Learning English Conversations Episodes Episode guide
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Give the cold shoulder
Is Feifei's designer shawl a solution to her problems with Lisa? Listen to the to find...
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Give someone the runaround
A phrase about being unhelpful.
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Give me credit
What are you doing if you give someone credit?
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Ginormous
The glass and steel buildings of modern Shanghai are ginormous. What does this mean?
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Giant killer
Here's a phrase to describe the success of a small team.
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Ghosting
Is someone ignoring all of your calls and messages? Maybe you are being ghosted!
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Get your act together
A phrase about good organisation.
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Get with the programme
Learn an idiom used to encourage someone to accept new ideas or techniques.
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Get the short straw
A phrase that sucks!
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Get somebody's goat
A phrase about something annoying
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Gathering dust
What’s gathering dust in your house?
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Game face
Learn an expression about determination.
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Game changer
Feifei and Harry use an expression for people and ideas that change the way we do things.
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Furlough
Not a new word, but it’s more commonly used recently due to the coronavirus crisis.
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Funny ha-ha or funny peculiar
When does 'funny' have nothing to do with laughter?
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Full on
Harry and Feifei talk about a common colloquial expression for when things are intense.
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Full of the joys of spring
A seasonal idiom that puts you in a good mood
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Full of beans
Are you feeling tired today? Or are you full of beans? Learn more about this phrase in...
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Fuddy-duddy
Old-fashioned and set in your ways? Could you be one of these people?
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Frontliner
We describe nurses and doctors who have been working on the frontline
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From pillar to post
Moving from place to place can be chaotic. Learn a phrase to describe the situation
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Frogmarch
A style of walking that is hard to do on your own.
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Friends in High Places
Learn a phrase about important people
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Frenemy
Do you have a false friend?
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Freegan
Free food!
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Freecycle
When you don't want to sell, freecycle! Learn what it means.
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Freak
Are you obsessed by a hobby or sport? Feifei is but Jen's not impressed!
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Fly by night
When companies or people can't be trusted, use this expression.
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Flexing
What word can you use to describe people who show off? Find out with Roy and Feifei.
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Flatten the curve
Learn language to talk about the coronavirus pandemic.