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  • Bonus - Speaking Exam Advice
    Jun 24 2026

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    Trevor gives tips regarding speaking exams, from the examiner's point of view! These include how to interact well, the importance of staying focussed and why you shouldn't rehearse answers.

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    8 Min.
  • S06 - 6 Creativity
    Jun 10 2026

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    Native English speakers answer exam-style questions about creativity.

    It’s a great topic to cover as it touches so many other topics like art, childhood, work, psychology, loads. We have lots of top-notch collocations, a bunch of phrasal verbs, some super-useful verbs and a lovely homophone.

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    19 Min.
  • S06 - 5 Luck
    May 18 2026

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    Native English speakers answer exam-style questions about luck.

    We talk about the role luck plays in success, we talk about lucky habits, about lotteries and about being lucky in life in general. It’s a super-rich episode in terms of vocabulary, phrasal verbs and idioms.

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    21 Min.
  • S06 - 4 Motivation
    Apr 20 2026

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    Native English speakers answer exam-style questions about motivation.

    7 different speakers, with different accents, talk about how they stay motivated. So you’re gonna hear some fantastic language, like idioms, phrasal verbs and top-level vocabulary. And there is a little word-formation quiz in the middle interval too. Trevor picks out the best bits and gives useful tips for exams. As usual we have plenty of top vocabulary, phrasal verbs and idioms.

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    20 Min.
  • S06 - 3 Complaining
    Mar 20 2026

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    Native English speakers answer exam-style questions about complaining.

    Today we have American speakers from the Texas, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and New York, and we also have speakers from Limerick, in Ireland, and Chester, in England. Trevor picks out the best bits and gives useful tips for exams. As usual we have plenty of top vocabulary, phrasal verbs and idioms.

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    19 Min.
  • S06 - 2 Extremes
    Feb 18 2026

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    Native English speakers answer exam-style questions about extremes.

    In this episode you will learn lots of useful vocabulary for talking about doing extreme things, plus some lovely idioms. In terms of grammar, we have inverted conditionals, past perfect tense and we also look at how to use either and neither. There’s input from quite a diverse bunch of speakers today, from snowstorms in Boston, to helping pregnant woman in Ireland to doing a dance marathon in New York, so lots of great listening practice for you.

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    21 Min.
  • S06 - 1 News
    Jan 24 2026

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    Native English speakers answer exam-style questions about the news.

    In this episode you will learn lots of key vocabulary about the news as well as some advanced phrasal verbs and idioms. You can practice listening to American accents, British accents and Irish accents too.

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    23 Min.
  • Xing - Tokyo
    Dec 16 2025

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    Today’s episode is an interview with an English teacher(Xing) from China, who lives in Tokyo.

    We have a chat about the differences between English learning in different countries and also about how you can feel different when you speak different languages, which is super-interesting!

    Also, we talk about the pros and cons of being a non-native English teacher.

    You will learn plenty of idioms, phrasal verbs and there is a special focus on different uses of the verb get.

    Thanks so much to Xing for contributing!

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    29 Min.