first of all

So I'm gonna start in just a second, but first of all, just one question for you to consider before you listen to this, okay?

Bir saniye içinde başlayacağım, ama her şeyden önce, bunu dinlemeden önce düşünmeniz gereken tek bir soru var, tamam mı?

872. The Birthday Party (Learn English with a Short Story)

Um, first of all, the customer is always right.

Şey, her şeyden önce, müşteri her zaman haklıdır.

The Ones to Cheer You Up | Friends

First of all, let's talk about Gen Z.

Öncelikle, Z kuşağı hakkında konuşalım.

Only Advanced Students Will Understand This News Article

Seriously, let's go back and forth. Stop accepting the bare minimum. First of all, this is her life. She does not owe anybody details or explanations.

Cidden, karşılıklı konuşalım. Asgariyi kabul etmeyi bırakın. Her şeyden önce, bu onun hayatı. Kimseye detay veya açıklama borcu yok.

the cost of pretty privilege

So, first of all, you have to watch this video in the link. Now, I want you to come back to this video and answer the questions and learn about the new vocabulary in the video.

Öncelikle, bağlantıdaki bu videoyu izlemeniz gerekiyor. Şimdi, bu videoya geri dönmenizi, soruları yanıtlamanızı ve videodaki yeni kelimeleri öğrenmenizi istiyorum.

Improve your English watching the NEWS // Can you understand the news in English?

hello video viewers how are you doing today so here's another video from me to you and in this one i'm going to tell you a story i'm going to be reading extracts from this book uh the war of the worlds this one actually has two books in it but i'm just going to be reading from extracts of the war of the worlds a classic science fiction story written by h.g wells okay there will be text on the screen so you can read with me and i'm going to start recording the audio for my podcast in just a second okay so you will be able to listen to this as a normal episode of the audio podcast so i think it's probably time do i need to say anything else to you i don't think so um i mean i'm gonna say the mo the main part of this will be me reading the story to you and it's a cracking story it is it's a fan it's one of my favorite books of all time and so yeah reading stories is a great way to to work on your english and reading and listening at the same time is obviously a very good idea so the main focus will be on just telling the story to you and trying to make it interesting and entertaining and explaining a few things as we go to make sure you understand um but i'll do a little introduction at the beginning i've got some things to say about my aims for the episode and also about the writing style that you can find in this because this is quite an old book it's over 100 years old now so the language is a little bit different to the english that we use today but it's that's good that's really interesting it's good to get a broad range of english exposure okay time to start recording the audio then and then we'll begin and you'll see the text on the screen in a second okay here we go hello listeners welcome back to luke's english podcast i hope you're doing well today out there in podcast land so it's story time in this episode because i'm going to tell you a classic english science fiction story the story is called war of the worlds by h.g wells the classic storyteller who also wrote the invisible man and the time machine and you've probably heard of war of the worlds because it is definitely one of the most famous and most influential science fiction stories ever written now i know that science fiction is not everyone's cup of tea right but i do hope that you stick around and listen to this story because i think this is just particularly good writing and the story is very exciting immersive and memorable so it should be a really enjoyable way to pick up some more english i won't be reading the whole book of course but i will be reading some selected extracts and giving you a summary of the key details in the first part of the story okay so if you want you could you know pick up the story yourself pick up the book and read the rest anyway i'll be i'll be covering sort of main parts of the first section of the of the book let me tell you my aims for this episode because i'm you know i'm trying to be serious about this trying to do this properly to help you learn english so i've got some aims objectives for the episode so first of all first and foremost i'd like to entertain you with a really engaging story in english and stories are a great way to get more english into your head and if they are exciting and immersive stories then that's even better secondly i want to show you a slightly old-fashioned version of english which is really rich in descriptive language and more formal in style than today's english it's good to be exposed to diverse versions of the language old-fashioned english is much more like modern formal english right so especially formal writing that we write today is much more like old fashioned english was all the time so basically studying a bit of old-fashioned english is quite a good lesson in style it will help you to understand formal english writing a little bit better maybe and this can generally just strengthen your english in various ways and i'd like to help you notice some nice bits of vocabulary along the way and as we know having a broad range of vocabulary is essential in achieving truly advanced english and this story is very rich in descriptive language also i'd like to inspire you perhaps to read the rest of the book and reading is such an important thing to do for your english and maybe you're looking for interesting books to read in that case you could consider this one it's not too long i've got a copy of the book here with me you can hear the pages of the book there and um yeah so i don't know how many pages is the war of the worlds it's it's about 173 pages long it's it's pretty short really by most standards so i think it's doable you could consider reading this if you want to know the whole story so this is also available as a video episode on youtube and if you watch you can see me recording the podcast with the text on the screen next to my face i don't know what's going to be more horrific the contents of this story or just seeing my face up close i don't know which one is going to be more frightening for you anyway so you can watch the video it's on my youtube channel and then you can listen and read at the same time and you can see me telling the story if that helps you can also read the entire text i'm reading from on the page for this episode at teacherluke.co.uk right so let me give you the context of the story and give a few comments about the writing style this is going to be fairly brief and then we'll jump straight into the actual proper you know contents of the story here so war of the worlds has been adapted lots of times in films most famously the 2005 steven spielberg film with tom cruise which you might have seen and another film version in the 1950s set in los angeles an audiobook musical version read by richard burton and an infamous dramatized radio series by orson welles this is the original alien invasion story this book was one of the very first stories to ever explore these themes and to describe these kinds of things in such a realistic way this is the one that has inspired so many others and in my opinion none of the other versions of this story or copies of this story can compare to this original version from 1897. the writing is very realistic and journalistic in style written from the first person perspective of a guy just experiencing the events as they happened and describing everything in great detail here's a note about the language and the writing style so the language is pretty old-fashioned you know it's from 1897 victorian times but it's really well written and it should be interesting for you and useful for your english to explore another slightly different version of this language exposure to to different types of english makes your english stronger i think and as we pass through this i will point out particular words or phrases as we go and perhaps compare this to normal modern plain english so it could be an interesting comparison uh sometimes i mean i've got to focus on telling you the story that's my main focus my main aim but every now and then i'll stop and just clarify or explain things or give comments on bits of english that we'll see comparing the styles of languages actually gives you more perspective on normal modern english and how formal written english today still retains some aspects of old fashioned language there's quite a lot of language you might find in legal documents or other very formal situations you know words like therein hereby forthwith and sing and things like that are quite common in this book as well as certain structures longer sentences and choices of words which mark this out in a particular style this is very descriptive literary language from over 100 years ago it's more complex than today's english more formal than today's english and very specific in its descriptions this will probably be a challenge for you but i'm here to help and i will explain things as we go also this is quite scary stuff i have to add actually that having re-read some of this story in preparation for this episode i hadn't realized just how terrifying the story is personally i really enjoy the thrills that you get from a story like this but if you are feeling a bit force sensitive today you might want to get a pillow or hide behind the sofa or something like that a couple of useful links and sources i should name before starting so here are a couple of links i have found useful in making this episode first of all project gutenberg so i have uh several paperback copies of this book myself um but i also found the book online at guttenberg.org that's g-u-t-e-n-b-e-r-g guttenberg.org this is a website which shares stories and books which are now in the public domain and the war of the worlds is in the public domain so you can actually get free online versions of this story and i got mine at gutenberg.org in fact there is a link to the html version of this book uh which you'll find in the description in fact all links and things links to parts two and three of this episode series you'll find those in the description too any useful stuff there they're going to be in the description including course hero study notes uh there's a website called coursehero.com which has useful summaries of the story and other useful information and i paraphrased and took some of the you know quoted some of the um summaries from coursehero.com as well okay so we're we are ready to start the story now okay so let me summarize the opening chapters in fact i'm going to read the i'm going to read the opening uh i'm going to read the opening paragraphs of the book to you now these paragraphs set the scene in which the events take place and note the somber tone and specific choice of language somber tone it's like dark and serious and the specific choice of language by the way i should mention that the main character of this story we don't know his name he's an unnamed narrator a narrator is someone who is telling the story but we know that he's a middle class educated man who writes philosophical papers and is interested in science that's all we know basically the story is written in the past tense as if he's looking back on those events and has written a full account of what happened so let's start then with the first few paragraphs of this story chapter one the eve of war the eve of war this is like you know just before the war okay um and here we go so no one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own that as men busy themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water that's a great opening to a book don't you think that is one single sentence as well by the way one sentence one long sentence um no one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that this world was being watched keenly meaning closely with great focus uh and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own that as men busyed themselves about their various concerns as men meaning people went around in a busy fashion um about their various you know issues concerns that they had to deal with they were scrutinized scrutinized meaning studied and examined very carefully and watched closely and studied perhaps almost as narrowly or specifically as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water so if you are a scientist looking at microorganisms on a slide in a drop of water through a microscope in the same way these intelligences have been watching us which is quite interesting comparing us to microorganisms which kind of gives us a sense of just how more advanced and more powerful these other intelligences are let's continue with infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs serene in their assurance of their empire over mata it is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same so complacency when you're complacent it means that you are confident and self-assured you're relaxed because you're certain that everything is all right that you're doing really well okay and the idea is that uh people humans are complacent in their position in the natural order of things that we are the dominant species on earth we don't have many predators that are a daily concern and this has made us complacent that we are we've just very self-assured that we are um you know that we are um the masters of our environment and with infinite complacency men went to and fro meaning went here and there back and forth over this globe about their little affairs their business affairs serene in their assurance of their empire over mata serene is calm and peaceful we were so calm and peaceful in our assurance in our certainty of our empire over mata that we were the we were the ones in control of everything of stuff mata it is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same infusoria i suppose means like the little microorganisms in the drop of water under the microscope okay no one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable it is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days at most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon mars perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise so apparently before the events of this story people were you know people maybe thought there might be some life on mars but probably inferior to us and they would probably welcome a visit from us because we would be there to help them and you know they would bow down to us as our as their colonial masters kind of thing yet across the gulf of space minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us and early in the 20th century came the great disillusionment that's a good opening opening um extract from a from a book don't you think across the gulf of space golf meaning the space the the the emptiness of space minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish so in the sense that our minds are greater than the animals and in the same way their minds are greater than ours so we become like animals to them um and these their intellects are vast meaning massive huge and cool so unemotional and unsympathetic as well they don't care about us regarded this earth watched this earth with envious eyes they were jealous it does explain later in this pat in this uh chapter that basically the martians um they live on mars right and you know mars is further from the sun than the earth it's the next planet away from the sun and their planet is getting cooler and cooler all the time so we these days we've got global warming but in the story the martians are afraid of global cooling and it's making their habit their planet uninhabitable i'll explain this in a minute and so they are looking at earth because they would like to colonize the earth in order to survive as a species and early in the 20th century came the great disillusionment the great disillusionment meaning a great change in human consciousness when we realized we were no longer or we weren't actually the top of the food chain so let me summarize the story up until chapter four i'm going to start reading from the book again at chapter four so that opening chapter describes how um species i think it's a species uh a species of intelligent creatures on mars has had been observing us for many years before the events of this story the opening chapter goes on to explain that the martians were planning to invade earth because their home planet was steadily getting cooler year after year due to the fact that it's further from the sun than the earth they faced extinction on their own planet and so they set their sights on their nearest neighbor earth with its warmer atmosphere and closer position to the sun and with their superior mathematical knowledge and technology they decided they would colonize earth in order to survive they spent years observing us and planning the invasion and by the way here's a note sort of language note i'm using present tenses from now on to describe this story and this is a normal way to retell the plot of a book film or play right and since i am sort of recounting uh the plot of this book i'm using present tenses okay this is because the events of the story are permanent because they never change they are written into the book that way so we can use present tenses to summarize the story of a book or film in english and it's probably the same in your language too all right so let's keep going now the the narrator of this story has a friend his his name is uh ogilvy and ogilvy is a respected astronomer a scientist who observes the the stars he has a telescope and uses it to observe the night sky including the surface of mars our nearest neighbor so ogilvy is our friend and he's an astronomer six years before the main events of the story ogilvy invites the narrator to an observatory a place where you can observe the sky to study mars after another astronomer reported a dramatic explosion of gas on the surface of the planet which seems to be directed towards earth the narrator observes a similar explosion as he watches through the telescope right so scientists have observed explosions on mars and ogilvy s says to the narrator come over to the observatory and have a look at mars and so he looks through the telescope and while he's looking he sees some of these explosions now um ogilvy doubts the existence of life on mars and speculates the phenomenon may be related to meteorites or volcanoes many other people witness the phenomenon which repeats itself at midnight over a total of 10 days so midnight every night for 10 days explosions on the surface of mars nobody at the time is concerned or worried about the explosions on mars six years later some people see a falling star right but a falling star is essentially a piece of rock an asteroid which burns through the earth's atmosphere and maybe lands to earth as a meteorite so some people see a falling star a meteorite which flies through the night sky with a bright green flash and lands nearby near the nearby where the narrator lives on horsel common horse all common is a large area of grass meadows and trees sort of just south west of london again nobody assumes there is anything weird going on ogilvy the astronomer is interested in the meteorite and finds it on the common he goes down to investigate and he finds it as it has landed it has formed a large crater of sand so it's impacted on the ground pushing all the sand uh you know to to the sides creating a sort of sand pit so the object is lying at the bottom of a kind of large sand pit in the middle of an open area of grassland surrounded by buildings and trees the meteorite that ogilvy finds is quite odd it's in a cylindrical shape like a long can of coke sort of a cylinder cylinder kind of shape like a long can of coke or maybe a um a can of beer or something odd sort of cylindrical shape but ogilvy thinks that it's made of rock because it's covered in a kind of crusty layer it's also extremely hot and he can't get near it but he notices that there are weird sounds coming from inside it he assumes these are noises caused by the object cooling but as he continues to observe it he realizes that something funny is going on the crusty layer is slowly falling off like ash as the object cools revealing a kind of metallic surface underneath and even weirder than that the end of the cylinder appears to be turning very slowly as if it is unscrewing very slowly ogilvy suddenly assumes that the cylinder has people inside it and decides to get help and off he goes to try and get help but nobody believes him eventually he finds a journalist who is willing to check the cylinder henderson his name is a crowd of people begins to gather as word spreads about men from space stuck inside a cylinder on the common people don't quite realize what's going on but they are incredibly curious normal life continues with people stopping by to have a look at the object in the sand pit before continuing their normal routines so the narrator of the story goes down to horsel common to check out what's going on a larger crowd has gathered there he manages to squeeze through the crowd which is getting more and more excited and adjective and agitated a small group of scientists including the narrator's friend ogilvy are in the pit attempting to work out what is happening the narrator observes what is going on and comments on how most people are not really educated about this kind of thing and they haven't worked out what's going on but he assumes that the cylinder must be extraterrestrial it must be you know from somewhere not on earth from outer space he observes the end of the cylinder moving and as it turns it's revealing a kind of shining metal thread uh metal thread i'll give you an example of that on a screw you get you get metal thread trying to show you an example here on the video there you go this is this is a metal thread you see this is this is a kind of screw so as as the end of the cylinder is is slowly unscrewing it's revealing uh this kind of metal thread like it's a screw wow technology all right um the next chapter describes what happens when the end of the cylinder finally drops off revealing what is inside so i'm now going to read chapters four and five with comments and explanations as i go so picture the scene on the middle of a grassy common with trees and buildings in the distance not far from london the object has landed in the sand creating a kind of pit people are crowding around the ob the the end is unscrewing from this thing no one really knows what's going on the narrator approaches the pit containing the cylinder uh crowns of people are all around the pit trying to see what's happening they're pushing each other a bit and things are quite tense you know when a large crowd forms people start pushing and shoving and it's often quite stressful ogilvy and some of the other scientists and henderson the journalist are in the pit the sun is starting to go down as well in the distance right so chapter four the cylinder opens the crowd about the pit had increased and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky a couple of hundred people perhaps there were raised voices and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on about the pit strange imaginings passed through my mind as i drew nearer i heard stent's voice keep back keep back a boy came running towards me it's a move-in he said to me as he passed a screw-in and a screwing out i don't like it i'm a going home i am i went on to the crowd there were really i should think two or three hundred people elbowing and jostling one another the one or two ladies there being by no means the least active so there's people jostling like sort of jostling for position pushing and shoving and including a couple of ladies in there who are also doing a fair amount of shoving and pushing and elbowing he's fallen into the pit cried someone keep back said several the crowd swayed a little and i elbowed my way through everyone seemed greatly excited i heard a peculiar humming sound from the pit a humming sound would be a kind of [Laughter] that sort of thing i say said ogilvy keep these idiots back we don't know what's in the confounded thing you know so i say is a bit like kind of saying uh oh for goodness sake or oh god or something like that it's an exclamation i say very old-fashioned keep these idiots back we don't know what's in the confounded thing the confounded thing that's like in what's in the damn thing or in the bloody thing for the most part the language is really quite similar to the way we speak these days but just occasional words and some structures are different i saw a young man a shop assistant in woking i believe he was standing on the cylinder and trying to scramble out of the hole again the crowd had pushed him in the end of the cylinder was being screwed out from within nearly two feet of shining screw projected that's about 60 centimeters someone blundered against me they bumped into me and i narrowly missed being pitched on top of the screw i turned and as i did so the screw must have come out for the lid of the cylinder fell upon the gravel with a ringing concussion so he turned because someone pushed him and the screw must have fallen out while he wasn't looking because it as it landed it kind of went boom made a ringing concussion sound i stuck my elbow into the person behind me and turned my head towards the thing again for a moment that circular cavity seemed perfectly black i had the sunset in my eyes i think everyone expected to see a man emerge possibly something a little unlike us terrestrial men but in all essentials a man i know i did but looking i presently saw something stirring within the shadow grayish billowy movements one after another and then two luminous discs like eyes then something resembling a little grey snake about the thickness of a walking stick coiled up out of the writhing middle and wriggled in the air towards me and then another okay he looked into the darkness into the shadows and saw something stirring something moving around like maybe the beginnings of movement um something stirring within the shadow grayish billowy movements grayish kind of grayish in color kind of gray billowy this is a good one so to billow is a verb and so two examples smoke billows if there's a lot of smoke pouring out that kind of movement the way the smoke moves out in ever increasing circumference is it it billows also if you have a big sheet like a bed sheet and you've hung it out in the garden and it's being blown by the wind the sheet will billow like that as well so grayish billowy movements unclear one above another and then two luminous discs like eyes luminous means sort of glowing in the dark slightly then something resembling a little grey snake about the thickness of a walking stick coiled up so to coil uh snakes coil in a circle so this coiled up means it kind of uncoiled itself out of the writhing middle and wriggled in the air towards me a sudden chill came over me there was a loud shriek from a woman beside behind a shriek is a kind of a scream a shocked and frightened scream i half turned keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still from which other tentacles were now projecting and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me i heard inarticulate exclamations on all sides exclamations like shouts and you know words spoken in shock inarticulate so people not really able to express themselves just noises of shock and and terror there was a general movement backwards i saw the shop man struggling still on the edge of the pit i found myself alone and saw the people on the other side of the pit running off stent among them i looked again at the cylinder and ungovernable terror gripped me i stood petrified and staring ungovernable terror ungovernable meaning uncontrollable terror gripped me held held him i stood petrified and staring petrified means frozen unable to move and staring is looking intensely a grayish rounded bulk the size perhaps of a bear was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder as it bulged up and caught the light it glistened like wet leather a grayish a big grayish rounded bulk a bulk is a sort of a large round kind of heavy shape the size perhaps of a bear was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder as it bulged up to bulges to kind of expand and swell as it bulged up as it came up out of the cylinder and caught the light it glistened like wet leather so to glisten so if something is wet and the light catches it it kind of glistens it's a bit like glitter sort of shines shimmers like like a like a wet road in the middle of the night in the moonlight in this case this odd thing glistened like wet leather in the light two large dark colored eyes were regarding me steadfastly the mass that framed them the head of the thing was rounded and had one might say a face there was a mouth under the eyes the lipless brim of which quivered and panted and dropped saliva the whole creature heaved and pulsated convulsively a lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder another swayed in the air so two large dark-coloured eyes were regarding me watching me steadfastly like without moving without blinking the mass that framed them the head of the thing was rounded and had one might say a face there was a mouth under the eyes the lipless brim of which quivered and panted so the mouth was there the brim of the mouth brim could mean like the the edge like the edge of a cup is the brim of a couple or the edge of a glass okay but the brim in this case the brim um of the mouth is like the edge of the mouth and it's the lipless brim so they don't have lips there's just a weird edge of them of this of its mouth and it quivered and panted so to quiver means to shake quickly shake like that sort of um if you're very cold you might quiver but the mouth of this horrible creature is quivering shaking and it's panting as well so pant is like what a um a dog does on a hot day if it's been running around it will pant it sticks its tongue out and like that so the thing is horrible it's quivering and panting and it's dropping saliva from its mouth the whole creature heaved and pulsated convulsively it heaved suggested that it sort of was maybe breathing with difficulty or moving heavily and it pulsated sort of hmm pulsate is sort of like maybe throbbed uh convulsively like without being able to stop itself it just sort of like maybe a bit like maybe um uh blowing up a balloon and as the balloon swells up and goes down up and down up and down it's pulsating convulsively oh my goodness those who've never seen a living martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of its appearance the peculiar v-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip the absence of brow ridges your brow is basically the area above your eyes your eyebrows your hair your forehead um no brow ridge so just flat from the head flat all the way over to the eyes the absence of a chin beneath the wedge-like lower lip the incessant quivering of its mouth that's like shaking and moving quickly the gorgon groups of tentacles the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth above all the extraordinarily intensity of the immense eyes were at once vital intense inhuman crippled and monstrous there was something fungoid in the oily brown skin something in the clumsy deliberation of the of tedious movements unspeakably nasty even at this first encounter this first glimpse i was overcome with disgust and dread wonderful descriptive language so let me just go through some of those things again i've talked about the absence of brow ridges uh quivering of its mouth the gorgon groups of tentacles so gorgon this comes from greek mythology um medusa the gorgon the gorgons were three sisters and they had uh snakes for hair and um if you look them in the eyes you would turn to stone they were that scary and cursed so gorgons were mythical creatures with snakes for heads so they have gorgon groups of tentacles so sort of evoking uh the story of medusa there the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in in the in the strange atmosphere so tumultuous meaning sort of like um uneven and desperate so breathing heavily um the evident heaviness evident meaning obvious the obvious heavy the obvious heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth and above all the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes were at once vital intense inhuman crippled and monstrous there was something fungoid in the oily brown skin fungoid meaning like a fungus fungus that would include things like mushrooms and mold so the the uh the oily brown skin was somehow kind of like a fungus in texture something in the clumsy deliberation of the tedious movements unspeakably nasty even at this first encounter this first glimpse i was overcome with disgust and dread whoa a glimpse is a quick look he was overcome overpowered with a sense of disgust and dread and i feel like this is a bit like if you spend any length of time staring at a nasty looking insect or even just a picture of a nasty horrible looking insect imagine the most horrible insect or s or just spider and staring at it or staring at a picture of it it kind of makes your skin crawl almost sort of instinctively that's what he was feeling just even glimpsing at it at this thing made him completely disgusted and full of dread on an almost sort of genetic level suddenly the monster vanished it had toppled over the brim of the cylinder and fallen into the pit with a thud like the fall of a great mass of leather i heard it give a peculiar thick cry and forthwith another of these creatures appeared darkly in the deep shadow of the aperture so the monster disappeared because it toppled over it kind of fell over the brim of the cylinder and fell into the pit with a thud like the fall of a great mass of leather kind of fell on the ground as if it was someone had dropped a big pile of leather on the ground thunk i heard it give a peculiar thick cry and forthwith meaning immediately another of these creatures appeared darkly in the deep shadow of the aperture the aperture meaning the opening of the cylinder i turned and running madly made for the first group of trees perhaps a hundred yards away but i ran slantingly but i ran slantingly and stumbling for i could not avert my face from these things so he started to run away maybe about 100 yards but he was running sort of diagonally and he kept looking back there among some young pine trees and furs bushes i stopped panting and waited further developments so he ran under the cover of some trees and just sort of waited the common round the sand pits was dotted with people standing like myself in a half-fascinated terror staring at these creatures or rather at the heaped gravel at the edge of the pit in which they lay and then with a renewed horror i saw a round black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit it was the head of the shop man who had fallen in but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun now he got his shoulder and knee up and again he seemed to slip back until only his head was visible suddenly he vanished and i could have fancied a faint shriek had reached me i had a momentary impulse to go back and help him that my fears overruled everything was then quite invisible hidden by the deep pit and the heap of sand that the fall of the cylinder had made anyone coming along the road from chobham or woking would have been amazed at the site a dwindling multitude of perhaps 100 people or more standing in a great irregular circle in ditches behind bushes behind gates and hedges saying little to one another in short excited shouts and staring staring hard at a few heaps of sand a barrow of ginger beer stood a queer derelict black against the burning sky and in the sand pits was a row of deserted vehicles with their horses feeding out of nosebags or pouring at the ground wow what a powerful scene so everyone's seen the aliens very briefly and run away and run back and they're sort of paralyzed with fear staring from different vantage points at the pit but everything seems kind of peaceful weirdly enough and h.g wells paints this lovely picture this kind of weird bizarre kind of post-apocalyptic atmosphere a barrow of ginger beer so a bit ginger beer is a drink a barrow of ginger beer would be i guess a cart of ginger beer just like an object a queer derelict black against the burning sky queer meaning strange and a derelict is is like a building or a machine that nobody uses anymore it's been abandoned maybe it's damaged or something so this sort of cart with ginger beer in it stands like a queer derelict like a strange un um a strange abandoned machine black against the burning sky silhouetted and in the sand pits was a row of deserted vehicles with their horses feeding out of nosebags or pouring the ground um right here's a summary of chapter four okay everybody how are you doing you're right you're managing to stay focused i don't know if it's difficult to stay focused during this i know the story well now i've read it many times so i know like i know it sort of really really closely the first time you listened to this it might be a little bit confusing some of the language is a bit specific anyway i'm now going to give you a summary of chapter 4 what we've just read in plain english just to make sure that you are understanding everything so as the sun sets as the sun goes down the narrator returns to the pit where a few hundred people have gathered a boy warns the narrator that the end of the cylinder has unscrewed itself and the narrator forces his way to the front of the crowd to get a better view ogilvy warns the people to stay away and reminds them of its unknown contents one man is pushed into the pit by the jostling of the crowd the end of the cylinder comes off and falls into the pit the narrator and the crowd are horrified by the grotesque octopus-like appearance of an alien who slowly and painstakingly emerges from the cylinder painstakingly slowly carefully taking a lot of a lot of effort to get things right with a lot with some painful effort it emerges from the cylinder they seem heavy and struggling to breathe in the atmosphere the narrator and the crowd run away from the pit but many including the narrator stop to watch the aliens from a nearby tree line the sun sets leaving enough light to just see the silhouette of the shopkeeper as he tries and fails to get out of the pit alive and that's the end of part one this will be continued in part two what do you think of the story so far listeners come on it's pretty evocative stuff don't you think the descriptions of um moment by moment action the weird grotesque descriptions of these aliens these weird lumbering um aliens what's gonna happen next well you can keep listening or keep watching uh with part two which um if you're certainly the youtube version should be available now okay and the podcast audio version will be available very soon but if you are watching on youtube check the uh description you will probably find links down there uh for uh parts two of this and part three as well okay nice one thank you for listening thank you for watching don't forget to like and subscribe if you're on youtube and listen to luke's english podcast which you can get at teacherloop.co.uk and wherever you get your podcasts for more stories conversations and interesting content to help you learn english listen to my podcast okay that's the end of this part of the video uh we'll pick up the story again in part two but for now it's time to say goodbye bye bye bye bye bye right that's the end of the video nice one nothing more to add here but um stick around and watch part two the story gets more dramatic there's some brilliant moments to come but that's the end of this part for now you

