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Perfect Pronunciation - Weak forms Oct 20, 2017

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In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Jack and Rich help you with one important area of pronunciation - weak forms. This is an aspect of pronunciation that often causes problems for learners because weak forms are difficult to hear. In this podcast, learn what weak forms are, how to notice them when you are listening and how to use them when you are speaking. In the lesson below, you will see lots of sentences about football and other topics that contain weak forms! Don't forget to listen until the end of the podcast because we have another football phrase for you too. Enjoy! You can find all the free learning activities, a quiz and a discussion on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/perfect-pronunciation-weak-forms #PL #Football #LearnEnglish #Pronunciation #Speaking #Podcast #BritishCouncil

Matchweek 8 Oct 17, 2017

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Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 8? Make your prediction for next week's big match and tell us how your club or fantasy football team is doing. We welcome comments from all football fans and especially welcome comments from football fans who are learning English. Join the discussion on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-8 #PremierLeague #Football #Learnenglish #PL #FPL

Understanding Grammar - Using the passive Oct 13, 2017

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In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Jack visits Cambridge to show us where the first ever football rules were written down. He also shows us a little bit of Cambridge and of course the famous university that is in the city. The language focus is on the passive. Find all the learning activities and resources on the Premier Skills English website https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/understanding-grammar-using-passive #Learnenglish #Grammar #Football #Premierleague #PL #Cambridge

Learning Vocabulary - Phrases with get Oct 06, 2017

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In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Rich gets angry because he has to get the bus. The language focus is on the verb with the longest entry in the dictionary - get. Jack and Rich look at five different ways of using get and how it can help you sound more natural when you are speaking. Your task is to transform 10 different sentences using phrases with get in order to make the sentences more natural sounding. As always, we also have a new football phrase for you to guess. Enjoy! Find all the learning activities and discussion points on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/learning-vocabulary-get #PremierLeague #LearnEnglish #Football #Vocabulary

Matchweek 7 Oct 02, 2017

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Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 7? Make your prediction for next week's big match and tell us how your club or fantasy football team is doing. We welcome comments from all football fans and especially welcome comments from football fans who are learning English. Make your predictions and join the discussion on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-7 #PremierLeague #football #LearnEnglish #FPL #PL #MUFC #ManUtd

This week - Matchweek 6 Sep 25, 2017

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Welcome to 'This Week' from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In 'This Week', Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 6? Make your prediction for next week's big match and tell us how your club or fantasy football team is doing. We welcome comments from all football fans and especially welcome comments from football fans who are learning English. Join the discussion on Premier Skills English: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-6 #football #PremierLeague #Chelsea #LearnEnglish #EPL #FPL

Understanding Grammar - How to use articles Sep 22, 2017

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In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich have a quiz for you that tests your knowledge of grammar and football. The language focus is on articles (a, an, the) and when to use them and when not to use them in English. They give ten rules about how to use articles correctly. As always, we also have a new football phrase for you to guess. Enjoy! Find all the free learning activities on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/understanding-grammar-how-use-articles

This week - Matchweek 5 Sep 18, 2017

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Welcome to 'This Week' from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In 'This Week', Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 5? Make your prediction for next week's big match and tell us how your club or fantasy football team is doing. We welcome comments from all football fans and especially welcome comments from football fans who are learning English. Join the discussion on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-5 #football #PremierLeague #LearnEnglish #ManchesterCity

Speaking Skills - Getting a haircut Sep 16, 2017

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In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about all things connected to getting your hair cut. They talk about some Premier League hairstyles and how to describe different types of hair. They introduce lots of different words and phrases connected to getting your hair cut and the language focus is on how we use the verbs 'have' and 'get' to talk about getting someone else to do something for us. The task for listeners is to write some sentences in the comments section that follow the have/get + object + past participle structure that is introduced in the podcast. As always, we also have a new football phrase for you to guess. Enjoy! Find the discussion, a quiz and all the intereactive learning activities on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/speaking-skills-getting-haircut #PremierLeague #Football #LearnEnglish

This week - Matchweek 4 Sep 11, 2017

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What happened in Matchweek 4 in the Premier League? Join the discussion and make your predictions on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-4 #Football #Soccer #LearnEnglish #PremierLeague

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