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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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago
Stunning McDonald’s Monopoly scam to be a movie | Learn English phrase ‘at random’
Episode 75
The McDonald’s Monopoly game—the fast-food chain’s most popular promotion—was scammed for over ten years by one man and a small group of associates, …
7 years, 10 months ago
Video shows Amazon man living with no human contact | How to use ‘much less’ in English
Episode 74
The government of Brazil released a video of a lone indigenous man surviving in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. He was part of an “uncontacted tribe…
7 years, 10 months ago
Fires leave a Greek seaside town in ashes | Learn English phrase ‘flat-footed’
Episode 73
Greece faced its most devastating tragedy in over a decade when a wildfire swept through a seaside town, killing 80 people; destroying 1,500 homes; a…
7 years, 10 months ago
Study says we stop discovering new music at age 28 | Learn the English phrasal verb ‘settle in’
Episode 72
Recent studies by music streaming services Deezer and Spotify have found that most people reach an age of “musical paralysis.” Younger listeners tend…
7 years, 10 months ago
Rome’s new subway unearths ancient treasures | Learn a new way to use the English word ‘twist’
Episode 71
Rome is building a new subway and archaeologists keep finding hidden treasures buried deep beneath the city. The artifacts range from small tiles and…
7 years, 10 months ago
Kitchen robots can now prepare your meals from scratch | Learn English phrase, ‘brace yourself’
Episode 70
Several companies are developing robots to automatically prepare restaurant meals. One California restaurant has a machine that makes a burger start-…
7 years, 11 months ago