by Alan Robert | Feb 27, 2023 | Podcast Lessons
Last week’s podcast covered the controversy surrounding the French government’s plan to raise the statutory retirement age. In today’s vocabulary lesson, we will discuss the challenges that China is facing due to its shrinking population. In a recent...
by Alan Robert | Mar 8, 2022 | Podcast Lessons
Let’s begin the lesson by introducing our key vocabulary. You will hear these words used later in the news summary, and I’ll repeat them to you one last time at the end. Listen closely: VOCABULARY Spike: To increase suddenly and sharply. To spike. You can also say “ a...
by Alan Robert | Jul 19, 2021 | Podcast Lessons
This is podcast number three, and today our topic is solid waste management, and by solid waste I mean garbage –– refuse ––trash! We, humans, produce a lot of solid waste — far too much in fact –– and that creates all kinds of problems for society, and for our...