aqui colocamos pra você EXPANSSOR CONSCIENCIAL, mais dicas de como chegar lá. A verdade é uma só, você pode usar um zilhão de técnicas para cocriar realidade, se a sua vibração for ruim, sua missão será bloqueada. Porquê a LEI DE CAUSA E EFEITO funciona matematicamente bem. Então não é sobre só conhecimento avançado, é sobre a vibração da sua alma, estar em consonância com A FONTE, DEUS, O ETERNO, O GRANDE ARQUITETO DO UNIVERSO 🌌 É sobre isso. Tem partícula divina aí? Então ATIVA. Grande abraço de LUZ.
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TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCharlotteCharlotte
Posted by Peter on 26 April 2006
Today I would like to introduce to you a poem by Allan Ahlberg. Allan is a well known writer of poems for children. He used to be a school teacher, and he understands the things that interest children, and also the way that children speak. The poem is called “Talk us through it, Charlotte”, which means “Tell us about it, Charlotte, one bit at a time starting at the beginning.” So Charlotte explains what happened. She went to a football match to watch her brother play. But his team was a man short – they only had 1...
2020-10-1302 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCharlotteCharlotte
Posted by Peter on 26 April 2006
Today I would like to introduce to you a poem by Allan Ahlberg. Allan is a well known writer of poems for children. He used to be a school teacher, and he understands the things that interest children, and also the way that children speak. The poem is called “Talk us through it, Charlotte”, which means “Tell us about it, Charlotte, one bit at a time starting at the beginning.” So Charlotte explains what happened. She went to a football match to watch her brother play. But his team was a man short – they only had 1...
2020-10-1302 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCharity ShopsCharity Shops
Posted by Peter on 3 October 2007
In many towns in England, the main shopping street is called “High Street”. We often use the expression “high street” to mean the main shopping street of any town or suburb, no matter what its real name is. Or we talk about “the high street” to mean shopping facilities generally, particularly shops that people use every day like food shops. So, when a newspaper writes about “high street prices”, for example, they just mean the prices of everyday things that people might buy in high street shops.
And we often complain that high street shops are...
2020-10-1305 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCharity ShopsCharity Shops
Posted by Peter on 3 October 2007
In many towns in England, the main shopping street is called “High Street”. We often use the expression “high street” to mean the main shopping street of any town or suburb, no matter what its real name is. Or we talk about “the high street” to mean shopping facilities generally, particularly shops that people use every day like food shops. So, when a newspaper writes about “high street prices”, for example, they just mean the prices of everyday things that people might buy in high street shops.
And we often complain that high street shops are...
2020-10-1305 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERChanging your nameChanging your name
Posted by Peter on 24 November 2009
Pudsey Bear (the real one!)
Every year the BBC asks its TV viewers to give money to a special appeal called Children in Need. The money is used to help charities which work with sick or disadvantaged children. The last Children in Need day was last Friday. For the whole evening, BBC television had programmes which asked people to give money to Children in Need, and appearances by celebrities who told us about all the wonderful things that Children in Need was doing, and news about special
fund-raising events all over the...
2020-10-1306 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERChanging your nameChanging your name
Posted by Peter on 24 November 2009
Pudsey Bear (the real one!)
Every year the BBC asks its TV viewers to give money to a special appeal called Children in Need. The money is used to help charities which work with sick or disadvantaged children. The last Children in Need day was last Friday. For the whole evening, BBC television had programmes which asked people to give money to Children in Need, and appearances by celebrities who told us about all the wonderful things that Children in Need was doing, and news about special
fund-raising events all over the...
2020-10-1306 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERChanging the timeA summer evening. Will we enjoy them more if we change our time? Photo by WhiteGoldWielder/flickr
Last Sunday, in the early hours of the morning, a whole hour disappeared. It was the beginning of summer time. Every year, at the end of March, we change the time on our clocks and watches. We move the time forward by one hour, so that, for example, 1.00 am becomes 2.00 am. It is light for longer in the summer than in the winter. However, extra daylight early in the morning is not much use to us, because we are still in bed. We...
