60. The King's Speech / 'Mouth' Idioms

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🗓️ 15 March 2011

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Hi! Learn some really useful idioms and listen to an authentic interview with a native speaker in this episode of Luke's English Podcast. This episode is about The King's Speech - an excellent film which recently won 4 Academy Awards at The Oscars, including the award for Best Actor for Colin Firth. FOR VOCABULARY NOTES & DEFINITIONS, LISTENING EXERCISES AND VIDEOS CLICK HERE http://teacherluke.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/the-kings-speech-mouth-idioms/

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacher Luke.
0:07.0	Podomatic.com.
0:10.0	Hello everyone, it's time for Luke's English podcast again now let's get straight to
0:16.2	the points what's this episode about well this one is about the King's
0:20.9	Speech the movie the King's Speech, the movie the King's Speech, and you're going to listen to an
0:26.4	interview about the film and then I'm going to teach you some really useful phrases
0:32.4	and idioms using the word mouth or the word
0:36.5	tongue. Now I'll explain that. That will become clear to you in due course. But for now that's what you can expect.
0:47.0	Interviews like a genuine interview, authentic listening practice and then some really
0:52.0	useful idioms and phrases.
0:53.7	Okay?
0:54.7	Right, now this episode is the first episode in a series of two about movies. The movies in question are the King's Speech and 127 hours. Now if you like films
1:09.0	if you follow movies if you've been for, if you followed the Oscars ceremony this year, then
1:15.6	you'll know that both of those films were nominated.
1:19.5	The King Speech won four awards, including an award for Best Director and another award for Best Actor
1:27.4	for Colin Firth for his role as King George the sixth.
1:33.6	127 hours didn't win any awards which I was quite surprised about because I thought
1:38.9	it was a brilliant film. I really loved it. I loved the King's Speech as well, but in a way I think that I
1:47.4	preferred 127 hours. Now I'm going to talk about 127 hours in the next episode so I'll leave that until later.
1:56.0	I'll talk about it a little bit here but mainly I'm going to leave that until later.
2:00.0	So now I think those two films actually have something in common.
2:05.4	Obviously they both won or they were both nominated at the Academy Awards this year
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