907. Catching a Cold / Travelling with Children / LEP Premium Sample Episode [P64]
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Hello listeners, welcome back to Luke's English Podcast. This is episode number 907 and the idea with this one is that I'm going to share with you a couple of extracts from my most recent series of Luke's English Podcast Premium. So I've been working on Premium Series 64. Parts 1 and 2 of that were published just a few days ago, so if you are a Premium subscriber then check them out.

So what I thought I would do with this episode, actually, is share on the free podcast clips from part one and part two of this premium series that I've been working on. Just in case you don't know, I do two types of podcasts.

There's the free, the normal free podcast, which you can get in your podcast app of choice, which you can watch on YouTube. Those are the free episodes. And then also I do premium episodes for premium subscribers. And in premium episodes, I focus on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation. There's always a clear focus on teaching you English.

And I use my particular set of skills to help you understand, remember, use language. Often it's vocabulary and premium series are often quite long in a number of different parts. Each premium series has a detailed PDF that goes along with it.

which includes transcripts and vocab list with lots of detail. Basically, the idea with premium episodes is that I want to save you the time and hassle of having to research new vocabulary or grammar

Look up words in a dictionary, check out the definitions, check out the examples, make sure that you're getting all of the specific little tips that you might be missing, and give you the sorts of exercises that you need to practice using and remembering vocabulary, and then helping you work on pronunciation. You know, that's the idea. I try and sort of like save you the time and effort of doing that and just do it all for you and then present it to you in episodes with PDFs, right? Yeah.

So that's for the paid premium subscribers. And if you want to find out more, teacherluke.co.uk slash premium info. But in this episode for the free podcast, I thought that I would share a couple of clips from part one and part two. OK, so what you'll get is the clip for part one, which I'm going to play to you in a moment.

I recorded it just a few days ago at the end of last week. In part one, what I did was, first of all, I had a bit of a ramble. So I talked about catching a cold and trying to recover from a cold. And I talked about a recent trip I did to England with my two kids and the...

of travelling with little children and what that's like. And then after that, I went for this idea where I would randomly choose several books from my bookshelf here in my podcast room and just read a couple of pages from those books and then use them to teach you English. It was a sort of like an improvised roundabout

rambling premium episode involving a little bit of reading from books. And what ended up happening was, I think, quite interesting and quite entertaining and certainly valuable in terms of learning English. So I'm going to play you about 10 minutes from part one. And then in part two, I'll play you the section where I go through lots of vocabulary that I used in part one. So you'll hear me going through about 20 items of vocabulary, words, phrases,

that came up sort of spontaneously in part one. Okay, so as you listen to this clip, which I'm about to play to you,

You can just try to perhaps predict which words and phrases I might be dealing with in the second part. OK, that's it, basically. All right. Premium subscribers, by the way, you might have already heard this, of course. You might have heard this stuff already. If you haven't, you can go and check out the full episodes. Of course, you'll be getting part three, part four and other parts of this series later on this week as well. So you'll get the full load.

where I go through all the vocab and do all the other stuff, the pronunciation and everything. So you'll get the whole series, premium subscribers. But anyway, this is a chance for my free subscribers to just have a little sneak peek, a little taste of LEP Premium. So let's go back a few days now and listen to about 10 minutes of me talking at the beginning in part one of Premium Series 64. Here we go. ♪

Hello, welcome back to Luke's English Podcast Premium. How are you doing, listeners? You're doing okay? Welcome back to the show. So first of all, I need to say this, that you're listening to me, right? You are? Hello? You are listening? Hello, you're listening. Good. Pay attention. You're listening to me and you might be thinking, what happened to your voice, Luke? Right? Well, you're listening to me.

Yeah, I've been recovering from a cold. I mean, I'm still recovering from a cold. So I caught a cold like five, six, seven days ago. I can't remember. Sometime last week, I woke up with that feeling at the back of my throat. You know the feeling? Just that little, I don't know what it is really. Just that sensation that something's up.

Like I've got maybe a little tickle at the back of my throat or maybe just the hint of something uncomfortable at the back of the throat. And I thought, ah, I think a cold is coming on. Now, what do you do in that situation when you feel like you've got a cold coming on? What do you do? I mean, is there anything you can do? I suppose there are different remedies.

that I don't know about. I mean, what are they? You quickly drink a cup of green tea with lemon and honey in it or something, or you quickly, you know, dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with onions. I don't know. What's the method for dealing with that? I don't really know. For me, I do try to, you know, drink a hot drink, keep myself warm and

and stay positive and just get on with things. But sometimes there is no denying the virus, which has inadvertently infected the body, your body somehow, and you succumb to a cold. Why did I say that in such fancy language? What I meant was that

In the end, there's nothing you can do and you just have to accept that you've caught a cold and, you know, there's no way to escape it. So anyway, I got a cold and it was just kind of a head cold, really.

This is an expression we use to describe just like a little cold that you catch that only affects your head. It doesn't kind of make you feel especially tired. It doesn't really give you aches and pains in your body or anything like that. It's just in your head. So I got a kind of a blocked up nose. I got a kind of a slightly sore throat, a bit of a cough. I've still got a bit of a cough.

But I'm absolutely fine, just in case you are worried, because I know my listeners, when you hear that I've got a bit of a sore throat, people are concerned and they say to me, please look after yourself, please look after your throat. But I'm fine, and...

In fact, I quite like the sound of my voice. Don't you think? Don't you think it sounds good? It's got a kind of slightly gravelly, deeper quality to it, which is perfect for recording an episode of this podcast. So this is a premium episode. There is, as usual, there's a video version for this, which hardly anyone will watch because...

