Podcast English Lessons
Here are some examples of the latest podcast English lessons. If you want to see the full English lesson articles, then you can browse them all here. Or click on an image below to jump to that article.
How to do Passive Voice for English Verbs in Present and Past Tenses Ep 414
Today, in the UK, children are going back to school. We wish them all good luck and thank goodness they can meet up with friends and get socialising again. While I am sure it will take time for schools to get back to normal, just getting out of the house and running around with some friends will be a huge physiological uplift for them.
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March 08, 2021
Discover British Biscuits In This Listening Practice English Lesson Ep 413
In today’s English lesson we talk about British biscuits. As you probably know the UK is a nation of tea drinkers, it’s an important part of our national culture. So knowing the difference between a cookie and a scone or a biscuit is probably worth listening to while you improve your English-speaking part of your brain.
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March 04, 2021
Learn To Speak English Efficiently Through Focused English Listening Ep 412
Over the years we have had many comments and conversations about which language has the most words, or the biggest vocabulary. The topic is complicated. There is no simple answer because it is a question which is not specific enough to get a correct answer. In today’s English listening lesson, we talk about how you need to focus on the words that matter in speaking English. We talk about the most efficient approach to learning what you actually need in order to speak English fluently.
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March 01, 2021
More English Phrasal Verb Practice Ep 411
Help with English phrasal verbs is a regular request for our podcasts ideas list. I completely understand why. New English language learners often run into this bizarre scenario where they understand some English words in isolation. Yet they suddenly see or hear these same words combined into a phrasal verb that means something completely different. How confusing and annoying, so today we explain some commonly used English to throw phrasal verbs.
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February 25, 2021
Practice Your English Speaking Learning About Love In A Global Pandemic Ep 410
I’m sure we all agree that love and relationships are important to us human beings. We are, after all, a social animal. The pandemic, and the way we are trying to control its impact on us, is affecting many things. Today we practice English speaking learning about how people are getting around the lack of physical contact during lockdowns.
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February 22, 2021
When A Panda Walks Into A Bar You Know English Grammar Can Be Fun Ep 409
So today we take a fun look at English grammar. Traditional English grammar and fun is normally a contradiction. However, I promise that in this English lesson we take a fun look at English punctuation. I will also explain the Oxford comma and use this as an excuse to talk about lovely pandas.
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February 18, 2021
An English Speaking Practice Topic That Could Save Your Life Ep 408
Today we have a lesson which should help provide you with some English-speaking practice and maybe help save your life. Now it’s rarely you get to put those two valuable benefits into a single sentence. With more people living in blocks of flats its important to know about the Grenfell fire.
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February 15, 2021
Practice An Everyday Conversation With English Speakers Ep 407
This English lesson is a conversation in English about news in the UK. All you have to do is sit back and listen to the native English speaker and comprehend what you hear. Listen to the lesson several times until you understand all the vocabulary and you comprehend the meaning of the sentences. Simple conversations, like this one, can be difficult to follow when you are learning to speak English. Practice listening to conversations in English will help train your brain to recognise the sounds and English speaker makes, even before you understand all the words.
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February 11, 2021
Why Are There So Many English Idioms About Cats Ep 406
It’s pretty safe to say the British love their pets. With over 40 percent of British households owning a pet, it is no surprise the English language contains a lot of idioms relating to pets. So today we pick a side, sorry dog lovers, we’re going with cats! A whole English lesson on English idioms that relate to cats.
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February 08, 2021
A Yummy English Speaking Topic Mmm Puddings Ep 405
It’s been cold here in the UK and nothing makes the cold outside fade away faster than British comfort food. I’m sure, wherever you come from, you have a similar process of making things just a little better with some pleasant kitchen smells and tasty dishes. Well, in my house we like a good pudding and a family favourite is a fruit crumble with lots of custard. So today’s English speaking topic is about a classic British pudding and the English vocabulary you would use in an English kitchen.
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February 04, 2021
Common English Words That Come From Arabic Ep 404
You might have heard of the term we stand on the shoulders of giants. You might use this term in science, where a new breakthrough idea made possible by the work and discoveries of prior scientific efforts. Well, today we show languages are similar and how common English words have benefited from many languages.
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February 01, 2021
7 Rules To Learn English Language And Habits That Help Ep 403
As January comes to a close. I cannot believe how quickly time is passing. It’s technically still the start of the year so I thought I would talk with you about your English language learning plan for 2021. Starting from the beginning I want to talk you through the steps you should be taking and the English language learning habits that will make your life easier.
