Question: How do two of the things you do compare?

http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/twothings.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWe generally have more than one kind of task to do at work or at college. For instance, we might need to write up our research and then make a presentation, which are two entirely different kettles of fish (“2 versch. Töpfe mit Fischen” = 2 Paar Stiefel). Or […]

Question: What’s your summer picture?

http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/summerpicture.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe summer break is coming to an end for us. We’re packing up and going home after our very long holiday. This picture summarizes what was nicest about the summer for me. Have you got a summer picture to share? Was ist das Blogprojekt? Mehr dazu unter Englischlernen mit […]

Question: What are you conservative about?

http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/conservative.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadI did something for the very first time in my life this past week, and you’re going to laugh at me. “What,” you’ll say, “it was her first time?” You see, I may be relatively radical and I do love to experiment and try things out, but there are […]

Question: So what’s your island?

http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/island.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWe’re heading over to Drummond Island to my family’s cabin place, but I’m going with very mixed feelings. First of all, my mother is too sick to travel there, and I got us both, Helmut and me, tickets primarily to see her. I don’t know when I’ll be able […]

Question: What’s your New Frontier?

http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/frontier.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadToday is the 40th anniversary of Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the moon and I’m up there too today, somehow. Kennedy called space the New Frontier, and that was certainly what it felt like 40 years ago. I’m leaving out the Cold War context here to focus on social […]

Question: Where and what is “home”?

http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/home.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download“There’s no place like home.” That was Dorothy’s homesick mantra in the Wizard of Oz, and saying it got her back to Kansas. For her, “home” was where she was from, and where she wanted to be. But I find it quite difficult to say just where home is. […]

Question: Which thinker taught you to think?

http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/thinker.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadOut on the streets of Tehran the opposition is protesting, disputing the June 12 election. The brutality being used against them by the riot police is just horrible. I’ve read that this election and the US election of 2000 are both being discussed as “stolen elections” and being compared, […]