merhaba video izleyicileri bugün nasılsınız bugün benden size bir video daha ve bu videoda size bir hikaye anlatacağım bu kitaptan alıntılar okuyacağım uh dünyalar savaşı bu aslında içinde iki kitap barındırıyor ama ben sadece h.g wells tarafından yazılmış klasik bir bilim kurgu hikayesi olan dünyalar savaşı'ndan alıntılar okuyacağım tamam ekranda metin olacak böylece benimle birlikte okuyabilirsiniz ve podcast'im için ses kaydına birazdan başlayacağım tamam yani bunu sesli podcast'in normal bir bölümü olarak dinleyebileceksiniz sanırım artık zamanı geldi size başka bir şey söylemem gerekiyor mu sanmıyorum um yani şunu söyleyeceğim bunun ana kısmı size hikayeyi okumam olacak ve bu harika bir hikaye gerçekten tüm zamanların en sevdiğim kitaplarından biri ve evet hikaye okumak ingilizcenizi geliştirmek için harika bir yol ve aynı anda hem okuyup hem dinlemek kesinlikle çok iyi bir fikir yani ana odak noktası sadece size hikayeyi anlatmak ve bunu ilginç ve eğlenceli hale getirmeye çalışmak ve anladığınızdan emin olmak için ilerledikçe birkaç şeyi açıklamak olacak um ama başlangıçta küçük bir giriş yapacağım bölüm için hedeflerim ve ayrıca bunun içindeki yazım tarzı hakkında söyleyeceklerim var çünkü bu oldukça eski bir kitap artık 100 yıldan fazla oldu bu yüzden dil bugün kullandığımız ingilizceden biraz farklı ama bu iyi bu gerçekten ilginç ingilizceye geniş bir yelpazede maruz kalmak iyi bir şey tamam o zaman ses kaydına başlama zamanı ve sonra başlayacağız ve bir saniye içinde ekranda metni göreceksiniz tamam işte başlıyoruz merhaba dinleyiciler luke'un ingilizce podcast'ine tekrar hoş geldiniz umarım bugün podcast diyarında iyisinizdir bu bölümde hikaye zamanı çünkü size klasik bir ingiliz bilim kurgu hikayesi anlatacağım hikayenin adı h.g wells tarafından yazılan dünyalar savaşı görünmez adam ve zaman makinesi'ni de yazan klasik hikaye anlatıcısı ve muhtemelen dünyalar savaşı'nı duymuşsunuzdur çünkü kesinlikle şimdiye kadar yazılmış en ünlü ve en etkili bilim kurgu hikayelerinden biridir şimdi bilim kurgunun herkesin zevkine göre olmadığını biliyorum değil mi ama umarım burada kalıp bu hikayeyi dinlersiniz çünkü bunun özellikle iyi bir yazı olduğunu düşünüyorum ve hikaye çok heyecan verici sürükleyici ve akılda kalıcı bu yüzden biraz daha ingilizce kapmak için gerçekten keyifli bir yol olmalı elbette kitabın tamamını okumayacağım ama bazı seçilmiş alıntılar okuyacağım ve hikayenin ilk bölümündeki temel detayların bir özetini vereceğim tamam yani isterseniz hikayeyi kendiniz alıp kitabı alıp geri kalanını okuyabilirsiniz neyse kitabın ilk bölümünün ana kısımlarını ele alacağım bu bölüm için hedeflerimi söyleyeyim çünkü ingilizce öğrenmenize yardımcı olmak için bunu düzgün bir şekilde yapmaya çalışıyorum bu yüzden bölüm için bazı amaçlarım hedeflerim var her şeyden önce sizi ingilizce olarak gerçekten ilgi çekici bir hikaye ile eğlendirmek istiyorum ve hikayeler kafanıza daha fazla ingilizce sokmak için harika bir yoldur ve eğer heyecan verici ve sürükleyici hikayelerse bu daha da iyidir ikincisi size bugün ingilizcesinden daha resmi bir tarzda ve betimleyici dil açısından çok zengin olan biraz eski moda bir ingilizce versiyonu göstermek istiyorum dilin çeşitli versiyonlarına maruz kalmak iyidir eski moda ingilizce modern resmi ingilizceye çok daha benzer değil mi yani özellikle bugün yazdığımız resmi yazılar her zaman eski moda ingilizceye çok daha benzer yani temel olarak biraz eski moda ingilizce çalışmak tarz konusunda oldukça iyi bir derstir resmi ingilizce yazıyı biraz daha iyi anlamanıza yardımcı olabilir belki ve bu genel olarak ingilizcenizi çeşitli şekillerde güçlendirebilir ve yol boyunca bazı güzel kelimeleri fark etmenize yardımcı olmak isterim ve bildiğimiz gibi geniş bir kelime dağarcığına sahip olmak gerçekten ileri düzey ingilizceye ulaşmak için esastır ve bu hikaye betimleyici dil açısından çok zengindir ayrıca belki de kitabın geri kalanını okumanız için size ilham vermek isterim ve okumak ingilizceniz için yapılması gereken çok önemli bir şeydir ve belki okumak için ilginç kitaplar arıyorsunuzdur bu durumda bunu düşünebilirsiniz çok uzun değil kitabın bir kopyası burada yanımda kitabın sayfalarını duyabiliyorsunuz ve um evet dünyalar savaşı kaç sayfa bilmiyorum yaklaşık 173 sayfa çoğu standarda göre oldukça kısa gerçekten yani yapılabilir olduğunu düşünüyorum hikayenin tamamını bilmek istiyorsanız bunu okumayı düşünebilirsiniz bu aynı zamanda youtube'da bir video bölümü olarak da mevcuttur ve izlerseniz podcast'i yüzümün yanında ekranda metinle kaydettiğimi görebilirsiniz bu hikayenin içeriğini görmek mi yoksa sadece yüzümü yakından görmek mi daha korkunç olacak bilmiyorum hangisinin sizin için daha korkutucu olacağını bilmiyorum neyse yani videoyu izleyebilirsiniz youtube kanalımda ve sonra aynı anda dinleyip okuyabilirsiniz ve eğer yardımcı oluyorsa hikayeyi anlattığımı görebilirsiniz ayrıca bu bölüm için teacherluke.co.uk adresindeki sayfada okuduğum metnin tamamını okuyabilirsiniz tamam size hikayenin bağlamını vereyim ve yazım tarzı hakkında birkaç yorum yapayım bu oldukça kısa olacak ve sonra doğrudan hikayenin gerçek düzgün içeriğine geçeceğiz dünyalar savaşı filmlerde birçok kez uyarlandı en ünlüsü tom cruise ile 2005 steven spielberg filmi belki görmüşsünüzdür ve 1950'lerde los angeles'ta geçen başka bir film versiyonu richard burton tarafından okunan bir sesli kitap müzikal versiyonu ve orson welles tarafından rezil bir dramatize edilmiş radyo dizisi bu orijinal uzaylı istilası hikayesidir bu kitap bu temaları keşfeden ve bu tür şeyleri bu kadar gerçekçi bir şekilde tanımlayan ilk hikayelerden biriydi bu diğerlerine ilham veren hikayedir ve bence bu hikayenin diğer versiyonlarının veya kopyalarının hiçbiri 1897'den kalma bu orijinal versiyonla kıyaslanamaz yazı çok gerçekçi ve gazetecilik tarzında olayları olduğu gibi yaşayan ve her şeyi büyük bir detayla anlatan bir adamın birinci şahıs perspektifinden yazılmış dil ve yazım tarzı hakkında bir not işte dil oldukça eski moda 1897 viktorya döneminden kalma ama gerçekten iyi yazılmış ve sizin için ilginç olmalı ve ingilizceniz için bu dilin biraz farklı bir versiyonunu keşfetmek yararlı olmalı farklı ingilizce türlerine maruz kalmak ingilizcenizi güçlendirir bence ve biz ilerledikçe belirli kelimeleri veya ifadeleri işaret edeceğim ve belki bunu normal modern sade ingilizce ile karşılaştıracağım bu yüzden ilginç bir karşılaştırma olabilir bazen hikayeyi size anlatmaya odaklanmalıyım ana odak noktam ana amacım bu ama ara sıra durup sadece açıklığa kavuşturacağım veya açıklayacağım veya göreceğimiz ingilizce parçaları hakkında yorum yapacağım dillerin stillerini karşılaştırmak aslında size normal modern ingilizce hakkında daha fazla perspektif verir ve bugün resmi yazılı ingilizcenin hala eski moda dilin bazı yönlerini nasıl koruduğunu gösterir yasal belgelerde veya diğer çok resmi durumlarda bulabileceğiniz oldukça fazla dil var therein hereby forthwith ve sing gibi kelimeler bu kitapta oldukça yaygındır ayrıca belirli yapılar daha uzun cümleler ve bu stili belirleyen kelime seçimleri bu 100 yıldan fazla bir süre öncesinden çok betimleyici edebi bir dildir bugünün ingilizcesinden daha karmaşık bugünün ingilizcesinden daha resmi ve betimlemelerinde çok spesifiktir bu muhtemelen sizin için bir zorluk olacak ama yardım etmek için buradayım ve ilerledikçe açıklayacağım ayrıca bu oldukça korkutucu şeyler aslında bu bölümün hazırlığı için bu hikayenin bir kısmını tekrar okuduktan sonra hikayenin ne kadar korkutucu olduğunu fark etmemiştim şahsen böyle bir hikayeden aldığınız heyecanlardan gerçekten keyif alıyorum ama bugün biraz hassas hissediyorsanız bir yastık alıp kanepenin arkasına saklanmak isteyebilirsiniz veya buna benzer bir şey başlamadan önce adlandırmam gereken birkaç yararlı bağlantı ve kaynak işte bu bölümü yaparken yararlı bulduğum birkaç bağlantı her şeyden önce project gutenberg bu kitabın birkaç karton kapaklı kopyası bende var ama kitabı çevrimiçi olarak guttenberg.org'da da buldum yani g-u-t-e-n-b-e-r-g guttenberg.org bu artık kamu malı olan hikayeleri ve kitapları paylaşan bir web sitesidir ve dünyalar savaşı kamu malındadır bu yüzden bu hikayenin ücretsiz çevrimiçi versiyonlarını alabilirsiniz ve ben kendiminkini gutenberg.org'dan aldım aslında bu kitabın html versiyonuna bir bağlantı var açıklamada bulacaksınız aslında tüm bağlantılar ve şeyler bu bölüm serisinin ikinci ve üçüncü bölümlerine bağlantılar onları da açıklamada bulacaksınız orada yararlı şeyler var açıklamada olacaklar course hero çalışma notları dahil coursehero.com adında hikayenin yararlı özetlerini ve diğer yararlı bilgileri içeren bir web sitesi var ve ben coursehero.com'dan bazı özetleri alıntıladım tamam yani şimdi hikayeye başlamaya hazırız tamam yani açılış bölümlerini özetleyeyim aslında kitabın açılış paragraflarını şimdi size okuyacağım bu paragraflar olayların gerçekleştiği sahneyi kuruyor ve kasvetli tonu ve belirli dil seçimini not edin kasvetli ton karanlık ve ciddi gibi ve dilin belirli seçimi bu arada bu hikayenin ana karakterinin adını bilmediğimizi belirtmeliyim o isimsiz bir anlatıcı anlatıcı hikayeyi anlatan kişidir ama onun felsefi makaleler yazan ve bilimle ilgilenen orta sınıf eğitimli bir adam olduğunu biliyoruz temel olarak bildiğimiz tek şey bu hikaye sanki o olaylara geri bakıyormuş ve ne olduğuna dair tam bir hesap yazmış gibi geçmiş zamanda yazılmış o zaman hikayenin ilk birkaç paragrafıyla başlayalım bölüm bir savaşın arifesi savaşın arifesi bu savaşın hemen öncesi gibi tamam ve işte başlıyoruz yani 19. yüzyılın son yıllarında hiç kimse bu dünyanın insanınkinden daha büyük ama yine de onunkiler kadar ölümlü zekalar tarafından keskin ve yakından izlendiğine inanmazdı insanlar çeşitli endişeleriyle meşgulken bir mikroskopla bir su damlasında çoğalan ve sürünen geçici yaratıkları inceleyen bir adamın incelediği kadar dar bir şekilde incelendiklerini ve çalışıldıklarını inanmazdı bu bir kitap için harika bir açılış değil mi sizce bu da tek bir cümle bu arada bir cümle bir uzun cümle yani 19. yüzyılın son yıllarında hiç kimse bu dünyanın keskin yani yakından büyük bir odakla ve insanınkinden daha büyük ama yine de onunkiler kadar ölümlü zekalar tarafından yakından izlendiğine inanmazdı insanlar çeşitli endişeleriyle meşgulken insanlar meşgul bir şekilde etrafta dolaşıyorlardı çeşitli sorunları endişeleriyle uğraşmaları gerekiyordu incelendiler incelenmek yani çok dikkatli bir şekilde çalışılmış ve incelenmiş ve yakından izlenmiş ve belki de bir mikroskopla bir su damlasında sürünen ve çoğalan geçici yaratıkları inceleyen bir adamın incelediği kadar dar veya spesifik bir şekilde incelendiler yani eğer bir bilim insanıysanız bir mikroskopla bir su damlasındaki bir slaytta mikroorganizmaları izliyorsanız aynı şekilde bu zekalar bizi izliyor ki bu oldukça ilginç bizi mikroorganizmalarla karşılaştırmak ki bu bize diğer zekaların ne kadar daha gelişmiş ve daha güçlü olduğuna dair bir fikir veriyor devam edelim sonsuz bir memnuniyetle insanlar küçük işleri için bu küre üzerinde oraya buraya gidip geldiler madde üzerindeki imparatorluklarına dair güvenceleriyle huzurluydular mikroskop altındaki infusoria'nın da aynısını yapması mümkündür yani memnuniyet memnun olduğunuzda bu kendinize güvendiğiniz ve kendinizden emin olduğunuz anlamına gelir rahatsınız çünkü her şeyin yolunda olduğundan eminsiniz gerçekten iyi gidiyorsunuz tamam ve fikir şu ki insanlar doğa düzenindeki konumlarında memnunlar biz dünyadaki baskın türüz günlük endişe duyduğumuz çok fazla yırtıcımız yok ve bu bizi memnun etti ki biz sadece çok kendimizden eminiz ki biz yani biz çevremizin efendileriyiz ve sonsuz bir memnuniyetle insanlar küçük işleri için bu küre üzerinde oraya buraya gidip geldiler yani oraya buraya ileri geri gittiler işleri için madde üzerindeki imparatorluklarına dair güvenceleriyle huzurluydular huzurlu sakin ve barışçıldır biz her şeyin kontrolünün bizde olduğundan madde üzerindeki imparatorluğumuzdan o kadar emin ve huzurluyduk ki mikroskop altındaki infusoria'nın da aynısını yapması mümkündür infusoria sanırım mikroskop altındaki su damlasındaki küçük mikroorganizmalar demek tamam hiç kimse uzayın eski dünyalarını bir insan tehlikesi kaynağı olarak düşünmedi veya onları sadece üzerlerindeki yaşam fikrini imkansız veya olasılık dışı olarak reddetmek için düşündü o günlerin zihinsel alışkanlıklarından bazılarını hatırlamak ilginç en fazla karasal insanlar mars'ta kendilerinden daha aşağı ve misyoner bir girişimi karşılamaya hazır başka insanlar olabileceğini hayal ettiler yani görünüşe göre bu hikayenin olaylarından önce insanlar belki mars'ta biraz yaşam olabileceğini düşündüler ama muhtemelen bizden daha aşağı ve muhtemelen bizden bir ziyareti memnuniyetle karşılarlardı çünkü onlara yardım etmek için orada olurduk ve bilirsiniz önümüzde eğilirlerdi sömürge efendilerimiz gibi bir şey yine de uzay boşluğunun karşısında zihinlerimize bizimkilerin ölen canavarlarınkine olduğu gibi olan zihinler geniş ve soğuk ve sempatisiz bu dünyaya kıskanç gözlerle baktılar ve yavaşça ve kesinlikle bize karşı planlarını çizdiler ve 20. yüzyılın başlarında büyük hayal kırıklığı geldi bu bir kitaptan iyi bir açılış alıntısı değil mi sizce uzay boşluğunun karşısında boşluk yani uzayın boşluğu zihinlerimize bizimkilerin ölen canavarlarınkine olduğu gibi olan zihinler yani bizim zihinlerimizin hayvanlardan daha büyük olması anlamında ve aynı şekilde onların zihinleri bizimkilerden daha büyük yani biz onlar için hayvanlar gibi oluyoruz ve bu onların zihinleri geniş yani devasa kocaman ve soğuk yani duygusuz ve sempatisiz ayrıca bize önemsemiyorlar bu dünyaya kıskanç gözlerle baktılar izlediler kıskançtılar bu bölümün ilerleyen kısımlarında açıklıyor ki temel olarak marslılar mars'ta yaşıyorlar değil mi ve mars güneşten dünyadan daha uzak güneşten bir sonraki gezegen ve gezegenleri her zaman daha da soğuyor yani bugünlerde küresel ısınmamız var ama hikayede marslılar küresel soğumadan korkuyorlar ve bu onların gezegenini yaşanmaz hale getiriyor bunu bir dakika içinde açıklayacağım ve bu yüzden dünyaya bakıyorlar çünkü bir tür olarak hayatta kalmak için dünyayı kolonileştirmek istiyorlar ve 20. yüzyılın başlarında büyük hayal kırıklığı geldi büyük hayal kırıklığı yani insan bilincinde artık besin zincirinin tepesinde olmadığımızı veya aslında olmadığımızı fark ettiğimizde büyük bir değişim tamam şimdi hikayeyi 4. bölüme kadar özetleyeyim kitaptan tekrar 4. bölümden okumaya başlayacağım yani o açılış bölümü mars'taki akıllı yaratık türlerinin bu hikayenin olaylarından yıllar önce bizi nasıl gözlemlediğini anlatıyor açılış bölümü marslıların dünyayı istila etmeyi planladıklarını çünkü ana gezegenlerinin güneşten dünyadan daha uzak olması nedeniyle yıldan yıla giderek soğuduğunu açıklıyor kendi gezegenlerinde yok olma tehlikesiyle karşı karşıyaydılar ve bu yüzden gözlerini en yakın komşuları olan dünyaya daha sıcak atmosferi ve güneşe daha yakın konumuyla diktiler ve üstün matematiksel bilgileri ve teknolojileriyle hayatta kalmak için dünyayı kolonileştirmeye karar verdiler bizi gözlemleyerek ve istilayı planlayarak yıllar geçirdiler ve bu arada işte bir dil notu bu hikayeyi anlatmak için şimdiki zamanları kullanıyorum ve bu bir kitap film veya oyunun konusunu yeniden anlatmanın normal bir yoludur ve bu kitabın konusunu anlattığım için şimdiki zamanları kullanıyorum tamam bu çünkü hikayenin olayları kalıcıdır çünkü asla değişmezler kitapta o şekilde yazılmıştır bu yüzden bir kitap veya filmin hikayesini ingilizce özetlemek için şimdiki zamanları kullanabiliriz ve muhtemelen sizin dilinizde de aynıdır tamam o zaman devam edelim şimdi bu hikayenin anlatıcısının bir arkadaşı var adı ogilvy ve ogilvy saygın bir astronom yıldızları gözlemleyen bir bilim insanı bir teleskobu var ve mars'ın yüzeyi dahil gece gökyüzünü gözlemlemek için kullanıyor en yakın komşumuz yani ogilvy arkadaşımız ve o bir astronom hikayenin ana olaylarından altı yıl önce ogilvy anlatıcıyı mars'ı incelemek için gökyüzünü gözlemleyebileceğiniz bir yer olan bir gözlemevine davet ediyor başka bir astronom gezegenin yüzeyinde dünyaya doğru yönlendirilmiş gibi görünen dramatik bir gaz patlaması bildirdikten sonra anlatıcı teleskoptan izlerken benzer bir patlama gözlemliyor tamam yani bilim insanları mars'ta patlamalar gözlemlediler ve ogilvy anlatıcıya gözlemevine gel ve mars'a bir bak diyor ve o teleskoptan bakıyor ve bakarken bu patlamalardan bazılarını görüyor şimdi ogilvy mars'ta yaşamın varlığından şüphe ediyor ve fenomenin meteorlarla veya yanardağlarla ilgili olabileceğini tahmin ediyor birçok başka insan 10 gün boyunca toplamda gece yarısı kendini tekrarlayan fenomeni tanık oluyor yani her gece gece yarısı 10 gün boyunca mars yüzeyinde patlamalar o sırada kimse mars'taki patlamalar hakkında endişeli veya kaygılı değil altı yıl sonra bazı insanlar bir kayan yıldız görüyor değil mi ama kayan yıldız esasen dünya atmosferinde yanan ve belki bir meteor olarak dünyaya düşen bir kaya parçası bir asteroittir yani bazı insanlar parlak yeşil bir flaşla gece gökyüzünde uçan ve yakınına düşen bir kayan yıldız bir meteor görüyor anlatıcının yaşadığı yerin yakınında horsel common'da horsel common londra'nın güneybatısında büyük bir çimenlik çayırlar ve ağaçlar alanıdır yine kimse garip bir şey olduğunu varsaymıyor astronom ogilvy meteorla ilgileniyor ve onu common'da buluyor araştırmaya gidiyor ve indiği gibi buluyor büyük bir kum krateri oluşturmuş yani yere çarpmış tüm kumu kenarlara iterek bir tür kum havuzu oluşturmuş yani nesne binalar ve ağaçlarla çevrili açık bir çimenlik alanın ortasında büyük bir kum havuzunun dibinde yatıyor ogilvy'nin bulduğu meteor oldukça garip silindirik bir şekilde uzun bir kola kutusu gibi bir silindir şekli uzun bir kola kutusu veya belki bir bira kutusu veya garip silindirik bir şekil gibi ama ogilvy bunun kaya olduğunu düşünüyor çünkü kabuklu bir tabaka ile kaplı ayrıca son derece sıcak ve ona yaklaşamıyor ama içinden garip sesler geldiğini fark ediyor bunların nesnenin soğumasından kaynaklanan gürültüler olduğunu varsayıyor ama onu gözlemlemeye devam ettikçe komik bir şeylerin döndüğünü fark ediyor kabuklu tabaka nesne soğudukça kül gibi yavaşça dökülüyor altında metalik bir yüzey ortaya çıkıyor ve bundan daha da garibi silindirin ucu çok yavaş dönüyor sanki çok yavaş vidalanıyormuş gibi ogilvy aniden silindirin içinde insanlar olduğunu varsayıyor ve yardım almaya karar veriyor ve yardım almaya çalışmak için gidiyor ama kimse ona inanmıyor sonunda silindiri kontrol etmeye istekli bir gazeteci buluyor adı henderson common'da bir silindirin içinde sıkışmış uzaydan gelen adamlar hakkında haber yayıldıkça bir kalabalık toplanmaya başlıyor insanlar neler olduğunu tam olarak anlamıyorlar ama inanılmaz derecede meraklılar normal hayat normal rutinlerine devam etmeden önce kum havuzundaki nesneye bakmak için duran insanlarla devam ediyor yani hikayenin anlatıcısı neler olduğunu kontrol etmek için horsel common'a gidiyor orada daha büyük bir kalabalık toplanmış kalabalığın içinden geçmeyi başarıyor ki bu giderek daha heyecanlı ve ajite oluyor anlatıcının arkadaşı ogilvy dahil küçük bir bilim insanı grubu çukurda neler olduğunu anlamaya çalışıyor anlatıcı neler olduğunu gözlemliyor ve çoğu insanın bu tür şeyler hakkında gerçekten eğitimli olmadığına ve neler olduğunu anlamadıklarına dair yorum yapıyor ama silindirin dünya dışı olması gerektiğini varsayıyor yani uzaydan bir yerden olmalı silindirin ucunun hareket ettiğini gözlemliyor ve döndükçe bir tür parlayan metal diş ortaya çıkarıyor metal diş size bunun bir örneğini vereceğim bir vida üzerinde metal diş alırsınız size burada videoda bir örnek göstermeye çalışıyorum işte bu bir metal diş görüyorsunuz bu bir tür vida yani silindirin ucu yavaşça vidalanırken bu tür bir metal diş ortaya çıkarıyor sanki bir vida vay teknoloji tamam şimdi silindirin ucu nihayet düştüğünde içinde ne olduğunu ortaya çıkardığında ne olduğunu anlatan bir sonraki bölüm yani şimdi ilerledikçe yorumlar ve açıklamalarla 4 ve 5 bölümleri okuyacağım yani sahneyi londra'dan çok uzak olmayan uzakta ağaçlar ve binalar olan çimenli bir common'ın ortasında hayal edin nesne kuma inerek bir tür çukur oluşturmuş insanlar nesnenin etrafında toplanıyor uç bu şeyden vidalanıyor kimse neler olduğunu gerçekten bilmiyor anlatıcı silindiri içeren çukura yaklaşıyor kalabalıklar çukurun her yerinde neler olduğunu görmeye çalışıyorlar birbirlerini biraz itiyorlar ve işler oldukça gergin bilirsiniz büyük bir kalabalık oluştuğunda insanlar itmeye ve kakışmaya başlar ve genellikle oldukça streslidir ogilvy ve diğer bilim insanlarından bazıları ve gazeteci henderson çukurda güneş de batmaya başlıyor uzakta tamam yani bölüm dört silindir açılıyor çukurun etrafındaki kalabalık artmıştı ve gökyüzünün limon sarısına karşı siyah duruyordu belki iki yüz kişi yükselmiş sesler vardı ve çukurun etrafında bir tür mücadele dönüyor gibiydi yaklaştıkça zihnime garip hayaller geldi stent'in sesini duydum geri dur geri dur bir çocuk bana doğru koştu bir hareket dedi bana geçerken bir vida içeri ve bir vida dışarı hoşuma gitmiyor eve gidiyorum ben kalabalığa gittim gerçekten sanırım iki veya üç yüz kişi birbirini dirsekliyor ve itiyordu oradaki bir veya iki kadın hiç de en az aktif olanlar değildi yani orada birbirini iten kakışan insanlar var aralarında oldukça fazla itişip kakışan ve dirsek atan bir çift kadın da dahil o çukura düştü diye bağırdı biri geri dur dedi birkaçı kalabalık biraz sallandı ve dirseklerimle yolumu açtım herkes çok heyecanlı görünüyordu çukurdan garip bir uğultu sesi duydum bir uğultu sesi bir tür [Gülüş] o tür bir şey olurdu ogilvy dedi ki bu aptalları geri tutun confounded şeyin içinde ne olduğunu bilmiyoruz bilirsiniz yani i say bir tür yani aman tanrım veya aman tanrım veya benzeri bir şey söylemek gibidir bu bir ünlemdir i say çok eski moda bu aptalları geri tutun confounded şeyin içinde ne olduğunu bilmiyoruz confounded şey yani lanet şeyin içinde ne olduğunu veya kanlı şeyin içinde ne olduğunu demek çoğu kısım için dil bugün konuştuğumuz yola gerçekten oldukça benzer ama sadece ara sıra kelimeler ve bazı yapılar farklı woking'de bir dükkan asistanı genç bir adam gördüm sanırım silindirin üzerinde duruyordu ve tekrar delikten dışarı çıkmaya çalışıyordu kalabalık onu içeri itmişti silindirin ucu içeriden vidalanıyordu yaklaşık iki fit parlayan vida çıkıntı yapıyordu bu yaklaşık 60 santimetre biri bana çarptı bana çarptılar ve neredeyse vidanın üzerine düşmekten kurtuldum döndüm ve döndüğümde vida çıkmış olmalı çünkü silindirin kapağı çakılın üzerine çınlayan bir sarsıntıyla düştü yani döndü çünkü biri onu itti ve vida o bakmıyorken çıkmış olmalı çünkü indiğinde bir tür boom yaptı çınlayan bir sarsıntı sesi çıkardı dirseğimi arkamdaki kişiye soktum ve başımı tekrar şeye doğru çevirdim bir an için o dairesel boşluk mükemmel bir şekilde siyah görünüyordu gün batımı gözlerimdeydi sanırım herkes bir adamın ortaya çıkmasını bekliyordu muhtemelen biz karasal insanlardan biraz farklı bir şey ama tüm temellerde bir adam biliyorum ben öyle yaptım ama bakarken şu anda gölgenin içinde bir şeyin kıpırdadığını gördüm grimsi dalgalı hareketler birbiri ardına ve sonra gözler gibi iki parlak disk sonra bir yürüyüş sopası kalınlığında küçük gri bir yılana benzeyen bir şey kıvranan ortadan kıvrıldı ve havada bana doğru kıvrıldı ve sonra bir tane daha tamam karanlığa gölgelere baktı ve bir şeyin kıpırdadığını gördüm hareket eden bir şey yani belki hareketin başlangıçları um gölgenin içinde kıpırdayan bir şey grimsi dalgalı hareketler belirsiz birbiri üzerinde ve sonra gözler gibi iki parlak disk parlak karanlıkta hafifçe parlayan anlamına gelir sonra bir yürüyüş sopası kalınlığında küçük gri bir yılana benzeyen bir şey kıvrıldı yani kıvrılmak yılanlar bir daire içinde kıvrılır yani bu kıvrıldı demek bir tür kıvrılan ortadan dışarı doğru kıvrıldı ve havada bana doğru kıvrıldı ani bir ürperti geldi üzerime arkamdaki bir kadından yüksek bir çığlık geldi çığlık bir tür çığlıktır şok olmuş ve korkmuş bir çığlık yarı döndüm gözlerimi hala diğer dokunaçların çıkıntı yaptığı silindire diktim ve çukurun kenarından geri itmeye başladım etrafımdaki insanların yüzlerinde dehşete yerini bırakan şaşkınlığı gördüm her tarafta anlaşılmaz ünlemler duydum şok ve dehşet içinde söylenen kelimeler gibi ünlemler anlaşılmaz yani insanlar kendilerini gerçekten ifade edemiyorlar sadece şok ve dehşet sesleri genel bir geriye doğru hareket vardı dükkan adamının hala çukurun kenarında mücadele ettiğini gördüm kendimi yalnız buldum ve çukurun diğer tarafındaki insanların kaçtığını gördüm stent aralarında silindire tekrar baktım ve yönetilemez bir dehşet beni kavradı taş kesilmiş ve bakıyordum yönetilemez dehşet yönetilemez yani kontrol edilemez dehşet beni kavradı onu tuttu taş kesilmiş ve bakıyordum taş kesilmiş yani hareket edemez ve bakmak yoğun bir şekilde bakmak bir ayı büyüklüğünde grimsi yuvarlak bir kütle yavaşça ve acı verici bir şekilde silindirden yükseliyordu şişerken ve ışığı yakalarken ıslak deri gibi parlıyordu grimsi büyük grimsi yuvarlak bir kütle kütle bir tür büyük yuvarlak ağır bir şekil ayı büyüklüğünde yavaşça ve acı verici bir şekilde silindirden yükseliyordu şişerken şişmek genişlemek ve kabarmak gibi şişerken silindirden çıktığı gibi ve ışığı yakaladığı gibi ıslak deri gibi parlıyordu yani parlamak yani bir şey ıslaksa ve ışık onu yakalarsa bir tür parlar parıldar yani parıltı gibi parlar yani ıslak bir yol gibi gecenin ortasında ay ışığında bu durumda bu garip şey ışıkta ıslak deri gibi parlıyordu iki büyük koyu renkli göz bana kararlılıkla bakıyordu onları çerçeveleyen kütle şeyin başı yuvarlaktı ve bir yüzü var denebilirdi gözlerin altında bir ağız vardı dudaksız kenarı titriyor ve nefes nefese kalıyor ve salya damlatıyordu tüm yaratık kabardı ve konvülsif bir şekilde zonkladı kabardı yani bir tür belki nefes alırken zorlanıyor veya ağır hareket ediyor ve zonkladı yani bir tür belki zonkladı konvülsif bir şekilde yani kendini durduramadan sadece bir tür belki bir balon şişirmek gibi ve balon şişerken ve inerken yukarı aşağı yukarı aşağı konvülsif bir şekilde zonkluyor aman tanrım yaşayan bir marslıyı hiç görmemiş olanlar görünüşünün garip dehşetini zar zor hayal edebilirler sivri üst dudağı ile tuhaf v-şekilli ağız kaş kemiklerinin yokluğu kaş temel olarak gözlerinizin üzerindeki alandır kaşlarınız saçınız alnınız um kaş kemiği yok yani baştan gözlere kadar düz kama benzeri alt dudağın altında çenenin yokluğu ağzının sürekli titremesi yani sallanması ve hızlı hareket etmesi dokunaçların gorgon grupları garip bir atmosferde akciğerlerin gürültülü nefes alması dünyanın daha büyük yerçekimi enerjisi nedeniyle hareketin bariz ağırlığı ve acı vericiliği her şeyden önce devasa gözlerin olağanüstü yoğunluğu bir kerede hayati yoğun insanlık dışı sakat ve canavarca idi yağlı kahverengi deride mantar benzeri bir şey vardı hantal hareketlerin sıkıcı hantal kasıtlılığında tarif edilemez derecede iğrenç bu ilk karşılaşmada bile bu ilk bakışta iğrenme ve dehşetle boğuldum harika betimleyici dil yani sadece bu şeylerden bazılarını tekrar gözden geçireyim kaş kemiklerinin yokluğundan bahsettim ağzının titremesi dokunaçların gorgon grupları yani gorgon bu yunan mitolojisinden gelir medusa gorgon gorgonlar üç kız kardeşti ve saçları için yılanları vardı ve eğer gözlerinin içine bakarsanız taşa dönüşürdünüz o kadar korkutucu ve lanetliydi yani gorgonlar kafaları için yılanları olan efsanevi yaratıklardı yani dokunaçların gorgon gruplarına sahipler yani medusa hikayesini çağrıştırıyor garip atmosferde akciğerlerin gürültülü nefes alması yani gürültülü yani bir tür düzensiz ve çaresiz yani ağır nefes alıyor dünyanın daha büyük yerçekimi enerjisi nedeniyle hareketin bariz ağırlığı ve acı vericiliği bariz yani açık bariz ağırlık ve acı verici hareket ve her şeyden önce devasa gözlerin olağanüstü yoğunluğu bir kerede hayati yoğun insanlık dışı sakat ve canavarca idi yağlı kahverengi deride mantar benzeri bir şey vardı mantar benzeri yani bir mantar gibi mantar mantarlar ve küf gibi şeyleri içerirdi yani yağlı kahverengi deri bir şekilde doku olarak mantar gibiydi hantal hareketlerin sıkıcı hantal kasıtlılığında tarif edilemez derecede iğrenç bu ilk karşılaşmada bile bu ilk bakışta iğrenme ve dehşetle boğuldum vay bakış hızlı bir bakıştır iğrenme ve dehşet duygusuyla boğulmuştu ve hissediyorum ki bu biraz iğrenç görünen bir böceğe veya hatta sadece iğrenç görünen bir böceğin resmine bakarak herhangi bir süre harcarsanız en korkunç böceği veya örümceği hayal edin ve ona bakarak veya resmine bakarak neredeyse içgüdüsel olarak cildinizi ürpertiyor bu onun hissettiği şey sadece bu şeye bakmak bile onu tamamen iğrendirdi ve dehşetle doldurdu neredeyse genetik bir seviyede aniden canavar yok oldu silindirin kenarından devrilmiş ve büyük bir deri kütlesinin düşüşü gibi bir sesle çukura düşmüştü garip kalın bir çığlık verdiğini duydum ve hemen bu yaratıklardan bir diğeri açıklığın derin gölgesinde karanlık bir şekilde belirdi yani canavar ortadan kayboldu çünkü devrildi silindirin kenarından bir tür düştü ve büyük bir deri kütlesinin düşüşü gibi bir sesle çukura düştü sanki biri yere büyük bir deri yığını düşürmüş gibi thunk garip kalın bir çığlık verdiğini duydum ve hemen yani derhal bu yaratıklardan bir diğeri açıklığın derin gölgesinde karanlık bir şekilde belirdi açıklık yani silindirin açılışı döndüm ve çılgınca koşarak belki yüz metre uzaktaki ilk ağaç grubuna doğru gittim ama çaprazlama koştum ama çaprazlama koştum ve tökezledim çünkü yüzümü bu şeylerden çeviremedim yani bazı genç çam ağaçlarının ve çalıların arasına doğru kaçmaya başladı nefes nefese durdum ve daha fazla gelişmeyi bekledim yani ağaçların örtüsü altında koştu ve sadece bekledi kum havuzlarının etrafındaki common insanlar tarafından noktalanmıştı benim gibi yarı büyülenmiş bir dehşet içinde bu yaratıklara veya daha doğrusu yattıkları çukurun kenarındaki yığılmış çakıllara bakıyorlardı ve sonra yenilenmiş bir dehşetle çukurun kenarında yukarı aşağı zıplayan yuvarlak siyah bir nesne gördüm içeri düşen dükkan adamının kafasıydı ama sıcak batı güneşine karşı küçük siyah bir nesne olarak görünüyordu şimdi omzunu ve dizini yukarı çıkardı ve tekrar geri kayıyor gibiydi sadece kafası görünene kadar aniden yok oldu ve zayıf bir çığlığın bana ulaştığını hayal edebilirdim geri dönüp ona yardım etmek için anlık bir dürtü duydum ama korkularım her şeyi geçersiz kıldı o zaman tamamen görünmezdi derin çukur ve silindirin düşüşünün yaptığı kum yığını tarafından gizlenmişti chobham veya woking'den yoldan gelen herkes manzaraya şaşırırdı belki 100 kişi veya daha fazla azalan bir kalabalık hendeklerde çalıların arkasında kapıların ve çitlerin arkasında büyük düzensiz bir daire içinde duruyor birbirlerine kısa heyecanlı çığlıklarla az şey söylüyorlar ve bakıyorlar birkaç kum yığınına sertçe bakıyorlar bir zencefilli gazoz el arabası yanan gökyüzüne karşı garip bir terk edilmiş siyah duruyordu ve kum havuzlarında atları yem torbalarından beslenen veya yeri eşeleyen bir sıra terk edilmiş araç vardı vay ne kadar güçlü bir sahne yani herkes uzaylıları kısaca gördü ve kaçtı ve geri koştu ve farklı bakış açılarından çukura dehşet içinde bakarak felç oldular ama her şey garip bir şekilde huzurlu görünüyor ve h.g wells bu güzel resmi çiziyor bu tür garip tuhaf bir kıyamet sonrası atmosfer bir zencefilli gazoz el arabası yani zencefilli gazoz bir içecektir bir zencefilli gazoz el arabası sanırım bir zencefilli gazoz arabası sadece bir nesne gibi yanan gökyüzüne karşı garip bir terk edilmiş siyah garip yani tuhaf ve terk edilmiş yani kimsenin artık kullanmadığı bir bina veya makine belki hasarlı veya bir şey yani bu zencefilli gazozlu araba garip bir terk edilmiş makine gibi duruyor garip bir terk edilmiş makine yanan gökyüzüne karşı silüet halinde ve kum havuzlarında atları yem torbalarından beslenen veya yeri eşeleyen bir sıra terk edilmiş araç vardı um tamam işte 4. bölümün özeti tamam herkes nasıl gidiyor iyisiniz değil mi odaklanmayı başardınız mı bilmiyorum bu sırada odaklanmak zor mu bilmiyorum hikayeyi iyi biliyorum şimdi birçok kez okudum yani çok yakından biliyorum bunu ilk kez dinlediğinizde biraz kafa karıştırıcı olabilir dilin bazı kısımları biraz spesifik neyse şimdi 4. bölümün özetini sade ingilizce ile vereceğim sadece her şeyi anladığınızdan emin olmak için yani güneş batarken güneş batarken anlatıcı birkaç yüz kişinin toplandığı çukura geri döner bir çocuk anlatıcıyı silindirin ucunun kendiliğinden vidalandığı konusunda uyarır ve anlatıcı daha iyi bir görüş elde etmek için kalabalığın ön tarafına doğru yolunu zorlar ogilvy insanları uzak durmaları konusunda uyarır ve onları bilinmeyen içeriği hakkında uyarır bir adam kalabalığın itiş kakışıyla çukura itilir silindirin ucu çıkar ve çukura düşer anlatıcı ve kalabalık silindirden yavaşça ve acı verici bir şekilde çıkan bir uzaylının grotesk ahtapot benzeri görünüşüyle dehşete düşer acı verici bir şekilde yavaşça dikkatlice işleri düzeltmek için çok çaba sarf ederek bazı acı verici çabalarla silindirden çıkar atmosferde nefes almakta zorlanıyor gibi görünüyorlar anlatıcı ve kalabalık çukurdan kaçar ama anlatıcı dahil birçoğu uzaylıları yakındaki bir ağaç hattından izlemek için durur güneş batar dükkan sahibinin silüetini sadece çukurdan canlı çıkmaya çalışırken ve başarısız olurken görecek kadar ışık bırakır ve bu birinci bölümün sonu bu ikinci bölümde devam edecek hikaye hakkında şimdiye kadar ne düşünüyorsunuz dinleyiciler hadi oldukça çağrıştırıcı şeyler değil mi sizce anlık eylemin betimlemeleri bu uzaylıların garip grotesk betimlemeleri bu garip hantal uzaylılar sırada ne olacak peki dinlemeye veya izlemeye devam edebilirsiniz ikinci bölümle ki bu kesinlikle youtube versiyonu şimdi mevcut olmalı tamam ve podcast ses versiyonu çok yakında mevcut olacak ama youtube'da izliyorsanız açıklamayı kontrol edin muhtemelen orada bağlantılar bulacaksınız bunun ikinci bölümleri ve üçüncü bölümleri için de tamam güzel dinlediğiniz için teşekkürler izlediğiniz için teşekkürler youtube'daysanız beğenmeyi ve abone olmayı unutmayın ve teacherloop.co.uk adresinden alabileceğiniz luke'un ingilizce podcast'ini dinleyin ve ingilizce öğrenmenize yardımcı olacak daha fazla hikaye konuşma ve ilginç içerik için podcast'imi dinleyin tamam bu videonun bu bölümünün sonu hikayeyi ikinci bölümde tekrar alacağız ama şimdilik veda etme zamanı güle güle güle güle güle tamam videonun sonu güzel burada eklenecek başka bir şey yok ama etrafta kalın ve ikinci bölümü izleyin hikaye daha dramatik hale geliyor gelecek bazı harika anlar var ama şimdilik bu bölümün sonu siz

