Hello, hello, hello, hello. Welcome to another episode of Luke's English podcast.

And this one features a conversation with my good friends Andy Johnson and Ben Butler, who I used to work with at the London School of English.

And in this episode you're going to hear us talking about lots of different things, including

a few funny old anecdotes, some descriptions of the unusual location in which we were recording

this, and then some discussion about English teaching methods.

So Andy and Ben both work at the London School of English, which is known as the world's oldest accredited language school.

They've been teaching English as a foreign language to adults there for over a hundred years.

I mean the school itself not Andy and Ben

because obviously that would be that would be impressive if they'd been teaching

there for over a hundred years. Sort of immortal English teachers,

no that would be a story.

No, Andy and Ben have been there for, I don't know,

probably about 10 years or more.

But the school itself has been teaching English to adults for over 100 years,

and it's generally known for the high standards of its training courses, and in my experience, it was a really good place to work as a teacher

because I used to work there too in fact I was there for over six years and it's where

I had some of my best and most formative English teaching experiences. I've worked at lots of

English schools all over the place, some of them good and some of them not so good and

London School of English is definitely one of the good ones. I

learned a great deal about English teaching from my time there, from my colleagues

and just from time spent in classrooms teaching various courses there.

Andy Ben and I all joined London School of English

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