Tess and Ravi talk about a very famous British family and Adam passes on your kind words to Carolina. Listen here!

Find out all about our new competition with great prizes for the winners, including a trip to the UK.

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? What would you do there?

Two Arsenal fans went on the trip of a lifetime, paid for by Premier League sponsor Barclays Bank.

Read their story on Premier Skills English and complete the language activities.

Check out our learner resources based around the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on our new section English for the Games.

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Can you please explain the section with "for something that happened in the past...
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