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    #112 Keeping kids busy | Surviving school holidays (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2026 11:40


    Learn English phrases for keeping kids busy during the school holidays. Practise everyday English for talking about children's behaviour, boredom, and common challenges at home.Keep practising the phrases from this episode and test what you've learned with our quiz here.

    Bonus Practice: #112 Keeping kids busy | Surviving school holidays (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2026 3:34


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode Bonus Practice: #112 Keeping kids busy | Surviving school holidays (Med)Find the full episode, learning notes and more free resources at SBS Learn English.

    MiniPod: Man On! | Words we use

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2026 2:52


    Learn a new phrase and make your English sound more natural and interesting. Words We Use is a bilingual series that helps you understand idioms like 'Man On!'.

    MiniPod: Keep your eye on the ball | Words we use

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2026 2:45


    Learn a new phrase and make your English sound more natural and interesting. Words We Use is a bilingual series that helps you understand idioms like 'Keep your eye on the ball'.

    #111 Water problems at home? |Talking to a plumber (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2026 10:10


    Learn English useful for describing plumbing problems at home. Practise everyday phrases for explaining issues, asking about cost, and arranging repairs.

    Bonus Practice: #111 Water problems at home? Talking to a plumber (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2026 3:00


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode Bonus Practice: #111 Water problems at home? Talking to a plumber.

    MiniPod: GOAT | Words we use

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2026 3:00


    Learn a new phrase and make your English sound more natural and interesting. Words We Use is a bilingual series that helps you understand idioms like 'GOAT'.Learning notes and more free lessons available: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/en/podcast-episode/minipod-goat-words-we-use/nw7cwsrcg

    #110 Trying on shoes (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2026 10:36


    Learn English useful for talking about trying on, buying, and finding shoes that fit well. Practise everyday phrases for describing how shoes feel, asking for a different size, and explaining what you are looking for in a comfortable pair.

    Bonus Practice: #110 Trying on shoes (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2026 2:47


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode Bonus Practice: #110 Trying on shoes.

    قسمت SBS Learn English ۱۰۷: محافظت از حیات‌وحش | صحبت درباره طبیعت و حیوانات

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2026 10:04


    در این قسمت اصطلاحات کاربردی برای صحبت درباره حیوانات، طبیعت و مراقبت از حیات‌وحش یاد می‌گیرید و جملات روزانه‌ای را تمرین می‌کنید تا بتوانید درباره تهدیدات موجودات برای حیوانات بحث کنید و نسبت به وضعیت محیط‌زیست ابراز نگرانی کنید.

    #109 Talking about ageing parents (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2026 9:25


    Learn English useful for talking about ageing parents and family responsibilities. Practise everyday phrases for describing challenges, offering help, and discussing how to support parents.

    Bonus Practice: #109 Talking about ageing parents (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2026 4:00


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode Bonus Practice: #109 Talking about ageing parents.

    #108 Talking about the cost of living

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2026 8:33


    Learn English useful for talking about money, expenses, and financial pressure. Practise everyday phrases for describing rising costs, managing a budget, and explaining financial challenges.

    Bonus Practice: #108 Talking about the cost of living

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2026 2:53


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode Bonus Practice: #108 Talking about the cost of living

    #107 Protecting Wildlife | Talking about animals and nature (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2026 9:06


    Learn useful English for talking about animals, nature, and protecting wildlife. Practise everyday phrases for discussing threats to animals, expressing concern, and describing the environment.

    Bonus Practice: #107 Protecting Wildlife | Talking About Animals and Nature (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2026 3:29


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode Bonus Practice: #107 Protecting Wildlife | Talking About Animals and Nature.

    #106 Mmm or Hmm? Trying new and unusual food

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2026 8:31


    Learn useful English for talking about unusual or strong flavours. Practise everyday phrases for reacting to new foods, sharing opinions, and encouraging someone to try something new.

    Bonus Practice: #106 Mmm or Hmm? Trying new and unusual food

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2026 2:56


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode #106 Mmm or Hmm? Trying new and unusual food.

    #105 Celebrating small wins at work

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 7:23


    Learn useful English for talking about small wins at work. Practise phrases for celebrating achievements, staying motivated, and making progress step by step.

    Bonus Practice: #105 Celebrating small wins at work

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 2:56


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode #105 Celebrating small wins at work.

    #104 Talking about school exams | NAPLAN

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2026 10:21


    Learn useful English for talking about school tests, studying, exam pressure, and when you do really well.

