Taylored to perfection (The English English Podcas
Fun, informative listening praqctice for B1 to C1 English learners. It's conversation, expanation and games by English teachers at Taylor School in Oviedo, Spain. We talk about a different topic each time.
Episodes
October 15, 2021 • 67 mins
Learn English and listen to the final word on the biggest question of the last 40 years: Which is better: Star Wars or Star Trek. With special guests John Wyke and Admiral Stargazer. The admiral is from the podcast Torpedo Rojo.
Vocabulary:
Unfulfilled
Smuggler
Make a big impact
Resorting to violence
Stylised
Goal
Hype
Soft reboot
Pop culture
Plot hole
Traitor
So called...
Grammar:
But
However
Although
Though
...
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March 20, 2019 • 41 mins
Aprender inglés sobre dinero y bancos. Learn English with our Podcast about Money and Banks. Dave Taylor Presents this episode with Vicky Perez and Liz Wyke as guests. There is a list of the vocabulary that we use at Taylorschool.es/podcasts and we explain the difficult vocab after the show.
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March 6, 2019 • 51 mins
Learn English related to science. Find the list of vocabulary at taylorschool.es/podcasts. John Wyke presents this podcast with Dave Taylor and Beth Gerard as guests. They talk about experiments and scientists.. John also gives us a quiz with general knowledge questions about basic science. Aprende inglés.
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February 13, 2019 • 35 mins
Learn English related to technology with this podcast presented by Beth Gerrard and starring Dave and John. We're all teachers at Taylor School in Oviedo in Spain. You can find the difficult vocab and more podcasts at taylorschool.es/podcasts. Enjoy the show!
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February 8, 2019 • 37 mins
Dave talks to his brother, Rob, about his life as a camera operator for adventure progrogrammes. He talks about the animals he's worked with and places he's been. There's also a quiz about marine life. You can find a list of the difficult vocab at taylorschool.es/podcasts and at the end Dave talks about all the difficult words and explains the meanings.
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September 13, 2018 • 51 mins
John and Dave from Taylor School in Oviedo give you advice on how to pass the speaking part of the Cambridge B2 First Exam. Adriana from Expert English aslo tells us useful inside info about the exam day. Inés Hernánez does some acting as our Cambridge Examiner. Find the notes and list of tips at taylorschool.es/podcasts
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September 5, 2018 • 27 mins
Dave, Beth and Lucy give you tips on how to pass the listening part of the B2 First and C1 Advacned Exams. This is part of a series that looks at all the different papers of these exams. Next week Speaking. Thanks to Adriana from Expert English Cambdrige Exam Centre for give us your expert advice. There's also a game at the end with some very difficult listening questions. Find the tips at taylorschool.es/podcasts
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Do you want to pass the Cambridge First Certificate B2 exam or the Cambridge Advanced C1 exam? This programme tells you how to do the writing part. Our expert teachers share their knowledge of common mistakes and useful things to remember when you're studying English and getting ready to take the exam. Find notes at taylorschool.es/podcasts
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May 23, 2018 • 41 mins
Beth, Lucy, Dave and Adriana give you 12 tips to help you pass the B2 First and C1 Advanced Cambridge Exams. This is part of a series of episodes dedicated to the Cambridge exams. Find notes from the episode at taylorschool.es/podcasts and search for exams. Aprobar el B2 First y C1 Advanced to Cambridge.
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May 15, 2018 • 41 mins
This episode is the first in a series all about the B2 First and C1 Advanced Cambridge Exams. Dave is joined by Gil Brrownlow from the Oviedo Cambridge Exam Centre ACEIPA. They talk about what happens on exam day and give tips about what to take, and what to expect. See the next 5 episodes for tips about each part of the B2 and C1 Exams. Find the notes from the episode at taylorschool.es/podcasts and also a blog post in spanish...
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May 8, 2018 • 34 mins
"English can be weird. I can be understood through tough thorough thought, though." Aprende inglés con Taylored to Perfection. This programme is all about difficult spellings and pronunciation. Karen Mee joins me for the first time. She's a Drama teacher and English teacher and she helps explain the strange spellings. Find the notes at Taylorschool.es/podcasts - type in Weird to the search bar.
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May 3, 2018 • 21 mins
This is a short episode Karan and Dave recorded to help people decide whether to use 'fast' or 'quick'. We have a quiz and different conversation questions. You can find the grammar notes at our website: taylorschool.es/podcasts. Type 'Fast' into the search bar and the episode audio and notes will appear. Also join our Facebook group at 'English Learning Community - Taylor School Group'.
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April 24, 2018 • 44 mins
Beth and Dave give you the common uses of ON and IN. We also play games and give you lots of examples of the prepositions in use. We also listen to prepositions in songs. This is for B1 or B2 students and is just the beginning of the very very big topic of prepositions. Find us at taylorschool.es.
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April 9, 2018 • 23 mins
Beth, Lucy and Dave speak about conditionals. Example: If you don't listen to this show, you won't know all about conditionals! We talk about zero, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and mixed conditionals. We play games and give you the grammar explanation for conditionals. Find us at taylorschool.es. We record the programme at our academia de inglés en la florida, Oviedo.
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April 4, 2018 • 35 mins
Dave, Beth and Lucy talk about the rules for using gerunds (verb+ing) or infinitives (to + verb) in our 8th episode about grammar. We chose this topic because it was a question on our facebook group: English Learning Community - Taylor School Group. Find us on facebook, join the group and learn more English!
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March 6, 2018 • 28 mins
We talk about Passives and Causatives - we tell you how to make them, and give you lots of examples of both. It's Dave and Karan talking at Taylor School in Oviedo. There's quiz, a competition and we're just having fun and talking about when people have helped us and what we'd do if we were supreme leaders of the world.. The usual Monday morning chit-chat.
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February 27, 2018 • 19 mins
John, Carrie and Dave give you the different ways to talk about the future and we talk about our predictions, plans and intentions. Find more information about Taylor School at Taylorschool.es and also you can send your teenager on a summer exchange to Boston with Carrie - http://www.letsboston.com/. Listen and learn English. Aprende inglés, gramatica
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February 22, 2018 • 34 mins
Dave talks to Beth about the present perfect. We look at how to form it, the different uses for the present perfect and we give you lots of examples with conversation and amusing games. Listen to previous episodes for present simple and continuous and past simple and continuous. Learn English. Listen! Aprende inglés.... escucha!
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February 13, 2018 • 33 mins
This is the 3rd in our series of podcasts about grammar. This one looks at the form and uses of the past simple and past continuous. There's a competition and funny stories along with the grammar explanations. Dave Taylor presents and John Wyke and Carrie Mittleman are the guests. Contantact us at info@taylorschool.es or on 984202191
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January 30, 2018 • 21 mins
Refresh your grammar. This is the second in a series of Taylored to Perfection Specials about grammar. This first one is about present continuous -we give you examples of the different uses of the present continuous and then we play a game using the present continuous. The previous episode is about the present simple and the next one is about the past simple... Follow the series to refresh your grammar. Enjoy.
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