Real & Relevant English Conversation - 2 native speaker English teachers discuss gender roles, stereotypes, multi-tasking, household chores and much more

R&R 39: Men Vs Women - Real & Relevant English Conversation

What does she look like? Is he good-looking? After this unit you’ll be able to answer questions like these in a lot more detail. You’re going to learn English adjectives to describe appearance: hair, faces and size and the shape of bodies. We’ll also make sure you know how to do it politely!

Describing Appearance - Zapp! English Vocabulary & Pronunciation 2.9

Do you think you can guess what somebody looks like from the sound of their voice? In this English podcast you can try! We have eight different speakers for you, with Canadian, English and American accents. You’ll practise getting general and detailed information from listening to individuals as well as a conversation between three people. It’s also a good chance to review common ways to describe appearance.

Describing Appearance - Zapp! English Listening 2.9

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Rule 3

A short podcast discussing why you should learn both British and American English.

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Why you should be learning British and American English

The “gender pay gap”

This topic has been in the news this week after the Institute for Fiscal Studies published research showing women end up 33% worse off than their male counterparts after they have children. But earlier in the summer, Fraser Nelson wrote in the Telegraph that the pay gap is “no longer an issue” for women born after 1975. Can both assessments be true? And could the label “gender pay gap” be hindering our understanding of what really lies behind the numbers?



The cost of a hospital

If a politician or commentator wants to underline just how wasteful a piece of expenditure is, a common strategy is to compare it to the number of hospitals you could build instead. Of course, hospitals are positive things – we all want more, right? But just how much is a hospital? Is it really a useful unit of measurement? We speak to health economist John Appleby.



Corbyn Facts

As Labour members begin voting on the party leadership, we investigate some of the claims made on the “Corbyn Facts” website set up by Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign. Did he really give 122 speeches on the EU referendum during the campaign? Were this year’s local election results as good as Labour’s best performance under Ed Miliband? We look at what the numbers tell us.



Death Penalty abolition

Statistics suggest that officially about half of the countries in the world have abolished Capital Punishment, and a further 52 have stopped its use in practice. But we tell the story behind the numbers and show why the picture is more complicated. We speak to Parvais Jabbar, co-director of the Death Penalty Project.



The Holiday Desk of Good News 

This week we outline a handful of statistics to make everyone feel better about the UK and their holidays. Published on August 26, 2016.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats

Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news. Numbers are used in every area of public debate. But are they always reliable? Tim and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us.

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