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January 28, 2021
English Speaking Is Popular And Very International Ep 402
Today our English pronunciation lesson focuses on why the English language is so popular and continues to grow as a popular international language. We see it every year at Adept English, more and more people are choosing to learn English as their second language. So why is the English-speaking world growing?
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January 25, 2021
Listening To Native English Speakers Will Improve Your English Grammar Ep 401
A common question we get from new language learners, especially those who are new to our way of acquiring a language through listening, is so what about learning English grammar? The good news is that the more you listen, the better your English grammar will get.
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January 21, 2021
Common English Words To Charge Or Not To Charge Ep 400
The English language has a habit of taking a simple short word and using it in a multitude of ways. Today we focus on a common English word and do a thorough analysis to explain all of its common uses. As always, we aim to make our English lessons fun and interesting enough for you to repeat listen, which is key to learning any new language.
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January 18, 2021
You Are Hardwired To Listen To Stories And Conversations In English Ep 399
Today’s English lesson is simple. All we ask is that you sit back and enjoy a short English listening practice story. You will listen to a conversation in English and try to comprehend all the key vocabulary used, and at the end we have short test so you can test how well you did (and check you paid attention).
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January 14, 2021
What Happens In Your Brain When You Learn A Second Language Ep 398
Well, it has been a busy start to 2021, we’ve received a lot of emails with lots of questions. I thought one of the more interesting ones was a question from Han in China, who asked why does listening and learning a new language like you learned your first language work? Why is it better than other approaches to learning to speak English, or any language, fluently?
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January 11, 2021
English Listening Mp3 Lesson On Who Pays For The Pandemic Ep 397
Today’s English listening mp3 lesson is going to talk about the English language used when talking about taxes and how people in the UK are discussing who is and how we are going to pay for the enormous costs associated with dealing with the pandemic and the impact of shutting the UK economy down.
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January 07, 2021
Basics Of Grammar In English The Mechanics Of The Able Suffix Ep 396
We start 2021 with an English lesson that takes us back to the basics of English grammar. We’ve had some fun over the holidays with fairly easy listening English podcasts and we need to pick up the pace and get our brains back up to speed as we head back to work, school and or college.
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January 04, 2021
English Phrases For A Happy New Year 2021 Ep 395
Well, as we say goodbye to 2020, and are on the eve of welcoming 2021, I wish you all a better year from now on. In the UK, we are preparing for the least festive and celebratory New Year’s eve in my lifetime. 2020 is going to go out with a whimper for many people. 2020 was a great year for Adept English. Today we continue helping people learn new English phrases as we learn to speak English through listening.
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December 31, 2020
Learn About English Language Shortened Names Ep 394
So it’s cold and frosty in the UK today, but no snow and definitely not a white Christmas, so I guess the weather reporter got it wrong again. No surprise there. As for today’s English lesson, I thought I would do one to help explain how we shorten people’s names in the UK.
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December 28, 2020
Practice Your English Conversation With A Little Quiz Ep 393
I am sure many of you are busy with the coming holiday, I know I am. It is nearly time to say goodbye to 2020 and what an odd year it has been. As always, I am determined to see the weekly English lesson podcasts go out as normal over the holidays.
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December 24, 2020
Learn English While You Catch Up On The News Ep 392
In this English lesson, we take a snapshot of the news across the UK and the world at large and discuss what is happening in a conversational style. Although much of the news recently has been about the pandemic, and we will talk a little about that, it is not all about that. There are plenty of things happening in the world beyond the pesky virus.
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December 21, 2020
English Idioms Associated With Cold Weather Ep 391
The weather in the UK is suddenly getting cold, with our first proper frosts. Apparently we are getting weather from Sweden and Norway and we might even have a white Christmas, which has not happened in a long time. I guess, this is why I’m hearing so many English idioms related to cold at the moment. It was the Prime Minister who was On Thin Ice in the Brexit negotiations with the EU. Or the NHS being Snowed Under with extra work because of the Pandemic.
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December 17, 2020
The Unofficial Top British Christmas Songs Everyone In The UK Knows Ep 390
For what seems the briefest of moments, the UK went back to almost normal at the start of December. The government relaxed lock-downs, people went shopping and could meet up with friends and family, even socialise and go to the pub. However, all that has stopped now. So let's turn this into a positive English language lesson where we can practice speaking English.
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December 14, 2020
Learn About Your Brain While You Use It Listening To Conversations In English Ep 389
After our podcast on neuroscience, we asked if anyone wanted more on how your brain works and why we do the things we do. We got a lot of feedback saying, yes please tell us more. So today we have another English lesson that talks about your brain, while we use the knowledge about how your brain works to deliver another interesting English conversation that improves your English language.
