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Practising English
Listening practice for learners of B1 intermediate and B2 upper-intermediate levels of British English. Learn British English by listening to stories. Original and exciting stories written for learners and students of British English. Practise and prepare for Cambridge: B1 PET Preliminary and FCE Fi...
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322. The Harmonica Players (full version) B2 story
This is the complete version of the B2-level story, The Harmonica Players. I include here for you a B2 vocabulary list of words and expressions to lis...
321. The Visitors (full version) B2 story (summer repeat)
Comprension questions and vocabulary tasks
At my website, you can also find B1 and B2 vocabulary tasks to do for this story:
https://www....
320. Bully! (B1 short story)
Hello, and welcome to Practising English! Mike Bilbrough is on his summer holiday, so we'd like to offer a B1 story recorded way back in 2022. It's ca...
The Hole (complete story) B2 level
Mike Bilbrough is taking his summer holiday at the moment. Meanwhile, we'd like to offer you a story recorded last year in two parts as one complete s...
318. Treasure Island (chapter 13) B1 story
These are the B1 phrases we'll study today:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-318.htm
1. Attempt
Definition: To try to do so...
317. Dracula (extract 1) B2 story
The B2 phrases we'll be studying are:
Full story transcipt: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-317.htm
on behalf of
Definitio...
316. Treasure Island (chapter 14) B1 story
Here are the words and expressions we''l study today:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-316.htm
1) to handle
Definition: To...
315. The Importance of Being Earnest 2 (B2 level)
Here are the B2 phrases we'll be studying today:
1) far too many/much/few etc.
There are far too many games in this new 48-team tournament...
Treasure Island (chapter 13) B1 story
These are the B1 phrases we'll be studying today!
See full story audioscript here with B1 words highlighted: https://www.practisingenglish.com/p...
313. The Importance of Being Earnest (B2 story)
These are the B2 phrases I'll be studying today:
(See transcript at: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-313.htm
as far as sth is co...
Treasure Island (chapter 12) B1 Story
These are the B1 phrases we're going to study today:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-312.htm
1. after a while
Definition:...
311. The Adventure of the Western Star (part 2) B2 story
These are the B2 phrasal verbs we're studying today:
For full stiry transcript: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-311.htm
1. Turn...
310. Treasure Island (chapter 11) B1 story
These are the B1 expressions we'll study today:
For full story audio script: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-310.htm
1) just in...
309. Adventure of the Western Star (B2 story) Part 1
These are the B2 phrases we'll be studying today:
For audioscript see: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-309.htm
peculiar
De...
308. Treasure Island - chapter 10 (B1 story)
These are the B1 phrases we'll be studying today:
See transcript at: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-308.htm
1) on one's own
307. Cowboy (B2 story) Part 2
These are the B2 expressions we're going to study today. For full transcript of the story, you can go to: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-30...
306. Treasure Island - chapter 9 (B1 story)
These are the B1 phrases we are going to study today.
To read the full transcript of the story, please go to: https://www.practisingenglish.com/...
Cowboy (B2 story) Part 1
Here is the B2 vocabulary I'll be studying today. The link takes you to see the audioscript.
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-305.htm
304. Treasure Island - chapter 8 (B1 story)
These are the B1 words and expressions we'll be looking at today:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-304.htm
1) Binomial pairs
303. The Count of Monte Cristo (extract) B2 Story
These are the B2 phrases we are going to study in today's podcast:
thinking twice
lose his nerve
it crossed his mind
switch
302. Treasure Island - chapter 7 (B1 story)
Read the audioscript: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-302.htm
These are the words studied today:
1) take a good look at
De...
301. Anne of Green Gables (B2 story)
These are the B2 words and phrases we will be studying today:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-301.htm
1) scared stiff
Mean...
300. Treasure Island - chapter 6 (B1 story)
These are the words we'll be studying in this B1 podcast today. To see the full audioscript of the story, you can go to my website at:
https://...
299. The man who could work miracles - part 2 (B2 story)
These are the B2 words we'll study today. You can also find the story transcript with B2 words highligted at:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/...
298. Treasure Island - chapter 4 (B1 story)
Here is the B1 vocabulary for today's Treasure Island chapter:
1) close up
2) show somebody in
3) have one’s doubts
297.The man who could work miracles - part 1 (B2 story)
The vocabulary and story transcript to today's B2 story:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-297.htm
1. define
It is so...
296. Treasure Island - chapter 4 (B1 story)
These are the words I'll be studying today:
Transcript at my website: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-296.htm
treasure
to...
295. The Signalman - part 2 (B2 story)
You can read the transcript here at my website: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-295.htm
The B2 words I study today are these:
·...
294. Treasure Island - chapter 3 (B1 story)
These are the questions for the story today. You can see the complete audioscript for the story at my website:
https://www.practisingenglish.com...
293. The Signalman - part 1 (B2 story)
These are the 7 B2 words I discuss during the podcast:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-293.htm
1) rolled
2) feared
3...
292. Treasure Island - chapter 2 (B1 Story)
For the full transcript of the story go to: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-292.htm
These are the phrases I study from the B1 story to...
291. The Black Cat - part 2 (B2 story)
The second and final part of my B2-level adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat: The B2 phrases studied are:
The Black Cat (B2-Level- Par...
290. Treasure Island - chapter 1 (B1 Story)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. My B1-level version.
Chapter 1
Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and some other gentlemen asked me...
289. The Black Cat - part 1 (B2 story)
First part of my B2 version of The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe:
For the most strange, yet also ordinary, story that I am about to write, I do...
288. The Lost Ring (B2 story)
You can find the audioscript to the B2 story today just here:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-288.htm
The Lost Ring
Mary G...
287. That's Life! (B1 dialogue)
This is the audioscript for today's B1-level dialogue:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-287.htm
That's Life!
Mary: 'Morning...
286. The Hole (B2 Story) Part 2
This is the audioscript for this B2 story (part 2) of The Hole:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-286.htm
The Hole (Part 2)
...
285. The Hole (B2 Story)
This is the audioscript for today's B2 story:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-285.htm
The Hole
'We're arriving, señor,' sa...
284. A Christmas Surprise (B1 and B2 Story)
This is a B1 and B2 story with phrasal verbs. Here is the audioscripy for the story:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-284.htm
A C...
283. The Christmas Festival (B2 Story)
This is the story text for the B2 story today:
https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-283.htm
The song in today's podcast is an arrange...