Are you still using memorised templates for IELTS, TOEFL, or PTE? 🚫 In this episode of The English Native Podcast, Kevin explains why examiners and AI systems penalise templates — and how flexible frameworks like PEEL (writing) and CLEAR (speaking) will help you think critically, sound natural, and achieve Band 7+ in IELTS, 100+ in TOEFL, or 80+ in PTE.

✨ What you’ll learn:

Why memorised templates don’t work anymore

How IELTS, TOEFL, and PTE examiners spot robotic language

The PEEL framework for writing (Point, Example, Explanation, Link)

The CLEAR framework for speaking (Claim, Logic, Example, Add depth, Return)

Practical tips to build critical thinking skills

🎧 Listen now and start practising smarter, not harder.
📥 Download the transcript + free handout at theenglishnative.com
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Kev's English Podcast

KEP 38: IELTS, TOEFL & PTE Success: Why Frameworks Beat Templates for Higher Scores!

一个外国人参加“普通话演讲比赛”，他的开场白是这样的：先生们，女士们，你们好，我的普通话说得不好，我与贵国语言的关系就如同我跟我太太的关系一样，我很爱它，却又无法控制它”。

A foreigner attends Putonghua speech contest ，Here's his opening line：Hello, ladies and gentlemen. I can't speak Mandarin well，My relationship with your language is the same as my relationship with my wife, I love it, but I can't control it。


开心一刻 Jokes

无法控制（wú fǎ kòng zhì）

In this episode I have a talk with Jania Alvarez, an Italki tutor from Mexico, about social networks, the good and the bad.

Remember that I teach Spanish in italki, you can book a class for more information you can see it on my profile and you can also book a class with my partner Jania Alvarez in this link that I share.

https://www.italki.com/teacher/6844238

Colombia

Redes sociales

Այս թողարկման մեջ ես պատմում եմ Զիգմունդ Ֆրոյդի մասին հայերեն ։)

․․․ մասին 

Զիգմունդ Ֆրոյդ #02

【北海道Hokkaido生活】
7月22日金曜日　天気/くもり　気温/23℃ 

富良野市/ふらのし
・特産『富良野メロン』の収穫が盛ん
・大きくて糖度も高い
・農家さんは「メロンを食べて幸せになってほしい」

［単語］
 特産/とくさん…特にその場所で作られていること
メロン/めろん…うすい緑色の果物
収穫/しゅうかく…おいしくなった食べ物を取る
盛ん/さかん…たくさん
糖度/とうど…あまさ　　
農家/のうか…野菜や果物を作ってる仕事の人

〈美和Miwa〉
日本語の先生
Podcast「どこでも.JAPANESE」も放送中！

北海道Hokkaido生活 for Japanese learners

〈#94〉7月22日金曜日　メロンがおいしい！［北海道と東京でちがうこととは？］

This episode includes explanations and examples of phrasal verbs with including the word "get." Practice Worksheet: https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar/phrasal-verbs/phrasal-verbs-get/12127

Nit-Picky English with Nika 

Phrasal Verbs With "Get"

Here’s a simple practice that can change how you sound and connect in English — it’s easier than you think.

Real English Skills

Want to Speak English Better? Try This Simple Practice

¿Conoces la expresión VENIR A CUENTO? Aquí te la explico con muchos ejemplos y traducciones. No hay que confundirla con VENIR CON CUENTOS.

EXPRESIONES en español

#13. Expresión VENIR A CUENTO

L’horloge
Charles Baudelaire
Horloge ! dieu sinistre, effrayant, impassible,
Dont le doigt nous menace et nous dit :  » Souviens-toi !
Les vibrantes Douleurs dans ton coeur plein d’effroi
Se planteront bientôt comme dans une cible,
Le plaisir vaporeux fuira vers l’horizon
Ainsi qu’une sylphide au fond de la coulisse ;
Chaque instant te dévore un morceau du délice
A chaque homme accordé pour toute sa saison.
Trois mille six cents fois par heure, la Seconde
Chuchote : Souviens-toi ! – Rapide, avec sa voix
D’insecte, Maintenant dit : Je suis Autrefois,
Et j’ai pompé ta vie avec ma trompe immonde !
Remember ! Souviens-toi, prodigue ! Esto memor !
(Mon gosier de métal parle toutes les langues.)
Les minutes, mortel folâtre, sont des gangues
Qu’il ne faut pas lâcher sans en extraire l’or !
Souviens-toi que le Temps est un joueur avide
Qui gagne sans tricher, à tout coup ! c’est la loi.
Le jour décroît ; la nuit augmente, souviens-toi !
Le gouffre a toujours soif ; la clepsydre se vide.

Tantôt sonnera l’heure où le divin Hasard,
Où l’auguste Vertu, ton épouse encor vierge,
Où le repentir même (oh ! la dernière auberge !),
Où tout te dira : Meurs, vieux lâche ! il est trop tard !  »
Charles Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal

The clock
Ye clock! Sinister, frightful, stone-faced god
whose hand threatens us and says "Remember!
Pulsating pains will soon pierce
your heart filled with fright,
 the nebulous pleasure will flee to the horizon
like a sylph disappearing in the backstage.
Every momenty bites off a bit of the delight
granted to every man for all his life."
 Three thousand six hundred times per hour, the Second
whispers "Remember!". Quickly, with its insect
voice, it now says "I am bygone times
and I sucked your life with my vile proboscis!
 Remember! Souviens-toi! Prodigue! Esto memor!
(My metal throat speaks all languages)
Ye frisky mortal, minutes are gangues
you shan't drop without extracting the gold within!
 Remember, time is a greedy player
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