Best Anglopod Podcasts (2025)

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English idioms with GOLDEN & SILVER 4:33

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In this English lesson, we're going to learn some very common idioms and expressions using the colours GOLDEN and SILVER, such as "a golden opportunity", "golden handcuffs", "the silver screen" and "silver surfers". Do you want to improve your English today? Then visit: https://www.anglopod.com/ to learn English ON DEMAND. 0:20 a golden opportunity…

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English idioms with GREEN 4:03

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In this English lesson, we're going to learn some very common idioms and expressions using the colour GREEN, such as "be green with envy", "have green fingers" and "give the green light". Do you want to improve your English today? Then visit: https://www.anglopod.com/ to learn English ON DEMAND. 0:05 be green 0:27 be green with envy 0:54 the green-…

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English idioms with BLACK 3:50

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In this English lesson, we're going to learn some very common idioms and expressions using the colour BLUE, such as "blacken someone's name", "the black sheep of the family" and "be in the black". Do you want to improve your English today? Then visit: https://www.anglopod.com/ to learn English ON DEMAND. 0:11 blacken someone's name 0:25 be on a bla…

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English idioms with BLUE 2:47

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In this English lesson, we're going to learn some very common idioms and expressions using the colour BLUE, such as "feeling blue", "once in a blue moon" and "appear out of the blue". Do you want to improve your English today? Then visit: https://www.anglopod.com/ to learn English ON DEMAND. 0:07 looking / feeling blue 0:40 the winter blues 1:01 on…

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English idioms with WHITE 3:43

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In this English lesson, we're going to learn some very common idioms and expressions using the colour WHITE, such as "whiter than white", "tell a white lie" and "wave the white flag". Do you want to improve your English today? Then visit: https://www.anglopod.com/ to learn English ON DEMAND. 0:05 whiter than white 0:40 tell a white lie 1:41 look as…

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English idioms with RED 3:38

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In this English lesson, we're going to learn some very common idioms and expressions using the colour RED, such as "catch someone red-handed", "paint the town red" and "like a red rag to a bull". Do you want to improve your English today? Then visit: https://www.anglopod.com/ to learn English ON DEMAND. 0:09 catch someone red-handed 0:40 red-bloode…

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English idioms with COLOUR 5:40

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In this English lesson, we're going to learn some very popular idioms using the word COLOUR or expressions about colour, such as "see someone's true colours", "pass with flying colours" and "nail your colours to the mast". Do you want to improve your English today? Then visit: https://www.anglopod.com/ to learn English ON DEMAND. 0:11 see someone's…

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Future perfect simple and continuous 3:24

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about the future perfect tense, both simple and continuous. This might seem difficult, but really it’s quite easy. Let’s find out more… So far, we have learnt about the present perfect and the past perfect. Now we need to talk about the future perfect. J…

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WILL, GOING TO and present continuous 4:21

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at how we talk about the future in English. In fact, that last sentence includes one of our examples, GOING TO. So how do we really talk about the future in English? The first thing to note is that English does not really have a future tense. We have a pr…

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Past perfect simple and continuous 3:05

3y ago3:05

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the past perfect simple and continuous. We looked at the past perfect simple in the previous lesson compared with the past simple. But we can also use the past perfect in the continuous form as well. We saw that the past perfect is used to show that an…

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Past perfect and past simple 3:26

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between the past perfect and past simple tenses in English. Why do we need these two tenses? How do we use them? Let’s find out more… We saw in an earlier lesson that we use the past simple to talk about something that is finished in the…

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ALREADY, STILL and YET 2:33

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between ALREADY, STILL and YET in English. These three words certainly cause lots of problems for most people learning English, but together we will understand it much better! Here’s an example with STILL. You could say: “I am STILL doin…

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SINCE and FOR 2:58

3y ago2:58

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between SINCE and FOR in English. These two words are often confusing, but we’ll look at some examples to make it clear. Basically, we use SINCE and FOR with perfect tenses to show how long something has lasted from when it began to the …

