Testing My Friends on English Grammar / Irregular Verbs with Amber & Paul 🎯 [1003]
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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
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What is the episode’s premise and why is the host introducing Amber and Paul?
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Hello listeners and welcome back to Luke's English Podcast. This episode today features my friends Amber and Paul. Yes, Amber and Paul are back on the podcast, and in this one, I will be testing them on their knowledge of English grammar, specifically irregular verbs. I'm gonna quiz them on the irregular verbs list, and also you'll hear the usual anecdotes and memories And funny comments with the irregular verbs also used in context throughout the episode. Now I should say that it might be difficult for you to understand everything in this episode, depending on your level of English. But I say that because we're speaking totally naturally without grading our English. Normally, if it's just me on the podcast on my own, it's much easier for you to understand than when I'm in conversation with a
Guest or e indeed with two guests. Two guests, and the three of us were Are good friends. We know each other really well. The conversation sort starts to get quite fast. We all have things to say. We kind of maybe interrupt each other a bit, start speaking quite quickly, the conversation moves this way, it moves that way. That is totally natural. I think it's actually really important listening practice for you to listen to conversations like this in English. Um but before I start the conversation. Before you actually listen to the Amber and Paul stuff. I think I should do an introduction first in order to help everyone to follow this and therefore to get more out of this in terms of learning and enjoyment.
Now, will my introduction here be 20 minutes long? I don't know because I haven't done it yet. But if you'd rather skip this introduction, feel free to do so. Okay, you can just skip the episode forward by about sixteen minutes and thirty seconds. In fact, you could skip forward to This point now, 18 minutes and 45 seconds. Okay, and just start the amber and pull bit if you want to. Okay. Right, so if you're still with me, I'm assuming you are happy to listen to my introduction, which I carefully prepared earlier. Now the basic idea of the conversation that you're about to hear is quite simple. Okay? We're gonna take one of the most notoriously boring things in English learning, that is the list of irregular verbs, and see if we can somehow turn it into an entertaining conversation.
Okay? So irregular verbs. Of course you know the the list of irregular verbs. Uh if you've ever studied English from a course book or in a classroom or something like that or with a s with self-study materials, uh you will have no doubt come across the list of irregular verbs. Maybe when you were a child at school and you had those English lessons that you might have hated. You probably spent time dealing with the list of irregular verbs. For example, right now I am holding a copy of English Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy, The Blue Grammar Book. One of the best selling books of all time. Right, that's how desperately people want to learn English that the everyone buys a copy of this book and sh does their best to sort of learn English from it.
And there's a list of irregular verbs at the back. You know, I'm talking about things like what? Uh fly, what? Fly what's the past form of flight? Flu, yes. Um f past participle. Flown. Fi fly, flu, flown. Forbid I forbid you from going. I forbid you f from going to that party, meaning you're not allowed to go there. Forbid in the past. Forbade Past participle Forbidden, of course. So you remember all this stuff. Beat, beat, beaten, become, became, become, begin, began, begun. Yeah, of course you do. Sorry for bringing back painful memories from school there, possibly, but you know, this episode just had to be done today, as you will see.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the episode’s premise and why is the host introducing Amber and Paul?
0:00–20:23
2
How does the conversation shift to why native speakers struggle with grammar and procedural vs. declarative memory?
20:23–22:07
3
Why does the host start quizzing the guests on the past participle of “run”?
22:07–30:05
4
What happens when the irregular‑verb quiz moves on to the next verb (bite, drink, ride, etc.)?
30:05–1:26:20
5
What is the story about the beach, Manu and the unexpected sea‑dive?
1:26:20–2:39:41
Speakers
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