http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/taxonomy/term/305 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/language-snacks <p>Hungry for more idioms and colloquial expressions? Check out our fun Language Snacks to brush up on your vocabulary.</p><p><a href="http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/language-snacks">read more</a></p> Language Snacks Listening Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:10:08 -0500 admin 7541 at http://www.englishonline.org.cn http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/stories/serious-case <p>I have a friend who is afraid of spiders. This isn’t very unusual; a lot of people are afraid of spiders. But my friend isn’t afraid of spiders in any normal way.</p> http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/stories/serious-case#comments Content for Intermediate Learners Listening Reading Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:44:34 -0500 admin 11860 at http://www.englishonline.org.cn http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/stories/visitor-to-the-star <p>Anna thought her job was very difficult, and she told everybody about this. How could she be a front-line, award-winning, adventurous journalist if she had to stay in bad hotels and eat bad food?</p> http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/stories/visitor-to-the-star#comments Content for Intermediate Learners Listening Reading Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:14:40 -0500 admin 11859 at http://www.englishonline.org.cn http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/stories/albertos-new-neighbours <p>Alberto took one look at his new neighbours and knew that his life was going to get more difficult. There they were, two of them, as big and as noisy as their car, and smelly and stupid as well.</p> http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/stories/albertos-new-neighbours#comments Content for Intermediate Learners Listening Reading Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:49:32 -0500 admin 11858 at http://www.englishonline.org.cn http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/stories/fathers-footsteps <p>Today was a pilgrimage. Today – for Andy – was a day like going to Rome, or sick people to Lourdes, or the people walking to Santiago de Compostela, or even Mecca. But Andy is a different type of pilgrim...</p> http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/stories/fathers-footsteps#comments Content for Intermediate Learners Listening Reading Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:55:15 -0500 admin 11857 at http://www.englishonline.org.cn http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/stories/what-cats-dug-up <p>An old woman lives with her many cats in a lovely little garden full of orange trees. They the developers come along, planning to build a new road. All of the neighbours are worried, but the cats have other ideas ...</p> http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/stories/what-cats-dug-up#comments Content for Intermediate Learners Listening Reading Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:13:23 -0500 admin 11856 at http://www.englishonline.org.cn http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/articles/extra-sensory-perception <p>Some believe that we all have extra sensory perception to some degree but that most of us choose not to develop it.</p> http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/articles/extra-sensory-perception#comments Content for Intermediate Learners Listening Reading Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:51:42 -0500 admin 11801 at http://www.englishonline.org.cn http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/articles/food <p>When I was at school, our teacher told the class “You are what you eat.” My friends and I would laugh and call each other ‘hamburger’ and ‘biscuits’.</p> http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/articles/food#comments Content for Intermediate Learners Listening Reading Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:33:34 -0500 admin 11799 at http://www.englishonline.org.cn http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/articles/girls-games <p>Computer games have been criticised for quite some time over a whole range of issues. Now, however, it seems that computer games have also become a feminist issue. </p> http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/listening/articles/girls-games#comments Content for Intermediate Learners Listening Reading Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:16:39 -0500 admin 11797 at http://www.englishonline.org.cn http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/earners/listening/articles/landlocked-countries <p>What have the following countries got in common: Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, Iceland and Madagascar?</p> http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/earners/listening/articles/landlocked-countries#comments Content for Intermediate Learners Listening Reading Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:44:45 -0500 admin 11794 at http://www.englishonline.org.cn