📖 English Lessons Section

Each Podcast is its own English lesson

Hi there you are listening to Adept English and this is a listen and learn podcast. My name is Hilary and I created this listen and learn method to help you speak English fluently. It's much more enjoyable if you learn English in the way that your brain naturally wants to learn. I live in the United Kingdom. I'm a native English speaker. And I love helping the hundreds of thousands of students who listen to us every month.

Every week we give you two English lessons in the form of podcasts. So listen to Adept English. You'll be on your way to speaking fluent English in no time.

📮 speaking

Today We Learn About Time Zones As We Learn To Speak English Ep 374

I don’t know if it was thinking about how to the British talk about time in last week’s English lesson or because of something I saw on the news. However, today the learn to speak English topic has a time theme as it is on time zones.

Published

October 19, 2020

📮 phrases

A photograph of an old-fashioned analogue alarm clock, used to help describe the common English words used to tell the time in Britain.

Learn The Common English Words Used To Tell The Time In British English Ep 373

Time waits for no-one. Time is money. Time is something we all talk about constantly, we use it all the time (pun intended!) in everyday life. As always, native English speakers use shortcut phrases when talking about specific time scenarios, common English words which describe obvious times of the day which are worth knowing. So today we are going to practice our use of English time vocabulary for both digital times and analogue times.

Published

October 15, 2020

📮 listening

A photograph of orange leaves on the trees as Autumn sets in. Part of this English lesson on how to stay happy.

How to Stay Happy In A Winter Lockdown English Lesson Ep 372

In today’s English lesson, we talk about things that can help keep you happy. Winter in the UK can be cold and wet, with a lot of your time spent indoors. So we British are quite used to keeping ourselves amused and entertained indoors. However, this winter we will miss an important part of the recipe that keeps us happy, we won’t be going to other people’s houses or having people round to socialise with.

Published

October 12, 2020

📮 idioms

A vibrant photograph of bright orange carrots, which are the star of our English lesson on an English idiom.

An English Idiom You Should All Know Ep 371

I think it’s true that positive rewards are a better motivation for most people, rather than negative ones. However, if you need someone to do something, and suitable rewards cannot encourage them to act, you sometimes need to highlight negative or even threatening outcomes. Especially if people will not do what you need them to do. Now that took quite a lot of English vocabulary to explain a simple scenario, a native English speaker would prefer to use an English idiom, a metaphor which explains the scenario in a much simpler idiomatic way.

Published

October 08, 2020

📮 speaking

Learn English Speaking As We Talk About Saving UK Football Ep 370

In today’s lesson we are going to pick a topic from the British headline news and talk about it using everyday English vocabulary. It’s about football, and we learn English speaking through listening to the conversation with a focus on how the words are spoken. Listening to this lesson several times will help you with your automatic English comprehension.

Published

October 05, 2020

📮 listening

Neuroscience While We Practice Listening To Conversations In English Ep 369

It’s not every day you get to say you’ve listened to a podcast on neuroscience. If you invest the next ten minutes of your life to this podcast. You will not only practise listening to an English conversation in English, to improve your English comprehension. You might also change the way you live to help keep your brain in tip-top condition as you grow older.

Published

October 01, 2020

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