Real Exam English - B2, C1, C2

This is a monologue about tourism.

It features lots of high level vocabulary and grammar. It also is a great example of how to organize a monologue, or an essay.

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Native English speakers answer questions about the weekend.

As usual we have speakers from a variety of countries telling us about their experiences, so we take a look at some of the cultural and linguistic differences between those countries. There’s loads of nice vocabulary and grammar to help you to improve your English, but in particular there are lots of really useful idioms for you to learn.

The speakers are from Cana...

Native English speakers answer questions about climate change.

If you are preparing for an exam you definitely gotta study this topic. So today, you’re gonna hear lots of top climate change vocabulary and phrasal verbs. Also, we have some advanced grammar in the form of mixed conditionals and cleft sentences. 

The speakers are from Canada, Australia, South Africa, England and Wales, so lots of different accents for you, and me f...

Native English speakers answer questions about the internet.

We will take a look at some common errors that people make when speaking about technology, particularly with pronunciation. On top of that, we have some lovely phrasal verbs, some ways to add emphasis and we have a quiz about binomial pairs. 

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Native English speakers answer questions about hometowns.

As usual we’ll take a look at all of the nice grammar and vocabulary, particularly language relating to towns and cities. We have a bunch of speakers from different countries so you can practice listening to their wonderfully different accents and viewpoints. 

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Native English speakers answer questions about advertising.

In this episode we have loads of nice advertising vocabulary, including some colloquial expressions from the US, the UK and Australia. We also look at how to make your speech more cohesive and we focus on different ways to use the verb do. 

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Native English speakers answer questions with phrasal verbs.

Everyone loves phrasal verbs, right??? Perfect, because this episode has lots of them, plus a bunch of nice idioms and expressions. We have speakers from Canada, Wales, Australia, England and Ireland so you can improve your listening skills. Enjoy!

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Native English speakers answer questions about school.

This is definitely one of the most common topics in English exams, especially if you are a teenager and are doing exams like First for Schools for instance.  So we talk about useful school subjects, school trips, positive learning environments and a bunch of other schooly things. We focus on using auxiliary verbs for emphasis and on question tags, which are always in n...

Native English speakers answer questions about space.

Ok, it’s not the most common exam topic ever but it is a very interesting subject and a lot of people are really enthusiastic about it, as you are gonna hear, we have quite a few space fans speaking today. So there’s plenty of space vocabulary, lots of adjectives, some phrasal verbs and a wide variety of accents, including quite a funny conversation between two Welsh la...

Native English speakers answer questions about the manners.

We have speakers from England, Wales, Canada, Australia, Ireland and South Africa so you are gonna get a good impression of what manners are expected in English-speaking countries. You’re gonna hear plenty of useful vocabulary, some top idioms, phrasal verbs, connectors, loads of great language, but more than anything it’s really interesting from a cultural viewpo...

Native English speakers answer questions about relaxing.

It’s a great topic to cover as we all love to relax. So you’re gonna hear loads of different ways to talk about relaxing. There’s also a bunch of new phrasal verbs, there’s some stuff about comparatives, the differences between British and Australian English, yes we have some Australians this season, and also a Canadian too actually for the first time, and some Welsh...

In this episode Trevor has a super interesting chat with a Brazilian lady, Melina, who is an international law professor and researcher and has an excellent level of English. They speak about learning English in Brazil, the benefits of spending some time in an English speaking countryand challenges with pronunciation. As Melina is currently researching the effect of eating meat on climate change they have a chat about that too, wit...

Today we have a chat with an English teacher in Vietnam. 
 
 Firstly, we talk about Vietnam and the state of English there. Then we speak about the IELTS English exam, specifically the writing part. The tips given here are quite universal and can be applied to most other English writing exams also. 
 
 Konner, the speaker is from Australia, so you can practice listening to the Australian accent and as usual we will ...

This episode is a monologue about the legalisation of marijuana. 

You will hear tips on how to tackle this task and lots of good examples of how to organise your speech.

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This episode features a non-native speaker for the first time on the Real Exam English podcast.
 
 Martyna from Poland speaks about her English journey, including working for an international airline company, preparing for the Cambridge C1 exam and the benefits of watching TV in English. 
 
 As usual we pick out some nice bits of language, including some excellent use of substitution words and ellipsis. We also pick...

Native English speakers answer questions about the future.

This topic is one that often comes up in exams. You can be asked about your personal plans or goals, or about predictions for the future, regarding things like jobs, Artificial Intelligence or maybe the environment. 

In this episode we’ll hear some great ways to express what you would like to do, we’ll hear what skills will be useful for the future, we hav...

Native English speakers answer questions about history.

We hear how history is celebrated and learned about in the United States, England, Ireland and Australia. We have a bunch of useful phrasal verbs to speak about archaeology and the past in general and we have a particularly tricky question, which catches a lot of the speakers by surprise, so it´s interesting to see how they react to that. We also take a look at some super ...

Native English speakers answer questions about holidays.

Everyone loves going on holidays and it’s a very common topic in English exams so it’s essential to have some nice language for that. So you’re going to hear plenty of fantastic vocabulary as well as some great expressions, phrasal verbs and fancy grammar. 

We hear a few different accents from the UK, also the US, Australia and Ireland so you can get lots of listening...