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

Luke Thompson

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4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Help me build my pod-castle! Vote here:

http://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote

Click the link and search for "luke's english podcast"

Thank you to everyone who's already voted.

Fingers crossed! 🤞🤞🤞

Vocabulary in this Mini Episode

to be in with a chance (of doing something)
you need to achieve certain milestones
it shows that you're getting somewhere, you're making progress
it's a flag you can wave or a banner you can show to people
you need flags you can fly from the top of the castle
to fly the flag of victory
I'm asking you to do me a favour in return for the free things I've been giving to you
"I can't be bothered"
"I think I'll just not bother"
it would mean the world to me
it's up to you whether I actually get this or not
I'm hoping, praying, wondering whether or not it's actually possible
listen to me begging!
that would be a nice birthday present, wouldn't it?
get your skates on
don't hang around
don't put it off, it's not the washing up!
you need to do it sooner rather than later
don't leave it until the last minute
men, women and any other denomination you choose to respect
I didn't video the second one because I'd run out of memory on my camera-thing
I was up for about an hour and a half at a very ungodly hour
she got a bit over-excited
I've got a dry, painful, sore throat and I've got a blocked-up nose
it's raining and its a bit chilly

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello folks how are you doing just recording this as a quick message not a full episode of the podcast
0:05.4	But a quick message from me to you because I want to talk about the British podcast awards
0:10.6	The listeners choice category. You know don't't you? Of course you know, Luke's
0:14.3	English podcast is in with a chance of winning and I just felt a disturbance in the
0:21.4	force this weekend. I just told me that this my intuition just told me that this year could be the year
0:30.0	for Luke's English podcast. And I think that the podcast is in with a chance,
0:37.0	but the only way that that could happen is if I somehow managed to activate all of those ninjas out there.
0:45.0	Now I've had lots of indications from Facebook and stuff that people have been writing
0:51.0	there saying that they'd voted. Also on my website and some emails and
0:56.0	stuff have been coming in from people saying, done, Luke, I've voted. Thanks for your
1:00.7	podcast. Thanks for helping us with our English.
1:04.0	You deserve this. I've voted for you.
1:06.0	If you have done that, thank you very, very much.
1:09.0	If you voted for Luke's English podcast, thank you so much.
1:12.0	It means a lot. And this kind of thing,
1:16.0	you know, like awards and stuff like that, it's sort of symbolic and these kinds of things become like milestones for something like a podcast and you know
1:28.6	when you're when you're doing a project like this you, something like a podcast which is free and stuff like that,
1:36.2	you kind of need to achieve certain milestones and winning awards even though it's kind of just an award really, winning an award can be a symbolic thing which shows that you're getting somewhere, that you're actually managing to make some progress. And also it's like a flag that you can wave or a banner that you can show to people as if to say,
2:03.7	look, this is a proper thing.
2:06.6	It's not just some guy with a microphone.
2:09.4	I mean, it is just some guy with a microphone,
2:11.6	but it's more than that.
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