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Jul 2018
12m 44s

Speaking Skills - Summarising

JACK RADFORD
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In this week's Premier Skills English Podcast, Jack and Rich say goodbye to the World Cup in Russia. Jack didn't watch the World Cup Final because he got the kick-off time wrong so Rich sums up what happened. The language focus is on summarising skills and they talk about what you need to do to give a good summary for someone and also look at lots of words and phrases you can use when summarising something. They also take a look at some common collocations with the words 'match' and 'game'. Your task is to write a summary of a football match or tournament, a book or a film or a recent news story. As always, we also have a new football phrase for you to guess at the end of the podcast. Enjoy!

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https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/listen/podcasts/speaking-skills-summarising

#football #LearnEnglish #PremierLeague #EPL #WorldCup #Grammar #Vocabulary

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