Podcasts: holiday

Thanksgiving is celebrated to give thanks for the harvest. It is a national holiday in America, and a good excuse to taste all that lovely new food with a huge family meal.

This week in our podcast, we bring you an excerpt from Ginger Kuenzel’s American Life column for September. As you listen, can you answer the questions?

Have your summer holidays already begun, or are you still counting the days? This week’s podcast should help put you in the holiday mood: we’re going to look at the vocabulary of the beach.

This month on Spotlight Audio, Elisa Moolecherry takes a trip to Lake Spotlight with her co-presenter, David Creedon. Join them now as they arrive at the lake.

To take you smoothly to your next English-speaking destination our Everyday English dialogues are about air travel. Listen now as Robert and Barbara, who are flying to Spain for a week’s holiday check the travel regulations online.

In this month's Spotlight magazine find out more about the glittering gaming metropolis of Las Vegas. Here in the podcast, Spotlight presenters Anne Alexander Sieder and David Creedon look at some of the language you might hear in a casino.