Bite-sized English
Learn English in bite-sized pieces. With each daily episode, Matt will take you through a large variety of topics to help improve your listening and speaking bit by bit. Each episode will also feature some small goal or homework so you can apply the material in your day to day life.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 42
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2019
Lesson 37: "hand" idioms
In this episode, we will be covering some... "handy" idioms (pun very much intended). We hope you enjoy some of the great idioms below!
lend a hand
hands are clean
blood/dirt on your hands
show your …
Lyric Series 3: Childish Gambino - "This is America"
Matt covers Grammy Award winning song of 2018, the smash hit "This is America." As it is July 4th, Independence Day in the United States, seems like the most fitting choice. Enjoy a break down of som…
Lesson 36: Game Idioms
Despite Matt's misleading intro, this episode covers idioms with the word game in them. Different uses and very different means, but still all quite common in English.
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Lyric Series 2: Smash Mouth - "All-star"
Why not go back to this 90s classic and look at some of the great language available? We cover some cool words and phrases in the song so you can really rock your English!
Smash Mouth - "All-star": h…
Lesson 35: Funny Idioms
We return to the idiom series talking about these 6 idioms that have to do with laughing, humour, or joking. Matt also gives his unsolicited opinion on the humour of Aussies, Kiwis, and Brits.
Idioms…
Lyric Series 01 - Shawn Mendes "Treat You Better"
We kick off our new lyric series with the music from Canadian musician Shawn Mendes. Matt goes into some of the great language Shawn uses to convey romance, relationships, and more.
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Raptors Talk
I talk unscripted (obviously) about my fourth favourite sports team, the Toronto Raptors. Learn a little about the North American sports culture and why this run of the Raptors is so important to Can…
Lesson 34: pre- and post-
In this episode, we will be kicking off a new series exploring the wide variety of prefixes available in English. Today we will be learning about pre- and post-.
Words uses in this lesson:
Postscript
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Lesson 33: Peace and Piece
These two homonyms are very different in meaning, but are both very useful! In this episode Matt covers the means of the words, and some common phrases you might encounter:
peace and quiet
peace out
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Lesson 32: Returns and Comebacks
Matt is back with a brand new series of Bite-sized English! We kick of with a lesson about returns, coming back (getting back, going back as well), and the word comeback.
Questions can be directed t…
April 09 - Thanks
April 08 - Tip(s) for Our Listening and Speaking
April 07 - Third Conditional
April 04 - Second Conditional
April 03 - Degrees of possibility
April 01 - Phrases using the word "game"
March 31 - Phrases using the word "ball"
March 30 - Reading Comprehension Tips
March 29 - Passive: Present Perfect and Future Form