Bonus episode #108 – Odds and ends

Culips Everyday English Podcast

Culips English Podcast

Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

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🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Andrew shares a story about trying to clean out his junk drawer and exchange some of the coins he's been saving up for the past few years at the bank. What seemed like a simple task turns out to be surprisingly complicated. Tune in to hear all the details of this everyday adventure and improve your English at the same time!

This episode will help you improve your English in several ways:

* Listening Skills: Practice understanding naturally spoken English through Andrew's engaging story about cleaning his junk drawer and exchanging coins at the bank.
* Vocabulary Building: Expand your vocabulary with new words and expressions related to household tasks and banking, such as "odds and ends," "spare change," "cash out," and "paid off."
* Pronunciation Practice: Improve your pronunciation by shadowing Andrew's speech throughout the episode, helping you become a clearer and more confident speaker.
* English Speaking Practice: Enhance your speaking skills by joining discussions with other listeners on the Culips Discord server.

Important links:

* Become a Culips member
* Study with the interactive transcript
* Join the Culips Discord server
* Small-group discussion class schedule
* Simplified Speech 189 - Company’s coming

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Q-Lips English podcast. How is it going? My name is Andrew and you are listening to Bonus
0:06.4	episode number 108. In our Bonus episode series I tell you some stories from my everyday life as a Canadian living abroad in
0:16.0	South Korea and I hope that by listening to these stories you will be able to Big Bee.
0:22.0	Big Bee is the motto for this series and it stands for build your fluency,
0:26.4	increase your knowledge of the culture of English speaking people,
0:30.3	grow your vocabulary and become a better and clearer communicator in English.
0:36.0	So if those are some of your goals with your English learning and English study,
0:40.0	then you've come to the right place and I hope that you will enjoy today's episode.
0:45.0	Before we get started with my story for today, let me tell you about the free interactive transcript and vocabulary glossary that is available for this episode for everybody.
0:56.0	It's 100% completely free.
0:58.2	It works great on mobile.
0:59.8	It works great on your computer.
1:02.0	It works great if you want to download it as a
1:04.0	PDF, although I have to say if you download it as a PDF then the
1:08.1	interactive function of the transcript is no longer available. That's a
1:12.3	digital only feature, but there is a
1:14.3	PDF version as well if that's what you like to study with. So to get the
1:18.9	transcript and the vocabulary glossary, just visit the link that's in the
1:23.4	description for this episode and you can do that and if you're a Q-Lips
1:27.2	member then we'll also throw in a comprehension quiz. Now speaking of
1:32.4	Q-Lips membership if you would like to support the work that we do here and also
1:36.6	improve your English language skills at the same time, then I highly recommend that you sign up and become a QLPS member.
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