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86 - Singing and Dancing Feb 08, 2018

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Hello!! Do you like singing? Do you sing in the shower or when you’re driving? Are you a good singer or do people start crying when you do your best karaoke?! Or are you a dancer? Do you love to boogie the night away at the local disco? Or dance in your bedroom to your favourite song when nobody is looking?! This week your hosts, Dan from England & Jennifer from the USA are answering all of these questions and more. After the native speaker chat, the language focus this week is all about British English pronunciation. Enjoy!!

85 - Creativity Feb 02, 2018

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84 - Aging Jan 26, 2018

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English Across The Pond is a podcast for English language learners brought to you by Dan (from The UK) & Jennifer (from the US). We serve up a perfect blend of chat, fun & language improvement every week. Welcome!! You're doing it, I'm doing it, we're all doing it - getting older! How do you feel about aging? Does it worry you? This week your 2 English teacher hosts, Dan from England & Jennifer from America, are chatting about the passing of time. Listen to their native speaker conversation to improve your listening skills & vocabulary then stay tuned for the language focus which is all about comparative adjectives. Enjoy the episode!

83 - Obstacles Jan 19, 2018

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English Across The Pond is a podcast for English language learners brought to you by Dan (from The UK) & Jennifer (from the US). We serve up a perfect blend of chat, fun & language improvement every week. Welcome!! Obstacles are things that get in your way and stop you from going where you want to go or doing what you want to do. Are you facing any obstacles in your life at the moment? This week we're talking about our obstacles and how we feel we can best overcome them. In the language focus we're focusing on a key word from this week's topic - face. Enjoy the podcast!

82 - Names Jan 12, 2018

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English Across The Pond is a podcast for English language learners brought to you by Dan (from The UK) & Jennifer (from the US). We serve up a perfect blend of chat, fun & language improvement every week. Welcome!! Hi, who are you?! This week we (your podcasts hosts Dan from the UK & Jennifer from America)are chatting about something we all have - a name! Find out what we think of our names and what names are popular at the moment in America & England. The language focus is grammar based & all about proper nouns. Enjoy!

81 - 20 Questions Jan 05, 2018

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English Across The Pond is a podcast for English language learners brought to you by Dan (from The UK) & Jennifer (from the US). We serve up a perfect blend of chat, fun & language improvement every week. Happy New Year to our listeners both new and old and welcome to our first podcast of 2018 yay! This week we're asking one another lots of questions. This will hopefully allow you to get to know us a little better and also to hear authentic English being used in a real native speaker conversation. After the chat, the language focus will help you to understand the use of questions even more. Enjoy!

80 - Looking Back, Looking Forward Dec 28, 2017

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English Across The Pond is a podcast for English language learners brought to you by Dan (from The UK) & Jennifer (from the US). We serve up a perfect blend of chat, fun & language improvement every week. Welcome!! === Another year over, a new one just begun :) We’ve come to the end of 2017 - this year has gone by so quickly for us here at English Across The Pond and we have loved, loved, loved bringing our podcast episodes to you. This week we’re looking back over the year, chatting about the podcast and lives in general. We’re also getting excited about 2018. The language focus is all about the grammar of the past and the future - perfect!! Happy New Year everyone :)

79 - New Words in English Dec 21, 2017

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Noob. Destinesia. To throw shade. If you are wondering what these word mean then this is the episode for you! This week your podcast hosts Jennifer (the US) & Dan (the UK) are looking at some of the more recent additions to the English language. Find out about 15 (there were more but we ran out of time!) new words, how to pronounce them and how and when you can use them. After the chat Dan goes through all of the words a little more slowly to make sure you can fully understand & start using them ... today. Amazeballs! We hope you enjoy the episode.

78 - Exercise Dec 14, 2017

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This week’s episode is all about something that we know we SHOULD do, but many of us don’t do - exercise!! Do you exercise? Swimming? Cycling? Running? Going to the gym? This week your 2 native speaker hosts, Dan from the UK & Jennifer for the US, are chatting about what exercise they (should!) do, the excuses they have for not doing them and a whole lot more besides. After the conversation, Jennifer introduces some common phrasal verbs related to exercise and fitness - so try to keep up :) Enjoy the episode!

77 - Dreams Dec 07, 2017

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‘A series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep.’ This week your native speaker podcast hosts Jennifer (from America) & Dan (from England) are talking about the weird and wonderful things that happen when we’re asleep - dreams! Do you often remember your dreams? What about nightmares? And are you a daydreamer? After chatting about these questions, the language focus this week is about the prepositions ‘of’ and ‘about’ - we hope you enjoy the episode!

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