English
Consecutive
Global Trade
Domaine: Global Trade
Speech Title: Trade Wars
Speaker: Cyril Joyce
Speech Level: Advanced
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: British – Southern English
Useful information/terms: GATT, WTO, Protectionism, Liberalisation, Tudor Monarchs, First Anglo-Dutch war
Culture/Sport
Domaine: Culture/sport
Speech Title: Bone-conducting headphones
Speaker: Haydn Kay
Speech Level: Advanced
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Yorkshire
Useful information/terms: Cochlea. Beethoven. Bone-conducting. Shokz. Treble.
Domaine: Marathon Running
Speech Title: Marathons: the new quarter-life crisis?
Speaker: Elsie Berry
Speech Level: Intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: British, Southern (Bath)
Useful information/terms: Strava, quarter life crisis, London Marathon, ballot, Guinness World Record, Sebastian Sawe, feat, underfuel, kudos, Parkrun, camaraderie, brunch, World Major, PB (personal best), gel, fad, pain cave, runner’s high.
Social Media
Domaine: Social Media
Speech Title: Early adoption of social media in Brazil
Speaker: Matt O’Connor
Speech Level: intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Northern England
Useful information/terms: Orkut, “Orkutisation”, Orkut Buyukkokten, Push and pull factors, beta version.
Domaine: Social Media
Speech Title: Positives and Negatives of Social Media
Speaker: Zofia Lamburn
Speech Level: Intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Neutral
Useful information/terms: No specific terminology needed.
Transport and travel
Domaine: Transport and travel
Speech Title: The advantages of commuting by train
Speaker: Cyril Joyce
Speech Level: Beginner
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: British – Southern English
Useful information/terms: Commuting, trains
Environment
Domaine: Environment
Speech Title: Houseplants and Sustainability
Speaker: Amber Swann
Speech Level: Advanced
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Midlands
Useful information/terms: Parsley, basil, monstera, pothos, Journal of Physiological Anthropology, physiological and psychological stress, greenwashing, succulent, plant miles, orchid, nursery pot, peat, peat bog, carbon sink, poinsettia, snake plant, propagate, plant cuttings, peat-free soil mix
Domaine: Environment
Speech Title: Kisiki Hai and Reforestation in Tanzania
Speaker: Sophie O'Dell
Speech Level: Advanced
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Plain English accent
Useful information/terms: Reforestation, The Dodoma Region, Tony Ronaudo, Agronomist, Seedlings, Shrub, Camel's Foot Tree, Mono-culture agriculture, To lie dormant, Kisiki Hai
Domaine: Environment
Speech Title: Can Mongolia balance economic growth and environmental sustainability?
Speaker: Matylda Czajka
Speech Level: Intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Scottish (West Lothian)
Useful information/terms: nomadic herding communities (not central to the speech), copper, gold, coal, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Fiscal revenue, environmental degradation, extractive industries
Domaine: Environment
Speech Title: Falling river levels in Europe
Speaker: Cyril Joyce
Speech Level: Beginner
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Neutral/Southern
Useful information/terms: The Danube, the Rhine, Budapest
Other
Speech Title: Sinkholes
Domaine: Other
Speaker: Alice Ferrarese
Speech Level: Beginner (consecutive without notes)
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: International
Simultaneous
Business, Consumer affairs
Domaine: Business, Consumer affairs
Speech Title: The bottled water industry
Speaker: Cyril Joyce
Speech Level: advanced
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: British – Southern English
Useful information/terms: Antimony (a semi-metal used in plastics)
Education
Domaine: Education
Speech Title: UK SEND crisis
Speaker: Noor Ibrahim
Speech Level: Advanced
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Received Pronounciation with a northern twang
Useful information/terms: (looking up acronyms in full is advisable) * SEND * EHCPs * ADHD * Autism * Dyslexia * Dyspraxia *Fine motor skills *all in one baskets *under one umbrella * Language processing * Teaching assistants * Specialist schools * Supplementary schools *To run a deficit *to foot a bill *to be bailed out * to be on a spectrum * White paper (“Every child achieving and thriving”) *the proof is in the pudding
Health and medicine
Domaine: Health and medicine
Speech Title: Energy Drinks
Speaker: Cyril Joyce
Speech Level: Advanced
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: British – Southern English
Useful information/terms: Brands: Monster, Redbull, Rockstar, Dr. Enuf, Tenzing, Cliff diving, Taurine, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, Goodie bag, Elixir, Salarymen, Ox bile
Domaine: Health and medicine
Speech Title: Assisted Dying in the UK
Speaker: Olivia Carruthers-Jones