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Present perfect simple and continuous 3:26

3y ago3:26

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about the present perfect simple and continuous. We’ll look at some examples to help us understand when to use them. In the last lesson, we looked at the difference between the present perfect and the past simple. We saw that the past simple is used to t…

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Present perfect and past simple 3:55

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between the present perfect tense and the past simple tense in English. When and how do we use them? Let’s look at some examples… Consider this example. I’m hungry. Why? Here are two reasons. “I DIDN’T EAT breakfast this morning”. This i…

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Past in negatives and questions 3:07

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to continue looking at English tenses. In particular, we’re going to learn how to use the past simple tense in questions and negative statements. Here’s an example. “I SPEAK English now, but I DIDN’T SPEAK English last year”. The first half of the sentence is pre…

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Present with adverbs of frequency 3:54

3y ago3:54

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at how we use the present tense, both simple and continuous, with adverbs of frequency in English. This will help us understand English tenses better. Let’s start with an example to see what we mean. “I ALWAYS DO my homework”. The adverb of frequency here…

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Verbs that are never continuous 3:28

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to continue to learn about English tenses by taking a look at verbs in English that are never, or hardly ever, used in the continuous form. In the previous lesson, we learnt about the difference between the present simple and continuous tense and how the meaning …

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Present simple and continuous 3:33

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about English tenses and in particular the difference between the simple and continuous form of the present tense. When do we use present simple and when do we use present continuous? Let’s find out more… We normally use the present simple in English to …

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USED TO and WOULD 3:18

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between USED TO and WOULD in English. You might think these two words are very different but actually we use them both to talk about past habits. Let’s learn more… So, in the last lesson, we learnt that we use USED TO to talk about past …

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USED TO DO and USED TO DOING 2:53

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn the difference between USED TO DO and USED TO DOING in English. The first one is used for talking about past habits but the second one is quite different. We use it to talk about things we are accustomed to. Let’s learn more… Firstly, we use USED TO to t…

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WOULD YOU LIKE and DO YOU LIKE 3:05

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about the difference between using WOULD YOU LIKE and DO YOU LIKE. We use WOULD YOU LIKE to make offers or suggestions, but we use DO YOU LIKE to ask someone their opinion about something. Let’s find out more… Firstly, you could use WOULD YOU LIKE with a…

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MUST BE and CAN'T BE 2:50

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about the modal verb expressions MUST BE and CAN’T BE in English. We use them to discuss probability, how sure we feel about something. Let’s find out more… Imagine you are trying to solve a crime, like a detective. Think of Sherlock Holmes or even Batma…

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HAVE TO and DON'T HAVE TO 2:25

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between the modal verbs HAVE TO and DON’T HAVE TO. We use them to say if something is important or not. Let’s find out more… Here’s an example. If you arrange a party and it’s very important that people come to the party on time, you can…

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HAVE TO and MUST 3:24

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between HAVE TO and MUST in English. They are both very common modal verbs that we use to express obligation. But is there a difference? And what is the difference? Let’s find out… Let’s start with a simple example. You can say “I HAVE T…

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MUST HAVE BEEN and SHOULD HAVE BEEN 2:54

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to focus on using the modal verbs MUST, SHOULD and OUGHT TO with the present perfect. We use them together to talk about something we thought would happen but didn’t. This will be easier to understand if we look at an example together. If you’re waiting for someo…

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Modal verbs 3:15

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn how to use modal verbs with the bare infinitive in English. This means we’re going to focus on how we use modal verbs followed by another verb in a sentence. Firstly, what is a modal verb? Well, it is a type of auxiliary verb, a helping verb, which expre…

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HAVE something DONE 3:21

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to focus on the expression HAVE something DONE in English. This is a very common expression but it is often confusing for English students. It has a passive meaning and it means that someone does something for us, either because we can’t do it or we don’t know ho…

