English Podcast
Each episode features interviews with English speakers in real, everyday English - art and culture, music and television, science, business, travel, sport. After the interview we dissect what was said: the grammar, the vocabulary, the pronunciation. Plus tips and strategies for IELTS and Cambridge.
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In this episode we will talk about what it means to be a beginner at something. We will explore whether beginner’s luck is a real phenomenon and hear about what benefits there might be to starting to learn a new language late in life.
In episode nine, we’ll be thinking about kindness and how it can help us in our daily lives. We’ll listen to a story about the power of laughter, hear some good scientific reasons for being kind and we’ll get some tips for how to incorporate kindness to yourself into your life.
We’ll be talking about the importance of sleep and how it affects our brains. There will be an article about the benefits of napping, we’ll hear a story about how one man’s afternoon nap may have changed the world, and there will be some tips on how to get a good night’s rest.
Welcome to the seventh episode in our podcast series. This week we’ll be listening to stories about older people. Do you think about growing older yourself? Listen to how attitudes towards ageing are changing and hear from people who lived to be over 100 years old on how they lived happily and healthily into old age.
We’re delighted to dedicate our final installment to the topic of climate change. We’ll hear a personal story from an Irish person making a real difference, we’ll listen to ten tips for making a difference in your own life, and we’ll hear about teenager Greta Thunberg and the protests she inspired around the world.
Learn English with this week's instalment, we are dealing with fear! This episode will present us with a personal story about a spooky situation, we’ll hear about the physical effects of fear on our bodies and we’ll listen to an article about the Irish connection to everyone’s favourite vampire.
In our fourth episode, we’ll be talking about music and how it makes us feel. There will be a story about music and memory, we’ll hear about some of the benefits of singing and we’ll listen to an article about how music affects the brain.
Here we are with our third episode in our podcast series and in this one we will be dealing with the topic that has been in all our lives this past year: Covid-19.
Welcome to the second installment of our new podcast series. Have you ever swum in the sea in Ireland? If not, why not? Listen to our new episode for some encouragement!
Adventure and overcoming challenges - New Series - Learn English with Everest. In these podcasts, we will listen to real stories from real people, hear about interesting topics from Ireland and around the globe, and get some advice, tips and ideas for ways to change how we live.
This episode is the third part in our miniseries about the IELTS exam. Each week we explore one of the four parts of the IELTS exam: writing, reading, listening, and speaking. This week we are talking about the speaking exam and Conor is joined by Keager, a teacher with years of experience teaching the IELTS exam.
This episode is the second in our miniseries about the IELTS exam. Each week we explore one of the four parts of the IELTS exam: writing, reading, listening, and speaking. This week, it's reading and joining Conor is Rob, an experienced IELTS teacher and the director of Everest language school.
This episode is the first in our miniseries about the IELTS exams. Each week we are going to explore one of the four parts of the IELTS exam: writing, reading, listening, and speaking.
This episode is the final part of our miniseries about the Cambridge exams – the Advanced and the First (also called the CAE and the FCE). This week is all about the writing and listening exams. Joining me this week is Kevin, a teacher in Everest with lots of experience teaching the Cambridge exams.
This episode is the third in our miniseries about the Cambridge exams – the Advanced and the First (also called the CAE and the FCE). Last week we looked at the reading exam and this week it’s the Use of English section.
This episode is the second in our miniseries about the Cambridge exams – the Advanced and the First (also called the CAE and the FCE). Last week we looked at the speaking exam and today it’s all about reading.
This episode is the first in a four-part miniseries about the Cambridge exams – the Advanced and the First (formerly the CAE and the FCE). Over the next 4 episodes we’ll be looking at all the aspects of the exams and everything you need to get a good score.
Customer service English, and how to move between formal and informal English through vocabulary, grammar and tone of voice.
How to pick up, hang up, make and take a call, the phrases that make you sound natural on the phone, and a look at demonstrative pronouns.
This episode is the second in a 4-part series about English for work and business. From CVs, and job interviews, to phone and email English, chatting to clients, customers, and colleagues, we’ll be looking at lots of different areas over these 4 episodes.
This week is part one in a four-part mini-series about English for work and business. CVs, job interviews, phone and email English, chatting to clients, customers and colleagues, we’ll be looking at lots of different areas over the next four episodes.
This week I chat to Jane about open water swimming all over the world, from Italy to Turkey to the Indian Ocean. We talk about jellyfish, swimming with 1600 other people, and what to do if you turn blue! The grammar point is gerunds and infinitives. Why do we say “I want to do”, but “I enjoy doing”?
Rob talks about Irish music, live gigs and festivals, and we look at gradable and ungradable adjectives: why we say “very big” but not “very huge”.
The grammar of for, during and since, an interview with our teacher Derek Smith, and plenty of vocabulary about art, Easter and life in Dublin.
Conor talks about the Irish weather and takes apart the many uses of ‘get’, from getting a present to getting up, with all the vocabulary you need for a grey, drizzly day.
Everest Language School launches Ireland’s first podcast for English learners, hosted by Dr. Conor Reid, one of the school’s most senior teachers.
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