    Bonus Practice: #104 Talking about school exams | NAPLAN

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2026 3:08


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode #104 Talking about school exams | NAPLAN

    #103 Talking about online dating (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2026 9:33


    Learn everyday English phrases for online dating. Practise expressions like “match,” “ghosted,” and “slide into DMs” while improving your speaking skills.

    Bonus Practice: #103 Talking about online dating (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2026 2:34


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode #103 Talking about online dating (Med)

    #102 Getting organised (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2026 9:24


    Learn practical English phrases for getting organised and managing daily tasks, including planning ahead, meeting deadlines, and staying on top of responsibilities.

    Bonus Practice: #102 Getting organised (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2026 2:43


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode #102 Getting organised (Med)

    Bonus Practice: #101 Having a laugh (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2026 2:43


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode #101 Having a laugh (Med)

    #101 Having a laugh (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2026 10:06


    Learn how to talk about things that make you laugh. Practise phrases that help you share stories, react to jokes, and enjoy conversations more.

    Relax and enjoy: Talking about movies

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 15:13


    Learn useful phrases to talk about movies and going to the cinema.

    Relax and enjoy: Talking about reading and books (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 14:03


    Learn how to start conversations about books. Plus find out where you can find books in your language.

    Relax and enjoy: Talking about music (Adv)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 19:26


    Learn how to talk about contemporary and classical music, and discover the true role of a conductor.

    MiniPod: To be stuffed | Words we use

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2025 2:14


    Learn a new phrase and make your English sound more natural and interesting. Words We Use is a bilingual series that helps you understand idioms like 'to be stuffed'.

    Gather and celebrate: Talking over a BBQ (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2025 11:29


    Learn how to describe cooking at a barbecue.

    Gather and celebrate: Inviting friends | Beach safety

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2025 13:15


    Learn casual ways to invite your friends to go to the beach. Plus, find out the number one danger on Australian beaches and how to stay safe when swimming in the sea.

    Gather and celebrate: Organising a party (Med)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2025 12:19


    Learn how to talk about having a party.

    MiniPod: Sleep on it | Words we use

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2025 2:46


    Learn a new phrase and make your English sound more natural and interesting. Words We Use is a bilingual series that helps you understand idioms like 'sleep on it'.

    To be stuffed | Words we use

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2025 3:58


    SBS Learn English ရဲ့ Words We Use အစီအစဥ််််ကို နားဆင်နိုင်ပါတယ်။ ဒီသင်ခန်းစာတွေဟာ နေ့စဥ်််သုံး အင်္ဂလိပ် ဘန်းစကားတွေကို အနေအထား အမျိုးမျိုးမှာ ဘယ်လို အသုံးပြုနိုင်သလဲ ဆိုတာတွေကို တင်ဆက် ပေးထားပါတယ်။ ဒီကနေ့မှာတော့ 'to be stuffed' ဆိုတဲ့ စကားစုကို လေ့လာကြမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

    To shout | Words we use

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2025 4:01


    SBS Learn English ရဲ့ Words We Use အစီအစဥ််််ကို နားဆင်နိုင်ပါတယ်။ ဒီသင်ခန်းစာတွေဟာ နေ့စဥ်််သုံး အင်္ဂလိပ် ဘန်းစကားတွေကို အနေအထား အမျိုးမျိုးမှာ ဘယ်လို အသုံးပြုနိုင်သလဲ ဆိုတာတွေကို တင်ဆက် ပေးထားပါတယ်။ ဒီကနေ့မှာ 'to shout' ဆိုတဲ့ စကားစုကို လေ့လာကြမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

    Take it easy | Words we use

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2025 4:28


    SBS Learn English ရဲ့ Words We Use အစီအစဥ််််ကို နားဆင်နိုင်ပါတယ်။ ဒီသင်ခန်းစာတွေဟာ နေ့စဥ်််သုံး အင်္ဂလိပ် ဘန်းစကားတွေကို အနေအထား အမျိုးမျိုးမှာ ဘယ်လို အသုံးပြုနိုင်သလဲ ဆိုတာတွေကို တင်ဆက် ပေးထားပါတယ်။ ဒီကနေ့မှာတော့Take it easy ဆိုတဲ့ စကားစုကို လေ့လာကြမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

    MiniPod: To shout | Words we use

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2025 2:16


    Learn a new phrase and make your English sound more natural and interesting. Words We Use is a bilingual series that helps you understand idioms like 'to shout'.

    #100 More or less? Talking about quantities

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2025 7:33


    Learn how to talk about amounts and quantities in everyday English.

    Bonus Practice: #100 More or less? Talking about quantities

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2025 2:31


    Practise speaking the dialogue from episode #100 More or less? Talking about quantities

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