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Master Phrasal Verbs in 30 days

This November, learn 100+ phrasal verbs through a story and solve the biggest challenge for English learners.

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Latest lessons

We publish regular lessons both in the Coffee Break English podcast feed and on our YouTube channel. Here’s a selection of our most recent lessons.

What is Coffee Break English?

Coffee Break English can help you improve your English with short lessons – the perfect time to enjoy a cup of coffee while learning. The course is presented in slow English which is easy to understand. Don’t worry if you don’t understand every word, it’s more important to get the general meaning.

What level is Coffee Break English?

Season one is at A2 level. This course is for you if you learnt some English at school or if you want to review the basics. Coffee Break English can help you improve your accuracy and understanding of English, to prepare you for many situations like using English at work, visiting an English-speaking country, taking exams, or talking with English-speaking friends.

How does it work?

In each episode of the audio lessons, one of our colleagues from an English-speaking country tells us about an aspect of life or culture in their country. In season one, we hear from our friends in the UK, the USA, Canada, and Australia, helping you understand lots of different accents and varieties of English.

Mark and Josie guide you through the text, explaining the language and helping you understand it better. Each text focuses on a specific language point, including tenses, prepositions, phrasal verbs, and much more.

Listen to the podcast

Access this episode and all future episodes of Coffee Break English automatically by subscribing to the podcast. You can listen from your computer, tablet or phone using the links below.

Join the conversation

Join the Coffee Break English team on social media. We publish language and cultural content regularly on Facebook and Instagram and publish video content on the Coffee Break Languages YouTube channel.

Our latest episodes

We publish regular lessons in the Coffee Break English podcast feed. Here’s a selection of our most recent lessons.

Join the online course

In addition to our free podcasts, we also offer a full online course for Coffee Break English. the course contains lesson notes, which explain the language in the lesson in more detail and provide a transcript of the text; practice exercises; a video version of the lesson; bonus audio episodes; and vocabulary lists in many different languages.

Coffee Break English is presented in English, to give you lots of practice, but we also provide a vocabulary list for each lesson in lots of languages, to give you a little extra help. If you speak Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish, we have a vocabulary list for you.

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The premium version of Coffee Break English provides additional materials which will help you improve your English even more. These are available on the Coffee Break Academy.

Video lessons

Listen to each lesson and see the words and phrases covered in the lesson displayed on the screen of your computer, phone or tablet.

Bonus audio

Use our review lessons to practise the language covered in the main lesson, and to pick up some useful bonus vocabulary.

Lesson notes

Study the language of each lesson in greater detail and access additional information about English in our comprehensive lesson notes.

Available on the Coffee Break Academy

All our online courses are available only on the Coffee Break Academy where with a single login you’ll be able to access the premium elements of the course.

You can access everything online or, if you prefer, you can download the materials to your own device and take your learning with you wherever you go.

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