373. Who Wants to Be Good at English? (with Rick Thompson)

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 10 August 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a game show hosted by my Dad, with me as the contestant. The aim of the game is to see how many words I know. My Dad designed this quiz for his students of journalism at the university where he works sometimes. The quiz is specifically designed to highlight what he considers to be common misuses and misunderstandings of words. His opinion is that journalists writing and presenting on television should use words in exactly the right way, even if many people use those words to mean different things in general everyday use.

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0:00.0	Hello listeners.
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0:06.6	and qualified English teachers for online lessons and conversations.
0:11.3	Go to Teacher Luke dot co-dot UK
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0:17.6	English to fluency you can do it by talking to native speakers on i Talkie.
0:22.1	Okay right so now let's get started with this new episode of
0:25.6	Luke's English podcast and here it is now.
0:28.8	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk.uk.uk.uk.uk. Welcome ladies and gentlemen to another edition of who wants to be good at English
0:58.5	and I'm your host for the evening, Rick Thompson, and our first contestant who's sitting in the black chair in front of me is Luke Thompson who claims to be an English expert so this will really put him to the test good evening
1:14.1	good evening what shall I call you dad yes host dad that Rick that'll do Rick
1:21.1	good evening Rick yes and it's very nice to see you here That'll do. Rick. Good evening, Rick.
1:23.0	Yes, and it's very nice to see you here and the crowd have been eagerly waiting this episode
1:29.6	of who wants to be good at English.
1:32.4	And as usual, the format is the same, the familiar format, there are
1:35.5	questions each one has four possible answers. You have to choose the answer which you think
1:41.9	is correct and then it will be revealed and we'll
1:46.5	do a version of the game which has ten questions and we'll see how many of the ten questions
1:51.9	you answer correctly.
1:53.4	Okay, is there a purpose for this game show?
1:56.8	There is a theme and the theme is the meaning of words.
2:01.1	Okay. We have 10 commonly used words in English, but do you really know what they mean?
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