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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Learning Vocabulary: Phrasal verbs with 'turn'
16/11/2018 Duration: 11minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about television, films and cinema. In our roleplays, they take a trip to the cinema and talk about films they would like to see. The language focus is on vocabulary connected to the cinema and phrasal verbs with 'turn'. Your task this week is to persuade other listeners to watch a film you enjoyed. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess, too. Enjoy!Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English: Podcasts > Learning Vocabulary: Phrasal verbs with 'turn'
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Matchweek 12 - Never in doubt
12/11/2018 Duration: 08minWelcome 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. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and have lots of football English for you to learn.Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Podcasts > This week > Matchweek 12 > Never in doubt
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Exam Training: Quizzes and Listening
09/11/2018 Duration: 14minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack has the chance to win £10,000 in a TV quiz. Will he win the top prize? Rich and Jack also give you some tips for dealing with listening exams. They look at the different types of exam questions you might need to answer and focus on how to answer summary completion activities. The language focus is on some confusing words connected to sports. Do you know the difference between 'spectator' and 'viewer' or 'umpire' and 'referee'? Your task is to write a quiz question for other listeners. 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 full lesson on Premier Skills English > Podcasts > Exam Training: Quizzes & ListeningThe music playing during the quiz at the beginning is Kiss the Sky by Scott Holmes available on CC BY-NC 4.0
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Matchweek 11 - Sour Grapes
06/11/2018 Duration: 08minWelcome 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. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and have lots of football English for you to learn.Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English: This week > Matchweek 11 - Sour Grapes
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Understanding Grammar: be/get used to
02/11/2018 Duration: 11minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about things in the UK and the Premier League that are easy and difficult to get used to. The language focus is on how we use be used to and get used to to speak about things that were unfamiliar or unusual in the past. Your task this week is to imagine that you are moving to the UK to play Premier League football and the things you have to get used to. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess.Complete the full lesson on Premier Skills English > Listen > Podcasts > Understanding Grammar: be / get used to
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Matchweek 10 - Chalked off
29/10/2018 Duration: 08minWelcome 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. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and have lots of football English for you to learn.Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English - This week - Matchweek 10 - Chalked off
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This week - Matchweek 9 - Pegged back
22/10/2018 Duration: 08minWelcome 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. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and have lots of football English for you to learn.Complete the full lesson at Premier Skills English - This Week - Matchweek 9 - Pegged back
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This week - Matchweek 8 - Blazed over
08/10/2018 Duration: 08minWelcome 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. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and have lots of football English for you to learn.Complete the full lesson at Premier Skills English - This Week - Matchweek 8 - Blazed over
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This week - Matchweek 7 - All square
01/10/2018 Duration: 08minWelcome 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. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and have lots of football English for you to learn.Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English - This week - Matchweek 7 - All square
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Understanding Grammar - Quantifiers
27/09/2018 Duration: 15minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about collecting things and quantifiers. These are the words we use to describe the amount of something. We use different quantifiers depending if the noun is countable or uncountable and some quantifiers can be used with both types of noun. Your task this week is to tell us about two things that you collected when you were younger. 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: Understanding Grammar - Quantifiers
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This week - Matchweek 6 - Against the run of play
24/09/2018 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. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and have lots of football English for you to learn.Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English: This week - Matchweek 6 - Against the run of play
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Speaking Skills: Pitching a product
20/09/2018 Duration: 19minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich ask you to invest in a product they have invented. We give you an imaginary £100 million and you have to listen to Jack and Rich's sales pitches and decide which product to invest your money in. The language focus is on phrases we use in sales pitches and words connected to making money. Your task this week is to write a sales pitch for your own product. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess, too. Enjoy!Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English: Speaking skills - Pitching a product
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This week - Matchweek 5 - Convincing wins
17/09/2018 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. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and have lots of football English for you to learn.Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English: This week - Matchweek 5 - Convincing wins
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Learning Vocabulary: It's raining cats and dogs
16/09/2018 Duration: 12minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about rain. It rains quite a lot in the UK so we have a lot of words and phrases connected to rain. Do you know the phrases 'torrential downpour' and 'raining cats and dogs'? Your task this week is to answer three questions about rain 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, too. Enjoy!Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English Podcasts: Learning Vocabulary - It's raining cats and dogs
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Understanding Grammar - Indirect questions
07/09/2018 Duration: 13minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about being more polite in English. One way to be more polite is by using indirect questions when you are speaking to be people you don't know well. Jack and Rich focus on how we create indirect questions and how they are different from direct questions. Your task this week is to change six direct questions into indirect questions in order to be more polite. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess, too. Enjoy!Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English: Understanding Grammar - Indirect questions
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This week - Matchweek 4 - Breaking the deadlock
03/09/2018 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. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and have lots of football English for you to learn.Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English: This week - Matchweek 4 - Breaking the deadlock
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Speaking Skills - Different Opinions
31/08/2018 Duration: 16minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about football rules and laws they would like to change. The language focus is on words and phrases we use to give strong opinions and phrases we use to respond to other people's opinions. Your task is to tell us about a rule or law that you would like to change in the comments section. As always, we have a new football phrase for you to guess at the end of the podcast. Enjoy!Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English: Speaking Skills - Different Opinions
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This week - Matchweek 3 - First wins and late wins
27/08/2018 Duration: 09minWelcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. This week, Jack and Rich talk about the latest action from the Premier League. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and have lots of football English for you to learn.Find all the activities, competitions and discussion sections on the website.#LearnEnglish #PremierLeague #EPL #BritishCouncil
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Learning Vocabulary: At the gym
23/08/2018 Duration: 16minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Rich goes to a gym for the first time and talks about the experience. In the roleplay, Jack is a gym instructor and Rich is trying out some of the equipment. The language focus is on the words and phrases we use when talking about exercise and fitness. Your task is to complete our fitness challenge and tell us all about it. As always, we also have a new football phrase for you to guess at the end of the podcast. Enjoy!Complete the full lesson on Premier Skills English.
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This week - Matchweek 2 - Hat-trick Hero
20/08/2018 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 recent action form the Premier League. They keep you up to date with our new prediction competition and describe lots of football English for you to learn.Find the transcript, competitions and a discussion section on the Premier Skills English website:https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-2-hat-trick-hero