28. Interview with a Native Speaker - The Weather

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

Luke Thompson

Pronunciation, Teaching, Learning, Comedy, Language, London, Grammar, Listening, Learn, Speaker, Podcast, Language Learning, Vocabulary, Uk, Accent, Education, British

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2009

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

I talk to Chris from Ladbroke Grove about the British weather, and why he thinks foreigners should stop complaining about it!

Click here for notes and a transcript of the interview http://teacherluke.co.uk/2009/11/12/interview-with-a-native-speaker-the-weather/

Luke's English Podcast is a free service for people who want to improve their English. Learn real english with this podcast. Natural expressions, phrasal verbs, idioms and more vocabulary. Good listening practice. Join the growing community of listeners around the world who use this podcast every day. A full transcript of this interview is available. To read it, click here http://teacherluke.co.uk/2009/11/12/interview-with-a-native-speaker-the-weather/

Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ and add the premium episodes to a podcast app on your phone. https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast.
0:03.0	For more information, visit teacher Luke. podomatic.
0:08.0	com.
0:09.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to Luke's English podcast.
0:12.0	This is just a quick podcast. I'm still on the
0:15.2	subject of weather because there's so much to talk about when it comes to the
0:19.8	weather. I hope you enjoyed the last one I did which was about the crazy British weather
0:25.6	and how it changes all the time. Yeah I hope you enjoyed that. Let's see. So
0:32.4	this in this podcast, I'm going to play you an interview, which I did with a guy who I play football with sometimes.
0:42.0	Now, at the school where I work on Wednesday afternoons we're
0:49.2	lucky enough to have to have the afternoon free.
0:53.0	So we finish our lessons at 1245
0:58.0	and then everyone's free in the afternoons.
1:02.0	Most of the teachers spend that time preparing their lessons
1:05.0	doing all the administrative work that they have to do
1:09.0	and the students well they're just they just spend the afternoon at their leisure doing
1:14.7	all kinds of lovely relaxing and interesting things I'm sure but some of us go to the local park which is just around the corner from
1:27.9	the school and we go and play football and usually there's a few teachers who play football and a few of the students come to.
1:35.0	It's kind of, it's like a school tradition that we play football on Wednesday afternoons.
1:42.0	Now of course, the games of... on Wednesday
1:45.0	are usually at the mercy of the weather
1:50.0	and obviously if it's a really nice day if the sun's out then we have a really
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Luke Thompson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Luke Thompson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.