561. The Collins Words of the Year (Part 1)
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Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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561. The Collins Words of the Year (Part 1)
The first part of an episode series about trending vocabulary - words which have been used a lot in the last couple of years. Listen to me talk about words chosen by Collins Dictionaries as their "Words of the Year". This first episode focuses on how publishers use big data and then lots of discussion about the 2017 word of the year, which was fake news.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, how are you doing? Hope you're okay. Right, so this is the first part of a series of episodes |
| 0:06.8 | about trending vocabulary, words which have been used a lot in the last couple of years. In this series I'm going to be explaining some |
| 0:14.7 | words and phrases and also discussing the issues that relate to them. I've finished |
| 0:19.8 | recording the whole series now, it's all done done and there are six parts in total |
| 0:23.7 | yet lots of content six parts relating to the Collins Dictionary Words of the |
| 0:29.1 | year from 2017 and then 2018 as well. The first four parts are me speaking on my own and then |
| 0:38.8 | in the final two parts you'll hear me talking to friend of the podcast Amber Minogue. So get ready for loads of vocab |
| 0:46.0 | and not just the words of the year that I'm talking about but also plenty of other nice |
| 0:50.9 | chunky words and phrases relating to some big issues of the moment |
| 0:55.6 | that you will hear me using throughout this series. For each episode you'll find loads of |
| 1:00.5 | notes and transcriptions on the episode pages on my website so have a look so that you can |
| 1:06.1 | see the words I'm using and then you can check them and perhaps add them to your vocabulary lists and so on. All of this is part of what you can do in order to push |
| 1:16.8 | your English with this series of episodes. Or otherwise I just hope you enjoy listening to this brand new six-part series starting here. |
| 1:26.6 | This episode is sponsored by I Talkie and if you're looking to get regular conversations |
| 1:31.6 | or English lessons into your life with an actual human being like an actual human teacher, |
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| 1:45.4 | lessons in your living room or something. The way it works is you use my URL, Teacher Luke.co. UK slash talk and then you sign up with I Talkie and then you use |
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| 2:12.3 | teachers who specialize in IELT preparation or maybe, you know, business English or just general English or whatever. |
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