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In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest news from the Premier League as Manchester Utd make it 16 matches unbeaten in the Premier League. The language focus this week is on words that we use to give examples e.g. 'for example', 'such as' and 'for instance'. We also explain the phrase 'banana skin' and talk about how it is used in football. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy! Find the language activities, transcript, quiz and discussion for this podcast here: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/do-you-know-what-banana-skin-1617-ep25
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest news from the Premier League as Everton's Romelu Lukaku goes into the lead in the race for this season's Golden Boot. The language focus this week is on animal idioms and how they are used in football. Have you ever heard a midfielder being described as a 'headless chicken'? We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest news from the Premier League as Chelsea extend their lead at the top. The language focus this week is on the word 'worth' and phrases that include this word. It's a difficult word to use because of its pronunciation and there are lots of common phrases that use it. Rich also talks about three places that are 'worth seeing' in his hometown. On top of this, we have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest news from the Premier League and a fantastic performance from Harry Kane. The language focus this week is on collective nouns and a tricky little question we often receive from listeners: when we are writing or speaking about football teams, do we use singular or plural verbs? We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about Wayne Rooney and his incredible goalscoring record and the 'magic' of the FA Cup - is the FA Cup 'magical' or is this just a football cliche? The language focus this week is on football cliches and we have a little video for you to look at. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about two fantastic 'scorpion' kicks by Arsenal's Olivier Giroud and Manchester Utd's Henrikh Mkhitaryan. They also discuss Rich's New Year's resolutions and the language focus this week is on 'going to' and how we can talk about our own New Year's resolutions. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about Christmas in the Premier League. The language focus this week is on words and phrases we use at Christmas time and we play a game to test your vocabulary knowledge. We also have news about our Big Football Quiz where you can win a Premier League shirt. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!
There have been two Gameweeks in the last week. Gameweek 15 finished with 36 points for the Premier Skills team on the Premier League's official Fantasy Football game but Gameweek 16 was much more successful - we got 55 points. We've also played our wildcard so there have been lots of changes to the Premier Skills team - take a look at our current team in the image below. In the Premier Skills League, we moved up to 44th place with 693 points. Congratulations to Los 11 Impostores managed by Gerardo Lopez from Mexico who stays at the top of the Premier Skills League with 930 points. How is your team doing? You can find the votes and discussion on the Premier Skills English website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/fans/fantasy-football/fpl-gameweek-17
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest from the Premier League and a return to form for Leicester City and Jamie Vardy. The language focus this week is on the past perfect. We have some examples and activities to help you use the past perfect better when you are speaking and writing. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy! FInd all the language learning activities for this podcast, on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/past-perfect-1617-ep19
Hello – It’s time for some Premier Skills English – Football Vocabulary.
Listen to the description and try to work out what the mystery word or phrase is.
Do you think you know the mystery football vocabulary? If you do, leave a comment with your answer.
Gameweek 14 finished with 41 points for the Premier Skills team on the Premier League's official Fantasy Football game. Last week, we sold Southampton's Dusan Tadic and Manchester City's and bought Liverpool's James Milner. Congratulations to Los 11 Impostores managed by Gerardo Lopez from Mexico who stay at the top of the Premier Skills League with 818 points. How is your team doing? Join the discussion on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/fans/fantasy-football/fpl-gameweek-15
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Jack and Rich talk about a bad-tempered match between Manchester City and Chelsea and some words and phrases connected to being angry. You can find all the language activities for this podcast on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/seeing-red-1617-ep18
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest from the Premier League and also the Rainbow Laces campaign which aims to stop discrimination towards LGBT players and fans both on and off the pitch. The language focus this week is on some collocations connected to the word 'support'. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy! Find all the activities for this podcast on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/show-your-support-1617-ep17
Gameweek 13 finished with 36 points for the Premier Skills team on the Premier League's official Fantasy Football game. Last week, we sold Leicester City's Riyad Mahrez and Manchester City's Pablo Zabaleta and bought Chelsea's David Luiz and Tottenham's Heung Min Son. Our new players only got 3 points between them last week, let's hope they score more points in the next few weeks! The vote is on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/fans/fantasy-football/fpl-gameweek-14
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about Yaya Toure's surprise return to Manchester City's first-team and they have some difficult phrasal verbs for you to learn. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Find all the language learning activities for this podcast here: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/phrasal-verbs-1617-ep16
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about last weekend's Worl Cup qualifiers and the performances of some Premier League players for their countries. Rich makes a big fashion mistake when he buys some Liverpool earmuffs and this week's language focus is the difference between 'because' and 'because of'. We also have a reminder about our Big Football Quiz, where you can win a Nike Ordem football! On top of this, we have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Go to the free learning activities for this podcast: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/becausebecause-1617-ep15
Gameweek 11 finished with 37 points for the Premier Skills team on the Premier League's official Fantasy Football game. Congratulations to Dream On managed by Suress Adhikari from Nepal who is still top of the Premier Skills League with 634 points. How is your team doing? Join the discussion and help the team on our website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/fans/fantasy-football/fantasy-football-gameweek-12
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest from the Premier League - there were big wins for Liverpool and Chelsea! We analyse some of the things that Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp said after the match. The language focus is on reporting verbs. We also have news about our Premier Skills Fantasy Football team, a new football phrase for you to guess and news about our fantastic new competition. You can find all the free language activities that go with the podcast on our website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/reporting-what-people-say-1617-ep14 Enjoy!
In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest from the Premier League - there were big away wins for the top four! The language focus is on newspaper headlines. What makes newspaper headlines difficult to read? We also have news about our Premier Skills Fantasy Football team, a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make in our weekly vote.
All the language learning activities for this podcast are on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/newspaper-headlines-1617-ep13
Gameweek 10 finished with 79 points for the Premier Skills team on the Premier League's official Fantasy Football game. Our best Gameweek of the season! Sergio Aguero was our top scorer with 16 points. We sold Hull City's Shaun Maloney and bought Stoke City's Joe Allen and Allen scored 10 points for the team! You voted for Romelu Lukaku as captain last week and he got the team 24 points! Who should be captain this week?
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