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Active and passive 3:53

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at active and passive voice in English. This is a very important grammatical structure in English. We use it for different reasons, such as changing the focus of the sentence. Let’s look at some examples… Here’s a simple example: “The cat ATE the mouse”, …

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Linking verbs 3:13

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to learn about linking verbs and how we use them in a sentence. These verbs do not describe an action. They are used to describe a state, a feeling or a result. Let’s look at some examples… The most common example of a linking verb is BE. For example, I AM a teac…

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Reflexive verbs 2:56

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at reflexive verbs in English. What is a reflexive verb? This is a verb where the action has an effect on the person doing it. Let’s see some examples together… One of the most common reflexive verbs is ENJOY. You can ENJOY SOMETHING, for example, you can…

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I CAN'T AFFORD it 3:07

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to talk about the verb AFFORD and how we should use it. We normally use this verb to talk about money and how much money we have, although it can be used to refer to other things as well, such as time. The reason we’re going to focus on AFFORD is because it has a…

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I WISH I KNEW and I WISH I HAD KNOWN 4:51

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and in the last lesson we talked about using the verb WISH to talk about unreal situations in the present. Things that we would like to change now, but we can’t. In this lesson, we’re going to look at the difference between a wish in the present and a wish in the past. What’s the diff…

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I WISH I WAS or I WISH I WERE? 5:51

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to focus on the verb WISH to talk about things we would like to be different but we cannot change. Why can we not change them? Well, either we don’t have the power to change them or they happened in the past, so it’s too late to change them! Let’s start with a si…

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I’m THINKING OF doING it 3:04

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to talk about your plans using the verb THINK. How do you describe the things you might do in the future? Well, a very simple way to talk about your future is to say: I’M THINKING OF, I’M THINKING OF. So, use the verb THINK in the continuous form, which is BE plu…

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LIKE DOING or LIKE TO DO? 4:31

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at the difference between LIKE DOING and LIKE TO DO. This often causes students lots of problems because the meaning changes between the two, but it’s not always obvious what the difference is. Don’t worry, in this lesson I’ll make it very clear for you. …

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I SUGGEST THAT you… 3:58

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Improve your English today at ANGLOPOD.COM. Hi everyone, I’m Dan and today we’re going to look at a very common verb that is often confusing for students to use in a sentence. We’ll look at some examples to learn how to use it and we’ll also see how not to use it. The verb in today’s lesson is SUGGEST and how we use it when we want to SUGGEST an ac…

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I FIND IT easy... 3:41

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Hi everyone, I’m Dan, and this is ANGLOPOD, a podcast and website to help you improve your English: https://www.anglopod.com Today we’re going to talk about our experiences using the verb ‘FIND’. You probably know how to use the verb FIND when you’re looking for something lost, but this is a different way of using this verb. This is a very common a…

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I like IT WHEN... 3:17

3+ y ago3:17

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Hi everyone, I’m Dan, and this is ANGLOPOD, a podcast and website to help you improve your English: https://www.anglopod.com Today we’re going to learn how to use the verbs that talk about likes and dislikes followed by ‘when’ to describe how we feel about a certain time or situation. This is a simple sentence to use but a very common error. Let’s …

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TRY TO DO or TRY DOING? 3:39

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Hi everyone, I’m Dan, and this is ANGLOPOD, a podcast and website to help you improve your English: https://www.anglopod.com Today we’re going to learn how to use the verb TRY and how the meaning changes depending on the form of the next verb we use after it. So what’s the difference between TRY TO DO and TRY DOING? Let’s look at an example sentenc…

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REMEMBER TO DO or REMEMBER DOING? 3:52

3+ y ago3:52

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Hi everyone, I’m Dan and this is ANGLOPOD, a podcast and website to help you improve your English: https://www.anglopod.com/ Today we’re going to learn how to use the verb REMEMBER and how the meaning can change depending on the form of the next verb we use after it. So what’s the difference between REMEMBER TO DO and REMEMBER DOING? Let’s try an e…