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
March 27 - Passive Present Simple/Continuous
Today we continue our discussion on the passive voice using the present tenses. We form the simple with am/is/are + past participle and we form the continuous with am/is/are + being + past participle…
00:09:19 |
Tue 27 Mar 2018
March 26 - Past Passive
Matt begins his week talking about the passive voice with one of the more important tenses of the passive: past simple. We use it to describe some of the major achievements in human history all the w…
00:10:19 |
Mon 26 Mar 2018
March 25 - French in English
Matt summarises some of the complicated history between France and England, and how that has impacted the English language in very dramatic ways. He also covers a few French words and phrases that we…
00:15:32 |
Sat 24 Mar 2018
March 24 - Writing Advice
Matt talks about some important tips we can focus on when we are writing persuasive essays, especially for tests or in a classroom setting. He does introduce a few new words/phrases: anecdotal, infra…
00:14:35 |
Fri 23 Mar 2018
March 23 - Tricky Uncountable Nouns
Matt covers some of the trickier uncountable nouns that caused some confusion for submitted answers. He talks about words like news, meats, paper, money (and currencies), and grass.
If there are any…
00:10:26 |
Thu 22 Mar 2018
March 22 - Quantifiers
Today Matt covers the main quantifiers we use in English with countable and uncountable nouns. We practice some of them with examples, and highlight some of the related quantifiers that are interchan…
00:12:56 |
Thu 22 Mar 2018
March 21 - Countable and Uncountable
Matt talks us through countable and uncountable nouns. He covers some important basic points like general rules, basic quantifiers, and some key irregularities. Check in tomorrow for more detail on q…
00:11:21 |
Wed 21 Mar 2018
March 20 - Smoking
Matt talks about the various words we use when talking about the habit of smoking.
Vocabulary:
cigarettes, tobacco, cigars, pipe, smoking, butts, second-hand smoke, inhale, addicted to, quit, cold t…
00:09:29 |
Tue 20 Mar 2018
March 19 - Greetings
Matt practices some basic greetings we use in English rather than the boring standard: "hello."
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00:09:45 |
Mon 19 Mar 2018
March 18 - Emotional Review
Matt reviews some of the highlights of this week's material. Be sure to check out the podcasts from the last week to practice the material we covered.
Comments and questions to bitesizedenglish@gmai…
00:11:01 |
Sun 18 Mar 2018
March 17 - St. Patrick's Day
We celebrate the national day of Ireland by talking about the origins, celebrations, and meaning of Saint Patrick's Day!
Vocabulary:
-Catholic saint
-shamrock
-diaspora
-Ireland/Irish
00:08:14 |
Fri 16 Mar 2018
March 16 - Scary
Matt covers the different feelings of fear, from the mild to the extreme. He explains how different words like startling and spooky are used.
Vocabulary:
spooky and eerie
scary and terrifying
start…
00:10:22 |
Thu 15 Mar 2018
March 15 - Angry!
Matt covers how we express our anger! He covers some important synonyms and some practice on how we can sound angry.
Vocabulary:
-mad, angry, furious
-Short temper (noun) and short tempered (adj)
-…
00:10:37 |
Thu 15 Mar 2018
March 14 - Disappointed w/ Thomas
Matt is joined by a guest, Thomas, to talk about the feeling of disappointment. They practice "disappointed in" and the following phrases:
Let down
Bummer
Fall short
00:17:27 |
Wed 14 Mar 2018
March 13 - #sad
Matt talks about the two main ways we use the word "sad." It can be used as a feeling of unhappiness, but also as an insult for a situation or person that is unaccomplished or pathetic.
Examples:
-…
00:07:11 |
Tue 13 Mar 2018
March 12 - Happiness
We start the week of emotions with one of the best ones: joy and happiness. Matt covers the verbs we use with the adjective happy, and reminds us how to use emotional nouns like joy.
Phrases from t…
00:09:28 |
Mon 12 Mar 2018
March 11 - Present Perfect
Matt covers the basics of the Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Continuous tenses. The example sentences are below:
-I have seen that movie before.
-She has written eight books.
-You haven'…
00:09:20 |
Sun 11 Mar 2018
March 10 - Seconds, Minutes, Hours
We have a shorter episode today, covering some ways we use these three vocabulary words in phrases and practical spoken English.
To focus on:
half an hour, quarter of an hour, two and a half hours (…
00:08:34 |
Sat 10 Mar 2018
March 9 - Phrases using "time"
Today's phrases:
"It's time to +verb"
"The time has come"
"On time"
"I don't have the time"
"Time's Up"
"Good times"
"You got me at a bad time"
"It's a matter of time"
"Time flies"
"I am pressed for …
00:12:53 |
Fri 09 Mar 2018
March 8 - Time Prepositions
Matt goes over the main three prepositions we use with time, and also covers three less used (but still very important) prepositions.
We use in with: months, years, centuries, periods of time, time…
00:08:39 |
Thu 08 Mar 2018
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