Simple stories with questions to improve your listening skills.

AnnaTeachesRussian_beginner edition

The first of April.. A day when playing tricks is fair game. 

The Jerome Meadows Experience

April Fool's Day

Full Episode with Video available on Spotify 

- The Jerome Meadows Experience -

A Better Calendar

GROG LIKE ROCK!

Was your Genetic Code written using Comic Sans? Are you afraid of coming across as a knuckle dragging cave man?

Jerome and Alexis will help you see the grammatic renaissance that is... the passive voice!

How to Exploit Workers using the Passive Voice!

Today we discuss the idioms:

• to be GREEN
• in the RED
• to BLACK out
• the BLACK sheep

Getting in the Red and Blacking Out (Color Idioms)

Do you know the meaning of ALL of these Color IDIOMS

• to have the BLUES
• once in a BLUE moon
• out of the BLUE
• GREEN with envy
• caught RED-handed
• I saw RED

I didn't think so!

Listen and take the test!

Jerome: ⁠https://www.italki.com/user/4075458⁠ 
Alexis: ⁠https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/9464070


She called me out of the BLUE! (Color Idioms)

Always look on the dark side of life!

Murphy's Law, the belief that everything bad that CAN go wrong... WILL go wrong!

Murphy's Law

In today's episode we talk about "Bribery" the ability to get special treatment and the cost of secret illegal payments.

Today's Vocabulary will include:

• to fine vs to be fine
• a bribe
• to bribe
• a curfew
• quarantine
• odd vs even
• to forge 
• influence 
• reward
• perks

Teachers:
Jerome: https://www.italki.com/user/4075458
Alexis: https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/9464070


Bribery & Corruption

In today's podcast we discuss using some simple psychological tricks to make life a little bit easier.

But be warned...

We can't guarantee you'll be a better person for using them!