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preparing for my German C1 exam. I think it's going to work in the best way for auditory learners, but anyone can use this, anyone can give it a try because I find it quite useful. First of all, let's explain what an auditory learner is. Well, auditory learners are people who learn in the best way by hearing and listening to things. How can I know if I'm one? Okay, let's make a quick

Almanca C1 sınavıma hazırlanırken geliştirdiğim bir teknik. Bence işitsel öğrenenler için en iyi şekilde çalışacak, ancak herkes bunu kullanabilir, herkes deneyebilir çünkü oldukça faydalı buluyorum. Öncelikle, işitsel öğrenen nedir açıklayalım. İşitsel öğrenenler, bir şeyleri duyarak ve dinleyerek en iyi şekilde öğrenen insanlardır. Bir işitsel öğrenen olup olmadığımı nasıl anlarım? Tamam, hızlı bir

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And the reason for that is because I think the expectations are different because when when you're about to listen to an audio book and not a podcast episode, you probably first of all, you would expect to pay for it, right?

Bunun nedeni, beklentilerin farklı olduğunu düşünmem; çünkü bir podcast bölümü değil de bir sesli kitap dinlemek üzereyken, her şeyden önce bunun için para ödemeyi beklersin, değil mi?

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So, at various points, I will have to remember to change t-shirts because I just want to showcase first of all that gift that I got and then also some samples of Luke's English podcast t-shirt merchandise that I have received recently.

Bu yüzden, çeşitli noktalarda tişört değiştirmeyi hatırlamam gerekecek çünkü önce aldığım o hediyeyi ve ardından yakın zamanda elime ulaşan Luke's English Podcast tişört ürünlerinden bazı örnekleri sergilemek istiyorum.

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First of all, your podcast is absolutely brilliant in every respect and I'm very glad I discovered it about four or 5 years ago.

Öncelikle, podcast'in her açıdan kesinlikle harika ve yaklaşık dört veya beş yıl önce keşfettiğim için çok memnunum.

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First of all, these are armor plated steel doors.

Her şeyden önce, bunlar zırh kaplamalı çelik kapılar.

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So first of all what is comprehensible input?

Öncelikle anlaşılır girdi nedir?

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First of all, hilarious situation to suddenly be thrust into.

Öncelikle, aniden içine düşülen çok komik bir durum.

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I know now that I've got many. >> Oh my god, Julia, you're on the billboard. >> I don't look like that guy. >> Yes, you do. >> Why so many look-alikes? >> Cuz I've got long blonde hair, first of all.

Artık çok fazla olduğumu biliyorum. >> Aman Tanrım, Julia, reklam panosundasın. >> O adama benzemiyorum. >> Evet, benziyorsun. >> Neden bu kadar çok benzerim var? >> Her şeyden önce, uzun sarı saçlarım var.

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these big machines, Large Hadron Colliders, all these things, and it's just producing reams of data where maybe there's some insight in it, maybe not, or some structure or some pattern, but it's beyond—maybe not enough scientists are actually thinking about it. So first of all, we need more scientists to do that.

büyük makinelerimiz var ve bunlar belki içinde bir içgörü barındıran, belki barındırmayan, belki bir yapı veya örüntü içeren yığınla veri üretiyor, ancak bu durum... belki de yeterince bilim insanı bunun üzerinde düşünmüyor. Bu yüzden her şeyden önce, bunu yapacak daha fazla bilim insanına ihtiyacımız var.

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But I think first of all we need to recognize what the challenges are, and I'm surprised, for example, there aren't more of my economist friends taking this seriously and working on what would be a post-AGI economic system that would work, for example.

Ancak bence her şeyden önce zorlukların neler olduğunu kabul etmemiz gerekiyor ve örneğin, ekonomist arkadaşlarımın daha fazlasının bunu ciddiye alıp, örneğin YZ sonrası işleyecek bir ekonomik sistem üzerinde çalışmamasına şaşırıyorum.

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First of all, thank you so much for being here. I think we reached out to you as this news broke, so I appreciate it.

Öncelikle, burada olduğunuz için çok teşekkür ederim. Sanırım bu haber duyulur duyulmaz size ulaştık, bu yüzden minnettarım.

