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Luke Thompson
Luke's English Podcast is an award-winning podcast for learners of English. Listen, learn and have fun while picking up natural British English as it really is spoken. http://teacherluke.co.uk 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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15/03/2023

Studying In The UK - Realities, Opportunities & Advice (with Lioba Berndt)

An episode all about studying at university in the UK, with loads of advice about student visas, funding your studies with scholarships, extra-curricular social activities and opportunities at the students' union and more. Features a conversation with a German student currently studying a master's in clinical neuroscience at UCL in London. This episode is published in paid partnership with Study UK and the UK Government's GREAT Britain campaign. For more information, follow the links below.Links๐Ÿ‘‰ Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sMB๐Ÿ‘‰ The Study UK website with all the info you need https://study-uk.britishcouncil.org/๐Ÿ‘‰ Student Visas https://www.gov.uk/study-uk-student-visa ๐Ÿ‘‰ Scholarships and funding https://study-uk.britishcouncil.org/scholarships-funding ๐Ÿ‘‰ Study in Wales https://www.studyinwales.ac.uk/ ๐Ÿ‘‰ Scholarships for Welsh universities https://www.studyinwales.ac.uk/scholarships-and-funding ๐Ÿ‘‰ German Academic Exchange for information about scholarships https://www.daad.de/en/ ๐Ÿ‘‰ German Federal Ministry of Education and Research https://www.xn--bafg-7qa.de/bafoeg/de/home/home_node.html  ๐Ÿ‘‰ International Health Insurance Surcharge Refund www.gov.uk/healthcare-immigration-application/refunds  ๐Ÿ‘‰ Working while on a student visa - The UK Council for International Student Affairs https://www.ukcisa.org.uk/ ๐Ÿ‘‰ Study Guides for Parents in Germanyhttps://www.britishcouncil.de/sites/default/files/studyuk_guide_parents_en_2023_final.pdf 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1h
18/01/2023

807. Dylan, Lennon, Marx & God (with Jon Stewart PhD)

A conversation about two legends of contemporary popular culture - Bob Dylan and John Lennon, with pop-star academic Jon Stewart (guitarist in The Wedding Present and Sleeper).๐Ÿ‘‰ Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sJE๐Ÿ“– Get Jon's book here https://a.co/d/fPBgTel (other bookshops are available)Jon Stewart is an interesting mix. He is both a university lecturer and a pop star. He runs a Masters Degree course in Music Business and Popular Music Practice at the BIMM Institute in London and he also plays guitar for legendary British group The Wedding Present, AND classic 'Britpop' band Sleeper. So, Jon knows all about the music business from both a personal and academic point of view. In this conversation I ask Jon about his new book "Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God" which is an amazing dual-biography of John Lennon and Bob Dylan, two of the most significant figures in contemporary popular culture. Jon talks about the way Dylan and Lennon used language in their work, the references they make to the culture they grew up in, including their spiritual and political views.Jon also talks about his time as a musician, including working with Elvis Costello and George Michael, and a funny story about John Lennon's "Imagine piano".I hope you find this conversation as fascinating as I did. If you like it, consider getting a copy of Jon's book! 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1h 6m
01/07/2022

P35 [1/2] StoryTime: Learn English with Stories (free LEP Premium Sample) THE BEAR STORY

