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Do you want to have fun learning and improving your English grammar, vocabulary and listening and reading comprehension? Check these weekly 10 - 15 minute English language podcasts, aimed at ESL/EFL beginners, intermediate and advanced learners. Each podcast talks about the meaning and usage of a part of English grammar and then re-uses it in a short, topical, natural English comprehension text. Download the Giles Parker English Academy podcast and the transcript each week and learn English ...
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Who could have poisoned Banjo? - Modal auxiliaries to speculate about the past 9:08

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Modals to speculate about the past – Who could have poisoned Banjo? Hi! Welcome to another great English lesson with New English Academy. My name's Giles Parker and I'm your guide for today's lesson. I live in the beautiful Green Heart of Italy but life isn't always as pleasant as it seems here. So today we're going to hear about how my dog, Banj…
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Why learn grammar? 7:48

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Why learn grammar? Four great reasons Hi and welcome to another great lesson with New English Academy. My name is Giles Parker and I'm your host for this podcast. Today I'm going to answer a question from one of our listeners who asked me, "Why do you talk about grammar so much? Why do you have to use all those difficult words and ideas?" And she g…
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Speak like a native - go & like for indirect speech 9:37

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'Go' and 'like' for indirect speech Hi and welcome to another great lesson from New English Academy. I'm your host Giles Parker and today we're going to look at one of the most useful grammar points that will make you sound immediately like a native speaker. Amazingly, this grammar point isn’t in any of the conventional grammar textbooks for Engl…
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Living with cancer - indirect or reported speech 14:08

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Indirect or reported speech Hi and welcome to another great lesson with New English Academy. I’m your guide, Giles Parker, and today we’re going to look at how to use indirect speech to report or say what someone else said. There are a couple of really useful rules you need to remember when you tell someone what someone else said. For example, …
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Could you do me a favor? Making requests 9:35

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Making requests Hi and welcome to another great lesson from New English Academy. I'm your guide Giles Parker and today we're going to look at how to make polite requests. This podcast follows on from last week’s podcast ‘Pass the paint pot’ which looked at using imperatives. Both imperatives and requests are ways of getting people to do thing…
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Pass the paint pot - Imperatives and phrasal verbs 12:53

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Using imperatives to tell people to do something Hi and welcome to another great lesson from New English Academy. I’m Giles Parker and I’m your guide for this course. Today we’re going to look at some really useful phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs are verbs that have two words to them, always a verb and either a preposition or a particle. You hea…
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McLanguage change - i'm lovin' it - stative verbs 5:53

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Stative verbs - McLanguage change Hi and welcome to another great grammar lesson from New English Academy. I’m your host, Giles Parker, and today we’re going to learn about stative verbs, and in particular, how that famous burger chain, McDonalds has shown that grammar rules can change. This lesson is aimed at intermediate learners but anyone c…
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Marketing houses in Umbria - changing nouns 11:20

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Modifying nouns – Marketing houses in Umbria Hi and welcome to another great English lesson from New English Academy. I’m your guide Giles Parker and today we’re going to look at how to change or modify nouns – i.e. which adjectives come before others when they describe a noun. This lesson is aimed at advanced level students but everyone ca…
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We didn't understand the culture - simple past 16:03

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Simple past regular verbs – beginners Hi and welcome to another great lesson from New English Academy. I’m your host Giles Parker and today we’re going to look at one of the few nice and predictable things in English grammar – the simple past for regular verbs. Simple past regular is so regular, even new verbs, like ‘to google’ follow t…
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Getting what you want - asking permission 10:44

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Modal auxiliaries for permission - Getting what you want Hi there! Welcome to another fun lesson from New English Academy. I’m your guide, Giles Parker and today we’re going to look at how modal auxiliaries for permission can help you get what you want. The comprehension text talks about a couple of examples of when someone asked for permissio…
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Haiku: Doing more with less - adverbial phrases

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Adverbial phrases Hi there! Welcome to another great lesson from New English Academy. I’m your host, Giles Parker and today we’re going to focus on how to be really efficient when you’re speaking, simply by shortening adverb clauses down to adverbial phrases. This lesson is aimed at advanced level students but don’t worry if you don’t thi…
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The bucket list - present perfect

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Present perfect with 'already' & 'yet' Hi there! Welcome to another lesson from New English Academy. I’m your guide, Giles Parker. Today we’ll be focusing on how to use the present perfect with already and yet. This lesson is aimed at intermediate level learners but don’t worry if you aren’t at that level. There is something for everyone he…
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Planning a surprise party - 'will' & 'going to' 9:22

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'Will' vs 'going to' Hi and welcome to another lesson from New English Academy. Today we’re going to look at the differences between will and going to. This lesson is aimed at beginner students but if you are more advanced you might still find something useful too. First, I’m going to talk about what going to and will really mean. Then we’re …
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Preparing for a marathon - gerunds 7:57

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Gerunds as subject and object Hi there! Welcome to another fun lesson with New English Academy. I’m your guide, Giles Parker. Today, we’re going to look at how we can use gerunds as subjects and objects in a sentence and I’ll talk about that first. Then we’ll listen to or read the comprehension text which is called ‘Preparing for a Marath…
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The Guinness Book of records - superlative adjectives 11:28

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Superlative adjectives Hi there, and welcome to another great lesson with New English Academy. I’m your guide Giles Parker and today we’re going to focus on superlative adjectives. The comprehension text is about some of the strangest world records in the Guinness Book of Records. This lesson is aimed at beginners but anyone can find something …
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Dangerous Smartphones - passive voice 15:26

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The passive voice for reports Hi and welcome to another great lesson from New English Academy. I’m your guide, Giles Parker, and today we’re going to look at the controversial usage of the passive voice. The comprehension text looks at a report by the BBC last year that described UK Health Protection Agency advice on the use of Smartphones. Thi…
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Guys used to wear hats - 'used to' 10:00

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'used to' for past habits The text is called ‘Guys used to wear hats’ and this talks about – yep, you guessed it – how people used to wear hats once upon a time, but it seems this is no longer true. But first let’s talk about the grammar, used to. You know how the past tense talks about a finished or competed action that we also know when…
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My friends make me fat - frequency adverbs 10:33

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Frequency adverbs Hi, welcome to another lesson from New English Academy. My name’s Giles Parker and today we’re going to be looking at frequency adverbs. The title of the listening and reading text is ‘My friends make me fat’. The grammar is aimed at beginners but the language is natural so it can be used by any level. Don’t forget, you …
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Buyers remorse - expressing regret 8:29

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Modal auxiliaries for regret Hi welcome to New English Academy. My name’s Giles Parker and I am your host for this podcast. Today we’re going to focus on 3 different modal auxiliaries to express regret. The listening text is called ‘Buyer’s Remorse’. I’ll tell you more about that in a bit. This lesson is aimed at advanced level students…
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