872. The Birthday Party (Learn English with a Short Story)

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Learn English with another short story. This time it's a 300-word story by Katherine Brush often used in literature classes, full of vivid imagery and with an emotional twist. I read the story to you, and then go through each line, explaining vocabulary and grammar.

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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.
0:19.0	Hello, welcome back to Luke's English podcast. In this episode, I'm going to tell you a story and then use it to help you learn English. Okay, and I'm going to tell you a story and then use it to help you learn English.
0:24.0	Okay and I'm going to do this in three sections.
0:27.0	First I'll just tell the story to you and you can use that as a sort of little listening
0:31.8	exercise or listening test, see if you understand
0:35.2	everything in the story and especially things like how the characters feel and exactly
0:39.8	what happened.
0:42.0	It's a fairly short story this one. I mean it's a very short story really
0:44.8	it's 300 words about 300 words long so it'll just take a couple of minutes for me to read the
0:50.0	story to you and then after that I will just explain what happened in the story in my
0:55.2	own words and then I'll go through the story again line by line and I'll explain
1:01.1	vocabulary for you so you can learn various little phrases, words and other
1:07.3	descriptive language from this story.
1:09.9	Okay? So the story that we're looking at here is called the birthday party and it was
1:15.3	written by Catherine Brush who was an American newspaper columnist short story
1:21.6	writer and novelist columnist, a short story writer, a novelist. This particular story was published in
1:27.3	1946, but like all good writing, it still remains fresh today.
1:34.4	It feels like it could have been written yesterday, really.
1:38.2	So although it was written a few decades ago,
1:40.7	it still feels really sort of fresh and new. So I'm going to start in just a second but first of all just one question for you to consider
1:47.9	before you listen to this okay? My question is about people watching.
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