901. Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of The Speckled Band (Learn English with a Short Story)
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 147 minutes
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Summary
Learn English with another classic Sherlock Holmes mystery story by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this episode my aim is to help you to understand and enjoy a Sherlock Holmes story. I'll read the original text of this classic locked-room mystery to you, and will explain and summarise what is happening regularly. Just relax, listen carefully and try to enjoy this classic story. PDF available.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, |
| 0:07.2 | visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk.uk. |
| 0:11.8 | UK. Okay. Hope you're doing fine today. Now in this episode, it's story time again. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm going to read you a story. |
| 0:25.1 | So this will be your chance, hopefully, |
| 0:27.5 | to understand and enjoy a story in English. |
| 0:30.9 | There's a PDF for this one, |
| 0:32.3 | which you can download either from my website on the episode |
| 0:35.0 | for this episode or you can download it directly using the link that you will find in the |
| 0:40.2 | description of this episode in your podcast app that you're using or on |
| 0:45.2 | YouTube if you're watching there. Okay so check out the PDF if you'd like to be |
| 0:49.8 | able to read the story that you're listening to me, read to you in this episode. Okay? In fact we're going to start looking at |
| 0:57.4 | the PDF right now. So let me go to that. Here we go. Right, so this episode is called The Adventure of the Speckled Band |
| 1:08.1 | by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Here are some things I should say first before I start reading out the story to you. |
| 1:14.0 | First of all, the English that you'll hear. |
| 1:17.0 | So this is fairly complex old-fashioned English. |
| 1:20.0 | This story was published in 1892, and so the English is pretty old-fashioned. |
| 1:26.0 | Compared to today's English, the main difference is that everything seems more formal in style. |
| 1:32.0 | Victorian society, which is you know this story was |
| 1:35.9 | written in the Victorian era, Victorian society was generally a lot more formal |
| 1:41.6 | than ours is today and this is reflected in the language |
| 1:45.1 | with its long complex sentences and vocabulary. But overall it's not too different to the English we use today. |
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