6 Minute English

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 25:55:24
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Synopsis

Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Friday.

Episodes

  • 3D printers

    22/12/2022 Duration: 06min

    We look at the role of 3D printers in medicine, and teach you some related vocabulary.

  • Are opinion polls accurate?

    15/12/2022 Duration: 06min

    What can opinion polls really tell us?

  • Deep-sea mining: Good or bad for the planet?

    08/12/2022 Duration: 06min

    Could some ideas to deal with climate change actually damage the environment?

  • Can music mend a broken heart?

    01/12/2022 Duration: 06min

    Meet a singer-songwriter who used music to express her feelings of falling in love.

  • The art of conversation

    24/11/2022 Duration: 06min

    We discuss whether the art of conversation is being lost in the era of social media

  • Qatar's World Cup workers

    17/11/2022 Duration: 06min

    Hear about the workers who built the World Cup stadiums

  • Controlling the weather

    10/11/2022 Duration: 06min

    We discuss two different types of weather manipulation.

  • Meet the flavourists

    03/11/2022 Duration: 06min

    Is designing a food flavour a dark art? We talk about the people who make flavours.

  • Are Halloween costumes too scary?

    27/10/2022 Duration: 06min

    Some parents are complaining that some Halloween costumes are too scary.

  • Does climate change make you anxious?

    20/10/2022 Duration: 06min

    We discuss how extreme weather events are affecting our mental health.

  • Translating recipes

    13/10/2022 Duration: 06min

    How to adapt dishes from other countries? We talk about it and teach you vocabulary.

  • Are artistic brains different?

    06/10/2022 Duration: 06min

    We talk about Mozart, Jimi Hendrix and teach you vocabulary.

  • Why are prices going up?

    29/09/2022 Duration: 06min

    We discuss inflation and economics and teach related vocabulary.

  • English for dating online

    22/09/2022 Duration: 06min

    We discuss language that gets used for dating online and new language that is emerging.

  • Man vs beast: Who is more efficient?

    15/09/2022 Duration: 06min

    We discuss the advantages of the design of the human body, and teach you vocabulary too.

  • Are you following your dreams?

    08/09/2022 Duration: 06min

    Hear about two people who dared to follow their dreams and are happy to have done so.

  • Do emojis make language better?

    01/09/2022 Duration: 06min

    Are emojis turning us into lazy writers?

  • Being a beauty influencer

    25/08/2022 Duration: 06min

    Hear about women who are using social media to change attitudes to beauty

  • Women in the workplace

    18/08/2022 Duration: 06min

    Hear about the career-killing tasks that are holding women back in the workplace

  • Connecting remote communities

    11/08/2022 Duration: 06min

    How do you connect the unconnected?

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