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hello listeners welcome back to Luke's English podcast how are you today I hope you're doing fine so here's a brand new episode and this one is a short story episode this is one of those episodes where I read you a short story and then use it to teach you some vocabulary and some grammar okay so uh I'm always looking for short stories always looking for little stories that I can use in episodes of my podcast uh this particular story I found this one on the website kora.com I don't know if you're familiar with Kora basically it's a website where uh people can post questions and then other users of the website will post their responses to those questions and the responses get upvoted or down voted and uh if a if a response gets upvoted a lot it then gets pushed up to the top of the page so I was looking on Kora and one of the questions I found there was something like this can you share any true scary stories can you share any true scary stories that I think was the original question that someone had posted and the the top response the most upvoted response was the story that I'm going to tell you today it was actually posted by a guy called Lance Stevenson and pretty sure that the story happened in the United States of America the USA and it was posted yes as a true scary story okay first of all I'm going to just read the story to you and you can try to understand it right uh if you're look at the video version you will see the story on the screen you'll see the text on the screen next to me uh if you are listening to the audio version uh and you want to read the text as well then you can just go to the page for this episode on my website you'll find the whole story uh copied there for you so you can check out the text in your own time if you want to read it as well uh so listen to the story try to understand it and you can think about this like why what can you identify uh the the scary SC elements so what's scary about this story uh try to imagine what is going to happen next and what happens at the end so can you get the specific details what is the scary element to this um after I've read the story to you I will summarize it in my own words just to try and clarify it just to make sure that you've got the details and that you've understood the the kind of the twist let's say the twist at the end of the story and then after that I'll go back through the text of the story and break it down for language highlighting vocabulary and also some some bits of grammar as well we'll be looking at things like um gern and infinitives and participle phrases and other things we're going to look at the way that the story was told and with different kinds of structures okay right so let's let's get started then with this apparently true scary story all right are you ready yes you're ready okay well let's begin then so I've decided to call this Story the invitation so here we go then what is scary about this story about 7 years ago I got an invitation to attend a dinner party at my cousin's house I have a pretty large family and I'd never actually seen this particular cousin before I'd only ever spoken to him on the phone I was surprised that his family unexpectedly invited me over but I was curious to finally meet them the invitation had an address that I didn't know and the GPS was unfamiliar with it too it was in one of those areas where Google Maps doesn't work properly because of poor phone reception so I had to use an old-fashioned paper map I marked the location on the map tried to get a sense of where I was headed and set off in my car as I was driving I I started to notice how far I'd traveled into the countryside and away from civilization I saw trees farms and Fields passing by just trees farms and Fields and more trees and more farms and more Fields where the hell am I going I thought to myself I'd never ventured out so far in that direction before I drove for quite a long time trying to locate the address I had marked on the map the thing is in this area a lot of the roads don't have names or the names aren't clearly marked by road signs I just had to try to match the layout of the streets to the layout I could see on the map I finally found a place at a location that looked like the one I'd noted on my map I was pretty sure that this was the right spot so I parked and got out of the car approaching the house I noticed how dull and dreary it looked it was completely covered in leaves branches and overgrown trees this can't be it I said to myself but as soon as I walked onto the rocky driveway my aunt and uncle came out to greet me they seemed excited and welcoming hello hello come in come in they said beckoning me inside walking into the house I asked where my cousin was answering immediately one of them said oh he just went to run a few errands he should be back later I waited in their kitchen and we spent a couple of hours talking about my mother and my family my aunt made a delicious homemade pot roast that I finished off in minutes after dinner we played an enduring game of Uno it was surprisingly fun and competitive my aunt in particular seemed delighted to be playing when we finished the game of Uno it was almost dark and there was still no sign of my cousin my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back anytime soon despite what they said I decided that I had to leave it was almost dark outside and I knew it would be a nightmare to find my way out of this Dreadful place after sunset with no street lights or road signs as my GPS just wasn't working I asked my aunt and uncle the most efficient way to get to the highway they gave me a puzzled look but we thought you were staying the night they said I told them I couldn't because I had work the next day and couldn't afford to miss another day it's it's much better if you leave tomorrow morning trust us you'll get lost they said I Shrugged it off and told them not to worry ah don't worry I've got a pretty good sense of direction I could find my way out of the Sahara Desert I told them looking aggravated they strongly advised me to stay the night for my own sake their body language was weird too as they became more serious and insistent my uncle stood shaking his head and my aunt began to move about the place picking up a set of keys to unlock what I assume was a spare bedroom at this point I was getting annoyed and irritable I sighed fine I'll stay the night then but I have to get up very early for work I said both of them seemed strangely ecstatic that I was staying the night as soon as they went out of the room to get bed sheets and pillows I ran out of the door got in my car and hastily pulled away I know it was rude but I suddenly felt the urge to get out of there quickly it seemed to take me ages but I finally found my way back to the main Highway and drove back through the night wondering why my cousin had never turned up I got home several hours later than I expected it was after midnight and I didn't want to wake my parents up climbing over my fence and entering the back door I noticed that the kitchen lights were on as soon as I took my first step through the door I saw my mom sitting there looking impatient Where Have You Been she asked I was at Aunt Deborah's I told you I replied then why did she call saying you never arrived to this day I still have no idea who I visited okay so that's the story hm did you understand all of that what did you think did you think it was scary I don't know did you understand it enough what's going on what was actually going on here now I've read that story to people before and to an extent some people sort of misunderstood what was going on or they expected something to be happening so let me let me go through the story again and try and tell it to you in my own words to make it clear what happened so here are things that I think didn't happen so I remember telling that story to other people in the past they have they have assumed that the aunt and uncle like the they they assumed that maybe the reason the cousin didn't turn up is because the aunt and uncle maybe had killed him or something um I remember one person I read that story too uh thought that the pot roast was suspicious like what was in the pot roast did they kill the cousin and then they put him in the pot pot roast and he ate the the cousin I don't think that's what's going on basically this the creepy thing about this is that the guy almost definitely got the wrong house he got he went to the wrong house and he spent an evening with two people who he thought were his aunt and uncle two people who essentially seem to be pretending to be his aunt and uncle and who were lying to him about the cousin and stuff they were just strangely delighted to have a stranger in their home they were sort of weirdly uh excited to have someone at home with them and they really wanted that person to stay the night which is strange so who were these people we don't know because he got the wrong house and and meanwhile his real aunt and uncle and and uh his cousin were in a different house somewhere waiting for him to arrive live so a key thing to to know about this is that at the beginning of the story um this the Storyteller the writer says that uh he'd never actually met um his aunt or uncle or cousin before and that seems a little bit odd right a little bit strange that there would be like members of your family especially like an aunt and uncle and a cousin that you'd never actually met before but I suppose it's possible Right some people have very large families and uh especially in the United States which is such a big country if like there are members of your family who live fairly far away then it's not completely strange to to have never seen them or never met them and some families are a bit you know some families are not that close you know and and sometimes if there's like a bad relationship between the parents that they just don't see each other you know so you know there's that right so let me just let me try and clarify the story so the story starts with the guy saying um that s years earlier he received an invitation to have dinner at his cousin's house and he'd never actually met his cousin or his aunt or Uncle before so he was surprised that they had sent him a dinner invitation he'd only ever spoken to his cousin on the phone so he had actually spoken to his cousin but never actually met them face to face another slightly strange thing is that you'd imagine that maybe he would have seen photos of them but apparently not in this case but um so um the address was in a remote location quite far away from where the guy uh lived and he had to go there by car but the GPS his his um you know his satellite navigation in his car his uh his GPS couldn't locate the address and also the um the address that area is like very difficult to to navigate because there are no uh street names or road signs it's very poorly um indicated and apparently very bad mobile phone reception so he wasn't able to use Google Maps so he was forced to use an old fashion paper map and mark the location uh Mark the address on the map and then set off in his car and after driving for a long long time through lots of Countryside uh further and further away from civilization out into the middle of nowhere um he eventually found what he thought was the right place because the the streets didn't have street signs on them it was difficult for him to locate the right address but he tried to match the streets he could see with the streets he could see on the map and he found what he thought was the correct house um he wasn't completely sure uh but when he stepped onto the driveway when he approached the house what he thought was his um aunt and his uncle like these two people quickly came out of the house and greeted him and sort of very enthusiastically welcomed him in and I guess he didn't really have time to think about it but he assumed that these two people must be his aunt and uncle and they welcomed him in very enthusiastically and then he chatted with them in the kitchen for a couple of hours talking about his mother and their family so I suppose I don't know what what's going on there maybe these people pretended you know they were just like oh yeah yeah yeah just going along with it he would talk about his his mom and they would just sort of like just agree and go along with everything so as far as he was concerned these this was his aunt and uncle and when he said oh what about my cousin they just kind of um brushed It Off by saying oh he he'll be back later he's just running a few errands anyway would you like something to eat and uh the woman made him a a pot roast which is a kind of um like a roasted um meal in a in a pot with vegetables and some sort of meat and onion and sauce and stuff like that and he ate the whole thing apparently was delicious then they played a game of Uno which is a kind of card game and uh he noticed that the the his wouldbe aunt and uncle were behaving a bit strangely and the aunt in particular seem to be like like ecstatic about playing the game and like strangely delighted you know and it got darker and darker and he realized that the cousin perhaps wasn't going to turn up and so he he decided that he had to leave but his so-called aunt and uncle were very keen for him to stay and they were they were shocked at the idea that he would leave and they they were like no no no you must stay it'll be too difficult to find your way uh uh out of the area at this time so no no no you must stay and um they started to prepare a bed for him and he suddenly got a weird feeling at this point and decided that he had to leave he also mentioned something about the fact that he had to work the next day and he couldn't afford to miss another day so probably you know he was probably um in already in a little bit of trouble with his boss for missing days of work previously and so it was really important that he got back home in time to be able to get to work um you know without missing another day so he decided that he really did have to leave and in the end he just sort of escaped while they were doing something while they uh quickly went away to get some bed sheets and pillows he sort of escaped and went out of the door got in his car and drove off and managed to find his way home it took him a long time and then when he finally got home um it was late and he wanted just to go straight to bed but his mom was still up waiting for him uh and annoyed with him and she said what where have you been and he said I was at aunt and uncle I was at Aunt Deborah's like I told you and she said well why did they call saying that you never arrived so in fact the real aunt and uncle were waiting the entire evening for him to arrive he must have gone to another house and who were these strange people and why were they so Keen for him to stay the night what was going on and what was in that pot roast anyway just weird I mean so that is one of those sort of stories that is supposed to be scary because of what might have happened or what could have happened or the fact that there are lots of unknown things like we don't know who these people were and why they were so enthusiastic about him being in their home and then staying the night and what and some other details like why was the bedroom door locked with a key and why would why was their behavior so odd so there you go that's the story so what do you think do you think it's a true story I mean we've got no idea of tell we we don't know we can never know if that was a true story or if Lance what was his name Lance Stevenson Lance Stevenson maybe Lance Stevenson just made it up it could be one of those Urban myths you know those sorts of stories which are presented as being true but they're really just made up and designed to be scary little stories like normally stories like this if they if they if we know that they're not true if we know that they're made up then they become less effective they have less impact if you listen to that story believing it's true then it makes it more creepy doesn't it so who knows maybe it's true maybe it's just made up no idea but I quite enjoy it I quite enjoy the um creepiness of it okay so let's now do a language review let's see how the story was written and this is where we're going to focus on some vocabulary and some grammar I'm actually going to give you the sort of Luke's English podcast premium treatment now because normally I do this kind of thing in premium episodes of my podcast and uh that's where I go into the vocabulary and the grammar and stuff in a lot more detail so this is just a flavor of the sort of thing you can get if you subscribe to my premium content uh and if you do that you'll get like loads of extra episodes in your podcast app so you'll get the premium feed which means you'll get all of the free episodes of my audio show without any advertising and also you'll get all these extra episodes that uh involve lots of language teaching from me and this is just a little tap of the sort of thing that you get in those extra premium episodes if you're interested in that by the way uh just go to teacher. co.uk premium info and you can find all the details audio episodes that you can get in your audio podcast app with PDFs every single premium episode has a PDF with worksheets and the rest of it vocabulary teaching grammar teaching pronunciation practice memory exercises and also video versions there are video versions of those premium episodes uh too so you can get all the information at teacher. co.uk premium info so let's start then by going through vocabulary from the story okay you'll see that I've highlighted some words in the story in Orange not every single um slide here has a has a word on it for example the first slide about seven years ago I got an invitation to attend a dinner party at my cousin's house okay fine nothing in particular to to point out there the next slide I have a pretty large family pretty large right it just means fairly large quite large I have a pretty large family and I'd never actually seen this particular cousin before so that word particular this particular cousin just means this specific cousin this cousin in particular okay so obviously this guy's got lots of cousins but now he wants to say this cousin specifically so he'd never actually seen this particular cousin before all right so this particular cousin on this particular day this particular episode of Luke's podcast was particularly interesting for me in particular all right moving on I was surprised that his family unexpectedly invited me over so unexpectedly it's pretty clear I suppose right but it's it's a nice adverb to do something unexpectedly when was the last time you use that word um do something that you don't expect do something unexpectedly okay so they they they unexpectedly did something they did something unexpectedly in this case his family unexpectedly invited me over so invite me I think you understand it's like would you like to come to our house for dinner but invite me over why have we got the word over in there using the word over imp implies visiting someone's home okay and we often use that we say come over invite someone over stay over over means over here at my place so that's just very common when you're talking about coming or visiting someone's home invite someone over come over and stay over yes the invitation had an address that I didn't know and the GPS was unfamiliar with it too so GPS I think it's probably International right GPS the sort of um electronic map device that everyone uses in their car GPS um global positioning system in the UK we also call it satnav satnav did you know that one satellite navigation satnav GPS satnav it was in one of those areas where Google Maps doesn't work properly because of poor phone reception so phone reception refers to you know your the the how much coverage you have how much connection you have on your phone we call it phone reception uh or signal or network or coverage for example if you've only got one bar on your phone and you're trying to do something like maybe you're trying to uh look something up on the Internet uh and you've only got one bar then your phone works very slowly and you can tell I've got such ter terrible reception here have you got any reception I've got no network or the signal here is terrible isn't it okay or if you're on the phone to someone it's like I can't hear you no I've got really bad signal I've got really I've got really bad I've got no network here okay so reception signal or network right I marked the location on the map try to get a sense of where I was headed and set off in my car if you are headed in in a particular direction it means you're going in that direction right so where are we headed we're headed for London meaning we're going to London we're headed for the pub meaning we're going to the pub so if you're headed or heading as well somewhere it means you're going in that direction so I tried to get a sense of where I was headed and set off in my car to set off means to start your journey okay start your journey set off in your car set off on your bike set off on foot okay remember it's always on foot it's never by walking but on foot set off on your journey set off in your car set off on your bike set off on Foot Right set off meaning start your trip as I was driving I started to notice how far I'd traveled into the countryside away from civilization the countryside I mean it's a very common word but as a teacher I often notice that my Learners don't use this word or don't seem to remember it so you got the city and then you've maybe got the suburbs which is that area just around the city and then where it's all green and you've got lots of fields and trees and stuff that's the countryside okay in this case he was driving and driving and he realized how far he' traveled into the countryside away from civilization I saw trees farms and field passing by passing by meaning passing next to him passing on the side as as he looked out of the window passing by where the hell am I going I thought to myself um I just wanted to highlight the use of the hell in that question where the hell am I going and you know you can do that to add a sort of emphasis or anger or surprise or um sort of confusion to your question where the hell am I going just add the word the phrase the hell after the question word where the hell am I going what the hell are you doing what the hell are you talking about what the hell is going on right um and there's also the more rude version which is the f word where the F am I going what the are you talking about right everyone knows that but also you got what the hell where the hell we going what the hell are you doing who the hell are you what the hell are you talking about for example all right there's another one too there's on Earth where on Earth am I going what on Earth are you talking about what on Earth is happening who on Earth is this guy anyway right so on Earth after the word where where where the hell am I going what on Earth am I doing those are slightly more or slightly less rude versions of saying the fword in that situation instead where the hell am I going I thought to myself I'd never ventured out so far in that direction before to venture out means to leave a familiar place and go somewhere new right kind of go on an adventure an adventure that's a noun but the verb is to venture to venture out meaning go out go away to a new place uh that you haven't been to before and go on a journey that involves maybe some risks right so to venture out into the countryside to venture out into the desert to venture out of the house if the snow stops I might venture out to get some supplies from the shop for example okay all right let's keep going I drove for quite a long time trying to locate the address I had marked on the map the thing is in this area a lot of the roads don't have names so the the thing is this is a phrase that we use a lot and normally it's used before giving a reason or maybe giving an excuse like for example where's your home you didn't do your homework where's your homework oh well sorry teacher but the thing is my dog ate it right just like that classic terrible student excuse not that not that uh in all my years as a teacher no one has ever given me that excuse but it's the sort of cliched excuse oh I'm sorry my dog ate my homework if someone actually if if one of my students genuinely gave that excuse oh the thing is my dog ate my homework I would be genuinely impressed of like really wow that's incredible is the dog okay anyway the thing is last night I was out and then uh I lost my bag and then it's like never mind just sit down stop stop giving me this ridiculous excuse so the thing is it's used to give a reason or an excuse right in this case um he's explaining why he had problems like the thing is in this area lots of the roads don't have names okay so it's very common to use the thing is when you're giving excuses or reasons for example if someone says to you would you like to go for a drink with me and you you need to say no you might say oh I'd love to but the thing is I can't or I'd love to go for a drink with you but the thing is you know I'm I'm washing my hair tonight um right okay moving on I just had to try to match the layout of the streets to the layout I could see on the map so the layout is the design or the way in which things are laid out or arranged so the layout of the streets like where the houses are positioned where the road is positioned where the where trees are and stuff that's the layout of the streets and the layout of the map you know the way that the map has been designed okay that's the layout you also have things like the layout of a website you know the way that the website is arranged the way it looks there's a picture here there's text here there's this this this that's the layout of a of a website for example um so approaching the house I noticed how dull and dreary it looked so dull basically means boring another word would be drab uh so dull boring not interesting looking okay dull and boring and dreary dreary another adjective to describe the appearance of this house that didn't look very nice or interesting dreary means sort of depressing so you can imagine a house that is yeah sort of dark depressing it doesn't look like it's been um cleaned or maintained very well it's the it's the classic scary house from a hor from a horror film isn't it there always a house like this it's kind of creepy dull dreary looking house with lots of over grown trees and bushes and and grass and stuff dark Windows the door opens you know with a creek like that the whole thing basically if you're in a movie if you ever find yourself in a movie not that that's ever going to happen but if you do find yourself in a movie and there's a big dreary creepy looking house with lots of overgrown bushes generally it's a good idea to to turn around 180° do a 18 and just go home and stop being in horror films okay right so approaching the house I noticed how dull and dreary it looked it was completely covered in leaves branches and overgrown trees so branches we know are the parts of the tree that come off the main trunk you got the main trunk of the tree the trunk and then from the trunk you get branches of the tree that come out and there are leaves and stuff on the branches um over grown trees a tree that's overgrown is that it's grown too much and it's maybe covering the street or covering a building and it needs to be you know cut back it needs to be pruned or trimmed this can't be it I said to myself but as soon as I walked onto the rocky driveway my aunt and uncle came out to greet me to greet someone just means to say hello to someone like for example if someone comes to your office you would go down to reception to greet them uh uh Luke could you go and greet our guests in reception please you go go and greet them hello You Must Be Our Guests Hello nice to nice to meet you hello that's right come this way uh how was your journey was it all right okay so they greeted him they seemed exciting and welcoming hello hello come in come in they said beckoning me inside to beckon someone is to sort of uh wave with your hand to try and make someone come towards you come in come in so the hand gesture that you would use with your hand when you're saying come in that's to beckon someone or to say come here come here with your hand that gesture is called beckoning to beckon someone walking into the house I asked where my cousin was answering immediately one of them said oh he just went to run a few errands to run a few errands it means just to do a few small jobs right so maybe go to the shops post some letters take something to the cleaners you know fill up the car with fuel just to run a few errands to do a few little jobs I waited in their kitchen and we spent a couple of hours talking about my mother and my family my aunt made a delicious homemade pot roast this is where I said it before meat and vegetables in a big pot in the oven cooked for quite a long time yum yum yum that's a pot roast we don't know what was in this particular pot roast but he said that he finished it off in minutes they made a my aunt made a delicious homemade pot roast that I finished off in minutes finished he finished it I think we understand there was nothing left at the end but finished off what's the function of saying off there I finished it off it just emphasizes that it was completely finished so finish and finish off right if you finished it off it means you completely finished it I mean to be honest if something is finished it's completely finished I mean something is either finished or not finished right so I don't know how really you could say that something is completely finished but it's really just emphasizing it okay that's the function of that phrasal verb it's just emphasizing that it was completely finished so you can it's it's quite nice because you can imagine that the the bowl or the plate that he was eating from is completely complely empty at the end and the pot totally empty he finished it off I suppose this is this is one of the this is one of the creepy elements because later on when you realize that we don't know who these people were or what their intentions were or what their agenda was you start to think what did he what did he eat what was that that he ate we don't know but he trusted these people and maybe he shouldn't have so he finished the entire pot roast off but wonder I wonder what was in it h um after dinner we played an enduring game of Uno do you know the game Uno it's a kind of card game that you play with kids where you kind of deal out cards and then you can you have to pick up cards if you if you can't play the right number You' got to pick up cards it's sort of just a fun not very challenging game that you play with children this is uno so they played an enduring game of Uno enduring means that it lasted a long time an enduring game of Uno a game that lasted a long time other things you could say would be enduring appeal right for example the enduring appeal of The Beatles You Know The Beatles this is the example I always love to use but the Beatles you know they split up in 1970 but they're still popular and they still got new music coming out even now and it just shows that they have an incred they have an an enduring appeal you know people like them and they continue to like them so their appeal has lasted for a long time other things another example might be an enduring memory an enduring memory is a memory that sticks with you for a long time okay when we finished the game of Uno it was almost dark and there was still no sign of my cousin just means that there was no indication of him um he didn't come home and there was no sense that he was going to come home soon just zero nothing no indication no sign of my cousin at all my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back anytime soon so they assured him so basically means they made him sure they um made him convinced right so to assure someone is to give confidence to someone to make someone sure or to convince someone okay they assured me that he'd be back anytime soon don't worry he'll be back anytime soon I'm sure he'll just be a few moments they assured him we got similar other words like ensure e NS u e is to make certain that something will happen so you we we assure someone that something will happen and we ensure that something happens for example I just want to ensure that uh um I just want to ensure that the lesson starts at the right time meaning I want to make certain that the lesson starts at the right time let ensure with an E I want to assure you that's with as s Ur e that's to make someone feel sure and also we've got the word insure as well to ensure I'm going to ensure my car to ensure my house and that is to protect that thing against loss and that's to take insurance right so that's where you pay an insurance company and if you if the car gets damaged then the insurance company will pay for the damage so I've insured my car okay in this case my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back anytime soon don't worry he'll definitely be be back anytime soon MH ensure I wanted to ensure that I was on time for work my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back soon um it was almost dark outside I knew it would be a nightmare to find my way out of this Dreadful place after Sunset so a dreadful place is an awful terrible horrible bad place okay now Dreadful doesn't mean scary it doesn't mean frightening okay um even though it's got the word dread in it dread now the noun dread um does mean fear or or fright right to be filled with Dread means that you're ter scared right but if something is Dreadful it just means it's it's bad for example what did you think of the film I thought it was Dreadful one of the worst films I've seen for ages for example all right um what did you think of the pot roast oh no I couldn't eat it it was Dreadful okay so Dreadful just means bad so the guy decides that he needs to leave because he knew it would be a nightmare to find his way out of this terrible place this Dreadful awful place okay all right as my GPS just wasn't working I asked my aunt and uncle the most efficient way to get to the highway now the efficient way it's not it doesn't mean just the best way to get to the highway it means the in this case the quickest way so in English if something is efficient it means it does something quickly without using a lot of time quickly obviously uh without using a lot of energy or effort or or money okay the most efficient way of getting to the highway just in this case means the quickest way okay you can also say an efficient car an efficient car is one that travels a long way on a smaller amount of fuel right that's an efficient car like you know typically you know German or Japanese cars tend to be pretty efficient right famously like a Volkswagen Golf is a very efficient car but then because they they they do lots of miles to the gallon as we say uh whereas you know those classic American cars those big American muscle cars they look really cool but they are not efficient at all because you need to fill up the car with fuel you drive for about 10 minutes and you got to fill it up again because they're so inefficient yeah okay moving on they gave me a puzzled look so a puzzled look just means a huh a confused look puzzle a puzzle is a thing you have to solve like a crossword puzzle or a word puzzle a puzzled look is a look that you know is confused a confused look okay to give someone a look as well is quite a nice phrase you know uh he gave me a dirty look like when if you say something that someone doesn't like it might give you a dirty look I'm trying to I'm trying to do a dirty look I don't know um she gave me a friendly look hello you know in this case a puzzled look I told them I couldn't stay because I had to work the next day and couldn't afford to miss another day so I couldn't afford to or I can't afford to okay it's always can or could not in this case afford to do something means not have enough m uh not have enough time or enough money to do it okay normally for example do you want to come to Disneyland I can't afford to come to Disneyland uh not until the end of the month when I get paid because it's very expensive isn't it Disneyland you got to pay for the ticket to get there ticket to get in and then you got to you know you got to pay for all the food and all the other stuff it's very expensive I can't afford it right mean I don't have enough money to do it in this case he said I had to work the next day and couldn't afford to miss another day uh in this case couldn't afford to in the sense that he doesn't have enough chances left right if he's late another day or he misses another day he's probably going to get fired by his boss so in terms of Chances with his boss he doesn't have enough chances left so he really couldn't afford to miss another day okay so couldn't afford to because you don't have enough money can't afford to because you don't have enough time can't afford to because you've run out of opportunities you know I Shrugged it off and told them not to worry to shrug something off now to shrug shr u shr u right shrug is to kind of move your shoulders up as if you care as if you don't really care a it's all right you know when you when you kind of move your shoulders up and down to to show that you don't really care or it doesn't matter you don't mind now to shrug something off is is basically a way to say that you consider it to be unimportant or to say that it's not important or act like something is not important someone has said something and you just shrug it off like for example someone has criticized you and you shrug it off like Luke your podcast episodes are quite long aren't they quite long aren't they those podcast episodes who can listen to who could listen to a podcast for that long like it's all right people seem to like it you know just shrug it off shrug off the criticism in this case uh in this case they said to him oh no you you must stay you'll get you know you you'll get lost and he he Shrugged it off and just told them not to worry ah it's all right don't worry I've got a pretty good sense of direction your sense of direction is your ability to know where you are and where you're going if you've got a good sense of direction you generally don't get lost but if you've got a bad sense of direction you get lost easily looking aggravated they strongly advised me me to stay the night for my own sake so aggravated just means annoyed or bothered irritated or peeved like they're like God no you no you shouldn't you shouldn't leave no no no no no no you must stay they were kind of annoyed or bothered or irritated they strongly advised me to stay the night for my own sake right if if if you do something for your own sake it means for your own interest as if to say or if you leave you might get lost it'll be bad for you you could have a you know you could get lost you could get into trouble just for your own sake not for us not for us not for us we don't mind but just for you you see for your own sake for your interest um their body language was weird too because they became more serious and insistent if you are insistent it means you're demanding or adamant or not taking no for an answer oh no no no no no no you must stay no absolutely absolutely not no no no you're staying you're staying no that's that no I won't have any more of it thank you no you are staying and that's the end of it to be insistent and they like no no really really really no no no no you're stay get get the blankets um my uncle stood shaking his head and my aunt began to move about the place moving from here to here to here picking up a set of keys to unlock what I assume was a spare bedroom he assumed it to assume is to think that something is true without actually checking or or getting proof so he wasn't sure he hadn't checked what the room was but he just assumed that it was a spare bedroom oh it must be a spare bedroom this is probably where they want me to sleep but he's only assuming that which again is quite quite nicely written because it suggests to us that oh maybe that room was something else what was that room oh my God it's a torture chamber I don't know uh a spare bedroom a spare bedroom an extra bedroom that's not being used okay so we talk about a spare bedroom um other things a spare pen if you turn up to your English lesson and you don't have a pen then you could say excuse me does anyone have a spare pen do you have a spare pen I could borrow okay at this point I was getting annoyed and irritable so annoyed aggravated frustrated irritated and irritable irritable just means that you are in a state where you can become irritated so if someone is irritable it means they can easily become irritated irritated annoyed aggravated irritable means that you can easily become irritated they're very similar really to be irritable and to be irritated very similar like for example or don't talk to him in the morning he's very he gets very irritable if he hasn't had any coffee I I would leave him alone until he's had his coffee he gets very irritated if he hasn't had his coffee they're more or less the same thing irritable and irritated I sighed fine I'll stay the night then to stay the night obviously means to stay and sleep somewhere both of them seemed strangely ecstatic if you are ecstatic it means you're extremely happy very very pleased oh good he's staying the night bit weird as soon as they went out of the room to get bed sheets and pillows I ran out of the door got in my car and hastily pulled away so we've got the word hasty or in this case the adverb hastily uh if Hasty means in a hurry without thinking carefully so you just do something quickly without really thinking carefully in this case escaped in his car right quickly without really sto stopping to think he did it hastily he pulled away so to pull away this phrasal verb means to leave in a car so the car is parked you get in you start the engine you turn the wheel and V you pull away or pull off is another one okay and the opposite of that is to pull over to pull over that means you're driving in the car and you get to your destination you turn to the side of the road and stop you pull over it's also what police would ask you to do if you're driving along I don't know what it is you're doing you're driving too fast or you're you're completely drunk behind the wheel of the car hopefully not and the police W and they say pull over the car please right pull over have you have you played Grand Theft Auto then I'm sure you've heard the police shouting at you to pull over pull over the car don't do anything stupid buddy you get those sorts of things when you you're playing Grand Theft Auto but anyway pull over just means stop the car by the side of the road and then the opposite would be to pull off or to pull away I know it was rude but I suddenly felt the urge to get out of there quickly if you feel the urge to do something uh it means you feel uh strong motivation to do something suddenly feel that you have to do something I felt the urge to get out of there I felt compelled to get out of there I felt that I had to get out of there I felt the urge an urge is like a a push inside yourself or a a strong uh compulsion or feeling that you need to do something I felt the urge to go to the toilet for example in this case I felt the urge to just get out of there to escape quickly it seemed to take me ages but I finally found my way back to the main Highway and drove back through the night wondering why my cousin had never turned up to turn up means to arrive okay to turn up very common phrasal verb just means to arrive okay for example I've been waiting for you I waited for you all morning and you just didn't turn up what happened okay or like he finally turned up half an hour late or look these three students just didn't turn up today does anyone know what happened to them to turn up meaning to arrive okay um climbing over my fence and entering the back door I noticed the kitchen lights were on a fence do you know what a fence is between two gardens you got like a wooden thing or maybe a metal thing that divides the two gardens and that's a fence right you you'd need to climb over it if you want to get into the back back door of the house that's a fence um as soon as I look as soon as I took my first step through the door I saw my mom sitting there looking impatient a note about the spelling of the word mom or in this case mom M oom is pretty standard in American English right I saw my mom sitting there so that's normal in American English usually in British English it's muu m although in some cases in the UK some people do spell it m for example in Birmingham you know they would say mom as well and spell it with an M but for the most part generally speaking in the UK it's muu M for Mom and in American English M O M for Mom uh I saw my mom sitting there looking impatient so she was looking impatient like she'd been waiting for a long time annoyed frustrated irritated and in this case impatient where have you been where have you been she asked I was at Aunt Deborah I told you then why did she call saying you never arrived dun d d That's the kind of um crucial moment of the story this is where we realize that so he went to the wrong house to this day I still have no idea who I visited so to this day to this day um to this day just means since then and until now including now okay since then until now including now as well so other examples to this day I've never seen Star Wars I I've never seen Star Wars to this day meaning never in my life including today to this day I still remember the moment that we met another example the old castle is still standing to this day all right and in this case to this day I still have no idea who I visited okay so that was that was vocab there a Little vocab recap with phrases like to this day and to be impatient on your on the fence to turn up to feel the urge to do something to pull away or pull over to be ecstatic to be annoyed or irritable or uh irritated or aggravated to stay the night to assume something a spare bedroom a spare pen a spare chair uh to um to do something for your own sake or for someone else's sake to be insistent to shrug something off your sense of direction to to be able to afford something I can't afford to I couldn't afford to a puzzled look to give someone a puzzled look um efficient Dreadful um no sign of someone and so on and so on and so forth right now again if you want to uh find the entire text for this story uh and a a vocabulary list as well check the episode page for this episode on my website okay just follow the link in the description it will take you straight there uh the link in the description for this episode in your show notes uh you'll find a link there click that it'll take you straight to the page for this episode on my website where you'll be able to uh read the entire text and also see uh a list of vocabulary that I've just explained okay now I had planned to go through grammar from the story as well okay and that includes the classic narrative verb tenses looking at past simple past perfect and past continuous and the ways in which those different tenses are used to sequence events in the story in a fairly sophisticated way with the use of some conjunctions as well um also gern and infinitives so for example you may notice that sometimes you see an ing form of a verb and sometimes you have the infinitive form of the verb like inviting and to invite also I wanted to give some comments about what's the the difference between a gerand like inviting and a present participle like inviting how do you know if it's a gerand or if it's a present participle well if it's a present participle it's used as part of a uh a continuous verb form like be doing to be waiting I am waiting she was waiting I have been waiting so if you need that if you have that verb be along with the ing form that ing form is a present participle but if there's no auxiliary verb be then and it's an ing word then it's probably a Geren and gern are used where you actually need a noun in the sentence like for example as the subject of the sentence skateboarding is my favorite thing for example skateboarding is a Geren there it's like the name of a sport right it's like a noun or we use Jaren in other loc where you need a noun like after certain verbs okay I enjoy skateboarding after the verb enjoy if you want to have another verb I enjoy listening to your podcast after the the verb enjoy you need a gerand because that's you know some verbs are followed by gern some verbs are followed by infinitives I enjoy skateboarding I want to go skateboarding want is followed by an infinitive of course that gets a bit complicated because you start to realize okay this verb or even this whole expression is followed by a gerand but this verb and these expressions are followed by an infinitive for example I am looking forward to is followed by a gerand I'm looking forward to seeing you soon what about I can't wait I can't wait to see you so can't wait is followed by an infinitive you see so there's that and there's some examples of that kind of thing in the story and also participle phrases this is where a present participle is used to create a phrase which informs the rest of the sentence like approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked and there are loads of examples of that in this story you could just write as I was approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked or when I was approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked but it can be more efficient to say approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked and there are loads of examples of that in this story as well and various other bits of grammar now I would go through that now but you know what I'm not going to go through that now because that would take too long and I want to go through it in proper detail but you know what I said before that this is the sort of thing I do on uh in I said before this is the sort of thing I do in premium episodes I think what I'll do is I'll wait and I'll probably make a premium episode where I go through the grammar from that story so if you want to get that if you want to get my comments and my my teaching about all of the grammar that's in that story focusing on participle phrases to make efficient reasonably complex sentences gern and 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hello