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December 10, 2020
English Tutorial About Skill Assessment Tests Like IELTS Ep 388
In this English lesson we are going to talk about and explain the main English language tests used to by UK government, for visas, UK collages and employers to help assess the English language skills of applicants. You could also think of this as an English tutorial on acronyms, as there are a lot of them in this lesson.
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December 07, 2020
Provenance And Other English Phrases Related To British Food Ep 387
Today we talk about provenance, and other food related English phrases. Provenance, which is from the Latin “pro-venire” and later the French “provenir” the phrase is now a well-used part of the English language.
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December 03, 2020
Practice English Talking About The Jab Ep 386
The first documented successful vaccine was in 1796, the British doctor Edward Jenner could prove immunity to small pox using the relatively mild cowpox virus. Today’s English talking practice is about what we in the UK call, the jab.
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November 30, 2020
Enjoy Poppycock Balderdash And Piffle As You Learn Spoken English Ep 385
Today we have an odd lesson where we talk about some old-fashioned English words and English phrases, which admittedly you might not hear that much, but when you hear them, you might be interested to know what they are, and how to pronounce them. Just relax and smile as you learn spoken English with us today.
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November 26, 2020
Explore Envy And Jealousy As You Learn English Language Fluency Ep 384
I think Aristotle once said to be jealous is reasonable, but envy leads only to bad things. But you have to ask yourself why? Aren’t these the same things? Well no, we often confuse the meaning of these words and today we are going to spend some time explaining why they are different. Using some contemporary English language and explanations which will help you remember the difference, and of course we will improve your spoken English while you learn the English language.
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November 23, 2020
Basics Of Grammar In English Managing Your Contractions Ep 383
If you hear the word Contraction and you have no context to the conversation, then you would probably think about pregnancy and giving birth. However, this is Adept English and we are talking about basic English grammar today, specifically English language contractions.
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November 19, 2020
English Lessons That Make Learning To Speak English Easier Ep 382
We like to keep our English listening lessons contemporary and interesting. There is no point learning English vocabulary from a book that’s five years old, everyday English language is always changing, and the vocabulary in use today is very different to that being used even a few years ago.
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November 16, 2020
Adept English Learning Language Skills Through Listening Ep 381
Living a long healthy, happy and meaningful life is something I assume all of us would want. But imagine if you lived to be 100, or even 1000? In today’s English language listening lesson we talk about longevity.
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November 12, 2020
Learn English Speaking As We Discuss Scottish Kilts Ep 380
Adeptenglish helps people learn to speak English fluently. We do this using a technique you are all familiar with, as you have already used this language learning approach to learn your first native language. We all learned our first language by listening and interacting with our parent or careers.
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November 09, 2020
Learn How To Speak English While We Talk About OSIRIS REx Ep 379
Humans are quite remarkable. Unhappy with the wonder of travelling through our solar system on a blue spaceship called earth, we seek to go beyond what seems impossible and make it possible. So imagine launching a spaceship from earth, the size of a van, 200 million miles into space to meet a huge rock travelling at over 60 thousand miles an hour. Today we learn how to speak English and find our more about OSIRIS REx.
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November 05, 2020
Get Phrasal Verbs Much More Than A List Of Prepositions Part 2 Ep 378
One of the challenges of learning to speak English is that native English speakers use short English phrases which often have multiple meanings. The confusion arises when you take some prepositions and verbs, that mean one thing on their own and another when used together.
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November 02, 2020
A Eureka Moment In Our Conversation With English Listening Practice Ep 377
Today’s English lesson we are going to talk about a famous Greek word and our conversation will cover some new English vocabulary, and set out an everyday conversation with English listening practice.
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October 29, 2020
Learn Why Hair Matters While Learning How To Speak English Ep 376
When thinking about a topic for a new English lesson I often listen to what my friends are talking about or maybe my children and sometimes I seek our ideas from the current UK news? It’s important to me I find something contemporary, something that native English speakers are talking about today, using everyday English. Because the best content for a new English language learner to learn how to speak English fluently, is to listen to and use English that’s being spoken right now my millions of British people.
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October 26, 2020
Practise English Pronunciation With Tongue Twisters Ep 375
We haven’t had a lesson focus on English pronunciation for quite some time, so today we launch into what most people find hard to pronounce clearly and correctly. Even native English speakers will make mistakes doing these English pronunciation practice pieces.
