6 Minute English - Movie science

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 Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

This week:

Movie science - Callum and William discuss the topic of science in films. Should a good film have good science? They hear from scientist and writer Professor Sidney Perkowitz who outlines his views.

6 Minute English - Learning to drive

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 Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

This week:

Learning to drive - Callum and Kate discuss learning to drive and hear a report from Japan about how driving schools are having to change to survive in a climate of decreasing birth rates.

6 Minute English - Journey to Mars

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 Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

This week:

Journey to Mars - Callum and Kate learn about an experiment taking place in Moscow in which six men will spend 500 days together in an imitation spaceship. The experiment aims to simulate the routine for a group of astronauts on a journey to the planet Mars.

6 Minute English - Science seals

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 Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

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Callum and Kate discuss a project taking place in Antarctica in which elephant seals are helping scientists to predict what might be going to happen to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

6 Minute English - Tiny monsters of the Highlands

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 Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

This week:

Tiny monsters of the Highlands - Callum and Finn discuss the Scottish Highlands and the 'tiny monsters' that live in the area and like to dine on tourists.

6 Minute English - Quarter-life crisis

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 Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

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Quarter-life crisis - Callum and Kate learn about the expression "quarter-life crisis" and how it compares to the more well-known "mid-life crisis".

Are they the same thing or do the young have different crises to the middle-aged?

6 Minute English - Collecting football stickers

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 Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

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Collecting football stickers Kate and Rosie discuss collecting things and in particular the current craze for collecting World Cup football stickers. Is this strictly a pastime for young children or is it suitable for adults too?

6 Minute English - Elizabethan banquet

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 Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

This week:

Elizabethan banquet In 1575, the love of Queen Elizabeth I's life put on a banquet of 300 desserts at his home in her honour. Recently, that banquet was recreated - but would all the desserts be suitable for modern tastes? Join Yvonne and Kate as they discuss some of the dishes on offer.

6 Minute English - Hen and stag parties

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 Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

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Hen and stag parties As the wedding season comes to an end in the UK, many newly weds will be thinking about the money they got and the money they have to pay back. But weddings can be expensive for guests too, for example, for the hen party or the stag party. Yvonne and Kate discuss what they are!

6 Minute English - Is there a good and a bad smile?

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 Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.

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Is there a good and a bad smile? According to recent research, simply having a pretty or a great smile isn't enough; it's important to have the right type of smile. Yvonne and Kate discuss their own smiles and talk about what makes a good smile and and a bad smile.

6 Minute English - Stand up straight!

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 Wednesday. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.
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Stand up straight! Many of us do not stand, sit or walk correctly and according to research, people in the UK have the worst posture in Europe. Join Rosie and Kate as they discuss the problems a bad posture can cause and hear from an expert about how we should be walking.

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