listeners welcome back to Luke's English podcast how are you today I hope you're doing fine so here's a brand new episode and this one is a short story episode this is one of those episodes where I read you a short story and then use it to teach you some vocabulary and some grammar okay so uh I'm always looking for short stories always looking for little stories that I can use in episodes of my podcast uh this particular story I found this one on the website kora.com I don't know if you're familiar with Kora basically it's a website where uh people can post questions and then other users of the website will post their responses to those questions and the responses get upvoted or down voted and uh if a if a response gets upvoted a lot it then gets pushed up to the top of the page so I was looking on Kora and one of the questions I found there was something like this can you share any true scary stories can you share any true scary stories that I think was the original question that someone had posted and the the top response the most upvoted response was the story that I'm going to tell you today it was actually posted by a guy called Lance Stevenson and pretty sure that the story happened in the United States of America the USA and it was posted yes as a true scary story okay first of all I'm going to just read the story to you and you can try to understand it right uh if you're look at the video version you will see the story on the screen you'll see the text on the screen next to me uh if you are listening to the audio version uh and you want to read the text as well then you can just go to the page for this episode on my website you'll find the whole story uh copied there for you so you can check out the text in your own time if you want to read it as well uh so listen to the story try to understand it and you can think about this like why what can you identify uh the the scary SC elements so what's scary about this story uh try to imagine what is going to happen next and what happens at the end so can you get the specific details what is the scary element to this um after I've read the story to you I will summarize it in my own words just to try and clarify it just to make sure that you've got the details and that you've understood the the kind of the twist let's say the twist at the end of the story and then after that I'll go back through the text of the story and break it down for language highlighting vocabulary and also some some bits of grammar as well we'll be looking at things like um gern and infinitives and participle phrases and other things we're going to look at the way that the story was told and with different kinds of structures okay right so let's let's get started then with this apparently true scary story all right are you ready yes you're ready okay well let's begin then so I've decided to call this Story the invitation so here we go then what is scary about this story about 7 years ago I got an invitation to attend a dinner party at my cousin's house I have a pretty large family and I'd never actually seen this particular cousin before I'd only ever spoken to him on the phone I was surprised that his family unexpectedly invited me over but I was curious to finally meet them the invitation had an address that I didn't know and the GPS was unfamiliar with it too it was in one of those areas where Google Maps doesn't work properly because of poor phone reception so I had to use an old-fashioned paper map I marked the location on the map tried to get a sense of where I was headed and set off in my car as I was driving I I started to notice how far I'd traveled into the countryside and away from civilization I saw trees farms and Fields passing by just trees farms and Fields and more trees and more farms and more Fields where the hell am I going I thought to myself I'd never ventured out so far in that direction before I drove for quite a long time trying to locate the address I had marked on the map the thing is in this area a lot of the roads don't have names or the names aren't clearly marked by road signs I just had to try to match the layout of the streets to the layout I could see on the map I finally found a place at a location that looked like the one I'd noted on my map I was pretty sure that this was the right spot so I parked and got out of the car approaching the house I noticed how dull and dreary it looked it was completely covered in leaves branches and overgrown trees this can't be it I said to myself but as soon as I walked onto the rocky driveway my aunt and uncle came out to greet me they seemed excited and welcoming hello hello come in come in they said beckoning me inside walking into the house I asked where my cousin was answering immediately one of them said oh he just went to run a few errands he should be back later I waited in their kitchen and we spent a couple of hours talking about my mother and my family my aunt made a delicious homemade pot roast that I finished off in minutes after dinner we played an enduring game of Uno it was surprisingly fun and competitive my aunt in particular seemed delighted to be playing when we finished the game of Uno it was almost dark and there was still no sign of my cousin my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back anytime soon despite what they said I decided that I had to leave it was almost dark outside and I knew it would be a nightmare to find my way out of this Dreadful place after sunset with no street lights or road signs as my GPS just wasn't working I asked my aunt and uncle the most efficient way to get to the highway they gave me a puzzled look but we thought you were staying the night they said I told them I couldn't because I had work the next day and couldn't afford to miss another day it's it's much better if you leave tomorrow morning trust us you'll get lost they said I Shrugged it off and told them not to worry ah don't worry I've got a pretty good sense of direction I could find my way out of the Sahara Desert I told them looking aggravated they strongly advised me to stay the night for my own sake their body language was weird too as they became more serious and insistent my uncle stood shaking his head and my aunt began to move about the place picking up a set of keys to unlock what I assume was a spare bedroom at this point I was getting annoyed and irritable I sighed fine I'll stay the night then but I have to get up very early for work I said both of them seemed strangely ecstatic that I was staying the night as soon as they went out of the room to get bed sheets and pillows I ran out of the door got in my car and hastily pulled away I know it was rude but I suddenly felt the urge to get out of there quickly it seemed to take me ages but I finally found my way back to the main Highway and drove back through the night wondering why my cousin had never turned up I got home several hours later than I expected it was after midnight and I didn't want to wake my parents up climbing over my fence and entering the back door I noticed that the kitchen lights were on as soon as I took my first step through the door I saw my mom sitting there looking impatient Where Have You Been she asked I was at Aunt Deborah's I told you I replied then why did she call saying you never arrived to this day I still have no idea who I visited okay so that's the story hm did you understand all of that what did you think did you think it was scary I don't know did you understand it enough what's going on what was actually going on here now I've read that story to people before and to an extent some people sort of misunderstood what was going on or they expected something to be happening so let me let me go through the story again and try and tell it to you in my own words to make it clear what happened so here are things that I think didn't happen so I remember telling that story to other people in the past they have they have assumed that the aunt and uncle like the they they assumed that maybe the reason the cousin didn't turn up is because the aunt and uncle maybe had killed him or something um I remember one person I read that story too uh thought that the pot roast was suspicious like what was in the pot roast did they kill the cousin and then they put him in the pot pot roast and he ate the the cousin I don't think that's what's going on basically this the creepy thing about this is that the guy almost definitely got the wrong house he got he went to the wrong house and he spent an evening with two people who he thought were his aunt and uncle two people who essentially seem to be pretending to be his aunt and uncle and who were lying to him about the cousin and stuff they were just strangely delighted to have a stranger in their home they were sort of weirdly uh excited to have someone at home with them and they really wanted that person to stay the night which is strange so who were these people we don't know because he got the wrong house and and meanwhile his real aunt and uncle and and uh his cousin were in a different house somewhere waiting for him to arrive live so a key thing to to know about this is that at the beginning of the story um this the Storyteller the writer says that uh he'd never actually met um his aunt or uncle or cousin before and that seems a little bit odd right a little bit strange that there would be like members of your family especially like an aunt and uncle and a cousin that you'd never actually met before but I suppose it's possible Right some people have very large families and uh especially in the United States which is such a big country if like there are members of your family who live fairly far away then it's not completely strange to to have never seen them or never met them and some families are a bit you know some families are not that close you know and and sometimes if there's like a bad relationship between the parents that they just don't see each other you know so you know there's that right so let me just let me try and clarify the story so the story starts with the guy saying um that s years earlier he received an invitation to have dinner at his cousin's house and he'd never actually met his cousin or his aunt or Uncle before so he was surprised that they had sent him a dinner invitation he'd only ever spoken to his cousin on the phone so he had actually spoken to his cousin but never actually met them face to face another slightly strange thing is that you'd imagine that maybe he would have seen photos of them but apparently not in this case but um so um the address was in a remote location quite far away from where the guy uh lived and he had to go there by car but the GPS his his um you know his satellite navigation in his car his uh his GPS couldn't locate the address and also the um the address that area is like very difficult to to navigate because there are no uh street names or road signs it's very poorly um indicated and apparently very bad mobile phone reception so he wasn't able to use Google Maps so he was forced to use an old fashion paper map and mark the location uh Mark the address on the map and then set off in his car and after driving for a long long time through lots of Countryside uh further and further away from civilization out into the middle of nowhere um he eventually found what he thought was the right place because the the streets didn't have street signs on them it was difficult for him to locate the right address but he tried to match the streets he could see with the streets he could see on the map and he found what he thought was the correct house um he wasn't completely sure uh but when he stepped onto the driveway when he approached the house what he thought was his um aunt and his uncle like these two people quickly came out of the house and greeted him and sort of very enthusiastically welcomed him in and I guess he didn't really have time to think about it but he assumed that these two people must be his aunt and uncle and they welcomed him in very enthusiastically and then he chatted with them in the kitchen for a couple of hours talking about his mother and their family so I suppose I don't know what what's going on there maybe these people pretended you know they were just like oh yeah yeah yeah just going along with it he would talk about his his mom and they would just sort of like just agree and go along with everything so as far as he was concerned these this was his aunt and uncle and when he said oh what about my cousin they just kind of um brushed It Off by saying oh he he'll be back later he's just running a few errands anyway would you like something to eat and uh the woman made him a a pot roast which is a kind of um like a roasted um meal in a in a pot with vegetables and some sort of meat and onion and sauce and stuff like that and he ate the whole thing apparently was delicious then they played a game of Uno which is a kind of card game and uh he noticed that the the his wouldbe aunt and uncle were behaving a bit strangely and the aunt in particular seem to be like like ecstatic about playing the game and like strangely delighted you know and it got darker and darker and he realized that the cousin perhaps wasn't going to turn up and so he he decided that he had to leave but his so-called aunt and uncle were very keen for him to stay and they were they were shocked at the idea that he would leave and they they were like no no no you must stay it'll be too difficult to find your way uh uh out of the area at this time so no no no you must stay and um they started to prepare a bed for him and he suddenly got a weird feeling at this point and decided that he had to leave he also mentioned something about the fact that he had to work the next day and he couldn't afford to miss another day so probably you know he was probably um in already in a little bit of trouble with his boss for missing days of work previously and so it was really important that he got back home in time to be able to get to work um you know without missing another day so he decided that he really did have to leave and in the end he just sort of escaped while they were doing something while they uh quickly went away to get some bed sheets and pillows he sort of escaped and went out of the door got in his car and drove off and managed to find his way home it took him a long time and then when he finally got home um it was late and he wanted just to go straight to bed but his mom was still up waiting for him uh and annoyed with him and she said what where have you been and he said I was at aunt and uncle I was at Aunt Deborah's like I told you and she said well why did they call saying that you never arrived so in fact the real aunt and uncle were waiting the entire evening for him to arrive he must have gone to another house and who were these strange people and why were they so Keen for him to stay the night what was going on and what was in that pot roast anyway just weird I mean so that is one of those sort of stories that is supposed to be scary because of what might have happened or what could have happened or the fact that there are lots of unknown things like we don't know who these people were and why they were so enthusiastic about him being in their home and then staying the night and what and some other details like why was the bedroom door locked with a key and why would why was their behavior so odd so there you go that's the story so what do you think do you think it's a true story I mean we've got no idea of tell we we don't know we can never know if that was a true story or if Lance what was his name Lance Stevenson Lance Stevenson maybe Lance Stevenson just made it up it could be one of those Urban myths you know those sorts of stories which are presented as being true but they're really just made up and designed to be scary little stories like normally stories like this if they if they if we know that they're not true if we know that they're made up then they become less effective they have less impact if you listen to that story believing it's true then it makes it more creepy doesn't it so who knows maybe it's true maybe it's just made up no idea but I quite enjoy it I quite enjoy the um creepiness of it okay so let's now do a language review let's see how the story was written and this is where we're going to focus on some vocabulary and some grammar I'm actually going to give you the sort of Luke's English podcast premium treatment now because normally I do this kind of thing in premium episodes of my podcast and uh that's where I go into the vocabulary and the grammar and stuff in a lot more detail so this is just a flavor of the sort of thing you can get if you subscribe to my premium content uh and if you do that you'll get like loads of extra episodes in your podcast app so you'll get the premium feed which means you'll get all of the free episodes of my audio show without any advertising and also you'll get all these extra episodes that uh involve lots of language teaching from me and this is just a little tap of the sort of thing that you get in those extra premium episodes if you're interested in that by the way uh just go to teacher. co.uk premium info and you can find all the details audio episodes that you can get in your audio podcast app with PDFs every single premium episode has a PDF with worksheets and the rest of it vocabulary teaching grammar teaching pronunciation practice memory exercises and also video versions there are video versions of those premium episodes uh too so you can get all the information at teacher. co.uk premium info so let's start then by going through vocabulary from the story okay you'll see that I've highlighted some words in the story in Orange not every single um slide here has a has a word on it for example the first slide about seven years ago I got an invitation to attend a dinner party at my cousin's house okay fine nothing in particular to to point out there the next slide I have a pretty large family pretty large right it just means fairly large quite large I have a pretty large family and I'd never actually seen this particular cousin before so that word particular this particular cousin just means this specific cousin this cousin in particular okay so obviously this guy's got lots of cousins but now he wants to say this cousin specifically so he'd never actually seen this particular cousin before all right so this particular cousin on this particular day this particular episode of Luke's podcast was particularly interesting for me in particular all right moving on I was surprised that his family unexpectedly invited me over so unexpectedly it's pretty clear I suppose right but it's it's a nice adverb to do something unexpectedly when was the last time you use that word um do something that you don't expect do something unexpectedly okay so they they they unexpectedly did something they did something unexpectedly in this case his family unexpectedly invited me over so invite me I think you understand it's like would you like to come to our house for dinner but invite me over why have we got the word over in there using the word over imp implies visiting someone's home okay and we often use that we say come over invite someone over stay over over means over here at my place so that's just very common when you're talking about coming or visiting someone's home invite someone over come over and stay over yes the invitation had an address that I didn't know and the GPS was unfamiliar with it too so GPS I think it's probably International right GPS the sort of um electronic map device that everyone uses in their car GPS um global positioning system in the UK we also call it satnav satnav did you know that one satellite navigation satnav GPS satnav it was in one of those areas where Google Maps doesn't work properly because of poor phone reception so phone reception refers to you know your the the how much coverage you have how much connection you have on your phone we call it phone reception uh or signal or network or coverage for example if you've only got one bar on your phone and you're trying to do something like maybe you're trying to uh look something up on the Internet uh and you've only got one bar then your phone works very slowly and you can tell I've got such ter terrible reception here have you got any reception I've got no network or the signal here is terrible isn't it okay or if you're on the phone to someone it's like I can't hear you no I've got really bad signal I've got really I've got really bad I've got no network here okay so reception signal or network right I marked the location on the map try to get a sense of where I was headed and set off in my car if you are headed in in a particular direction it means you're going in that direction right so where are we headed we're headed for London meaning we're going to London we're headed for the pub meaning we're going to the pub so if you're headed or heading as well somewhere it means you're going in that direction so I tried to get a sense of where I was headed and set off in my car to set off means to start your journey okay start your journey set off in your car set off on your bike set off on foot okay remember it's always on foot it's never by walking but on foot set off on your journey set off in your car set off on your bike set off on Foot Right set off meaning start your trip as I was driving I started to notice how far I'd traveled into the countryside away from civilization the countryside I mean it's a very common word but as a teacher I often notice that my Learners don't use this word or don't seem to remember it so you got the city and then you've maybe got the suburbs which is that area just around the city and then where it's all green and you've got lots of fields and trees and stuff that's the countryside okay in this case he was driving and driving and he realized how far he' traveled into the countryside away from civilization I saw trees farms and field passing by passing by meaning passing next to him passing on the side as as he looked out of the window passing by where the hell am I going I thought to myself um I just wanted to highlight the use of the hell in that question where the hell am I going and you know you can do that to add a sort of emphasis or anger or surprise or um sort of confusion to your question where the hell am I going just add the word the phrase the hell after the question word where the hell am I going what the hell are you doing what the hell are you talking about what the hell is going on right um and there's also the more rude version which is the f word where the F am I going what the are you talking about right everyone knows that but also you got what the hell where the hell we going what the hell are you doing who the hell are you what the hell are you talking about for example all right there's another one too there's on Earth where on Earth am I going what on Earth are you talking about what on Earth is happening who on Earth is this guy anyway right so on Earth after the word where where where the hell am I going what on Earth am I doing those are slightly more or slightly less rude versions of saying the fword in that situation instead where the hell am I going I thought to myself I'd never ventured out so far in that direction before to venture out means to leave a familiar place and go somewhere new right kind of go on an adventure an adventure that's a noun but the verb is to venture to venture out meaning go out go away to a new place uh that you haven't been to before and go on a journey that involves maybe some risks right so to venture out into the countryside to venture out into the desert to venture out of the house if the snow stops I might venture out to get some supplies from the shop for example okay all right let's keep going I drove for quite a long time trying to locate the address I had marked on the map the thing is in this area a lot of the roads don't have names so the the thing is this is a phrase that we use a lot and normally it's used before giving a reason or maybe giving an excuse like for example where's your home you didn't do your homework where's your homework oh well sorry teacher but the thing is my dog ate it right just like that classic terrible student excuse not that not that uh in all my years as a teacher no one has ever given me that excuse but it's the sort of cliched excuse oh I'm sorry my dog ate my homework if someone actually if if one of my students genuinely gave that excuse oh the thing is my dog ate my homework I would be genuinely impressed of like really wow that's incredible is the dog okay anyway the thing is last night I was out and then uh I lost my bag and then it's like never mind just sit down stop stop giving me this ridiculous excuse so the thing is it's used to give a reason or an excuse right in this case um he's explaining why he had problems like the thing is in this area lots of the roads don't have names okay so it's very common to use the thing is when you're giving excuses or reasons for example if someone says to you would you like to go for a drink with me and you you need to say no you might say oh I'd love to but the thing is I can't or I'd love to go for a drink with you but the thing is you know I'm I'm washing my hair tonight um right okay moving on I just had to try to match the layout of the streets to the layout I could see on the map so the layout is the design or the way in which things are laid out or arranged so the layout of the streets like where the houses are positioned where the road is positioned where the where trees are and stuff that's the layout of the streets and the layout of the map you know the way that the map has been designed okay that's the layout you also have things like the layout of a website you know the way that the website is arranged the way it looks there's a picture here there's text here there's this this this that's the layout of a of a website for example um so approaching the house I noticed how dull and dreary it looked so dull basically means boring another word would be drab uh so dull boring not interesting looking okay dull and boring and dreary dreary another adjective to describe the appearance of this house that didn't look very nice or interesting dreary means sort of depressing so you can imagine a house that is yeah sort of dark depressing it doesn't look like it's been um cleaned or maintained very well it's the it's the classic scary house from a hor from a horror film isn't it there always a house like this it's kind of creepy dull dreary looking house with lots of over grown trees and bushes and and grass and stuff dark Windows the door opens you know with a creek like that the whole thing basically if you're in a movie if you ever find yourself in a movie not that that's ever going to happen but if you do find yourself in a movie and there's a big dreary creepy looking house with lots of overgrown bushes generally it's a good idea to to turn around 180° do a 18 and just go home and stop being in horror films okay right so approaching the house I noticed how dull and dreary it looked it was completely covered in leaves branches and overgrown trees so branches we know are the parts of the tree that come off the main trunk you got the main trunk of the tree the trunk and then from the trunk you get branches of the tree that come out and there are leaves and stuff on the branches um over grown trees a tree that's overgrown is that it's grown too much and it's maybe covering the street or covering a building and it needs to be you know cut back it needs to be pruned or trimmed this can't be it I said to myself but as soon as I walked onto the rocky driveway my aunt and uncle came out to greet me to greet someone just means to say hello to someone like for example if someone comes to your office you would go down to reception to greet them uh uh Luke could you go and greet our guests in reception please you go go and greet them hello You Must Be Our Guests Hello nice to nice to meet you hello that's right come this way uh how was your journey was it all right okay so they greeted him they seemed exciting and welcoming hello hello come in come in they said beckoning me inside to beckon someone is to sort of uh wave with your hand to try and make someone come towards you come in come in so the hand gesture that you would use with your hand when you're saying come in that's to beckon someone or to say come here come here with your hand that gesture is called beckoning to beckon someone walking into the house I asked where my cousin was answering immediately one of them said oh he just went to run a few errands to run a few errands it means just to do a few small jobs right so maybe go to the shops post some letters take something to the cleaners you know fill up the car with fuel just to run a few errands to do a few little jobs I waited in their kitchen and we spent a couple of hours talking about my mother and my family my aunt made a delicious homemade pot roast this is where I said it before meat and vegetables in a big pot in the oven cooked for quite a long time yum yum yum that's a pot roast we don't know what was in this particular pot roast but he said that he finished it off in minutes they made a my aunt made a delicious homemade pot roast that I finished off in minutes finished he finished it I think we understand there was nothing left at the end but finished off what's the function of saying off there I finished it off it just emphasizes that it was completely finished so finish and finish off right if you finished it off it means you completely finished it I mean to be honest if something is finished it's completely finished I mean something is either finished or not finished right so I don't know how really you could say that something is completely finished but it's really just emphasizing it okay that's the function of that phrasal verb it's just emphasizing that it was completely finished so you can it's it's quite nice because you can imagine that the the bowl or the plate that he was eating from is completely complely empty at the end and the pot totally empty he finished it off I suppose this is this is one of the this is one of the creepy elements because later on when you realize that we don't know who these people were or what their intentions were or what their agenda was you start to think what did he what did he eat what was that that he ate we don't know but he trusted these people and maybe he shouldn't have so he finished the entire pot roast off but wonder I wonder what was in it h um after dinner we played an enduring game of Uno do you know the game Uno it's a kind of card game that you play with kids where you kind of deal out cards and then you can you have to pick up cards if you if you can't play the right number You' got to pick up cards it's sort of just a fun not very challenging game that you play with children this is uno so they played an enduring game of Uno enduring means that it lasted a long time an enduring game of Uno a game that lasted a long time other things you could say would be enduring appeal right for example the enduring appeal of The Beatles You Know The Beatles this is the example I always love to use but the Beatles you know they split up in 1970 but they're still popular and they still got new music coming out even now and it just shows that they have an incred they have an an enduring appeal you know people like them and they continue to like them so their appeal has lasted for a long time other things another example might be an enduring memory an enduring memory is a memory that sticks with you for a long time okay when we finished the game of Uno it was almost dark and there was still no sign of my cousin just means that there was no indication of him um he didn't come home and there was no sense that he was going to come home soon just zero nothing no indication no sign of my cousin at all my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back anytime soon so they assured him so basically means they made him sure they um made him convinced right so to assure someone is to give confidence to someone to make someone sure or to convince someone okay they assured me that he'd be back anytime soon don't worry he'll be back anytime soon I'm sure he'll just be a few moments they assured him we got similar other words like ensure e NS u e is to make certain that something will happen so you we we assure someone that something will happen and we ensure that something happens for example I just want to ensure that uh um I just want to ensure that the lesson starts at the right time meaning I want to make certain that the lesson starts at the right time let ensure with an E I want to assure you that's with as s Ur e that's to make someone feel sure and also we've got the word insure as well to ensure I'm going to ensure my car to ensure my house and that is to protect that thing against loss and that's to take insurance right so that's where you pay an insurance company and if you if the car gets damaged then the insurance company will pay for the damage so I've insured my car okay in this case my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back anytime soon don't worry he'll definitely be be back anytime soon MH ensure I wanted to ensure that I was on time for work my aunt and uncle assured me that he'd be back soon um it was almost dark outside I knew it would be a nightmare to find my way out of this Dreadful place after Sunset so a dreadful place is an awful terrible horrible bad place okay now Dreadful doesn't mean scary it doesn't mean frightening okay um even though it's got the word dread in it dread now the noun dread um does mean fear or or fright right to be filled with Dread means that you're ter scared right but if something is Dreadful it just means it's it's bad for example what did you think of the film I thought it was Dreadful one of the worst films I've seen for ages for example all right um what did you think of the pot roast oh no I couldn't eat it it was Dreadful okay so Dreadful just means bad so the guy decides that he needs to leave because he knew it would be a nightmare to find his way out of this terrible place this Dreadful awful place okay all right as my GPS just wasn't working I asked my aunt and uncle the most efficient way to get to the highway now the efficient way it's not it doesn't mean just the best way to get to the highway it means the in this case the quickest way so in English if something is efficient it means it does something quickly without using a lot of time quickly obviously uh without using a lot of energy or effort or or money okay the most efficient way of getting to the highway just in this case means the quickest way okay you can also say an efficient car an efficient car is one that travels a long way on a smaller amount of fuel right that's an efficient car like you know typically you know German or Japanese cars tend to be pretty efficient right famously like a Volkswagen Golf is a very efficient car but then because they they they do lots of miles to the gallon as we say uh whereas you know those classic American cars those big American muscle cars they look really cool but they are not efficient at all because you need to fill up the car with fuel you drive for about 10 minutes and you got to fill it up again because they're so inefficient yeah okay moving on they gave me a puzzled look so a puzzled look just means a huh a confused look puzzle a puzzle is a thing you have to solve like a crossword puzzle or a word puzzle a puzzled look is a look that you know is confused a confused look okay to give someone a look as well is quite a nice phrase you know uh he gave me a dirty look like when if you say something that someone doesn't like it might give you a dirty look I'm trying to I'm trying to do a dirty look I don't know um she gave me a friendly look hello you know in this case a puzzled look I told them I couldn't stay because I had to work the next day and couldn't afford to miss another day so I couldn't afford to or I can't afford to okay it's always can or could not in this case afford to do something means not have enough m uh not have enough time or enough money to do it okay normally for example do you want to come to Disneyland I can't afford to come to Disneyland uh not until the end of the month when I get paid because it's very expensive isn't it Disneyland you got to pay for the ticket to get there ticket to get in and then you got to you know you got to pay for all the food and all the other stuff it's very expensive I can't afford it right mean I don't have enough money to do it in this case he said I had to work the next day and couldn't afford to miss another day uh in this case couldn't afford to in the sense that he doesn't have enough chances left right if he's late another day or he misses another day he's probably going to get fired by his boss so in terms of Chances with his boss he doesn't have enough chances left so he really couldn't afford to miss another day okay so couldn't afford to because you don't have enough money can't afford to because you don't have enough time can't afford to because you've run out of opportunities you know I Shrugged it off and told them not to worry to shrug something off now to shrug shr u shr u right shrug is to kind of move your shoulders up as if you care as if you don't really care a it's all right you know when you when you kind of move your shoulders up and down to to show that you don't really care or it doesn't matter you don't mind now to shrug something off is is basically a way to say that you consider it to be unimportant or to say that it's not important or act like something is not important someone has said something and you just shrug it off like for example someone has criticized you and you shrug it off like Luke your podcast episodes are quite long aren't they quite long aren't they those podcast episodes who can listen to who could listen to a podcast for that long like it's all right people seem to like it you know just shrug it off shrug off the criticism in this case uh in this case they said to him oh no you you must stay you'll get you know you you'll get lost and he he Shrugged it off and just told them not to worry ah it's all right don't worry I've got a pretty good sense of direction your sense of direction is your ability to know where you are and where you're going if you've got a good sense of direction you generally don't get lost but if you've got a bad sense of direction you get lost easily looking aggravated they strongly advised me me to stay the night for my own sake so aggravated just means annoyed or bothered irritated or peeved like they're like God no you no you shouldn't you shouldn't leave no no no no no no you must stay they were kind of annoyed or bothered or irritated they strongly advised me to stay the night for my own sake right if if if you do something for your own sake it means for your own interest as if to say or if you leave you might get lost it'll be bad for you you could have a you know you could get lost you could get into trouble just for your own sake not for us not for us not for us we don't mind but just for you you see for your own sake for your interest um their body language was weird too because they became more serious and insistent if you are insistent it means you're demanding or adamant or not taking no for an answer oh no no no no no no you must stay no absolutely absolutely not no no no you're staying you're staying no that's that no I won't have any more of it thank you no you are staying and that's the end of it to be insistent and they like no no really really really no no no no you're stay get get the blankets um my uncle stood shaking his head and my aunt began to move about the place moving from here to here to here picking up a set of keys to unlock what I assume was a spare bedroom he assumed it to assume is to think that something is true without actually checking or or getting proof so he wasn't sure he hadn't checked what the room was but he just assumed that it was a spare bedroom oh it must be a spare bedroom this is probably where they want me to sleep but he's only assuming that which again is quite quite nicely written because it suggests to us that oh maybe that room was something else what was that room oh my God it's a torture chamber I don't know uh a spare bedroom a spare bedroom an extra bedroom that's not being used okay so we talk about a spare bedroom um other things a spare pen if you turn up to your English lesson and you don't have a pen then you could say excuse me does anyone have a spare pen do you have a spare pen I could borrow okay at this point I was getting annoyed and irritable so annoyed aggravated frustrated irritated and irritable irritable just means that you are in a state where you can become irritated so if someone is irritable it means they can easily become irritated irritated annoyed aggravated irritable means that you can easily become irritated they're very similar really to be irritable and to be irritated very similar like for example or don't talk to him in the morning he's very he gets very irritable if he hasn't had any coffee I I would leave him alone until he's had his coffee he gets very irritated if he hasn't had his coffee they're more or less the same thing irritable and irritated I sighed fine I'll stay the night then to stay the night obviously means to stay and sleep somewhere both of them seemed strangely ecstatic if you are ecstatic it means you're extremely happy very very pleased oh good he's staying the night bit weird as soon as they went out of the room to get bed sheets and pillows I ran out of the door got in my car and hastily pulled away so we've got the word hasty or in this case the adverb hastily uh if Hasty means in a hurry without thinking carefully so you just do something quickly without really thinking carefully in this case escaped in his car right quickly without really sto stopping to think he did it hastily he pulled away so to pull away this phrasal verb means to leave in a car so the car is parked you get in you start the engine you turn the wheel and V you pull away or pull off is another one okay and the opposite of that is to pull over to pull over that means you're driving in the car and you get to your destination you turn to the side of the road and stop you pull over it's also what police would ask you to do if you're driving along I don't know what it is you're doing you're driving too fast or you're you're completely drunk behind the wheel of the car hopefully not and the police W and they say pull over the car please right pull over have you have you played Grand Theft Auto then I'm sure you've heard the police shouting at you to pull over pull over the car don't do anything stupid buddy you get those sorts of things when you you're playing Grand Theft Auto but anyway pull over just means stop the car by the side of the road and then the opposite would be to pull off or to pull away I know it was rude but I suddenly felt the urge to get out of there quickly if you feel the urge to do something uh it means you feel uh strong motivation to do something suddenly feel that you have to do something I felt the urge to get out of there I felt compelled to get out of there I felt that I had to get out of there I felt the urge an urge is like a a push inside yourself or a a strong uh compulsion or feeling that you need to do something I felt the urge to go to the toilet for example in this case I felt the urge to just get out of there to escape quickly it seemed to take me ages but I finally found my way back to the main Highway and drove back through the night wondering why my cousin had never turned up to turn up means to arrive okay to turn up very common phrasal verb just means to arrive okay for example I've been waiting for you I waited for you all morning and you just didn't turn up what happened okay or like he finally turned up half an hour late or look these three students just didn't turn up today does anyone know what happened to them to turn up meaning to arrive okay um climbing over my fence and entering the back door I noticed the kitchen lights were on a fence do you know what a fence is between two gardens you got like a wooden thing or maybe a metal thing that divides the two gardens and that's a fence right you you'd need to climb over it if you want to get into the back back door of the house that's a fence um as soon as I look as soon as I took my first step through the door I saw my mom sitting there looking impatient a note about the spelling of the word mom or in this case mom M oom is pretty standard in American English right I saw my mom sitting there so that's normal in American English usually in British English it's muu m although in some cases in the UK some people do spell it m for example in Birmingham you know they would say mom as well and spell it with an M but for the most part generally speaking in the UK it's muu M for Mom and in American English M O M for Mom uh I saw my mom sitting there looking impatient so she was looking impatient like she'd been waiting for a long time annoyed frustrated irritated and in this case impatient where have you been where have you been she asked I was at Aunt Deborah I told you then why did she call saying you never arrived dun d d That's the kind of um crucial moment of the story this is where we realize that so he went to the wrong house to this day I still have no idea who I visited so to this day to this day um to this day just means since then and until now including now okay since then until now including now as well so other examples to this day I've never seen Star Wars I I've never seen Star Wars to this day meaning never in my life including today to this day I still remember the moment that we met another example the old castle is still standing to this day all right and in this case to this day I still have no idea who I visited okay so that was that was vocab there a Little vocab recap with phrases like to this day and to be impatient on your on the fence to turn up to feel the urge to do something to pull away or pull over to be ecstatic to be annoyed or irritable or uh irritated or aggravated to stay the night to assume something a spare bedroom a spare pen a spare chair uh to um to do something for your own sake or for someone else's sake to be insistent to shrug something off your sense of direction to to be able to afford something I can't afford to I couldn't afford to a puzzled look to give someone a puzzled look um efficient Dreadful um no sign of someone and so on and so on and so forth right now again if you want to uh find the entire text for this story uh and a a vocabulary list as well check the episode page for this episode on my website okay just follow the link in the description it will take you straight there uh the link in the description for this episode in your show notes uh you'll find a link there click that it'll take you straight to the page for this episode on my website where you'll be able to uh read the entire text and also see uh a list of vocabulary that I've just explained okay now I had planned to go through grammar from the story as well okay and that includes the classic narrative verb tenses looking at past simple past perfect and past continuous and the ways in which those different tenses are used to sequence events in the story in a fairly sophisticated way with the use of some conjunctions as well um also gern and infinitives so for example you may notice that sometimes you see an ing form of a verb and sometimes you have the infinitive form of the verb like inviting and to invite also I wanted to give some comments about what's the the difference between a gerand like inviting and a present participle like inviting how do you know if it's a gerand or if it's a present participle well if it's a present participle it's used as part of a uh a continuous verb form like be doing to be waiting I am waiting she was waiting I have been waiting so if you need that if you have that verb be along with the ing form that ing form is a present participle but if there's no auxiliary verb be then and it's an ing word then it's probably a Geren and gern are used where you actually need a noun in the sentence like for example as the subject of the sentence skateboarding is my favorite thing for example skateboarding is a Geren there it's like the name of a sport right it's like a noun or we use Jaren in other loc where you need a noun like after certain verbs okay I enjoy skateboarding after the verb enjoy if you want to have another verb I enjoy listening to your podcast after the the verb enjoy you need a gerand because that's you know some verbs are followed by gern some verbs are followed by infinitives I enjoy skateboarding I want to go skateboarding want is followed by an infinitive of course that gets a bit complicated because you start to realize okay this verb or even this whole expression is followed by a gerand but this verb and these expressions are followed by an infinitive for example I am looking forward to is followed by a gerand I'm looking forward to seeing you soon what about I can't wait I can't wait to see you so can't wait is followed by an infinitive you see so there's that and there's some examples of that kind of thing in the story and also participle phrases this is where a present participle is used to create a phrase which informs the rest of the sentence like approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked and there are loads of examples of that in this story you could just write as I was approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked or when I was approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked but it can be more efficient to say approaching the house I noticed how dull it looked and there are loads of examples of that in this story as well and various other bits of grammar now I would go through that now but you know what I'm not going to go through that now because that would take too long and I want to go through it in proper detail but you know what I said before that this is the sort of thing I do on uh in I said before this is the sort of thing I do in premium episodes I think what I'll do is I'll wait and I'll probably make a premium episode where I go through the grammar from that story so if you want to get that if you want to get my comments and my my teaching about all of the grammar that's in that story focusing on participle phrases to make efficient reasonably complex sentences gern and 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854. The Invitation (Learn English with a Short Story)

