Bonus episode #117 – Kelownafornia

Culips Everyday English Podcast

Culips English Podcast

Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

4.8 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Andrew talks about his summer vacation to Kelowna, British Columbia, his hometown. He describes his adventurous flight on a small plane through stormy weather, his experiences staying at his brother's place near the beach, and family activities like mini-golfing. Plus he shares a story about a fun linguistic surprise at a sushi restaurant!

This episode will help you improve your English in the following ways:

* Listening practice: You'll hear a native English speaker tell a detailed story about his travel experiences and family reunions. This improves your understanding of spoken English.
* New vocabulary: Learn words and phrases related to air travel, weather conditions, recreational activities, and family gatherings.
* Useful expressions: Understand common English idioms such as "par for the course," "white knuckling it," "show someone a thing or two," and "hit the spot" in a real-life context.
* Canadian culture: Learn about popular summer activities in a Canadian town, family recreation spots, and the issue of forest fires in Western Canada.
* Pronunciation: Listen to the correct pronunciation of everyday English words, place names, and activity-related vocabulary, which you can practice yourself.
* Travel English: Learn vocabulary and expressions useful for describing travel experiences, weather conditions, and leisure activities.
* English speaking practice: Join discussions with other listeners on the Culips Discord server for additional speaking practice.

Important links:

* Become a Culips member
* Study with the interactive transcript
* Join the Culips Discord server
* Small-group discussion class schedule (member only)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Bonus episode number 117 of the Qulips English podcast.
0:06.2	My name is Andrew, I will be your host and your English study buddy for the day.
0:11.1	I hope you're doing well and in this episode I am going to tell you a
0:14.8	story about visiting Colonna British Columbia during my summer vacation and
0:20.0	Colonna is my hometown so I'll tell you all about some of the adventures I got up to while I was back in Colonna just about three or four weeks ago.
0:30.4	Time flies. It feels like I was just there, but already three or four weeks have passed.
0:35.2	Before I get to my story, let me introduce myself to those of you who are new here.
0:40.1	If you are new to Kulebs, welcome, it's great to have you here.
0:43.8	In our bonus episode series, what I do is I just tell you some stories from my everyday life.
0:49.1	I'm a Canadian, but I live in Seoul, South Korea.
0:52.2	And the reason why I tell you these stories is I want to help you develop your English skills and become a better English communicator.
1:01.0	The motto for our bonus episode series is Big B. I. G B and it stands for build your fluency increase your cultural knowledge grow your vocabulary and become a better and a clearer English
1:15.2	communicator.
1:16.5	So that's what I'm going to try and help you achieve here.
1:19.4	So if you like those goals, if that's what you want to do with your own English learning, then I think
1:24.8	you're in the right place and you will enjoy and find this series helpful.
1:29.5	And for each bonus episode we make a 100% free interactive transcript that works well on your
1:36.2	computer or your mobile device or your tablet whatever you want to use the
1:40.6	transcript works well on that and you can just click on any word and hear the audio from that point.
1:46.6	It's a pretty cool tool. If I do say so myself and there's also a vocabulary glossary that will explain some of the idiomatic language or the difficult language and vocabulary that you'll hear me use in this episode and it will give you just a simple definition and an example sentence as well.
2:06.2	That's free for everybody.
2:07.8	Whether you're a QLopes member or not, everybody can get that for free.
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