2020-10-1306 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERChanging the timeA summer evening. Will we enjoy them more if we change our time? Photo by WhiteGoldWielder/flickr
Last Sunday, in the early hours of the morning, a whole hour disappeared. It was the beginning of summer time. Every year, at the end of March, we change the time on our clocks and watches. We move the time forward by one hour, so that, for example, 1.00 am becomes 2.00 am. It is light for longer in the summer than in the winter. However, extra daylight early in the morning is not much use to us, because we are still in bed. We...
2020-10-1306 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCatchCatch
Posted by Peter on 2 March 2010
What a catch! Photo by RXAphoto/Flickr
We are going to catch things in this podcast, and – yes – there will be a new phrasal verb as well – “to catch up with”.
Like many common English verbs, “catch” is irregular. The past tense of “catch” is “caught”. So, I catch, I caught, I have caught.
If you look at the picture on the website, or on your iPod, you will see what “catch” means. Someone has thrown a ball in the air. The little dog has run after the ball. He has jumped in the air with its mouth open. H...
2020-10-1304 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCatchCatch
Posted by Peter on 2 March 2010
What a catch! Photo by RXAphoto/Flickr
We are going to catch things in this podcast, and – yes – there will be a new phrasal verb as well – “to catch up with”.
Like many common English verbs, “catch” is irregular. The past tense of “catch” is “caught”. So, I catch, I caught, I have caught.
If you look at the picture on the website, or on your iPod, you will see what “catch” means. Someone has thrown a ball in the air. The little dog has run after the ball. He has jumped in the air with its mouth open. H...
2020-10-1304 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCasper the Commuting CatCasper the Commuting Cat
Posted by Peter on 18 January 2010
Casper the commuting cat.
Today we meet a cat called Casper, and we learn about the English verb “to commute”.
Let’s start with the verb. “Commute” has an interesting history, because its modern meaning is quite different from its original meaning.
Originally, to “commute” meant to exchange one thing for another. It was a boring word and we used it mainly for technical, financial matters. Imagine that you work for the government’s tax office. Every day you go to work; you write letters, you fill in forms, you calculate how much tax peo...
2020-10-1304 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCasper the Commuting CatCasper the Commuting Cat
Posted by Peter on 18 January 2010
Casper the commuting cat.
Today we meet a cat called Casper, and we learn about the English verb “to commute”.
Let’s start with the verb. “Commute” has an interesting history, because its modern meaning is quite different from its original meaning.
Originally, to “commute” meant to exchange one thing for another. It was a boring word and we used it mainly for technical, financial matters. Imagine that you work for the government’s tax office. Every day you go to work; you write letters, you fill in forms, you calculate how much tax peo...
2020-10-1304 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCarols CoffinsCarols Coffins
Posted by Peter on 21 March 2006
I have another video for you today. It has been made by Carol. She paints coffins. She tells us that she started about ten years ago. People ask her how she GOT INTO painting coffins. She woke up one morning and knew that she wanted to paint coffins for the rest of her life. The first coffin that she painted was her own. She has painted it with her favourite wild flowers (foxgloves, bull rushes, cow parsley), and also a poem by John Keats called “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”. Her coffin has a bu...
2020-10-1302 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCarols CoffinsCarols Coffins
Posted by Peter on 21 March 2006
I have another video for you today. It has been made by Carol. She paints coffins. She tells us that she started about ten years ago. People ask her how she GOT INTO painting coffins. She woke up one morning and knew that she wanted to paint coffins for the rest of her life. The first coffin that she painted was her own. She has painted it with her favourite wild flowers (foxgloves, bull rushes, cow parsley), and also a poem by John Keats called “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”. Her coffin has a bu...
2020-10-1302 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCaptain CalamityCaptain Calamity
Posted by Peter on 20 June 2008
I could not find a picture or Forwick, but here is one of another part of the Shetlands, so that you can see what the landscape looks like. It was taken by tigernuts/flickr
In the past year, we have had two podcasts about English people who have gone to Scotland to do slightly crazy things. We had Andy Strangeway, who has spent a night on every island in Scotland. Then we had Steve Feltham, who has spent the last 17 years looking for the Loch Ness monster. Today we meet Stuart Hill. He...
