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Emma"s ESL English

Hi, I"m Emma. I"m an Native English Speaker and CELTA Qualified ESL teacher with 10+ years of experience. This podcast was created to help English learners at intermediate and advanced levels by providing listening practise, cultural information, and going into more detail about grammar and vocabulary, as well as identifying and explaining common errors and answering learners questions. I know for many English can be a door to a better future and I want to help you get there. This podcast now

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00:07:04

Episode 227 Are you getting confused between SO and...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2025/03/18

This week we're looking at a little known grammar point called 'intensifiers'. These words are used to intensify adjectives and adverbs. I have covered this subject before in a little more detail in Episode 90, so feel free to head back to that episode for more. In this episode we're focusing on just two intensifiers: So and Too.These two words are very common in English, and I think more so now because we are often emphasising things, and this is what these words are for...its all

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00:06:29

Episode 226 Are you saying this common English...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2025/03/11

This week I want to review a phrase I hear a lot and look at the various options we have to improve it. We're looking at grammar and vocabulary for: I'm stressful about English.I will give you some different ways to improve the sentence, some involve changing the grammar, others involve changing the vocabulary. Options:English is stressful.I find English stressful.I find speaking English stressful.I'm stressed out about English.English is stressing me out.British English: I'm stressed about

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00:17:36

Episode 225 English Reading - Dr Martin Luther King...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2025/03/04

This week I'm reading a short excerpt from Dr Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail. Written on April 16th 1963 and addressed to 'My Dear Fellow Clergymen'.I do get quite political in this episode, certainly less neutral than I generally aim to be on this podcast. I also talk about current situations in America and the UK that are gravely concerning. I hope you don't mind me taking the time to talk about this. I hope you share my perspective, but understand that the

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00:18:33

Episode 224 The Greatest Chinese Adventure Story...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2025/02/25

This week we're continuing our story about China's great expedition to discover the world.As I mentioned last week, everything comes from Gavin Menzies 2003 book: 1421 The Year China Discovered The World. In addition you can find more evidence and what's still happening by checking the two websites here:⁠https://www.gavinmenzies.net/china/book-1421/⁠⁠https://www.1421foundation.org/I have to apologise to my Chinese listeners for the pronunciation, unfortunately the book is only in English

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00:13:16

Episode 223 The Greatest Chinese Adventure Story...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2025/02/18

This week we're heading to China for an adventure story. I read this book last year and it was so good, but I couldn't figure out how to share it with you.Recently I started using the Chinese App Red Note (XiaoHongShu) and doing short form videos there, I decided to tell this story. Once I had the base of the story I decided to see if I could adjust it for you too.These two episodes are really English Listening episodes. I hope you will find the story interesting, it's possible you've never heard it

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00:09:22

Episode 222 Does the language you speak impact the...

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2025/02/11

This week I'm reading a short excerpt from one of the culture books I'm currently reading. I thought this section was interesting and very relevant to us since it focuses on how your language can change your focus and perspective of the world. How do you feel your language impacts your culture? Do you find that you can express yourself better in English or your native language? Which is more descriptive? How does your language impact the way you see the world? I'd love to know your

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Episode 221 Story time - Careers Advice from Chat GPT

Emma"s ESL English ·

2025/02/04

Welcome back! I hope you all had a great holiday period, Happy New Year! 🥳This week I wanted to give you a little life update, so I guess it's mostly listening practise for you. Sorry, I'm a little out of practise so I did go a bit too fast in places I think. Hopefully the subtitles can help you. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments. The Google search tip I mentioned is that you just add '-ai' to any search you do and it automatically doesn't run the AI search. I

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00:14:15

Episode 220 Time To Plan For 2025

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/12/31

In Episode 218 we covered how to review your year, this is an important step, don't miss it. I know it can feel frustrating or even cringy to review the year, but we need to understand what worked and what didn't so we can improve next year. So here we are, 2025, or almost. Happy New Year! 🥳🥂 Take some time over the next couple of weeks to figure out what worked well last year and how you want to move forward with your English in 2025. Are you going to change your textbook? Find some new reading

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Episode 219 Special Christmas Video - Take A Trip To...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/12/24

This week I have something a little different for you. Last year my family and I went to Castle Howard. This is an English country home in Yorkshire that puts on a special Christmas display every year. They take a story and decorate the house with that theme. Last year the story was JM Barrie's Peter Pan. I'll show you the dramatic road in to Castle Howard using Google Maps, and then some of the pictures and footage I got last year. Castle Howard was built between 1701 and 1811 by the Carlisle

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Episode 218 Time To Review

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/12/17

Wow! Here we are again, at the end of the year! For those of you who have been with me for a while, you will know what's coming, review and plan. In this episode I'll give you some tips and thoughts on how to review your year in English. This is an important step. So many language learners feel like they're not making any progress. It's important to take a little time to recognise how much work you've put in and any progress you've made. Honestly, even if you feel like you haven't made any

