Tilghman Weekly Podcast | Cool American Cultural Phrases for International Students

In this episode, we continue to explore commonly used phrasal verbs such as:

We also discussed some useful 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 hope that after listening to this episode, you understand how to use these sayings in your daily English conversations.

In this episode, we discussed:

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.

And we talked about trendy fun phrases such as "flexing" and "Spill the Tea".

Here is a list of the phrases that we discussed in this episode:

We also chatted about the popular filler word "like" as well. In the next episode, we will dig more into this topic.

In this episode, we continued to dig into phrasal verbs. 

We also discussed some other phrases such as "a piece of cake" and "an apple a day, keeps the doctor away".

I hope you guys enjoy it!

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 learners to master, as they are usually considered more of an advanced subject and taught to students later on in their English learning journeys. There are about 300 "hot" phrasal verbs being used every day in English conversations, and the best way for students to grasp them is to have a keen ear to spot them and practice using them in conversations.

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, learning English is hard, and being witty in English is even tougher. During Drew Virtual Times, we are offering all our international students this podcast for you to learn a couple of interesting phrases every week, understand whether they can be used in an academic setting or not, and to learn a bit about the culture behind these phrases. Each episode, we invite one of our ESL faculty to the show, and we also open the floor to all our students to learn and to participate in the conversation as well.

We go live every Wednesday at noon with our students and faculty and will post the episode right after. I hope you enjoy the show!

Now, on to the learning!

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 discussed the fluidity of cultural phrases and how they are used or not used depending on different cultural (in a broad sense) groups, etc. I hope you enjoy this episode, and please join us in our future episodes! We go live at Tilghman Virtual Welcome Desk every Wednesday at noon.