Synopsis
Premier Skills English is a website from the British Council and Premier League for people who are learning English and love football. If you want to know more, get in touch at premierskills@britishcouncil.org.
Episodes
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Matchweek 18: World Champions
23/12/2019 Duration: 11minWelcome 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 > This week > Matchweek 18: World Champions
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Learning Vocabulary: Christmas in the UK
20/12/2019 Duration: 21minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich give you an alternative countdown of the top ten things people in the UK do at Christmas time. The language focus is on vocabulary connected to Christmas. Your task is to tell us about a custom 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. Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > Learning Vocabulary: Christmas in the UK
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Learning Vocabulary: Shopping for bargains
17/12/2019 Duration: 21minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich go to a shopping centre to do some Christmas shopping and hope to find a bargain or two. Will Jack spend any money? Will Rich manage to buy something that's not for himself? The language focus is on vocabulary connected shopping and prices. Your task is to tell about a bargain you bought. 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 on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts> Learning Vocabulary: Shopping for bargains
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Matchweek 17: Set your sights on something
16/12/2019 Duration: 11minWelcome 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 > This week > Matcheweek 17: Set your sights on something
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Matchweek 16: Local Rivals
09/12/2019 Duration: 11minWelcome 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
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Understanding Grammar - Superlatives
06/12/2019 Duration: 19minIn 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 podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess. Complete the lesson and activities on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > Understanding Grammar: Superlatives
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Matchweek 14: Under new management
02/12/2019 Duration: 12minWelcome 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
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Learning Vocabulary: Crime
28/11/2019 Duration: 17minIn 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 > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > Learning Vocabulary: Crime
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Matchweek 13: Pile on the pressure
25/11/2019 Duration: 10minWelcome 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
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Understanding Grammar - Intensifiers
22/11/2019 Duration: 16minIn 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 football phrase for you to guess. Complete the lesson and practise your English on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > Understsnding Grammar: Intensifiers
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Women's Football Weekend: Record attendances
18/11/2019 Duration: 10minWelcome 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 > Women's Football Weekend: Record attendances
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Learning Vocabulary: Fitness & the Environment
15/11/2019 Duration: 16minIn 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 football phrase for you to guess. Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > Learning Vocabulary: Fitness & the Environment
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Matchweek 12: A Thunderbolt
11/11/2019 Duration: 11minWelcome 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
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Understanding Grammar: Getting Something Done
07/11/2019 Duration: 14minIn 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 the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess. Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > Understanding Grammar: Getting Something Done
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Matchweek 11: A glancing header
04/11/2019 Duration: 11minWelcome 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
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Learning Vocabulary: Free-time Activities
31/10/2019 Duration: 17minIn 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 football phrase for you to guess. Enjoy! Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > Learning Vocabulary: Free-time Activities
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Matchweek 10: Smashed
28/10/2019 Duration: 11minWelcome 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
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Understanding Grammar - Scary Stories - Narrative Tenses
25/10/2019 Duration: 19minIn 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 > Listen > Podcasts > Understanding Grammar: Scary Stories (Narrative Tenses)
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Matchweek 9: The back post
21/10/2019 Duration: 09minWelcome 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
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Learning Vocabulary: Dependent prepositions
18/10/2019 Duration: 18minIn 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 because we have a new football phrase for you to guess. Enjoy! Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > Learning Vocabulary: Dependent prepositions