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Sadness and anger after Museu Nacional fire | Learn English word ‘exempt’
Episode 85
Brazil’s National Museum and most of its 20 million artefacts were destroyed by a devastating fire this month. The collection held priceless artifact…
7 years, 7 months ago
Europe may abolish Daylight Saving Time | Learn English phrase ‘follow suit’
Episode 84
The tradition of changing clocks forward in the spring and backward in the fall to preserve daylight hours in summer dates back to the early 20th Cen…
7 years, 7 months ago
Lula ineligible to repeat as Brazil’s president | Learn English expression ‘in a bind’
Episode 83
Brazil’s embattled ex-president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is currently serving a jail sentence for corruption, is not allowed to run for presid…
7 years, 8 months ago
Is a drink a day healthy? New research says no | Learn English phrase ‘to put stock in’
Episode 82
A new study published in The Lancet medical journal refutes the myth that having a drink a day is healthy: it’s actually not, say researchers. The ne…
7 years, 8 months ago
TV’s ‘The Big Bang Theory’ to end after 12 years | Learn English phrase ‘to bite the dust’
Episode 81
The Big Bang Theory, the longest-running comedy on television and the number-one show in the United States last year, will end after this year. The s…
7 years, 8 months ago
Britain’s EU exit plan is a mess | Learn how to use ‘figure out’
Episode 80
Though the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union over two years ago, there are still major differences between the UK and EU regarding how…
7 years, 8 months ago
Aretha Franklin was the ‘Queen of Soul Music’ | Learn English phrasal verb ‘break out’
Episode 79
Aretha Franklin, a musician whose songs combined themes of feminism, religion, the civil rights movement, and the struggles of being an African Ameri…
7 years, 8 months ago
Implanting a chip in your hand: the new way to pay? | Learn the English phrasal verb ‘show off’
Episode 78
Some brave early-adopters have surgically implanted a microchip in their hands, and are using it to board trains, access their offices, and even pay …
7 years, 8 months ago
Airline employee steals plane, flies, and crash-lands | Learn phrasal verb ‘take off’
Episode 77
A ground employee at the Seattle airport stole an empty airplane, took off, flew it for an hour, and finally crash-landed on an island 40 miles away.…
7 years, 8 months ago
Video shows panic, bad weather in Mexican plane crash | Learn English phrasal verb ‘sum up’
Episode 76
A plane crashed shortly after taking off from the city of Durango, Mexico, but all 103 people on board survived the frightening ordeal. A passenger’s…
7 years, 8 months ago