I mean, premium subscribers. I've got a certain number of premium subscribers, right? And yet, the episodes don't get the same number of listens. So the audio episodes and the video versions, the combined number even, is usually not as high as the number of premium subscribers that I have.

which suggests to me that there are quite a lot of people who've subscribed to LEP Premium, but just don't listen to the episodes or maybe don't know how to do it.

because it's slightly complicated. I mean, I would talk to those people now and say, if you don't know how to listen to the episodes, just go to teacherluke.co.uk slash premium info. But of course, that's pointless to say, because obviously those people who don't know how to listen are not listening. So it's difficult to know how to get through to those people. An email probably would be the way to do it, which I might do. Anyway,

If you are watching the video version of this, which you can find a link to the video in the show notes of this episode, which I hope you are listening to in a podcast app on your phone. Just open up the episode in your podcast app and look at the episode description or show notes, and there's a link in there for the video version. So if you are, if you end up watching the video version, you might think that I look a bit tired. And the reason for that is I am, I am quite tired today because, um,

I spent five days. It's the school holidays in France at the moment, so my kids are not at school. I went to England with them. It was just me. My wife stayed here. She had lots of work to do. I took the kids to England to stay with my parents.

And it was a bit exhausting because, well, first of all, my son, my daughter's OK. She can kind of like look after herself. She's fairly self-sufficient these days, entertains herself and stuff. Except when she pesters me to tell her a story and just, you know, just like, please tell me a story. Tell me another story. Tell me a scary story. And I have to tell her a story. Then I have to. And then she's like, can you make it? That wasn't scary at all. Can you tell me another story? So sometimes she goes into this mode where she pesters me to.

Tell her stories over and over and over again. Generally, she's quite self-sufficient. But my son is 15 months old now. And he's, you know, up on his feet, walking around, exploring everything, climbing on everything. And pulling every single object that he can find towards himself. And so that means that he needs to be monitored constantly.

Um, so that was a little bit exhausting for me and my parents, you know, I really don't want to exhaust them. I think it can be a bit exhausting, you know, and they're, they're, they're, you know, fairly old these days. Um, which means that, so while I was there at my parents' house, I basically had to be

constantly monitoring my son, which was lovely, of course, but also quite tiring. And I only got breaks to kind of have a shower very quickly, go to the toilet sometimes, do this, that and the other. But most of the time I was looking after him. Every time I had to go away, one of my parents had to look after my son. And that meant...

sort of following him up the stairs because he was constantly climbing up the stairs. So they had to follow him up the stairs. So they were up going up and down the stairs, picking him up, bending over, you know, all the sort of things that I don't really want my parents to have to do very much because it makes them tired, you know, backache, arthritis and things like that. So, so, you know, a wonderful little five day trip.

very tiring as well. And also, you know, dealing with having a cold at the same time and the journey really, the journeys were perhaps the most exhausting. So I had a big suitcase with all our stuff in it and it was quite a lot of stuff for three people, you know,

you know, a lot of kids stuff, nappies, milk bottles, all the rest of it in a big suitcase. And then a backpack on my back full of stuff as well, including my computer, which I didn't even really use while I was there, but I thought I'd bring it anyway, just in case I actually got a spare moment to do some work, which I didn't. Uh, anyway, backpack full of stuff. Um, and, uh, then obviously my daughter with her backpack and then a pram,

And my son as well. So traveling, like walking to the station or walking through train stations, going up and down stairs, just getting from one place to the next, you know, getting through onto the train platform, getting onto the train, all that stuff, managing all those things was actually pretty exhausting, especially when I've got this big pram.

with a person in it and a huge suitcase on wheels and my daughter who's six trying to keep an eye on her. So that was also quite exhausting. A lot of carrying, heavy lifting and stuff and certainly on the train. I mean, my son slept a bit

I'm just rambling. Have you noticed? This is a rambling episode on Luke's English Podcast Premium, and I'll explain stuff in a moment, all right? But we've just jumped straight into full-on rambling here, okay? I hope you're all right with that. I'll

I'll be explaining myself and justifying all of this in a moment and also explaining why this is slightly different to the usual kind of premium episode. But anyway, let me just continue and tell you why I might look a bit tired today. Perhaps I always look tired these days because, you know,

Because, you know, I'm not getting any younger. Anyway, what was I saying? So anyway, yes, luckily my son slept a bit in a carrier. You know, those things that you can use to carry your child. So luckily he slept quite a lot in the carrier on the first part of...

Oh, do I need to tell you all about it? Basically, it's the journey from here in the centre of Paris to where my parents live involves two train journeys. The first going from Paris to my parents' place involves a Eurostar. That's the train that goes from Paris to London under the English Channel, under the water. That's two hours and 20 minutes.

And then after that, we have to get from St. Pancras Station in London to Marleybone Station, which is not too far away, but still, it's either an underground journey, a trip on the underground, plus a bit of a walk, or

or two underground lines, or we just take a taxi. Normally, we just take a taxi. Then we have to get another train from Marleybone Station to a station about an hour and a half away in the Midlands. Okay, so it's kind of two, possibly three train journeys, or a train journey, a taxi ride, a train journey, and a bit of walking and stuff. So he normally would fall asleep for about an hour,

on one of those journeys. But for the rest of the time, he can't really be contained. I keep him in the pram.

Right. Or keep him in the carrier. But after a certain amount of time, he just cannot be contained. And he has a big meltdown. He has a big tantrum where he's crying and screaming and grabbing and, you know, scratching my face and stuff because you can't keep him in one place like that contained for too long. So at that point, I have to let him out. And that means he's just loose on the train, which means I have to follow him around while he kind of

goes up and down. On the Eurostar, that's all right because there are spaces between sort of at the ends of each train carriage. There's a space with doors and you can kind of hang around there and you don't disturb the passengers too much. The other train is a bit different. So anyway, you can understand that it involves a lot of...

sort of improvisation, uh, for me as a dad trying to make sure that my son, uh, isn't just all over the floor, kind of getting his hands dirty and isn't disturbing the other passengers and isn't having a crying meltdown. And I kind of was partially successful. It's sort of like survival, really survival parenting, um, in those situations. So, so, you know,

Two of those trips, one there and one on the way back. And as you know, that was we got back the day before yesterday. So anyway, I'm just still recovering from that. I'm a bit frazzled from that, being a bit sort of tired, a bit worn out.