2020-10-1304 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCans and BottlesCans and Bottles
Posted by Peter on 10 November 2008
A discarded drinks can. Photo by Joanna Young/flickr
There was a story in the newspapers recently about a couple called John and Ann Till. They live near a town called Petersfield in south-east England, and earlier this year they got married. They wanted to go on a honeymoon to the United States after the wedding. The difficulty they had was that it was going to cost too much. They could not afford it. The cost of their air fares, of hotels and travel and car-hire while they were in America – all of...
2020-10-1305 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCans and BottlesCans and Bottles
Posted by Peter on 10 November 2008
A discarded drinks can. Photo by Joanna Young/flickr
There was a story in the newspapers recently about a couple called John and Ann Till. They live near a town called Petersfield in south-east England, and earlier this year they got married. They wanted to go on a honeymoon to the United States after the wedding. The difficulty they had was that it was going to cost too much. They could not afford it. The cost of their air fares, of hotels and travel and car-hire while they were in America – all of...
2020-10-1305 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCannaCanna
Posted by Peter on 8 November 2006
Caroline is eight. And like other eight year olds, she goes to school. But there are no other children at her school. Caroline is the only pupil.
Caroline and her parents live on an island called Canna, which lies off the west coast of Scotland, south-west of Skye. People have lived on Canna for thousands of years. The remains of some of the earliest Christian settlements in Scotland are on Canna. In the early 19th century, over 400 people lived there. Today there are only 15 inhabitants. Their nearest town with shops and other facilities, is...
2020-10-1302 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCannaCanna
Posted by Peter on 8 November 2006
Caroline is eight. And like other eight year olds, she goes to school. But there are no other children at her school. Caroline is the only pupil.
Caroline and her parents live on an island called Canna, which lies off the west coast of Scotland, south-west of Skye. People have lived on Canna for thousands of years. The remains of some of the earliest Christian settlements in Scotland are on Canna. In the early 19th century, over 400 people lived there. Today there are only 15 inhabitants. Their nearest town with shops and other facilities, is...
2020-10-1302 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCanals and narrowboatsCanals and narrowboats
Posted by Peter on 10 June 2009
Canal narrowboats. Photo by welshdan/flickr
In the podcast about Mr Speaker, I told you that I was going on holiday. I said that I would be the captain of a ship and sail away to new and interesting places. So, where did I go on my ship?
Perhaps I sailed across the Atlantic. Perhaps I visited the islands of Greece.
But, no. Actually, my wife and I hired a canal boat and we went for a holiday on one of Britain’s beautiful canals.
We have lots of canals in Britain, es...
2020-10-1306 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCanals and narrowboatsCanals and narrowboats
Posted by Peter on 10 June 2009
Canal narrowboats. Photo by welshdan/flickr
In the podcast about Mr Speaker, I told you that I was going on holiday. I said that I would be the captain of a ship and sail away to new and interesting places. So, where did I go on my ship?
Perhaps I sailed across the Atlantic. Perhaps I visited the islands of Greece.
But, no. Actually, my wife and I hired a canal boat and we went for a holiday on one of Britain’s beautiful canals.
We have lots of canals in Britain, es...
2020-10-1306 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCan you tell the difference?Can you tell the difference?
Posted by Peter on 17 November 2008
An avatar – young, tall and handsome, just like me! Image by Brian Gray/flickr.
Today we visit Second Life, and we learn the English expression “to tell the difference”.
My daughter likes chocolate cake. Last week I made a chocolate cake. I also bought a chocolate cake at the supermarket. I gave my daughter a little piece of each one. “Can you tell the difference?” I asked her. I meant, if you taste both bits of cake, can you say which one is mine and which one is the supermarket’s? So she ta...
2020-10-1305 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERCan you tell the difference?Can you tell the difference?
Posted by Peter on 17 November 2008
An avatar – young, tall and handsome, just like me! Image by Brian Gray/flickr.
Today we visit Second Life, and we learn the English expression “to tell the difference”.
My daughter likes chocolate cake. Last week I made a chocolate cake. I also bought a chocolate cake at the supermarket. I gave my daughter a little piece of each one. “Can you tell the difference?” I asked her. I meant, if you taste both bits of cake, can you say which one is mine and which one is the supermarket’s? So she ta...