And this is where some of the more frightening predictions have been made that it will first of all do incredible things. It'll solve all of human problems.

İşte daha korkutucu tahminlerin bazılarının yapıldığı yer burası; öncelikle inanılmaz şeyler yapacağı söyleniyor. Tüm insanlık sorunlarını çözecek.

Is the AI Bubble Bursting? 🤖🫧 (Technology & Discussion) with James [988]

hello listeners welcome back to Luke's English podcast this is episode number 97 and the idea with this one is that I'm going to share with you a couple of extracts from my most recent series of Luke's English podcast premium so I've been working on premium series 64 uh Parts one and two of that were published just a few days ago so if you are a premium subscriber then check them out um and so what I thought I would do with this episode actually is share on the free podcast some extracts from clips from part one and part two of this premium series that I've been working on what you'll get is uh the clip for part one which I'm going to play to you in a moment I recorded it just a few days ago at the end of last week in part one what I did was first of all I had a bit of a ramble so I talked about catching a cold and trying to recover from a cold and I talked about a recent trip I did to England with my two kids and the uh experience of traveling with little children and what that's like and then after that I went for this idea where I would randomly choose several books from my bookshelf here in my podcast room and just read a couple of pages from those books and then use them to teach you English it was a sort of like um an improvised uh rambling premium episode involving a little bit of reading from books and what ended up happening was I think quite interesting and quite entertaining and certainly valuable in terms of learning English so I'm going to play you about 10 minutes from part one and then in part two I'll play you the section where I go through lots of vocabulary that I used in part one so you'll hear me going through about 20 items of vocabulary words phrases that that came up sort of spontaneously in part one okay so as you listen to this clip which I'm about to play to you you can just try to perhaps predict which words and phrases I might be dealing with uh in the second part okay um that's it basically all right premium subscribers by the way you might have already heard this of course you might have heard this stuff already if you haven't you can go and check out the full episodes uh but of course you'll be getting part three part four and other parts of this series later on this week as well so you'll get the full load where I go through all the vocab and do all the other stuff the pronunciation and everything so you'll get the whole series premium subscribers but anyway this is a chance for my free subscribers to just have a little sneak peek a little taste of LEP premium so let's go back a few days now and listen to about 10 minutes of me talking uh at the beginning in part one of premium series 64 here we go hello welcome back to Luke's English podcast premium how are you doing listeners you're doing okay welcome back to to the show so first of all I need to say this that you're you're listening to me right you are hello you are listening hello you you're listening good pay attention um you're listening to me and you might be thinking what happened to your voice Luke right um well uh yeah I've I've been uh recovering from a cold I mean I'm still recovering from a cold so I caught a cold like five six seven days ago I can't remember uh sometime last week I woke up with that feeling at the back of my throat you know the feeling just that little I don't know what it is really just that Sensation that uh uh something's up like I've got a maybe a little tickle at the back of my throat or maybe just the hint of something uncomfortable at the back of the throat and I thought ah oh I think a cold is coming on now what do you do in that situation when you feel like you've got a cold coming on what do you do I mean is there anything you can do I suppose there are different remedies that I don't know about I mean what are they you quickly drink a cup of green tea with lemon and honey in it or something or you quickly you know dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with onions I don't know what what's what's the method for dealing with that I don't really know uh for me I do try to you know drink a hot drink keep myself warm um and stay positive and just get on with things but sometimes there is no denying the virus which uh has inadvertently infected the body your body somehow and you succumb to a cold why why did I say that in such fancy language what I meant was that in the end there's nothing you can do and you just have to accept that you're that you've you've caught a cold and uh you know there's no way to escape it so anyway I got a cold um and it was just kind of a head cold really this is an expression we use to describe just like a little cold that you catch that only affects your head it doesn't kind of make you feel especially tired it doesn't really give you aches and pains in your body or anything like that um it's just in your head so I got a kind of a blocked up nose I got a kind of a slightly sore throat bit of a cough I've still got a bit of a cough uh but I'm absolutely fine just in case you are worried because I know my listeners when they when you hear that I've got a bit of a sore throat people are concerned and they say to me please look after yourself please look after your throat um but I'm fine and uh in fact I quite like the sound of my voice don't you think don't you think it sounds good it's got a kind of uh slightly grally deeper quality to it which is perfect for recording an episode of this podcast so this is a a premium episode there is as usual there's a video version for this which hardly anyone will watch because um I mean premium subscribers I've got a certain number of Premium subscribers right and yet the episodes don't get the same number of listens so the audio episodes um video versions the com the combined number even is not is usually not as high as the number of Premium subscribers that I have which suggests to me that there are quite a lot of people who've subscribed to Le premium but just don't listen to the episodes or maybe don't know how to do it because it's slightly complicated um I mean I I would talk to those people now and say if you don't know how to listen to the episodes just go to teacher luke. co.uk / premium info but of course that's pointless to say because obviously those people who uh don't know how to listen are not listening so it's difficult to know how to get through to those people an email probably would would be the way to do it which I might do anyway um if you are watching the video version of this which you can find a link to the video in the show notes of this episode which I hope you are listening to in a podcast app on your phone just open up the episode in your podcast app and look at the episode description or show notes and there's a link in there for the video version so if you are if you end up watching the video version you might think that I look a bit tired and the reason for that is I am I am quite tired today uh because um uh well I spent five days uh I went to it's so it's the school holidays in in France at the moment so my kids are not at school and I went to England with them so that means it was just me my wife stayed here she had like lots of work to do so I took the kids to England to stay with my parents and it was a bit exhausting because well first of all my son my daughter's okay she can kind of like look after herself she's fairly self-sufficient these days entertains herself and stuff except when she pesters me to uh tell her a story and just you know just like please tell me a story tell me another story tell me a scary story and I have to tell her story then I have to and then she's like can you make it that wasn't scary at all can you tell me another story so sometimes she goes into this mode where she pesters me to tell her stories over and over and over again um but generally she's quite self-sufficient but my son is uh 15 months old now and he's you know W up on his feet walking around exploring everything climbing on everything and uh pulling every single object uh that he can find towards himself uh and so that means that he he needs to be monitored constantly um so that was a little bit exhausting for me and my parents you know I really don't want to exhaust them I think it can be a bit exhausting you know and they're they're they're you know fairly old these days um which means that so while I was there at my parents house I basically had to be constantly monitoring ing my son which was lovely of course but also quite tiring and uh I only got breaks to kind of have a shower very quickly go to the toilet sometimes do this that and the other but most of the time I was looking after him every time I had to go away one of my parents had to look after my son and that meant sort of following him up the stairs because he he was constantly climbing up the stairs so they had to follow him up the stairs so they were up going up and down the stairs picking him up bending over you know all the sort of things that I don't really want my parents to have to do very much because it makes them tired you know back ache arthritis and things like that so um so it's you know a wonderful uh little five-day trip but very tiring as well and um also you know dealing with having a cold at the same time and the journey really the journeys were perhaps the most exhausting uh so I had a big suitcase with all our stuff in it and it was quite a lot of stuff for three people you know and a lot of kids stuff nappies milk bottles all the rest of it in a big suitcase and then a backpack on my back full of stuff as well including my computer which I didn't even really use while I was there but I thought I'd bring it anyway just in case actually got a spare moment to do some work which I didn't uh anyway backpack full of stuff um and uh then obviously my daughter with her backpack and then a pram and uh my son as well so traveling like walking to the station or walking through train stations going up and downstairs uh just getting from one place to the next go you know getting through onto the train platform getting this getting onto the train all that stuff managing all those things was actually pretty exhausting especially when I've got this big pram with a person in it and a huge suitcase on Wheels and my daughter who's six trying to keep her keep an eye on her so that was also quite exhausting a lot of carrying heavy lifting and stuff and uh certainly on the train um I mean my son slept a bit I'm just rambling have you noticed this is a a rambling episode on Luke's English podcast premium and I'll explain I'll explain stuff in a moment all right but we just we've just jumped straight into full-on rambling here okay I hope you're all right with that I'll be explaining myself and justifying all of this uh in a moment and also explaining why um this is slightly different to the usual kind of Premium episode but anyway let me just continue and tell you why I might look a bit tired today U perhaps I always look tired these days because you know cuz you know I'm you know not getting any younger um anyway what was I saying so anyway yes luckily my son slept a bit in a carrier you know those things that you can use to carry your child so luckily he slept um quite a lot in the carrier in the on the first part of ah do I need to tell you all about it basically it's it's the journey from from here in the center of Paris to where my parents live involves two train Journeys the first going from Paris to uh to my parents place um uh involves a Eurostar that's the train that goes from Paris to London under the uh English Channel under the water that's 2 hours and 20 minutes and then after that we have to get from s panras Station in London to uh Marley Bone station which is um not too far away but still it's either a an underground Journey a a trip on the Underground plus a bit of a walk or two underground lines or we just take a taxi normally we just take a taxi then we have to get another train from uh Marley Bone station to uh a station about an hour and a half away um in the Midlands okay so that's kind of two possibly three train Journeys or a train journey a taxi ride a train journey and a bit of walking and stuff um so he he normally would fall asleep for about an hour on one of those Journeys but for the rest of the time he can't really be contained i' keep him in the pram right or keep him in the carrier but after a certain amount of time he just cannot be contained and he has a big melt down has he has a big tantrum where he's crying and screaming and grabbing and you know scratching my face and stuff because you can't keep him in one one place like that contained for for too long so at that point I have to let him out and that means he's just loose on the train which means I have to follow him around while he kind of goes up and down on the Eurostar that's all right because there are spaces between sort of at the ends of each train Carriage there's a space with doors and you can kind of hang around there and you don't disturb the passengers too much the other train it's a bit different so anyway you can understand that it involves a lot of sort of improvisation uh for me as a dad trying to make sure that my son uh isn't just all over the floor kind of getting his hands dirty and and isn't disturbing the other passengers and isn't having a crying meltdown and I kind of was partially successful it's sort of like survival really survival parenting um in those situations so so you know two of those trips one there and one on the way back and as a you know that was we got back the day before yesterday so um anyway I'm just still recovering from that I'm a bit frazzled L from that meaning a bit sort of tired a bit worn out but I'm glad to be back doing Luke's English podcast here Luke's English podcast premium okay so that was as I said about 10 minutes I think uh of uh the episode that I did on LP premium just a few days ago and um the rest of that episode includes the moments when I pull a couple of books off the off the shelves here and read some extracts and teach Te You English from them now let me play you a longer clip uh this is about 30 minutes this clip and this is from part two which I recorded actually in the evening when the sun had gone down which is why if you if you're watching the video version of this you'll see that my room was much darker that's why you know cuz the sun had gone down you see my commitment to teaching you English is that I'll even do this in the evening when I should be sitting with my feet up and a nice cup of tea and a hot water bottle no I was was in this podcast room working a way to you know teach you vocabulary anyway right so which bits of vocabulary do you think I'm going to be explaining now which things well you can find out as I now let you listen to a longer clip from part two of premium series 64 with vocab explanations here we go so next you will see the full list with definitions and examples from the episode I'll talk about these things in part two of this series hello that's what I'm doing now after this you can try to do the vocabulary quizzes and any other tasks you find on this PDF below I will talk about all of this and give my answers and responses to the tasks in part two so let's go through the full vocab list number one to recover from something um I'm recovering from a cold I said so to recover from something as you probably can guess is or you may know already is you've been ill and then you get better or you recover right so to recover means to regain health or Str after an illness or a difficult experience okay sometimes it takes a long time to recover from a cold sometimes the cold lingers and it stays with you for ages sometimes you just recover quite quickly um so this phrase emphasizes the process of healing and can apply to both physical and emotional challenges so you can you can recover from sort of any an emotional experience as well you know like a trauma or something like that or uh if you get a shock you know you might need to sit down and recover from it number two to catch a cold okay to catch a cold all right uh for example I caught a cold last week and have been sneezing ever since I don't think I said that I've been sneezing ever since um like I said I've been using some AI tools to help me produce all this work which is why I was able to make this long PDF in quite quick time but using AI occasionally the AI starts to take sort of independent creative decisions and changes things slightly I don't remember saying I've been sneezing ever since maybe I did but I don't think I did anyway I caught a cold last week is the thing so to catch a cold you know um there's a joke there's there's a joke which you won't find funny now because I've already given you the punch line but the joke is what's faster hot or cold what's faster hot or cold well cold no what oh god I ruined it completely what is faster hot or cold well it's hot of course because you can catch a cold um to catch a cold it means just to become ill with a common viral infection like a not a very serious viral infection very common one the common cold characterized by symptoms like a runny nose and a sore throat and a cough and sneezing cough sneezing a chew yeah so catch a cold is a common expression used to describe the onset of this illness have you caught a cold oh I think I've caught a cold you would say I think I have caught a cold yeah I caught a cold last night because I you know I didn't I wasn't wearing my jacket number three a tickle in your throat I said I felt a tickle in my throat I have a little tickle at the back of my throat or I had a little tickle at the back of my throat so that was the feeling that I had um on Thursday morning last week when I felt like I was catching a cold I had a little tickle so a tickle to tickle can be a verb to tickle someone it can also be a noun meaning the feeling of being tickled um if you get a feather you know from a bird you know a feather um part you know a thing from a bird's wing and you take the feather and you rub it under someone's nose stop it it tickles it tickles it tickles stop tickling me right you can feel a tickle in your throat which is like just that little feeling like you you might be catching a cold so it's like a light irritating sensation often in the throat that may prompt coughing or the need to clear one's throats like oh I've just got the I think I might be catching a cold I've got a little tickle at the back of my throat you should have a warm cup of tea with lemon and honey and onion and whiskey and vodka in it just those things okay um yeah and Kuma and papuma and the essence of jinsang and uh tea tree and just everything put everything in the cup of tea literally everything um so I have a little tickle at the back of my throat this phrase is often used to describe the early signs of cold or allergy H okay moving swiftly on number four is a hint a hint of something I had a hint of a cold like little oh is that a cold I think I might be getting a cold little tickle it's just a hint of a cold a hint there's a hint of something uncomfortable in the atmosphere I didn't say that that's AI again being creative but you could say that if you're in a situation where I don't know you've walked into a room and there are people in the room already and you come in and they they stop talking and they all just kind of look at each other and they look at you and then they look down at the floor you're oh uh sorry I didn't mean to interrupt um and they're like no no no no no no no no no fine it's fine it's fine um Can can we help you with anything at all um no no no it's all right never mind right okay okay um great oh okay well I'll just I'll see you later guys all right oh dear what was going on in there there was like a hint of something uncomfortable in the atmosphere so a hint a slight indication or a sort of trace a little bit of a feeling or or condition of something a hint could be an indication something that that helps you realize something but in the case of a catching a cold a little a hint is like a slight clue or light indication that you that you might be catching a cold in the case of that room there was a a hint that something serious was going on or there was something else going on I could just pick picked up on some little Clues um so a hint of something a hint of a cold uh this phrase suggests a subtle presence of something that may not be overtly obvious there was a hint of uh tension in the room or I've uh I got a a little hint of a cold I think um or if you're doing a test and I give you a hint you know well it's a four-letter word starts with s ends in t it's a bit rude H oh is it yes that's the answer what kind of quiz is that I don't know but I gave you a a big hint there as well little clue that suggests something else in this case it was a hint of a cold like that little tickle at the back of my throat and I said I I I felt like a cold was coming on to feel a cold um I felt a cold coming on all right example what do you do when you feel like there's a cold coming on right you can say when you feel there's a cold coming on or when you feel like there's a cold coming on so this is the the the feeling that one is beginning to develop a cold I can feel a cold coming on When You Ah that's it when you can feel a cold coming on so I should change that to can can feel a cold coming on what do you do when you can feel a cold coming on I think I can feel a cold coming on what do you do when you can feel a cold coming on so this this expression is commonly used to discuss preventative measures for an impending illness like when you can feel a cold coming we often will say I can feel a cold coming on and then you would probably talk about things you could do to prevent the cold getting worse what do you do when you when you can feel a cold coming on do you dip your head in a vat of sulfuric acid I mean sure you your head will come off but you won't have a cold anymore um I don't know like there's different that's ridiculous of course um yeah uh but some people you know they do those things like yeah some people like drink a glass of Brandy that's what they would have done in the 19th century for sure or lemon and honey or you know other things inhaling lots of steam from a bowl with a towel over your head things like that so a remedy I'm talking about remedies for a cold a remedy is a treatment or medicine used to cure a disease or to relieve symptoms so what remedy what remedies are there for a sore throat you can get these little lozenges that you can suck which help to um make the the sore throat better that could be a remedy or you can take sort of cough medicine which you drink and it helps to kind of soothe your sore throat um or honey as well so remedies can be natural or pharmaceutical and often vary by culture and personal preference different people have different remedies number seven to dunk your head in a bucket of hot water this was a stupid remedy that I talked about dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with onions it's no one uses that as a remedy as far as I know that's not like a Trad traditional British Remedy or anything although it kind of sounds like it could be couldn't it drink a pint of cider and dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with old onions works every time in England uh uh to dunk your head so to dunk something in something means to to submerge something briefly okay now in basketball you dunk you slam dunk meaning put the ball in the basket right it's slam dunk but you can dunk other things in other things like you would dunk a Biscuit in your cup of tea and um if you were an idiot you would dunk your entire head in a bucket of hot water so you'd put your head into the hot water and then take it out again so to dunk your head in the water you quickly dunk your head in a bucket of hot water uh here's a comment while while often used in food contexts this verb can also describe a quick immersion for therapeutic purposes yeah all right food context you you might dunk a Biscuit in a cup of tea or you would dunk um um you know if you're frying if you're making tempora or something you would take a vegetable and dunk it in the batter and then dunk that in the in the hot fat or something uh number eight is to deny something to deny something um for example um there is no denying the virus which has inadvertently infected your body there's no denying it so sometimes you have to just accept that you're catching a cold and there's nothing you can do about it there's no denying the virus so to deny the virus would be to to refuse refuse to acknowledge or refuse to accept the existence of it it's like no no I'm not no I I I refuse to have a cold no it's not going to happen sorry not possible there it's not sorry you can't deny the virus which has in inadvertently infected your body there's nothing you could do you just have to accept it another example he continues to deny that he has a problem you know this is a person who maybe drinks too much or something or maybe it could have yeah 39 PS of Guinness uh every day 39 pints of Guinness every day but you know Guinness is good for you isn't it it's good for you I don't have a problem I don't you know it's not like I'm drinking 40 pints of Guinness a day so it's fine isn't it still denies that he has a problem I don't have a problem what are you talking about problem he does seem fairly he's he's quite under control and seems quite sober considering he's had 39s a Guinness I'm absolutely fine I tell you well you should see him when he has 40 it all comes crashing down anyway so to deny something this term can reflect emotional social or psychological resistance which is basically where he like no I refuse to accept it I deny uh that I have a problem nope no problem here and also no I don't have a cold no no no cold here you can't deny it sorry you have to accept that the that you've got a cold sometimes inadvertently is number nine so I said um there's no denying the virus which has inadvertently infected your body I was using quite fancy sounding language but inadvertently it's inadvertently infected your body inadvertently just means without intention or just accidentally I mean you know I don't know if viruses are sentient and they're going hm Luke Thompson I will give him a cold now come on let's go party in Luke Thompson's nose um I don't think they're doing that I think it just sort of happens doesn't it um it just happens accidentally without anyone intending for it to happen like you didn't in choose to have a to catch a cold um so this this adverb inadvertently emphasizes that an action was not deliberate often leading to unintended consequences now I was just using fancy language you might say um when I was talking about catching a cold you could also say things like this she inadvertently revealed the surprise party oh uh it'll be fun at the party on Friday whoops oh Susan you gave away the party yeah okay Bob now you know we're having a surprise party for you thanks a lot Susan oh Susan inadvertently revealed the surprise party she did it by accident without intending to do it number 10 to succumb to something I said sometimes there's no denying the virus which has in inadvertently infected your body and you succumb to a cold which is where at the beginning you're like no I refuse to have a cold and I'll just keep calm and carry on and I'm sure I'll be fine and then after two days you're like okay all right I've got a cold and there's nothing I can do about it by the way listeners you can hear that I've got a bit of a blocked nose but again I'm I'm fine despite the way it's affecting my voice so to succumb to something then yeah to succumb to a cold like oh okay right that's it I've got a cold then there's there's no denying it um so this means to yield to a superior Force so basically the cold is like no no no I'm here and there's nothing you can do about it and then you just kind of go all right then I've got a cold so to yield to a superior force or overwhelming desire often resulting in surrender which is like that feeling of like all right then I'll stop fighting it all right I've got a cold I'm going to stay in bed um this phrase implies a sense of helplessness against an external influence you just succumb to it you can also succumb to other things you might succumb to a Temptation we like no I will not eat chocolate cake NOP no chocolate cake for me uh uh uh no way oh there's a chocolate cake no but I'm not eating chocolate cake no no no thanks maybe just a little bit um just a oh I'll go and have a taste M oh that is very good well all right I'll just have one piece that's one piece is all right if it's just one that's okay all right so Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum a I've eaten a whole chocolate cake not that that happens to me um and if you know I don't mean to make fun of that kind of compulsive eating situation which can be you know a problem but anyway I'm just giving an example of the phrase to succumb to a Temptation right um number 11 fancy language so this is language that is elaborate sophisticated or unnecessarily complex and I said why did I say that in such fancy language which was that previous sentence sometimes there is no denying the which has inadvertently infected the body and you succumb to a cold slightly fancy language why did I say it like that so a bit too complex and elaborate so this term often implies a critique of over complication in communication no need to use fancy language just keep it plain and simple so maybe I could have said sometimes you just sometimes you can't stop it and you have to accept that you've got a cold you know you know that would be more normal plain English sometimes it's fun to use fancy language that's all uh fancy is quite an interesting word as an adjective it can mean um it can mean elaborate sophisticated like oh this is a fancy restaurant isn't it oh look at this really Posh Restaurant look at this look at the look at what what they've done to the ceiling wow it's really a really fancy restaurant this so it could mean that which is a bit like fancy language and as a verb it can have sort of several meanings one is that it can mean that you find someone attractive right you think someone is attractive like oh I think she fancies me have you seen the way uh have you seen the way Sandra has been looking at me I think she fancies me I'm going to say I think so yeah do you think so yeah no you're wrong she just needs glasses yeah she that's why she's staring at you she doesn't know who you are oh oh all right okay so she doesn't fancy me she's just blind um yeah uh so it can be that to find someone attractive but also to fancy could mean to to want something which is related to the the previous example I just gave but to fancy a person normally uh but also you can fancy something else like you can fancy an ice cream oh who fancies an ice cream or anyone fancy a pint which is like would anyone like to have a pint of beer anyone fancy a pint there's a pub around the corner so fancy can be like oh elaborate and sophisticated and Posh fancy language could be elaborate sophisticated and maybe unnecessarily complex a fancy restaurant oh very nice and Posh and lovely gorgeous design uh does anyone fancy an ice cream would anyone like to have an ice cream and all you know what I think Sandra fancies you do you see the way she's been looking at you yeah she laughs at all your jokes yeah I think she fancies you mate all right number 12 a head cold if you remember this one it's like I talked about having a cold and I said it's just a head cold so a head cold is a cold that primarily affects the nasal passages that's your nose and sinuses that's like the you know the area the the parts of your nose on the inside causing symptoms like congestion that's where your nose is blocked and headache that's when your head aches for example uh having a head cold it it doesn't really give you aches and pains in your body or anything like that it's just a head cold so this term distinguishes between different types of colds highlighting where symptoms are primarily felt so it's just a head cold number 13 is a blocked up nose a blocked nose or a blocked up nose which you can kind of hear I've still got that's where someone speak like this hello my name is my name is uh whatever right blocked up no my name is Michael Michael Benson um sorry Michael Benson bichael banson no Michael Benson bichel banson who's called Michael banson no it's Michael banson anyway Michael Manson not bichael banson who's called bichel banson you idiot anyway a blocked up nose so this is nasal congestion that makes it difficult to breathe through the nose example I can't taste my food properly with this blocked up nose like oh I feel terrible i've got a blocked up nose and uh so this phrase is often used to describe a common symptom of colds or allergies you get a blocked up nose you get a sore throat get a headache blah blah blah cough number 14 a slightly sore throat can you say that a slightly sore throat a slightly sore throat sore sore throat I've got a slightly sore throat slightly sore if something is sore it means it's painful you know like if you uh if you're skateboarding and you wearing a pair of shorts just a pair of shorts it's a lovely sunny day you're on you're you're in your favorite shorts on a skateboard going down the road and then suddenly whoa whoa you get that speed wobble where the skateboard starts wobbling like I can't stop it wobbling and then you're flying through the air and then bam you land on the road and you scrape along the road and you end up grazing all of the you know you end up skinning your all the skin comes off your elbows and your knees and then you've got very sore elbows and knees similarly if you catch a cold you might get a sore throat I mean you wouldn't fall off a skateboard and get a sore throat or maybe I don't know if you land on your throat if that possible no it's not you could land on your neck which would be very bad news anyway a slightly sore throat like mild pain or discomfort in the throat often a symptom of illness I woke up with a slightly sore throat today uh so this phase suggests the onset meaning the the beginning of illness without severe symptoms um number 15 a gra voice I said um I said my voice has got a kind of slightly grally deeper quality to it which you can hear now hello you're listening to Luke's English podcast with a slightly grally voice so that describes this kind of tone of voice gravel is like little stones that might be put on a path or on a driveway you know when you drive a car uh and park it in front of a house driving over gravel or walking on gravel so that those little stones that might be on a driveway or a path that's known as gravel and so a grally voice is like a voice that sounds like it's got gravel in it a voice that has a rough or raspy quality a okay a comment this term often describes a voice affected by illness or fatigue but can also be a characteristic of certain individuals so it's and it's it can be described it can be kind of um I think it can be kind of an attractive equality in a person's voice especially uh on a night like this uh number 16 oh my God am I going to get through all the vocab well if I don't then so be it I'll just do the rest in another maybe I'll do 32 items and I'll do the rest in another part you know it is what it is isn't it number 16 self-sufficient I was talking about my daughter saying that you know when I travel with my daughter and with my son my son's 15 months old so he needs to be looked after and monitored all the time but my my daughter's like nearly seven and she's fairly self-sufficient these days so if you're self sufficient it means you're able to uh provide for yourself or let's say look after yourself without assistance um that's without assistance that's not without ass sister like she's okay she can look after herself without a sister whereas my brother he needs a sister I mean sorry assistants how many sisters how many assistants oh never mind she can look after herself without assistance without help right she's fairly self-sufficient so the phrase conveys Independence and self-reliance often in personal or financial contexts so she's you know she's able to go to the toilet on her own you can leave her sitting reading a book and you know that she's not going to get up and pull all the books off a bookshelf or pull all the plants out of the plant pots and spread dirt everywhere you know yeah she's fairly self-sufficient unlike my son who is not um number 17 to pester someone so despite the fact that my daughter is fairly self-sufficient certainly in comparison to my son at this moment in time she does pester me uh for certain things so to pester someone is to annoy or bother someone persistently often asking them can I have this can I have this could you do this for me can I do this can I can I watch something can I watch something on the ipad please Daddy please I won't cry I won't cry I won't complain I won't winch I won't pester you it's like you're you're you're already you you're already pestering me what do you mean you won't you're already doing it but I won't winge I won't I promise I won't you're already winging but please but please can I just just just just 20 minutes just just 30 minutes that's another thing she does she'll start negotiating but instead of like making concessions she goes the other way so