But I'm glad to be back doing Luke's English Podcast here, Luke's English Podcast Premium. Okay, so that was, as I said, about 10 minutes, I think, of the episode that I did on NEP Premium just a few days ago. And the rest of that episode includes the moments where I pull a couple of books off the shelves here and read...

some extracts and teach you English from them. Now, let me play you a longer clip. This is about 30 minutes, this clip, and this is from part two, which I recorded actually in the evening when the sun had gone down, which is why if you're watching the video version of this, you'll see that my room was much darker.

That's why, you know, because the sun had gone down. You see, my commitment to teaching you English is that I'll even do this in the evening when I should be sitting with my feet up and a nice cup of tea and a hot water bottle. No, I was in this podcast room working away to, you know, teach you vocabulary. Anyway, right. So which bits of vocabulary do you think I'm going to be explaining now? Which things? Well, you can find out as I now let you listen to

A longer clip from part two of premium series 64 with vocab explanations. Here we go. So next you will see the full list with definitions and examples from the episode. I'll talk about these things in part two of this series. Hello, that's what I'm doing now.

After this, you can try to do the vocabulary quizzes and any other tasks you find on this PDF below. I will talk about all of this and give my answers and responses to the tasks in part two. So let's go through the full vocab list. Number one, to recover from something.

I'm recovering from a cold, I said. So to recover from something, as you probably can guess, or you may know already, is when you've been ill and then you get better or you recover, right? So to recover means to regain health or strength after an illness or a difficult experience. Okay. Sometimes it takes a long time to recover from a cold. Sometimes the cold lingers and it stays with you for ages. Sometimes you just recover quite quickly.

So this phrase emphasizes the process of healing and can apply to both physical and emotional challenges. So you can recover from sort of an emotional experience as well, you know, like a trauma or something like that. Or if you get a shock, you know, you might need to sit down and recover from it. Number two, to catch a cold. Okay, to catch a cold.

Right. For example, I caught a cold last week and have been sneezing ever since. I don't think I said that. I've been sneezing ever since. Like I said, I've been using some AI tools to help me produce all this work, which is why I was able to make this long PDF in quite quick time.

But using AI, occasionally the AI starts to take sort of independent creative decisions and changes things slightly. I don't remember saying I've been sneezing ever since. Maybe I did, but I don't think I did. Anyway, I caught a cold last week is the thing. So to catch a cold, you know.

There's a joke, there's a joke which you won't find funny now because I've already given you the punchline, but the joke is, what's faster, hot or cold? What's faster, hot or cold? Well, cold. No. Oh, God, I ruined it completely. What is faster, hot or cold? Well, it's hot, of course, because you can catch a cold. To catch a cold, it means just to become ill with a common viral infection.

like a not a very serious viral infection, very common one, the common cold, characterised by symptoms like a runny nose and a sore throat and a cough and sneezing. Cough, sneezing, achoo, yeah. So catch a cold is a common expression used to describe the onset of this illness. Have you caught a cold? Oh, I think I've caught a cold, you would say. I think I have caught a cold, yeah.

I caught a cold last night because I wasn't wearing my jacket. Number three, a tickle in your throat. I said I felt a tickle in my throat. I have a little tickle at the back of my throat or I had a little tickle at the back of my throat. So that was the feeling that I had on Thursday morning last week when I felt like I was catching a cold. I had a little tickle. So a tickle.

Tickle can be a verb, to tickle someone. It can also be a noun, meaning the feeling of being tickled. If you get a feather, you know, from a bird, you know, a feather, part, you know, a thing from a bird's wing, and you take the feather and you rub it under someone's nose, tickity, oh, oh, oh, oh, stop it, it tickles, it tickles, it tickles, stop tickling me, right? You can feel a tickle in your throat, which is like,

Just that little feeling like you might be catching a cold. So it's like a light irritating sensation often in the throat that may prompt coughing or the need to clear one's throat. It's like, oh, I think I might be catching a cold. I've got a little tickle at the back of my throat. You should have a warm cup of tea with lemon and honey and onion and whiskey and vodka in it. Just those things. Okay.

Um, yeah, and curcuma and papuma and the essence of ginseng and tea tree and just everything. Put everything in the cup of tea, literally everything. Um, so I have a little tickle at the back of my throat. This phrase is often used to describe the early signs of a cold or allergy. Okay.

Moving swiftly on. Number four is a hint, a hint of something. I had a hint of a cold. Like, mm, mm, mm, little, oh, is that a cold? I think I might be getting a cold, a little tickle. Mm, it's just a hint of a cold. A hint, there's a hint of something uncomfortable in the atmosphere. I didn't say that.

That's AI again, being creative. But you could say that if you're in a situation where, I don't know, you've walked into a room and there are people in the room already and you come in and they stop talking and they all just kind of look at each other and they look at you and then they look down at the floor. You go, oh, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.

And they're like, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

A hint could be an indication, something that helps you realise something. But in the case of catching a cold, a hint is like a slight clue or a slight indication that you might be catching a cold. In the case of that room, there was a hint that something serious was going on or there was something else going on. I could just pick up on some little clues. So a hint of something, a hint of a cold.

This phrase suggests a subtle presence of something that may not be overtly obvious. There was a hint of tension in the room. Or I've got a little hint of a cold, I think. Or if you're doing a test and I give you a hint, you know, well, it's a four-letter word, starts with S, ends in T. It's a bit rude.

Hmm? Oh, is it shit? Yes, that's the answer. What kind of quiz is that? I don't know. But I gave you a big hint there as well. A little clue that suggests something else. In this case, it was a hint of a cold, like that little tickle at the back of my throat. And I said, I felt like a cold was coming on, to feel a cold. I felt a cold coming on. All right. Example, what do you do when you feel like there's a cold coming on?

You can say when you feel there's a cold coming on or when you feel like there's a cold coming on. So this is the feeling that one is beginning to develop a cold. I can feel a cold coming on when you... Ah, that's it. When you can feel a cold coming on. So I should change that to can feel a cold coming on.

What do you do when you can feel a cold coming on? I think I can feel a cold coming on. What do you do when you can feel a cold coming on? So this expression is commonly used to discuss preventative measures for an impending illness, like when you can feel a cold coming. We often will say, I can feel a cold coming on, and then you would probably talk about things you could do to prevent the cold getting worse.