2020-10-1305 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBusy, busy, busy...Busy, busy, busy...
Posted by Peter on 10 July 2006
Today’s podcast is about words and phrases which we use to talk about being very busy.
Kevin’s boss wants his staff to prepare a new report. As usual, he wants it straight away. His staff explain that they can’t write the report instantly. So the boss says OK, but he wants it on his desk tomorrow morning. He sets a deadline of 9am – that means, he wants the report to be ready by then.
So Kevin and his colleagues set to work. They rush around trying to find all the mate...
2020-10-1305 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBusy, busy, busy...Busy, busy, busy...
Posted by Peter on 10 July 2006
Today’s podcast is about words and phrases which we use to talk about being very busy.
Kevin’s boss wants his staff to prepare a new report. As usual, he wants it straight away. His staff explain that they can’t write the report instantly. So the boss says OK, but he wants it on his desk tomorrow morning. He sets a deadline of 9am – that means, he wants the report to be ready by then.
So Kevin and his colleagues set to work. They rush around trying to find all the mate...
2020-10-1305 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBumping into PeopleBumping into People
Posted by Peter on 12 January 2006
To bump into something means to collide with something, or to knock against something. But in colloquial speech, it also means to meet someone unexpectedly.
For instance. Today I went to the supermarket. Unfortunately, as I was parking my car, I bumped into a lamp-post. When I went into the supermarket, I bumped into Harry Johnson. I hadn’t seen him for years, so we had a long chat beside the cat food. Now a joke.
A short-sighted man walked into a supermarket. Guess who he bumped into?
EVERYBODY!
2020-10-1301 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBudgetBudget
Posted by Peter on 11 March 2008
On Budget Day 2007, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, leaving 11 Downing Street with the red box containing his budget papers. Gordon Brown is now the Prime Minister. The new Chancellor, Alastair Darling, will take the red box to Parliament later today.
Today we are going to find out about the English word “budget”.
But first, I asked you a question at the end of the last podcast. I told you about the supermarket check-out for people who are buying only a few things. I asked you whether the sign above this checkout shou...
2020-10-1305 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBudgetBudget
Posted by Peter on 11 March 2008
On Budget Day 2007, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, leaving 11 Downing Street with the red box containing his budget papers. Gordon Brown is now the Prime Minister. The new Chancellor, Alastair Darling, will take the red box to Parliament later today.
Today we are going to find out about the English word “budget”.
But first, I asked you a question at the end of the last podcast. I told you about the supermarket check-out for people who are buying only a few things. I asked you whether the sign above this checkout shou...
2020-10-1305 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBrokenBroken
Posted by Peter on 10 November 2006
In our lives we have lots of machines and electrical equipment – things like cars and washing machines, video recorders and mobile phones. Most of the time they work OK. But sometimes they do not. Today’s podcast is about the words we use when something does not work. No, not those sorts of words!. I mean the vocabulary we need to talk about things that don’t work.
So, imagine that you have a washing machine and it doesn’t work. There is water all over the floor and a smell of burnt rubber. What mig...
2020-10-1306 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBrokenBroken
Posted by Peter on 10 November 2006
In our lives we have lots of machines and electrical equipment – things like cars and washing machines, video recorders and mobile phones. Most of the time they work OK. But sometimes they do not. Today’s podcast is about the words we use when something does not work. No, not those sorts of words!. I mean the vocabulary we need to talk about things that don’t work.
So, imagine that you have a washing machine and it doesn’t work. There is water all over the floor and a smell of burnt rubber. What mig...
2020-10-1306 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBritain todayBritain today
Posted by Peter on 1 March 2006
This podcast is about listening to numbers. I have left the numbers out of the written text, so you will have to listen carefully to understand. Send me an e-mail if need help.
What is Britain really like? How do British people really live – when we are not growing giant pumpkins or walking naked from Lands End to John O’Groats.
This is of course a difficult and complicated question. We can find some answers in a book published by the government last week. It is called Social Trends, and it contains statistics on m...
2020-10-1303 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBritain todayBritain today
Posted by Peter on 1 March 2006
This podcast is about listening to numbers. I have left the numbers out of the written text, so you will have to listen carefully to understand. Send me an e-mail if need help.
