The ESLPod Blog (page 136)
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Podcasts This Week (February 20, 2012)
ON MONDAY ESL Podcast 766 – Describing Shapes and Sizes
- Life in the United States
School Music Programs
I recently read an article that got me thinking about my elementary, junior high, and high school days. An article in the Los Angeles Times reported on a rash of (many instances of something…
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Podcasts This Week (February 13, 2012)
ON MONDAY ESL Podcast 764 – Being Unsure and Unready
- Life in the United States
Not Your Ordinary Dog*
I’m a dog guy. I mean, I like dogs. Always have, probably always will. I got my first dog when I was two or three years old. If you count the dogs our children have had while they were living at…
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Podcasts This Week (February 6, 2012)
ON MONDAY ESL Podcast 762 – Eating a Family Dinner
- Life in the United States
Murals in Peril*
Coit Tower isn’t very tall – only 210 feet (64 m). In fact, it’s short compared to some of the other buildings on the San Francisco skyline (the shape made by hills and buildings against the sky).…
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Podcasts This Week (January 23, 2012)
ON MONDAY ESL Podcast 758 – Showing Off a New Purchase
- Life in the United States
Big Shot
A big shot is an informal adjective to describe an important person in an organization. When we say “big” we don’t mean they are physically big or tall. But some new research suggests that people who…
- Life in the United States
Shanghai Blues
In some ways it was an unusual musical event. In 2009, popular young Chinese pianist (a person who plays the piano) Lang Lang joined Herbie Hancock, an African American jazz pianist, and the…
