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As the United States presidential inauguration ceremony has just been held I thought I would make an English listening for you about this topic. You may have seen in the news that Donald Trump has left the White House and Joe Biden has taken his position as the 46th President of the USA. This episode is about the events that happened.
"Chilling" is a word that native English speakers use a lot so today I wanted to talk about different ways to chill so you can get used to how to use this vocabulary.
As we will all need to be staying at home for a while longer yet due to the coronavirus I thought I would introduce what I think is the best strategy for learning English in the new year.
As we have started a new year I thought in this episode I would talk a bit about the big events that happened in 2020. To help me remember what happened I used this article: https://nypost.com/list/major-2020-events/
As it's Christmas soon I made an extra long episode for you to improve your listening skills before the new year! I talked about Christmas traditions in the UK, the USA, and other countries - mostly about food! Christmas movie recommendations at the end! (the YouTube version of this episode has pictures)
If you want to increase your vocabulary and understanding of politics in English check out this guide! If you can't become the president, you'll at least improve your English!
There are many English idioms that contain numbers so in this episode I wanted to introduce some common phrases. Check the YouTube version (link in podcast description) to see the phrases written out.
Many English idioms use the words "up" and "down" so in this episode I wanted to introduce some that you need to know to understand native English speakers. (Phrases written on YouTube version).
(I recommend watching the YouTube version first of this one as I am pointing at things as I talk about them and it might be a bit confusing as a podcast episode.) We're moving soon and have to prepare our new kitchen so I thought I'd introduce some kitchen vocabulary.