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This week: Matchweek 7 - Outfoxed

01 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Learning Vocabulary - Phrasal Verbs Connected to Sport

30 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich argue about the importance of winning at sport. Jack thinks it's the taking part that mat...

This week - Matchweek 6: Pick of the bunch

27 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Understanding Grammar - Relative Clauses

20 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich focus on grammar and take a look at relative clauses. In the roleplay, they visit a sport...

Matchweek 5: Underdogs

16 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & the UK: Norwich

13 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich continue a series of podcasts called 'English & the UK' which focus on Premier League...

Learning Vocabulary: Basic Football English

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this extra Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack is on his way to meet Rich at a local football match and they take a look at some basic football En...

Learning Vocabulary - Helping others

08 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich focus on the language we use to talk about charity and helping people in our communities....

This week - Matchweek 4: Plain Sailing

03 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Understanding Grammar - Second Conditional: Who do you support?

30 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich focus on grammar and take a look at the second conditional and Jack talks about the team ...

Matchweek 3: Up for grabs

28 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Matchweek 2: Accidental handball

24 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

This week - Matchweek 1: On our way

21 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Learning Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs (Who do you support?)

10 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich focus on some difficult phrasal verbs and Rich talks about the team he supports. Your tas...

New Season: Last-minute deals

07 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

New Season: Curtain raiser

31 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & The UK: Southampton

28 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich continue a series of podcasts called 'English & the UK' which focus on Premier League...

Summer Tournaments: A Huge Deflection

24 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & the UK: Newcastle

20 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich continue a series of podcasts called 'English & the UK' which focus on Premier League...

Summer Tournaments: Eyes on Africa

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & the UK: Brighton

12 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich continue a series of podcasts called 'English & the UK' which focus on Premier League...

Summer Tournaments: Off the crossbar

09 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & the UK: Manchester

05 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich continue a series of podcasts called 'English & the UK' which focus on Premier League...

Summer Tournaments: Come out on top

03 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & the UK: Liverpool

30 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich continue a mini-series of podcasts called 'English & the UK' which focus on Premier L...

This week - Summer Tournaments: A Cheeky Finish

29 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & the UK: Birmingham

22 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich continue a mini-series of podcasts called 'English & the UK' which focus on four Prem...

This week - Summer Tournaments: Ruthless

18 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & the UK: London

16 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich start a new mini-series of podcasts called 'English & the UK'. For the next four podc...

Summer Tournaments: Kick-off

12 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & Tourism: At the restaurant

07 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich have our fourth and final episode in a mini-series of podcasts called 'English & Tour...

Cup Finals: Wins for Liverpool & Chelsea!

04 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & Tourism: Eating out

02 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich have the third in a mini-series of podcasts called 'English & Tourism'. They introduc...

Champions League Final: All eyes on Madrid!

30 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & Tourism - Making a complaint

25 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich have the second in a mini-series of podcasts called 'English & Tourism'. They introdu...

Season Finale: A Historic Treble!

22 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & Tourism - Checking in

19 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich start a new mini-series of podcasts called English & Tourism. For the next four podca...

Matchweek 38 - Premier League Champions

14 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & Enterprise - Negotiation Skills

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich continue with a mini-series of podcasts called English & Enterprise. The topic in thi...

Matchweek 37 - Twists and turns

06 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & Enterprise - Presentation Skills

06 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich continue with a mini-series of podcasts called English & Enterprise. The topic in thi...

Matchweek 36 - Cleared off the line

29 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Matchweek 35 - Digging Deep

24 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & Enterprise - Problem solving

19 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich continue with a mini-series of podcasts called English & Enterprise. The topic in thi...

Matchweek 34 - Long-range strike

16 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

English & Enterprise - Brainstorming

13 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich start a new mini-series of podcasts called English & Enterprise. For the next four po...

Matchweek 33 & FA Cup: Extra-Time

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Coming to the UK: Seeing a doctor

06 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Rich goes to see the doctor. The language focus is on the words and phrases that will help you make an ...

Matchweek 32 - Own Goal

02 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Coming to the UK: Getting from A to B

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Rich is going on a day trip to Brighton from his new house in London. Jack tells him the best way to ge...

