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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

259. Eulogy for Dennis

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 24 February 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This episode is devoted to the memory of my Grandfather Dennis, who died at the end of December last year. For more information and a transcript of this episode click here: https://teacherluke.co.uk/2015/02/24/259-eulogy-for-dennis/ 

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0:00.0

You're listening to Luke's English podcast. This episode is devoted to

0:18.8

the memory of my Granddad Dennis who died at the end of last year. For a while now I've been thinking about my

0:26.6

granddad and I just wanted to pay tribute to him in some way, just try and remember his life and just talk about him.

0:36.4

And since my podcast is my way of doing that, it's my way of talking about things that I want to talk about. I thought this might be a subject I could deal with in another episode of the podcast.

0:49.0

So I'll be talking about his life, talking about my family's memories of him. If you do feel moved to

0:57.3

comment then please do share your thoughts by leaving your messages on the

1:02.2

page for this episode which you can find at teacher Luke.co.

1:06.0

The episode is entitled eulogy for Dennis.

1:09.0

Just leave any comment that you want if you want to express your condolences you can if you just want to

1:15.1

share thoughts that you have maybe about loved ones who you've lost as well if you

1:22.1

want to celebrate their memories as well in some way.

1:25.0

I know that perhaps just leaving a comment on a website isn't necessarily the most appropriate way to remember someone who you loved very much.

1:36.0

Normally there are slightly more significant ways of doing that but nevertheless perhaps you you may want to share a memory or a brief

1:49.2

anecdote or just just express how you feel when listening to this episode.

1:53.4

Okay, so that's pretty much all I have to say in the introduction.

1:57.9

Let's get started. The So this episode of the podcast is entitled A Eulogy for Dennis. Now what's a eulogy? A eulogy is a tribute, either written or spoken, usually celebrating and praising someone who has just died. This episode is a eulogy for my grandfather, Dennis, who died recently at the age of 94.

2:38.0

Much of what I'm saying in this episode has been written down in advance of recording, it's been written already, so I am reading from a script.

2:46.0

I have said plenty of times before that I prefer to record without a script because I think it makes my speaking more natural and authentic.

2:54.0

However, in this case I felt that I had to write a script before recording

2:58.0

because I wanted to prepare my thoughts and comments carefully.

3:01.0

So this episode is scripted, which is good in one way because it means

3:05.3

that it's there if you want to read exactly what I'm saying. I expect that I will go off

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