English with Kimberley: Recent Episodes
Kimberley, Go Australia Podcast
English with Kimberley takes you on a series of small steps to better understand the English language. Each episode is a snapshot of a single subject brought to you in a unique style of presentation by Kimberley. The podcast is aimed at English learners at the intermediate level.
Welcome to English with Kimberley. As I sit here at Christmas in an Australian summer, with the sun shining and it being too hot to go outside, I start thinking […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want talk to you about a problem I’ve had while buying a home recently. The problem is that there are so […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. As I write the script of this this episode on 11 November a few hours before 11.00 am, I want to tell you about this […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to explore the idea that in English we have a lot of sounds that could be describe as hissing or […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk to you about two containers we use every day for food and drink and how this can be […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk about the idea that at the heart of all English communication we are just trying to say ‘who’ […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk to you about how it’s important to make sure that when you write your business emails or complete […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk to you about the colour pink and its importance culturally in English speaking countries. Pink has an interesting […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk to you about the way different words are used for the same piece of technology, or the way […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to introduce you to slang and especially Australian slang. For example, ‘strewth’. ‘Strewth’ is an Australian way of saying something […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk about how easy it is to work out the difference between a verb that ends in ‘-ing’ and […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk to you about how English has many words that sound very strange or amusing. For example, ‘wishy-washy’, ‘dollop’, […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk about how being a bit informal is much better than being formal if you want to communicate more […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk about the anatomy of sentences. That is, how they are made up just like we are made up […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk to you about two containers we buy food in and drink in, and how this can be confusing […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk to you about how we tell people what something is made with or from while, at the same […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk to you about the colour ‘red’ and how it is used in the English Language. But to start […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk to you about how we become more sophisticated in our English by joining sentences together. – But it’s […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk to you about the word ‘cooee’ which is used in Australian bush to help find your way, or […]
Welcome to English with Kimberley. In this episode, I want to talk to you about how English speakers ask people questions but don’t expect any answers. For example, if I […]