Podcasts This Week (April 25, 2011) Accelerated Learning Resources

Podcasts This Week (April 25, 2011)

ON MONDAY ESL Podcast 680 – Recognizing an Unsung Hero In the Learning Guide: Get a full transcript (written version of every word you hear), vocabulary list and sample sentences, and comprehension questions. In What Else Does it Mean, learn the other meanings of to fool and to be sunk. In the Culture Note, learn about Employee Recognition Programs. Companies often try to improve employee “morale” (the way a group of people feel) and “motivate” (encourage someone to do something) them by having employee recognition programs for employees who are doing their job very well

ON WEDNESDAY English Cafe 291 Topics: Ask an American: Artists as ambassadors; log versus timber versus lumber; tag questions; to bump into (someone/something)

In the Learning Guide: Get a full transcript (written version of every word you hear). In What Insiders Know, you will read about Shepard Fairey and the Hope Poster Controversy. In 2008, an artist named Shepard Fairey created a “poster” (a large piece of paper with images and/or words hung on a wall) with an image of “then-presidential candidate” (a person who was running for election as president at that time) Barack Obama

ON FRIDAY ESL Podcast 681 – Disagreeing about Religion

In the Learning Guide: Get a full transcript (written version of every word you hear), vocabulary list and sample sentences, and comprehension questions. In What Else Does it Mean, learn the other meanings of to bait (someone and faith. In the Culture Note, learn about Religions in the United States. The United States was the first country to not have an official “state-sponsored” (supported by the state) religion. The First “Amendment” (official change) to the U.S. “Constitution” (the most powerful law in the country) is part of the

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