? Learn English with a short story. ? Listen & repeat after me if you'd like to practise your pronunciation. ?Learn some vocabulary in the second half of the video. ? I found this story in answer to a post on Quora.com asking about true scary stories. I thought I could use it to help you learn English. Can you understand the story, and predict the twist at the end? ? Read the original by Lance Stephenson here https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-short-scary-stories ? Page for this episode on my website with a word-for word copy of the story https://teacherluke.co.uk/2023/11/28/854-the-i ..read more

Join me as I meet and get to know Rhiannon, an English coach whose mission is to help you feel awesome about your English. I had never met Rhiannon before this interview, so listen as I get to know her and we chat about her English & Welsh roots, moving to Edinburgh, studying theology at university, early experiences as an English teacher, why learners often feel ashamed of their English, and how she can help. We also discuss the wonders of fish & chips and deep fried Mars bars which you can buy on the streets of Edinburgh. ? Episode page on my website https://teacherluke.co.uk/2023/11 ..read more

How does it feel to have a visual impairment? How do blind people navigate the world? How do other people treat you, if you are blind? And, how do we talk about blindness and other forms of disability in English? This episode is inspired by a listener called Hafid, who contacted me recently. I talk about the subject of blindness and disability in general, read an article written by a partially sighted person, and explain a list of words and phrases we should use when describing different forms of disability. Also includes various medical vocabulary such as the different parts of the eye and ot ..read more

A listener left a comment on my website asking for my thoughts on the new Beatles song which was released last week, and I was happy to ramble about it for 45 mins. Listen to hear me give my thoughts and tell several stories related to what is being described as the last Beatles song. I talk for about 10 minutes about burning down my apartment, and my thoughts on the content I make for this podcast and then start talking about The Beatles until the end of the episode. To skip straight to the Beatles bit, go forward to about 12 minutes. Episode page https://teacherluke.co.uk/2023/11/08/851-ramb ..read more

Fabio has written a book about language learning, based on his own personal experiences of learning English. Each chapter ends with the same sentence: “This is how to learn a language”. But each chapter disagrees with the next. There are many ways to learn a language, and none of them is the only right way to do it. In this episode, we talk all about this and Fabio shares some of his stories. Fabio is the host of "Stolariod Stories" a self-development podcast which includes lots of lessons about learning English, and learning about life in general. ? Page for this episode on Luke's website ? h ..read more

Bed bugs in Paris & London, Mosquito hunting in the middle of the night, a home invasion by fleas and the terrors of cockroaches - listen to some anecdotes about encounters with insects with Zdenek who has recently relocated to Vietnam. Watch out for various insect idioms which appear during the conversation. ? Episode page on Luke's website (with list of insect idioms ? & more) https://teacherluke.co.uk/2023/10/25/849-stories-of-insects-bugs-creepy-crawlies-with-zdenek-lukas/ ? Zdenek's Website with courses, and Discord server for learning English https://teacherzdenek.com/ ? P53 Tech ..read more

Bree Asie is an English teacher with a background in psychology, especially child development, and in this episode she comes onto LEP with advice and encouragement for parents who want to help their children to learn English from an early age. ? Episode page https://teacherluke.co.uk/2023/10/17/848-the-superpower-of-starting-english-early-with-kids-with-bree-aesie/ ? Listen to Luke's funny & dramatic story on Bree's podcast https://pod.link/1522715603/episode/71b6f95ea88babe5f978960f07a9e73c Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ and add the premium episodes to a podcast app on your phone. https ..read more

Join me for an unplanned rambling episode about various things including: hump day, bed bugs in Paris ?, fashion trends I followed when I was younger ??, CDs ? vs cassettes ? vs vinyl ?, the most relaxing place in the world ?, Japanese zen gardens ⛩, Hunter S Thompson ?, the most disgusting job I ever had ?, and more... ? Episode page on my website https://teacherluke.co.uk/2023/10/11/847-random-topic-generator/ Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ and add the premium episodes to a podcast app on your phone. https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf ..read more

"The Glib Brothers" reunite on the podcast to discuss more music, films, books, scary AI and UFO sightings. James is my older brother and he's probably been on this podcast more than any other guest. Listen for another deep and humorous conversation with lots of cultural reference points. Episode page https://www.https://teacherluke.co.uk/2023/10/03/846-topic-tombola-with-james/ Glytek Audio on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/1trBdNNHMafKfWxaXDdUBf?si=2L2beuujSkWU0mAeHYcTNw Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ and add the premium episodes to a podcast app on your phone. https://plus.acast ..read more

TECH TALK! A conversation with Joe Dale (modern foreign language teaching consultant, EdTech guru) about the use of ChatGPT in English teaching and learning. Lots of recommendations, tips and tricks for saving time and combining ChatGPT with other software including Google Chrome extensions. ? For a list of all the Google Chrome extensions and other software, click here (episode page on my website) ? Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ and add the premium episodes to a podcast app on your phone. https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more