What do you do when you can feel a cold coming on? Do you dip your head in a vat of sulfuric acid? I mean, sure, your head will come off, but you won't have a cold anymore. I don't know. There's different... That's ridiculous, of course. Yeah. But some people, you know, they do those things like, yeah, some people drink a glass of brandy. That's what they would have done in the 19th century for sure. Or lemon and honey or, you know, other things.

inhaling lots of steam from a bowl with a towel over your head, things like that. So a remedy, I'm talking about remedies for a cold. A remedy is a treatment or medicine used to cure a disease or to relieve symptoms. So what remedies are there for a sore throat? You can get these little lozenges that you can suck, which help to...

make the sore throat better. That could be a remedy. Or you can take sort of cough medicine, which you drink and it helps to kind of soothe your sore throat. Or honey as well. So remedies can be natural or pharmaceutical and often vary by culture and personal preference. Different people have different remedies.

Number seven, to dunk your head in a bucket of hot water. This is a stupid remedy that I talked about. Dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with onions. No one uses that as a remedy as far as I know. That's not like a traditional British remedy or anything, although it kind of sounds like it could be, couldn't it? Drink a pint of cider and dunk your head in a bucket of hot water filled with old onions. Works every time in England.

to dunk your head. So to dunk something in something means to submerge something briefly. Okay, now...

In basketball, you dunk, you slam dunk, meaning put the ball in the basket, right? Slam dunk. But you can dunk other things in other things, like you would dunk a biscuit in your cup of tea. And if you were an idiot, you would dunk your entire head in a bucket of hot water. So you'd put your head into the hot water and then take it out again. So to dunk your head in the water, you quickly dunk your head in a bucket of hot water.

Here's a comment: "While often used in food contexts, this verb can also describe a quick immersion for therapeutic purposes." Yeah, alright. Food contexts, you might dunk a biscuit in a cup of tea or you would dunk, you know, if you're frying, if you're making tempura or something, you would take a vegetable and dunk it in the batter and then dunk that in the hot fat or something. Number eight is to deny something.

to deny something. For example, there is no denying the virus which has inadvertently infected your body. There's no denying it. So sometimes you have to just accept that you're catching a cold and there's nothing you can do about it. There's no denying the virus. So to deny the virus would be to refuse. Refuse to acknowledge or refuse to accept the existence of it.

It's like, no, no, I'm not. No, I refuse to have a cold. No, it's not going to happen. Sorry, not possible. Sorry, you can't deny the virus, which has inadvertently infected your body. There's nothing you could do. You just have to accept it. Another example, he continues to deny that he has a problem. You know, this is a person who maybe drinks too much or something, or maybe could have, yeah, 39 pints of Guinness, right?

Every day. 39 pints of Guinness every day. But, you know, Guinness is good for you, isn't it? It's good for you. I don't have a problem. I don't, you know, it's not like I'm drinking 40 pints of Guinness a day. So it's fine, isn't it? Still denies that he has a problem. I don't have a problem. What are you talking about problem? He does seem fairly...

He's quite under control and seems quite sober considering he's had 39 pints of Guinness. I'm absolutely fine, I tell you. Well, you should see him when he has 40. It all comes crashing down. Anyway, so to deny something, this term can reflect emotional, social or psychological resistance, which is basically where you're like, nope, I refuse to accept it. I deny something.

"That I have a problem?" "Nope, no problem here." And also, "Nope, I don't have a cold." "Nope, no cold here." "You can't deny it, sorry." You have to accept that you've got a cold sometimes. "Inadvertently" is number nine. So I said, "There's no denying the virus which has inadvertently infected your body."

I was using quite fancy sounding language, but inadvertently, it's inadvertently infected your body. Inadvertently just means without intention or just accidentally. I mean, you know, I don't know if viruses are sentient and they're going, hmm, Luke Thompson, I will give him a cold now. Come on, let's go party in Luke Thompson's nose. I don't think they're doing that. I think it just sort of happens, doesn't it? It just happens accidentally without anyone intending for it to happen. Like you didn't.

and choose to catch a cold. So this adverb inadvertently emphasises that an action was not deliberate, often leading to unintended consequences. Now, I was just using fancy language, you might say, when I was talking about catching a cold. You could also say things like this. She inadvertently revealed the surprise party. Oh, it'll be fun at the party on Friday. Oh, Susan.

You gave away the party, yeah? Okay, Bob, now you know. We're having a surprise party for you. Thanks a lot, Susan. Oh, Susan inadvertently revealed the surprise party. She did it by accident without intending to do it.

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Number 10, to succumb to something. I said, sometimes there's no denying the virus which has inadvertently infected your body and you succumb to a cold, which is where at the beginning you're like, no, I refuse to have a cold and I'll just keep calm and carry on and I'm sure I'll be fine. And then after two days, you're like, okay, all right, I've got a cold and there's nothing I can do about it.

By the way, listen, you can hear that I've got a bit of a blocked nose, but again, I'm fine, despite the way it's affecting my voice. So to succumb to something then. Yeah, to succumb to a cold, like, oh, okay, right, that's it, I've got a cold then. There's no denying it. So this means to yield to a superior force. So basically the cold is like, no, no, no, I'm here and there's nothing you can do about it. And then you just kind of go, oh, right then.

I've got a cold. So to yield to a superior force or overwhelming desire, often resulting in surrender, which is like that feeling of like, all right, then I'll stop fighting it. All right, I've got a cold. I'm going to stay in bed. This phrase implies a sense of helplessness against an external influence. You just succumb to it.

You can also succumb to other things. You might succumb to a temptation. We're like, no, I will not eat chocolate cake. Nope, no chocolate cake for me. No way. Oh, there's a chocolate cake.

