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The LearnEnglish Elementary Podcast is like a radio magazine programme. There are seven or eight different parts or articles in each programme.

With each programme, you can:

Listen to the podcast
Practise your English
Read the transcript – see what they say

LearnEnglish Elementary Podcasts are for learners at Elementary level or who are who are trying reach CEF Level A2 (Council of Europe Framework of Reference). For this trial period, we will publish a new podcast every month.

1: Listen to LearnEnglish Elementary podcast 01

You can find a link to the podcast at the bottom of this page.

You can:

listen to it on your computer now, or
or save it to listen to later or to transfer to your mp3 player, or
or subscribe to the podcast where future podcasts are saved automatically.

Don't understand these options? Read our Podcast help page.

We recommend that you save the file so that you can:

listen to the entire podcast once, and then
listen to the various sections when you have the time to practise.

2: Practise your English with Elementary podcast 01

You can practise your English either on paper (via our 'Support Pack') or online.

To use the Support Pack, you have to download it, save it to your computer, and then print it off. The Support Pack is approximately 16 pages, and has exercises and answers for all the sections.
Download Podcast 01 Support Pack (357 KB) [Help]
To use the online exercises, click on the 'Online' links below.

CONTENTS – LEARNENGLISH ELEMENTARY PODCAST 01
Learn more about the different sections of the podcasts

1: LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE PODCAST

Section 0 – While you listen
This section starts: 00mins.00secs into the podcast
Listen to the whole Podcast.

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
While you listen, read and answer the questions

2: PRACTISE YOUR ENGLISH SECTION-BY-SECTION

Section 1 - Conversations in English:
This section starts: 00mins.00secs into the podcast
'Susan, this is Paul' – introducing your friends
We often need to introduce friends to each other – at a party, for example. When we introduce people to each other, we usually say how we know them and give them something to talk about.

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
Learn how to introduce/practise introducing people

Section 2 – I’d like to meet
This section starts: 01mins.40secs into the podcast
Listen to Zara from Bristol talking about why she would like to meet Angelina Jolie.

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
Write about a famous actor that you’d like to meet

Section 3 – Quiz
This section starts: 04mins.25secs into the podcast
In the quiz, Daniel and Alice try to think of things you can find in a kitchen.

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
How many words do you know for things in different rooms of the house?

Section 4 – Our person in ...
This section starts: 06mins.35secs into the podcast
Listen to Mike talking about Central Park in New York.

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
Write about a place in your country

Section 5 – Your turn
This section starts: 08mins.44secs into the podcast
In ‘Your Turn’, you hear five people answer the question 'Is it a good idea for celebrities to do work for charity?'

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
Write and tell us what you think

Section 6 – Carolina
This section starts: 11mins.55secs into the podcast
Carolina arrives at the airport – and faces her first test: lots of questions from Immigration officials!

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
Practise what you would say in the same situation

Section 7 – The joke
This section starts: 14mins.55secs into the podcast
A chicken walks into a library...

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
See if you can tell the same joke!

Section 8 – Tom the teacher
This section starts: 17mins.12secs into the podcast
Looks at word order in questions, plans and intentions, and ‘Goodnight’ and ‘Good evening’

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
Exercises and quizzes to check your English

For more information on our Support Packs, click on these links:
How to use the LearnEnglish Elementary Podcast Support Pack
Other ways to use our support packs

3: Read the transcript of Elementary podcast magazine No. 01

Download the transcript – this is what the people say on the podcast
Download Podcast 01 Transcript (122 KB) [Help]

* In some sections we invite you to write texts and send them to us. You should follow the links on our website to do this. Sometimes it is best to write on the computer, and then copy and paste your text into the message area on the page on our website. If there is no space, send it to us via email.

Note: if you send texts to us, you are giving us the right to publish your writing or audio/video files on British Council websites and other teaching and learning materials – this will help other people to learn. We cannot correct texts to return to you. Unless you tell us not to, we will publish your name but not your e-mail address. We may edit or make some changes to your text if it is difficult to understand.

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At 24 Aug 2009 20:51 Julio Chiquetto wrote:

Excellent material! Everybody involved in teaching and studying English should know about this! =) The only observation I'd make is that, from my point of view, people who are in an elementary level of English probably wonÂ´t be able to listen to and understand a considerable part of the conversations, they'd be better suited with a teacher's help. Perhaps later on you could release some beginner/starter material? Well, regardless, I've been using some of these with my students and it has been great! Thanks and cheers to the British Council for this honourable initiative!=D

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At 21 Jul 2009 16:48 Admin wrote:

Thanks for those comments, Patricia. I'm afraid we can't correct texts as we receive so many. Sorry! But we hope that site will help you and your family. Have a look at our Parents pages on LearnEnglish Kids!

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At 6 Apr 2009 11:52 Admin wrote:

Matheus, The transcripts are available on this page - look for section 3 near the end of the instructions! Admin

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At 30 Mar 2009 10:12 Admin wrote:

Hello Chiara, Downloading the audio file is the same as downloading any kind of file. Clicking with the right button on the link or icon should display a list of options. One of these options is probably "Save Target As" or "Save Link As". If you select this option (or any similar option containing the word "Save") then you should be able to save the MP3 to your computer. Perhaps you can ask a friend to help if you can't do it? Good luck! Admin

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At 17 Jul 2008 17:13 alessandra wrote:

I need know how write "good night" or "goodnight"? And about "good evening" and "good night"; when is more later than 5 o'clock, for example 10 p.m. o'clock, and a person arrive in place what she said? Thanks.

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I really enjoyed Elementary Podcast 1 and it helped me to learn english.

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At 21 Jan 2008 14:22 Anthony Gaunt wrote:

I really enjoyed Elementary Podcast 1 and it helped me to learn english.

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