Giles Parker English Academy podcasts

Modals to speculate about the past – Who could have poisoned Banjo?

Hi! Welcome to another great English lesson with New English Academy. My name's Giles Parker and I'm your guide for today's lesso…

Why learn grammar? Four great reasons

Hi and welcome to another great lesson with New English Academy. My name is Giles Parker and I'm your host for this podcast. Today I'm going to answer a questio…

'Go' and 'like' for indirect speech

Hi and welcome to another great lesson from New English Academy. I'm your host Giles Parker and today we're going to look at one of the most useful grammar points …

Indirect or reported speech

Hi and welcome to another great lesson with New English Academy. I’m your guide, Giles Parker, and today we’re going to look at how to use indirect speech to report or…

Making requests

Hi and welcome to another great lesson from New English Academy. I'm your guide Giles Parker and today we're going to look at how to make polite requests. This podcast follows on from…

Using imperatives to tell people to do something

Hi and welcome to another great lesson from New English Academy. I’m Giles Parker and I’m your guide for this course. Today we’re going to look…

Stative verbs - McLanguage change

Hi and welcome to another great grammar lesson from New English Academy. I’m your host, Giles Parker, and today we’re going to learn about stative verbs, and in …

Modifying nouns – Marketing houses in Umbria

Hi and welcome to another great English lesson from New English Academy. I’m your guide Giles Parker and today we’re going to look at how to change …

Simple past regular verbs – beginners

Hi and welcome to another great lesson from New English Academy. I’m your host Giles Parker and today we’re going to look at one of the few nice and predic…

Modal auxiliaries for permission - Getting what you want

Hi there! Welcome to another fun lesson from New English Academy. I’m your guide, Giles Parker and today we’re going to look at how modal …

Adverbial phrases

Hi there! Welcome to another great lesson from New English Academy. I’m your host, Giles Parker and today we’re going to focus on how to be really efficient when you’re speaki…

Present perfect with 'already' & 'yet'

Hi there! Welcome to another lesson from New English Academy. I’m your guide, Giles Parker. Today we’ll be focusing on how to use the present perfect with a…

'Will' vs 'going to'

Hi and welcome to another lesson from New English Academy. Today we’re going to look at the differences between will and going to. This lesson is aimed at beginner students but…

Gerunds as subject and object

Hi there! Welcome to another fun lesson with New English Academy. I’m your guide, Giles Parker. Today, we’re going to look at how we can use gerunds as subjects and …

Superlative adjectives

Hi there, and welcome to another great lesson with New English Academy. I’m your guide Giles Parker and today we’re going to focus on superlative adjectives. The comprehens…

The passive voice for reports

Hi and welcome to another great lesson from New English Academy. I’m your guide, Giles Parker, and today we’re going to look at the controversial usage of the passiv…

'used to' for past habits

The text is called ‘Guys used to wear hats’ and this talks about – yep, you guessed it – how people used to wear hats once upon a time, but it seems this is no long…

Frequency adverbs

Hi, welcome to another lesson from New English Academy. My name’s Giles Parker and today we’re going to be looking at frequency adverbs. The title of the listening and reading t…

Modal auxiliaries for regret

Hi welcome to New English Academy. My name’s Giles Parker and I am your host for this podcast. Today we’re going to focus on 3 different modal auxiliaries to express …