Lennet English Language Services: Recent Episodes

Steve Castle

Reflections on teaching English, managing an EFL school and learning a language.

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Steve talks briefly about the etymology of the days and months in English.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve discusses a leap year tradition and a rhyme for the first of the month.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about dark mornings and new year resolutions.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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In the last episode of the year, Steve discusses how events that are supposed to be enjoyable can also be stressful 🎅--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Notification regarding Season 12, episodes 2 and 4.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about making the breakfast food ‘bubble and squeak’.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve describes Bonfire Night celebrations from his younger days.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve discusses his first permanent job and there’s also a listening comprehension quiz.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve continues his story of his train journey through Denmark.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve continues the tale of his travels through Denmark.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about superstitions.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about the first part of a train journey he took through Denmark.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about the St Jude’s storm of 2013 and why he gets irritated when people are ungrateful.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about an incident from his school days (a long time ago 😂)--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about looking for autumn leaves and the traditional game of conkers.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve discusses bureaucratic processes he finds ridiculous. Recorded in his back garden, with interruptions from one of his cats.


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Steve discusses returns to school in the autumn and shouty teachers.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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In the 80th podcast, Steve discusses his experiences of machines and human interaction.


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Steve discusses two courses he taught during the summer.


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Steve discusses how he first started podcasting.


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Steve discusses bureaucracy, unhelpful companies and identity theft.


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Steve discusses first days at school.


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Steve talks about a really hot summer from the past.


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Steve discusses a recent walk and if you’d like to test your listening comprehension skills, there’s a quiz.


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Steve talks about his 22 year EFL career. This episode covers the period 2014-2023.


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Steve continues with his recollections from 22 years of teaching English.


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Steve talks about his 22 years in English language teaching.


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In his 70th podcast Steve talks about expressions using the words ‘leg’ or ‘legs’.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve does an outside broadcast from the woods and parks he has visited this week. He also might have had some breakfast or cake.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about May Day.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about some of his walks along the Thames Path.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about events on 23rd April in this mini-podcast.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve describes an incident that occurred and there is also a listening comprehension quiz.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve describes a morning in the garden.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about Easter and hot cross buns.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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Steve discusses an easy recipe for baked eggs and gives a quiz on the subject.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-castle5/message

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A short live mini-podcast with Steve describing a walk through the park.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steve-castle5/message

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In his sixtieth podcast, Steve talks about number idioms and salsa dancing.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about time, time phrases and punctuality.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about the local ponds and wildlife in his area.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steve-castle5/message

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Steve discusses an office job in his time before teaching.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about his week. There’s also a small quiz.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about a place he likes to visit and relax. There’s also a comprehension quiz.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steve-castle5/message

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Steve talks about the weather and cats.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steve-castle5/message

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A short message thanking you for helping me reach 500 listens to my podcast.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steve-castle5/message

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Steve discusses Christmas dinner and the KFC tradition in Japan in his last podcast of the year.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steve-castle5/message

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Steve discusses some Christmas traditions.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steve-castle5/message

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Steve gives a brief description of rhyming slang with some examples.


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Steve looks back on his first 50 podcasts.


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Steve talks about one of his favourite snacks and desserts.


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Steve discusses wildlife in the nearby park.


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Steve talks about seaside visits and fish and chips.


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Steve discusses why he’s stopped using an app for Japanese language learning (but is still learning Japanese).


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Steve has published a short podcast with a quiz for International Podcast Day.


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Steve discusses the crows in the park and sets a listening quiz.


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Steve talks about the café (The Old Coffee Shop) in the park near to where he worked with Japanese students. There’s also a quiz (listening comprehension).


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Steve recounts his experience of spending 365 consecutive days using a language app to learn Japanese.


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Steve discusses his twenty-one years in EFL, talks about his newsletter and tells a tale from his EFL past.


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Steve reflects on podcasting, learning Japanese through an app and sets a puzzle for learners of English.


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Steve discusses one of his favourite potato dishes. It’s also a listening activity with ten questions.


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Steve asks 10 (easy?) questions on the English language. Could you score 100%?


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Steve talks about his experience of learning Japanese through an app for 200 days.


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Steve talks about the new year in EFL and his introduction to kakizome.


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Steve talks about Christmas past in his EFL career.


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Steve talks about celebrating the festive season in an EFL environment.


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Steve talks about his recollections of using music and songs in English lessons.


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Steve discusses his progress in learning Japanese through a language app.


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Steve reflects on stories of giving and receiving teacher development.


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Steve concludes his recollections of working in a Japanese cultural environment.


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Steve continues his recollections about working in an unusual environment a few minutes walk from his home.


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Steve discusses working in a Japanese environment in London.


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Steve discusses EFL students’ trips to restaurants, badly behaved adult students and updates us on his progress learning Japanese through an app.


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Steve reminisces about taking EFL students on school trips and visits to the pub.


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Steve discusses his experiences of taking young learners on school trips and updates us on his progress learning Japanese using an app.


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Steve talks about his attempts to learn Japanese through an app


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In the final episode of the season Steve reflects on a cultural talk that involved opera, sea-shanties and pirate hats.


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Steve reflects on his Japanese trainees giving culture talks to children in an English primary school.


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Steve discusses his recollections of his teacher trainees giving talks on Japanese culture to English primary school students.


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Steve discusses training Japanese students in TEYL and teaching them some phrases using the Danish language.


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Steve discusses his experiences of helping students with speaking exams and the dangers of having non-experienced or non-qualified staff in charge of academic matters.


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Steve discusses the twentieth anniversary of teaching English to his first group of students and the people who helped him (and some that didn’t).


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Steve discusses his experiences of 1-1 EFL teaching over the years with points about the personalisation of lessons and follow-up questions.


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Steve talks about the history of his local area, alliteration, poetry and an assassinated politician.


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Steve speaks about his recollections of being observed and observing lessons.


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Steve talks about school inspections through his twenty year EFL career.


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Steve talks about fish and chips and binomial phrases.


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Steve talks about afternoon tea and juncture in connected speech.


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Steve talks about food in the full English breakfast and discusses elision in connected speech.


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Steve talks about drinking tea and some of the phrases and pronunciation associated with ‘a cup of tea’.


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Steve talks about ways of recording vocabulary when learning a different language.


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Steve talks about learning and teaching languages.


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Steve talks about learning other languages.


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Steve concludes his reminiscing and looks to the future.


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Steve talks about working locally as an EFL Director of Studies and a teacher trainer to Japanese students.


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Steve continues his reminiscences of working in EFL for twenty years.


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Steve continues reminiscing about his twenty years in EFL.


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Steve Castle continues to reminisce about his twenty years working as a teacher/tutor and Director of Studies in EFL.


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Steve Castle talks about his memory of twenty years in EFL (English as a Foreign Language)


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