The ESLPod Blog (page 169)

1,825 posts on American English and life in the United States, 2005 to 2025

  • Life in the United States

    The Flavor is in the Nose

    October 7, 2008

    Earlier this year, I had a pretty bad sinus infection. The sinus is the passageway (long, narrow way) in your nose; an infection is when something that causes disease in the body makes that part of…

  • News and Current Events

    Plunges and Dives

    October 1, 2008

    I don’t know enough about the financial crisis here in the U.S. to explain why our economy is having so many problems, but I can explain some of the headlines (titles) that have appeared recently in…

  • About ESL Podcast

    Thank you!

    September 26, 2008

    Just a short note of thanks to all of you who emailed and posted comments on our third anniversary video and on Lucy’s post about my birthday. All of us here at ESL Podcast thank you for your kind…

  • Announcements

    Happy Birthday, Jeff!

    September 24, 2008

    Today is Dr. Jeff McQuillan’s birthday! If you’ve been a longtime listener, you know how old he is (but I won’t tell).

  • Announcements

    Third Anniversary Video

    September 23, 2008

    It’s finally here – our Third Anniversary Video! Thanks to all of you who posted questions for us to answer on the video. We’re sorry we didn’t have time to answer them all. We had some technical…

  • Life in the United States

    Facebook, MySpace, and Your Next Job

    September 18, 2008

    Many people have pages on websites such as Facebook and MySpace . Even I have a page on Facebook (just search for “Jeff McQuillan” and then you can add me as your “friend”)! These sites allow you to…

  • News and Current Events

    A Candidate’s Personal Life

    September 16, 2008

    We are now less than two months away from the U.S. presidential election and the media (newspapers, television and radio news, Internet news sites) is full of stories about each of the presidential…

  • News and Current Events

    Hockey Moms

    September 4, 2008

    If you read an American newspaper today, you’ll see the phrase hockey mom. What is a hockey mom, and why are all the newspapers talking about it?

  • Discussing the Episodes

    ESL Cafe 153 – Kicking Our Butts

    September 3, 2008

    In today’s ESL Cafe 153 , Jeff is too polite and gentlemanly to say the phrase “to kick (someone’s) ass.” We’ll let someone else do it for him.

  • News and Current Events

    An Historic Day

    August 28, 2008

    Yesterday was an historic (historically important) day in the United States. No matter if you are liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, it was hard not to notice the significance of what…

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