Tilghman Weekly Podcast | Cool American Cultural Phrases for International Students
This is a Podcast about the English idioms, slangs, and phrases that many of us use in our daily life in the U.S. We invite ESL faculty from Drew University to discuss these phrases, their usage, and the culture behind them with our Drew international student participants in the show.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 9
- Years Active
- 2020
Episode-7 | The "Hold" Family, Propositions & Phrasal Verbs
In this episode, we continue to explore commonly used phrasal verbs such as:
- hold on
- hold up
- hold against
- hold up
- hold back
- wrap up
- close up
We also discussed some useful sayings:
- ho…
Episode-8 | A Game of Sayings
In this episode, we played a little game where guests of the show tried to make sentences with sayings that they just learned. Some of the sentences needed more work while others were spot on. We hop…
Episode-6 | The "Stand" Family & The "Hang" Family
In this episode, we discussed:
- The Different Meanings of "Check out"
- The "Stand" Family - Can't Stand, Stand for, Stand up for
- The "Hang" Family - Hang out, Hang in, Hang tight, Hang up, Hang on…
Episode-5 | Flex This New Phrase To Your Friends: "I've got some tea ;)"
In this episode, we discussed the following phrasal verbs: "Give Up", "Keep Up", "Show Off", "Throw Around".
We also discussed if you can tell your boss to "bring you up to speed" on things at work.
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Episode-4 | Come Across, Run Into, Go Over, Mix up, and more!
Here is a list of the phrases that we discussed in this episode:
- come across
- run into
- go over
- mix up
- I second that
- Naysayers
- Party pooper
- Vibe
We also chatted about the popular filler…
Episode-3 | Hang out, play with, and make up :)
In this episode, we continued to dig into phrasal verbs.
- what is the difference between Hangout and Play?
- the multiple meanings that the phrase "make up" has
- what does "play with" …
Episode-2 | Phrasal Verbs
In this episode, we talked about Phrasal Verbs quite extensively. Phrasal verbs are very commonly used in daily conversations by native speakers. Still, they might be challenging for language learner…
Intro Episode | Why This Podcast?
Hello, I am Max Zhang, your host for this Podcast, and I am a staff member at the Tilghman International Student Center at Drew University.
We know for language learners who are not native to English…
Episode-1 | What are Cool Cultural Phrases?
This is a test run episode for proof of concept. In this episode, we talked about some big picture stuff such as what an inclusive title we can use to encompass idioms, slang, sayings, etc. We also d…