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Learn English with the British Council and Premier League

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Episodes

Matchweek 16: Local Rivals

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 , Rich and Jack talk about the latest action from the Premier League and have lots of football English for you to learn. Complete the lesson and practice using your football English on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > This week > Matchweek 16: Local rivals...

Dec 09, 201912 min

Understanding Grammar - Superlatives

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast , Rich is having problems choosing presents to buy for family and friends. Jack thinks the easiest thing to do is buy everyone the same present. What do you think this present is? The language focus is on superlative adjectives . Your task is to create a 'best' list. Tell us about the best football match you've ever seen, the most exciting film you've ever watched or the tastiest food you've ever tasted. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podca...

Dec 06, 201919 min

Matchweek 14: Under new management

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 , Rich and Jack talk about the latest action from the Premier League and have lots of football English for you to learn. Complete the lesson and practise your English on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > This week > Matchweek 14: Under new management...

Dec 02, 201913 min

Learning Vocabulary: Crime

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast , Rich and Jack find a large amount of money in the park and need to decide what to do with it. Will they make the right decision? The language focus is on vocabulary connected to crime . Your task is to tell about a crime you've seen in a police series on TV or in a film. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess. Complete the lesson and practise your English on Premier Skills English &gt...

Nov 28, 201918 min

Matchweek 13: Pile on the pressure

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 , Rich and Jack talk about the latest action from the Premier League and have lots of football English for you to learn. Complete the lesson and practise using your football English on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcast > This week > Matchweek 13: Pile on the pressure...

Nov 25, 201911 min

Understanding Grammar - Intensifiers

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast , Rich and Jack are meeting to watch the match but Rich is really late. Jack gives Rich a half-time match report that he later discovers is not true. The language focus is on four different intensifiers that are used to make language stronger: so & such and enough & too . Your task is to tell us a short anecdote using the language you have learned in the podcast Don't forget to listen until the end of the podcast because we have a new footbal...

Nov 22, 201916 min

Women's Football Weekend: Record attendances

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 and have lots of football English for you to learn. There was no Premier League action last weekend but Premier League clubs were in action in the Women’s Super League. Practise using your English and complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > This week...

Nov 18, 201911 min

Learning Vocabulary: Fitness & the Environment

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast , Jack takes Rich 'plogging' which is a new way to keep fit and help the environment at the same time. The language focus is on phrasal verbs connected to fitness such as 'work on' and 'keep up' and words & phrases connected to the environment such as 'recyclable' and 'rubbish' or 'garbage'. Your task is to tell us what exercise you do that is environmentally friendly. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast because we have a new footbal...

Nov 15, 201917 min

Matchweek 12: A Thunderbolt

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 , Rich and Jack talk about the latest action from the Premier League and have lots of football English for you to learn. Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > This Week > Matchweek 12: A Thunderbolt...

Nov 11, 201911 min

Understanding Grammar: Getting Something Done

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast , Jack discovers that Rich is really lazy and that he will always try to get other people to do things for him rather than do the thing himself. The language focus is on the causative form which is the structure we use when we talk about something that someone else did for us (get/have something done) . Your task is to tell us about a few things that you have done because you can't (or won't) do them yourself. Don't forget to listen until the end of ...

Nov 07, 201914 min

Matchweek 11: A glancing header

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 and have lots of football English for you to learn. Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > This week > Matchweek 11: A glancing header...

Nov 04, 201911 min

Learning Vocabulary: Free-time Activities

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast , Jack wants to host a dinner with family & friends at his house but everyone seems to be too busy. The language focus is on verb-noun collocations to describe free-time activities and phrases we use to invite people to events and polite ways of saying no to invitations . Your task is to organise an event in your house, city or country and invite other listeners to your event. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast because we have a new...

Oct 31, 201917 min

Matchweek 10: Smashed

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 and have lots of football English for you to learn. Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > This week > Matchweek 10: Smashed...

Oct 28, 201911 min

Understanding Grammar - Scary Stories - Narrative Tenses

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, as it's nearly Halloween, Jack and Rich both have a spooky story to tell. The language focus is on grammar and narrative tenses but they also have lots of words and phrases connected to fear for you to learn. Your task is to re-tell Jack's scary story using narrative tenses. Don't forget to listen until the end of the podcast because we have a special frightening football phrase for you, too. Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills...

Oct 25, 201919 min

Matchweek 9: The back post

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 and have lots of football English for you to learn. Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > This week > Matchweek 9: The back post...

Oct 21, 201910 min

Learning Vocabulary: Dependent prepositions

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast , Jack and Rich talk about their plans for the weekend. Jack is excited about his plans but Rich is fed up with doing the same thing all the time. The language focus is on dependent prepositions which are prepositions that very often go together with nouns, verbs and adjectives. Your task is to talk about plans for the future and use some of the dependent prepositions we introduce in the podcast. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast becau...

Oct 18, 201918 min

Women's Super League: A winning streak

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 and have lots of football English for you to learn. There was no Premier League action last weekend but Premier League clubs were in action in the Women’s Super League. Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > This week > Women's Super League: A wi...

Oct 15, 20199 min

English & the UK: Sheffield

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast , Jack and Rich continue a series of podcasts called ' English & the UK ' which focus on Premier League cities. They will tell you more about what you can find in these cities and focus on some of the language you need when visiting places in these cities. The city they are visiting in this episode is Sheffield and the language focus is on 10 phrases that use the word 'first' . This week, Jack and Rich have 10 short dialogues for you to listen to...

Oct 10, 201921 min

Matchweek 8 - Cool, calm and collected

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 and have lots of football English for you to learn. Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > This week > Matchweek 8 - Cool, calm and collected...

Oct 08, 201910 min

Understanding Grammar - Questions

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast , Jack and Rich focus on grammar and take a look at different question types . They have three roleplays for you this week, in two of them they are playing games that involve asking questions and in the other Jack is trying to find a place in town. Your tasks are to challenge other listeners to guess a mystery footballer and to ask politely about something connected to another listener's country or city. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podca...

Oct 04, 201919 min
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