This episode starts with an important announcement - an invitation to ZEP Live Show featuring Nrup, which is happening tomorrow at 9pm central European time. All the ins and outs about this including how to join are said in the first few minutes of the episode. The main aim of this episode, though, is to show you some essential functional language you may employ during speaking parts of exams such as IELTS and Cambridge exams. we are talking about the language English speakers use for giving the...
May 16, 2020•27 min•Ep. 515
For this episode I invited Giovannina from Italy, Martin from Germany and Jiaqi from China. They wrap this long series up.
May 07, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 513
This is part 5 of the coronavirus mini-interview series in which you will hear from Clare from the UK, Diana from Mexico, and Ryota from Japan.
Apr 23, 2020•42 min•Ep. 512
This is part 4 of the Coronavirus mini interview series. This time I speak to my friends from the USA, Macedonia, Spain, and Sweden.
Apr 13, 2020•57 min•Ep. 511
This is part 3 of the coranovirus mini interviews series. This time features Kieren from England, Kais from the Netherlands, Nikita from Canada, and Darkan from Kazakhstan.
Apr 05, 2020•45 min•Ep. 510
This is part 2 of the series about Coronavirus in which I interview people from different countries. This time I have the pleasure to talk to Luke of Luke's English Podcast from England, Rita from Italy, Lavi from Hungary, and Nrup from India. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Facebook - join Zdenek's English Podcast Facebook group, like, share and comment on Facebook www.teacherzdenek.com - my website (work in progress) Apple Podcasts - wr...
Apr 03, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 509
In this admittedly rather depressing series I talk to my friends who live in different parts of the world to tell us about how the coronavirus crisis is being tackled in their country and how this situation is personality affecting their lives. This series has a form of mini interviews which are about 8-10 minutes long and there will be more parts to follow. Part 1 features Alexander from Russia, Musa from Turkey who is currently living in the UK, Daniel from Switzerland who is also known from M...
Apr 01, 2020•41 min•Ep. 508
In this slightly depressing "rantlike" episode I give you all reasons why I decided to go back to the Czech Republic, and also my thoughts on the coronavirus disease.
Mar 29, 2020•40 min•Ep. 507
In this episode I speak to Fatme who is a bit shy, but lovely and funny student of mine. She is bilingual in Bulgarian and Turkish and can speak 5 languages in total. We talk about those languages and how she acquired them, Luke's English Podcast, the Koronavirus, our English classes, and Fatme's Passion for Boxing and Kickboxing. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Facebook - join Zdenek's English Podcast Facebook group, like, share and comm...
Mar 16, 2020•50 min•Ep. 506
In this episode I talk to my ex-student Diana from Mexico. I taught Diana for about 5 months in total so it felt very fitting to finish off her English study adventures here in the UK with an interview for Zdenek's English Podcast. The interview revolves around three main topics. Diana's professional life as a journalist, her home country Mexico, and our lessons and Diana's unreserved love for my teaching methods i.e. my use of board games in our classes. ________________________________________...
Mar 16, 2020•31 min•Ep. 505
This episode has 2 parts. In the first part, I go through some mistakes I made in the previous episode and clarify potential sticking points. Part 2 is devoted to the topic of reporting verbs. It is done in a for of an exercise. In fact, you will have a unique chance to listen to an exercise I prepared for my upper intermediate students this week. I thought, I might as well make an episode of it. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Facebook -...
Mar 14, 2020•38 min•Ep. 504
This episode follows unit 12 from book called "English for Everyone English Idioms: Learn and practise common idioms and expressions". Using my own fun examples, I go through 20 selected idioms about emotions. Disclaimer: This episode is unedited.
Mar 08, 2020•55 min•Ep. 503
In this episode I talk to my Czech friend Diana who has been living in the UK for more than 10 years. Throughout the episode I express my great admiration for her English and specifically accent. Her learning story is truly an inspiring one. How did she manage to get her English to such level? How come she now has such an amazing accent? What has been her journey here in the UK? Listen to find out.
Feb 24, 2020•38 min•Ep. 502
This episode was recorded during one of my English classes, namely the intermediate class. This was the first time I'd had a Spanish guest on the podcast and we decided to talk about English stereotypes. We dealt with timekeeping, food, drinks and others trying to offer a balanced view of positive and negative ones.
Feb 09, 2020•32 min•Ep. 501
This episode is dedicated to Nurcan Baysal who is a Kurdish journalist and a human rights activist from Turkey. Few months ago I taught her in an advanced class here in London. A week later I went to a panel discussion with her in Free Word in Farringdon. I had been invited to this event by my colleague Billie, an English teacher, who also features in this episode. Essentially, the episode is a series of monologues and dialogues with Billie and also my cousin Honza who as we know knows a lot abo...
