English with Monty - The Podcast about the English Language

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about how to use modal verbs to express requests, offers and invitations. Covering more polite and formal forms as well as everyday usage.

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Jon and Gideon talk about British literature throughout the ages. From Beowulf to Chaucer and Shakespeare to Jane Austin to name but a few. We give you can insight to what they wrote and also give yo…

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about when and how you use infinitives of purpose - e.g. I went to the shop to buy some milk

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Jon and Gideon talk about how to use discourse markers when speaking. Discourse markers are words and phrases that are used to organise and manage the structure of discourse. Examples include 'well',…

Jon and Ben (To The Point English with Ben: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzxHbqh9Pxk9sV4W66jIbjA) talk for around 8 minutes using separable and non-separable phrasal verbs. How and when to use th…

Jon and Tessa from the Netherlands talk about common English errors that Dutch speakers make.

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Jon and Ben (To The Point English with Ben: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzxHbqh9Pxk9sV4W66jIbjA) talk for around 8 minutes using separable and non-separable phrasal verbs. How and when to use th…

Jon and Amy (from English With Amy Online - https://englishwithamyonline.com/) talk about three positive and three negative aspects of British culture. We have a bit of a chat about our viewpoints, w…

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about when to use stative verbs in the continuous form. Many state verbs have two different forms (a state one and a dynamic one) with the meaning changing in…

Jon and Gideon talk about idioms that you can use at work. Covering: Cut corners; it's not rocket science; get the ball rolling; up to speed; on the back burner; back to the drawing board; for the lo…

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about when to use adjectives or adverbs. In this part they cover spellings of adverbs with an -ly ending, what we do when we use linking verbs and comparative…

Jon and Ben (from To The Point English - http://ttpenglish.com) talk about proverbs that can help motivate you as an English learner. Covering: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to…

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about when to use adjectives or adverbs.

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Jon and Gideon talk about the origins of the English language. They cover the history and influences English has taken from other languages and people. Not a definitive guide by any means but it shou…

Jon and Jules from Italy talk for around 8 minutes about modifiers. This part covers adjective, adverb, phrase and clause modifiers. Squinting modifiers are also included at the end of the episode.

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Jon and Gideon talk about common English errors that French speakers make. Gideon has an English language school in Paris, he gives some useful insights from his own personal experience.

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Jon and Jules from Italy talk for around 8 minutes about modifiers. This part covers adjective order, misplaced modifiers and dangling modifiers.

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Jon and Gideon talk about 10 different British dialects you need to know which are commonly heard. We cover Scottish, Geordie, Yorkshire, Welsh, Brummie, West Country, RP, Mancunian and Cockney.

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Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about punctuation. This part covers avoiding multiple punctuation at the end of a sentence, using a colon, commas for non-essential information, a dictionary …

Jon and Gideon talk for around 8 minutes about punctuation. This part covers apostrophes, quotation marks, brackets, hyphens, colons and semicolons.

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