Zdenek’s English Podcast

In this episode I spoke to Jirka, the mountain trekker who has already been on the podcast before. This time we attempted to look at the most common English tenses. I employed the didactic method of personalization. The idea is nothing brand-new, I often do this with students in my classes. In this particular case, however, I sometimes I went over the top with my questions and at times made the in...

Well, it's been long time since I did something crazy on this podcast. :) In this episodes I took on a challenge of doing 100 push-ups live while clarifying 10 random items of vocabulary. Obviously I'm not doing this in one go but rather one step at a time. Anyway, have fun and don't forget to send some feedback, I haven't had much of this lately. :)

Long time since I published RTC last time :) I think Honza is at his best in this episode. And he is trying to reach out to you listeners so don't let him him down. Remember to send feedback in form of a comment on Zdenek's English Podcast Facebook group or on my channel at audioboom.fm

In this episode I am catching up with my friend Aarony, a football journalist from Bangladesh. Aarony has appeared on the podcast before and I am glad she provided another exclusive skype interview for Zdenek’s English Podcast. What has happened since I last spoke to Aarony? Well big things in fact. She has moved to Amsterdam, in Europe to study there. What are Dutch stereotypes? How is Aarony ble...

For this episode I used a programme which created random questions for me to answer. Admittedly, I wasn't at my best regarding my language abilities and when I listened back to it, I personally found the recording boring. The idea was excellent but it didn't work as I planned it. Perhaps I had bad luck with the questions as well. It was hard for me to record something worthwhile partly because I w...

This episode was recorded during my last days of CELTA course. It is a light-hearted interview with my classmate, a trilingual speaker called Eva who has a perfect British English accent. In this rather unprepared episode we talk about the experience of taking CELTA, we slander our other classmates and tutors, teach the pronunciation of "should have" and also give a dodgy geography lesson. Later i...

This is the final part of the mini series about CELTA. In this episode I will reveal the secret of the grade I have received in CELTA. Apart from this you are also in for my responses to comments from the listeners who have taken CELTA themselves, a surge of self-pitying moments and a short recording from Luke as a surprise and icing on the cake at the end.

This is the second part of the miniseries about how I did in the CELTA course. In this episode I am going to tell you about what my challenges as a teacher were based on tutors'. I will explain what kind of influence Luke's English podcast had on my teaching. What were/are my weaknesses as a teacher? How was I evaluated during the course tutorials? Was my humorous teaching approach always well rec...

In this mini-series I am going to be telling you about my experience of taking Cambridge CELTA course. In part one I will first explain the long absence from podcasting. And then I will tell you more details such as where, when, why and under what circumstances I took CELTA.

This episode features a young bilingual man, half English half Czech. Although he was born and has been living in the Czech Republic his entire life, due to the fact that he has an English father you can't tell apart his accent from the one of a native speaker of English. Therefore, obviously this was a glorious opportunity for this podcast to have such person interviewed. In the interview we disc...

I recorded this episode as a response to Luke's English podcast double episode called Bad Haircut Situation. Initially this was not meant to be published as it was just supposed to be an ordinary recorded lesson. However, the outcome turned out to be so funny that I had no option other than to actually publish it. I asked Luke if that would be OK and guess what? He said YES! This episode is puttin...

This is the final part of the series with arguably the most interesting and indubitably the smartest class I have ever taught - futue PHD students - what more can I say? I was really lucky to have taught them. In this episode my students shockingly took me aback by giving me an unexpected gift. This is when the podcast recording turned out to become a rather emotional experience for me.

Here is the long awaited part 2. It feels so nostalgic to listen to this already and it was recorded only 14 days ago. Enjoy!

This episode was recorded due to the success of its predecessor. It is a lose sequel to episode 89 which featured my former upper-intermediate students. This year I have taught a similar group full of charming foreign students who already have degree and intend to study PHD or master's in my country. I managed to convince them that this was a long held tradition and they were willing to help me ou...

This is the second part of the episode recorded in the classroom with the students of mine. In this one I asked them to tell us what it was like for them to move to a foreign country and also to give us some information about their own countries. You are going to hear from Khatia, Alona, Tatevik, Konstantin, Anna and Ryan so the coutries which will be spoken about in this episode are Armenia, Russ...

This is a lesson with my high level students which I decided to convert into a podcast episode.

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In this episode I took my friend Mirek up on the offer to meet up with Graham from Canada to carry out an improvised interview. It took place in Samer's Kebab right before the Linguistic Circle, which is the event I have been organizing for my students. Graham is an educated young businessman from Canada who has already got some vast travelling experience which he is willing to share with us. He w...

In this episode we pick up on the light-hearted chat with Alex from the previous edition of the podcast. In this one in particular I try to throw in selected idioms related to "time" but admittedly it does get out of control on couple of occasions.

This is the first part of an interview with Alex, a Czech girl who has lived in Canada for a short time and whose brother was on the team of people responsible for the film Hobbit.

This is my first attempt to record an episode of a podcast in my native tongue. The way I speak speak there is really weird but I hope learners of Czech as a second Language find this interesting and motivating. Kuba is an example of a guy who learnt Czech to a high level in a record time so if you wonder how he managed that, and more, listen to this.

This Episode is the long awaited unveiling of the rap song I have written in order to teach you conditional clauses and wait for it...I HAVE ALSO RAPPED IT! First of all I explain what got me to do this and what kind of challenges I had to face. Then you will have an exclusive chance to listen to the full song (about 7 minutes) and finally I will give you a vocabulary analyses of chosen expression...

I was interviewed by Mirek who is going to write his thesis on Podcasts in English Language Teaching. I speak about Luke's English Podcast, my podcasting journey and I make an unsuccessful attempt to do a Cockney accent.

And here comes the winner of the competition :) Congratulations!

This is just a short message for you to fill the time before I release the interview with the winner of ZEP competition :)