Introduction

The British English Podcast Academy is a world of learning resources to help people level up their English and feel confident speaking with local British English speakers. One of the students inside the academy has been focusing all her energy on over the last year, so I'm going to play her response and react to it along the way. The first of many phrases Julia uses in this testimonial that we cover in the academy are 'to knock somebody for six' It's an idiom that actually comes from cricket, meaning that you were really surprised by it or taken by surprise and often in a good way,. Anyway, let's carry on.