No, but I'm not eating chocolate cake. No, no, no, thanks. Maybe just a little bit. Just a, oh, I'll go and have a taste. Oh, that is very good. Well, all right, I'll just have one piece. That's, one piece is all right. If it's just one, that's okay. All right, so yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Ah, I've eaten a whole chocolate cake. Not that that happens to me. And if, you know, I don't mean to make fun of that kind of compulsive eating situation.

which can be, you know, a problem. But anyway, I'm just giving an example of the phrase to succumb to a temptation. Right. Number 11, fancy language. So this is language that is elaborate, sophisticated or unnecessarily complex. And I said, why did I say that in such fancy language?

which was that previous sentence. Sometimes there is no denying the virus, which has inadvertently infected the body and you succumb to a cold. Slightly fancy language. Why did I say it like that? So a bit too complex and elaborate. So this term often implies a critique of overcomplication in communication. No need to use fancy language. Just keep it plain and simple. So maybe I could have said, sometimes you just, sometimes you can't stop it

And you have to accept that you've got a cold. You know, that would be more normal, plain English. Sometimes it's fun to use fancy language, that's all. Fancy is quite an interesting word. As an adjective, it can mean elaborate, sophisticated. Like, ooh, this is a fancy restaurant, isn't it? Ooh, look at this.

really posh restaurant. Look at this. Look at the, look at the work, what they've done to the ceiling. Wow. It's really, really fancy restaurant this. So it could mean that, which is a bit like fancy language. And as a verb, it can have sort of several meanings. One is that it can mean that you find someone attractive, right? You think someone is attractive, like, Oh, I think she fancies me. Have you seen the way, uh, have you seen the way Sandra has been looking at me?

I think she fancies me. I'm going to say, I think so, yeah. Do you think so? Yeah. No, you're wrong. She just needs glasses. Yeah, that's why she's staring at you. She doesn't know who you are. Oh, all right. Okay, so she doesn't fancy me. She's just blind. Yeah, so it could be that, to find someone attractive. But also to fancy could mean to want something, which is related to the previous example I just gave. But to fancy a person normally means

But also you can fancy something else like you can fancy an ice cream or who fancies an ice cream or anyone fancy a pint Which is like would anyone like to have a pint of beer anyone fancy a pint? There's a pub around the corner. So fancy can be like all elaborate and sophisticated and posh Fancy language could be elaborate sophisticated and maybe unnecessarily complex a fancy restaurant all very nice and posh and lovely gorgeous design Does anyone fancy an ice cream?

Would anyone like to have an ice cream? And oh, you know what? I think Sandra fancies you. Do you see the way she's been looking at you? Yeah, she laughs at all your jokes. Yeah, I think she fancies you, mate.

Number 12, a head cold. If you remember this one, it's like I talked about having a cold and I said it's just a head cold. So a head cold is a cold that primarily affects the nasal passages, that's your nose, and sinuses, that's like the, you know, the area, the parts of your nose on the inside, causing symptoms like congestion, that's where your nose is blocked, and headache, that's when your head aches. For example,

Having a head cold, it doesn't really give you aches and pains in your body or anything like that. It's just a head cold. So this term distinguishes between different types of colds, highlighting where symptoms are primarily felt. So it's just a head cold.

Number 13 is a blocked-up nose. A blocked nose or a blocked-up nose, which you can kind of hear. I've still got. That's where someone speaks like this. Hello, my name is... My name is... Whatever, right? A blocked-up nose. My name is Michael Benson. Sorry? Michael Benson. Bikel Bansen. No, Bikel Benson. Bikel Bansen.

Who's called Michael Manson? No, it's Michael Manson. Anyway, Michael Manson, not Michael Banson. Who's called Michael Banson, you idiot? Anyway, a blocked up nose. So this is nasal congestion that makes it difficult to breathe through the nose. Example, I can't taste my food properly with this blocked up nose. I feel terrible. I've got a blocked up nose and...

So this phrase is often used to describe a common symptom of colds or allergies. You get a blocked up nose, you get a sore throat, you get a headache, blah, blah, blah, cough. Number 14, a slightly sore throat. Can you say that? A slightly sore throat. A slightly sore throat. Sore, sore throat. I've got a slightly sore throat. Slightly sore. If something is sore, it means it's painful throat.

Like if you're skateboarding and you're wearing a pair of shorts, just a pair of shorts. It's a lovely sunny day. You're in your favorite shorts on a skateboard going down the road. And then suddenly, whoa, whoa, you get that speed wobble where the skateboard starts wobbling. I can't stop it wobbling. And then you're flying through the air. And then, bam, you land on the road. And boom.

You scrape along the road and you end up grazing all of the, you know, you end up skinning your... All the skin comes off your elbows and your knees. And then you've got very sore elbows and knees. Similarly, if you catch a cold, you might get a sore throat. I mean, you wouldn't fall off a skateboard and get a sore throat. Or maybe, I don't know, if you land on your throat. Is that possible? No, it's not. You'd land on your neck, which would be very bad news. Anyway, a slightly sore throat, like...

Mild pain or discomfort in the throat, often a symptom of illness. I woke up with a slightly sore throat today. So this phrase suggests the onset, meaning the beginning, of illness without severe symptoms. Number 15, a gravelly voice. I said my voice has got a kind of slightly gravelly, deeper quality to it.

which you can hear. Now, hello, you're listening to Luke's English Podcast with a slightly gravelly voice. So that describes this kind of tone of voice. Gravel is like little stones that might be put on a path or on a driveway. You know, when you drive a car and park it in front of a house? Grrr!

driving over gravel or walking on gravel. So those little stones that might be on a driveway or a path, that's known as gravel. And so a gravelly voice is like a voice that sounds like it's got gravel in it. A voice that has a rough or raspy quality. Okay, a comment. This term often describes a voice affected by illness or fatigue, but can also be a characteristic of certain individuals.

So it's, and it's, it can be described, it can be kind of, can be kind of an attractive quality in a person's voice, especially on a night like this. Number 16. Oh my God, am I going to get through all the vocab? Well, if I don't, then so be it. I'll just do the rest in another, maybe I'll do 32 items and I'll do the rest in another part. You know, it is what it is, isn't it? Number 16, self-sufficient.

I was talking about my daughter saying that, you know, when I travel with my daughter and with my son, my son's 15 months old, so he needs to be looked after and monitored all the time. But my daughter's like nearly seven and she's fairly self-sufficient these days. So if you're self-sufficient, it means you're able to provide for yourself or let's say look after yourself without assistance.

