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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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00:15:16

Episode 207 The most annoying thing about learning...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/08/06

Do you get frustrated with the need to learn three different words to describe the same thing in English? Do we really need all of these varieties? What actually is the point, the benefit, of having 10 ways to describe rain? Or 100 ways to describe how you feel?In this episode I'll read a short excerpt from George Orwell's 1984. This book is a dystopia novel, so darkness is kind of the point! He's trying to show us what the worst case scenario might look like, so we can avoid it

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Episode 206 Speaking English in Stressful...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/07/23

Welcome back to the channel! In this episode I answer a learner question: how do I speak English well at a conference? In this episode we'll dive into why speaking English in stressful environments or situations is so challenging. Why is your English so impossible to use right when you need it? Is there anything to be done about it? If you can't practise your English in these situations, then what should you do? No worries, I have answers for all these questions. Sorry, I was a little

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And I'm back! ...sort of

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/07/18

Just a quick update for everyone, I know it's been a while. I haven't disappeared, but I have been busy. There will be new episodes uploaded here, but they will be rather random. If you'd like me to cover anything you're always welcome to let me know via email: emmaseslenglish@gmail.com I'm also opening up all the previous episodes on YouTube so you can access those whenever you want. https://www.youtube.com/@emmaseslenglish The website has gone but all the vocabulary has

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Episode 205 English Phrases, Proverbs and Idioms To...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/02/28

A while ago I was talking to a Taiwanese student and he said 'I'll leave it for my future self to handle'. We talked for a while about this, I loved the idea but couldn't think about how to say this in English.In the end I've had to accept that we just don't have anything like this in English. Instead, today I'll share with you lots of different common phrases we do use to talk about the future. I hope you find them useful. And one bonus phrase is 'Don't your

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Episode 204 It Can Be Quite Hard To Use 'Quite'...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/02/27

'Quite' is such a common word in English. As you'll see from my closing statement, it's even possible to put it in almost every sentence! So what do all these 'quite's mean? Don't worry, I've got your back. Today we're learning all the different ways you can use 'quite' correctly in a sentence. I'll give you some examples and show you some mistakes. I've tried my hardest to keep it simple, but as always, English is just confusing! So if you do get

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Episode 203 Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men - Analysis

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/02/21

Yesterday I read from Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men, today let's take a look at the vocabulary. Luckily the vocabulary in this episode is much much easier than last week's Jane Eyre! But we do have some little blue men, who speak in a Glaswegian accent and are very hard to understand and we do have some tricky phrasal verbs. In this episode I also mentioned the podcast Terry's daughter recently made for the BBC. It's called Mythical Creatures and you can find it on most

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Episode 202 Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men - A...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/02/20

This week on the podcast we have another reading episode. This is one of my favourite books and the very first Discworld novel I ever read. It is The Wee Free Men and is the first appearance of young witch Tiffany Aching. You might of heard of Tiffany before, she was appeared in the Wintersmith story I read last year (Episode 79 &80) https://youtu.be/CKwwxL8p8hw I chose this excerpt especially because of a delightful collection of phrasal verbs towards the end. There are some unusual

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00:04:48

Time For An Announcement

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/02/15

Thank you so much to all my podcast listeners, I didn't mention you much in the video, but this is where it all started. I know you have been listening long before I started understanding how to work YouTube! I watched my stats on here go up and was amazed that people found my videos useful. Sadly the platforms don't really give us much opportunity to connect but I can see the numbers behind the scenes and I was paying attention. As I mentioned in the video, the plan is to finish the

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Episode 201 An Analysis of The Confession Scene in...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/02/14

Yesterday I read a famous scene from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Today let's review the vocabulary and meaning of some of the conversation. I'm particularly interested in the part about 'You think I am an automaton, a machine without feelings.' Let me give you a little historical timeline: British Industrial revolution 1760-1830 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was released 1818 Jane Eyre was released 1847 So the industrial revolution had been going on for almost a hundred

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00:17:53

Episode 200 Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, The...

