A LITTLE PRACTICE GOES A LONG WAY
Listening
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Monologue
Meeting at the market
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A change of plan
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A community workshop
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Choosing a course
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The research briefing
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A qualified endorsement
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Welcome to the library
A short talk with five questions on the main idea, details and speaker intention.
A weekend cooking class
A short talk with five questions on the main idea, details and speaker intention.
A volunteer clean-up
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Trying a digital detox
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Interpreting a survey
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The value of unfinished work
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Tell me about your life
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What are you going to do?
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Describing rooms (there is/are, prepositions of place)
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Countries, nationalities, and languages
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The house: My favourite room
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What's your job?
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What did you do last weekend? (Past simple)
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Free time
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City transport
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Describing people
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What did you do last summer
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Kathy's job
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My last holiday
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Weekend plans
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Living on an island
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My family
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What are they wearing? Clothes
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My flat
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Sports and exercise
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Shopping habits
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Daily routines
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Schools in Britain
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Cinema and Theatre in London
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What are your roommates like?
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Giving directions
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Do your kids help with household chores?
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Party experiences
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What are your hobbies?
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Have you ever...? (Experiences)
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New Year's resolutions (Be going to)
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Talking about films
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Future plans
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If I were a millionaire (Second conditional)
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The city where I live
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My friends
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Life changes
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My studies
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Elisa's family
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Two Americans living in London
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Working from home
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Learning a new job
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How my town has changed
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Is London cheaper than New York?
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London sightseeing
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Sports in the UK
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English pubs
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London transport
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Working while travelling the world
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Where did you stay?
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Stories of school and education
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Personal Work Stories
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Talking About Money
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Famous sports cheating scandals
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Weird driving rules (Modal verbs)
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Borough Market
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York, England: a medieval town
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How do you travel to work?
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Stories of relationships
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How do you keep fit?
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Living with your ex after a break-up
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Are exams necessary?
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Why Saint Patrick's day went global
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Stonehenge
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500-year-old paintings from Raphael found
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Children: New billionaires
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Halloween history
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How to fuel the future
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When will humans get to Mars?
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Why do languages die?
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Biography of Albert Einstein
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Roads made of plastic waste
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Is this the safest place in the world?
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The most dangerous church in the world
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Burgers made of insects
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Family expecting their 17th child
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Secret underground city
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The woman behind the voice of Siri
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Ravi, the uncatchable smuggler
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Will humans become supermachines?
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I should have...
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Culture shock: Living abroad
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Fears and Phobias
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Journey through our Solar System
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Air travel experiences
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School reunion
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Living on the road
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Interview with Jonathan Franzen
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The return of Polio in the US
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Haunted house in Pennsylvania
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Fighting crime by analysing handwriting
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Do you suffer from cyberchondria?
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Islamic fashion gains popularity
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Teen who survived plane crash
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The Hyperloop: the future of transportation?
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The Ecocapsule
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Surviving in the jungle
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My Husband is Annoying
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The Top 5 Regrets of the dying
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Sleep Disorders Overview
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Batman brings justice
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Detroit
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Solar road
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Head transplant
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Relationship dilemmas
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Can music be medicine?
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Regrets: I Wish I'd...
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Behind the scenes with an actor
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Socializing and parties
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Discussing news and media
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Dark Tourism
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Retirement Challenges in the U.S.
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The truth about "expired" food
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The chef who can't eat what she cooks
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The museum of your ex's belongings
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Student accommodation
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What is it like to work in the film industry?
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How good is your job?
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Frida Kahlo
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The personality of centenarians
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Inside Google's office
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Why English spelling is so weird
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The benefits of a bilingual brain
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Threat of war
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Interview with John Irving
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Interview with a literary translator
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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How to Survive Kids' Birthday parties
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Life without a cell phone
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Detox camps for internet addicts
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The future of airport security
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Researchers investigate bush medicine
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Thailand sees brisk trade in illegal species
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Interview with Lily Singh
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When I completely embarrassed myself
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Why is walking humans' superpower?
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When you can't trust who you hear
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Social media's impact on teenage brains
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Too Intelligent to Be Happy?
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Are We Eating Better?
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Sleep tourism: Rest or stress?
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A Perfect Democracy?
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Operation cat drop
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The man who won 14 lotteries
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Understanding an ambiguous announcement
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Dialogue
A table for two
A two-voice conversation with five questions on the main idea, details and speaker intention.
The missing bag
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Choosing a flat
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A project running late
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Debating a street trial
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Negotiating a partnership
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Giving personal information
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Who is in your new class?
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How often do you...?
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What are you doing?
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Comparing things and people
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Invitations: Would you like to ...?
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Ordering at the restaurant
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Looking for a man
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Checking into a hotel
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What do you have to do at home?
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Renting a car
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Shopping for clothes
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What were you doing at the time of the murder?
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Summer job interview
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Interview with an English teacher
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Crime scene investigation
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Health problems
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Interview with a victim of domestic abuse
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Actors talk about acting
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Negotiating a project deadline
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A panel on language and identity
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