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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 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...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 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 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 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...2020-10-1304 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...2020-10-1302 min

TRIBUTO 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 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 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 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 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 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 min

TRIBUTO 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 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 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 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 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 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 min