The ESOL Podcast

TEP s3 e11 - Landmarks in London

The final episode of series 3 of the ESOL Podcast was made by an ESOL students at Idea Store Learning in Tower Hamlets. ESOL students have been researching landmarks in London in preparation for a class trip at the end of the school year. Moksura talks about Big Ben, Maksim tells us about London Bridge, Tanni speaks about the Millenium Bridge, Lidiia tells us about the narrowest house in London and Johura speaks about the Tower of London. Series 4 of the ESOL Podcast will start in the new school year 2023-2024. If you are an ESOL teacher or ESOL student in the UK and would like to make an episode, please complete this form - https://forms.gle/jpZe4dRanHmYfqmn7 [https://forms.gle/jpZe4dRanHmYfqmn7]

TEP s3 e10 - Belonging

This episode of The ESOL Podcast ESOL was made by an ESOL group in Liverpool. Introduced by Jingfei, we listen to Alana, Harry and Liza talk about belonging – what it means, why it is important and why it is a term talked about today. The group is a new participatory ESOL conversation group which takes place at the Granby Winter Garden, an award-winning community space established, owned and run voluntarily by local residents who formed the Granby 4 Streets Community Land Trust, in Toxteth Liverpool 8.

TEP s3 e9 - How ESOL helps us achieve our goals

In this episode of The ESOL Podcast ESOL we listen to ESOL students in Bridlington talk about how studying ESOL helps them achieve their goals. Zoriana, Manal, Oksana, Violeta and Daldar recorded this episode with their teacher Pat in an ESOL class run by East Riding of Yorkshire council. They talk about how ESOL has helped their other studies and their day-to-day lives. They also talk about some of the barriers they have overcome by learning English.

TEP s3 e8 - How to use technology to improve English

In this fortnight’s episode ESOL students from Adult Learning in the East Riding of Yorkshire talk about how technology can help them to improve their English. Tatitana, Paulo and Liudmyla talked to their ESOL teacher Brenton Mayman. They share some good ideas for apps and websites you can use when you are learning English.

TEP s3 e7 - Climate Change

For the first ESOL Podcast episode after the Easter break, we revisit the important issue of climate change. ESOL students from a Foundation Course for 16-18 year olds, at Stoke on Trent College talk to their teacher, Tuğçe Çankaya Simpson about what climate change is and some of it’s effects. We hear from Oneeqa and Aqueeda from Pakistan, Olesia from Ukraine, Gabriel from Romania, Atiqullah from Afghanistan, Kidane from Eritrea, Douglas from El Salvador and Misk from Sudan.