Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Learner For us March means one thing: the arrival of warmer weather and doing some gardening. You can find out what we like to grow in The veg patch. It also means the arrival of flowers in the countryside, especially Wild orchids. Watch our pie video to see the ones growing near us. Remember to always check out the side bar on the level pages for more podcasts of the month, plus podcasts for special days in March. These include Poetry: powerful or pointless? f ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Learner Happy New Year! We do hope, if you had a holiday, it was a great time with family and friends. Now it's back to work! It has become a tradition to start the new year with a quiz, and this year is the same. Jackie asks Richard questions in The 2018 quiz. This time there are 8 questions and a choice of answers. Listen to hear how Richard gets on, and of course have a go yourself! This podcast is for level 2. We are going to make a big effort this yea ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Learner It's that time of the year: the decorations are going up, the tree is looking pretty in the corner and all sorts of delightful food is being prepared. But what if you're allergic to nuts? Or dried fruit? Then this can be a difficult time for those with food allergies. That is the theme for our first podcast for December: Look before you eat which is for level 3. Are you allergic to anything?  Our second podcast for the month also has one of our pie vide ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Learner This Sunday, 11 November, marks the 100th anniversary of the end of The Great War (1914 - 1918). The war killed almost 7 million civilians and 10 million military personnel. Whatever your view on war these people should never be forgotten. We have two podcasts for this. The first is why we also call 11 November Poppy Day and the second has loads of incredible facts about The Great War. These are both for level 2. Also in November we have a Podcast about ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Learner So the summer season is over but, don't worry, for our Podcasts of the month we have some autumn podcasts for you. There's The fall for level 1 and Mushrooms for level 2. For level 3 we have Sue talking about her Fear of flying. These can also be found in the sidebar for the levels. October has lots of special days and we have podcasts for most of them including Looking is seeing and 20/20 vision for World Sight Day on 13 October. But there are many mor ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Learner We have a new competition to celebrate recording over 500 podcasts! It's very easy - simply go on our Facebook page and share the photo / post for the competition. You must share this Public (not just with friends) so we can see who has done it. Two lucky winners will win 6 months FREE pie membership! What are you waiting for..?! Meanwhile, our first podcast this month is for our business listeners. However, the subject is suitable for everyone: whether ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Learner As we write this it is, incredibly, almost 40 º C outside. Our last podcast in July was Feeling hot, hot, hot! and it is certainly the case right now! The best thing to do, perhaps, is take a dip. Listen to Can you swim? and hear how we learned to like the water. This is one of our summer podcasts. Check out the sidebar for some more. We have also added to the sidebar more 'podcasts of the month'. For level 1 we have Hotel Alicante, listen to hear ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Learner Whether you like it or not this month will be dominated by a certain sporting spectacular! Luckily we have four podcasts for you including The World Cup which looks at one of the most coveted trophies in sport. Check out the sidebars on the website for more. In addition to the football we have more podcasts that go with special days in June. There are two, for example, for World Refugee Day and three for World Music Day on the 21st. Again chec ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Learner Along with the podcasts of the month (see right) we have podcasts to go with the special days of May. These include: International Day of Families on the 15th, International Museum Day on 18th and No smoking day on 31st. Check out the sidebar on the pages for level 1, 2 or 3 for links. We start the month with some good news really. It's been over a decade since the No smoking ban in the UK. We talk about the effects this has had on smokers (No ...Continue Reading

Monthly news from podcastsinenglish.com Dear Learner Despite the rain we are happy that it's April and that Spring is in the air. This is one of our 'podcasts of the month' and it's for level 1. For level 2 Jackie learns a lot about cheese making in Say cheese! which also has one of our many pie vids. And for level 3 Sue tells us why she loves visiting Italy in Forza Italia! There are lots of special days this month and we have many podcasts to go with them. These include World Book Day, International Guide ...Continue Reading