854. The Invitation (Learn English with a Short Story)

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

Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

🎧 Learn English with a short story.

🗣 Listen & repeat after me if you'd like to practise your pronunciation.

💬Learn some vocabulary in the second half of the video.

📄 I found this story in answer to a post on Quora.com asking about true scary stories.

I thought I could use it to help you learn English. Can you understand the story, and predict the twist at the end?

📄 Read the original by Lance Stephenson here https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-short-scary-stories

🔗 Page for this episode on my website with a word-for word copy of the story https://teacherluke.co.uk/2023/11/28/854-the-invitation-learn-english-with-a-short-story/

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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. Okay. fine. So here's a brand new episode and this one is a short story episode. This is one of those episodes where I read you a short story and then use it to teach you some vocabulary and some grammar.
0:33.1	Okay?
0:34.1	So, I'm always looking for short stories,
0:36.9	always looking for little stories that I can use
0:39.4	in episodes of my podcast.
0:41.5	This particular story, I found this one on the website
0:44.4	Cora.com I don't know if you're familiar with Cora. Basically it's a website where
0:49.4	people can post questions and then other users of the website will post their responses
0:55.1	to those questions and the responses get upvoted or downvoted and if a response gets upvoted a lot, it then gets pushed up to the top of the page.
1:06.0	So I was looking on Cora, and one of the questions I found there was something like this,
1:12.0	can you share any true scary stories?
1:15.0	Can you share any true scary stories that I think was the original question
1:19.6	that someone had posted?
1:21.3	And the top response, the most upvoted response was the story that
1:26.2	I'm going to tell you today it was actually posted by a guy called Lance
1:30.2	Stevenson I'm pretty sure that the story happened in the United States of America, the USA.
1:37.0	And it was posted, yes, as a true, scary story.
1:40.0	Okay? First of all, I'm going to just read the story to you and you can try to understand it, right?
1:45.3	If you're looking at the video version, you will see the story on the screen, you'll see the text on the screen next to me.
1:51.7	If you are listening to the audio version and you want to read the text as well,
1:57.1	then you can just go to the page for this episode on my website, you'll find the whole story copied there for you so you can check out the
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