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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 07

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

You can

listen to it on your computer now,
or save it to listen to later or to transfer to your mp3 player,
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 07

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 07 Support Pack (pdf file - 372 KB) [Help]
To use the online exercises, click on the 'Online' links below.

CONTENTS – LEARNENGLISH ELEMENTARY PODCAST 07
Learn more about the different sections of the podcasts

1: LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE PODCAST

Section 0 - While you listen
This section starts: 00mins.20secs into the podcast (immediately after the introduction)
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.20secs into the podcast (immediately after the introduction)
"Your mum and dad live in Brighton now, don’t they?" – Talking about family

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
Learn how to speak/practise speaking about your family and other people's families.

Section 2 - I’d like to meet
This section starts: 02mins.32secs into the podcast
Listen to Muhammed talking about why he would like to meet Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Muhammed Yunus.

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
Write about a Nobel Prize winner or other famous person that you’d like to meet

Section 3 - Quiz
This section starts: 06mins.40secs into the podcast
The quiz in this podcast is called ‘Beginning with…’ – for example, ‘think of an animal beginning with ‘p’ – the answer could be ‘polar bear’ or ‘pig’ – there are lots of possibilities.

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
Think of words in different categories starting with different letters.

Section 4 - Our person in ...
This section starts: 09mins.50secs into the podcast
Listen to Susan Harold talking about the taxis in Cairo.

Practice materials (in Support Pack or online):
Write about the transport in your city or town.

Section 5 - Your turn
This section starts: 12mins.50secs into the podcast
In ‘Your Turn’, you hear 5 people answer the question "What’s the best way to travel?"

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

Section 6 - Carolina
This section starts: 15mins.10secs into the podcast
Caroline isn't feeling well and talks about it with her flatmate, Emily, and then goes to the chemist to get some medicine.

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

Section 7: The joke
This section starts: 20mins.30secs into the podcast
A dog goes to put an advert in a newspaper ...

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

Section 8 - Tom the teacher
This section starts: 22mins.30secs into the podcast
Looks at the word 'sounds' and 'looks', as well as some 'false friends'.

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. 07

Download the transcript – this is what the people say on the podcast
Download Podcast 07 Transcript (pdf file -146 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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