29. Mystery Story / Narrative Tenses

Another short story on LEP to entertain you and help you learn some more English words and expressions. This one is a creepy tale about a room in a house with a strange, fatal attraction. People can't stop themselves going through the door, but then what happens to them? Follow a ...  Show more

A funny British English conversation about food, cooking & eating habits, with my friend Martin. Why is British food a bit of a joke? Do French people have the right to criticise British cuisine? What is marmite, and why don't Brits just throw it away? What did Luke eat for lunch ...  Show more

Rowan tells Jack an anecdote about a time she met a famous person. The language focus is narrative tenses: past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple and past perfect continuous.Visit the podcast page on Premier Skills English to read the transcript, complete some practice ...  Show more

In this English audio lesson, you're going to learn about a typical day in the life of Dave. And in this short story, you're going to hear over 50 phrasal verbs. After listening to the story, you'll learn what these phrasal verbs mean and I'll give you lots of examples to help yo ...  Show more

If you've listened to previous episodes you may have heard me mention that there are really 4 core tenses that the majority of people need in a business context; the present, the future, the past and the present perfect. If you have a good command of these ones, that will serve y ...  Show more

In episode 6 Scott and Una talk about the use of tenses. Tenses are an important part of the OET letter writing process and a lot of students struggle with them. In this podcast, we talk about how you can use the main verb tenses like: Present simple Past simple Present perfect P ...  Show more