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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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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.

    What makes a great library?

    What makes a great library?

    What makes a library a library? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.
    TRANSCRIPT
    Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2024/ep-240314
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    Sewing to fight period poverty

    Sewing to fight period poverty

    TRANSCRIPT
    Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2024/ep-240307
    FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
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    Plastic waste eaten by enzymes

    Plastic waste eaten by enzymes

    Plastics can be difficult to recycle, could a recently discovered enzyme help? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.
    TRANSCRIPT
    Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2024/ep-240229
    FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:
    Visit our website
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    Follow us
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    • 6 min
    Feed your brain

    Feed your brain

    Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you learn English at bbclearningenglish.com

    • 6 min
    Food for new mums

    Food for new mums

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

    • 6 min
    Fighting loneliness with soup

    Fighting loneliness with soup

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

    • 6 min

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