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

484. Try not to Laugh on the Bus (with Paul Taylor)

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

Luke Thompson

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2017

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

A conversation with Paul Taylor involving several cups of tea, recipes for French crepes, our terrible rap skills, a funny old comedy song about English workmen drinking tea, some improvised comedy role plays and a very angry Paul ranting about bad customer service in France! Your challenge is to listen to this episode in public without laughing out loud, especially in the second half of the episode. Good luck, may the force be with you. Vocabulary list, song lyrics, definitions and a quiz available (link below).

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Luke's English podcast is made possible thanks to support from my sponsors and in the case of this episode that's spoken and spoken helps people all around the world to improve their English through messaging platforms like

0:14.4

what's-app or we-chat and with spoken you are connected to a native English-speaking

0:19.8

coach and you can take lessons anytime you want that focus on the English that you need for real life situations

0:27.0

to improve your speaking, your listening and your comprehension skills.

0:31.0

It's like having an English teacher in your pocket but smaller.

0:36.2

So English lessons sent directly by a teacher to your phone through your favorite messaging app. That's what Spoken offer to you.

0:45.0

And the guys at Spoken are offering all of you, my listeners, two free lessons and then 20% off all of their courses.

0:54.3

Two free lessons and 20% off everything.

0:58.1

To get those free lessons and that discount,

1:00.8

go to get spoken.com slash leep or click a spoken logo on my website.

1:07.0

You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacherloop.co.uk.

1:17.0

UK. UK.

1:21.0

Hello folks, welcome to the podcast. I'm going to keep this introduction as brief as

1:27.8

possible so that we can get straight into it. This one is a conversation with friend of the podcast Paul Taylor. It was

1:34.8

lots of fun to record. I hope it's also lots of fun to listen to. There are links

1:39.8

videos, word lists and song lyrics with vocabulary and definitions on the episode page on the

1:47.5

website that can help you to understand and learn more English from this conversation. You should know that there is some

1:56.0

swearing in this episode, some rude words and language, rude language, just letting you know in advance. Try not to laugh on the bus while you're

2:07.4

listening to this. That might be embarrassing for you. That's a challenge from

2:11.0

me to you. Try not to giggle.

2:13.0

Because everyone will look at you and they will feel either jealous or confused or both

2:18.0

at your public display of the joy which will be bursting forth from your heart as you listen to Paul's infectious

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