London Undergound: The Queen on the Tube
London Underground celebrates its 150th birthday today. It's sometimes easy to skip over a factoid like that, but that means that it was the world's first ever undergound train system…
Shopping vocabulary: Waitrose’s profitable Christmas
Waitrose is a British premium chain of supermarkets that was very profitable before Christmas. Read the text to find out why and to learn some vocabulary about shopping and supermarkets.…
Led Zeppelin: The best band ever! – Music Vocabulary
Music vocabulary debut album the first album guitar riffs a sequence of repeated notes or chords played on a guitar. It is usually played at the beginning of a song…
R&R 28: English Village Life
Real & Relevant Podcast 28 Natural English Conversation between English teachers Paul is back in the pod today. If you heard his last podcast, you will know that he is…
Free English lessons competition: New Year’s Resolutions
Congratulations to the winner of last month's Xmas competition, MARILIA ISLIA BRASILEIRO from Brazil. She will be coming to London in 2013 to claim her prize of one week of…
How to quit smoking cigarettes: Smoking Vocabulary
Apparently, experts have learnt that we fail nine times out of ten when we try to make a significant change to our lives, so that is not very good news…