What I've Learnt This Week
What I Learnt This Week - a podcast sharing what I've learnt this week to help you practise and improve your English.
At the end of every podcast, I ask you to join the debate and write a comment with your opinion about the question of the week.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 5
- Years Active
- 2020
What I Learnt This Week: Episode 5 - All About Bisons
What is the difference between a bison and a buffalo?
Why are there so few bison alive today in the USA compared to at the start of the 19th Century?
Should we domesticate bison for meat production?
What I've Learnt This Week - Episode 4: The Money Boat & The Titanic
This episode is about Lifeboat No. 1 that fled the sinking Titanic in 1912.
Why was this lifeboat nicknamed 'The Money Boat'?
Why did it transport only 12 passengers to safety when it could have he…
Episode 3: 'Mooting' & Operation Cornflakes
Do you know what ''mooting'' is?
Do you know the story of 'Operation Cornflakes'?
No? Then listen to week's episode of 'What I've Learnt This Week'!
As always, please do join the debate by commenting…
What I've Learnt This Week, Episode 2: Confusing contronyms, clever crows and contagious Mary.
Did you know that crows can memorise your face?
Have you heard of the infamous Typhoid Mary?
Ever heard of a contronym?
No? Then, listen to this week's podcast to find out the answers!
And as alwa…
Episode 1: 'What I've learnt This Week' about contronyms, making cheese and why Snoopy works for NASA!
Do you know what a contronym is?
Or that Snoopy works for NASA?
Do you know how to make own cheese?
Then welcome to Episode 1 of the podcast 'What I learnt this week!' with Miss Hurst. A short pod…