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2024/02/13

This week, the day before Valentine's day, I'm reading from the grand romantic story, Jane Eyre. This little bit is from the moment Mr Rochester proposes to Jane. She doesn't believe him at first. Not surprising, he's been flirting with another woman openly in front of Jane for months! But eventually he convinces her that he is telling the truth. He does want to marry her. This story, and many of the Bronte Sister's stories are some of the first and best examples of published

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Episode 199 How The Beatles Broke America

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2024/02/07

This week we are talking about the Beatles very first trip to America. This tour was short but soon followed by one of the most famous and groundbreaking tours of the time in music. At this point the Beatles were new to America, only known for a matter of months, and yet already they had a number one hit. In this episode we'll learn about how they got so famous so fast and what technological and historical things impacted their rise to fame. This week was a great opportunity to explore some

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Episode 198 Prepare For The Cultural Differences In...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/02/06

This week we are finally completing our series on Interview English. You can find all of these episodes in the Business English Playlist. This time we're talking about the etiquette and cultural expectations at interview. The most important thing I want you to understand is that having English as a second language is a strength and something you should be proud of. Many native English speakers never learn a second language to the level you have already acquired if you're listening to this

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Episode 197 Freya Stark, Explorer and Travel Writer

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/01/31

This week we are learning about the famous explorer and travel writer Freya Stark. She wrote many travel books and focused her books on the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula. She travelled all over this part of the world, talking to the people, learning their languages and describing their culture and landscapes to readers back in the UK. An essential part of Freya's process was that she often travelled alone and she tried to learn the languages of the places she travelled to so that she

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Episode 196 Presentations When English Isn't Your...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/01/30

This week we're continuing our series on Interview English and we're focusing on Presentations. There are videos about this in the Business English and Dream Job playlists on YouTube so instead I'm focusing here on the challenges as an international speaker of English when giving presentations in English. I have covered anxiety before in the podcast, you can find those videos in the Confidence playlist and Public Speaking playlists on YouTube. As I mentioned on the podcast, in the

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Episode 195 Britain's Great Wall Builder

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/01/24

This week we have a short listening episode to celebrate Emperor Hadrian's birthday. This Roman emperor is probably one of the most famous in the UK. Many British children first learn about the Romans through Hadrian's wall. This wall, built in 122CE is one of the few pieces of Roman architecture still standing today. You can visit the wall, the museum and even some remains of forts. You can even walk the length of the wall from one side of England to the other! In this episode we'll

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Episode 194 Tips To Ace Your International Interview

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/01/23

Continuing our Interview series, today I want to talk about how, in an interview situation, certain aspects of vocabulary, etiquette, and tone of voice often differ from everyday interactions because of the formal setting. These can also be heavily influenced by culture, not only the culture of a profession (which might be different from finance to law, for example) but also the culture of a country. These things might also change depending on your individual circumstances, which could include:

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Episode 193 Common English Terms Related To Interviews

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/01/17

Today we are talking about some English terms that are related to interviews, you might read them during the application process, hear them during an interview or need to use them if you're offered the job (Yay!🥳). These terms are not common elsewhere in English so don't worry if you haven't heard them before. We'll be covering terms like: Soft Skills Transferable Skills Jargon SWOT Analysis Shortlisting Whiteboarding Salary Bracket Behavioural Interview

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Episode 192 Ride Shotgun With Me While We Read a...

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2024/01/16

Today we're reading a short excerpt from Jill Shalvis's novel 'Almost Just Friends'. This is an American romance novel. Jill has written 50 romance books so far! So she's very well known in America. Romance novels and 'Chick lit' generally is quite a relaxed genre of books. There's a lot of conversation in these books and a lot of colloquial language so I think they might be quite good for learning English. In this excerpt our main character, Piper, is talking with

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Episode 191 Introducing Yourself In an English Interview

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/01/10

This week is the beginning of a new series about Interviews in English, I hope you will find it useful if you're planning for applying for a new job where you need to speak English. In this episode we're discussing introducing yourself, the handshake and what to say. Remember each week you can find any additional vocabulary or vocabulary explanations on the website: https://www.emmaseslenglish.com/post/episode-191-introducing-yourself-in-an-english-interview This week I also mentioned

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Episode 190 Couch Potato or Sofa Potato? Is there a...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2024/01/09

This week's episode comes from a question from a student who heard this phrase from a colleague and wondered what was wrong. They asked me what was the difference between a 'sofa potato' and a 'couch potato'. It's a good question, so I thought we'd look more deeply at these tricky idiomatic expressions. We'll talk a bit about what an idiomatic expression is, what it does, and why it's so tricky and then we'll have a look at some similar idiomatic expressions

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