527. Can Paul Taylor Pass The UK Citizenship Test?

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🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 96 minutes

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527. Can Paul Taylor Pass The UK Citizenship Test?

Testing Paul Taylor's knowledge of British life, history and culture and discussing the "Life in the UK" citizenship test. Practise listening to British English natural speech, learn facts about the UK and have a laugh as Paul gets angry about this test for people who want to become UK citizens. Will Paul actually pass the test? Listen to find out what happens.

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0:00.0	Luke's English podcast is sponsored by I Talkie, a website that you can use to find a language teacher
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0:11.5	speaking skills or to get specific training for things
0:14.8	like job interviews or exam skills in English.
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0:30.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information,
0:37.4	visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk. UK.
0:46.0	Hello everyone, welcome to the podcast.
0:48.0	In this episode you're going to listen to my friend Paul Taylor attempting to pass the UK Citizenship Test.
0:55.0	Every year, thousands and thousands of people choose to become British citizens for various reasons.
1:02.0	This year, of course, one of those people is Megan Markle
1:05.2	who's moving to Britain to marry Prince Harry as everybody knows because it's all
1:11.0	over the news probably all around the world. Megan is going to be
1:14.0	taking the life in the UK test by the way. In fact the wedding is happening
1:19.3	tomorrow. I'm recording this on Friday the 18th of May the royal wedding is happening tomorrow
1:25.1	and I expect that by the time you listen to this they'll probably be married I hope
1:29.2	everything goes well for them anyway there are lots of complicated requirements for becoming naturalized
1:36.1	as a British citizen, including the fact that you need to prove that your English is at B1 level or above, and you have to pass the Life in the UK test.
1:48.0	This test is supposed to make sure that you have sufficient knowledge of life in the UK in order to integrate properly into British life.
1:56.0	The assumption is that if you can pass this test, then you know enough about life in the UK
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