Televisione - Vocabolario - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English on different types of TV programmes.
Before starting, let me first explain that you’ll be listening to some useful English vocabulary followed by an explanation and an example of how it is used.
So let’s start!

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Televisione - Vocabolario

Questa lezione ti fornirà una panoramica dei programmi TV più seguiti nel Regno Unito Current Events/ News: serious shows about things happening in the world.
Chat Show/Talk show: actors, writers, politicians and others in the public eye are invited to discuss a certain subject.
Breakfast TV: morning programmes combining news and entertainment (infotainment).
Game Show: a show where people have to perform some kind of challenge, sometimes with the help of celebrities.
Quiz show: the contestants are ordinary people who have to answer questions to win a prize.
Nature Shows: shows about the natural world.
Cookery shows: shows where chefs explain how to cook food.
DIY shows: programmes about “do-it-yourself” activities, for example decorating your home or repairing things.
Drama: a serious story told in a number of episodes.
Sitcoms: (situation comedy) funny series about the life of a group of characters.

Turista - Modi di dire - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English quotes from famous travelers.
Before starting, let me first explain that you’ll be listening to some interesting travel quotes, followed by an explanation of their meaning.
So let’s start!

Turista - Modi di dire - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English quotes from famous travelers.
Before starting, let me first explain that you’ll be listening to some interesting travel quotes, followed by an explanation of their meaning.
So let’s start!

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Turista - Modi di dire

Nella lezione di oggi troverai le riflessioni di alcuni grandi personaggi sul significato del viaggio.

“The journey not the arrival matters” (T.S. Elliot)
E’ il viaggio, non l’arrivo, che conta.

“The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” (G.K. Chesterton)
Il viaggiatore vede ciò che vede, il turista vede ciò che è venuto a vedere.

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and I remember more than I have seen.” (B. Disraeli)
Come tutti i grandi viaggiatori, ho visto più di quanto ricordi e ricordo più di quanto abbia visto.

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” (P. Theroux)
I turisti non sanno dove sono stati, i viaggiatori non sanno dove stanno andando.

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” (D.D. Runes)
La gente va in posti lontani per osservare affascinata quelle persone che nel proprio paese ignora.

Ristorante - Lettura - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English on a very unusual restaurant.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful English expressions; you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to information about an under sea restaurant.
So let’s start!

Ristorante - Lettura - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English on a very unusual restaurant.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful English expressions; you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to information about an under sea restaurant.
So let’s start!

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Ristorante - Lettura

Hai ordinato del pesce e uno squalo ti viene vicino nuotando? Non è un’allucinazione! Per saperne di più, leggi la lezione di oggi.

The first all-glass (tutto in vetro) undersea (sottomarino) restaurant in the world has opened its doors for business in the Maldives. ‘Ithaa’ - meaning ‘pearl’ in the language of the Maldives - is located five meters beneath (al di sotto della) the surface (superficie) of the Indian Ocean. Its distinctive feature (tratto) is the use of curved transparent acrylic walls (pareti) and roof (tetto), similar to those used in aquarium attractions, offering diners (clienti) 270-degrees of panoramic underwater views (vedute). At the undersea restaurant diners can experience fine (raffinata) cuisine and be blown away (folgorati) by the colour, clarity, and beauty of the underwater world in the Maldives – without ever getting their feet wet (bagnarsi)! Diners begin their meal (pasto) with drinks on a deck (ponte) over the ocean and then descend to the restaurant via (tramite) a spiral staircase (scala a chiocciola) where the à la carte menu is served. ‘Ithaa’ seats (ha posti a sedere per) only 14 people and offers one of the most intimate and exclusive experiences in the world.
(Adapted from www.hospitalitynet.com)

Cucina - Lessico - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English idioms.
Before starting, let me first explain that you’ll be listening to some English idioms, using food words, followed by an explanation and an example of how they are used.
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Cucina - Lessico - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English idioms.
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Cucina - Lessico

Leggendo la lezione di oggi imparerai alcune espressioni idiomatiche legate alla gastronomia.

If you say that an event or situation is pie in the sky, you mean that it’s almost impossible that it will happen.

Having a woman as Prime Minister in Italy is just a pie-in-the-sky idea at the moment.

We say that something is a piece of cake when we think that it is very easy to do.

Making movies today is a piece of cake. All you need is a digital videocamera and a computer.

When you say that someone or something takes the cake or takes the biscuit, you mean that their behaviour or qualities are very surprising or irritating.

I’ve met a lot of strange people in my life, but Mary’s boyfriend definitely takes the biscuit!

Televisione - Frasario - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English on how to talk about TV programmes.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful phrases you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to two people watching television.
So let’s start!