What is Britain really like? How do British people really live – when we are not growing giant pumpkins or walking naked from Lands End to John O’Groats.
This is of course a difficult and complicated question. We can find some answers in a book published by the government last week. It is called Social Trends, and it contains statistics on m...
2020-10-1303 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBreak upBreak up
Posted by Peter on 21 July 2008
This car is being broken up in a scrap yard. Photo by Olly Clark/flickr
There is an English phrasal verb “to break up”. It means to break into pieces. Here are some examples of ways in which we can use it.
Imagine a storm at sea. The wind and the waves drive a ship onto the rocks. The waves smash the ship into pieces. The ship breaks up.
Or, think about the great ice sheets in the Arctic and the Antarctic. Many scientists say that, because the world’s climate is getting warmer...
2020-10-1306 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBreak upBreak up
Posted by Peter on 21 July 2008
This car is being broken up in a scrap yard. Photo by Olly Clark/flickr
There is an English phrasal verb “to break up”. It means to break into pieces. Here are some examples of ways in which we can use it.
Imagine a storm at sea. The wind and the waves drive a ship onto the rocks. The waves smash the ship into pieces. The ship breaks up.
Or, think about the great ice sheets in the Arctic and the Antarctic. Many scientists say that, because the world’s climate is getting warmer...
2020-10-1306 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBootifull!Bootifull!
Posted by Peter on 30 November 2010
Bernard Matthews. Great Witchingham Hall, his first turkey farm, is in the background.
This podcast is about turkeys. I don’t mean the country Turkey, of course. I mean the big birds that many people eat at Christmas. There is a picture on the website if you want to know what a turkey looks like.
A few days ago, the newspapers reported that a man named Bernard Matthews had died. He was 80 years old, and he was the biggest turkey farmer in Britain, and possibly in the world.
There is an English expression “a self...
2020-10-1305 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBootifull!Bootifull!
Posted by Peter on 30 November 2010
Bernard Matthews. Great Witchingham Hall, his first turkey farm, is in the background.
This podcast is about turkeys. I don’t mean the country Turkey, of course. I mean the big birds that many people eat at Christmas. There is a picture on the website if you want to know what a turkey looks like.
A few days ago, the newspapers reported that a man named Bernard Matthews had died. He was 80 years old, and he was the biggest turkey farmer in Britain, and possibly in the world.
There is an English expression “a self...
2020-10-1305 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBlessedBlessed
Posted by Peter on 15 June 2007
In a podcast last week, I talked about a pop group called the Zimmers. The Zimmers are all elderly people, who want to show the world that old people can be fun and creative. A few days ago I found a short poem about being old. It is by Barbara Beuler Wegner, but I am afraid that I have not been able to find out anything more either about the poem or about the writer. Here it is:
Blessed are they who understand My faltering steps and shaking hand.
Blessed are those who know...
2020-10-1303 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBlessedBlessed
Posted by Peter on 15 June 2007
In a podcast last week, I talked about a pop group called the Zimmers. The Zimmers are all elderly people, who want to show the world that old people can be fun and creative. A few days ago I found a short poem about being old. It is by Barbara Beuler Wegner, but I am afraid that I have not been able to find out anything more either about the poem or about the writer. Here it is:
Blessed are they who understand My faltering steps and shaking hand.
Blessed are those who know...
2020-10-1303 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBlack Jumper DayBlack Jumper Day
Posted by Peter on 1 June 2009
A black jumper shows everyone that you are big and important!
Today, I will tell you about “black jumper day” , and we will meet the English expression “to leave for” somewhere.
In a podcast a very long time ago, in November 2006, I told you that most English children wear a school uniform to go to school. My daughter, who is 15 years old, goes to a girls secondary school. [Sorry – I say “11 years old” in the podcast, but this is wrong. It should be “15 years old”]. She has to wear a dark green skirt or trousers...
2020-10-1304 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBirmingham Town HallBirmingham Town Hall
Posted by Peter on 4 October 2007
I think you know by now that I live in Birmingham, which is the second largest city in England, after London. Birmingham is not an old city. It does not have ruins from Roman times, or a castle, or a mediaeval cathedral. Two hundred and fifty years ago, Birmingham was just a village. But then came the industrial revolution. Little Birmingham became a centre of the new metal and engineering industries. The town grew and grew, and by about 1830, 160,000 people lived here. Leading Birmingham citizens began to think that the new town...
