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Hello, hello, hello. Welcome back to the podcast. I hope you're doing well out there in

podcast land. I was thinking the other day, I've been working as an English teacher for nearly 17 years now and I

often ask my students and I've always asked them throughout my career what they do in

English outside class, like for example what they read or watch or

listen to, how they continue to work on their English when I'm not there in front of them and I've always been surprised at how people just don't do enough

listening and I've always thought that if my learners or if learners of English in general listened to more things in English regularly,

often just for enjoyment rather than just as some kind of obligation, if they just

listen to more things in English how this would make a big difference to their skills.

A lot of my students, even the ones at B2 level or above, and I'm talking here about all the students I've met in my career

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