Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchB1/B2 IELTS 6 A nice cup of tea
Season 1 Episode 18
The history of Britain's favourite drink and some useful vocabulary about how to make a nice cup of tea.
Contact Mike Bilbrough with a question or enq…
4 years, 8 months ago
B1 / IELTS 5 Funny story Mr Bates and his hammer
Season 1 Episode 17
A funny story using vocabulary connected with a doctor's surgery and also some basic tools we use at home and the grammar point about present perfect…
4 years, 8 months ago
B2 English - extreme adjectives
Season 1 Episode 16
And today I'm going to talk to you about extreme adjectives. And also about the adverbs that qualify them or that go with them. So what do I mean by …
4 years, 8 months ago
B1 practice - come and go
Season 1 Episode 15
Hello. And today I'm going to talk about two verbs go and come. Now, they're very common and very simple verbs, aren't they? Well, they do have compl…
4 years, 8 months ago
B2 - Cycling and bicycle vocabulary
Season 1 Episode 14
Today, I'm going to talk about language around the bicycle. When you get on your bicycle, you say you push off, you push off and you start pedalling.…
4 years, 8 months ago
B1/B2 Formal and informal English
Season 1 Episode 13
Hello, and today I'm going to talk about the difference between formal and informal English. Now, it's very important to be able to distinguish betwe…
4 years, 8 months ago
B1 - Without a Tie - funny story in English
Season 1 Episode 12
Montague Pilkinson was flying over the desert one day when the engine of his little plane suddenly broke down. It made that sort of noise as engines …
4 years, 8 months ago
B2 Hypothesizing in English
Season 1 Episode 11
Hello, and today, I'm going to talk to you about hypothesizing in English, or making hypotheses. So what do we mean by hypothesize? Well, it means th…
4 years, 9 months ago
B2 talking about big numbers - millions etc.
Season 1 Episode 10
And today we're going to talk about very large numbers, how to use them. And also an interesting article about outer space. Now, when we talk about n…
4 years, 9 months ago
B1 revision past continuous (introduction)
Season 1 Episode 9
We usually use the past continuous with words, like when, or as or while. So we often say, while she was coming home, a friend greeted her in the str…
4 years, 9 months ago