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October 22, 2020
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.
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October 19, 2020
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.
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October 15, 2020
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.
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October 12, 2020
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.
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October 08, 2020
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.
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October 05, 2020
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.
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October 01, 2020
Learn About Acronyms While Listening To English Spoken Natively Ep 368
If you're investing your valuable time learning to speak a new language, like English, you are much better off listening to English being spoken by a native English speaker. If you intend to use your new English language skills, then practicing your English language skills with the people you are eventually going to be speaking with is a much more efficient approach to learning.
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September 28, 2020
UK Black Box Car Insurance A Conversation With English Listening Practice Ep 367
Frustration with technology, outrageous costs and the freedom to drive are in today’s English listening lesson. Today’s lesson takes the form of a conversation with English listening practice that will engage your interest and keep you interested in listening. All you have to do is sit back and listen, and listen as many times as you can.
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September 24, 2020
Horse Idioms English Lesson Ep 366
A recent comment on YouTube, which suggested that idioms make English interesting, got me thinking about English idioms. It has been a while since I last did an English idiom lesson, so today we are going to talk about a horse idiom I heard being used on BBC Radio 4.
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September 21, 2020
Direct And Reported Speech The Basics Of Grammar In English Ep 365
We recently had a question put to us about direct and reported speech. Understanding this is important. It is a basic part of grammar in English. So today we run through lots of examples of both types of speech. Although we try not to spend much time on grammar, as you learn this through listening anyway, sometimes it helps some people and we are here to help.
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September 17, 2020
Lets Talk About Shampoo As We Help You To Learn English Conversation Ep 364
If you’ve listened to Adept English before, you know that we try to make our English lessons interesting. And today, as we help you learn English conversation skills, we talk about hair. Yes, the hair we all have on our heads and if you care about how your hair looks, it’s going to be useful information that could change the way you wash your hair forever.
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September 14, 2020
Learn How To Speak English In Your Own Time Ep 363
There are lots of places that will help you learn to speak English, some are good and some are bad. However, there are very few good ones that help you learn HOW to speak English for FREE, using a modern approach to language learning. So you can do this in your own time at your pace.
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September 10, 2020
Discover Interesting Language Facts As You Learn English Language Fluency Ep 362
In today’s English lesson our goal is to learn and improve English Language Fluency through listening to a topical conversation spoken by a native English speaker. As usual, we try to make the lesson interesting as we expect you to listen to the lesson several times, you can learn more about why we ask you to do this here.
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September 07, 2020
Using A Suffix With Common English Words Ep 361
Today we talk about using a suffix or prefix. We discuss how to spot them in use, how to use them and what they mean. To help explain things, we take a common suffix and explain how to apply it with lots of examples. As usual with the English language, there are some special grammar rules, so we also explain these special cases.
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September 03, 2020
The Rooms In Your House - A Conversation With English Listening Practice Ep 360
Today’s English listening practice lesson is all about a typical English home. The lesson is an everyday conversation with English vocabulary and English listening practice in a discussion about the rooms and layout of a British home. With listeners from all around the world, living in many types of home, I suspect that there will be some new English vocabulary to learn.
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August 31, 2020
Thoughts About Chernobyl Miniseries While We Do Some English Listening Practice Ep 359
In today’s English listening practice, we talk about a popular TV mini-series called Chernobyl. It’s a story about true bravery in the face of impossible odds. Although the BBC didn't made the series, it’s really good, so if you like what you hear in today’s English lesson it might be worth checking out.
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August 27, 2020
Listen And Learn English - Learn Grammar The Natural Way Ep 358
In today’s podcast we will focus on your English comprehension. Your ability to listen to English being spoken and your understanding of the conversation. The conversation is about something very British, the BBC, so there will be lots of interesting vocabulary and grammar terms to learn.
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August 24, 2020
British English Speaking Practice A Journey To France Ep 357
For the briefest moment this summer, it was possible to travel by plane within Europe from the UK. As tempting as it is to make this English-speaking practice conversation about the nightmare journey, I will resist temptation and talk about a more positive aspect of the trip.
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August 20, 2020
Practice Conversations In English - How To Mess Up Your Exams Ep 356
Today we will talk about the slow motion train wreak that is the UK A Level exam results for England. Although we will have a measured conversation in English, I really want to shout and scream, because it’s just so unfair.
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August 17, 2020
Discover What I Do For Fun While We Do Some English Listening Practice Ep 355
We’ve done quite a lot of English grammar recently, and although we try to make it interesting, it’s grammar, so for most people it’s a bit boring. Today we will just pick a British topic and talk about something interesting, and all you have to do is listen and practice your English listening skills.
