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880. Is Paris ready for the Olympic Games 2024? 🏊 (Article + Vocabulary)

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

Luke Thompson

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πŸ—“οΈ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

I read an article about Paris' preparations for the 2024 Olympic Games, discuss the issues, summarise the article and explain plenty of vocabulary. Is Paris ready for the games? What are the attitudes, complaints, expectations and fears ahead of this potentially controversial event.

πŸ‘‰ Episode page https://teacherluke.co.uk/2024/04/29/880-is-paris-ready-for-the-olympic-games-2024-article-vocabulary/

πŸ‘‰ Article https://theweek.com/sports/olympics-2024-is-paris-ready-to-party

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D.K. You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information,

0:39.6

visit Teacher Luke dot co. Luke. to Luke's English podcast, this is episode number 880 and in this one I'm going to read an

0:56.0

article to you, a news article which I've found.

0:59.4

It's all about the Olympic Games in Paris.

1:01.5

I'll read the article to you. We're going to discuss some of the ideas

1:04.7

that it talks about and then I will explain loads of vocabulary to you. Okay?

1:09.4

So the Olympics is coming to Paris in less than a hundred days and at the moment the city is trying to get itself ready for this and there are various arguments going on about whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.

1:24.7

What do, what will the games reveal about French society or life in Paris?

1:32.4

There's a lot of interesting things to discuss here and so

1:35.1

that's what we're going to be doing this time. What will the Olympics be like here?

1:39.2

Will it will they be a triumph or a total catastrophe? What are the residents of Paris really afraid of?

1:47.2

That's what we're going to talk about and that's what we're going to find out about

1:49.6

and you're going to learn loads of vocabulary in the process. Before I get started, I just wanted to say,

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