746. Karl Pilkington's 3-Minute Wonders / Manchester Accent

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🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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746. Karl Pilkington's 3-Minute Wonders / Manchester Accent

Understand English as it is spoken by native speakers. Let's listen to Karl Pilkington rambling about life, the universe & everything, and see what we can understand and learn. Karl is from Manchester, so we'll be looking at some features of his accent, picking up plenty of vocabulary and having a bit of a laugh along the way. Video version available on YouTube.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information,
0:07.2	visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk.uk.
0:10.0	UK. Okay. really well. In this episode we're going to do some intensive listening and use it as a
0:26.6	chance to learn some vocabulary and pronunciation. This episode should be a bit of a laugh as we're going to take a deep dive into the world of Carl Pilkington and listen to his thoughts on some big issues like health, food, animals, holidays and just existence itself.
0:46.0	We'll be looking at the different features of his Manchester accent
0:50.0	and there will be lots of vocabulary to pick up to as we are covering a range of different topics.
0:57.0	You can also consider this as a little intensive listening test,
1:01.0	as I'll be setting questions that you have to find answers to
1:05.8	then going through each clip in detail and breaking it all down for language.
1:11.8	We last heard about Carl Pilkington on my podcast in episode 656 in which we listened
1:18.9	to a couple of his monkey news stories about a chimp that works on a building site and another chimp that pilots
1:26.0	a space rocket.
1:28.1	Do you remember that?
1:29.2	If you don't, then get the Luke's English podcast app on your phone and listen to episode 656.
1:35.6	It was a very popular episode and it should make you laugh out loud on a bus maybe.
1:42.2	That was pretty funny stuff and Carl is very funny even though he's not actually a comedian.
1:47.0	So you might be thinking, who is Carl Pilkington?
1:50.0	To be honest, Carl Pilkington was most well known about 10 years ago, and these days he's not in the public eye as much as he used to be,
1:59.0	but he's still a fairly well-known person in the UK, especially for Ricky Jervais fans.
2:05.0	Carl is just an ordinary bloke from Manchester, who met comedians, Ricky Jervais and Stephen Merchant,
2:12.0	when he worked for them as a radio producer in London.
2:16.2	Later Ricky invited Carl to be on his podcast in order to broadcast his weird ideas and inane ramblings to the whole world and the rest is history.
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