This set of podcasts is a supplement to the General English Course, Elementary level.

Listening&Speaking Boost. Elementary Level.

This set of podcasts offers an insight into how to make the most of your language learning time.

Language Learning Tips and Tricks

This set of podcasts will be interesting for avid readers. I read extracts from books which I find impressive. I invite listeners to share their ideas on the matter - by a message or in a lesson.

The Joy of Reading

This set of podcasts is a supplement for the General English course. Intermediate level.

Listening &  Speaking Boost. Intermediate Level.

This set of podcasts aims at explaining some common phrasal verbs in context. 

Phrasal Verbs

This set of podcasts is about some common mistakes which learners make. I explain this or that mistake and give advice how to fix or avoid it.

Common Mistakes

Netflixドラマ【First Love 初恋】は見ましたか？

【First Love 初恋】の撮影の場所は北海道です。
北海道に住んでいる私が、撮影の場所を紹介したいと思います。
北海道のこと、文化についても話します。

撮影/さつえい...写真や映画をとること

《話にでてくる言葉》
タイムカプセル/たいむかぷせる
東日本大震災/ひがしにほんだいしんさい
JUNO札幌店/じゅの　さっぽろてん
ラーメン蜂屋/らーめんはちや
北海道庁/ほっかいどうちょう
旭川空港グリーンポート/あさひかわくうこう　ぐりーんぽーと
ツキノワグマ/つきのわぐま
ヒグマ/ひぐま


北海道へようこそ【First Love 初恋】from Netflix

8.或る午後のブルースト効果【First Love 初恋】from Netflix

The right and wrong way to ask for something, or to ask permission, in English.

The English Toolbox

Making Polite Requests in English

O Javier é da Venezuela e vai partilhar um pouco da sua cultura!

Conversações pelo Mundo

Entrevista com o Javier

Ciao a tutti!!! In questo episodio torniamo a parlare di apprendimento linguistico, il tutto in italiano. Sottolineo che l'opinione espressa in questo episodio è semplicemente la mia opinione e può essere più o meno condivisa da altri, studenti o insegnanti. Il metodo migliore è quello che funzionerà meglio per voi e si adatterà di più alle vostre esigenze...keep it fun!

The Italian Miscellaneous Podcast🖐 

Come studio (io) una lingua straniera...

Il clima influisce sui nostri umori e dopo tanto caldo e sole un giorno di grigio e piovoso altro non fa che portarmi un po' di buoni ricordi e un pizzico di nostalgia. 

Una giornata piovosa

We must all stand for Hawaii, where a devastating fire occurred. 🙏
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VOCABULARY (CYR):
1.	Пожар –  је неконтролисано ширење ватре у простору, наносећи материјалну штету, а неретко односећи и људске животе.
2.	Хаваји – су архипелаг у централном делу Пацифика, и држава САД-а.
3.	Федерална агенција за управљање ванредним ситуацијама – FEMA – Federal Emergancy Management Agency 

VOCABULARY (LAT):
1.	Požar –  je nekontrolisano širenje vatre u prostoru, nanoseći materijalnu štetu, a neretko odnoseći i ljudske živote.
2.	Havaji – su arhipelag u centralnom delu Pacifika, i država SAD-a.
3.	Federalna agencija za upravljanje vanrednim situacijama – FEMA – Federal Emergancy Management Agency


SERBIAN TO GO

Пожар на Хавајима – Požar na Havajima (News B1 level and above)

Crowds of people queued up at Australia's Royal Sydney Botanic Garden on January 23, with some people waiting as long as three hours.

And for what?

A very smelly flower.

The titan arum, known as the "corpse flower," is a tall, pointed plant that releases an unpleasant smell when it blooms. The smell has been likened to things like decaying flesh, gym socks or rotting garbage.

The endangered plant is only found in the Sumatran rainforests in Indonesia, where there are thought to be fewer than 300 of them. It only blooms every 7 to 10 years in its natural habitat.

"The fact that they open very rarely, so they flower rarely, is obviously something that puts them at a little bit of a disadvantage in the wild," said Sophie Daniel from the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden. "When they open, they have to hope that another flower is open nearby, because they can't self-pollinate."

The flower at the botanic garden is the first to bloom there in 15 years, and she's been named Putricia — a combination of "putrid" and "Patricia" — by her fans.

Putricia's online fandom grew quickly and globally. A 24/7 live stream established by the botanic garden drew close to a million views in under a week, and people on social media planned to hurry to the garden as the plant opened. In just 24 hours, Putricia's bloom — and her stench — would be gone.

As she opened, the plant heated to 37 degrees Celsius to better spread her scent. In the wild, the smell tricks pollinators into landing on what they think is rotten meat and spreading pollen between flowers.

Up to 20,000 people filed past for a moment in her pungent presence, leaning in for a sniff or taking selfies.

It was difficult to say why the flower attracted such a following — but perhaps the answer lay in the "reverence" viewers felt in the presence of "such an amazing living being," Daniel said.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Crowds Gather in Sydney for Smelly Flower


Beyoncé has now won more Grammys than any other artist in history, having brought her total to 32 at the award ceremony on February 5. That's one more than late conductor Georg Solti, who previously held the record.

Beyoncé won best R&B song for "Cuff It," best dance/electronic music recording for "Break My Soul" and best traditional R&B performance for "Plastic Off the Sofa." She then won best dance/electronic music album for Renaissance, which was also nominated for album of the year.

However, that top award went to British singer-actor, Harry Styles, for Harry's House.

Lizzo won record of the year — a category that awards all of the contributors on a single song — for "About Damn Time," giving a speech that brought many in the audience, including Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Adele, to their feet.

"I wanted to make the world a better place, so I had to be that change to make the world a better place. Now, I look around and see these songs are about loving your body and feeling comfortable in your skin and feeling good."



Sam Smith and Kim Petras won best pop duo-group performance for their song "Unholy." Petras said Smith wanted Petras to make the acceptance speech because "I'm the first transgender woman to win this award."

Petras also thanked friend and Grammy-nominated musician Sophie, who died after an accidental fall in Athens, Greece in 2021.

"Thank you so much for your inspiration, Sophie. I adore you, and your inspiration will forever be in my music," she said.

An Iranian singer, who is facing possible prison time for his music, won the award for best song for social change.

Shervin Hajipour couldn't be at the Los Angeles ceremony to receive his award for "Baraye" — which means "For." But he appeared stunned by his win in a video shared online.

"Baraye's" lyrics list the reasons many young people in Iran have been protesting in recent months, ending with the popular slogan, "For women, life, freedom."