Coming to the UK - Getting a mobile phone

22 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Rich has moved to the UK and needs a mobile phone deal. There are lots of deals to choose from! The lan...

Matchweek 31 & FA Cup: Back to the Drawing Board

19 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Coming to the UK - House-hunting

16 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Rich needs to rent a place to live in the UK. The language focus is on the words and phrases you need w...

Matchweek 30 - Neck and Neck

12 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Communication Skills - How things work

08 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack explains to Rich how something works. The language focus is on the type of language we use when ex...

Matchweek 29 - Leapfrog

05 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Matchweek 28 - Tucked Away

28 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Matchweek 27 - Stalemate

27 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Speaking Skills: Reacting to news

21 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Rich interrupts Jack and has some good news to tell him. The language focus is on phrases we use to int...

Communication Skills: Polite Requests

16 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Rich is calling the ticket office at Liverpool football club to buy some match tickets. The language fo...

Matchweek 26 - Hit for Six

14 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Matchweeks 24 & 25 - Looking Rosy

06 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Speaking Skills: Negotiating

24 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich play the roles of a director of football and a player's agent in order to discuss the tra...

Matchweek 23 - Seventh Heaven

21 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Understanding Grammar: Continuous forms

17 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack invites RIch to his new house and they talk about some of the challenges you face when you move. T...

Matchweek 22 - Smash and grab

14 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Learning Vocabulary: The language of arguments

10 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about the language of arguments. They explore the language we use when we are angry ...

Matchweek 21 & FA Cup - A giant-killing

08 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Matchweeks 19 & 20 - Stumble to defeat

31 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Matchweek 18 - Business as usual

26 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Learning Vocabulary - Christmas in the UK

21 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about Christmas in the UK. Rich and Jack are both preparing for the Christmas holida...

Matchweek 17 - A stroke of luck

18 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Understanding Grammar - As v Like

14 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about two words that are often very confusing: 'as' and 'like'. These two words can ...

Matchweek 16 - Run the clock down

10 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Matchweek 15 - A two-horse race

07 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Learning Vocabulary: Going for a run

06 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about running and the benefits of going for a run. They have two roleplays for you; ...

Matchweek 14 - What a blunder!

03 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Speaking Skills - Buying trainers

30 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about the language you need to describe trainers and Jack goes shopping for a new pa...

Matchweek 13 - Once in a blue moon

26 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Learning Vocabulary: Food and the environment

23 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about food and the environment. They have a short quiz to help you learn different a...

Learning Vocabulary: Phrasal verbs with 'turn'

16 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about television, films and cinema. In our roleplays, they take a trip to the cinema...

Matchweek 12 - Never in doubt

12 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Exam Training: Quizzes and Listening

09 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack has the chance to win £10,000 in a TV quiz. Will he win the top prize? Rich and Jack also give yo...

Matchweek 11 - Sour Grapes

06 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Understanding Grammar: be/get used to

02 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about things in the UK and the Premier League that are easy and difficult to get use...

Matchweek 10 - Chalked off

29 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

This week - Matchweek 9 - Pegged back

22 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

This week - Matchweek 8 - Blazed over

08 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

This week - Matchweek 7 - All square

01 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Understanding Grammar - Quantifiers

27 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about collecting things and quantifiers. These are the words we use to describe the ...

This week - Matchweek 6 - Against the run of play

24 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Speaking Skills: Pitching a product

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich ask you to invest in a product they have invented. We give you an imaginary £100 million...

This week - Matchweek 5 - Convincing wins

17 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Learning Vocabulary: It's raining cats and dogs

16 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about rain. It rains quite a lot in the UK so we have a lot of words and phrases con...

Understanding Grammar - Indirect questions

07 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about being more polite in English. One way to be more polite is by using indirect q...

This week - Matchweek 4 - Breaking the deadlock

03 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...

Speaking Skills - Different Opinions

31 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich talk about football rules and laws they would like to change. The language focus is on wo...

This week - Matchweek 3 - First wins and late wins

27 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. This week, Jack an...

Learning Vocabulary: At the gym

23 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Rich goes to a gym for the first time and talks about the experience. In the roleplay, Jack is a gym in...

This week - Matchweek 2 - Hat-trick Hero

20 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to This Week from Premier Skills English, a weekly review of football action for learners of English from across the globe. In This Week, Jack...