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In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest news from the Premier League as Everton's Romelu Lukaku goes into the lead in the race for this season's Golden Boot. The language focus this week is on animal idioms and how they are used in football. Have you ever heard a midfielder being described as a 'headless chicken'? We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest news from the Premier League as Chelsea extend their lead at the top. The language focus this week is on the word 'worth' and phrases that include this word. It's a difficult word to use because of its pronunciation and there are lots of common phrases that use it. Rich also talks about three places that are 'worth seeing' in his hometown. On top of this, we have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest news from the Premier League and a fantastic performance from Harry Kane. The language focus this week is on collective nouns and a tricky little question we often receive from listeners: when we are writing or speaking about football teams, do we use singular or plural verbs? We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about Wayne Rooney and his incredible goalscoring record and the 'magic' of the FA Cup - is the FA Cup 'magical' or is this just a football cliche? The language focus this week is on football cliches and we have a little video for you to look at. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about two fantastic 'scorpion' kicks by Arsenal's Olivier Giroud and Manchester Utd's Henrikh Mkhitaryan. They also discuss Rich's New Year's resolutions and the language focus this week is on 'going to' and how we can talk about our own New Year's resolutions. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about Christmas in the Premier League. The language focus this week is on words and phrases we use at Christmas time and we play a game to test your vocabulary knowledge. We also have news about our Big Football Quiz where you can win a Premier League shirt. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy!

There have been two Gameweeks in the last week. Gameweek 15 finished with 36 points for the Premier Skills team on the Premier League's official Fantasy Football game but Gameweek 16 was much more successful - we got 55 points. We've also played our wildcard so there have been lots of changes to the Premier Skills team - take a look at our current team in the image below. In the Premier Skills League, we moved up to 44th place with 693 points. Congratulations to Los 11 Impostores managed by Gerardo Lopez from Mexico who stays at the top of the Premier Skills League with 930 points. How is your team doing? You can find the votes and discussion on the Premier Skills English website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/fans/fantasy-football/fpl-gameweek-17

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest from the Premier League and a return to form for Leicester City and Jamie Vardy. The language focus this week is on the past perfect. We have some examples and activities to help you use the past perfect better when you are speaking and writing. We also have a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make. Enjoy! FInd all the language learning activities for this podcast, on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/past-perfect-1617-ep19

Hello – It’s time for some Premier Skills English – Football Vocabulary.

Gameweek 14 finished with 41 points for the Premier Skills team on the Premier League's official Fantasy Football game. Last week, we sold Southampton's Dusan Tadic and Manchester City's and bought Liverpool's James Milner. Congratulations to Los 11 Impostores managed by Gerardo Lopez from Mexico who stay at the top of the Premier Skills League with 818 points. How is your team doing? Join the discussion on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/fans/fantasy-football/fpl-gameweek-15