Maria is a CELTA and DELTA qualified teacher and teacher-trainer who has been helping people prepare for IELTS for over 7 years. Maria knows a lot of tips, tricks and inside information about succeeding in IELTS. She got a band-9 score in the speaking part of the test herself and she's not a native speaker. In this episode we talk about the speaking part of the IELTS test, and give plenty of useful advice for getting the best score possible in this tricky test.👉 Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sPw 👉 Maria's useful website on IELTS with fresh speaking topics: 🇬🇧 https://yourielts.net/ 🇷🇺 https://yourielts.ru/ 👉 Maria and Rory's IELTS Speaking for Success podcast: https://fanlink.to/ieltssfs Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amber returns to the podcast to tell us some grisly stories about the history of Paris. Amber is a bit of an expert about Paris. She has read pretty much every book about the city and is also a registered tour guide here. A few years ago she set up a podcast called Paname Podcast (Paname is a nickname for Paris). Each episode contains a true story from history, with tales of battle, execution, romance, tragedy and adventure. You can get it where you get your podcasts. In this episode Amber comes onto LEP to share a few stories from her podcast series. Includes a 30-minute ramble at the end of the episode.👉 Listen to Amber's podcast https://plinkhq.com/i/1241927554?to=page👉 Page for this episode on my website https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sOg Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

👉 Take Carlos' survey here https://forms.ua.pt/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=699278&lang=enCarlos Soares, from the University of Aveiro in Portugal, is doing a master's degree dissertation all about language learning podcasts. He contacted me to conduct an interview as part of his research, and he agreed for me to publish it as an episode of my podcast. Carlos asks me about my thoughts on learning English through listening, my approach to making my podcast and some other details.👉 Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sPa Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedian Sebastian Marx returns to the podcast in order to talk about Yiddish words which have found their way into the English language, including common words like bagel, glitch and schmooze and plenty more. 👉 Episode page with links, etc https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sOX👉 Sebastian Marx's website https://www.sebmarx.com Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is that a confusing title? Hopefully not. As you might expect, it's a little summary of what's included in the episode. To give you some more details, Alastair Budge is the host of a podcast called "English Learning for Curious Minds" and he has created a new audio drama for English learners called "Pioneers of the Continuum". It's a time-travel adventure for English learners, and Alastair asked me to be the narrator for episode 1. In this episode of LEP, we talk about Alastair's story, living in Malta, learning English by immersion, cliches and complaints from English speakers visiting Paris and Alastair's story about playing the bagpipes on the streets of Paris. The audio version includes 30+mins of rambling from me at the end. Enjoy!👉 Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sOL👉 Alastair's website (podcasts + more) https://www.leonardoenglish.com/ Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.