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Hello everyone. Welcome to another episode of Luke's English

podcast, the Podcast for Learners of English. This is Luke speaking. How are you

doing? I hope you're well. Now yesterday my mom sent me a text message with a photo attached to it and the text just said have you seen this and I had a look at the photo, and what did I see, but a picture of my

brother in hospital? That's right, you know, those sort of oxygen masks that people wear when they're

in hospital so they can breathe oxygen. He was in

hospital in a hospital bed with this mask on he had like a drip attached to

his arm and I thought oh my God, what's happened?

So I quickly sent him a message and he was able to use his phone and we exchanged a few messages.

It turns out he fell off his skateboard didn't he? He fell off his skateboard and he

dislocated his shoulder. So nothing too serious, but it was certainly very painful for

him. Now he's 39 years old and he's still skateboarding which is

fine really I mean you know it's a sport like any other sports we might associate

skateboarding with something that children do, but actually these days it's an

adult sport, isn't it? And it has been for quite a long time. He's always been inter-skating since he got his first skateboard when he was 10 years old.

And it's something he does regularly.

But he has had lots of different accidents over the years.

He's broken his arm, he's broken his ankle, he's had various sprains and

ligament damages, he's dislocated his finger and now of course he's dislocated his shoulder too. So he's been damaged and beaten up a lot by skateboarding but this is the worst one that he's ever had.

So today I decided I'd give him a Skype call in order to, well first of all of course just check that he's okay,

just make sure that he's feeling all right.

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