This episode features a non-native speaker for the first time on the Real Exam English podcast.

Martyna from Poland speaks about her English journey, including working for an international airline company, preparing for the Cambridge C1 exam and the benefits of watching TV in English.

As usual we pick out some nice bits of language, including some excellent use of substitution words and ellipsis. We also pick up on some common errors for Polish speakers.

Enjoy!

Support the show

Native English speakers answer questions about the future from previous B2, C1, C2 and IELTS exam papers.

This topic is one that often comes up in exams. You can be asked about your personal plans or goals, or about predictions for the future, regarding things like jobs, Artificial Intelligence or maybe the environment.

In this episode we’ll hear some great ways to express what you would like to do, we’ll hear what skills will be useful for the future, we have some nice adverbs, phrasal verbs and some top-class vocabulary too, including some super-useful idioms.

For classes or transcripts go to https://realexamenglish.com/

Music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Thanks to all of the contributors, including Matt, Leah Ann, Stephanie, Loli, Richard, Ofordi, Emma and Leanne from the Beach Travel Wine podcast.

Support the show

Native English speakers answer questions about history from previous B2, C1, C2 and IELTS exam papers.

We hear how history is celebrated and learned about in the United States, England, Ireland and Australia. We have a bunch of useful phrasal verbs to speak about archaeology and the past in general and we have a particularly tricky question, which catches a lot of the speakers by surprise, so it´s interesting to see how they react to that. We also take a look at some super fancy language in the form of rhetorical questions and idioms.

For classes or transcripts go to https://realexamenglish.com/

Music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Thanks to all of the contributors, including Matt, Leah Ann, Stephanie, Loli, Richard, Ofordi, Emma and Leanne from the Beach Travel Wine podcast.

Support the show