_Monthly news from podcastsinenglish_  Dear Teacher This month we made our 400th podcast! You can listen to one of our podcasts every day and it will take well over a year to hear them all. To mark the occasion we have a special competition and the prize is free pie membership for a whole year. Watch the video on our pie plus page and send us your answer. Competition closes July 14. Our 400th podcast is called Why yoga? And we hear Jim answer the question. Summer starts in June and everyone heads fo ...Continue Reading

 _Monthly news from podcastsinenglish_  Dear Teacher We hope you enjoyed our video and podcast last month about the Wild orchids that grow around the house, every day is prettier than the last. We start this month with one of our business podcasts. We continue with the theme of import and export; this time we ask why some countries import the very same goods that they Export. For level 3 this month we talk about whether or not comments posted on websites should be anonymous or not? What do you thi ...Continue Reading

 _Monthly news from podcastsinenglish_  Dear Teacher We start the month off with us talking about our experience of being on a TV show. We were interviewed for A place in the sun, listen to hear how that went. Also watch the video of us on the show! This is for level 3. For level 2 we have a fun podcast about all the amazing things that the simple Baking soda can do, it's not just for cooking! Spring is in the air! (1.74) And that is the title of one of our "podcasts of the month". List ...Continue Reading

 _Monthly news from podcastsinenglish_  Dear Teacher In January we had a podcast on dieting: You are what you eat for level 3. We continue the theme of dieting for the start of February. This time we look at the 5:2 diet which we have been trying. Listen and find out how successful, or not, this has been for us. This is for level 2. We also stay with food, but not dieting, for our level 1 podcast this month which celebrates Chinese New Year. Not one but two videos from Ken Hom. Listen to what the key ...Continue Reading

 _Monthly news from podcastsinenglish_  Dear Teacher Welcome to 2015 and our 10th year of making podcasts for podcastsinenglish.com! We start the year with a quiz. Jackie tests Richard on events from last year in The 2014 quiz. You can also test yourself and your students on 2013 in That was the year 2013. In addition, there is a lesson plan for this and other podcasts in the Teachers' page. Have you made any new year's resolutions this year? We talked to some friends about the resolutions they ha ...Continue Reading

 _Monthly news from podcastsinenglish_  Dear Learner It's winter which means, at least for us, it's getting very cold and very windy! But where is the windiest place on the planet? For level 3 we have a BBC video, students can watch Richard Hammond brave some very strong winds: Blowin' in the wind Richard was working in the US one year, for level 1 he talks about his experience of Thanksgiving and Black Friday. We stay with the Black Friday theme for our business listeners. The big shopping day h ...Continue Reading

 _Monthly news from podcastsinenglish_  Dear Teacher Christmas is almost here and so we are giving YOU an early present: 25% off new registrations! Just go onto our registration page and join today. We also have loads of Christmas podcasts for you to enjoy. The pie team want you to celebrate the festive season with poetry in 1.102 a poem for Christmas. Hear about some Christmas meals eaten in different parts of the world, in 1.101 figgy pudding, mmm Why is the 'queen of the forest' part of ...Continue Reading

 _Monthly news from podcastsinenglish_  Dear Teacher So far a podcast about music, knitting and football – something for everyone, perhaps?! For our business listeners we have a podcast about how background music encourages shoppers to buy more. It's called Mood music Jackie is mad about knitting so it's not surprising we have Knit 1 purl 1 where she chats to fellow knitter, Helen, about how her favourite hobby has changed over the years. Level 3. Richard, on the other hand, is mad about footba ...Continue Reading

 _Monthly news from podcastsinenglish_  Dear Teacher We start October with one of our business podcasts. Supermarkets are full of special offers and deals but we ask It's a bargain! Or is it?  As always we like to think our business podcasts are fun for other listeners too, listen in and tell us what you think of supermarket tactics. We wanted to know why the blue LED won the Nobel Prize for Physics this year. So we did some research and the answers are in this level 3 podcast Cool blue, liste ...Continue Reading

 _Monthly news from podcastsinenglish_  Dear Teacher Summer and the holidays are over for most of us so if you've been away for August, here are some of the podcasts you may have missed: Our first podcast in August was Drive, Drove, Driven a podcast about driving and learning to drive. Find out what was so strange about Richard's driving test. This is for level 2 Meanwhile for level 1 we talked about Bad Habits. Which ones do you think Richard and Jackie have? For our business listeners we hav ...Continue Reading