794. The Surprising Power of Reading Aloud (Article) 📖🗣️
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 26 October 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Reading out loud can have lots of benefits on our memory and our mental health. How can it help with your English? In this episode I read an article, help you understand it and give comments on the importance of reading, both quietly in your head, and out loud.
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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. This one is about reading and the power of reading aloud or reading out loud and I think it can definitely help you with your English in various ways. |
| 0:31.0 | Stick with me. There's a lot to discover here. So I found an article the other day |
| 0:36.0 | on the BBC's website and I thought it was really interesting and definitely something I could turn |
| 0:42.0 | into an episode of this podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm going to read the article to you in this episode. |
| 0:47.0 | You can read it with me if you like. |
| 0:49.0 | The link for the article is in the description of the episode |
| 0:52.0 | or if you're watching the video version you will actually see the text on the screen. |
| 0:56.0 | So I'll help you understand it all. |
| 0:59.0 | We'll consider the main points being made by the writer. I'll give my thoughts on how all of this relates to learning English and I'll point out some bits of vocabulary for you to learn along the way. |
| 1:11.0 | So reading out loud, what does this mean? Well normally when we read, you know |
| 1:17.9 | what reading is of course, why did I need to say that? Normally when we read, he says, reaching for a book. |
| 1:25.2 | Normally when we read, we read silently in our heads, |
| 1:28.8 | don't we? |
| 1:29.2 | We're just like, hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm h we go, we don't do that. We just read |
| 1:34.9 | silently in our heads. What are you doing? You know, like what are you doing? |
| 1:37.8 | Oh, I'm just reading, obviously. So normally when we read, read silently we read in our heads right but when we |
| 1:47.3 | read out loud this means that we actually say the words we're reading with our voice so that other people can hear you. |
| 1:55.3 | For example, it was nearly 9 o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion. |
| 2:01.2 | He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper scrawled over with notes and figures. |
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