Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Teacher Hooray for May, we say! There's something special about the last month of spring and knowing summer is just around the corner. We have a new podcast for level 3: Tilting towers. This takes us to both Italy and the US to talk about two buildings with the same problem. Our level 2 podcast asks What did you learn at school today? We question whether it's suitable for children just to learn academic subjects in the classroom, or whether some more practical ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Teacher April is here so that means listening out for the nightingales, which usually arrive the first week, and having the first of the asparagus. We grow it in our garden and it tastes delicious! Talking of vegetables we have put up another podcast/video for our new beginners level. This time we talk about all the colourful Fruit'n'veg we grow. What is your favourite? Do let us know if you have any topics you would like us to talk about for this level. E ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Teacher It's raining. However, we are quite happy about that as the winter has been so dry. March means spring, of course, and therefore our favourite flowers The wild orchids are beginning to appear. Watch the video that also goes with the level 1 podcast and see how beautiful they are. This is one of our podcasts of the month, there are others including Catching up a level 2 podcast: Sue tells Jackie all her latest news. And we have Podcasts for Mar ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Teacher February is a big month for us, mainly because we love sports. Firstly, it's the start of The 6 nations rugby tournament. Listen to this level 2 podcast about what the game is all about. Secondly, because it's the Winter Olympics. Our first podcast for the month is all about the games, listen to Beijing 2022, a level 3 podcast, for what we are interested in the most. Will you be watching? Do you know what Moguls, Monobobs and Halfpipes are?! O ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Teacher Happy New Year! A big welcome back to all our listeners. So we start with some exciting news: we have a new level! Yes, we are starting a beginner level and our first podcast for 2022 is for that. It also has one of our pie videos and it's called the first week. As teachers it would be great to get some feedback from you. We want, where possible, for the podcasts to be (fairly) natural but easy enough for beginners to get most of the content. It's quite ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Teacher Goodness, December already. We don't even have the tree up yet! But we have updated our Podcasts of the month which are related to the season including Toys, toys, toys for level 1, Whose turn is it? (which is all about board games) for level 2, plus for level 3: Look before you eat, a podcast about food allergies. Plus of course we have loads of Christmas podcasts, many of which are linked to a popular Christmas advert in the UK. Our favourite is Buste ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Teacher We've already had Bonfire night (5th November) and Poppy Day (11th November) but there are plenty of other special days in November and we have podcasts for them, including A podcast about poo (World Toilet Day is 19 November), 2.42 Watching the box, (World TV Day is November 21), and 1.112 Thanksgiving... and Black Friday where Richard talks about his time in the United States (November 25 & 26). Check out the highlighted podcasts of the mon ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Teacher October is full of special days, and we have podcasts for many of them. These include Sing, sang, sung for World Singing Day on 19 October and City life for UN World Cities Day on 31 October. There's plenty more this month including an old favourite of ours - Spooky nights. Watch our pie video and find out what we traditionally do in Britain for Hallowe'en (31 October). There's loads more so keep an eye out as usual for the sidebar of the level pages.& ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Teacher We do hope that you had some kind of holiday this year. For our Podcasts of the month we remember a nice holiday we had a few years ago, and the worksheets help you to talk about your trip too. Nice holiday? is for level 1. For level 2 we talk about different ways of eating food, do you use a Knife, fork and spoon or something else? For level 3 Jackie notices the difference between the UK now and when she was last there, 10 years ago, in Then and now. Plus S ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Teacher It's August and we have plenty of summer podcasts this month. For level 1 we talk about The summer hols from our childhoods. For level 2 we try to remember what it was like to travel Before the internet. For level 3 we think you should enjoy the slow life this summer and travel on the Waterways. Listen and find out why canals are the place to be. There are more: check out the sidebar of the level pages. Of course the summer has been dominated by the Oly ...Continue Reading