That's without assistance. That's not without a sister. She's okay. She can look after herself without a sister. Whereas my brother, he needs a sister. I mean, sorry, assistance. How many sisters? How many assistants? Oh, never mind. She can look after herself without assistance, without help. Right. She's fairly self-sufficient.

So the phrase conveys independence and self-reliance, often in personal or financial contexts. So she's, you know, she's able to go to the toilet on her own. You can leave her sitting reading a book and you know that she's not going to get up and pull all the books off a bookshelf or pull all the plants out of the plant pots and spread dirt everywhere, you know.

Yeah, she's fairly self-sufficient, unlike my son, who is not. Number 17, to pester someone. So despite the fact that my daughter is fairly self-sufficient, certainly in comparison to my son at this moment in time, she does pester me.

for certain things so to pester someone is to annoy or bother someone persistently often asking them can i have this can i have this could you do this for me can i do this can i can i watch something can i watch something on the ipad please daddy please i won't cry i won't cry i won't complain i won't whinge i won't pester you it's like you're you're you're already you're you're already pestering me what do you mean you won't you're already doing it i

But I won't whinge. I promise I won't. You're already whinging. But please, but please, can I just, just, just, just 20 minutes, just, just 30 minutes. That's another thing she does. She'll start negotiating.

But instead of like making concessions, she goes the other way. So she'll say, just 20 minutes, just 20 minutes, please, daddy, please. And you go, 30 minutes, 30 minutes, 30, 40 minutes. You can't negotiate like that. You're going the wrong way. You have to go. You have to be like 20 minutes, 15, 15 minutes for 10, just 10. She goes the other way. So you don't know how to negotiate. You're seven years old. But she pesters me.

She entertains herself except when she pesters me to tell her a story. Can you tell me a story? Can you tell me a scary story, please? It's adorable. I love telling her stories, but sometimes I have no stories left. So, to pester someone. This verb often has a playful connotation, but can also express frustration. Stop pestering me all the time. Can I have a sweetie? Can I have a sweetie, please? Can I have two sweeties?

Number 18, backache and arthritis. So I was talking about my parents and saying why I didn't really want them to have to look after my son all the time because they, you know, they suffer from little things. Well,

Little things like backache, which is when your back aches, and arthritis, which is a condition causing inflammation in the joints. So the joints like the elbows, the wrists, the knees, the hips, ankles, fingers and toes.

They become inflamed, they swell up. This is arthritis. It's a very common condition that affects many adults as they get older. And my mum has arthritis, bless her, and it must be very uncomfortable. And I don't want her going around sort of having to climb the stairs after my son and picking him up and stuff.

My dad had a bit of backache this weekend. My mum's got arthritis. So these are common health issues. Backache refers to an ache. Hear it? Backache. Headache. Earache. Toothache. Right? Ache. Common health issues. Backache refers to pain in the back, while arthritis is a condition causing inflammation in the joints.

For example, you know, I've been dealing with a backache, arthritis and things like that. So both of these terms highlight chronic pain. This is pain that sort of doesn't really go away very easily and can be common complaints among various age groups, but especially among elderly people, older people, let's say. Number 19, to have a meltdown, to have a tantrum. A meltdown or a tantrum.

So I was describing the behavior of my son when he gets tired, if he's hungry or frustrated by something, he might have a tantrum or have a meltdown. A tantrum, to be honest, is the word that's more commonly used with toddlers. That's little kids who have recently started to walk. They have a tantrum, a temper tantrum or a tantrum. You've seen it. They throw themselves on the floor, they kick their legs and they cry and

and make a lot of noise, right, that's a tantrum. I also call it having a meltdown as well. Although often meltdown is used to describe the behaviour of adults.

So you might see a sports player having a meltdown, like a tennis player might have a meltdown on the court, where they suddenly get incredibly angry and frustrated and they lose control of themselves and they argue with the referee or they throw their racket on the ground or scream at someone in the audience or something. You know, like this tennis player had a meltdown on the court this afternoon.

I use it to describe, my wife and I use that word to describe what our son does sometimes. He has a meltdown or he has a tantrum. So to experience a sudden emotional outburst. A meltdown is often characterized by extreme distress, while a tantrum is typically associated with children's behavior. But as I said, my wife and I use the word meltdown normally used to describe the behavior of adults to describe what our children do sometimes.

For example, he just cannot be contained and has a big meltdown. He has, uh, he, has he had a big tantrum where he's crying and screaming and grabbing? These phrases often imply a loss of control, either emotionally or behaviourally. Okay, you know what? I'm going to stop here. Okay, so that is where I stopped and that was the end of part two of P64.

And what's going to come next is part three and probably part four. I haven't done those yet. I'll be working on them this week. And in parts three and four, I'll go through the rest of the vocabulary from the rest of my ramble where I ended up talking about lots of other things.

But I hope you enjoyed that. I hope you found it useful. If you're a premium subscriber and you can access the PDF, you'll see that it's in sections. And after all that vocab stuff, all the vocab lists that you saw me going through there, after that's done, the next section is vocabulary quizzes. And then this... Yeah, so section four is vocab quizzes.

and also memory prompts. And section five is discussion questions that use all the vocab. I'll just give you a little look. So I'll just kind of like read through some of the vocab quizzes for the vocab that you've looked at, just to give you an idea of what's involved. So here are three vocab quizzes. We'll look at the first one, which covers items one to 22 in the list.

We actually only dealt with 1 to 19, I think, in this clip. But anyway, let's have a look. Can you get these questions right? So first of all, now some of these are going to be easy, right? Some of them are going to be easy. And that's fine. You know, that's absolutely fine. Some things you'll just get easily, which is great. When you get an answer, you know an answer, you just slap yourself on the back and go, well done, I know that. Great, let's move on.

The ones that you're less sure of, this is where you can, you know, you learn. If you don't get it right or you don't know, you learn. The answers are included on the PDF. You can go back and do these quizzes again and make sure you get 100% correct, you know. Anyway, do you know the answers? So, number one, this is pretty easy, but what does it mean to recover from something? So, these quizzes are in different, there's different types of tasks. This first one is a simple multiple choice quiz.

