Improve your English for your commute with 30 minutes of easy listening. Turn your travel time into productive B1 English practice.
Join Sarah and Mike as they discuss how much time we spend travelling and what that adds up to over a year. This conversation is designed to help you listen to natural, slow-paced dialogue while you are on the bus, train, or in the car. It is the perfect way to learn English on the go without needing to sit at a desk.
After the conversation, we move into a quick grammar segment. You will clarify the correct phrasing for different modes of transport and review how to use past tense actions correctly. These English grammar exercises are simple and practical, helping you avoid common mistakes when talking about your daily journeys.
💡 Tip: Describe your own daily commute out loud using one past tense verb you hear in today's conversation.
🎯 In this episode, you can practise:
• Using prepositions for transport
• Talking about daily travel time
• Using past tense verbs correctly
• English listening practice
• Improving B1 fluency
Everyday English Academy helps English learners build listening, speaking, vocabulary and confidence through slow, easy everyday conversations with Sarah and Mike about familiar situations like your daily travel.
Keep practising by telling us how long your daily commute takes in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe to Everyday English Academy for a new episode every week.

What Makes a Place Feel Like Home? | Easy English Podcast | Everyday English Academy

Practise talking in English about moving into a new apartment and what makes it feel like home. Join Sarah and Mike as they share stories about unpacked boxes, familiar sounds, and a grandfather's favourite chair. Their slow, easy conversation helps you describe your own home and the things that make you comfortable there.

Have you ever missed the little sounds or smells of home? You'll practise explaining how you settle in, talking about living out of boxes, describing an object your family passed down and why you keep it, and planning a simple housewarming with friends.

This episode is perfect for B1 English learners who want to improve everyday vocabulary and speaking skills for talking about moving, family belongings, and feeling at home.

💡 Tip: Describe an inherited object using “passed down” and explain why you keep it.

⏱️ Chapters

0:00 Introduction

0:55 Talk About Home in English

4:53 Describing Familiar Sounds and Scents

12:35 Talking About Family Traditions and Gatherings

19:24 Everyday Words for Kitchens and Renovations

25:36 Home Vocabulary Review

25:48 Speaking Practice

📚 Vocabulary in this episode

• settle in: feel comfortable somewhere new

• familiar: known from seeing it before

• housewarming: party for a new home

• live out of boxes: use belongings without unpacking them

• put down roots: build a lasting home somewhere

• creaky: making long squeaking sounds when moved

• at ease: relaxed and comfortable

• renovate: repair and improve a building

• layout: how a place is arranged

• hospitality: kind care for guests

• get-together: small relaxed meeting with friends

• heritage: traditions from your family's past

• a home away from home: another place as comfortable as home

• scent: a pleasant smell

• appliances: home machines that do jobs

• pass down: give to younger family members

🎯 In this episode, you can practise:

• Talking About Moving In

• Settling Into A New Home

• Describing Familiar Sounds

• Talking About Passed-Down Objects

• Planning A Simple Housewarming

• Making Guests Feel At Ease

• English speaking practice

• Daily English conversation

• B1 English vocabulary

Everyday English Academy helps English learners build listening and speaking skills, vocabulary, and confidence through slow, easy everyday conversations with Sarah and Mike, from moving-day stories to memories of home.

Get comfortable and learn along with Sarah and Mike as they talk about the little things that feel like home.

Keep practising along by telling us about one thing that makes your home special. 🔔 Subscribe to Everyday English Academy for a new episode every week.

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Why We Keep Things We Never Use | English Learning Podcast | Everyday English Academy

Practise talking in English about the things you keep but never use, from empty boxes to spare shirt buttons. Join Sarah and Mike for a slow, easy conversation about clutter and memories, and learn how to explain what you want to keep when sorting things at home.

Do you have a drawer full of things you keep just in case? You'll practise describing odds and ends, explaining how boxes take up space, talking about sentimental gifts, and finding ways to meet in the middle when sharing storage space.

This episode is perfect for B1 English learners who want to improve their everyday vocabulary and speak more confidently about clutter, personal belongings, and reasons for keeping things.

💡 Tip: Describe one crowded drawer aloud using three expressions you hear in today's conversation.

⏱️ Chapters

0:00 Introduction

0:36 Talk About Unused Things in English

5:54 Everyday Words for Clutter and Storage

13:35 Describing Sentimental Things in English

18:13 Talking About Decluttering Your Home

21:40 Speaking Practice

22:17 Vocabulary Review and Everyday Use

📚 Vocabulary in this episode

• clutter: too many things lying around

• declutter: remove things you don't need

• pile up: gather in larger amounts

• odds and ends: small things of different kinds

• overflowing: so full things come out

• hold on to: keep instead of giving away

• just in case: to prepare for possible needs

• spare: extra and ready if needed

• hoard: collect and keep too much

• toss: throw something away

• sentimental: special because of personal memories

• attic: room directly under the roof

🎯 In this episode, you can practise:

• Describing A Crowded Drawer

• Keeping Things Just In Case

• Talking About Sentimental Gifts

• Explaining What Takes Up Space

• Decluttering Your Home In English

• Sharing Storage Space

• English shadowing practice

• English listening practice

• B1 English vocabulary

Everyday English Academy helps English learners build listening, speaking, vocabulary and confidence through slow, easy everyday conversations with Sarah and Mike about familiar situations like sorting a crowded cupboard.

Get comfortable and learn along with Sarah and Mike as they talk about crowded cupboards and special memories.

Keep practising by describing one crowded drawer aloud using three expressions from today's conversation. 🔔 Subscribe to Everyday English Academy for a new episode every week.

#Decluttering #SentimentalThings #EverydayEnglish #EnglishVocabulary #B1English #LearnEnglish #EnglishListening #EnglishPodcast #ESL #EverydayEnglishAcademy