Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. Every language has its ways of expressing strong emotions — surprise, shock, anger.

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Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. Today, we tell about the word wildcat. Humans have always depended on animals. From the beginning of human history, wild animals provided food, clothing and sometimes medicine.

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Hello. I’m Phil Murray with WORDS AND THEIR STORIES, a program in Special English. “You do not need to be a rocket scientist.” Americans hear these words often. People say them in schools, offices and factories. Broadcasters on radio and television use them.

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Now, the VOA Special English program, WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. From birth to death, the word kick has been given an important part in expressing human experience. The proud and happy mother feels the first signs of life kicking inside her womb. And that same life — many years later — comes to its end [...]

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Now, the VOA Special English program, WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. Monkeys are very similar to us in many ways. Most have ten fingers and ten toes, and brains much like ours. We enjoy watching them because they often act like us. In fact, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution says that monkeys and humans share a [...]

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I’m Susan Clark with the Special English program, WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. Tom Smith is the best hitter on his company’s baseball team. For weeks during the playing season, Tom hit a home run in every game the team played. But then suddenly he stopped hitting home runs. He could not hit the baseball at [...]

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Now, the VOA Special English program, WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. Expressions about water are almost as common as water itself. But many of the expressions using water have unpleasant meanings.

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