she'll say just 20 minutes just 20 minutes please Daddy please and you go 30 minutes 30 minutes 30 40 minutes you're like you you can't negotiate like that you're going the wrong way you have to go you have to be like 20 minutes 15 15 minutes 10 just 10 she goes the other way so like you don't know how to negotiate you're 7 years old um but she pesters me me she entertains herself except when she pesters me to tell her a story can you tell me a story can you tell me a scary story please uh it's adorable I love telling her stories but sometimes I have no stories left um so to pester someone this verb often has a a playful connotation but can also Express frustration stop pestering me all the time can I have can I have a sweetie can I have a sweetie please can I have two sweeties number 18 backache and arthritis so I was talking about my parents and saying well I didn't really want them to have to look after my son all the time because they you know they suffer from little things well little things like back ache which is when you're back aches and arthritis which is a condition causing inflammation in the joints so the joints like the elbows the wrists the knees the hips ankles fingers and toes the they become inflamed they swell up this is arthritis it's a very common condition that affects many adults as they get older and uh my mom has arthritis um blesser um and it must be very uncomfortable and I don't want her going around sort of trying to having to climb the stairs after my son and picking him up and stuff my dad has a bit of back had a bit of back ache this weekend my mom's got arthritis so these are common health issues back ache refers to an ache hear it back ache headache ear ache tooth achee right ache um common health issues back ache refers to pain in the back while AR arthritis is a condition causing inflammation in the joints all right for example you know I've been dealing with a back ache arthritis and things like that so both of these terms highlight chronic pain this is pain that sort of doesn't really go away very easily and can be common complaints among various age groups but especially among elderly people older people let's say uh number 19 to have a meltdown to have a tantrum a meltdown or a tantrum so I was describing the behavior of my son when he gets tired if he's you know hungry or frustrated by something he might have a tantrum or have a meltdown uh a tantrum to be honest is the word that's more commonly used with toddlers that's little kids who have recently started to walk um they have a tantrum a temper tantrum or a tantrum you've seen it they throw themselves on the floor they kick their legs and they cry and and make a lot of noise right that's a tantrum I also call it having a meltdown as well although often meltdown is is uh applied to is used to describe the behavior of adults so you might see a sports player having a meltdown like a a tennis player might have a meltdown on the court where they suddenly get incredibly angry and frustrated and they lose control of themselves and they argue with the referee or they throw their their racket on the ground or scream at someone in the audience or something you know like this tennis player had a meltdown on the court this afternoon but um I use it to describe my wife and I use that word to describe what our son does sometimes he has a meltdown or he has a tantrum so to experience a sudden emotional Outburst a meltdown is often characterized by extreme distress while a tantrum is typically associated with children's Behavior but as I said my wife and I use the word meltdown normally used to describe the behavior of adults to describe what our what our children do sometimes for example he just cannot be contained and has a big meltdown he has uh he has he had a big tantrum where he's crying and screaming and grabbing these phrases often imply a loss of control either emotionally or behaviorally yeah okay um yeah you know what I'm going to stop here okay so that is where I stopped and that was the end of part two of p64 and uh what's going to come next is part three and probably part four I haven't done those yet I'll be working on them this week and in Parts three and four I'll go through the rest of the vocabulary uh from the rest of my ramble where I ended up talking about lots of other things um but I hope you enjoyed that I hope you found it useful if you're a premium subscriber and you can access the PDF um you'll see that it's in sections and after all that vocab stuff all the the vocab list that you saw me going through there after that's done the next section is vocabulary quizzes and then this yeah so the section four is vocab quizzes and also memory prompts and section five is uh discussion questions that use all the vocab I'll just give you a a little look so um I'll just kind of like read through some of the vocab quizzes for the vocab that you've looked at just to give you an idea of what's involved so here are here are three vocab quizzes we'll look at the first one which covers items 1 to 22 in the list we actually only dealt with 1 to 19 I think in in this clip but anyway let's have a look can you can you get these questions right so first of all now some of these are going to be easy right some of them are going to be easy and that's fine you know that's absolutely fine some things you'll just get easily which is great when you get an answer you know an answer you just slap yourself on the back and go well done I know that great let's move on um the ones that you're less sure of this is where you can you know you learn if you don't get it right or you don't know you learn the answers are included on the PDF and you can go back and do these quizzes again and make sure you get 100% correct you know anyway do you know the answers so number one this is pretty easy but what does it mean to recover from something so these quizzes are in different there's different types of task this first one is a simple multiple choice what does it mean to recover from something is it a to lose strength B to regain health or strength regain right or C to ignore a problem I'm recovering from a cold obviously it's B to regain health or strength yeah okay now again when you do things like this right as a learner of English when you do deal with these sorts of tasks you might think oh I know the answer easy peasy but there's a lot more that you can do first of all you could make sure that you know all the other words in all the other options for example to lose strength right to regain Health to ignore a problem and another thing is that you should be able to also use the words in a sentence so you should be able to like say I'm recovering from a cold I've been recovering from a cold I'm going to recover hopefully I will recover uh I will hopefully I will have recovered by the end of next week I've got like a big a big presentation to do at work and hopefully I will have recovered by then you know so it's not just do you know the word do you know what it means but can you use it that's a whole other thing and there are some other tasks on the PDF that help you to do that number two if someone catches a cold that's also easy they a enjoy they're enjoying the weather developing a common viral infection or experiencing allergies So it's b again developing a common viral infection again with this one it's a it's a well-known collocation to catch a cold but in my experience working with Learners of English I've noticed people getting it wrong all the time and it's normally the tense that people get wrong what people don't say is they they don't say I have caught a cold or I'm catching a cold what they what people do is they get the the the grammar of it wrong and they end up saying I am catch a cold or I catch a cold right um and you know obviously it should be I caught a cold like when yesterday I think I caught a cold yesterday but often it's in the present perfect tense I have caught a cold cuz that describes you now present perfect I have caught a cold describes the present I caught a cold past simple describes the past so you might say I caught a cold yesterday I think I caught a cold last night so you'd say when cuz past simple describes the past I have caught a cold describes you now so how are you doing oh I'm all right but I'm feeling a bit under the weather I think I've caught a cold right you should be able to do it like that yeah so it's not just knowing the the word or collocation it's being able to use it right number three a remedy refers to a a type of food b a treatment or medicine or c a vacation the again the answer is is B I hope the answer is not B every time it might be God it is as well it is the answer is always B oh dear oh dear I used uh AI to help me do this and it seems that AI just like well I think I'll just make make this a really easy one and just make B the correct answer every time I don't know anyway maybe that's just chance maybe it's random and it's just chance that it happens to be the second option out of each out of five questions anyway a remedy is a treatment or medicine for example you know drinking a cup of tea with lemon or something is a kind of remedy for a common cold uh for if you have a blocked up nose it means a you can breathe easily B you're experiencing nasal congestion slightly fancy language for a blocked up nose or see you feel great obviously it's B again right and five fancy language is characterized by a simple terms B elaborate and complex wording like you are currently experiencing nasal congestion yes I have a a blocked up nose yeah that's fancy language uh is b b is the answer or is it C just casual speech how are you doing not so I'm all right but I've got a bit of a block sorry what I've got a blocked up note I've got a cold and it's affecting my English I apologize no uh how are you doing oh you know I'm all right just got a bit of a blocked up nose to be honest it's a bit annoying I think I might be coming down with a cold oh there's another one I might be coming down with a cold yeah um so that casual speech yeah elaborate and complex fancy language would be how are you doing I appear to be suffering from the onset of a nasal congestion which may be symptomatic of a common viral infection otherwise known in plain English as the common cold like okay is this one of those viruses that that that infect the grammar node in your brain causing you to speak like that this may be the case yes indeed imagine that if I mean maybe it's possible but imagine if there was a a virus which you could get that would affect your English and why is it also that viruses and things you know when we get sick the the symptoms are always bad I mean this is probably a very stupid observation but why is it always bad you know why don't why don't some viruses like help because if the viruses if what they want now I know that viruses don't think do they I don't think so if what they want is to spread among the human race that's what they want they want to proliferate right then they should probably try and ingratiate themselves with us somehow so instead of making us feel terrible they should make us feel great they should improve they should strengthen us and then we'd be like yes please you've got a cold quick cough in my face now you know I've got an English exam tomorrow quick sneeze on me if that was the case we'd be spreading those viruses around the viruses would be really successful instead it's the opposite and they do they're really horrible we hate having flu and stuff and covid and we do everything we possibly can to eradicate them you know we're injecting ourselves with vaccines we're wearing masks you know that are really annoying especially if you have glasses on your glasses get steamed up all these things that we try to do to avoid getting them they they would they would do better if they if they made us feel good just a little tip there any viruses listening just consider that maybe try and help out a little bit maybe we'll be more willing to accept you in that in that case rather than trying to destroy you I don't know H anyway um part two of the vocab quiz is fill the blanks so this is a little bit more difficult when you feel a cold you may want to take preventative measures when you feel a cold so when you feel like you're starting to catch a cold do you remember do you remember when you feel a cold coming on and it's yeah the ing form I can feel a cold coming on right I feel something happening I can feel a cold coming on yeah number seven two hm someone means to annoy or bother them persistently like my lovely daughter constantly requesting stories daddy Daddy can I Daddy can I have a story can I have two stories can I have nine stories please you know I have to tell her I have to tell her I've told her every possible story could ever think of including all the stories I've ever done on Luke's English podcast and every movie plot that I can think of and she wants the scary ones she's like Dad tell me a scary story like should I tell her the plot of alien should I and then I give her like a sanitized child-friendly version of alien like there are some you know people on a spaceship and they've been working really hard and they're traveling back to Earth and there's a distress signal from another planet and they decide because they're helpful they decide to go and investigate cuz some people might be in trouble and when they get there they find all these weird sort of like green pods a bit like seed pods and uh I don't know how I one of them gets um like an alien jumps out and uh oh God Indiana Jones all the Indiana Jones films Back to the Future we actually watched Back to the Future the other day she's six right she's nearly seven we watched Back to the Future and at one point when he was in the 1950 50 s when he'd gone back in time she turned to me and she said dad did they did they really go back in time to make the film I was like what do you mean did they did they actually go did they go back to cuz everything looks everything looks old and I said no no no no they didn't actually go back in time when they made the film that's that's not possible we we can't travel through time no they just they just made it look like the 1950s they used old clothes and everything looked like it did then they just you know it's just a film you know they they they use special effects and then they use old clothes and stuff to make it look like he's gone back but he didn't actually go back in time and she was like all right okay um so to pester someone means to annoy or bother them persistently like my daughter's always pestering me to have a sweetie or tell her a story it's adorable really even though it's a bit annoying number eight a throat May indicate the onset of an illness right a I've got a bit of a throat a sore throat or also a tickly throat or an itchy throat there was the word tickle as well to have a tickle in your throat um number nine if you have a h cold you mainly feel symptoms in your head and nose what kind of cold is that it's a a head cold number 10 he T he tends to hm to his emotions rather than address them he tends to something to his emotions rather than address them huh I can't remember that one what's the answer I could go down and check the answers yeah let's do that he tends to he tends to refuse to acknowledge the truth is it refuse to acknowledge the truth no no no no he tends to succumb to his problems he tends to succumb to his problems rather than address them so instead of like dealing with his problems he lets his problems um um control him right I said before to succumb to a cold when a cold is trying to infect you and you fight against it you fight against it and then eventually like oh okay and you just sort of surrender and allow the Cal to win you could you could arguably you could say you could succumb to your emotions as well for example if you are having negative thoughts you know you might try and fight against them try and find ways to stop them um flip them into more positive thinking but um maybe some people would succumb to those negative emotions and end up being kind of unhappy depressed demotivated yeah okay you get the idea right that that's that's um vocab quiz and there's different types matching exercises short answers uh and then also after that after that you you've got memory prompts because it's important to try to recall the words and phrases from memory and use them in sentences now this is difficult and if and you might not remember them all but that's okay the important thing is that you try so here's a memory prompt for example this imagine you've been sick for a few days how would you describe the process of feeling better and it's it's like I'm I'm uh recovering right I'm getting over it this is what you would say I'm recovering from a cold getting over a cold number two what phrase would you use to describe suddenly coming down with a runny nose and sore throat um uh catch yeah I've I've caught a cold I think I'm catching a cold three if you feel a slight irritation in your throat what phrase would you use I've got a tickle at the back of my throat or I think I've got a bit of a sore throat right and we could go on and move on to other so a lot of stuff about catching a cold there but the episode was full of loads of other stuff I mean this is the cold stuff is just the first 5 minutes um if someone is bothering you persistently what verb would describe their behavior they are pestering you what would you call common complaints involving back pain and Joint inflammation I was describing my parents you know they're getting old unfortunately it's a bit sad but you know it happens to the best of us of course uh arthritis is the joint inflam inflammation condition that makes your joint swell up and is painful back pain that's back ache okay what phrase describ someone having an extreme emotional Outburst that would be to have a tantrum right or to have a meltdown as well okay and there's there's loads there's uh memory prompt questions for all of the vocab in the episode series 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hello listeners welcome back to Luke's English podcast this is episode number 97 and the idea with this one is that I'm going to share with you a couple of extracts from my most recent series of Luke's English podcast premium so I've been working on premium series 64 uh Parts one and two of that were published just a few days ago so if you are a premium subscriber then check them out um and so what I thought I would do with this episode actually is share on the free podcast some extracts from clips from part one and part two of this premium series that I've been working on what you'll get is uh the clip for part one which I'm going to play to you in a moment I recorded it just a few days ago at the end of last week in part one what I did was first of all I had a bit of a ramble so I talked about catching a cold and trying to recover from a cold and I talked about a recent trip I did to England with my two kids and the uh experience of traveling with little children and what that's like and then after that I went for this idea where I would randomly choose several books from my bookshelf here in my podcast room and just read a couple of pages from those books and then use them to teach you English it was a sort of like um an improvised uh rambling premium episode involving a little bit of reading from books and what ended up happening was I think quite interesting and quite entertaining and certainly valuable in terms of learning English so I'm going to play you about 10 minutes from part one and then in part two I'll play you the section where I go through lots of vocabulary that I used in part one so you'll hear me going through about 20 items of vocabulary words phrases that that came up sort of spontaneously in part one okay so as you listen to this clip which I'm about to play to you you can just try to perhaps predict which words and phrases I might be dealing with uh in the second part okay um that's it basically all right premium subscribers by the way you might have already heard this of course you might have heard this stuff already if you haven't you can go and check out the full episodes uh but of course you'll be getting part three part four and other parts of this series later on this week as well so you'll get the full load where I go through all the vocab and do all the other stuff the pronunciation and everything so you'll get the whole series premium subscribers but anyway this is a chance for my free subscribers to just have a little sneak peek a little taste of LEP premium so let's go back a few days now and listen to about 10 minutes of me talking uh at the beginning in part one of premium series 64 here we go hello welcome back to Luke's English podcast premium how are you doing listeners you're doing okay welcome back to to the show so first of all I need to say this that you're you're listening to me right you are hello you are listening hello you you're listening good pay attention um you're listening to me and you might be thinking what happened to your voice Luke right um well uh yeah I've I've been uh recovering from a cold I mean I'm still recovering from a cold so I caught a cold like five six seven days ago I can't remember uh sometime last week I woke up with that feeling at the back of my throat you know the feeling just that little I don't know what it is really just that Sensation that uh uh something's up like I've got a maybe a little tickle at the back of my throat or maybe just the hint of something uncomfortable at the back of the throat and I thought ah oh I think a cold is coming on now what do you do in that situation when you feel like you've got a cold coming on what do you do I mean is there anything you can do I suppose there are different remedies that I don't know about I mean what are they you quickly drink a cup of green tea with lemon and honey in it or something or you quickly you know dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with onions I don't know what what's what's the method for dealing with that I don't really know uh for me I do try to you know drink a hot drink keep myself warm um and stay positive and just get on with things but sometimes there is no denying the virus which uh has inadvertently infected the body your body somehow and you succumb to a cold why why did I say that in such fancy language what I meant was that in the end there's nothing you can do and you just have to accept that you're that you've you've caught a cold and uh you know there's no way to escape it so anyway I got a cold um and it was just kind of a head cold really this is an expression we use to describe just like a little cold that you catch that only affects your head it doesn't kind of make you feel especially tired it doesn't really give you aches and pains in your body or anything like that um it's just in your head so I got a kind of a blocked up nose I got a kind of a slightly sore throat bit of a cough I've still got a bit of a cough uh but I'm absolutely fine just in case you are worried because I know my listeners when they when you hear that I've got a bit of a sore throat people are concerned and they say to me please look after yourself please look after your throat um but I'm fine and uh in fact I quite like the sound of my voice don't you think don't you think it sounds good it's got a kind of uh slightly grally deeper quality to it which is perfect for recording an episode of this podcast so this is a a premium episode there is as usual there's a video version for this which hardly anyone will watch because um I mean premium subscribers I've got a certain number of Premium subscribers right and yet the episodes don't get the same number of listens so the audio episodes um video versions the com the combined number even is not is usually not as high as the number of Premium subscribers that I have which suggests to me that there are quite a lot of people who've subscribed to Le premium but just don't listen to the episodes or maybe don't know how to do it because it's slightly complicated um I mean I I would talk to those people now and say if you don't know how to listen to the episodes just go to teacher luke. co.uk / premium info but of course that's pointless to say because obviously those people who uh don't know how to listen are not listening so it's difficult to know how to get through to those people an email probably would would be the way to do it which I might do anyway um if you are watching the video version of this which you can find a link to the video in the show notes of this episode which I hope you are listening to in a podcast app on your phone just open up the episode in your podcast app and look at the episode description or show notes and there's a link in there for the video version so if you are if you end up watching the video version you might think that I look a bit tired and the reason for that is I am I am quite tired today uh because um uh well I spent five days uh I went to it's so it's the school holidays in in France at the moment so my kids are not at school and I went to England with them so that means it was just me my wife stayed here she had like lots of work to do so I took the kids to England to stay with my parents and it was a bit exhausting because well first of all my son my daughter's okay she can kind of like look after herself she's fairly self-sufficient these days entertains herself and stuff except when she pesters me to uh tell her a story and just you know just like please tell me a story tell me another story tell me a scary story and I have to tell her story then I have to and then she's like can you make it that wasn't scary at all can you tell me another story so sometimes she goes into this mode where she pesters me to tell her stories over and over and over again um but generally she's quite self-sufficient but my son is uh 15 months old now and he's you know W up on his feet walking around exploring everything climbing on everything and uh pulling every single object uh that he can find towards himself uh and so that means that he he needs to be monitored constantly um so that was a little bit exhausting for me and my parents you know I really don't want to exhaust them I think it can be a bit exhausting you know and they're they're they're you know fairly old these days um which means that so while I was there at my parents house I basically had to be constantly monitoring ing my son which was lovely of course but also quite tiring and uh I only got breaks to kind of have a shower very quickly go to the toilet sometimes do this that and the other but most of the time I was looking after him every time I had to go away one of my parents had to look after my son and that meant sort of following him up the stairs because he he was constantly climbing up the stairs so they had to follow him up the stairs so they were up going up and down the stairs picking him up bending over you know all the sort of things that I don't really want my parents to have to do very much because it makes them tired you know back ache arthritis and things like that so um so it's you know a wonderful uh little five-day trip but very tiring as well and um also you know dealing with having a cold at the same time and the journey really the journeys were perhaps the most exhausting uh so I had a big suitcase with all our stuff in it and it was quite a lot of stuff for three people you know and a lot of kids stuff nappies milk bottles all the rest of it in a big suitcase and then a backpack on my back full of stuff as well including my computer which I didn't even really use while I was there but I thought I'd bring it anyway just in case actually got a spare moment to do some work which I didn't uh anyway backpack full of stuff um and uh then obviously my daughter with her backpack and then a pram and uh my son as well so traveling like walking to the station or walking through train stations going up and downstairs uh just getting from one place to the next go you know getting through onto the train platform getting this getting onto the train all that stuff managing all those things was actually pretty exhausting especially when I've got this big pram with a person in it and a huge suitcase on Wheels and my daughter who's six trying to keep her keep an eye on her so that was also quite exhausting a lot of carrying heavy lifting and stuff and uh certainly on the train um I mean my son slept a bit I'm just rambling have you noticed this is a a rambling episode on Luke's English podcast premium and I'll explain I'll explain stuff in a moment all right but we just we've just jumped straight into full-on rambling here okay I hope you're all right with that I'll be explaining myself and justifying all of this uh in a moment and also explaining why um this is slightly different to the usual kind of Premium episode but anyway let me just continue and tell you why I might look a bit tired today U perhaps I always look tired these days because you know cuz you know I'm you know not getting any younger um anyway what was I saying so anyway yes luckily my son slept a bit in a carrier you know those things that you can use to carry your child so luckily he slept um quite a lot in the carrier in the on the first part of ah do I need to tell you all about it basically it's it's the journey from from here in the center of Paris to where my parents live involves two train Journeys the first going from Paris to uh to my parents place um uh involves a Eurostar that's the train that goes from Paris to London under the uh English Channel under the water that's 2 hours and 20 minutes and then after that we have to get from s panras Station in London to uh Marley Bone station which is um not too far away but still it's either a an underground Journey a a trip on the Underground plus a bit of a walk or two underground lines or we just take a taxi normally we just take a taxi then we have to get another train from uh Marley Bone station to uh a station about an hour and a half away um in the Midlands okay so that's kind of two possibly three train Journeys or a train journey a taxi ride a train journey and a bit of walking and stuff um so he he normally would fall asleep for about an hour on one of those Journeys but for the rest of the time he can't really be contained i' keep him in the pram right or keep him in the carrier but after a certain amount of time he just cannot be contained and he has a big melt down has he has a big tantrum where he's crying and screaming and grabbing and you know scratching my face and stuff because you can't keep him in one one place like that contained for for too long so at that point I have to let him out and that means he's just loose on the train which means I have to follow him around while he kind of goes up and down on the Eurostar that's all right because there are spaces between sort of at the ends of each train Carriage there's a space with doors and you can kind of hang around there and you don't disturb the passengers too much the other train it's a bit different so anyway you can understand that it involves a lot of sort of improvisation uh for me as a dad trying to make sure that my son uh isn't just all over the floor kind of getting his hands dirty and and isn't disturbing the other passengers and isn't having a crying meltdown and I kind of was partially successful it's sort of like survival really survival parenting um in those situations so so you know two of those trips one there and one on the way back and as a you know that was we got back the day before yesterday so um anyway I'm just still recovering from that I'm a bit frazzled L from that meaning a bit sort of tired a bit worn out but I'm glad to be back doing Luke's English podcast here Luke's English podcast premium okay so that was as I said about 10 minutes I think uh of uh the episode that I did on LP premium just a few days ago and um the rest of that episode includes the moments when I pull a couple of books off the off the shelves here and read some extracts and teach Te You English from them now let me play you a longer clip uh this is about 30 minutes this clip and this is from part two which I recorded actually in the evening when the sun had gone down which is why if you if you're watching the video version of this you'll see that my room was much darker that's why you know cuz the sun had gone down you see my commitment to teaching you English is that I'll even do this in the evening when I should be sitting with my feet up and a nice cup of tea and a hot water bottle no I was was in this podcast room working a way to you know teach you vocabulary anyway right so which bits of vocabulary do you think I'm going to be explaining now which things well you can find out as I now let you listen to a longer clip from part two of premium series 64 with vocab explanations here we go so next you will see the full list with definitions and examples from the episode I'll talk about these things in part two of this series hello that's what I'm doing now after this you can try to do the vocabulary quizzes and any other tasks you find on this PDF below I will talk about all of this and give my answers and responses to the tasks in part two so let's go through the full vocab list number one to recover from something um I'm recovering from a cold I said so to recover from something as you probably can guess is or you may know already is you've been ill and then you get better or you recover right so to recover means to regain health or Str after an illness or a difficult experience okay sometimes it takes a long time to recover from a cold sometimes the cold lingers and it stays with you for ages sometimes you just recover quite quickly um so this phrase emphasizes the process of healing and can apply to both physical and emotional challenges so you can you can recover from sort of any an emotional experience as well you know like a trauma or something like that or uh if you get a shock you know you might need to sit down and recover from it number two to catch a cold okay to catch a cold all right uh for example I caught a cold last week and have been sneezing ever since I don't think I said that I've been sneezing ever since um like I said I've been using some AI tools to help me produce all this work which is why I was able to make this long PDF in quite quick time but using AI occasionally the AI starts to take sort of independent creative decisions and changes things slightly I don't remember saying I've been sneezing ever since maybe I did but I don't think I did anyway I caught a cold last week is the thing so to catch a cold you know um there's a joke there's there's a joke which you won't find funny now because I've already given you the punch line but the joke is what's faster hot or cold what's faster hot or cold well cold no what oh god I ruined it completely what is faster hot or cold well it's hot of course because you can catch a cold um to catch a cold it means just to become ill with a common viral infection like a not a very serious viral infection very common one the common cold characterized by symptoms like a runny nose and a sore throat and a cough and sneezing cough sneezing a chew yeah so catch a cold is a common expression used to describe the onset of this illness have you caught a cold oh I think I've caught a cold you would say I think I have caught a cold yeah I caught a cold last night because I you know I didn't I wasn't wearing my jacket number three a tickle in your throat I said I felt a tickle in my throat I have a little tickle at the back of my throat or I had a little tickle at the back of my throat so that was the feeling that I had um on Thursday morning last week when I felt like I was catching a cold I had a little tickle so a tickle to tickle can be a verb to tickle someone it can also be a noun meaning the feeling of being tickled um if you get a feather you know from a bird you know a feather um part you know a thing from a bird's wing and you take the feather and you rub it under someone's nose stop it it tickles it tickles it tickles stop tickling me right you can feel a tickle in your throat which is like just that little feeling like you you might be catching a cold so it's like a light irritating sensation often in the throat that may prompt coughing or the need to clear one's throats like oh I've just got the I think I might be catching a cold I've got a little tickle at the back of my throat you should have a warm cup of tea with lemon and honey and onion and whiskey and vodka in it just those things okay um yeah and Kuma and papuma and the essence of jinsang and uh tea tree and just everything put everything in the cup of tea literally everything um so I have a little tickle at the back of my throat this phrase is often used to describe the early signs of cold or allergy H okay moving swiftly on number four is a hint a hint of something I had a hint of a cold like little oh is that a cold I think I might be getting a cold little tickle it's just a hint of a cold a hint there's a hint of something uncomfortable in the atmosphere I didn't say that that's AI again being creative but you could say that if you're in a situation where I don't know you've walked into a room and there are people in the room already and you come in and they they stop talking and they all just kind of look at each other and they look at you and then they look down at the floor you're oh uh sorry I didn't mean to interrupt um and they're like no no no no no no no no no fine it's fine it's fine um Can can we help you with anything at all um no no no it's all right never mind right okay okay um great oh okay well I'll just I'll see you later guys all right oh dear what was going on in