Episode 1000! 🎉
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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
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Why is episode 1000 finally being recorded in the garden and what interruptions are expected?
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Hello, listeners, and welcome to Luke's English Podcast. This is episode 1000. Here it is. Finally, you've probably been waiting for some time for this one. It's taken me a little while, but here it is. And I'm wondering what you've been expecting. Um, the expectation has been building, hasn't it, for episode 1000? Of course, I've been mentioning it fairly regularly. On the podcast talking about what I might do, what I could do for episode one thousand. And then there's been a fairly long wait since the last episode. This long period of time, several weeks have passed. You've been thinking, Oh, what's gonna happen for episode one thousand? The anticipation has been rising, and that sense of um expectation for what
Is going to be included in this episode. Well, it finally it's here. To be honest, it's been a little bit difficult to find time to work on the podcast recently because I'm basically on holiday with my family in the French countryside. And for example, last week we took a trip down to the south of France in the car, stopping at very Locations doing the typical French holiday thing, and so there were absolutely no opportunities for working on this or recording this while we were doing that. But now we are back here in the countryside in our house that we're staying in at the moment, and I've taken this particular opportunity to start recording episode 1000 here. My son is currently having a nap. Yeah.
So he is upstairs sleeping, my daughter's doing some homework, my wife is lying down with our son um at this point. So there's a quiet moment here this afternoon. So I've taken this chance to record at least the first part of this episode. And I'm doing this in the garden. I've taken a little table and a chair out down to the back of the garden, down to the bottom of the garden. I've taken this chair and table and my computer and my microphone and stuff and this is my recording space. This is my recording studio surrounded by trees and um birds singing and other little creepy crawlies and things like that. This is where I've decided to do this. And uh will I be interrupted probably at some point. Expect one of the children will wander over and demand my attention.
But I'm gonna oh in fact one of them's already doing it. What? What is it? What is a collective noun she's asking me? A l a collective noun is um a noun for lots of different things. Do you know do you know can y do you have any examples? You see, you see, it's almost impossible even now in the quietest moments. I'm being interrupted by my daughter who fair enough is doing her English homework, and she's asking me what a collective noun is. What is a collective noun, listeners? Isn't this um when we talk about, for example, groups of animals, like a something of like a murder of crows, a school of fish? Isn't that what a collective noun is? I think so. But we're about to find out, as the very first interruption of episode one thousand
is about to happen and she's back now. So give me some examples of what a collective noun could be. You said a shoal of fish swam into the bay, so a shoal of fish. A shoal is a noun for a group of things, in this case a group of fish.
A boy picked up a bunch of grapes. A bunch?
A bunch of grapes. A boy picked up a bunch of grapes. A bunch, that's a collective noun. In this case for grapes. Mm. And you tend to find that certain things uh we we use certain collective nouns for different things. So a bunch of grapes, a shoal of fish, also a school of fish.
Um
A flock of birds.
A fleet of ships.
A fleet of ships, yeah.
Um a colony of ants.
A colony of ants.
Audience.
An audience of people, for example, my podcast audience. So those are collective nouns, right?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is episode 1000 finally being recorded in the garden and what interruptions are expected?
0:00–14:27
2
What is a collective noun and how does Olivia’s homework question illustrate it?
14:27–42:43
3
Why does Luke discuss AI, the sun, and other big‑picture topics in this milestone episode?
42:43–1:12:46
4
What would be the ideal sponsor for the podcast?
1:12:46–1:22:44
5
What would you show an alien that landed in your garden?
1:22:44–1:34:12
6
What advice would you give your 18‑year‑old self?
1:34:12–2:20:35
7
What makes a great English‑learning episode? (sound quality, pedagogy and humor)
2:20:35–2:35:36
8
Which episodes best showcase the podcast’s spirit and why?
2:35:36–3:37:54
Speakers
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