787. The Rick & Gill Thompson Report: Queen Elizabeth II / King Charles III
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Talking to my parents about events in the UK following the death of The Queen on 9 September, including the media coverage, the proclamation of King Charles III, comments about Charles as King and a discussion of the role of the monarch in the UK’s constitution. Also includes some comments about the new Prime Minister Liz Truss and the future of the UK government over the next 18 months.
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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.uk. UK. Okay. published only a few days after the last one. |
| 0:23.0 | As you can see from the title, it is another episode talking about the big news of the moment |
| 0:28.4 | in the UK, the death of the Queen. |
| 0:31.4 | But also this episode is about the new King, Charles the 3rd. |
| 0:35.8 | Thank you for the messages which you wrote in the comments section in response to the last |
| 0:39.5 | episode in which I gave my instant reaction to the news. |
| 0:43.0 | It's very interesting to read your thoughts and to see how people have reacted to the news in other parts of the world. |
| 0:50.0 | There's been a fairly diverse response, but overall most people have expressed their sorrow or their sympathy, |
| 0:58.0 | with lots of people writing things like, sorry for your loss. |
| 1:02.0 | And that's loss, L-O-S. |
| 1:05.0 | Sorry for your loss, not sorry for your lost. |
| 1:07.9 | A lot of people made that little mistake, |
| 1:12.3 | writing, sorry for your lost. S-O-E-L-A-L-O-S-O-O-O-O-O-S. made that's |
| 1:15.0 | little mistake writing sorry for your lost s o s o s t |
| 1:16.0 | in fact it should be sorry for your loss that's l o s s |
| 1:21.0 | lost is an adjective and the noun is loss. So it should be sorry for your loss. So most people were |
| 1:29.0 | writing comments with that general sentiment. |
| 1:33.0 | As I suggested in the last episode, this one is a conversation with my dad in the form of a Rick Thompson report. |
| 1:40.0 | But my mom is joining us this time as well. So you've got two of them this time. |
| 1:45.2 | Two Thompson's for the price of none, because you know this is free. So two for the price of |
| 1:51.1 | none. Three in fact if you include me, three |
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