B1 Vampire! (short story)

These are the B1 phrases we'll study today: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-318.htm1. AttemptDefinition: To try to do something, especially something difficult. (Can be used as a verb or a noun).Example 1: She will attempt to pass her driving test for the second time tom ...  Show more

The B2 phrases we'll be studying are:Full story transcipt: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-317.htmon behalf ofDefinition: Instead of someone else, or representing another person or group.Example 1: I am writing this email on behalf of my manager who is on vacation.Examp ...  Show more

For hundreds of years, people have been afraid of blood-sucking creatures that rise from the dead.

But where does the vampire myth actually come from, what happened to the people accused of being a vampire, and what if there was a simple, bio ...

This podcast episode today is about vampires! It includes a lecture on the myth of the vampire in modern popular culture, with a language focus on really useful vocabulary and expressions to describe feelings and emotions. 

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When you hear the word vampire, what comes to mind? Dracula? The Twilight books? Ancient castles in Transylvania? What if I told you that vampire stories are much older, and much stranger, than you think? In today’s Halloween special episode of Thinking in English, we’re going to ...  Show more

Commonly associated with Count Dracula, the blood-sucking character in Bram Stoker’s quintessential novel, vampires continue to seduce. But where exactly did the vampire myth originate from? BBC Serbian’s Milica Radenković Jeremić has been researching the cultural history of vamp ...  Show more