298. The Bank Robbery (Part 1) with Amber, Paul & Sebastian

In this episode you-re going to hear a group of my friends do a communication game in which they have to plan a bank robbery. We-ll listen to the whole meeting, hear their plan come together and then find out what happens in their version of the robbery. We-ll also consider some of the language used in the planning process. If it makes it more exciting, let me tell you that the stakes are very high in this episode - the team could get away with about -200 million in gold, cash and diamonds, or die trying. This is the bank robbery episode. As ever, you can leave your comments on the page for this episode and read transcripts and more http://wp.me/p4IuUx-575 Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ and add the premium episodes to a podcast app on your phone. https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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298. The Bank Robbery (Part 1) with Amber, Paul & Sebastian

In this episode you-re going to hear a group of my friends do a communication game in which they have to plan a bank robbery. We-ll listen to the whole meeting, hear their plan come together and then find out what happens in their version of the robbery. We-ll also consider some of the language used in the planning process. If it makes it more exciting, let me tell you that the stakes are very high in this episode - the team could get away with about -200 million in gold, cash and diamonds, or die trying. This is the bank robbery episode. As ever, you can leave your comments on the page for this episode and read transcripts and more http://wp.me/p4IuUx-575- Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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298. The Bank Robbery (Part 1) with Amber, Paul & Sebastian

In this episode you-re going to hear a group of my friends do a communication game in which they have to plan a bank robbery. We-ll listen to the whole meeting, hear their plan come together and then find out what happens in their version of the robbery. We-ll also consider some of the language used in the planning process. If it makes it more exciting, let me tell you that the stakes are very high in this episode - the team could get away with about -200 million in gold, cash and diamonds, or die trying. This is the bank robbery episode. As ever, you can leave your comments on the page for this episode and read transcripts and more http://wp.me/p4IuUx-575 Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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297. Using Humour in the IELTS Speaking Test (with Jessica from All Ears English)

On the podcast today I-m talking to Jessica Beck who has been working in English language teaching for over 10 years. She is an instructor, a teacher trainer and an author of 14 textbooks for learning English. You may also know Jessica from her work on the IELTS Energy Podcast (www.ielts.allearsenglish.com), which is part of the All Ears English. I talked to Gabby and Lindsay from AEE on LEP last year about culture shock, remember that? Well, Jessica is part of the All Ears English team, and is known there as the -Examiner of Excellence-. So, she knows a lot about the IELTS test, and he-s got some good advice for any of my listeners who plan to take the test, including how you can improve your speaking score if you have a good sense of humour. If you-re not planning to take the test, these skills can also be applied to your use of English in general life too. http://wp.me/p4IuUx-54f- Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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297. Using Humour in the IELTS Speaking Test (with Jessica from All Ears English)

On the podcast today I-m talking to Jessica Beck who has been working in English language teaching for over 10 years. She is an instructor, a teacher trainer and an author of 14 textbooks for learning English. You may also know Jessica from her work on the IELTS Energy Podcast (www.ielts.allearsenglish.com), which is part of the All Ears English. I talked to Gabby and Lindsay from AEE on LEP last year about culture shock, remember that? Well, Jessica is part of the All Ears English team, and is known there as the -Examiner of Excellence-. So, she knows a lot about the IELTS test, and he-s got some good advice for any of my listeners who plan to take the test, including how you can improve your speaking score if you have a good sense of humour. If you-re not planning to take the test, these skills can also be applied to your use of English in general life too. http://wp.me/p4IuUx-54f Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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297. Using Humour in the IELTS Speaking Test (with Jessica from All Ears English)

On the podcast today I-m talking to Jessica Beck who has been working in English language teaching for over 10 years. She is an instructor, a teacher trainer and an author of 14 textbooks for learning English. You may also know Jessica from her work on the IELTS Energy Podcast (www.ielts.allearsenglish.com), which is part of the All Ears English. I talked to Gabby and Lindsay from AEE on LEP last year about culture shock, remember that? Well, Jessica is part of the All Ears English team, and is known there as the -Examiner of Excellence-. So, she knows a lot about the IELTS test, and he-s got some good advice for any of my listeners who plan to take the test, including how you can improve your speaking score if you have a good sense of humour. If you-re not planning to take the test, these skills can also be applied to your use of English in general life too. http://wp.me/p4IuUx-54f Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ and add the premium episodes to a podcast app on your phone. https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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296. Learning Comedy is like Learning a Language (with Paul Taylor)

