BBC Learning English

What is your favourite 🧑‍🍳 recipe? In our NEW easy podcast, Neil and Beth talk about 🍳 cooking and share their best recipes.⁣ ⁣ Listen to the 🎙️ podcast to learn to give instructions using the imperative.⁣ ⁣ Click on the link in our bio to 🎧 listen on our website.⁣ ⁣ 🤩 And follow the Learning Easy English podcast on your podcast app so you don’t miss an episode!⁣ ⁣ (Images: Getty)⁣

Are you feeling 🥱 tired? Maybe it's ⏰ time to 'hit the sack'! We have lots of expressions for 😴 sleeping in English and this is one of them! 🤔 Do you have a similar idiom in your language?⁣ ⁣ 🤩 Click on the link in our bio to find out what to do when you can't sleep.⁣ ⁣ Images: Getty⁣ ⁣

🤓 Here’s a useful English proverb to learn and use! Scroll through the images to find out how to use ‘too many 👨‍🍳 cooks spoil the broth’ and don’t forget to ✍️ answer the questions on the last slide! ⁣ ⁣ 🤩 Click on the link in our bio for 6 Minute English episode about translating recipes!⁣ ⁣ Image: Getty⁣ ⁣

Do you know how to say 🍫 ‘chocolate’ like a native speaker? 👀Watch Andrew explain how English people 🗣️pronounce this delicious English word and start saying it more naturally today! Did you 👂hear the other word with a dropped syllable in the video? ✍️Tell us in the comments!

🤓 CHALLENGE TIME! 🤔 Can you fill the gap? We’ll 🗣️ tell you the answer later!⁣ ⁣ 🤩 EXTRA: For a 6 Minute Grammar episode on question forms, click the link in our bio!⁣ ⁣ (image: Getty)⁣ ⁣

👨‍🏫 We use a possessive ‘s’ to talk about things that belong to people, but how do we 🗣️ pronounce it? 🤔 Why does the possessive ‘s’ 👂 sound like a /s/ after ‘Trump’ and an /Iz/ after ‘Harris’? 🤓 Learn the pronunciation rules of the possessive ‘s’ in this short video.

Do you know where the stress goes in the word ‘photograph’? 🖼️ We’ll tell you the correct answer later. Do you like having your photograph taken? 📸⁣ ⁣ (image: Getty)⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣

Harris’ or Harris’s? We use a possessive ‘s’ to talk about things that belong to people. But where should we put the possessive ‘s’ after ‘Harris’ and other names that end with ‘s’? Should it be Harris’ or Harris’s? Also, what about ‘Trump’ and other names that don’t end in ‘s’? Learn about possessive ‘s’ spelling rules!

‘to’ and ‘too’ have the same pronunciation, but they aren’t used the same way! 😱 Do you know how to use them correctly? Swipe through our grammar carousel and see if you can do our ‘to’ vs ‘too’ quiz. ☺️⁣ ⁣ After you’ve finished, give us a sentence with ‘to’ or ‘too’ to show off your skills!💪⁣ ⁣ (Images: Getty)⁣ ⁣ ⁣

We can ‘answer’ and ‘charge’ our phones 📱 , but what other verbs can we use with ‘phone’? 🤔 In this video, George will tell you 5 things you can do with a phone. Can you think of any more? Write a comment! 😃

🌦️ Does the weather change your plans? 🎧 In our easy podcast Neil and Beth talk about the weather using the first conditional.⁣ ⁣ Swipe to learn how to use the first conditional and then listen to the podcast to hear Beth and Neil use it.⁣ ⁣ Click on the link in our bio to listen on our website.⁣ ⁣ And follow the Learning Easy English podcast on your podcast app so you don’t miss an episode!⁣ ⁣ Images: Getty⁣

Sometimes, you want to 🗣️ talk about something, or you want to try to 🔧 fix a problem, but you know that if you do, you’ll be entering a whole world of pain! 🤓 English speakers might say something like ‘Don’t talk to her about the reason she left her last job – you’ll be opening a can of 🪱 worms.’ 🤔 Do you have a similar idiom in your language?⁣ ⁣ 🧐 Could worms be the solution to our plastic problem? 🤩 Click on the link in our bio to find out!⁣ ⁣ Images: Getty⁣ ⁣ ⁣