Learning vocabulary - Get on your bike

This week, Jack reflects on 10 years of the Premier Skills English podcast, looking back at the highlights of the last 800 episodes and leaves you with a football English quiz. 

This Week explores some of the biggest stories from the Premier League and the world of football and focuses on the most interesting vocabulary.In this episode, Jack talks about websites and podcasts that football fans can use to build their vocabulary and improve their English.Y ...  Show more

Some cyclists train for years before hitting the track in the Olympics. Other cyclists buy a $30 bicycle and are thrown onto the gritty pavement of a Chinese city to learn from their hard knocks. One such lesson learned being: never pass on the right for risk of being spat on ...

In this Learn English Vocabulary podcast, Jack talks about different types of sport. This podcast is presented as a short quiz. Jack gives you clues and you have to work out what sport Jack is describing. You can read the transcript and test how well you have understood with the ...  Show more

In this Learn English Vocabulary podcast, Jack talks about the 10 most popular sports in the world and describes pictures of people playing these sports. The vocabulary focus is the words for different sports, but the descriptions are also models for describing pictures. The lang ...  Show more

Riding a bike is probably the most convenient mode of transport in China. So far on ChinesePod you've used Mandarin to rent a bike and even fix a flat tire. In today's podcast we buy a bike, and bell, and lock... but don't forget to buy a helmet! Episode link: http ...