The Ramble Before Christmas 🎄 [966] Listen & Learn English with Luke
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 176 minutes
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Summary
[966] Here is a super-long seasonal rambling episode, which you can listen to while wrapping presents, finishing some last-minute gift shopping, or (if you don't celebrate Christmas) just doing whatever you normally do in December. This is a long one, but the more you listen, the more it will help your English! 💪🎅
📄 Get the PDF with all my notes here https://teacherluke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/The-Ramble-Before-Christmas-966-Episode-PDF.pdf
🔗 Episode page on my website https://teacherluke.co.uk/2025/12/15/the-ramble-before-christmas-966-listen-learn-english-with-luke/
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Join me as I chat to you in English for nearly 3 hours about:
- LEPster listening habits in 2025 (Spotify Wrapped) 🎧
- Messages and emails with funny stories from LEPsters 📧
- Bits of grammar & vocabulary teaching ✍️
- ChatGPT's questionable teaching skills 🤖🤔
- AI hallucinations 😵💫
- Dreaming in English 💭
- Responses to recent episodes 💬
- 12 jokes dissected in the Comedy Corner 😂 🐸
- More funny comments from my daughter 👧
- Another dramatic Hollywood action movie screenplay 🎥
...and finally a vocabulary quiz for the whole episode. ✅
All of that in your Christmas stocking 🧦 this week, with cosy log fire background sounds 🔥 as well.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | For more information, visit teacher luke.com.com. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello, listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | How are you doing today? I hope you're doing fine. I have an epic rambling episode lined up for you today. It's a Christmas special and one of the last episodes of the year. I've got a couple of other episodes planned before the end of 2025 and then a brand new start for 2026. |
| 0:41.9 | But this is one of the final episodes of the year. |
| 0:44.5 | And it's probably going to be a long one. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm going to be reading from some PDF notes that I prepared earlier. |
| 0:51.1 | You can get all of those notes on the episode PDF, which you can find linked |
| 0:56.5 | in the episode description. So just check the description, check the show notes. That's where you'll |
| 1:01.9 | find a link to download the PDF where you can read pretty much everything I'm going to be saying |
| 1:06.1 | in this episode, except perhaps for some moments when I improvise or go off script. |
| 1:13.2 | Okay. |
| 1:14.2 | Right. |
| 1:14.7 | So let's start the PDF in five. |
| 1:17.3 | Actually, wait a minute. |
| 1:18.2 | I've got to start the lovely relaxing fireplace sounds, the sounds of a burning fireplace, |
| 1:26.7 | which is traditional at Christmas. I like to have the sounds of a burning fireplace, which is traditional at Christmas. I like to have the |
| 1:30.2 | sounds of a fire burning in the background during the Christmas episode just in order to set the |
| 1:36.4 | right tone, create the right cozy Christmas atmosphere. So let me just... There you go. Can you |
| 1:42.3 | hear that in the background? I don't want it too loud. |
| 1:45.0 | It's too loud. |
| 1:46.0 | It makes it sound like the podcasting room is on fire. |
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