Speech Level: intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Standard English/London
Useful information/terms: Assisted dying, House of Commons, House of Lords, euthanasia, Dignitas, “slippery slope”
Domaine: Health and medicine
Speech Title: The future of eyewear
Speaker: Marita Thomsen
Speech Level: Intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: International
Useful information/terms: Cataracts, Short-sightedness, Far-sightedness, Near-sighted, Long-sighted, Bifocal lenses, Progressive lenses, Transition lenses, 20-20 vision
Domaine: Health and medicine
Speech Title: World Health Day speech - UN
Speaker: Robert Russell
Speech Level: Advanced
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Southern English
Useful information/terms: Keynote speech at the Regional World Health Day event 2025 by WHO representative Vocab: Dr Teodoro Herbosa, Secretary of Health of the Philippines, Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures deaths per 100 000 live births maternal and newborn health maternal mortality rate Measles Western Pacific region Early Essential Newborn Care Programme immunisation vaccination campaigns weave
Domaine: Health and medicine
Speech Title: Biohacking
Speaker: Noor Ibrahim
Speech Level: Advanced
Native speaker: Yes
Accent:Generally received pronunciation with an occasional Yorkshire or American twang
Useful information/terms Biohacking, Continuous Glucose Monitor (GCM), Oura Ring, Hypochondria, Health anxiety, FHA (Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea), Insuline resistence, Pancreas, Type 1 and 2 diabetes, wake up on the wrong side of bed, health metrics, HRV (heart rate variability), sleep quality
Human Rights
Domaine: Human Rights
Speech Title: Language Justice
Speaker: Seren Roff
Speech Level: intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: British – Southern English
Useful information/terms: Language justice, language violence, language deprivation, LSPs (language service providers), marginalised languages, to weaponise.
Transport and travel
Domaine: Transport and travel
Speech Title: The joys of owning a folding bike
Speaker: Cyril Joyce
Speech Level: Advanced
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: British – Southern English
Useful information/terms: Crossbar, frame, Brompton, pothole
Domaine: Transport and travel
Speech Title: Dark Sky Tourism
Speaker: Matt O'Connor
Speech Level: Intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: North of England
Useful information/terms: Petula Clark, The Milky Way, Exmoor, Snowdonia
Culture and sport
Domaine: Culture/sport
Speech Title: My day out at Wembley
Speaker: Cyril Joyce
Speech Level: Intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: British – Southern English
Useful information/terms: Sightlines, loutish behaviour
Domaine: Culture/sport
Speech Title: 5 things that might surprise you about China
Speaker: Emily Atkinson
Speech Level: Intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Standard British accent
Useful information/terms: Wechat, Alipay, Zhangjiajie, Hainan, Shanghai, Beijing, tai chi
Defense, Armed conflict
Domaine: Armed Conflict
Speech Title: The Candy Bomber
Speaker: Cyril Joyce
Speech Level: Beginner
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: British – Southern English
Useful information/terms: Yalta Conference, the Berlin Blockade
Tourism
Domaine: Tourism
Speech Title: The Problems with Mass Tourism
Speaker: Cyril Joyce
Speech Level: Intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: British – Southern English
Useful information/terms: Tourism
Other
Domaine: Other
Speech Title: Moving to a smaller city
Speaker: Cyril Joyce
Speech Level: Intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: British – Southern English
Useful information/terms: Relocation, “First world problem”
Agriculture and fisheries
Domaine: Agriculture and fisheries
Speech Title: Undocumented Labor in the U.S. Agricultural Sector- SIM
Speaker: Cameryn James
Speech Level: Intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: U.S. American (general)
Useful information/terms: crusade, scapegoat, undocumented labor, seasonal migrants, field crops, specialty crops, heat stroke, temporary work visas, greenhouses, employment benefits, strikes, National Farm Worker Ministry, North Carolina, boycotts, "cold-turkey"
Environment
Domaine: Environment
Speech Title: The Climate and heatwaves
Speaker: Shay Cully
Speech Level: Intermediate
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Northern Irish
Useful information/terms: gov.uk website, the Met Office
Domaine: Environment
Speech Title: Water Pollution in the UK
Speaker: Hannah Jeffrey
Speech Level: Advanced
Native speaker: Yes
Accent: Southern English
Useful information/terms: Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), Robert Mcfarlane, diffuse pollution, Environment Agency, wastewater, Ofwat, United Utilities, Price Review (PR) plan, ombudsman