Simplified Speech #152 – Do you celebrate any international days?

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Everyone knows about Christmas and Valentine’s Day, but do you know there’s a Strange Music Day and a Burger Day? In this Simplified Speech episode, Andrew and Kassy explore the wonderful world of international days. Give it a listen and you might discover a special day just for you! Simplified Speech is a Culips series where our hosts have a clear and natural conversation designed to help beginner and intermediate English language learners improve their skills. Fun facts Most special international days are joyful events meant to focus interest in some area of life. However, International Workers’ Day has a long political history of protests and riots aiming to improve the rights of workers across the world. It is celebrated on May 1st in most countries. In North America, it is celebrated on the first Monday of September and is called Labour Day. Expressions included in the study guide To raise awareness To be a riot Just because Avant-garde/cutting edge To be out there To do some digging It just so happens To stand out Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Step On by Jahzzar Image: Blessing Ri (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello there everyone my name's Andrew and I'm Cassie and this is the
0:07.6	Culeps English podcast
0:17.9	hey there friends, welcome back to Kuleps. We've got a simplified speech episode for you today. Simplified speech is our series which features clear natural and easy to
0:25.4	understand English conversations about an interesting topic. Today I'm
0:31.0	joined by my co-host Cassie. Hey Cassie.
0:34.0	Hello everyone and hi to you Andrew.
0:37.0	Hello.
0:38.0	Yes.
0:40.0	So everyone today we've got a pretty fun topic to discuss.
0:43.7	Andrew and I are going to be chatting about
0:46.6	International Days. You know, the kind of special days of the year where you
0:52.0	promote a global cause or raise awareness about something
0:56.8	or even just cute theme days like National Ice Cream Day. Yes, exactly. So everyone we're going to talk about our
1:07.6	opinions about these kind of international days and we'll also talk about some interesting or funny international days that are coming up here in the summer.
1:20.0	So yeah, Cassie, I think this episode is going to be a riot.
1:24.0	Yes, so listen carefully and write these on your calendar.
1:28.0	But before we get started, we want to let everyone know that there is a study guide and transcript available for this episode
1:36.4	You can access it on our website QLips.com and it's available for all QLPS members.
1:43.5	We created it to help build your English skills
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