What does it mean to recover from something? Is it A, to lose strength? B, to regain health or strength? Regain, right? Or C, to ignore a problem? I'm recovering from a cold? Obviously, it's B, to regain health or strength. You

Yeah. OK. Now, again, when you do things like this, right, as a learner of English, when you do deal with these sorts of tasks, you might think, oh, I know the answer. Easy peasy. But there's a lot more that you can do. First of all, you could make sure that, you know, all the other words in all the other options, for example, to lose strength, right, to regain health.

to ignore a problem. And another thing is that you should be able to also use the words in a sentence. So you should be able to say, I'm recovering from a cold. I've been recovering from a cold. I'm going to recover. Hopefully I will recover. Hopefully I will have recovered by the end of next week. I've got a big presentation to do at work and hopefully I will have recovered by then.

You know, so it's not just do you know the word, do you know what it means, but can you use it? That's a whole other thing. And there are some other tasks on the PDF that help you to do that. Number two, if someone catches a cold, that's also easy. They enjoy they're enjoying the weather, developing a common viral infection or experiencing allergies. So it's B again, developing a common viral infection again with this one.

It's a well-known collocation, to catch a cold. But in my experience working with learners of English, I've noticed people getting it wrong all the time. And it's normally the tense that people get wrong. What people don't say is they don't say, I have caught a cold or I'm catching a cold. What people do is they get the grammar of it wrong and they end up saying, I am catch a cold or I catch a cold. Right? Right.

And, you know, obviously it should be, I caught a cold, like when yesterday, I think I caught a cold yesterday. Often it's in the present perfect tense, I have caught a cold, because that describes you now. Present perfect, I have caught a cold, describes the present.

I caught a cold, past simple, describes the past. So you might say, I caught a cold yesterday. I think I caught a cold last night. So you'd say when, because past simple describes the past. I have caught a cold, describes you now. So how are you doing? Oh, I'm all right, but I'm feeling a bit under the weather. I think I've caught a cold. Right? You should be able to do it like that. Yeah.

So it's not just knowing the word or collocation, it's being able to use it right. Number three, a remedy refers to A, a type of food, B, a treatment or medicine, or C, a vacation. Again, the answer is B. I hope the answer is not B every time. It might be. Oh, God.

It is as well. It is. The answer is always B. Oh dear, oh dear. I used AI to help me do this and it seems that AI just like, well, I think I'll just make this a really easy one and just make B the correct answer every time. I don't know. Anyway.

Maybe that's just chance. Maybe it's random and it's just chance that it happens to be the second option out of five questions. Anyway, a remedy is a treatment or medicine. For example, you know, drinking a cup of tea with lemon or something is a kind of remedy for a common cold. Four, if you have a blocked up nose, it means A, you can breathe easily. B, you're experiencing nasal congestion.

Hmm. Slightly fancy language for a blocked up nose. Or C, you feel great. Obviously, it's B again. Right. And five, fancy language is characterized by A, simple terms, B, elaborate and complex wording, like you are currently experiencing nasal congestion. Yes, I have a blocked up nose here.

That's fancy language. It's B. B is the answer. Or is it C? Just casual speech. How are you doing? Not so... I'm all right, but I've got a bit of a blocked up... Sorry, what? I've got a blocked up... No, I've got a cold and it's affecting my English. I apologize. No. How are you doing? Oh, you know, I'm all right. Just got a bit of a blocked up nose, to be honest. It's a bit annoying.

I think I might be coming down with a cold. Oh, there's another one. I might be coming down with a cold. Yeah. So that casual speech. Yeah. Elaborate and complex fancy language would be, how are you doing? I appear to be suffering from the onset of a nasal congestion, which may be symptomatic of a common viral infection, otherwise known in plain English as the common cold. Like, okay, is this one of those viruses that...

that infect the grammar node in your brain, causing you to speak like that. This may be the case, yes, indeed. Imagine that. Maybe it's possible, but imagine if there was a virus which you could get that would affect your English. And why is it also that viruses and things, you know, when we get sick, the symptoms are always bad? I mean, this is probably a very stupid observation, but...

Why is it always bad, you know? Why don't some viruses, like, help? Because if the viruses, if what they want... Now, I know that viruses don't think, do they? I don't think so. If what they want is to spread among the human race, that's what they want. They want to proliferate, right? Then...

They should probably try and ingratiate themselves with us somehow. So instead of making us feel terrible, they should make us feel great. They should strengthen us. And then we'd be like, yes, please, you've got a cold. Quick cough in my face now. You know, I've got an English exam tomorrow. Quick sneeze on me. If that was the case, we'd be spreading those viruses around. The viruses would be really successful. Instead, it's the opposite. And they do. They're really horrible. We hate having...

flu and stuff and covid and we do everything we possibly can to eradicate them you know we're injecting ourselves with vaccines we're wearing masks you know that are really annoying especially if you have glasses on your glasses get steamed up all these things that we try to do to avoid getting them they they would they would do better if they if they made us feel good just a

Just consider that. Maybe try and help out a little bit. Maybe we'll be more willing to accept you in that case rather than trying to destroy you. I don't know. Anyway, part two of the vocab quiz is fill the blanks. So this is a little bit more difficult. When you feel a cold, you may want to take preventative measures. When you feel a cold, so when you feel like you're starting to catch a cold, do you remember?

Do you remember? When you feel a cold coming on. And it's, yeah, the ING form. I can feel a cold coming on. Right? I feel something happening. I can feel a cold coming on. Yeah. Number seven. To someone means to annoy or bother them persistently. Like my lovely daughter constantly requesting stories. Daddy, daddy, can I have a story? Can I have two stories? Can I have nine stories, please? You know.

I have to tell her. I have to tell her I've told her every possible story I could ever think of, including all the stories I've ever done on Luke's English Podcast and every movie plot that I can think of. And she wants the scary ones. She's like, Dad, tell me a scary story. I'm like, should I tell her the plot of Alien? Should I? And then I give her like a...

sanitized child-friendly version of alien like there are some you know people on a spaceship and they've been working really hard and they're traveling back to earth and there's a distress signal from another planet and they decide because they're helpful they decide to go and investigate because some people might be in trouble and when they get there they find all these weird sort of like green pods a bit like seed pods and uh

I don't know how I... One of them gets, like an alien jumps out and, oh God. Indiana Jones, all the Indiana Jones films, Back to the Future. We actually watched Back to the Future the other day. She's six, right? She's nearly seven. We watched Back to the Future. And at one point, when he was in the 1950s, when he'd gone back in time, she turned to me and she said, Dad, did they...

