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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

788. 50 Random British Facts (True or False Quiz) with James [Part 1]

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

Pronunciation, London, British, Education, Teaching, Language Learning, Comedy, Grammar, Learn, Listening, Speaker, Learning, Vocabulary, Accent, Uk, Podcast, Language

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

[Part 1 of 2] Can you guess if these "facts" about the UK are true or false?

James and Luke read out the facts and then discuss them one by one.

Learn some odd things about the UK, pick up some vocabulary about laws and customs, and try not to laugh on the bus.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. Before I play this episode I think I should give a kind of disclaimer about the content.

0:09.0

I just want to say two things.

0:11.0

So this is an episode about Britain recorded with my brother in August this year,

0:18.0

which is obviously before we all got the news that the Queen had been taken ill and had died. And we do talk about

0:26.7

the Queen a few times during the episode, but of course she is no longer with us and

0:31.8

now we have King Charles the third. So firstly the

0:36.7

things we say about the Queen will be a bit anachronistic now as you listen to

0:41.8

it. Anachronistic, meaning belonging to the past and a bit out of step with the present.

0:50.0

So that's the first thing. This was recorded when the Queen was still alive and when she was the head of state, which is now obviously no longer the case.

0:59.0

So there are a few little anachronisms and we refer to the Queen in the present tense.

1:05.0

And secondly, when we do mention the Queen and a lot of other things in this episode,

1:11.0

it's done in a humorous way, and I'm aware that some people might find that inappropriate

1:16.7

but we aren't really mocking her harshly or specifically. We copy her voice a bit and parts of the episode are just a

1:25.4

bit silly and funny but our intentions are decent. I don't think we could be

1:31.0

indicted for treason or anything like that.

1:34.6

So I hope you take it all in the spirit of good-natured British humour, which is our intention.

1:42.4

And let's remember that the Queen has been praised a lot over the last week or so

1:48.4

for her good sense of humour

1:50.4

So hopefully she would see the funny side but who knows. In any case I think it's

1:56.9

okay and I've decided to publish this. I hope you enjoy it and actually I hope you see it as a sort of celebration of British

2:05.6

stuff for what it's worth.

2:08.6

All right then now I've said that let's start the episode properly and here we go. Let's information, visit Teacher Loop.co. UK.

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