A free sample of LEP Premium, from Luke's English Podcast. This is a full English lesson with self-study techniques, an entertaining story about a bear, language exercises and pronunciation practice. Full PDF transcript & worksheet available ๐Ÿ‘‡LEP Premium is a series of bonus episodes from Luke's English Podcast in which I teach you vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. LEP Premium is now available on Acast+. Episodes are usually in audio format, and you can listen to them in any normal podcast app.๐Ÿ‘‰ Sign up to LEP Premium on Acast+ https://www.teacherluke.co.uk/premium๐Ÿ‘‰ Click here for more information about LEP Premium on Acast+ https://www.teacherluke.co.uk/premiuminfo๐Ÿ‘‰ Already subscribed to LEP Premium on Libsyn/LEP App? Click here for important information https://www.teacherluke.co.uk/premium/moving๐Ÿ‘‰ Get the full PDF transcript/worksheet for this episode๐Ÿ“„๐ŸŽ PDF in normal size https://teacherluke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/P35-1_1-StoryTime_-Learn-English-with-Stories-free-LEP-Premium-Sample-THE-BEAR-STORY-COMPUTER-VERSION.pdf๐Ÿ“„๐ŸŽ PDF with large text for your phone https://teacherluke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/P35-1_1-StoryTime_-Learn-English-with-Stories-free-LEP-Premium-Sample-THE-BEAR-STORY-PHONE-VERSION.pdf๐Ÿ“„๐ŸŽ PDF Bear Story Transcript https://teacherluke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/P35-The-Bear-Story-Transcript-COMPUTER-VERSION.pdf๐Ÿ“„๐ŸŽ PDF Bear Story Transcript for your phone https://teacherluke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/P35-The-Bear-Story-Transcript-PHONE-VERSION.pdf๐Ÿ“ผ Video version on YouTube https://youtu.be/7Pk2wN8APes๐Ÿ”— Episode page on my website https://wp.me/p4IuUx-r1P 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1h 41m
23/06/2022

776. News about changes to LEP & LEP Premium (A)

*Update 24/06/2022 - problems are now fixed!*Episodes of LEP have disappeared from podcast apps like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play - sorry about this! I'm changing podcast host, and my podcast feed is being updated. This is causing a few technical issues, but they are being fixed. Details below ๐Ÿ‘‡I have moved to a new podcast host - one which is based in Europe and which just suits me much betterCool things are: Youโ€™ll be able to get LEP Premium much more easily - in your podcast app of choice (details on the website - coming soon)You can support the podcast a lot more easily, if youโ€™d like to be a stakeholder in LEP. This is all part of my attempt (over 13 years!) to become a self-sufficient podcaster who can devote more time and energy to this project, and make episodes better and more useful and entertaining for youYou will notice some ads in episodes, depending on where you are. Not every time.Also you might hear me mentioning podcast sponsors at the start of episodes sometimes.Previously I used to have sponsors, but the pandemic stopped that, basically. I used to talk about italki, spoken, audible, but those things stopped fully during the coronavirus pandemic.But I have to find ways to keep the podcast going and so the new host Iโ€™m working with (Acast) gives the option to put some ads in my episodes and they might also let me read some sponsorship promos too.This is the way podcasts are going, as the technology develops and the medium becomes more established, little automatic adverts and sponsorships are part and parcel of that. This is how an industry develops around this sort of thing.Back when I started this in 2009 it just wasnโ€™t possible because the technology wasnโ€™t there but these days itโ€™s normal to either have some advertising in the content or you have the option to pay for a subscription with more content and no ads. Just like YouTube, you get some ads on that platform and itโ€™s just normal. Some people get YouTube premium to go ad-free and get all the music and stuff.Or Spotify - if you use the free version to listen to your music there are ads on that too, unless you pay for a subscription.So thatโ€™s whatโ€™s happening with LEP.Itโ€™s not going to make a huge difference to you, I have to say, but I thought I would at least mention it, just so I can be transparent. So hereโ€™s how itโ€™s going to work.Youโ€™ll get all the free episodes as normal, and the whole episode archive will continue to be freely available as normal.Youโ€™ll probably hear a few ads sometimes. Theyโ€™ll be short - certainly shorter than if I did them myself!If you want to remove those ads so you never hear them while listening to LEP youโ€™ll also be able to sign up for ad-free episodes. Thatโ€™ll cost about $2 per month. Youโ€™ll be supporting me too if you do that.Youโ€™ll be able to access LEP Premium episodes more easily than before, and it should be a system that you all should have access to (unlike with my original system which seems or seemed to block certain credit cards from different countries - the Acast system should accept all of you) and youโ€™ll be able to get your premium content in your normal podcast app - not just through the LEP App. And if you become a premium subscriber, that will also remove all the ads. And youโ€™ll be supporting me too.This way I can keep the archive free, but also reward people who support me by giving them my premium content which I always work hard to produce.For LEP Premium subscribers - keep an eye on your LEP subscription because I will be uploading an announcement about that too, and also some new premium content is in the pipeline. 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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