Angeles Martinez

6 Minute English

Education EN ↓ 331 episodes

Learn and practise useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC. Your weekly instruction manual for saying or doing something in English is published every Thursday.

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Angeles Martinez

Episodes

Food for new mums 15.02.2024 6:31

What do mothers eat after giving birth? Does it depend on which country you are from?

Fighting loneliness with soup 08.02.2024 6:38

Neil and Beth discuss a project in the Netherlands for helping lonely people.

What is the future of work? 01.02.2024 6:40

Should we be worried about our jobs disappearing? Or is the future positive?

How the language of menus matters 25.01.2024 6:22

Could french menu terms be going out of fashion?

The psychology of greed 18.01.2024 6:22

Is it ever OK to be greedy?

Addicted to sugar 11.01.2024 6:22

How has sugar become such an important part of our diets? Neil and Georgie discuss.

Our love of pets 04.01.2024 6:16

Why do we keep, and love, pets? Neil and Georgie discuss this and teach new vocabulary.

Sexism: Female farmers fighting back 28.12.2023 7:31

Female farmers in many countries face sexism. Some are finding ways to be fairly treated.

Learning lessons from the Moon 21.12.2023 6:15

Summer 2023 saw two missions to the Moon. Why are scientists so keen to get there?

Could we live without plastic? 14.12.2023 7:32

Is it time to start living without plastic? Beth and Neil discuss this.

Invasive species: Why don't we eat them? 07.12.2023 7:31

Invasive species are causing problems for nature around the world, so why not eat them?

What and where is Little Italy? 30.11.2023 7:28

How did Italian food become famous throughout the world? Find out with Neil and Georgie

Social media and teenage health 23.11.2023 6:18

What are the risks of social media to teenage health and what can be done about them?

Mystery flying objects 16.11.2023 6:22

What exactly did navy pilots see in 2004? The US investigates these UFOs now, in 2023.

Elephant-proof farming 14.11.2023 7:31

What happens when an elephant wants to eat your crops? How can you stop it?

Episode 2.1 12.11.2023 2:14

Phrasal verbs with Get

Episode 1- Phrasal verbs with "Get" 12.11.2023 2:28

El verbo get es uno de los verbos más usados en inglés. Su raíz, to get, se refiere a “obtener, conseguir”. Pero, como bien sabes, cuando transformamos un verbo a phrasal verb y le añadimos la preposición, su significado cambia radicalmente.

Ways to live for 100 years 26.10.2023 7:31

More and more people are living to 100, but what is the secret of a long life?

Mushrooms: Medicine or myth? 12.10.2023 7:30

Today the medicinal mushroom industry is big business. But are there actually benefits?

Saving dead languages 05.10.2023 7:31

Some Australian languages have been saved from extinction. We discuss Barngala's revival.

Sounds that make you want to scream 28.09.2023 7:28

Some sounds cause some people huge distress. Learn about 'misophonia' here.

How fans talk about their passions 21.09.2023 7:30

Fandom is more than simply being a fan, and now it is developing its own language.

Making male friends 14.09.2023 7:31

Do men find it harder than women to make close friendships? Neil and Beth discuss.