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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This week - Matchweek 13
27/11/2017 Duration: 08minWelcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 13? Make your prediction for next week's big match and tell us how your club or fantasy football team is doing. We welcome comments from all football fans and especially welcome comments from football fans who are learning English.https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-13 #PL #PremierLeague #LearnEnglish #BritishCouncil
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Understanding Grammar - Too v Enough
24/11/2017 Duration: 15minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Rich is very tired and he doesn't know why. Jack thinks it might be Rich's diet or lack of exercise, but it's actually something very different. The language focus is on the words enough and too and how we use them to talk about things we would like to do more of and things we would like to do less. As always, we also have a new football phrase for you to guess. Enjoy! Find all the learning materials on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/understanding-grammar-enough-v-too
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This week - Matchweek 12
20/11/2017 Duration: 08minWelcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 12? Make your prediction for next week's big match and tell us how your club or fantasy football team is doing. We welcome comments from all football fans and especially welcome comments from football fans who are learning English.https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-12
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Learning Vocabulary - Phrases with make
17/11/2017 Duration: 16minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack makes a fool out of Rich and Rich makes a crossword for his students. The language focus is on a verb with lots of different meanings - make. Jack and Rich look at five different ways of using make and how you can these phrases in your speaking and writing. Your task is to complete a crossword using phrases with make and to find the secret word. As always, we also have a new football phrase for you to guess. Enjoy! Find all the learning activities, a quiz and a discussion on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/learning-vocabulary-make #LearnEnglish #PremierLeague # Vocabulary #PL #English
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Speaking Skills - Interrupting
09/11/2017 Duration: 13minIn this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack help you with the language you need when you want to interrupt someone. This is a speaking skill that can be difficult because you have to wait for the right moment and often need to be polite. Jack and Rich look at some polite (and less polite) phrases that you can use to interrupt people. They also look at some phrases that you can use when someone interrupts you to return to the same topic after the interruption. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess so don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast. Enjoy! Find all the learning activities, a quiz, a discussion and downloads for teachers on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/speaking-skills-interrupting #LearnEnglish #PremierLeague #Speaking #Football #PL #ELT
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Matchweek 11
07/11/2017 Duration: 10minWelcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 11? Make your prediction for next week's big match and tell us how your club or fantasy football team is doing. We welcome comments from all football fans and especially welcome comments from football fans who are learning English. Join the discussion and practise your English skills on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-11 #PL #Football #PremierLeague #LearnEnglish #Vocabulary #Chelsea #ManchesterCity
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Speaking exams - Talking about yourself
03/11/2017 Duration: 16minIn this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about speaking exams. Speaking exams are things that nearly all learners of English have to take at some point. Speaking exams can be difficult but there are things that you can practise to become better at them. One important thing in all speaking exams is the ability to give personal information and to talk about yourself. In this podcast, Jack and Rich share five tips that will help you get better at talking about yourself in exam situations. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy! Find the free learning activities, a quiz and a discussion on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/speaking-exams-talking-about-yourself #LearnEnglish #Speaking #Football #PL #PremierLeague #BritishCouncil
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Matchweek 10
31/10/2017 Duration: 08minWelcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 10? Make your prediction for next week's big match and tell us how your club or fantasy football team is doing. We welcome comments from all football fans and especially welcome comments from football fans who are learning English. Find all the information and a discussion on our website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/matchweek-10 #PremierLeague #FPL #PL #LearnEnglish #ManchesterCity
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Learning Vocabulary - Halloween
26/10/2017 Duration: 13minIn this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Jack and Rich talk about the language of fear. They look at some Halloween vocabulary and also look at words that we use to describe things that are frightening and phrases we use when we are scared. The language focus is on extreme and gradable adjectives and when to use -ed and when to use -ing with an adjective. In the lesson below, there are lots of different language explanations, some activities for you to do, an end of lesson quiz and a discussion to join. Don't forget to listen until the end of the podcast because we have a special scary football phrase for you too. Enjoy! Find all the learning activities, a quiz and a discussion on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/learning-vocabulary-halloween #LearnEnglish #football #PremierLeague #PL #Vocabulary #Halloween
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This week - Matchweek 9
23/10/2017 Duration: 09minWelcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 9? Join the discussion on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-9 #PL #LearnEnglish #PremierLeague #Football #Vocabulary #ManchesterUnited #ManchesterCity #Tottenham #Liverpool #Huddersfield #Chelsea #Brighton
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Perfect Pronunciation - Weak forms
