731. Beatles Song Lyrics / Idioms & Expressions (with Antony Rotunno)

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🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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731. Beatles Song Lyrics / Idioms & Expressions (with Antony Rotunno)

Learn English with The Beatles as we explore lyrics from Beatles songs and pick out some idioms, descriptive language and other vocabulary for you to learn. Featuring Antony Rotunno from the Glass Onion: On John Lennon podcast.

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0:30.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information,
0:37.0	visit teacherloop.co.uk. Hello everyone. How are you doing? I hope you're doing fine today in
0:50.0	podcast land. So in this episode you can learn English with the Beatles as we look at
0:55.6	specific bits of English which appear in the lyrics of their songs. I'm joined
0:59.9	again by Anthony Ratuno from the Glass Onion on John Lennon podcast.
1:04.7	Anthony is also an English teacher and something of a John Lennon expert.
1:09.1	He's also a musician and a lot of the credit for this episode goes to him because he did most of the preparation
1:15.6	going through lyrics of Beatles songs and picking out specific use of English including
1:21.0	certain phrases and idioms.
1:23.0	So this is like a quiz actually.
1:25.0	Can you name the songs when Anthony plays them?
1:28.0	And can you beat me, which could be quite difficult because I'm pretty quick when it comes to games like this, especially on the topic of the Beatles.
1:36.5	Anyway, can you name the songs from the lyrics and from the music?
1:40.5	Anthony's got his guitar with him in this episode and he would be playing little
1:44.6	snippets of some of the songs. So there are also a few references to The
1:50.0	Rutles and Neil Innes of course but for us those songs are all part of the
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