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Episode 217 Analysis of Terry Pratchett's The Last Hero

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/12/10

This week we're analysing last week's reading. I'll talk you through some of the references and vocabulary. I'll also put the vocabulary list below. In the first video I referred to the illustrator as Paul Kirby, which is actually not just confusion because the names sound similar. Terry's original artist who did about half of the covers of the original books was called Josh Kirby. When he passed away in 2001 Terry worked with a few authors but eventually settled on Paul Kidby,who I believe he met

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Episode 216 Christmas Reading: Terry Pratchett's The...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/12/03

This week we have the inevitable Pratchett Christmas reading. I hope you enjoy. This is taken from The Last Hero, a book about Cohen The Barbarian (that'll be the hero!). In this excerpt I'm reading a conversation between him and his old friends as they make their way up a giant mountain in the centre of Discworld with the goal of returning fire to the Gods 'with interest'.I'll read today and then next week we'll do an analysis and look at the vocabulary. I think the only possible new vocabulary

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00:09:28

Episode 115 English idioms are bad enough, but we're...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/11/26

A few weeks ago one of my students brought me some phrases. She couldn't really work out what they meant, and the context wasn't helping. I was very quickly able to work out that the writer she was reading was using only half an idiom. Helpful!So today let's take a look at a couple of these examples so you can see what might happen when a native speaker isn't thinking about all the hard working international speakers of English out there! The idioms we'll cover today are: Spill the beans/Tea - to

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Episode 114 How to use Engoo to practise thinking in...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/11/19

This week we're reading another Engoo Article: Level up your language skills by thinking in English. I'll give you some ideas about how you can use the https://engoo.com/app/daily-news website regularly to practise your English both by yourself and with a tutor. I'm also going to read the article and talk a little bit about what it means and how you can use it. If you'd like to read along you can find the article here:

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Episode 113 English Pronunciation - Avoid falling...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/11/12

This week we have a bit of a silly episode focused on the pronunciation of the 'f' sound. Episode 87 covers more pronunciation. You can find the YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/N2BZg718a-8 Note: I filmed this video before the American election so...sorry, hopeful moment included😨😭 I'll explain it in the video but the words we're covering this week are: Fond, Find, Fund, Fend, Fanned And Fill, Full, Fall, Fell, Fowl/Foul The phrases we'll review are: To bid a fond farewell To fend for

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Episode 212 I'm not holding my horses for someone who...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/11/05

This week we're looking at animal idioms. Surprisingly there's not as many of these as you might imagine (there's far more of the body part ones from last week!) This weeks idioms are: A frog in your throat: Have you got a cold? It sounds like you've got a frog in your throat. As mad as a box of frogs: Watch out for that one, he's as mad as a box of frogs. At a snails pace: Come on! Let's go! You always walk at a snails pace! Watch like a hawk: Careful, he's watching you like a hawk. The world is

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Episode 211 I've got a list of English idioms as long...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/10/29

This week we're learning some English idioms that use body parts! There are SO many of these so do Google for more if you'd like. I mentioned Rob Words, here's his YouTube video trying to trace English back through time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeAx3QZ7eRs Episodes 179 and 180 of this podcast both talk about the different influences on English and why it's so complicated. There is an English Idioms playlist on my YouTube page if you'd like more. Today's idioms are: A list as long as my

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Episode 210 A Day Trip to Buttermere in The Lake...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/10/22

This week we're going on a little road trip. We're going into the Lake District National Park in the North West of England. We're specifically going for a walk around a lake called Buttermere. I show you a picture of the road we're on in the video, this was taken from Google Maps. So if you'd like you can head to Google Maps and use the man to drive down this road exactly and see where we were. You can search on Google Maps for 'Buttermere Lake, Cumbria, UK'. Alternatively you can put in the

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00:15:36

Episode 209 Scam Alert! Story time.

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/10/15

Several months ago I got scammed. It took hours out of my time, both in the original phone call and in cleaning up the mess. And a lot of stress. This is the story of that experience. I hope that in telling you this story you will remember some things that will help you avoid a similar experience. Please do not underestimate how crafty these people are and how much they want your hard earned cash! Vocabulary thrown into a panic - idiom - to get panicked, to suddenly get worried about

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Episode 208 I'm back! Let's catch up about my...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/10/08

I'm back doing episodes this week and we're starting this month with a series of stories. The first is just a little update on my decorating, since that's what's taken up SO much of my time this summer. A big thank you to my Uncle, who created my bedroom window seat and my Mum (who is very clever!) and made 3 cushion covers very very carefully out of not really enough material. It is delightful to now have somewhere to hang out and read. Vocabulary putting it off - to procrastinate or avoid

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