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Season 2 Episode 136
This is a B1 level podcast for learners of English. Are bullies stupid, unintelligent? If that were always true, then when somebody is bullied at sch…
3 years, 4 months ago
B1 Vampire! (short story)
Season 1 Episode 135
If I say the word 'vampire', I think you'll know what it means. The monster from the dead with two large sharp teeth is known throughout many culture…
3 years, 4 months ago
B1 The Cucumber (story)
Season 1 Episode 134
This is a story I wrote specially for B1-level learners of English. It contains a lot of B1 language that is useful to learn. The story also contains…
3 years, 5 months ago
B1 The Detectives (story)
Season 1 Episode 133
A short story for B1 learners of English. The original title of the story was called The Sleuths. It was a short story by the American writer, O. Hen…
3 years, 5 months ago
B2 The Green Door (story)
Season 1 Episode 132
I have a short story for you today. A story by the American writer, O. Henry. He was born in 1862 and died in New York in 1910. He is best known for …
3 years, 5 months ago
B1 B2 Terms of Endearment
Season 1 Episode 131
There is definitely language that you will find as a visitor to the UK that you won't find in the English language learning textbooks. You need to go…
3 years, 5 months ago
B2 C1 Beach and Sea Collocations
Season 1 Episode 130
A visit to the beach in the south of Spain (Cadiz). Typical collocations (words that go together), words and expressions we use to talk about the bea…
3 years, 6 months ago
B1 B2 A Scottish holiday
Season 1 Episode 129
I've just come back from a short holiday in Scotland. In this podcast I'm going to talk about my stay in the south-west of this country and make some…
3 years, 6 months ago
PET Writing Part 2 (story)
Season 1 Episode 128
In this podcast I'm going to talk about part two of the Cambridge English PET or Preliminary writing paper, where you have the option of writing a st…
3 years, 6 months ago
B1 B2 Parks and Park Vocabulary
Season 1 Episode 127
As the season of exams comes to a close at the end of the school year, I'm going to start with another type of podcast - looking at vocabulary of the…
3 years, 6 months ago