928. The Abduction 🛸 (Learn English with a Short Story)
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Learn English with another short story on Luke's English Podcast. This one is about a learner of English who has an extraordinary experience. Listen to me tell the story, and summarise it, then explain plenty of natural, commonly occurring, up-to-date English vocabulary.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit |
| 0:07.7 | teacher luke.com.com.com. |
| 0:14.5 | Hello listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. How are you doing today? I hope you're doing fine. |
| 0:21.7 | So this is a story episode, which means that as usual, I'm going to tell you a story and then use it to help you learn English. |
| 0:29.8 | What is going to happen is that first I'll read the story to you. You can just try to follow it and understand everything. |
| 0:36.8 | And then afterwards, I'll |
| 0:38.2 | summarize it just to make sure you've understood the overall meaning of what happened in the story. |
| 0:43.5 | And then I'll go through the story again, line by line, and I will explain bits of vocabulary |
| 0:50.4 | as we go. There's a lot of English to learn from this story, lots of useful phrases, |
| 0:56.0 | regularly used expressions and vocabulary, which you could apply to a variety of different contexts. |
| 1:04.6 | This is the sort of natural up-to-date English that is used today, presented in a story and then |
| 1:10.5 | explained by me afterwards. |
| 1:12.6 | The story is short. It's about a thousand five hundred words long, something like that, which is |
| 1:19.3 | short. But this episode might be long because I'm not just telling you the story. I'm also |
| 1:24.5 | going to analyse and teach you a lot of the language. The story itself will probably take about 15 to 20 minutes and then the rest of the episode will be me teaching you English. So short story but long episode. If you want to practice your pronunciation with this, you could repeat each line after me. You might need to use the pause button after each line. |
| 1:46.6 | Or perhaps read the story out loud at the same time as me. That's shadowing. You could try |
| 1:53.0 | doing this both with and without the story text in front of you. If the story's a bit long |
| 1:58.9 | for you to shadow the entire thing, you could just maybe just |
| 2:03.4 | focus on one part of it. Also, you could record yourself reading the story and then compare |
| 2:10.8 | your recording to mine and identify differences, identify maybe little bits of pronunciation that were problematic for you, |
| 2:20.9 | certain sounds which were tricky, which you could then focus on, |
| 2:24.4 | or you could just simply enjoy listening to the story without feeling the need to do anything else. |
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