This episode features a conversation with my friend Paul Taylor, who you already know from previous episodes of LEP. Paul is back from the Edinburgh fringe, where he was performing for the whole of August in a comedy show, and a couple of days ago he came over to the flat for a cup of tea and a bit of a chat. We started talking about the Edinburgh fringe and how it went for him. It was his first time and I think he found it very challenging because the audiences were hard to please, apparently they had some tough shows where nobody laughed, and he realised that the standard of stand-up comedy in the UK is much higher than he expected, but it was a learning experience. Then we ended up talking about the similarity between learning how to do stand-up comedy and learning a language. During the conversation I quickly decided to record our thoughts so that I could make it into an episode of my podcast. We wrote down a few brief ideas and then went upstairs to start recording. You can now listen to that conversation here in full. Also, listen to the end to hear some funny out-takes from this episode. http://wp.me/p4IuUx-53R- #language #learning #english #comedy #Edinburgh #fringe Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ and add the premium episodes to a podcast app on your phone. https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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296. Learning Comedy is like Learning a Language (with Paul Taylor)

This episode features a conversation with my friend Paul Taylor, who you already know from previous episodes of LEP. Paul is back from the Edinburgh fringe, where he was performing for the whole of August in a comedy show, and a couple of days ago he came over to the flat for a cup of tea and a bit of a chat. We started talking about the Edinburgh fringe and how it went for him. It was his first time and I think he found it very challenging because the audiences were hard to please, apparently they had some tough shows where nobody laughed, and he realised that the standard of stand-up comedy in the UK is much higher than he expected, but it was a learning experience. Then we ended up talking about the similarity between learning how to do stand-up comedy and learning a language. During the conversation I quickly decided to record our thoughts so that I could make it into an episode of my podcast. We wrote down a few brief ideas and then went upstairs to start recording. You can now listen to that conversation here in full. Also, listen to the end to hear some funny out-takes from this episode. http://wp.me/p4IuUx-53R- #language #learning #english #comedy #Edinburgh #fringe Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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296. Learning Comedy is like Learning a Language (with Paul Taylor)

This episode features a conversation with my friend Paul Taylor, who you already know from previous episodes of LEP. Paul is back from the Edinburgh fringe, where he was performing for the whole of August in a comedy show, and a couple of days ago he came over to the flat for a cup of tea and a bit of a chat. We started talking about the Edinburgh fringe and how it went for him. It was his first time and I think he found it very challenging because the audiences were hard to please, apparently they had some tough shows where nobody laughed, and he realised that the standard of stand-up comedy in the UK is much higher than he expected, but it was a learning experience. Then we ended up talking about the similarity between learning how to do stand-up comedy and learning a language. During the conversation I quickly decided to record our thoughts so that I could make it into an episode of my podcast. We wrote down a few brief ideas and then went upstairs to start recording. You can now listen to that conversation here in full. Also, listen to the end to hear some funny out-takes from this episode. http://wp.me/p4IuUx-53R- #language #learning #english #comedy #Edinburgh #fringe Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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295. California Road Trip (Final Part)

Hi and welcome back to LEP. This is episode 295, and it will be the final part of this 8-part series which is inspired by my trip to the west coast of the US recently. I-m going to talk about the final part of our journey from San Francisco, down the coast via Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, San Luis Obispo and back to LA. I-ll also talk some more about customer service and give you some tips on how to make complaints in English and how to talk to strangers in slightly sensitive situations, like when you want a person sitting behind you to stop talking because you can-t sleep. You can expect to hear those things and more in this episode. Click here for more information http://wp.me/p4IuUx-53v- Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://plus.acast.com/s/teacherluke.

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