Adventures in English
An English language learning podcast for Intermediate and above learners. Looking at topics from a Scottish perspective with host Jenni, an English language teacher based in Glasgow with more than 20 years teaching experience with students from all over the world.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 15
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Curling - Our Olympic Success Story
I’ve been enjoying watching the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Team GB as the UK team is called hasn’t been that successful in recent winter olympics, we don’t really have the climate or the mountains …
Scotland's Reindeer
It’s getting close to Christmas and we had some special visitors to our town recently to turn the Christmas lights on. Reindeer! Reindeer are of course very significant this time of year as it’s Rei…
Fun At The Seaside - Scottish Seaside Towns
At this time of year I’m always thinking about the seaside. There’s nothing better than a day by the sea, especially a summer’s day. In this episode I want to share some of my favourite Scottish seas…
Road Trip Through The Highlands
The North Coast 500 is often referred to as Scotland’s equivalent to America’s route 66! It’s a 500 mile round trip from our northernmost city, Inverness and takes you to the far north of Scotland a…
Fish and Chips, a British Tradition
I’d like to tell you about one of our most famous dishes here in the UK, you’ve probably heard of it. Fish and Chips. Basically this is battered fish, deep fried and served with fried potatoes. I t…
Accents, Dialects and Languages
Hi, it’s Jenni here with today’s episode which is all about accents, dialects and languages. Do you know how many languages we have here in Scotland? There are actually 4 official languages, the ma…
Whisky Distilleries I Love
May is whisky month in Scotland, an entire month dedicated to celebrating all things whisky related and next Saturday the 15th of May is World Whisky Day so, in this episode I’m going to talk about …
The Scottish Parliament
This week, Scotland will be going to the polls, it’s election time and we will be heading to the polling station, that’s the place where we vote, to cast our vote for candidates and political parties…
Border Towns
I think I first became interested in borders during my first trip abroad when we spent an enjoyable summer holiday crisscrossing the borders between Holland, France and Belgium. I was only 9 years ol…
Walking The West Highland Way
I love adventures as you might have guessed from the name of this podcast so try to seek them out whenever I can. I have travelled to many different countries and experienced lots of things but one o…
The Changeable Scottish Weather
Hello and welcome to Adventures in English, a weekly podcast for English language learners covering a range of topics often,from a Scottish perspective. I’m your host Jenni. So, you may have heard …
Rita's story: From Glasgow to Japan
In this episode, I share the story of Rita Cowan, a young woman who helped take Scotch Whisky to Japan more than 100 years ago. Hello and welcome to Adventures in English, a weekly podcast for Englis…
Island for sale
Would you like to own your own private Scottish Island? In this episode, I'll talk about a small undeveloped island that's recently come up for sale.
Transcript
Hello and welcome to this week’s epi…
Signs of Spring
It's Spring Equinox and in this episode I'll talk about some of my favourite signs of Spring here in Scotland. Please see below for a transcript of the show.
Hi everyone
Today it’s Spring Equinox,…
Welcome to Adventures in English, a podcast for English Language Learners
A weekly English language learning podcast for Intermediate level and above. join your host, Jenni, a Scottish English language teacher living in Glasgow. Each episode will explore a different topic …