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Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Rich and Jack talk about the latest action from the Premier League and have lots of football English for you to learn.

Complete the lesson and practise using your football English on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcast > This week > Matchweek 13: Pile on the pressure

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack are meeting to watch the match but Rich is really late. Jack gives Rich a half-time match report that he later discovers is not true. The language focus is on four different intensifiers that are used to make language stronger: so & such and enough & too. Your task is to tell us a short anecdote using the language you have learned in the podcast Don't forget to listen until the end of the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess.

Complete the lesson and practise your English on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > Understsnding Grammar: Intensifiers

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about the latest action from the Premier League and have lots of football English for you to learn. There was no Premier League action last weekend but Premier League clubs were in action in the Women’s Super League.

Practise using your English and complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > This week > Women's Football Weekend: Record attendances

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack takes Rich 'plogging' which is a new way to keep fit and help the environment at the same time. The language focus is on phrasal verbs connected to fitness such as 'work on' and 'keep up' and words & phrases connected to the environment such as 'recyclable' and 'rubbish' or 'garbage'.  Your task is to tell us what exercise you do that is environmentally friendly. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess.

Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > Learning Vocabulary: Fitness & the Environment

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Rich and Jack talk about the latest action from the Premier League and have lots of football English for you to learn.

Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > This Week > Matchweek 12: A Thunderbolt

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Jack discovers that Rich is really lazy and that he will always try to get other people to do things for him rather than do the thing himself. The language focus is on the causative form which is the structure we use when we talk about something that someone else did for us (get/have something done). Your task is to tell us about a few things that you have done because you can't (or won't) do them yourself. Don't forget to listen until the end of the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess.

Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts >

Understanding Grammar: Getting Something Done 

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about the latest action from the Premier League and have lots of football English for you to learn.

Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > This week > Matchweek 11: A glancing header

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack wants to host a dinner with family & friends at his house but everyone seems to be too busy. The language focus is on verb-noun collocations to describe free-time activities and phrases we use to invite people to events and polite ways of saying no to invitations. Your task is to organise an event in your house, city or country and invite other listeners to your event. Don't forget to listen to the end of the podcast because we have a new football phrase for you to guess. Enjoy!

Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > Learning Vocabulary: Free-time Activities

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack and Rich talk about the latest action from the Premier League and have lots of football English for you to learn.

Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > This week > Matchweek 10: Smashed

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, as it's nearly Halloween, Jack and Rich both have a spooky story to tell. The language focus is on grammar and narrative tenses but they also have lots of words and phrases connected to fear for you to learn. Your task is to re-tell Jack's scary story using narrative tenses. Don't forget to listen until the end of the podcast because we have a special frightening football phrase for you, too.

Complete the lesson on Premier Skills English > Skills > Listen > Podcasts > Understanding Grammar: Scary Stories (Narrative Tenses)