44. Telling Anecdotes

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

Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 16 December 2009

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Improve your speaking by telling interesting and amusing anecdotes. In this episode you'll learn about anecdotes, listen to a couple of stories told by some BBC radio DJs and learn some new vocabulary. Good extended listening practice. Enjoy! FOR A TRANSCRIPT, A GRAMMAR EXERCISE AND OTHER INFORMATION click here http://teacherluke.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/telling-anecdotes/

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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. Hello ladies and gentlemen and anyone else out there who listens to this
0:16.5	podcast maybe if there's a dog or a cat in the room hello to the to the dog or the cat as well.
0:25.0	Hello to maybe any fish that might be listening or any other pets at all that happen to be in the
0:32.0	room while my voice is playing through the speakers.
0:35.0	Basically, hello, hello to everyone out there who's listening.
0:39.6	This is Luke from Luke's English podcast.
0:41.8	That's a surprise, isn't it? I bet you weren't expecting that.
0:45.0	Yeah, so I hope you're well. It's been a little while since I recorded an audio
0:52.1	podcast for you to listen to but I'm doing
0:55.5	one now okay and you're listening to it now so that's good isn't it yeah it is this
1:02.3	podcast today is all about anecdotes.
1:05.7	Anecdotes. What's an anecdote, Luke? That's what you're asking me.
1:12.1	Well, an anecdote is like basically a little story which you tell
1:18.9	as part of a normal conversation. So it could be like, for example, an amusing or funny story about an
1:25.9	experience that you've had or it could be perhaps like an embarrassing story
1:31.4	about something that happened to you.
1:33.9	We use anecdotes a lot in our general conversation
1:38.2	just to basically describe things that have happened to us.
1:43.0	Think of them as amusing little stories which we tell our friends
1:47.0	when we're having conversations, right?
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