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This week - Matchweek 6 - Against the run of play Sep 24, 2018

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Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about the latest action from the Premier League. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and have lots of football English for you to learn.

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Speaking Skills: Pitching a product Sep 20, 2018

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In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich ask you to invest in a product they have invented. We give you an imaginary £100 million and you have to listen to Jack and Rich's sales pitches and decide which product to invest your money in. The language focus is on phrases we use in sales pitches and words connected to making money. Your task this week is to write a sales pitch for your own product. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess, too. Enjoy!

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This week - Matchweek 5 - Convincing wins Sep 17, 2018

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Learning Vocabulary: It's raining cats and dogs Sep 16, 2018

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In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about rain. It rains quite a lot in the UK so we have a lot of words and phrases connected to rain. Do you know the phrases 'torrential downpour' and 'raining cats and dogs'? Your task this week is to answer three questions about rain in your country. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess, too. Enjoy!

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Understanding Grammar - Indirect questions Sep 07, 2018

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In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about being more polite in English. One way to be more polite is by using indirect questions when you are speaking to be people you don't know well. Jack and Rich focus on how we create indirect questions and how they are different from direct questions. Your task this week is to change six direct questions into indirect questions in order to be more polite. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess, too. Enjoy!

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This week - Matchweek 4 - Breaking the deadlock Sep 03, 2018

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Speaking Skills - Different Opinions Aug 31, 2018

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In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about football rules and laws they would like to change. The language focus is on words and phrases we use to give strong opinions and phrases we use to respond to other people's opinions. Your task is to tell us about a rule or law that you would like to change in the comments section. As always, we have a new football phrase for you to guess at the end of the podcast. Enjoy!

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This week - Matchweek 3 - First wins and late wins Aug 27, 2018

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Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. This week, Jack and Rich talk about the latest action from the Premier League. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and have lots of football English for you to learn.

Find all the activities, competitions and discussion sections on the website.

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Learning Vocabulary: At the gym Aug 23, 2018

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In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Rich goes to a gym for the first time and talks about the experience. In the roleplay, Jack is a gym instructor and Rich is trying out some of the equipment. The language focus is on the words and phrases we use when talking about exercise and fitness. Your task is to complete our fitness challenge and tell us all about it. As always, we also have a new football phrase for you to guess at the end of the podcast. Enjoy!

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This week - Matchweek 2 - Hat-trick Hero Aug 20, 2018

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Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about the recent action form the Premier League. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and describe lots of football English for you to learn.

Find the transcript, competitions and a discussion section on the Premier Skills English website:

https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-2-hat-trick-hero

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