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				<title>Do you want to be a spy  ......</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Intelligence. What does it mean? The word“intelligence” has two main meanings in English. First, it can mean “mental capacity” – if you are intelligent, you can think clearly and rationally, for example. But ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:24:59 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Glastonbury - mud and music</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ We return to Glastonbury today for a first-hand account of the mud and the music from Hilary. The full text of my conversation with her is in a pdf file in the posting immediately before this one.First, listen to the podcast without looking at the ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:54:10 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Rigoletto Act 2 - Next Podcast 11 September</title>
				<link>http://www.4steps.ru/audio topic in english  - Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:24:00 -0400.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Suppose your friend has just sat an exam. You want to ask her– was it alright, were the questions easy, do you think that you passed the exam? What words could you use to ask this question?
Or suppose that your friend has just been to a wedding. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:31:27 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Rigoletto - Act 1</title>
				<link>http://www.4steps.ru/audio topic in english  - Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:37:00 -0400.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ I have been very busy for the past week. I have been playing my violin in the orchestra for an opera. An opera is like a play, but instead of spoken dialogue it has singing and music. The opera that we are performing is called Rigoletto, and it is by the ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:27:37 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</title>
				<link>http://www.4steps.ru/audio topic in english  - Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:03:00 -0400.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Somewhere in England, there is a very special building. The security is tight. There is barbed wire all around the fence. There are security guards with dogs. Everyone going in or out is searched and has to show a security pass. Is this a secret ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:23:00 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Talking rubbish</title>
				<link>http://www.4steps.ru/audio topic in english  - Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:17:00 -0400.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Recently, I found a postcard. You can see a picture of it on the website or on the screen of your iPod. On the front of the card it says“Birmingham’s total rubbish…”
What does this mean. Does it mean that “Birmingham is ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:25:21 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Goodbye Tony, Hello Gordon</title>
				<link>http://www.4steps.ru/audio topic in english  - Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:34:00 -0400.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ We do not often talk about politics on this podcast, but today is different. Today is a special day. Our Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has been Prime Minister since 1997. But today he will resign. In fact, Tony Blair told us many months ago that he was ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:46:52 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Let me know...</title>
				<link>http://www.4steps.ru/audio topic in english  - Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:47:00 -0400.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ “Suppose you are planning a holiday in England. Your friend in England might say to you, “Please let me know when you are going to arrive.”
Or suppose I am talking to a friend who is planning to move to another town. I might say, ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:42:06 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Contemporary</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Today we are going to meet the Duke of Wellington, and talk about the word“contemporary”. 
In fact, both the Duke of Wellington and the word “contemporary” were in the podcasts about Glastonbury. You can’t remember the Duke ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:35:31 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Blessed</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ In a podcast last week, I talked about a pop group called the Zimmers. The Zimmers are all elderly people, who want to show the world that old people can be fun and creative. A few days ago I found a short poem about being old. It is by Barbara Beuler ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:47:19 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Mud</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset in south-west England. It contains the ruins of an old abbey, and has some beautiful countryside around it. There are many myths and legends associated with Glastonbury. Many of these are stories about the Celtic ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:31:22 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Results</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ My podcast today is about the word“result”, and the different ways we can use it.
Last week I said that I would tell you the results of the local elections in England and the elections in Scotland and Wales. That means, I shall tell you what ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:41:32 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>In Disgrace</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Welcome back. I hope you all had a good Easter break.Today I want to tell you about the English expression“in disgrace”. The best way to explain is to give you some examples.
Example one. A little girl wants to make some new clothes for her ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:23:17 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Hoovers, Zimmers and Sellotape</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Do you know what a hoover is? The Hoover company makes vacuum cleaners, that you use to keep your house clean. In fact, Hoover made some of the earliest vacuum cleaners. They were about the size of a supermarket trolley, and made as much noise as a jet ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:18:31 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>What does it mean Watson...</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ We use the word“mean” in English in lots of different ways. I imagine that you use the word very often. You ask your English teacher what a particular English word means. You say for example, “What does ‘tree’ mean?” ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:55:26 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Banksy</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ In the podcast“In Disgrace”, I used the word “graffiti”. Do you know what it means? It is an Italian word, which has come into English. It means “things which are written” generally on an outside wall, or on some ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:51:11 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Spring</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ It is April, and the spring has arrived, even here in Birmingham. When we talk about the spring, what sort of things can we say? What words and expressions do we use? Here are some examples:In spring, the days grow longer. We put our clocks forward by ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:28:23 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Plastic Rubbish</title>
				<link>http://www.4steps.ru/audio topic in english  - Thu, 17 May 2007 11:46:00 -0500.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Rebecca Hosking makes documentary films. Recently, she worked on a documentary film for the BBC about the effect of plastics in the marine environment. She was shocked by what she saw as she was making the documentary.  She found many sorts of sea ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:26:43 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Kinder Scout</title>
				<link>http://www.4steps.ru/audio topic in english  - Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:15:00 -0500.html</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ I am recording the podcast today outdoors, that means outside, in my garden. So do not be surprised if you hear the sound of traffic, or birds singing, or children playing. And today’s podcast is about the outdoors – the hills and the open ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:23:48 +0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Football in New Zealand</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Today’s podcast is by Mark. He is a football coach in New Zealand.
Hello everyone.
A few years ago, I moved from England to New Zealand to coach football to children in Auckland, the biggest city in New Zealand. I’d like to tell you about the ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:10:30 +0400</pubDate>
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