2020-10-1306 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBig MacBig Mac
Posted by Peter on 24 May 2007
After my last podcast, I am sure that many of you have applied for jobs as spies for the British Secret Intelligence Service. But what will you do if they say no? If they say that they don’t want you; they have enough spies already; and they don’t think you would be very good at spying anyway?
Well, in most big cities nowdays, you can get a job in McDonalds, the chain of fast-food restaurants. You can make and sell burgers and chips (or “French fries” as the Americans call them). You can...
2020-10-1307 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBewareBeware
Posted by Peter on 11 November 2010
Beware of the cat! Photo by Enrique Mendez/flickr. Today’s podcast is about taking care!
I want you to imagine that you are visiting England. You and some friends decide to go for a walk in the country. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and all is right with the world. You walk through a pretty village, and then through a wood. You climb over a fence into a big field. “This would be a good place for a picnic,” you say. So you sit down on the grass under a tree...
2020-10-1304 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBetterBetter
Posted by Peter on 14 July 2008
Better buses, better service, better catch one
I am sorry that there was no podcast last week. I was unwell. But now I am better. That means, I am not unwell any more. I have recovered. I am better.
And today’s podcast is about the word “better”. “Better” is of course the comparative form of the adjective “good”. Good – better- best. We can say: “This is a good restaurant. But the restaurant over the road is better. And the restaurant round the corner is the best restaurant in the town.” We can use “better” in other ways...
2020-10-1303 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBanksyBanksy
Posted by Peter on 8 May 2007
In the podcast “In Disgrace”, I used the word “graffiti”. Do you know what it means? It is an Italian word, which has come into English. It means “things which are written” generally on an outside wall, or on some other public surface such as the side of a bus or a train. Graffiti became a big problem in British cities when shops started to sell aerosol cans of spray paint. With spray paint, it is quick and easy to cover a whole wall with a picture or writing. Many people say that graffiti make our tow...
2020-10-1305 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERBank HolidayWe go to the seaside. We sit on the sand and eat ice-cream…. Photo by crunchcandy/flickr
Irene, who lives in Germany, is a regular listener to these podcasts. She has sent me an e-mail to suggest that I make a podcast about “bank holidays” in England and the way that we celebrate them.
Most countries have public holidays at various times of the year – that means, days when schools, offices and many businesses are closed, so that most people do not have to go to work. In England, our public holidays have the rather strange name “bank holidays”. The name comes...
2020-10-1303 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAt the SupermarketI am in my local supermarket. I am here to do some shopping. You are here to practice the English names of fruit and vegetables.
During the winter, there are only a few English grown vegetables in the shops. The main ones are potatoes, carrots, leeks, onions, parsnips and cabbage. But we can of course buy many other vegetables which have been imported from warmer countries around the Mediterranean. For example, we have tomatoes and courgettes from Spain, French beans from Egypt, sweetcorn from Italy and avocado pears from Tunisia. Most of our salad vegetables, such as lettuce, are also...
2019-12-0302 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAt the SeasideWelcome back. I hope you had a good summer. I hope too that you like the redesign of the web-site.
Where do British families go for a summer holiday? Nowdays, of course, many families fly to Spain or Greece or Florida, or to more exotic places. But the traditional British family holiday is a seaside holiday – a week (or, if you are really brave, a fortnight) in a caravan or a cottage or a small hotel close to one of the beautiful beaches around the British coast. Here are some of the things you can do on a seaside holiday:
>> pa...
2019-12-0301 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERArtsFestArtsFest is an arts festival – I think you guessed that! It takes place here in Birmingham every year at the beginning of September. It as a free festival – you do not have to pay to go to any of the concerts, performances or exhibitions in Artsfest. In fact, ArtsFest is the biggest free arts festival in Britain.
ArtsFest is specifically for the arts in Birmingham and the towns around it. Of course, the big local arts organisations such as the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Birmingham Royal Ballet and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra all took part. But so did hund...
