📌 In this episode of Kev's English Podcast (Ep. 34), I reveal the most common memorised phrases that are hurting your IELTS Writing Task 2 score — and what to say instead!

Whether you're aiming for Band 7 or higher, using vague, rehearsed phrases like "Since the dawn of time..." or "This essay will discuss..." can actually harm your chances. In this practical and honest coaching episode, I’ll guide you through natural, examiner-friendly alternatives that make your essay clear, direct, and band-score-worthy.

✅ What you’ll learn:

Why "In a nutshell" and "aforementioned" hurt your writing

Better ways to introduce and conclude your essay

Clear templates and sentence examples to boost coherence

Academic tone vs. spoken tone — when to use each

How examiners really read your essays

🎓 Whether you're preparing for IELTS Academic or General Training, this episode is packed with tips to help you write naturally and score higher.

🔗 Get the full transcript of this episode at: https://theenglishnative.com/episodes
🎧 Also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & more
📹 Watch the full video on my YouTube channel: The English Native

Kev's English Podcast

KEP34: IELTS Writing Task 2: Say This, Not That! | Avoid These Common Mistake

Bienvenido a Learn Peruvian Spanish, un lugar para aprender frases o palabras usadas en Perú que, tal vez, para un extranjero puedan tener otro significado.
Este contenido está dedicado principalmente a personas que están aprendiendo español y están interesadas en viajar por Perú.

Cada episodio tiene una transcripción disponible, pueden acceder a las transcripciones en la descripción de cada episodio.
Transcripción: https://conpedepatria.wordpress.com/?page_id=1595

¡Disfruta aprender!

Learn Peruvian Spanish

0. Introducción

Preparation for a Russian language lesson. Level B1 subtest "Grammar. Vocabulary". Let's start with exercise 63.
Сергей встретил ... около метро.
Потом Сергей вместе ... вернулся
домой.

Preparation for lessons

There are mistakes in one sentence. Can you find them? Write me a message about it and the lesson will be 10 minutes longer.

En este episodio de Porteña te cuento cuáles son los beneficios de conocer la gramática cuando estamos aprendiendo una lengua nueva

Porteña

¿Por qué estudiar gramática?

Tento podcast je ideální pro studenty češtiny, kteří chtějí poznat českou kulturu a zároveň si zlepšit jazyk. Dozvíte se vše důležité o slavné dětské televizní pohádce Večerníček, která je už více než 50 let součástí života českých dětí (i dospělých).

Obrázky a text podcastu ke stáhnutí na mém Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/vecernicek-ceska-131718689?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Hezky česky

Večerníček – Česká pohádková tradice (A2)

请客(qǐngkè)，treat somebody to a meal ，have you ever 请客？ What would you say during 请客? 
Today's vocabulary ：
AA制（zhì）：split the bill 
聚餐（jùcān）：get together and have a meal
忌口（jìkǒu）：the food you don’t eat
点餐（diǎncān）：to order food
推荐（tuījiàn）：to recommend
招牌菜（zhāopáicài）：specialty
别客气（biékèqi）：make yourself at home
随便点（suíbiàndiǎn）：order whatever you want 
抢（qiǎng）： scramble
消费（xiāofèi）：consume , consumption
饥不择食（jībùzéshí）： eat whatever you can catch

chinesewithserana

请客（treat somebody to a meal）

The number of couples getting married in South Korea increased by almost 15% between 2023 and 2024.

That's the biggest percentage increase in marriages since the government began collecting this data in 1970.

More than 222,000 couples got married in South Korea in 2024. That's good news for a country with one of the world's lowest birth rates.

The government has been trying to encourage people to get married and have children to help boost the country's shrinking population.

It may just have worked. However, not all young people are convinced that marriage is the right thing for them.

According to The South China Morning Post, many young people in the country are still choosing an "unmarried lifestyle" for personal and financial reasons.

Some said that getting married and doing things like buying a home and having children are too expensive.

Others felt they would be more likely to find happiness on their own.

The government data also showed that the number of marriages between South Koreans and foreign nationals has increased for the third year in a row.

There were almost 21,000 of these marriages last year. That's an increase of more than 1,000 from 2023, although still not quite as high as it was before the coronavirus pandemic.

Almost three out of 10 foreign husbands were from the US. And about a third of foreign wives were from Vietnam, while many others were from China and Thailand.

The number of divorces among couples of different nationalities also decreased last year, according to Yonhap News Agency.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Big Rise in Number of Marriages in South Korea

In questo primo episodio di "Voci della letteratura italiana", viaggiamo nella Firenze del 1300 per incontrare l'uomo che ha cambiato per sempre la lingua italiana: Dante Alighieri.

Voci della letteratura italiana

Dante Alighieri

##여러분! 새해 복 많이 받으세요!!!😄##
Happy happy new year!!!!2022!!
Have you thought about what your New Year's resolutions 2022 might be? 
Have you ever felt frustrated because of what you have done before?
Even though you made a decision, but you ended up failure… 
I am not here to talk about your resolutions. 
I am here to talk about the story of immigrant family who make a new start and face catastrophes like they have never done before!
But they embrace it! How do they get over them? 
92nd Academy awards winning Best Supporting Actress and circa 80 awards winning!
Why don’t you start new year with Minari ?

"새해 결심" 다들 있으시죠? 
그 결심이 오래 가지 않아 좌절한 적은 없으신가요? 
여기, 새로운 출발을 하는 이민 가족이 있습니다.
행복한 새 출발을 기대했지만 찾아오는 좌절들…
과연 이 가족은 어떻게 좌절을 극복했을까요? 
제92회 아카데미 시상식 여우조연상 수상 등 80개 수상에 빛나는 2021년 최고의 영화!
영화 “미나리”로 새해를 출발해 보세요^^