Learn English with the British Council and Premier League

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the Premier League table - there is only one point between the top five teams! The language focus is on words and expressions we use to talk about small and big differences. We also have news about our Premier Skills Fantasy Football team, a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make in our weekly vote. Enjoy! Find the free language learning activities for this podcast on our website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/differences-1617-ep12

Gameweek 9 finished with 29 points for the Premier Skills team on the Premier League's official Fantasy Football game. We're selling Zlatan or Mahrez this week. You decide in our vote. You can find it here: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/fans/fantasy-football/fantasy-football-gameweek-9

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich talks about half and half football scarves and why they make him angry. Jack tries to calm him down. The language focus is on expressions we use when we are angry and expressions we use to calm people down. We also have news about our Premier Skills Fantasy Football team, a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make in our weekly vote. Enjoy! You can find learning activities for this podcast on the website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/getting-angry-1617-ep11

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the first American to become manager of a Premier League team. They get confused on the phone by an American who uses too many American words. They then take a look at some of the main differences between American and British English. We also have news about our Premier Skills Fantasy Football team, a new football phrase for you to guess and a Premier League prediction for you to make in our weekly vote. Enjoy! Go to the website for the activities to help you with this podcast: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/british-or-american-english-1617-ep10

Gameweek 7 finished with 25 points for the Premier Skills team on the Premier League's official Fantasy Football game. The worst week of the season so far! You voted for Aguero as captain last week. Who should be captain this week?

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest round of Premier League matches. They also take a look at different sentences that use the present perfect and look at how it is used in different situations. They also take a shopping trip and Rich buys a strange item of football merchandise. We also have news about our Premier Skills Fantasy Football team and a new football phrase for you to guess. Enjoy! Go to the website for the activities and discussion connected to this podcast: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/shopping-1617-ep9

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest round of Premier League matches. While they are talking they use lots of different idiomatic expressions or idioms and it's your job to guess what each idiom means. In our pronunciation section, we help you with consonant clusters and we also have news about our Premier Skills Fantasy Football team, your chance to make a prediction on this week's big Premier League match and a new football phrase for you to guess. You can find all the online activities for this podcast, on the Premier Skills English website: http://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/tricky-expressions-1617-ep8

Gameweek 6 finished with 48 points for the Premier Skills team on the Premier League's official Fantasy Football game. You made some big decisions last week and the biggest worked very well. You decided to buy Manchester City's Sergio Aguero for a second time and he scored 13 points. Maybe next week we should choose Aguero as captain. He seems to score all the time! Last week, we chose Zlatan Ibrahimovic as our captain but he only managed 4 points. Maybe it is time to give the armband to a different player. What do you think?

How did the Premier Skills Fantasy Football team do last week? Pick the team and join the discussion!

In this week's Premier Skills English podcast, Rich and Jack talk about the latest in the Premier League and focus on a player who has been playing Premier League football for 18 years and has become only the third player to make 600 Premier League appearances. The language focus is on the past continuous and how it can be used to describe long periods in the past as well as to describe something that was happening when a specific action happened. In our pronunciation section, we look again at weak forms and the schwa. We also have news about our Premier Skills Fantasy Football team, your chance to make a prediction on this week's big Premier League match and a new football phrase for you to guess.