778. [1/2] Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (with Dad)
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
A conversation with my dad about a great medieval adventure story originally written in middle English and updated and translated into modern English by Simon Armitage. Dad talks about the origin of this story, its connection to the history of the English language, and the poetic devices used in the writing. In the second half I read a summarised version of the story and some verses from Armitage's modernised version.
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| 0:00.0 | Right, hello, hello everybody, hello there, hello! |
| 0:04.0 | Can you hear me? You can? |
| 0:06.0 | Good, welcome back, welcome back to the podcast, Luke's English podcast, here we go. |
| 0:10.0 | This is episode number 778 and the podcast is back after what a two-week absence? I think so. It's something like that. |
| 0:20.1 | There was no podcast last week. Busy times. Anyway, we're back. We're back. I say we it's just me and you |
| 0:27.8 | And we're back we're back together. I suppose that's what that means |
| 0:31.6 | Okay, anyway, how are you? I hope you're well. Now just before we start, a quick |
| 0:36.8 | bit of news. So my full-time teaching schedule at school has ended now. For the last three weeks I was teaching more or |
| 0:45.2 | less full-time just spending all my time at the school. But that's ended now and I |
| 0:51.6 | have about one week to work on Luke's English podcast content |
| 0:56.8 | and upload it before the August summer holiday begins. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm not sure if I'll be able to work during August because well because like hello |
| 1:06.2 | it's holiday season my daughter is off school we're going on holiday in France and in the UK and I might not be able to bring |
| 1:16.5 | my computer with me and so on. I just might not be able to get any work done, which is normal, |
| 1:21.6 | isn't it? That's what that's is that not the definition of a holiday I think it is |
| 1:26.3 | so I might upload loads of content this week or at least I'll upload as much as I can or as much as I you know I'll try and |
| 1:35.2 | upload a decent amount this week which you can listen to during the summer now I |
| 1:40.6 | don't want to overload you but also I don't want to underload you as well. |
| 1:46.0 | Is that a word underload? To underload someone I don't think it is I'm not even going to check it's not a word |
| 1:53.6 | overload someone anyway I don't want to give you too much content but at the |
| 1:59.5 | same time I want to make sure you have enough you you know, so that you have things to listen to and stuff during the summer. |
| 2:07.0 | In any case, it'll be like waiting for a bus again, probably. |
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