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Proper English
by Proper EnglishIf you're learning English and you want to know the correct word to use in a particular situation, if you get stuck thinking of the right preposition, if you are puzzled by definite and indefinite articles, then Proper English is the podcast for you!
Copyright: All rights reserved - Music from https://filmmusic.io: "Bright Wish" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Episodes
Proper English S2 E48: Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?
11m · PublishedThis week we're having an unscripted chat about what we would do if we won the lottery! This week's idiom is 'Crawling out of the woodwork.'
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You can find us on italki at
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Proper English S2 E47: More Pesky Prepositions
10m · PublishedThis week, we're tackling the thorny issue of prepositions associated with location - and the Idiom of the Week is 'At the drop of a hat.'
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You can find us on italki at
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
We also used the following sounds from Freesound:
microwave ding.WAV by samplecat
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
FX swanee whistle up.wav by v0idation
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
greenfinch f.wav by ERH
This work is licensed under the Attribution License.
Proper English S2 E46: A Few More Bits and Bobs and Odds and Ends
11m · PublishedIn this episode we're considering some more of those little confusions of pronunciation and grammar that come up every now and then. Sylvia is giving her friend Mabel some much-needed encouragement in this week's Idiom of the Week, which is 'Butterflies in the stomach.'
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You can find us on italki at
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
We also used the following sounds from Freesound:
audience.wav by pyoorgoodshed
This work is licensed under the Attribution License.
knocks on interior wood bathroom door quick desperate.wav by kyles
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
Opening Closing bathroom door.wav by Omar Alvarado
This work is licensed under the Attribution License.
Proper English S2 E45 - The Art of Apologising
11m · PublishedThis week, we're examining the very British habit of apologising - and the little old ladies find themselves in 'a sorry state of affairs', this week's idiom…
Like us on Facebook (properenglish2019), and follow us on Twitter (@properenglish4) or YouTube . Oh, and if you have a burning English grammar-related question, why not ask us on Instagram (properenglish2019), and we'll do our best to answer - or, if you're an email kind of person, and you have any feedback or suggestions for future podcasts, you can always contact us at [email protected].
You can find us on italki at
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
We also used the following sounds from Freesound:
cafe - takk, northern quarter, manchester by AntonyBK
and
Thunder Clap OWB KY 441x16.wav by Dave Welsh
These works are licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
Proper English S2 E44 - TIAs and Other Abbreviations
13m · PublishedThis week, we're all about abbreviations - and our intrepid detectives, Davidson and Roberts are illustrating the idiom 'On the QT' while on a stakeout.
Like us on Facebook (properenglish2019), and follow us on Twitter (@properenglish4) or YouTube . Oh, and if you have a burning English grammar-related question, why not ask us on Instagram (properenglish2019), and we'll do our best to answer - or, if you're an email kind of person, and you have any feedback or suggestions for future podcasts, you can always contact us at [email protected].
You can find us on italki at
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
...and this is the Davidson and Roberts theme:
Hidden Agenda by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3872-hidden-agenda
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We also used the following sound from Freesound:
cafe - takk, northern quarter, manchester by AntonyBK
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
Proper English S2E43: More Phrasal Verbs About Health
9m · PublishedThis week, Mabel and Sylvia are helping us come up with some more phrasal verbs to do with health matters. The Idiom of the Week 'A Bitter Pill to Swallow.'
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You can find us on italki at
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
We also used the following sound from Freesound:
cafe - takk, northern quarter, manchester by AntonyBK
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
Proper English S2 E42: Room 101
14m · PublishedThis week, we're having an unscripted chat about pet hates - things you really don't like - and Sylvia and Mabel, the two little old ladies, are illustrating the idiom 'To blow the whistle on someone.'
Like us on Facebook (properenglish2019), and follow us on Twitter (@properenglish4) or YouTube . Oh, and if you have a burning English grammar-related question, why not ask us on Instagram (properenglish2019), and we'll do our best to answer - or, if you're an email kind of person, and you have any feedback or suggestions for future podcasts, you can always contact us at [email protected].
You can find us on italki at
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
The following music is also used:
Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5048-stay-the-course
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
And these sound effects from Freesound are used, too:
Lose_Funny_Retro_Video Game by cabled_mess
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
JailDoorClose.wav by TurtleLG
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
Proper English S2 E41: One Hundred!
11m · PublishedWe did it! We got to episode 100! So in this week's episode, we're looking back on the last two years of Proper English, talking about the use of the word 'hundred' - and in this week's Idiom of the Week, one of our intrepid detectives appears to be unaware of a Red Letter Day.
Like us on Facebook (properenglish2019), and follow us on Twitter (@properenglish4) or YouTube . Oh, and if you have a burning English grammar-related question, why not ask us on Instagram (properenglish2019), and we'll do our best to answer - or, if you're an email kind of person, and you have any feedback or suggestions for future podcasts, you can always contact us at [email protected].
You can find us on italki at
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
...and this is the Davidson and Roberts theme:
Hidden Agenda by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3872-hidden-agenda
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We've also used the following sounds from Freesound:
Motorcycle start by roman_cgr
and
TaDa!.wav by jimhancock
Both these sounds are licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
Here's to the next 100!
Proper English S2 E40: Save The Elephant!
9m · PublishedThis week, we're talking about Ali's favourite animals - elephants (I bet you thought I was going to say cats)! The Idiom of the Week is 'A White Elephant.'
Like us on Facebook (properenglish2019), and follow us on Twitter (@properenglish4) or YouTube . Oh, and if you have a burning English grammar-related question, why not ask us on Instagram (properenglish2019), and we'll do our best to answer - or, if you're an email kind of person, and you have any feedback or suggestions for future podcasts, you can always contact us at [email protected].
You can find us on italki at
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
Various elephant sounds are courtesy of Zapsplat.com
And these elephant sounds are from https://freesound.org
Voice elephant.mp3 by vataaa
and
Elephant Trumpets Growls.flac by D.jones
These Freesounds are licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
Proper English S2 E39: Annoying, Irritating and Irksome
11m · PublishedThis week we're talking about all the different words, phrases and idioms we have in English describe things or people that we find annoying. We use quite a few in this episode! And those two little old ladies, Mabel and Sylvia are back illustrating the Idiom of the Week - in the aftermath of the Parish Council elections, which one of them was 'beside themselves with rage', do you think?
Like us on Facebook (properenglish2019), and follow us on Twitter (@properenglish4) or YouTube . Oh, and if you have a burning English grammar-related question, why not ask us on Instagram (properenglish2019), and we'll do our best to answer - or, if you're an email kind of person, and you have any feedback or suggestions for future podcasts, you can always contact us at [email protected].
You can find us on italki at
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We also used the following sound from Freesound:
cafe - takk, northern quarter, manchester by AntonyBK
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
Proper English has 100 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 18:27:58. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 27th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on January 5th, 2024 02:43.