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Practising English

M. A. Bilbrough

Listening practice for learners of B1 intermediate and B2 upper-intermediate levels of British English. Learn British English by listening to stories. Original and exciting stories written for learners and students of British English. Practise and prepare for Cambridge: B1 PET Preliminary and FCE First Certificate exams. IELTS: level 4, level 5 and level 6. Includes English grammar explanations and practice exercises, examples of vocabulary use, phrasal verbs and collocations help, British English

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10:32

B2 Future perfect and future continuous

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2021/09/06

Today I'm going to talk to you about future continuous and future perfect. And what I would like to do is to try to put them into context for you with tenses and aspects of tenses that you already know such as present perfect and present continuous etc. You'll see that they all function in the same way - the only difference being that each is placed in a different time zone...At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises

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17:39

B2/C1 short story - The man who could work Miracles 2

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2021/09/03

The second episode of H.G. Wells' The Man who could Work Miracles (part 2). The language of this short story has been adapted a little for learners of English at B2 and C1 levels. This week Mr Fotheringay gets into trouble with working miracles so he goes to ask for advice from the local priest.At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English learning pages.https://www.practisingenglish.com/My latest novel for

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15:40

B2 - Speaking exam practice - holidays

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2021/09/01

I'm going to talk about walking holidays and make a comparison with the popular beach holiday. This is useful practice for the long-turn monologue of IELTS speaking test or the discussion part with your partner in the Cambridge exam.At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English learning pages.https://www.practisingenglish.com/My latest novel for learners of B2 English is called The Tudor Conspiracy. You can see

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9:35

B1 Zero and first conditionals

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2021/08/30

B1 / EELTS 4.5. Zero and first conditionals, the structure, how to use them and real-life examples of the conditional usage for listening practice and with audio script.See my new graded reader novel for B1 and B2 level students: The Tudor Conspiracy...See the audioscript at: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-22.htmAt https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English learning

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17:03

B2/C1 short story - The man who could work Miracles 1

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2021/08/27

Short story in English by H.G. Wells in four parts with updated language so to be useful for learners of English but still in the H.G. Wells style. Part 1 - Mr Fotheringay finds out he has a special gift - he can work miracles.At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English learning pages.https://www.practisingenglish.com/My latest novel for learners of B2 English is called The Tudor Conspiracy. You can see it on

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13:34

B1/B2 IELTS 5 Kitchen vocabulary

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2021/08/25

A visit to my kitchen and a description of the utensils you'll find there, the expressions used and also some related food vocabulary too.At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English learning pages.https://www.practisingenglish.com/My latest novel for learners of B2 English is called The Tudor Conspiracy. You can see it on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/33Axu2Nhttps://amzn.to/33Axu2NBe back soon with another

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10:38

B1/B2 Direct and indirect questions

Practising English ·

2021/08/23

I'm going to talk to you about indirect questions. In fact, I'm going to talk to you about direct questions as well. So what is a direct question? Well, an example is, What is the time, please? Now, an indirect question has a little phrase before the direct question. Something like, Could you tell me what the time is, please? At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English learning

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13:58

B1/B2 IELTS 6 A nice cup of tea

Practising English ·

2021/08/20

The history of Britain's favourite drink and some useful vocabulary about how to make a nice cup of tea.At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English learning pages.https://www.practisingenglish.com/My latest novel for learners of B2 English is called The Tudor Conspiracy. You can see it on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/33Axu2Nhttps://amzn.to/33Axu2NBe back soon with another podcast!Mike Bilbrough (Secondary

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11:13

B1 / IELTS 5 Funny story Mr Bates and his hammer

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2021/08/18

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10:34

B2 English - extreme adjectives

Practising English ·

2021/08/16

And today I'm going to talk to you about extreme adjectives. And also about the adverbs that qualify them or that go with them. So what do I mean by extreme adjectives? Well, we could divide the adjectives into two groups. Those adjectives which are gradable, we say, by gradable, we mean that those adjectives can be less or more. At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English learning

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8:12

B1 practice - come and go

Practising English ·

2021/08/13

Hello. And today I'm going to talk about two verbs go and come. Now, they're very common and very simple verbs, aren't they? Well, they do have complications in their use for learners of English. Let's talk about them.At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English learning pages.https://www.practisingenglish.com/My latest novel for learners of B2 English is called The Tudor Conspiracy. You can see

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10:47

B2 - Cycling and bicycle vocabulary

Practising English ·

2021/08/11

Today, I'm going to talk about language around the bicycle. When you get on your bicycle, you say you push off, you push off and you start pedalling. Isn't it lovely to go out on your bicycle on a sunny day, when it's not too hot, not too cold? At the moment, I'm cycling along the river - along by the side of the river. Now, I think the first thing we could talk about is the all the different parts of the bicycle. Okay, of course it's got two wheels. And the wheels have

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11:38

B1/B2 Formal and informal English

Practising English ·

2021/08/09

Hello, and today I'm going to talk about the difference between formal and informal English. Now, it's very important to be able to distinguish between formal and informal English. Why? Well, if we are being too informal in circumstances which require more formality, well, we could get ourselves into trouble. And the other way around as well. If we are too formal with people who are expecting us to be much more informal, well, then we may sound a little bit pompous. At

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13:43

B1 - Without a Tie - funny story in English

Practising English ·

2021/08/06

Montague Pilkinson was flying over the desert one day when the engine of his little plane suddenly broke down. It made that sort of noise as engines do when they start to go wrong. The plane then suddenly started to drop out of the sky - nose first, down, down down it went...At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English learning pages.https://www.practisingenglish.com/My latest novel for learners of B2 English is

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8:17

B2 Hypothesizing in English

Practising English ·

2021/08/04

Hello, and today, I'm going to talk to you about hypothesizing in English, or making hypotheses. So what do we mean by hypothesize? Well, it means that we talk about things that we would like to be true, but they seem impossible. So they're similar in a way to conditional sentences, like the second conditional. https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-11.htmAt https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English

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10:19

B2 talking about big numbers - millions etc.

Practising English ·

2021/08/02

And today we're going to talk about very large numbers, how to use them. And also an interesting article about outer space. Now, when we talk about numbers, I mean, large numbers, hundreds, thousands, millions, [billions] and trillions. Well, we usually use them in the singular. So we say a million, or 1 million, 2 million, two million five hundred thousand, several million. So we don't put the s on the end of these large numbers. At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of

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9:32

B1 revision past continuous (introduction)

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2021/07/30

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14:30

B1/B2 reported speech and direct speech

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2021/07/28

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12:37

B1 - The Bell-ringer - short story in English

Practising English ·

2021/07/26

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8:41

B2 - Mr Briefcase - physical descriptions of people

Practising English ·

2021/07/23

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