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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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Episode 169 What is Daylight Savings Time? Why Do We...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/10/29

On the 29th of October everyone in the UK will be changing their clocks. We'll move them one hour back. This is very frustrating for many of us who struggle to adjust to the new time and often forget to change the clocks. This week on the podcast I'll be looking at why we do this, where the idea came from and how much daylight hours really impact our daily lives. As someone who's lived in countries with daylight savings and countries without I'll go into a little detail about how

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Episode 168 Use Murder Mystery Shows To Improve Your...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/10/17

This week is Angela Lansbury's birthday. This wonderful actress had a very long and varied career which included playing two famous detectives. During her life Angela Lansbury played both Agatha Christie's famous Miss Marple and the fabulous Jessica Fletcher, murder mystery writer and amateur detective from the TV show Murder, She Wrote. In celebration of Angela Lansbury's birthday we have a special episode looking into some famous old murder mystery TV shows that you can check out

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00:10:47

Episode 167 Small Talk Conversation Topics For Weddings

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/10/10

Over the last few weeks we've talked a lot about culture and what to expect at weddings, but I forgot to talk about the English! So this week I'm giving you loads and loads of conversation topics for weddings. Whether you're going to a wedding that will mostly be in English or any other kind of wedding this episode is filled with ideas to keep the conversation going all day. Small talk can be really challenging for many people and in many different situations, but the great thing

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00:12:40

Episode 166b What To Expect At A British Wedding...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/10/04

Today on the podcast we're completing the conversation about weddings. I'll talk what you can expect at the wedding reception, which is the party that comes after the marriage ceremony. In addition, I'll talk about some differences between British weddings and American weddings, which includes some events and also a major difference in the legal side of the wedding. And, of course, we still have some essential English wedding vocabulary to cover. Remember you can head to the website

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00:13:26

Episode 166a What To Expect At A British Wedding...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/10/03

A few weeks ago I went to my cousin's wedding. It was held at a wedding venue in the woods. This week we'll spend two episodes talking about British weddings. Today I'm going to be focusing on before and during the wedding ceremony and tomorrow we'll talk about what you can expect at the wedding reception after the ceremony. I'll also talk a little more about some other vocabulary you might hear and some differences between British and American weddings. I mention in the

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Episode 165 Learn English Conversation With Romance...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/09/26

This week on the podcast we're studying some commonly occurring vocabulary that I found in two RomCom (Romantic Comedy) movies on Amazon. These movies are not difficult to understand and have a lot of useful conversational English in them. I noticed though, that in both cases there was 5-10 minutes of each movie that had a lot of less common vocabulary. We'll study that vocabulary in this episode. If you'd like to check out the movies, you can find the trailers and links to them on

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00:09:49

Episode 164 What You Need To Know About Yourself To...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/09/19

There are many things that can make learning a language easier or more difficult. In this episode I'll talk about three things I think are vital if you want to learn a language as an adult. One of the important things we need to know about ourselves, is our learning style. This is something we may easily not know yet, especially as it's something that many modern education systems don't take into account when building their curriculums. Today I'll tell you about 6 of the most

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00:09:04

Episode 163 Taiwanese Students, Avoid This Common...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/09/12

In this episode we will look at a very common mistake in Taiwan. This mistake has come about because many people commonly directly translate from their own language to English. And most of the time, that works OK. But sometimes English doesn't have exactly the right word, or idea to translate too. In this case Taiwanese people are using 'help me' in mandarin to soften the impact of their sentence. But in English this doesn't achieve that result... Instead it completely changes the

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Episode 162 Celebrating Freddie Mercury's Life And Songs

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/09/05

Today is Queen rock star Freddie Mercury's birthday. In celebration we have a listening episode all about him, his bandmates and his songs. Did you recognise the lyrics from the beginning of the episode? Which songs did you think they were from? Answers at the bottom of the page. You can head to the YouTube channel to find my Queen Playlist, and dance your heart out. During this episode I mentioned conversations a journalist had with Freddie and his partner about Bohemian Rhapsody. If

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00:06:33

Episode 161 Judgement Day - Lessons From Sci-fi That...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/08/29

Today is the original Judgement Day as stated in the 1984 film Terminator. Check out the original trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64P4l2Wmeg To celebrate we have a little listening episode covering a summary of the Terminator series, Isaac Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics and the current challenges with AI. I'd be curious to know how you feel about the lack of laws, regulations or guidelines about the development of AI. Head over to the blog to share your thoughts:

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Episode 160 How To Use TED.Ed Effectively To Learn...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/08/22

In today's episode we're looking at the website TED.com. ...well, I'm talking about it, you can go look at it! 😉 I'll teach you: 1. How to navigate the website to get to the most useful part for your English 2. How to use what we learned in Ep 152 (Learning Plans) together with the TED.Ed class to make the most of their videos 3. How to make the most of each of the sections you'll find in TED.Ed videos so you're really practising all the different skills. Remember you can

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00:13:42

Episode 159 Everything You Need To Know About The...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/08/15

Today we're studying a confusing English word: 'overwhelm'. This is a very over-used word, so the most important thing to understand is that as long as you're using it to describe something that's 'too much', you're probably using it correctly. First of all, the website I suggested was called YouGlish. It's really handy for seeing how words are used naturally. https://youglish.com/ As I mentioned I had two sets of definitions for 'Overwhelm' in this

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Episode 158 Celebrate Thomas Telford: What Did He...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/08/08

This week on the podcast we're celebrating the birth of famous British (Scottish) Civil Engineer, Thomas Telford. This is a great lesson to practise your English listening skills. There are quite a few unusual phrases that you might find useful. We're talking a little bit about British history around the 1700's, British infrastructure, including bridges, roads, canals and aqueducts, and legacy. Remember, if you don't recognise or understand any of the vocabulary you can head to the

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00:12:50

Episode 157 How to Use YouTube News Reports To...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/08/01

In this episode, similar to episode 155, we're going to look at Meta Thread's Launch, but this time, instead of looking at written articles online, we're going to consider videos. We're going to look at the vocabulary from three very different news reports on YouTube and see how the vocabulary differs, to help decide which report is good to study. In this episode I'll help you see how my earlier tips for choosing written sources can also be adapted to choose video sources

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00:15:42

Episode 156 Everything You Need To Know About How To...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/07/25

This week we're answering a student's question about 'even'. This word seems so small and innocent, but...you know, it's still English!🙄😬 So, of course it's not so simple! Today I'll show you several different ways we can use 'even' and how that changes our meaning in a sentence. Let me give you some correct examples of sentences using 'even' together with another word, which changes it's meaning. Even if I get a new job, we'll still be

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Episode 155 How To Use Current News Articles To Learn...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/07/19

Today we're reading an article from Reuters about the release of the online App from Meta, Threads and it's competition with Twitter. You can find this article here:https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-twitter-rival-threads-hits-100-mln-users-record-five-days-2023-07-10/ Engoo also has an article about this thing. You might find that easier, although it is one of their advanced articles. You can find it here:

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Episode 154 Learn The Most English From Your Articles...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/07/18

This week I'm showing you how I would use two articles as learning sources to practise English. Remember, you can use this system, or take it apart and find a different way to do it. Also you could split this over two days or two weeks, depending on your schedule. The article I've chosen for today's episode was out of House Beautiful. I chose this because it was conversational and the magazine has easier content than some other online sources. This article turned out to not be so easy

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Episode 153 How To Be More Deliberate When You Speak...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/07/12

A while ago I made a short as part of the Escape the Plateau series on the YouTube channel, giving you tips to help you get unstuck with your English. The short where I talked about being more deliberate when you speak got a lot of feedback, but everyone was confused about how to go about it. So in this episode we'll think about what steps you can take to be more deliberate about your English. This will help you steadily improve your English. The first step is to identify your mistakes or

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00:09:57

Episode 152 How To Make a Learning Plan Taking Goals...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/07/11

In Episode 128 we talked about making good goals for your English. In this episode we're going to talk about how to break those goals down into easier pieces so you can create a learning plan. I'll give you some example easy, measurable goals you could use and then show you how to break down two of those goals into learning plans. I'll give you some different ideas about how you could schedule your learning plans so that they fit into your schedule or lifestyle. It's really easy

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00:10:45

Episode 151 Speaking With Gravitas: What Shared...

Emma"s ESL English ·

2023/07/05

This week we're learning about the advantages of learning to confidently pause when you're speaking in public. It's not an easy skill to develop, it takes nerve and practise. But it's very beneficial and can really add value to your speech. In the episode I'll talk about Nelson Mandela and Barak Obama, who are both very skilled at this. I mention many videos in the episode so I'll link those below. The best way to practise public speaking is to actually do some public

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