860. Charles Dickens' Christmas Ghost Story (Learn English with a Short Story)
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Listen to me telling this classic Christmas ghost story - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. I have read this story on the podcast before (in episode 320) but it's a good one so let's do it again, shall we?
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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. is yet another episode for you. That's right, another one this month. I've just |
| 0:26.3 | thrown like tons of episodes at you this month haven't I? I really have. I wonder if |
| 0:31.7 | everyone's able to keep up. I expect that in fact a lot of people are probably |
| 0:37.1 | far too busy to be listening to podcasts at this time of year. There is a thing actually in |
| 0:42.3 | podcasting called the December dip, which unless |
| 0:46.7 | you're in podcasts you probably don't know about that, but that's basically because most podcasters notice that their listening numbers drop a little bit at this time |
| 0:56.8 | of year because everyone out there in the world or at least not everyone but a lot of people |
| 1:00.6 | in the world are at this time of you're rushing around trying to get Christmas |
| 1:04.5 | presents, trying to book train tickets and rapping presents and going to Christmas parties and |
| 1:11.6 | going to carol singing events at school or whatever it is. |
| 1:15.0 | Now obviously not everyone listening to this podcast celebrates Christmas in the same way. |
| 1:20.0 | And a lot of you out there for you, Christmas is not such a big deal, which is, you know, totally fine. I guess it means your December is a little bit more, a little bit quieter. |
| 1:30.0 | Obviously I'm from England and in my country Christmas is a traditional thing. |
| 1:35.9 | You know it's arguably it's a Christian festival. I mean I'm not particularly |
| 1:41.6 | religious person really although I do come from a Christian |
| 1:45.2 | background you know the UK Christianity is the predominant religion although I would actually |
| 1:51.9 | say that people are not that religious these days I think probably |
| 1:57.0 | most people aren't like most people don't really go to church or you know follow Christianity that closely really |
| 2:09.5 | but nevertheless Christmas is still a big celebration. |
| 2:12.8 | For some people it's definitely a Christian thing and it's time to go to church and do all those things. |
| 2:19.1 | But I think for a lot of people Christmas is essentially like this sort of midwinter festival and it's really a time of spending |
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