448. Film Club: Touching the Void (Part 1) Learning a Language is Like Climbing a Mountain
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 12 May 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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A film club episode about the award-winning documentary film "Touching the Void" about a mountain climbing expedition which goes wrong. It's an amazing true story and there are lots of things to learn from it, including lessons about motivation and attitude towards any challenge. The film is available on Netflix and DVD. Check it out and use this episode to help you understand it all.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this episode of the podcast is sponsored by I Talkie, and if you're finding it difficult to improve your fluency in English on your own, don't worry because you can use I Talkie to get some talking time or English lessons and build your English in the most natural way possible by using it to communicate. |
| 0:20.0 | And I-talkie are offering all of my listeners a free voucher worth $10 when you buy some lessons. |
| 0:27.0 | So it's basically buy one, get one free. |
| 0:29.6 | To get that offer go to teacherlooc.co UK slash talk or click an i Talkie logo on my |
| 0:37.0 | website. |
| 0:38.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacherloop.co.uk. |
| 0:47.0 | UK. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello everyone, welcome back to Luke's English podcast here is a brand new |
| 0:56.2 | episode for you to listen to how are you today you doing all right I hope so are you |
| 1:01.4 | ready for a new episode? Yes you are? Good you should be ready because here is a new |
| 1:07.0 | episode you're listening to it right now so let's get started. This is a film club episode of Luke's English podcast today |
| 1:14.4 | because in this one I'm going to talk to you about a really great documentary film |
| 1:18.8 | that you can watch on Netflix or on DVD and it's about the true story of a mountain climbing adventure |
| 1:26.7 | which goes horribly wrong and then turns into an epic battle for survival. |
| 1:32.1 | It's an incredible story and a fantastic documentary which |
| 1:36.2 | won six awards including a BAFDA for Best British Film in 2004. The film is called Touching the Void. Touching the |
| 1:45.6 | Void and A Void, that's VO-I-D. A void is basically like a large frightening space like a large frightening space that's totally empty dark and |
| 1:59.2 | frightening space like for example, you know, outside in the galaxy, the darkness of space is kind of a |
| 2:08.1 | void or imagine like a huge hole in the ground, like a totally dark empty hole that could be described |
| 2:16.6 | as a void as well. |
| 2:18.7 | So like a scary dark empty space. And this film is called Touching the Void and I guess the the title of the film |
| 2:26.2 | should become clear as you learn more about what actually happens in the story. |
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