811. Turkey & Syria Earthquake Appeal / What is happening in Iran? (Articles & Vocabulary)
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
An episode about two (unconnected) situations, 1) the very recent earthquake in Turkey & Syria which has left many people in urgent need of help, 2) the humanitarian crisis in Iran. During the episode I read from various articles and explain some vocabulary.
👉 Consider donating to the Disasters Emergency Committee to help people affected by the earthquake https://www.dec.org.uk/appeal/turkey-syria-earthquake-appeal
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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. |
| 0:11.8 | UK. Okay. that you've been enjoying my recent episodes. Here is another new one published very |
| 0:24.8 | soon after the last one. This episode I think is number 811 and episode 810 was published only yesterday. I'm recording this on Thursday the 9th of February. |
| 0:38.0 | And I published episode 810 yesterday, Wednesday the 8th of February. |
| 0:43.0 | So here's a new one kind of replacing the previous one at the top of the list. |
| 0:50.0 | But don't forget about the other one, okay? |
| 0:52.0 | Episode 810 is there. |
| 0:54.4 | You might have missed it. |
| 0:56.4 | So don't miss it. |
| 0:57.9 | It's a good episode. |
| 0:59.0 | It's a nice episode. |
| 1:00.1 | Anyway, let me talk to you about this episode. Now, just in case you don't know, this is a |
| 1:07.4 | podcast for learners of English and it's here to provide some regular listening |
| 1:11.6 | practice and generally to help improve my |
| 1:15.1 | listeners English in various ways. I have a fairly large audience around the world |
| 1:20.4 | which I've built up over the nearly 14 years I've been doing this |
| 1:23.7 | podcast and in my episodes I talk about pretty much anything. Often it's funny |
| 1:30.4 | stuff sometimes I tell short stories I do episodes about British life and |
| 1:35.1 | culture, I talk to guests, I teach vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation and |
| 1:39.4 | give general advice and motivation for learning English, and every now and then I talk about |
| 1:45.3 | what's going on in the news including some serious stories which I just feel compelled to talk about. |
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