Welcome to Expression Stories! I’m Barry Russell, a British online English teacher, and onsite business English trainer who works with companies in and around Bangkok, Thailand. I’m also known in the wild world of motorcycle racing as a writer and television commentator.

Expression Stories is a series of news-based lessons created to inform, entertain and challenge upper-intermediate to advanced English language students. They are designed to promote comprehension, conversation and fluency, and to show how word choice, expressions and sentence structure can add meaning, nuance and impact to the way we communicate. Every episode is produced in written and audio form.

I launched Expression Stories in March 2021 after discussing the idea with a few private online students. It was a fun experiment that quickly gained traction, so now here we are with a website, a growing body of content and some exciting spin-off ideas.

I’m grateful to the friends and students who’ve helped to get this project to where it is today. The journey is by no means over, so please share any ideas and comments about how I can make them better by commenting on the site, or by emailing me at barryrsv@gmail.com.

Love and peace

Barry