To qualify for British citizenship, one of the requirements is to pass the "Life in the UK" test. Questions cover things like British history, British life & culture, British politics, British geography and principles of modern British life. What do you think? Can you pass the test? Join me as I test online English teacher Cara Leopold. How much does she know about her own country of origin? What can you learn about Britain? What IS Britain anyway? Find out in this episode! 👉 Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sLh👉 Cara's website www.leo-listening.com Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ and add the premium episodes to a podcast app on your phone. https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cara Leopold, creator of Leo Listening Movie Club, helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together to master conversational English. They discuss the importance of unscripted dialogue, limitations of scripted speeches, advancements in podcast transcription, reasons to learn English through movies, challenges and successes of actors speaking with accents, and upcoming movie club challenge.

On this week's episode of the English with Kirsty podcast, I have another interview for you with Cara from Leo Listening.In the interview we talk about * >Bridging the gap between what you want to listen to, and actually enjoying listening to things, such as your favourite movies or TV series in English* >Differences between the types of listening materials that are available to language learners;* Why it's sometimes hard for learners to find good listening resources, and what they can do to fix the problem;* Practical listening techniques that you probably didn't learn at school;* How practising your listening skills can also help you to become a better speaker of another language, particularly if you're listening to conversations;* Listening resources for personal development;* Questions to ask yourself so that you can find the best listening resources for you.Here's the show notes page:https://englishwithkirsty.com/podcast/episode178

Cara Leopold, creator of the Leo Listening Movie Club, discusses the movie Groundhog Day. They talk about hilarious moments, character development, and the cultural context of expressions. The podcast also mentions the Back-to-School Movie Challenge, where English learners can practice their skills by watching and discussing school-themed movies.

Cara Leopold (Leo Listening) joins me once again on the podcast to discuss the benefits of learning English in groups with her experience teaching group classes based around movies, as well as some good movies and TV series she likes to use to practice and teach English. If you've caught this episode in 2023, Cara is relaunching her Movie Club course. You can try it out for one week in September to see if you like it. We talk more about this in the episode tooShow notes page - https://levelupenglish.school/podcast237------------------------------Cara Leopold is the creator of the Leo Listening Movie Club where she helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together so they can master conversational English. From September 13th-20th Cara is organising the Back-to-School Movie Challenge, a 1-week taste of what it's like to be in a movie club. By watching and discussing clips from high school movies together, you’ll learn new vocabulary, catch fast-spoken English and practice your speaking and writing skills with other movie-loving English learners. The challenge includes access to a discussion forum as well as a live Zoom session on September 20th to chat with me and other film lovers about the movie clips.  Join the challenge: https://leolistening.podia.com/back-to-school-movie-challengeCara’s website: https://leo-listening.com/Cara’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LeoListening/Cara’s Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caraleopold/Cara’s Pinterest profile: https://www.pinterest.fr/leolistening/ --------------------Sign Up for Free Lessons - https://www.levelupenglish.school/#freelessonsJoin Level Up English - https://courses.levelupenglish.schoolBy becoming a member, you can access all podcast transcripts, listen to the private podcast and join live lessons and courses on the website.Sign Up for Free Lessons - https://www.levelupenglish.school/#freelessonsJoin Level Up English - https://courses.levelupenglish.schoolBy becoming a member, you can access all podcast transcripts, listen to the private podcast and join live lessons and courses on the website.