Lori talks about an interesting podcast about the art of business management, where you can listen and learn not only about how to be a great manager, but you can pick up tons of relevant vocabulary about management and human resources.
Lori asks Michael a rather saucy question: do men prefer real or fake breasts on their women? The answer might surprise you…
Michael and Lori discuss the game (sport?) Rock Paper Scissors, and debate whether it involves skill or luck.
Some grammar mistakes are surprisingly frequent even among educated native speakers of English. When it comes to written English, a lot of these mistakes involve words or phrases that sound the same but are spelled differently…One of the most notorious of these grammatical pet peeves is when people write the wrong form of its/it’s. That’s what I will try to help you with today. This may be a bit difficult to follow if you are just listening, so I suggest you go to the betteratenglish.com and have a look at the transcript.
Today’s conversation is between me and my friend Michael. We discuss my annoying neighbor and his habit of playing a very irritating song at very high volume, usually on Friday and Saturday evenings. I’m pretty sure it’s a live version, too, so it’s much longer than the original, thus extending my torture.
My best guess is that he plays it to get himself in the party mood. Here in Sweden, people usually “party” at home, that is,…
Lori and Michael discuss office pranks.
A short vocabulary episode, focusing on the meaning of the phrase BUBBLE SITTER. It’s a fairly new “slang” word in real estate and economy.
Lori gives you a list of listening resources for advanced learners of English.
There’s one annoying jerk in every workplace, isn’t there! Lori and Michael talk about their experiences with annoying coworkers.
To wing it is an idiom that means to improvise, to do something without proper preparation or time to rehearse. People often talk about winging it when they have to do something difficult that they didn’t have time to prepare — like a make speech or give a presentation. They might say something like “Sorry if I seem a bit disorganized, I’m totally winging it.” You tell people that you’re winging it, that you’re improvising, so that they won’t expect too much from you, or so that they will be more forgiving if you make a mistake.
