113: Getting to know more about the Tour de France
The Tour de France is the world’s premier cycling race. It traces a route – ‘la Grande Boucle’ – through France and certain stages – des ‘étapes’ – are sometimes organised in neighbouring countries. I...
15 Aug 200813min
112: Large numbers and dates
One of our listeners in the U.S. asked if we would create a lesson focusing on larger numbers, for example those found in dates, and so on. That’s the subject of this lesson, lesson 112. We’ll start w...
28 Jul 200818min
111: "What about the Irish who voted 'No' to the Lisbon Treaty?"
In this lesson, lesson 111, we discuss the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by Irish voters. An event which dominated current affairs in Europe recently. This very complicated document, aimed at facilit...
2 Jul 200823min
110: "The race to the White House has truly begun!"
The real race to the White House has begun, after a gruelling campaign for the Democrats. For now Hillary Clinton is out of the picture, leaving Barack Obama and John McCain to slug it out. In this le...
25 Jun 200817min
109: "The price of oil is going through the roof!"
In this lesson, lesson 109, our conversation centres on oil and, more significantly, the spiralling price of oil. Let's discover some of the vocabulary we'll need in order to talk about prices that ar...
18 Jun 200820min
108: How to say 'my', 'your', 'his', 'her'...
In this Beginner lesson, lesson 108, we talk about possessive adjectives, that is, words like ‘my’, ‘your’ and ‘his’ in English. We'll discover that, like regular adjectives, possessive adjectives als...
13 Jun 200810min
107: "Were you watching Roland Garros?"
Kaleema, one of our listeners in the U.S. asked if we would talk a little about tennis and Roland Garros. That’s the topic for today’s lesson. We’re coming to the end of the 2008 tournament : let’s se...
7 Jun 200822min
106: "Do you know the Dordogne?"
The subject we will deal with in this lesson was suggested to us by Maureen, one of our listeners in Australia. This year, Maureen will forsake city life for a holiday in the countryside, in the Dordo...
6 Jun 200816min
