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I think Studio Lambert are geniuses at casting - Race across the world is similar

Me when an online forum asks for a "zip code"

BBC Learning English - English in a Minute Series 5 / Phrases with 'pull' Pull out all the stops and learn four phrases with 'pull' here.

If you want to learn new English phrases, you have to pull out all the stops... or you could just watch this video.

Learn 4 phrases with 'pull' in just one minute :)

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BBC Learning English - The London Letter Challenge / Episode 6: The BBC Learn modal verbs of deduction. Two teams are back at BBC Broadcasting House. They become DJs and fail to present the weather, but can they find the letter that Harry and Graham found at the start?

⛈️🎩👮‍♂️ A missing hat, a weather forecaster and a strangely familiar security guard... It must be about modals of deduction!

Yes, another episode of The London Letter Challenge, our series for A2 English Learners.

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Why you can’t judge health by weight alone Weight is a visible, cheap and easy metric – but it doesn’t reflect what matters most: diet quality, physical activity, blood pressure, stress or metabolic health.

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BBC Learning English - The London Letter Challenge / Episode 5: Elephants Learn prepositions of place. Oh no! Astrid and Eden are in the wrong place! Where are the elephants and where is the letter?

🐘 Once you've taught prepositions of place with an elephant once, you'll never look back!

If you're teaching A2 learners, find out how useful a teaching aid 🐘s can be in episode 5 of The London Letter Challenge - our fun new easy English series.

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BBC Learning English - Learning English from the News / Solar and wind beat coal for first time More electricity has been generated through wind and solar power than from coal power plants for the first time ever

🌏Is this some good climate news? 💨☀️Renewables have become the biggest source of electricity globally. 🇨🇳🇮🇳China and India have led this change.

🎧 Find out more in this week's Learning English from the News

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Cambiar tu forma de hablar porque lo pide tu jefe: España sigue discriminando por el acento Francia es el único país europeo que tiene una regulación contra la glotofobia, el rechazo hacia las personas por su manera de expresarse

Cambiar tu forma de hablar porque lo pide tu jefe: España sigue discriminando por el acento
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BBC Learning English - English in a Minute Series 5 / Phrases with 'look' Look the part with these four expressions with 'look'

👀 It's always good to try out a new look, right? If anyone is after some new glasses to look sharp in, I can recommend some.

To learn or teach phrases with 'look', I'd recommend this video :)
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BBC Learning English - Real Easy English / Talking about fears Learn to talk about your fears with this conversation in easy English

💦😱🕷️ What's scarier? Water or spiders?

If you know someone who finds podcasts in English too hard to listen to, show them this one - Real Easy English. Perfect to help develop listening skills and support autonomous listening.

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YouTube video by BBC Learning English How can I improve my listening: Ask BBC Learning English

Learn these tips to improve your listening in English!

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BBC Learning English - Real Easy English / Talking about saving money Learn to talk about budgets and offers.

Have you seen our easy English podcast for learners - Real Easy English? This week's episode is all about saving money
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PS: Don't forget to also show your learners The London Letter Challenge, which is great fun and available here: www.bbc.co.uk/learningengl...

BBC Learning English - The London Letter Challenge

New ELT video series for A2 learners!

The London Letter Challenge is a fun 10-part video series, with worksheets to support each level.

All episodes available now!

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Fancy managing an ELT social media team? This BBC Learning English job might be for you:

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BBC Learning English - English in a Minute Series 5 / Phrases with 'hat' Don't keep these phrases under your hat!

👒"Phil, can you come up with an image for 'wear many hats', just don't make it too obvious, OK"

"Sure..."

Learn phrases with 'hat' here:
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BBC Learning English - English in a Minute Series 5 / Phrases with 'blue' How many 'blue' phrases do you know? Learn three more here.

English in a Minute has got more colourful! This week's colour is blue. Learn phrases with 'blue' in this week's video.

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#elt

BBC Learning English - Learning English from the News / Deadly heatwave hits Europe Many countries in Europe are experiencing an extreme heatwave.

🌡️Europe is sweltering in a record heatwave. This is the story we're looking at this week in Learning English from the News. 📰Bring news topics into your classroom with our series.

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Listening to Ezra at Glastonbury and I reckon @femiondrums.bsky.social is the purest soul

BBC Learning English - Learning English from the News / Israel-Iran strikes Israel has launched missile strikes on Iran. In response, Iran has launched strikes on Israel.

Our series, Learning English from the News let's you bring world issues into your classroom. This week we looked at the situation in Israel and Iran. www.bbc.co.uk/learningengl...

BBC Learning English - Ask BBC Learning English / Future perfect vs future perfect continuous What's the difference between the future perfect and the future perfect continuous? That's Ali's question. Phil has the answer

It's great answering questions from our audience! This week it's all about the future perfect.

It's a subtle bit of grammar that allowed me to recreate the spiderman meme and slip in a reference to a classic 80s film - see if you can spot them in the video :)

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BBC Learning English - Learning English from the News / Los Angeles protests: Trump sends Marines Donald Trump sends the Marines to Los Angeles after immigration raids lead to protest

In this week's 'Learning English from the News' we're unpicking some of the language being used to talk about protests and the government response in Los Angeles. #elt

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Hoy cadillacs

BBC Learning English - Ask BBC Learning English / What's the passive voice? What's the passive voice? Viviana has a question. Phil has the answer

Which bit of grammar lets you avoid the blame or talk about unknown people? A video has been made to help you, or your learners learn all about the passive.

[PS: No M&Ms were harmed in the making of this video]

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You can take the boy out of Córdoba....

a man in front of a wall with logos for carabao energy drink ALT: a man in front of a wall with logos for carabao energy drink

What a goofy, beautiful, awful season. Can't believe I'm crying tears of HAPPINESS because of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. #COYS

BBC Learning English - Ask BBC Learning English / How to pronounce 'th' sounds? How can you get better at saying 'th' words? Let Phil help you out

As a Londoner, I fink it'd be easier if we didn't have to bovver with 'th' sounds, but English doesn't always work like that.

Don't worry though, here are some top tips to help you or your learners say those tricky 'th' sounds.

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Right, time to learn Euskera #coys

BBC Learning English - English in a Minute / Verbs to use with 'challenge' Are you up for the challenge of learning these collocations?

My latest challenge is to explain collocations with 'challenge' in just 1 minute.

You'll have to watch to the end to see if I can do it 😉

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