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  • S06 - 8 Priorities
    Aug 24 2026

    Native English speakers answer questions about priorities.

    This episode is about priorities and has a fantastic mix of adverbs, spelling, idioms, pronunciation, collocations, common mistakes, connectors and a fancy grammatical structure that we haven’t looked at before. All of that, along with the usual variety of accents from around the world.

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    Thanks to all of the contributors, including Paddy, Mike, Melissa, Lori, Jay, Carla Jayne, Annie and Mary Alice.

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    19 min
  • S06 - 7 Help
    Jul 20 2026

    Native English speakers answer exam-style questions about help.

    Warning! This episode is full of phrasal verbs!!!!!

    As we have speakers from different parts of the world it’s fascinating to hear their opinions on this topic and how giving help is different between cities and the countryside, between the past and the present and also between different countries.

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    Music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod
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    23 min
  • 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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    7 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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    18 min
  • S06 - 5 Luck
    May 18 2026

    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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    20 min
  • S06 - 4 Motivation
    Apr 20 2026

    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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    19 min
  • S06 - 3 Complaining
    Mar 20 2026

    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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    17 min
  • S06 - 2 Extremes
    Feb 18 2026

    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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