20/10/2017 Duration: 13minIn this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Jack and Rich help you with one important area of pronunciation - weak forms. This is an aspect of pronunciation that often causes problems for learners because weak forms are difficult to hear. In this podcast, learn what weak forms are, how to notice them when you are listening and how to use them when you are speaking. In the lesson below, you will see lots of sentences about football and other topics that contain weak forms! Don't forget to listen until the end of the podcast because we have another football phrase for you too. Enjoy! You can find all the free learning activities, a quiz and a discussion on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/perfect-pronunciation-weak-forms #PL #Football #LearnEnglish #Pronunciation #Speaking #Podcast #BritishCouncil
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Matchweek 8
17/10/2017 Duration: 08minWelcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 8? Make your prediction for next week's big match and tell us how your club or fantasy football team is doing. We welcome comments from all football fans and especially welcome comments from football fans who are learning English. Join the discussion on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-8 #PremierLeague #Football #Learnenglish #PL #FPL
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Understanding Grammar - Using the passive
13/10/2017 Duration: 13minIn this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Jack visits Cambridge to show us where the first ever football rules were written down. He also shows us a little bit of Cambridge and of course the famous university that is in the city. The language focus is on the passive. Find all the learning activities and resources on the Premier Skills English website https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/understanding-grammar-using-passive #Learnenglish #Grammar #Football #Premierleague #PL #Cambridge
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Learning Vocabulary - Phrases with get
06/10/2017 Duration: 14minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Rich gets angry because he has to get the bus. The language focus is on the verb with the longest entry in the dictionary - get. Jack and Rich look at five different ways of using get and how it can help you sound more natural when you are speaking. Your task is to transform 10 different sentences using phrases with get in order to make the sentences more natural sounding. As always, we also have a new football phrase for you to guess. Enjoy! Find all the learning activities and discussion points on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/learning-vocabulary-get #PremierLeague #LearnEnglish #Football #Vocabulary
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Matchweek 7
02/10/2017 Duration: 09minWelcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 7? Make your prediction for next week's big match and tell us how your club or fantasy football team is doing. We welcome comments from all football fans and especially welcome comments from football fans who are learning English. Make your predictions and join the discussion on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-7 #PremierLeague #football #LearnEnglish #FPL #PL #MUFC #ManUtd
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This week - Matchweek 6
25/09/2017 Duration: 08minWelcome to 'This Week' from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In 'This Week', Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 6? Make your prediction for next week's big match and tell us how your club or fantasy football team is doing. We welcome comments from all football fans and especially welcome comments from football fans who are learning English. Join the discussion on Premier Skills English: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-6 #football #PremierLeague #Chelsea #LearnEnglish #EPL #FPL
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Understanding Grammar - How to use articles
22/09/2017 Duration: 15minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich have a quiz for you that tests your knowledge of grammar and football. The language focus is on articles (a, an, the) and when to use them and when not to use them in English. They give ten rules about how to use articles correctly. As always, we also have a new football phrase for you to guess. Enjoy! Find all the free learning activities on the website: https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/understanding-grammar-how-use-articles
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This week - Matchweek 5
18/09/2017 Duration: 08minWelcome to 'This Week' from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of all the action from the Premier League for learners of English from across the globe. In 'This Week', Jack and Rich talk about all of the weekend's action in the Premier League; the big headlines and the main talking points. We also ask you to get involved; do you agree with Jack and Rich's choices of best player, best team and best match of Matchweek 5? Make your prediction for next week's big match and tell us how your club or fantasy football team is doing. We welcome comments from all football fans and especially welcome comments from football fans who are learning English. Join the discussion on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-5 #football #PremierLeague #LearnEnglish #ManchesterCity
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Speaking Skills - Getting a haircut
16/09/2017 Duration: 12minIn this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about all things connected to getting your hair cut. They talk about some Premier League hairstyles and how to describe different types of hair. They introduce lots of different words and phrases connected to getting your hair cut and the language focus is on how we use the verbs 'have' and 'get' to talk about getting someone else to do something for us. The task for listeners is to write some sentences in the comments section that follow the have/get + object + past participle structure that is introduced in the podcast. As always, we also have a new football phrase for you to guess. Enjoy! Find the discussion, a quiz and all the intereactive learning activities on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/speaking-skills-getting-haircut #PremierLeague #Football #LearnEnglish
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This week - Matchweek 4
11/09/2017 Duration: 08minWhat happened in Matchweek 4 in the Premier League? Join the discussion and make your predictions on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/week/matchweek-4 #Football #Soccer #LearnEnglish #PremierLeague