Zdenek’s English Podcast

good old RTC is back!!! Enjoy I and Honza looking back at the previous year and celebrating the coming of year 2017!

This is the concluding episode of Taking the DELTA series. First, I shall tell you about my impression of the Module 1 Exam. This is followed by my sincere apology. But more importantly this episode is a large chunk of 4 interviews. which was recorded on the last days of the DELTA course. This gives you a unique chance to listen to my 4 classmates who also took the course. Who are they? How do the...

In this episode you will find out whether I passed Module 2 of the DELTA Module 2 or not. I also answer couple of questions and address a few topics. How did it feel when I received the email about my result and in what kind of way did I read it? What are my reasons for getting this particular kind of result? Do I have some reservations about the DELTA Course and if so, what are they? What are som...

This is part 4 of "Taking the DELTA" series in which I embark upon a perilous journey of trying to describe my feelings during a super intense full-time course for English teachers which I took in summer 2016. This particular episode is devoted to my remaining assessed lessons. This episode is the core of the whole series. I experienced some unforgettable moments which enabled me to understand my...

This is the third part of Taking the DELTA series. How did I did in my first important assessed lesson? What do you have to do to pass an LSA? What does LSA even stand for? Find answers in this episode. As a bonus, I am adding a recording my friend Ethan and his friend custom-recorded to glamorise my lesson plan.

The is the second part of the Taking the DELTA series. In this part you hear me fixing a few problems that arose during the last episode. The main content revolves around me talking about the DELTA interview which I needed to pass in order to be accepted for the DELTA course, about what my typical DELTA day looked like, and my feelings of trials and tribulations during the DELTA input sessions and...

In the first part of this episode I remind everyone what this podcast is and why I decided to start doing it years ago, as well as explain my long podcasting absence. In the second part I move on to the main subject which is the DELTA Cambridge course which I took this summer. There is only time for the intro in this episode. I will tell you more in the subsequent parts of this series.

Hello listeners, here is one more episode before I embark on a journey of professional development. I should be back after about 2 months. In this particular episode I catch up with my friend Ethan, a native speaker from London. You might have heard some previous episodes we recorded earlier, if not feel free to browse the archive. The topics of this episode are obvious. It's Brexit, football and...

This episode features my very good friend George. In it we give our top 10 lists of our favourite board games. What are our favourite games? Why do we enjoy playing these games? Do we have any crossovers? Can we guess each other's top 5? As well as good recommendations for great games or games you could use in the classroom as a teacher, you can hear some general banter between 2 friends. Listen o...

This is the second part of the discussion with Shaun, my native speaker friend who I met through playtesting my board game called Kingdoms of Deceit. In this episode we talk about this game. We explain what it is, and how you play it. Shaun will tell you what he particularly likes about the game as well. We also invite you to join this wonderful community of online board gamers where you can get t...

This is a highly requested episode which I recorded with my friend Shaun, a native speaker from England. This particular part is devoted to Brexit, a decision of the UK to leave the EU, which shook up the country and pretty much shocked the whole Europe. What are some possible implications for the UK? How does a member of young adult generation feel about this? Shaun has a lot to say. Don't forget...

This episode is an improvised lesson. It features two students of mine, Valentin from Ukraine and Mina from Serbia. The former is a rising star of tattoo art and the latter a former professional handball player. This episode's theme is therefore tattooing and handball. If you want to know what it is like to become a tattoo artist, how it feels to make your first tattoo, Valentin will provide you w...

Hello listeners, sometimes I like to improvise my classes and sometimes I improvise episodes of Zdenek's English podcast, too. And sometimes these two happen simultaneously. Yesterday, I was teaching a lesson on gerunds and infinitives. There is one free-style activity I like to do to conclude this grammar chapter. And I asked my students whether they would be up for doing this live for the podcas...

It had been a while since the last native speaker on the podcast and that's why about a month ago I took my friend Kevin to a pub in Podebrady (in the photo) to do something about this. The entire conversation was unprepared and we resort to ramble here and there. I made couple of really bad jokes in my attempt to be funny while having conversation with a British person. However, there are some in...

The main course of this podcast episode is me reading out a real life experience of attending a speeddating event. Some time ago I wrote a story to teach conditionals in my upper-intermediate class. For those of you who understand, it's basically a guided discovery. I decided to use the same material to records a ZEP episode. The full package includes a story from my real life, an in-depth grammar...

First of all, in a short introduction to this episode I attempt to explain my podcasting absence. And then.... ....I embark on a musing journey with Peter. We continue playing the game. We come across tough choices such as beauty versus brain, snow versus the Sun, and last but no least one night stand versus relationship. Who do you think has won the game? Zdenek or Peter? As a bonus my guest deci...

This is another episode with a student of mine. These days I prefer killing more birds with one stone. Petr has actually appeared on the podcast before in the episode called Luke's Roleplays Reborn. We delve into various topics some of which I claim to know nothing about such as women, cars, happiness and also Star Wars. Anyway, see for yourself.

This is the second part of the interview with Zuzka. From the feedback I got from you I deduce that you thoroughly enjoyed part one. In this one we embark upon a simple word game which has already been employed in this podcast before. While going through the words that come to mind, I tried to look at some aspects of the language. such as minimal pairs in pronunciation. I might have said a few thi...

The time has come to test the loyalty of the Zeppers. As you know not long ago Luke launched a cool brand new competition called Luke's English Podcast photo competition. Despite the fiasco in the previous competition in which we were sending in our podcasts, I entered this one as well. I have sent in a photo of me listening to the podcast while cycling to work in rather freezing conditions. I hav...

What is it like to self-study English through the eyes of a 16-year old these days? Zuzka from the Czech Republic will provide you with some useful and often unique tips this episode. She is going to speak about her dreams , LEP, her favourite TV shows, her voluntary work with German kids and much more. You really get a full package here so why don't you and check it out. Another epsiode (number 1...

This year I am teaching a group of Chinese students. From Asia I have only taught some Saudis before. Overall, I have to say that teaching the Chinese is an amazing experience. I thought you might be interested in having people from this country on the podcast, actually hearing their accent and relate to the struggle of learning a foreign language so I kindly asked them if they would be up for rec...

Hello everyone, it has been ages since my last episode. In fact, I recorded one on 25 December last year but only managed to get round to the publishing now. I hope you won't be disappointed that this episode is thus slightly out-of -date. In it I am looking at statistics of year 2015, and simply attempting to sum up this year in terms of the podcasting..

This episode is pretty much a coverage of my first attempts of field testing the knowledge I learnt from the books about how to seduce women.. How successful was I with women this week? What did I get from a female hairdresser instead of her phone number? What did I eat that I haven't since the kindergarten? What helps me to bounce back these days? How did I do at a party? What self-help on the to...

In a nutshell, this is a series about my journey of becoming more apt with women upon which I have lately decided to embark. I hope you find it interesting and useful. I'm certain a lot of you may actually relate to this. Let me know what you think.

In this episode I talk about the horrific events of terrorist attacks in Paris which happened on 13 November 2015. I mention some common opinions that people I know have shared on FB. Obviously like always this is bound to polarize European society who is increasingly becoming anti-Islamic. I tried to be as objective as possible, taking into consideration as many aspects as I could. I apologize if...