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August 13, 2020
Listen And Learn To Speak English - Learn Grammar The Easy Way Ep 354
It’s hot here in the UK. Much hotter than we British feel comfortable in. Add to the sunny weather a lot of working from home and you end up with a very good looking garden, or plant pots. A while back we mentioned that during lock down we would try to grow some vegetables from seeds and in today’s English grammar lesson we give you an update on how we got on.
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August 10, 2020
English Phrases - What Is Your Comfort Food? Ep 353
In today’s English lesson we explore some everyday English phrases in and around comfort foods. I have a few favourite foods, depending on the situation. So listen to this English audio lesson to help improve your spoken English fluency and find out what type of food I like on a cold rainy day in Britain.
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August 06, 2020
Adept English Learning Language Skills Little And Often Ep 352
Whenever you set out to do something new, like learning to speak English, something you want to do that is not part of your life’s routine at the moment, you need to prepare yourself. If you want to do something new, like learning a language, then you need to decide what things you need to do, and focus on adding this additional set of routines to your daily life.
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August 03, 2020
English Business Vocabulary Flaky British Businesses Ep 351
If your going to speak English at some point you will engage with a company, either as a buyer or seller of some goods or services. Today we will walk through a typical example of an interaction with a small company in the UK. Along the way we will hear and use English business vocabulary that you would expect in an everyday conversation.
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July 30, 2020
ESL English Grammar Lesson Helping You With English Propositions Ep 350
Today we will pick two confusing English prepositions and practise using them. It might be something you need to help with your everyday English speaking practise or maybe your ESL, English grammar can confuse and we are here to help with lots of English language listening practice.
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July 27, 2020
English Idioms That Are Too Big For Their Boots Ep 349
I was talking to a British colleague of mine about Adept English recently and mentioned that one of our English lessons will be on English idioms. They said nobody uses idioms that much anymore, and I laughed because the music on the radio at that very moment was Stormzy, a popular English rapper, was literally rapping a song about an English idiom at that very moment. The English use idioms all the time!
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July 23, 2020
Find Out About British Pets While Learning How To Speak English Ep 348
If you are learning to how to speak English fluently you need to listen to lots and lots of everyday English being spoken by a native English speaker. Finding lots of interesting English audio to help you practice listening to English and understanding English is harder than you would imagine.
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July 20, 2020
English Phrases With Just A Few Bars In Them Ep 347
Keeping up with English phrases can be difficult. Not only do English words fall in and out of everyday use. The English language often uses the same word, but with a different meaning. Lucky for you Adept English focuses on useful everyday English, so we can help you keep up.
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July 16, 2020
Learn How To Speak English While Listening To A Topical Discussion Ep 346
Do you want to learn how to speak English well? What if I told you that to speak English all you have to do is dramatically increase the amount of English you listen to.
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July 13, 2020
Time To Test Your English Tenses In This English Grammar Lesson Ep 345
In this lesson we will work on English tenses, and test ourselves on them. When you learn to speak a language through listening you get the benefit of learning the correct grammar automatically. If you use traditional approaches to study English, learning grammar can be difficult. In todays English lesson we hope to show you how listening can make it a little easier.
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July 09, 2020
Discover Why Pubs Are So Important In This Learn English Language Lesson Ep 344
In today’s lesson we will focus on English language fluency. We often use a news story or something topical to help keep the English lesson interesting, and this week talk about English pubs reopening.
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July 06, 2020
Why Traditional Speaking English Classes Are Not The Best Way To Learn English Ep 343
Did you know that all 7.5 billion of the people who live on our planet earth learned to speak their first language through listening.
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July 02, 2020
Making Esl English Grammar Easier One Tiny Word At A Time Ep 342
We haven’t talked about English grammar in a while, so today we jump in and pick just one English word since and take a thorough analysis into its correct use.
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June 29, 2020
Practise English Pronunciation Help With EEK and OGG Ep 341
It has been a while since we have focused on English pronunciation practise. Today we will focus on words that end with an OGG or EEK sound. Normally, when you listen to enough native English, you will pick up the correct pronunciation, but as always with English there are some words which you pronounce completely differently to the written words.
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June 25, 2020
Learn About UK Smart Motorways While Listening To English Spoken Natively Ep 340
The last time we were talking about English spoken natively was about the UK shutting down, so it seems appropriate to practice listening to English about something involved in the UK opening up again.
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June 22, 2020