6 Minute English
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 25:35:21
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Synopsis
Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Friday.
Episodes
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Covid: One year on
25/02/2021 Duration: 06minOver a year on since the first outbreak, what have we learnt? We talk about the pandemic.
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Singing in tune
18/02/2021 Duration: 06minNeil and Georgina discuss singing and teach you related vocabulary along the way.
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Working for yourself
11/02/2021 Duration: 06minRob and Georgina talk about the advantages and disadvantages of freelancing.
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How much heat do you lose from your head?
04/02/2021 Duration: 06minRob and Georgina talk about percentages and teach you some English vocabulary.
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The woman whose cells never die
28/01/2021 Duration: 06minRob and Georgina discuss medical research and teach you related vocabulary.
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What makes a good story?
21/01/2021 Duration: 06minHear about storytelling and how it helps us to connect and communicate.
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For the love of foreign languages
14/01/2021 Duration: 06minIs learning languages good for head, heart and soul?
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Why can't we resist comfort food?
07/01/2021 Duration: 06minNeil and Rob talk about comfort food and what actually makes us eat it.
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What is fat-shaming?
31/12/2020 Duration: 06minWe discuss where the attitudes behind fat-shaming come from.
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Coronavirus vs other pandemics
24/12/2020 Duration: 06minHear about coronavirus and how it isn’t that bad compared to historical pandemics
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Are trees intelligent?
17/12/2020 Duration: 06minWe talk about trees and how they can communicate and help each other.
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Can jellyfish help us solve our problems?
10/12/2020 Duration: 06minWe discuss how these sea creatures could help us solve the problem of plastic pollution.
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Why do we choose to text instead of talk?
03/12/2020 Duration: 06minCommunicating by text has become more and more popular. Neil and Georgina talk about it.
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Loneliness
26/11/2020 Duration: 06minNeil and Rob talk about loneliness and how some people prefer their own company.
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Is punctuality important?
19/11/2020 Duration: 06minWe discuss people's attitude to being on time and why some people are always late.
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Could you be a victim of online fraud?
12/11/2020 Duration: 06minWe talk about online fraud and teach you some useful vocabulary along the way.
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Melting ice sheet: Is it too late?
05/11/2020 Duration: 06minMany scientists are wondering whether it’s now too late to stop global warming.
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Walkman: the music player revolution
29/10/2020 Duration: 06minNeil and Georgina take a nostalgic look back at the 1980s and the birth of the Walkman.
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Could humans live in underwater cities?
22/10/2020 Duration: 06minHear about projects to create liveable underwater habitats and learn new vocabulary.
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Hacking help for US elections
15/10/2020 Duration: 06minRob and Sam discuss plans in the US to reduce the risk of cyber-attacks on election day.