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

How to write well in English ✍️ (with Fabio Cerpelloni) [975]

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

Luke Thompson

Pronunciation, London, British, Education, Teaching, Language Learning, Comedy, Grammar, Learn, Listening, Speaker, Learning, Vocabulary, Accent, Uk, Podcast, Language

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

What skills are involved in being a good writer? What makes a good piece of writing? How is writing different to speaking? What are the challenges faced by learners of English who want to write well, and what are some solutions to these challenges? How can AI help develop writing skills? And, what does it take to write your own book in English? These are all questions which I talk about in this episode, with the help of professional writer and returning guest Fabio Cerpelloni.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Luke's English Podcast.

0:06.2

For more information, visit teacher luke.co.com.

0:13.6

Hello, listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast.

0:18.9

How are you doing today? I hope you're doing fine.

0:21.4

So let me tell you what I have lined up for you in this episode. So this time, I've decided to turn our attention to writing in English.

0:30.4

The plan is just to talk about the whole subject, a discussion on writing and writing skills, including considerations of what skills are involved

0:41.4

in being a good writer, what makes a good piece of writing, what are the challenges faced

0:47.7

by learners of English who want to write well, what are some solutions to those challenges,

0:53.2

the experiences of using AI to help develop

0:56.8

writing skills, and even what it takes to write your own book in English. To do this today,

1:03.8

I've enlisted the help of Fabio Churpeloni, who you might remember from his previous

1:09.4

appearance on this podcast. He was in episode number 850,

1:13.6

which was called Any Language You Want with Fabio Chirpollone. Let me just give you some background info about Fabio.

1:20.6

So Fabio Churpollone is an Italian writer, writing teacher, ghost writer. That means he writes work for other people who then put their name on it.

1:32.9

Blogger, author, English language tutor, YouTuber and podcaster. In terms of Fabio's credentials,

1:41.9

he's a fully qualified teacher of English. He's got the SELTA, that's the

1:45.4

certificate in English language teaching to adults, the Delta, that's the higher diploma in English

1:50.4

language teaching to adults. He also has a master's degree in professional development for language

1:55.9

education, and he's got the Cambridge C2 certificateificate of Proficiency in English.

2:01.8

And as you will hear all of that, all of those things involved doing a lot of writing.

2:06.3

Fabio's been an English teacher for years, working at the British Council and also at other institutions.

2:12.2

He is a writer for the EL Gazette and also for storylearning.com, which is one of the biggest language learning

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