The ESLPod Blog (page 181)
- Announcements
ESL Podcast now a Featured Provider on U.S. iTunes!
ESL Podcast is among a select group of Featured Providers on the Podcast page of the U.S. verison of iTunes! Only 46 companies are listed as being the most popular providers of podcasts, including…
- Karaoke English
Karaoke English: Get Your Kicks on Route 66!
English Cafe 108 talks about the famous Route 66, a highway that goes from Chicago to Los Angeles. In the Cafe, I mention a song called “Get Your Kicks on Route 66,” originally performed by Nat King…
- News and Current Events
Wildfires in Southern California
It has been a dangerous few days here in Los Angeles and the larger Southern California area. The Santa Ana winds –a warm, dry wind that comes through Southern California in the the fall and early…
- News and Current Events
Googlegänger
I came across a new word this week in the newsmagazine Newsweek :
- News and Current Events
David who?
Americans are not the world’s biggest soccer fans, as everyone knows. Soccer is very popular as a sport in school, but the best athletes in the US usually become (American) football, basketball, or…
- News and Current Events
Working Hard or Hardly Working?
There is an old joke that people at work sometimes say to each other: Are you working hard or hardly working? To work hard means to work with seriousness, to work a great deal, to work a lot. To…
- About ESL Podcast
ESL Podcast on MySpace
ESL Podcast listener Fabio Okipney has started a page for ESL Podcast listeners on MySpace. MySpace is a social networking site where you can becomes “friends” with other people you know or who have…
- Life in the United States
Hottest Ticket in Town
One of the hottest tickets or most popular performances in Los Angeles this month is to Shakespeare–yes, you read that correctly–Shakespeare.
- About ESL Podcast
The Workstyle of Dr. Jeff McQuillan
Today’s podcast, 312 – Different Work Styles, got me thinking about working with our beloved Dr. Jeff McQuillan. I won’t say if he’s a type A or type B person, a workaholic, or an alpha male at work…
- Television and Movies
ESL Podcast 311: The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Some of the best television programs in the U.S. are not from Hollywood, but from the United Kingdom ( aka (also known as) Great Britain). The British Broadcasting Service (BBC) – known also in…
