What are your hopes for 2012?
Neil and Rob have an informal chat about the New Year and talk to other members of the 成人快手 Learning English team about their hopes for 2012.
This week's question:
2012 is not the first time the Olympics has come to London. It is in fact the third time London will have hosted the games. The last time they were here was 1948, but when was the first time? Was it:
a) 1918
b) 1908
c) 1848
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!
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Hopes for 2012
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Vocabulary
- to look forward to something
to want something to happen
- lean
thin but strong and fit
- to get hitched
an informal expression meaning to get married
- to miss your chance
to fail to take advantage of an opportunity
- to brush up
to revise or improve your knowledge of something
- to be sick of something
to be annoyed or bored by something