2019-12-0302 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAre you worth it?No, I won’t wake up. It isn’t worth it!
Today, we meet the English word “worth”, and a famous cosmetics company that tells us that we are “worth it”.
“Worth” means simply the value that something has. Sometimes we use it in a literal way, to mean “how much money would people pay?” But often we use it figuratively, to mean “how much time and effort and energy would people pay?” Here are some examples:
Kevin is, as I am sure you know, a fan of the loudest punk rock group in the world “Futile Vendetta”. He has all their records and CDs. H...
2019-12-0305 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAre you hurtTo hurt someone normally means to cause them pain, for example by hitting them.
But it can also mean to offend someone, to hurt their feelings. In the last episode, Kevin complained about Joanne’s mother coming to lunch. Joanne was hurt – Kevin had hurt her feelings.
Here is Alastair. He has a joke about two old women visiting a fair.
Hilda and Marjorie went to the fair. They had a ride on a roundabout, and threw balls at the coconuts (but they didn’t win anything). Then they saw the big wheel. They saw people getting into little cabins at the...
2019-12-0303 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAre you a HobbitAre you less than 170cm tall? Do you have hairy feet and toes? You do? Then there may be a job for you.
Let me explain. You have probably heard of the writer JRR Tolkien. He wrote the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and a number of other books. His books have been translated from English into many other languages. Perhaps you have read some of them. Or perhaps you have seen the Lord of the Rings films, or played Lord of the Rings computer games.
Over four years ago, theatre producer Kevin Wallace decided to turn Lord of...
2019-12-0302 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERApril Fools DayToday is the first of April. The first of April is traditionally called All Fools Day, or April Fools Day. It
is a day for mischief, or playing tricks on people; and for getting people to believe things which are not true.
Today is the 50th Anniversary of one of the most famous April Fools Day tricks. It was 1957. BBC television had a weekly documentary programme called Panorama. Panorama was a serious and respected programme, reporting on news events around the world. On 1 April, Panorama included a report about the problems facing spaghetti farmers in Switzerland. There were pictures of...
2019-12-0304 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAmy comes to BirminghamToday, Listen to English visits the world of British pop music.
I started by doing some research. “Who is Amy Winehouse?” I asked my children. There was silence. The children sighed and rolled their eyes. It is very embarrassing for them to have a parent who asks them silly questions about pop music – questions like “Who is Amy Winehouse?”. Parents are allowed to like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but they are not allowed to know anything that happened later than about 1990. That is for the younger generation. Parents should keep out.
So I asked them again, “Who is Amy Winehous...
2019-12-0305 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAll's Well That Ends WellDisappointed. Fed up. Let down. Stood up. Photo by teapic/flickr.
There is a well-known line in Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” which goes, “The course of true love never did run smooth”. It means that when you fall in love, there are always complications, and accidents and difficulties. That is the theme of today’s podcast. And there are plenty of phrasal verbs as well, and there is a separate Grammar and Vocabulary note to explain some of them.
Kevin and Joanne invite about 20 friends to a party. Among the guests are Jimmy and Carole. They have never met...
2019-12-0306 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAll about youIn this podcast I use words which are useful when we talk about numbers, especially when we want to talk about the information that numbers give us. The podcast is also about you, my listeners, because I know quite a lot about you.
How do I know about you? Well, to start with, my podcast software tells me how many times you download each podcast. You download most episodes over 7000 times. The great majority (about 90%) of you download podcasts using iTunes or another podcatcher programme.
On the podcast website (http://www.listen-to-english.com/) there is a little button marked Site...
2019-12-0303 minTRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAlfred Brendel Calls TimeAlfred Brendel
Last November, the Guardian newspaper contained an article. This was the headline. “Alfred Brendel, piano maestro, calls time on concert career.”
What does it mean?
Well, you may already know about Alfred Brendel. He is a pianist, or a “piano maestro” as the Guardian headline calls him. He is famous for his playing of works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. We shall talk more about him in a minute.
But what does “call time” mean? Until about 30 years ago, there were strict laws in Britain about when pubs could open. Generally, all pubs had to close at 10.30 in the eveni...
