2025-02-06
18 分钟Hello and welcome to the English like a native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week five, day four of your English five a day.
The second season.
This is the series that gives you a healthy daily dose of English vocabulary from Monday to Friday so
that you can slowly but surely build your vocabulary and your confidence and start feeling more like yourself when communicating in English.
Now as always, we begin with a snapshot of what's to come so listen carefully.
Jane was reading a gripping novel about a detective investigating a series of grizzly murders when her heart lurched at an unexpected knock at the door.
Unlike the book's hero who took horrific crime scenes in his stride, Jane was easily startled by sudden noises.
Her stomach lurched again when she opened the door but it was just her neighbour returning a borrowed book.
Do you not panic if there was anything there that you didn't understand?
That's what this episode is all about.
So now we'll dive into five items of vocabulary.
Remember we're recording everything for you in the database that you can access that includes today's vocabulary and the vocabulary from every episode in this five a day series.
I'll leave a link in the show notes.
We begin with the adjective gripping, gripping.
We spell this G-R-I-P-P-I-N-G, gripping, gripping.
If something is described as gripping then it's exciting or interesting in a way that keeps your attention.
It's as if the thing that's holding your attention has arms and hands and can literally grip onto you and hold you.
So it doesn't lose you at all, it's gripping.
You can't stop looking at it, it's gripping.