by Alan Robert | Mar 22, 2023 | Podcast Lessons
In this episode, we will be discussing an article published on March 16th in the Economist Magazine, titled “Is the global investment boom turning to bust?” The article describes how companies worldwide are scaling back their investments due to various...
by Alan Robert | Mar 7, 2023 | Podcast Lessons
In this episode, we will be discussing an article recently published in The New York Times titled “Is the Entire Economy Gentrifying?” Listen again: Is the Entire Economy Gentrifying?” While gentrification (gentrifying) is often used in the context of...
by Alan Robert | Feb 7, 2023 | Podcast Lessons
Today, we’ll be discussing the trend of companies transferring their operations to nearby countries, because of geopolitical reasons, or because of recent disruptions in the global supply chain, like the shipping container crisis, and problems posed by Covid....
by Alan Robert | Oct 7, 2022 | Podcast Lessons
Hi friends. In this lesson, you will learn what the word ‘bailout’ means, and you will also learn the expressions ‘to dole out’ and ‘to turn on the fiscal taps’. Before I get underway, I do want to mention that I was traveling in...
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...