there there was like a hint of something uncomfortable in the atmosphere so a hint a slight indication or a sort of trace a little bit of a feeling or or condition of something a hint could be an indication something that that helps you realize something but in the case of a catching a cold a little a hint is like a slight clue or light indication that you that you might be catching a cold in the case of that room there was a a hint that something serious was going on or there was something else going on I could just pick picked up on some little Clues um so a hint of something a hint of a cold uh this phrase suggests a subtle presence of something that may not be overtly obvious there was a hint of uh tension in the room or I've uh I got a a little hint of a cold I think um or if you're doing a test and I give you a hint you know well it's a four-letter word starts with s ends in t it's a bit rude H oh is it yes that's the answer what kind of quiz is that I don't know but I gave you a a big hint there as well little clue that suggests something else in this case it was a hint of a cold like that little tickle at the back of my throat and I said I I I felt like a cold was coming on to feel a cold um I felt a cold coming on all right example what do you do when you feel like there's a cold coming on right you can say when you feel there's a cold coming on or when you feel like there's a cold coming on so this is the the the feeling that one is beginning to develop a cold I can feel a cold coming on When You Ah that's it when you can feel a cold coming on so I should change that to can can feel a cold coming on what do you do when you can feel a cold coming on I think I can feel a cold coming on what do you do when you can feel a cold coming on so this this expression is commonly used to discuss preventative measures for an impending illness like when you can feel a cold coming we often will say I can feel a cold coming on and then you would probably talk about things you could do to prevent the cold getting worse what do you do when you when you can feel a cold coming on do you dip your head in a vat of sulfuric acid I mean sure you your head will come off but you won't have a cold anymore um I don't know like there's different that's ridiculous of course um yeah uh but some people you know they do those things like yeah some people like drink a glass of Brandy that's what they would have done in the 19th century for sure or lemon and honey or you know other things inhaling lots of steam from a bowl with a towel over your head things like that so a remedy I'm talking about remedies for a cold a remedy is a treatment or medicine used to cure a disease or to relieve symptoms so what remedy what remedies are there for a sore throat you can get these little lozenges that you can suck which help to um make the the sore throat better that could be a remedy or you can take sort of cough medicine which you drink and it helps to kind of soothe your sore throat um or honey as well so remedies can be natural or pharmaceutical and often vary by culture and personal preference different people have different remedies number seven to dunk your head in a bucket of hot water this was a stupid remedy that I talked about dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with onions it's no one uses that as a remedy as far as I know that's not like a Trad traditional British Remedy or anything although it kind of sounds like it could be couldn't it drink a pint of cider and dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with old onions works every time in England uh uh to dunk your head so to dunk something in something means to to submerge something briefly okay now in basketball you dunk you slam dunk meaning put the ball in the basket right it's slam dunk but you can dunk other things in other things like you would dunk a Biscuit in your cup of tea and um if you were an idiot you would dunk your entire head in a bucket of hot water so you'd put your head into the hot water and then take it out again so to dunk your head in the water you quickly dunk your head in a bucket of hot water uh here's a comment while while often used in food contexts this verb can also describe a quick immersion for therapeutic purposes yeah all right food context you you might dunk a Biscuit in a cup of tea or you would dunk um um you know if you're frying if you're making tempora or something you would take a vegetable and dunk it in the batter and then dunk that in the in the hot fat or something uh number eight is to deny something to deny something um for example um there is no denying the virus which has inadvertently infected your body there's no denying it so sometimes you have to just accept that you're catching a cold and there's nothing you can do about it there's no denying the virus so to deny the virus would be to to refuse refuse to acknowledge or refuse to accept the existence of it it's like no no I'm not no I I I refuse to have a cold no it's not going to happen sorry not possible there it's not sorry you can't deny the virus which has in inadvertently infected your body there's nothing you could do you just have to accept it another example he continues to deny that he has a problem you know this is a person who maybe drinks too much or something or maybe it could have yeah 39 PS of Guinness uh every day 39 pints of Guinness every day but you know Guinness is good for you isn't it it's good for you I don't have a problem I don't you know it's not like I'm drinking 40 pints of Guinness a day so it's fine isn't it still denies that he has a problem I don't have a problem what are you talking about problem he does seem fairly he's he's quite under control and seems quite sober considering he's had 39s a Guinness I'm absolutely fine I tell you well you should see him when he has 40 it all comes crashing down anyway so to deny something this term can reflect emotional social or psychological resistance which is basically where he like no I refuse to accept it I deny uh that I have a problem nope no problem here and also no I don't have a cold no no no cold here you can't deny it sorry you have to accept that the that you've got a cold sometimes inadvertently is number nine so I said um there's no denying the virus which has inadvertently infected your body I was using quite fancy sounding language but inadvertently it's inadvertently infected your body inadvertently just means without intention or just accidentally I mean you know I don't know if viruses are sentient and they're going hm Luke Thompson I will give him a cold now come on let's go party in Luke Thompson's nose um I don't think they're doing that I think it just sort of happens doesn't it um it just happens accidentally without anyone intending for it to happen like you didn't in choose to have a to catch a cold um so this this adverb inadvertently emphasizes that an action was not deliberate often leading to unintended consequences now I was just using fancy language you might say um when I was talking about catching a cold you could also say things like this she inadvertently revealed the surprise party oh uh it'll be fun at the party on Friday whoops oh Susan you gave away the party yeah okay Bob now you know we're having a surprise party for you thanks a lot Susan oh Susan inadvertently revealed the surprise party she did it by accident without intending to do it number 10 to succumb to something I said sometimes there's no denying the virus which has in inadvertently infected your body and you succumb to a cold which is where at the beginning you're like no I refuse to have a cold and I'll just keep calm and carry on and I'm sure I'll be fine and then after two days you're like okay all right I've got a cold and there's nothing I can do about it by the way listeners you can hear that I've got a bit of a blocked nose but again I'm I'm fine despite the way it's affecting my voice so to succumb to something then yeah to succumb to a cold like oh okay right that's it I've got a cold then there's there's no denying it um so this means to yield to a superior Force so basically the cold is like no no no I'm here and there's nothing you can do about it and then you just kind of go all right then I've got a cold so to yield to a superior force or overwhelming desire often resulting in surrender which is like that feeling of like all right then I'll stop fighting it all right I've got a cold I'm going to stay in bed um this phrase implies a sense of helplessness against an external influence you just succumb to it you can also succumb to other things you might succumb to a Temptation we like no I will not eat chocolate cake NOP no chocolate cake for me uh uh uh no way oh there's a chocolate cake no but I'm not eating chocolate cake no no no thanks maybe just a little bit um just a oh I'll go and have a taste M oh that is very good well all right I'll just have one piece that's one piece is all right if it's just one that's okay all right so Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum a I've eaten a whole chocolate cake not that that happens to me um and if you know I don't mean to make fun of that kind of compulsive eating situation which can be you know a problem but anyway I'm just giving an example of the phrase to succumb to a Temptation right um number 11 fancy language so this is language that is elaborate sophisticated or unnecessarily complex and I said why did I say that in such fancy language which was that previous sentence sometimes there is no denying the which has inadvertently infected the body and you succumb to a cold slightly fancy language why did I say it like that so a bit too complex and elaborate so this term often implies a critique of over complication in communication no need to use fancy language just keep it plain and simple so maybe I could have said sometimes you just sometimes you can't stop it and you have to accept that you've got a cold you know you know that would be more normal plain English sometimes it's fun to use fancy language that's all uh fancy is quite an interesting word as an adjective it can mean um it can mean elaborate sophisticated like oh this is a fancy restaurant isn't it oh look at this really Posh Restaurant look at this look at the look at what what they've done to the ceiling wow it's really a really fancy restaurant this so it could mean that which is a bit like fancy language and as a verb it can have sort of several meanings one is that it can mean that you find someone attractive right you think someone is attractive like oh I think she fancies me have you seen the way uh have you seen the way Sandra has been looking at me I think she fancies me I'm going to say I think so yeah do you think so yeah no you're wrong she just needs glasses yeah she that's why she's staring at you she doesn't know who you are oh oh all right okay so she doesn't fancy me she's just blind um yeah uh so it can be that to find someone attractive but also to fancy could mean to to want something which is related to the the previous example I just gave but to fancy a person normally uh but also you can fancy something else like you can fancy an ice cream oh who fancies an ice cream or anyone fancy a pint which is like would anyone like to have a pint of beer anyone fancy a pint there's a pub around the corner so fancy can be like oh elaborate and sophisticated and Posh fancy language could be elaborate sophisticated and maybe unnecessarily complex a fancy restaurant oh very nice and Posh and lovely gorgeous design uh does anyone fancy an ice cream would anyone like to have an ice cream and all you know what I think Sandra fancies you do you see the way she's been looking at you yeah she laughs at all your jokes yeah I think she fancies you mate all right number 12 a head cold if you remember this one it's like I talked about having a cold and I said it's just a head cold so a head cold is a cold that primarily affects the nasal passages that's your nose and sinuses that's like the you know the area the the parts of your nose on the inside causing symptoms like congestion that's where your nose is blocked and headache that's when your head aches for example uh having a head cold it it doesn't really give you aches and pains in your body or anything like that it's just a head cold so this term distinguishes between different types of colds highlighting where symptoms are primarily felt so it's just a head cold number 13 is a blocked up nose a blocked nose or a blocked up nose which you can kind of hear I've still got that's where someone speak like this hello my name is my name is uh whatever right blocked up no my name is Michael Michael Benson um sorry Michael Benson bichael banson no Michael Benson bichel banson who's called Michael banson no it's Michael banson anyway Michael Manson not bichael banson who's called bichel banson you idiot anyway a blocked up nose so this is nasal congestion that makes it difficult to breathe through the nose example I can't taste my food properly with this blocked up nose like oh I feel terrible i've got a blocked up nose and uh so this phrase is often used to describe a common symptom of colds or allergies you get a blocked up nose you get a sore throat get a headache blah blah blah cough number 14 a slightly sore throat can you say that a slightly sore throat a slightly sore throat sore sore throat I've got a slightly sore throat slightly sore if something is sore it means it's painful you know like if you uh if you're skateboarding and you wearing a pair of shorts just a pair of shorts it's a lovely sunny day you're on you're you're in your favorite shorts on a skateboard going down the road and then suddenly whoa whoa you get that speed wobble where the skateboard starts wobbling like I can't stop it wobbling and then you're flying through the air and then bam you land on the road and you scrape along the road and you end up grazing all of the you know you end up skinning your all the skin comes off your elbows and your knees and then you've got very sore elbows and knees similarly if you catch a cold you might get a sore throat I mean you wouldn't fall off a skateboard and get a sore throat or maybe I don't know if you land on your throat if that possible no it's not you could land on your neck which would be very bad news anyway a slightly sore throat like mild pain or discomfort in the throat often a symptom of illness I woke up with a slightly sore throat today uh so this phase suggests the onset meaning the the beginning of illness without severe symptoms um number 15 a gra voice I said um I said my voice has got a kind of slightly grally deeper quality to it which you can hear now hello you're listening to Luke's English podcast with a slightly grally voice so that describes this kind of tone of voice gravel is like little stones that might be put on a path or on a driveway you know when you drive a car uh and park it in front of a house driving over gravel or walking on gravel so that those little stones that might be on a driveway or a path that's known as gravel and so a grally voice is like a voice that sounds like it's got gravel in it a voice that has a rough or raspy quality a okay a comment this term often describes a voice affected by illness or fatigue but can also be a characteristic of certain individuals so it's and it's it can be described it can be kind of um I think it can be kind of an attractive equality in a person's voice especially uh on a night like this uh number 16 oh my God am I going to get through all the vocab well if I don't then so be it I'll just do the rest in another maybe I'll do 32 items and I'll do the rest in another part you know it is what it is isn't it number 16 self-sufficient I was talking about my daughter saying that you know when I travel with my daughter and with my son my son's 15 months old so he needs to be looked after and monitored all the time but my my daughter's like nearly seven and she's fairly self-sufficient these days so if you're self sufficient it means you're able to uh provide for yourself or let's say look after yourself without assistance um that's without assistance that's not without ass sister like she's okay she can look after herself without a sister whereas my brother he needs a sister I mean sorry assistants how many sisters how many assistants oh never mind she can look after herself without assistance without help right she's fairly self-sufficient so the phrase conveys Independence and self-reliance often in personal or financial contexts so she's you know she's able to go to the toilet on her own you can leave her sitting reading a book and you know that she's not going to get up and pull all the books off a bookshelf or pull all the plants out of the plant pots and spread dirt everywhere you know yeah she's fairly self-sufficient unlike my son who is not um number 17 to pester someone so despite the fact that my daughter is fairly self-sufficient certainly in comparison to my son at this moment in time she does pester me uh for certain things so to pester someone is to annoy or bother someone persistently often asking them can I have this can I have this could you do this for me can I do this can I can I watch something can I watch something on the ipad please Daddy please I won't cry I won't cry I won't complain I won't winch I won't pester you it's like you're you're you're already you you're already pestering me what do you mean you won't you're already doing it but I won't winge I won't I promise I won't you're already winging but please but please can I just just just just 20 minutes just just 30 minutes that's another thing she does she'll start negotiating but instead of like making concessions she goes the other way so she'll say just 20 minutes just 20 minutes please Daddy please and you go 30 minutes 30 minutes 30 40 minutes you're like you you can't negotiate like that you're going the wrong way you have to go you have to be like 20 minutes 15 15 minutes 10 just 10 she goes the other way so like you don't know how to negotiate you're 7 years old um but she pesters me me she entertains herself except when she pesters me to tell her a story can you tell me a story can you tell me a scary story please uh it's adorable I love telling her stories but sometimes I have no stories left um so to pester someone this verb often has a a playful connotation but can also Express frustration stop pestering me all the time can I have can I have a sweetie can I have a sweetie please can I have two sweeties number 18 backache and arthritis so I was talking about my parents and saying well I didn't really want them to have to look after my son all the time because they you know they suffer from little things well little things like back ache which is when you're back aches and arthritis which is a condition causing inflammation in the joints so the joints like the elbows the wrists the knees the hips ankles fingers and toes the they become inflamed they swell up this is arthritis it's a very common condition that affects many adults as they get older and uh my mom has arthritis um blesser um and it must be very uncomfortable and I don't want her going around sort of trying to having to climb the stairs after my son and picking him up and stuff my dad has a bit of back had a bit of back ache this weekend my mom's got arthritis so these are common health issues back ache refers to an ache hear it back ache headache ear ache tooth achee right ache um common health issues back ache refers to pain in the back while AR arthritis is a condition causing inflammation in the joints all right for example you know I've been dealing with a back ache arthritis and things like that so both of these terms highlight chronic pain this is pain that sort of doesn't really go away very easily and can be common complaints among various age groups but especially among elderly people older people let's say uh number 19 to have a meltdown to have a tantrum a meltdown or a tantrum so I was describing the behavior of my son when he gets tired if he's you know hungry or frustrated by something he might have a tantrum or have a meltdown uh a tantrum to be honest is the word that's more commonly used with toddlers that's little kids who have recently started to walk um they have a tantrum a temper tantrum or a tantrum you've seen it they throw themselves on the floor they kick their legs and they cry and and make a lot of noise right that's a tantrum I also call it having a meltdown as well although often meltdown is is uh applied to is used to describe the behavior of adults so you might see a sports player having a meltdown like a a tennis player might have a meltdown on the court where they suddenly get incredibly angry and frustrated and they lose control of themselves and they argue with the referee or they throw their their racket on the ground or scream at someone in the audience or something you know like this tennis player had a meltdown on the court this afternoon but um I use it to describe my wife and I use that word to describe what our son does sometimes he has a meltdown or he has a tantrum so to experience a sudden emotional Outburst a meltdown is often characterized by extreme distress while a tantrum is typically associated with children's Behavior but as I said my wife and I use the word meltdown normally used to describe the behavior of adults to describe what our what our children do sometimes for example he just cannot be contained and has a big meltdown he has uh he has he had a big tantrum where he's crying and screaming and grabbing these phrases often imply a loss of control either emotionally or behaviorally yeah okay um yeah you know what I'm going to stop here okay so that is where I stopped and that was the end of part two of p64 and uh what's going to come next is part three and probably part four I haven't done those yet I'll be working on them this week and in Parts three and four I'll go through the rest of the vocabulary uh from the rest of my ramble where I ended up talking about lots of other things um but I hope you enjoyed that I hope you found it useful if you're a premium subscriber and you can access the PDF um you'll see that it's in sections and after all that vocab stuff all the the vocab list that you saw me going through there after that's done the next section is vocabulary quizzes and then this yeah so the section four is vocab quizzes and also memory prompts and section five is uh discussion questions that use all the vocab I'll just give you a a little look so um I'll just kind of like read through some of the vocab quizzes for the vocab that you've looked at just to give you an idea of what's involved so here are here are three vocab quizzes we'll look at the first one which covers items 1 to 22 in the list we actually only dealt with 1 to 19 I think in in this clip but anyway let's have a look can you can you get these questions right so first of all now some of these are going to be easy right some of them are going to be easy and that's fine you know that's absolutely fine some things you'll just get easily which is great when you get an answer you know an answer you just slap yourself on the back and go well done I know that great let's move on um the ones that you're less sure of this is where you can you know you learn if you don't get it right or you don't know you learn the answers are included on the PDF and you can go back and do these quizzes again and make sure you get 100% correct you know anyway do you know the answers so number one this is pretty easy but what does it mean to recover from something so these quizzes are in different there's different types of task this first one is a simple multiple choice what does it mean to recover from something is it a to lose strength B to regain health or strength regain right or C to ignore a problem I'm recovering from a cold obviously it's B to regain health or strength yeah okay now again when you do things like this right as a learner of English when you do deal with these sorts of tasks you might think oh I know the answer easy peasy but there's a lot more that you can do first of all you could make sure that you know all the other words in all the other options for example to lose strength right to regain Health to ignore a problem and another thing is that you should be able to also use the words in a sentence so you should be able to like say I'm recovering from a cold I've been recovering from a cold I'm going to recover hopefully I will recover uh I will hopefully I will have recovered by the end of next week I've got like a big a big presentation to do at work and hopefully I will have recovered by then you know so it's not just do you know the word do you know what it means but can you use it that's a whole other thing and there are some other tasks on the PDF that help you to do that number two if someone catches a cold that's also easy they a enjoy they're enjoying the weather developing a common viral infection or experiencing allergies So it's b again developing a common viral infection again with this one it's a it's a well-known collocation to catch a cold but in my experience working with Learners of English I've noticed people getting it wrong all the time and it's normally the tense that people get wrong what people don't say is they they don't say I have caught a cold or I'm catching a cold what they what people do is they get the the the grammar of it wrong and they end up saying I am catch a cold or I catch a cold right um and you know obviously it should be I caught a cold like when yesterday I think I caught a cold yesterday but often it's in the present perfect tense I have caught a cold cuz that describes you now present perfect I have caught a cold describes the present I caught a cold past simple describes the past so you might say I caught a cold yesterday I think I caught a cold last night so you'd say when cuz past simple describes the past I have caught a cold describes you now so how are you doing oh I'm all right but I'm feeling a bit under the weather I think I've caught a cold right you should be able to do it like that yeah so it's not just knowing the the word or collocation it's being able to use it right number three a remedy refers to a a type of food b a treatment or medicine or c a vacation the again the answer is is B I hope the answer is not B every time it might be God it is as well it is the answer is always B oh dear oh dear I used uh AI to help me do this and it seems that AI just like well I think I'll just make make this a really easy one and just make B the correct answer every time I don't know anyway maybe that's just chance maybe it's random and it's just chance that it happens to be the second option out of each out of five questions anyway a remedy is a treatment or medicine for example you know drinking a cup of tea with lemon or something is a kind of remedy for a common cold uh for if you have a blocked up nose it means a you can breathe easily B you're experiencing nasal congestion slightly fancy language for a blocked up nose or see you feel great obviously it's B again right and five fancy language is characterized by a simple terms B elaborate and complex wording like you are currently experiencing nasal congestion yes I have a a blocked up nose yeah that's fancy language uh is b b is the answer or is it C just casual speech how are you doing not so I'm all right but I've got a bit of a block sorry what I've got a blocked up note I've got a cold and it's affecting my English I apologize no uh how are you doing oh you know I'm all right just got a bit of a blocked up nose to be honest it's a bit annoying I think I might be coming down with a cold oh there's another one I might be coming down with a cold yeah um so that casual speech yeah elaborate and complex fancy language would be how are you doing I appear to be suffering from the onset of a nasal congestion which may be symptomatic of a common viral infection otherwise known in plain English as the common cold like okay is this one of those viruses that that that infect the grammar node in your brain causing you to speak like that this may be the case yes indeed imagine that if I mean maybe it's possible but imagine if there was a a virus which you could get that would affect your English and why is it also that viruses and things you know when we get sick the the symptoms are always bad I mean this is probably a very stupid observation but why is it always bad you know why don't why don't some viruses like help because if the viruses if what they want now I know that viruses don't think do they I don't think so if what they want is to spread among the human race that's what they want they want to proliferate right then they should probably try and ingratiate themselves with us somehow so instead of making us feel terrible they should make us feel great they should improve they should strengthen us and then we'd be like yes please you've got a cold quick cough in my face now you know I've got an English exam tomorrow quick sneeze on me if that was the case we'd be spreading those viruses around the viruses would be really successful instead it's the opposite and they do they're really horrible we hate having flu and stuff and covid and we do everything we possibly can to eradicate them you know we're injecting ourselves with vaccines we're wearing masks you know that are really annoying especially if you have glasses on your glasses get steamed up all these things that we try to do to avoid getting them they they would they would do better if they if they made us feel good just a little tip there any viruses listening just consider that maybe try and help out a little bit maybe we'll be more willing to accept you in that in that case rather than trying to destroy you I don't know H anyway um part two of the vocab quiz is fill the blanks so this is a little bit more difficult when you feel a cold you may want to take preventative measures when you feel a cold so when you feel like you're starting to catch a cold do you remember do you remember when you feel a cold coming on and it's yeah the ing form I can feel a cold coming on right I feel something happening I can feel a cold coming on yeah number seven two hm someone means to annoy or bother them persistently like my lovely daughter constantly requesting stories daddy Daddy can I Daddy can I have a story can I have two stories can I have nine stories please you know I have to tell her I have to tell her I've told her every possible story could ever think of including all the stories I've ever done on Luke's English podcast and every movie plot that I can think of and she wants the scary ones she's like Dad tell me a scary story like should I tell her the plot of alien should I and then I give her like a sanitized child-friendly version of alien like there are some you know people on a spaceship and they've been working really hard and they're traveling back to Earth and there's a distress signal from another planet and they decide because they're helpful they decide to go and investigate cuz some people might be in trouble and when they get there they find all these weird sort of like green pods a bit like seed pods and uh I don't know how I one of them gets um like an alien jumps out and uh oh God Indiana Jones all the Indiana Jones films Back to the Future we actually watched Back to the Future the other day she's six right she's nearly seven we watched Back to the Future and at one point when he was in the 1950 50 s when he'd gone back in time she turned to me and she said dad did they did they really go back in time to make the film I was like what do you mean did they did they actually go did they go back to cuz everything looks everything looks old and I said no no no no they didn't actually go back in time when they made the film that's that's not possible we we can't travel through time no they just they just made it look like the 1950s they used old clothes and everything looked like it did then they just you know it's just a film you know they they they use special effects and then they use old clothes and stuff to make it look like he's gone back but he didn't actually go back in time and she was like all right okay um so to pester someone means to annoy or bother them persistently like my daughter's always pestering me to have a sweetie or tell her a story it's adorable really even though it's a bit annoying number eight a throat May indicate the onset of an illness right a I've got a bit of a throat a sore throat or also a tickly throat or an itchy throat there was the word tickle as well to have a tickle in your throat um number nine if you have a h cold you mainly feel symptoms in your head and nose what kind of cold is that it's a a head cold number 10 he T he tends to hm to his emotions rather than address them he tends to something to his emotions rather than address them huh I can't remember that one what's the answer I could go down and check the answers yeah let's do that he tends to he tends to refuse to acknowledge the truth is it refuse to acknowledge the truth no no no no he tends to succumb to his problems he tends to succumb to his problems rather than address them so instead of like dealing with his problems he lets his problems um um control him right I said before to succumb to a cold when a cold is trying to infect you and you fight against it you fight against it and then eventually like oh okay and you just sort of surrender and allow the Cal to win you could you could arguably you could say you could succumb to your emotions as well for example if you are having negative thoughts you know you might try and fight against them try and find ways to stop them um flip them into more positive thinking but um maybe some people would succumb to those negative emotions and end up being kind of unhappy depressed demotivated yeah okay you get the idea right that that's that's um vocab quiz and there's different types matching exercises short answers uh and then also after that after that you you've got memory prompts because it's important to try to recall the words and phrases from memory and use them in sentences now this is difficult and if and you might not remember them all but that's okay the important thing is that you try so here's a memory prompt for example this imagine you've been sick for a few days how would you describe the process of feeling better and it's it's like I'm I'm uh recovering right I'm getting over it this is what you would say I'm recovering from a cold getting over a cold number two what phrase would you use to describe suddenly coming down with a runny nose and sore throat um uh catch yeah I've I've caught a cold I think I'm catching a cold three if you feel a slight irritation in your throat what phrase would you use I've got a tickle at the back of my throat or I think I've got a bit of a sore throat right and we could go on and move on to other so a lot of stuff about catching a cold there but the episode was full of loads of other stuff I mean this is the cold stuff is just the first 5 minutes um if someone is bothering you persistently what verb would describe their behavior they are pestering you what would you call common complaints involving back pain and Joint inflammation I was describing my parents you know they're getting old unfortunately it's a bit sad but you know it happens to the best of us of course uh arthritis is the joint inflam inflammation condition that makes your joint swell up and is painful back pain that's back ache okay what phrase describ someone having an extreme emotional Outburst that would be to have a tantrum right or to have a meltdown as well okay and there's there's loads there's uh memory prompt questions for all of the vocab in the episode series and then also we've got you you got the answers and then you've got conversation questions for speaking practice so these are ones that you can use to just practice just trying to use the vocab in conversation now you can do this with a conversation partner if you have one someone that you can practice English with or you can do it on your own like this like the way I'm going to do it uh for example let's have a look at uh a hint of something can you recall a time when you sensed a hint of tension in a group what happened h a hint of tension can you remember a time when you when you sensed a hints a hint of tension in a group now you might not be able to think of an an example you might think oh I need to find a real example of when I sensed a hint of tension in a group you can't think of a real one don't worry just make something up it doesn't matter you're just trying to practice the language right it's not lying it's just creative practice so you'd say um I mean if you're with a conversation partner you would say I can't remember time but I'll just make something up and then they go okay and then you say yeah last week I went into um I went into a into a bank and I looked around and everyone was like really seemed really tense no one was moving some people were even like lying down on the floor with their hands over their heads and I was like what's going on here it was like a very tense atmosphere just like was a weird sort of hint of tension in this Bank why is everyone not moving and some people have got guns and they pointing them what's going on here anyway I'll get my money out have a nice day everyone H strange hint of tension in that bank obvious that's a ridiculous situation that I walked into in the middle of a bank robbery but anyway you could also say I walked into uh I walked into the staff room at work and there was a hint of tension in the room I think that maybe someone had just had a little disagreement or maybe that they're unhappy with our 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