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Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.
Episodi
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Can music mend a broken heart?
01/12/2022 Durata: 06minMeet a singer-songwriter who used music to express her feelings of falling in love.
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The art of conversation
24/11/2022 Durata: 06minWe discuss whether the art of conversation is being lost in the era of social media
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Qatar's World Cup workers
17/11/2022 Durata: 06minHear about the workers who built the World Cup stadiums
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Controlling the weather
10/11/2022 Durata: 06minWe discuss two different types of weather manipulation.
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Meet the flavourists
03/11/2022 Durata: 06minIs designing a food flavour a dark art? We talk about the people who make flavours.
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Are Halloween costumes too scary?
27/10/2022 Durata: 06minSome parents are complaining that some Halloween costumes are too scary.
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Does climate change make you anxious?
20/10/2022 Durata: 06minWe discuss how extreme weather events are affecting our mental health.
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Translating recipes
13/10/2022 Durata: 06minHow to adapt dishes from other countries? We talk about it and teach you vocabulary.
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Are artistic brains different?
06/10/2022 Durata: 06minWe talk about Mozart, Jimi Hendrix and teach you vocabulary.
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Why are prices going up?
29/09/2022 Durata: 06minWe discuss inflation and economics and teach related vocabulary.
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English for dating online
22/09/2022 Durata: 06minWe discuss language that gets used for dating online and new language that is emerging.
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Man vs beast: Who is more efficient?
15/09/2022 Durata: 06minWe discuss the advantages of the design of the human body, and teach you vocabulary too.
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Are you following your dreams?
08/09/2022 Durata: 06minHear about two people who dared to follow their dreams and are happy to have done so.
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Being a beauty influencer
25/08/2022 Durata: 06minHear about women who are using social media to change attitudes to beauty
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Women in the workplace
18/08/2022 Durata: 06minHear about the career-killing tasks that are holding women back in the workplace
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How pandemics end
04/08/2022 Durata: 06minCovid-19, The Black Death ... We discuss what happens when deadly diseases go global.
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Confused by modern idioms?
28/07/2022 Durata: 06minWe talk about some new expressions that have been introduced to English through the media
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Which are more dangerous: Sharks or humans?
21/07/2022 Durata: 06minFrom monster killers of the sea to endangered species - we talk sharks and vocabulary.