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You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information,

visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk. Hello and welcome back to the podcast. How are you? Are you doing all right?

Everything okay? How's it going? Not bad? Not bad. You're doing all right? You're surviving? Yeah, just surviving basically.

How's the weather? Not too rainy I hope. What's it like? Where you are?

Sunny? Bit cloudy? Windy? Wet? I don don't know I have no idea it's been it's been crazy here recently lots of rain and then it's like downpours of rain and hail hail h a h a, that's when it sort of rains little bits of ice.

Suddenly hail.

So these mad rain storms and hail, and then

cloud and hail again.

But anyway, that's the small talk, the chit-chat about the weather, that's all the

chit-chat about the weather. That's all the chit chat out of the way.

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