Jan 24, 2020•46 min•Ep. 500
In this episode, I speak to Rafael aka Why me from the USA about different topics, but mostly his visit of London The Globe theatre, his studies to become a thespian (actor), Dracula, Kingdoms of Deceit, Italian artists, and other seemingly unrelated things. Rafael also tells a a joke, which I first failed to understand. Silly me. I mean...why me?
Jan 16, 2020•41 min•Ep. 499
In this episode I interview Cristina, a singer Italy that I taught in London for couple of months. She is a huge personality, and was an absolute pleasure to teach. We speak about learning English, London, and Cristina's love for singing. Make sure you subscribe to her Youtube channel and definitely listen to the very end of this episode. I promise, you are in for a treat. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Facebook - join Zdenek's English P...
Dec 28, 2019•32 min•Ep. 498
The classic episode is back, although this time it is a bit different.
Dec 28, 2019•27 min•Ep. 497
As someone who is not a fan of Brexit and Boris Johnson, I was gutted when the general elections results were published this Thursday. I called Nick on Discord, a political science student from the UK, to help us understand what had happened.
Dec 14, 2019•30 min•Ep. 496
In this episode, I speak to my academic manager from my summer job in Wembley Michelle. Michelle is from Ireland, but she has also worked in UAE for 5 years. She has a very nice accent and is well educated. Currently she is doing a PHD in linguistics, but she already has a couple of degrees under her belt. Her research is focusing on cultural difficulties that teachers that teach in places like UAE face. Apart from talking about her studies, we also touch on linguistics in general and why we bot...
Dec 05, 2019•44 min•Ep. 495
In this episode, I have a friendly chat with Aisling who was my colleague at a summer camp in Wembley. Before I recorded this, I did little research and dug out 11 stereotypes on Irish people. The idea is that I ask Aisling how he feels about them and whether she thinks they are true.
Nov 17, 2019•33 min•Ep. 494
In this episode, I talk to Matea, an English teacher from Croatia, about how she got to such a high English level, her role in England, board games, TV series, and other geeky stuff.
Nov 12, 2019•36 min•Ep. 493
In this episode of the podcast I speak to Cassandra who was my colleague back in summer. She is a drama student so you can imagine having her on the podcast is a real win. Cassandra is very well-spoken and outspoken. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Facebook - join Zdenek's English Podcast Facebook group, like, share and comment on Facebook teacherzdenek.com - my website (work in progress) I-tunes - write a brief review on I-tunes and help...
Nov 02, 2019•24 min•Ep. 492
This is a no-nonsense episode in which I teach you everything you need to know about the so unpopular English tense "present perfect".
Oct 20, 2019•44 min•Ep. 491
This summer I worked for MLI with a lot of interesting people again. In this particular episode, it's Neimo who actually makes a ZEP comeback. Here is the episode from last year with her: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/zdenek-s-english-podcast/episode-227-a-chat-with-my-english-colleague-in-ox/ How is Neimo doing? What's the update on her medicine studies in Romania? And what was in her view the worst piece news of summer for the UK? You wouldn't have guessed it. ________________________________...
Oct 13, 2019•24 min•Ep. 490
In this episode, I am catching up with my friend Mark again. This is his fourth appearance on the podcast. What has he been up to? What new activity has he taken up? There is also an overarching theme of weather idioms.
Oct 06, 2019•48 min•Ep. 489
This episode is an unplanned one. I woke up in the morning and while preparing for today's afternoon classes, I decided to make a listening exercise to practise vocabulary I taught my students yesterday. And then I realized that I might have enough material to publish it as an episode of my podcast as well. I will be talking about compounds, idioms, collocations, binominal phrases, sayings, and blends. Brace yourself, and prepare a pen and paper.
Sep 27, 2019•24 min•Ep. 488
Remember the legendary episode 55 about a random guy from the train? Well, here is a sequel to it. This time I met a well-educated Iranian lecturer.
Sep 26, 2019•35 min•Ep. 487
In this episode, Nrup looks back at his first academic year at Charles University. Being a medical student at such a reputable university is not easy, but Nrup certainly has the right attitude.
Sep 16, 2019•30 min•Ep. 486
In this episode, I speak to my friend Nrup about football. We try to sum up season 2018-2019 from Arsenal's point of view and we go through a list of football-related vocabulary and explain it. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Facebook - join Zdenek's English Podcast Facebook group, like, share and comment on Facebook teacherzdenek.com - my website (work in progress) I-tunes - write a brief review on I-tunes and help more people find this ...
Sep 01, 2019•41 min•Ep. 485
