7. Susan Boyle

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

Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 30 April 2009

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is about Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer who recently became very famous all over the world on YouTube. The language section is about idioms to describe personality.

The feature section is about her and her performance of "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical Les Miserables. Why was it so special? Why have so many people in the world seen it? Why has she become so famous? Why do the Americans love her?

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacher Luke.
0:06.0	Podomatic.
0:10.0	Hello, welcome to Luke's English podcast. You're listening to episode six. This is
0:16.0	Luke of course. Hello, how are you? I hope you're well. I'm fine. Thanks. I'm just
0:22.0	sitting here in my living room again it's a Thursday evening
0:26.8	I always seem to do these podcasts on a Thursday for some reason I don don't know why. Maybe it's because I usually do nothing
0:35.4	on a Thursday. But anyway, it's Thursday evening, I'm relaxing, having a nice evening, and I've
0:42.4	had a few emails recently and I've had one email from
0:47.5	mejo in Japan again a regular emailer helloho, how are you? And she emailed me saying, have you heard
0:57.8	about Susan Boyle? Right? Now she's asking me about someone called Susan Boyle and have I heard
1:07.8	about her because she's very famous at the moment in Japan and well it's funny you should ask that because I have heard
1:15.6	about Susan Boyle of course because everybody now knows about Susan Boyle it seems
1:21.4	that she's famous all over the world now, which is incredible.
1:25.0	It's a sort of big, incredible story that everybody's talking about.
1:31.0	It's quite interesting for lots of reasons.
1:35.0	One of the main ones being that she's become famous overnight.
1:40.0	She's suddenly very, very famous. Now if you don't know who she is, I'm going to tell you about her in the feature section of the podcast.
1:52.0	So I'm going to talk about Susan Boyle, who is she, why
1:57.1	is she famous. Also I'm going to interview a few people, some of my friends, just to see what their opinion of Susan Boyle is.
2:07.0	I'm going to be teaching you some bits of language that you're going to hear people using in those interviews and then the language
2:16.0	section at the end of the podcast is going to be some idioms, some useful common
2:22.4	idioms that people use to describe personality, character, and
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