Did they really go back in time to make the film? I was like, what do you mean? Did they actually go? Did they go back to... Because everything looks old.

And I said, no, no, no, no, they didn't actually go back in time when they made the film. That's not possible. We can't travel through time. No, they just made it look like the 1950s. They used old clothes and everything looks like it did then. They just, you know, it's just a film. You know, they use special effects and then they use old clothes and stuff to make it look like he's gone back. But he didn't actually go back in time. And she was like, all right, OK. Yeah.

So to pester someone means to annoy or bother them persistently. Like my daughter's always pestering me to have a sweetie or tell her a story. It's adorable, really, even though it's a bit annoying. Number eight, a throat may indicate the onset of an illness. I've got a bit of a throat, a sore throat or also a tickly throat or an itchy throat.

There was the word tickle as well, to have a tickle in your throat. Number nine, if you have a cold, you mainly feel symptoms in your head and nose. What kind of cold is that? It's a head cold. Number 10, he tends to his emotions rather than address them. He tends to something to his emotions rather than address them. Huh? I can't remember that one.

What's the answer? I could go down and check the answers. Yeah, let's do that. He tends to, he tends to refuse to acknowledge the truth. Is it refuse to acknowledge the truth? Oh, no, no, no, no. He tends to succumb to his problems. He tends to succumb to his problems rather than address them. So instead of like dealing with his problems, he lets his problems control him.

I said before to succumb to a cold when a cold is trying to infect you and you fight against it, you fight against it and then eventually like, oh, okay, you just sort of surrender and allow the cold to win.

Arguably, you could say you could succumb to your emotions as well. For example, if you are having negative thoughts, you might try and fight against them, try and find ways to stop them, flip them into more positive thinking. But maybe some people would succumb to those negative emotions and end up being unhappy, depressed, demotivated. Yeah.

Okay, you get the idea, right? That's vocab quiz and there's different types, matching exercises, short answers. And then also after that, you've got memory prompts.

Because it's important to try to recall the words and phrases from memory and use them in sentences. Now, this is difficult and you might not remember them all, but that's okay. The important thing is that you try. So here's a memory prompt. For example, this. Imagine you've been sick for a few days. How would you describe the process of feeling better? And it's like I'm recovering, right? I'm getting over it.

This is what you would say. I'm recovering from a cold. I'm getting over a cold. Number two, what phrase would you use to describe suddenly coming down with a runny nose and sore throat? Um,

Catch, yeah, I've caught a cold. I think I'm catching a cold. Three, if you feel a slight irritation in your throat, what phrase would you use? I've got a tickle at the back of my throat, or I think I've got a bit of a sore throat. Right, and we could go on and move on to other, so a lot of stuff about catching a cold there, but the episode was full of loads of other stuff. I mean, the cold stuff is just the first five minutes. If someone is bothering you persistently,

What verb would describe their behaviour? They are pestering you. What would you call common complaints involving back pain and joint inflammation? I was describing my parents, you know, they're getting old. Unfortunately, it's a bit sad, but you know, it happens to the best of us, of course. Arthritis is the joint inflammation, a condition that makes your joints swell up and is painful. Back pain, that's backache.

Okay. What phrase describes someone having an extreme emotional outburst? That would be to have a tantrum, right? Or to have a meltdown as well. Okay. And there's loads, there's memory prompt questions for all of the vocab in the episode series. And then also we've got, you know, you've got the answers and then you've got conversation questions for speaking practice as

So these are ones that you can use to just practice just trying to use the vocab in conversation. Now, you can do this with a conversation partner if you have one, someone that you can practice English with, or you can do it on your own like this, like the way I'm going to do it. For example, let's have a look at a hint of something. Can you recall a time when you sensed a hint of tension in a group? What happened? A hint of tension. Can you remember a time when you...

When you sensed a hint of tension in a group. Now, you might not be able to think of an example. You might think, oh, I need to find a real example of when I sensed a hint of tension in a group. You can't think of a real one. Don't worry. Just make something up. It doesn't matter. You're just trying to practice the language. Right? It's not lying. It's just creative practice. So you'd say...

I mean, if you're with a conversation partner, you would say, I can't remember a time, but I'll just make something up. And then they go, okay. And then you say, yeah, last week I went into a bank and I looked around and everyone was like really, seemed really tense. No one was moving. Some people were even like lying down on the floor with their hands over their heads. And I was like, what's going on here? It was like a very tense atmosphere. I just thought it was a weird sort of hint of tension in this bank. Why is everyone...

Not moving. And some people have got guns and they're pointing them. What's going on here? Anyway, I'll get my money out. Have a nice day, everyone. Strange hint of tension in that bank. Obviously, that's a ridiculous situation that I walked into in the middle of a bank robbery. But anyway, you could also say I walked into the staff room at work and...

There was a hint of tension in the room. I think that maybe someone had just had a little disagreement or maybe they're unhappy with our boss. Our new boss is unpopular and he just makes everyone feel really uptight. It's not good. See? That kind of thing. And there's these questions for every single item of vocab in the whole episode. And then after that, there can be pronunciation practice,

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You know, send the stuff to your computer, like the videos. Listen there. You can send the PDFs to your computer, all the rest of it. Okay, that's the end of this. I'll be back, of course, next week with a normal free episode. And I think we're going to continue the Bits and Bobs series next week with Bits and Bobs Part 2. Premium subscribers, you will get the rest of P64. Hopefully this week, if I can manage to make it all happen...

But certainly over the next week or two, you'll get the rest of P64. It's going to be quite a long series, I think. Quite a long detailed series. Okay, thanks so much for listening. Have a lovely morning, evening, afternoon, night, late evening, early morning, middle of the night listening session. Drive in your car.

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