2019-12-0305 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAgo, for and since, and why it is a good idea to learn FrenchAgo, for and since, and why it is a good idea to learn French.
Posted by Peter on 13 June 2007
Many English learners find that they get confused between words like “ago”, “since” and “for”. Today’s podcast gives you lots of examples of how to use these words; I hope it will help you to use them correctly.
Suppose that we want to talk about when we did something, or when something happened. We can use the word “ago”. We can say, for example, “it happened two weeks ago” or “a year ago” or “five minutes ago” or “a long time ago”. With “ago” we always...
2019-11-1306 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERA Long Cold WalkA Long Cold Walk
Posted by Peter on 26 February 2006
Lands End is the name of a headland in the far south west of England. John O’Groats is the most northerly place on the mainland of Scotland. The distance from Lands End to John O’Groats is 874 miles, or 1398 kilometers. Lands End and John O’Groats are further apart than any two other places in mainland Britain. Some people regard this as a challenge. They travel from Lands End to John O’Groats (or the other way round) in all sorts of ways – by bicycle, on foot, by bus, wearing a gorilla...
2019-11-1302 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAfraidAfraid
Posted by Peter on 21 June 2006
You know what “afraid” means, don’t you? If I am afraid, I am frightened or scared. If I am very afraid, I could say that I am terrified.
When we want to talk about the thing that makes us afraid, we say “afraid of”. Some people are afraid of flying in aeroplanes. Some little children are afraid of the dark. My daughter is afraid of spiders.
Sometimes, however, we use the word “afraid” in a different way. We use it when we have to tell someone something which is unpleasant or unwelcome or upsetting to t...
2019-11-1305 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAbout to...About to...
Posted by Peter on 1 May 2007
You know how to talk about the future in English. You use words like “will” or “shall” or “going to”.
In English, we also have a way of talking about things which are in the future but very close to the present – perhaps ony a few minutes into the future. We use the expression “about to”, like this: Kevin and Joanne are going to Spain for a holiday. They have packed their suitcases and bought some euros. Now they are waiting by the door for the taxi to come and take them to the airport.
They...
2019-11-1303 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERAberfanAberfan
Posted by Peter on 22 October 2006
At 9.25am on Friday 21 October 1966, the police officer on duty at Merthyr Tydfyl police station in South Wales answered a telephone call. “I have been asked to inform you that there has been a landslide”, said the caller. “The tip has come down on the school.”
To understand this story, you need to know that South Wales used to be a very important coalmining area. The mines in South Wales produced steam coal, which was used to fire boilers in ships and factories, and anthracite, which is a very high quality coal used for heating...
2019-11-1303 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERA wet summer, and the Olympic GamesA wet summer, and the Olympic Games
Posted by Peter on 10 September 2008
The summer holidays are over. People have returned to work. The children are back at school. And this is my first podcast since July.
So, what sort of summer has it been in Britain? Let’s start with the bad news. Our economy is in big difficulties. Prices are rising, especially prices for food. Petrol prices are now so high that people are using their cars less, and trains and buses more. Holidays abroad are now much more expensive, because the British pound has fallen in value. Our ec...
2019-11-1303 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERA Weekend in WalesA Weekend in Wales
Posted by Peter on 20 October 2006
I am sorry about the problems that some of you had last weekend in downloading new episodes of Listen to English. We have now fixed the problem, and I hope you will have no more difficulties. Today’s podcast is about the expressions “I had better do (something)”, “or else” and “otherwise”. There is a grammar and vocabulary note as well. If you are listening on iTunes, you will need to visit the website to see it.
Kevin and Joanne have friends, John and Sue, who live in a rural part of Wales. They...
2019-11-1303 min
TRIBUTO A PETER CARTERA Nice Cup of TeaA Nice Cup of Tea
Posted by Peter on 8 April 2011
A nice cup of tea. Photo by James Shade/flickr
That was Miss Binnie Hale, singing a song called ‘A Nice Cup of Tea’, which she recorded 70 years ago, in 1941.
We British love tea. We drink more tea per head of population than any other country in the world, except for Ireland. If you go to the Tea Council website, you will see a counter at the top of the page which shows how many cups of tea we have drunk so far today. By the end of the day, the...
2019-11-1308 min
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