854. The Invitation (Learn English with a Short Story)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- 🎧 Learn English with a short story.
🗣 Listen & repeat after me if you'd like to practise your pronunciation.
💬Learn some vocabulary in the second half of the video.
📄 I found this story in answer to a post on Quora.com asking about true scary stories.
I thought I could use it to help you learn English. Can you understand the story, and predict the twist at the end?
📄 Read the original by Lance Stephenson here www.quora.com/What-are-the-be...
🔗 Page for this episode on my website with a word-for word copy of the story teacherluke.co.uk/2023/11/28/...
🏆 Sign up to LEP Premium to get extra episodes in your podcast app of choice, all about vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, with stories and more www.teacherluke.co.uk/premium
0:00:00 Introduction
0:03:01 Story starts
0:09:45 Story summary
0:21:05 Vocabulary teaching
Listening you makes me feel like I'm an English master... I can understand about 99.5% of what you say. A real pleasure!
Congratulations! I'm searching for this level of understanding.
@@guilhermebley4001 It only happens with Luke's english!!
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Finally I find a teacher that I like.
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Thank you for your enthusiastic teaching. You looks like an actor sometimes, which makes it really fun!!
It's a pleasure learning English with you! Parliament should give you a monthly payment for spreading the language like that 😊.
HA, ha, ha, ... If that happens, I will do squats every day of my life.
I say this because politicians only think about themselves. This channel helps us understand more English. Thanks.
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Hi Luke. Please more videos with short stories and vocabulary explanations. On the one hand, you learn the formal language, on the other hand, you learn the everyday language when explaining vocabulary and you are so good at both!🤟🏻
well, there are many videos of this kind in the premium subscription.
Hello, Luke! Thank you for the story. I think it's a great and a sad story. The guy came to the wrong house. They were not his aunt and uncle, but they seemed to be happy to have a visitor. Maybe they were very old people, maybe they had Alzheimer's disease. And they really didn't want him to leave them.
Yeah, that's what I also thought
they wanted to kill him and eat
Never be naive and trust people you don't know.
It's a matter of staying the whole night with them and being uncoscious of what is happening around you !!
Right. I agree with you guys, the risks were possible in that house. Luckily, he felt an urge to escape from there. Such was a good feeling. The old couple might have been dangerous or might not, but a potential risk was hidden somewhere in the house.
You are the best English teacher I have ever seen!
Your pronunciation is incredible, you are one of the few people I understand perfectly with the level of English I have right now. Greetings from Cuba.
❤
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Luke, I hope you’re well. You’re the best guy who teaches English. I appreciate it. Wish i talk like you clearly.
Thanks so much Luke for all your podcasts especially when you share with us the short stories; I love listening and reading them👍👌😊
Thanks Luke! You are wonderful. It was a pleasure to be here with you during this time, listening, learning, laughing and imagining the meaning of the story...
This is just AMAZING! The best video ever! Everything is in one: super story, explanation (in normal human way), vocab, and grammar. It is a big job!!! Bravo! Thanks much, Luke, for this opportunity to learn English with you. I subscribed to your podcast - the smallest thing that I can do for you. Thank you very much, for your work! ❤
I wish everyone spoke english like you
The best podcast! The best story teller! Love you❤❤❤
Hi, Luke! I hope you're great! Please, more of this kind of videos!! I really enjoy and learn with this video format. 🙏. Geetings from Venezuela.
Thank you so much Luke! The very useful podcast. After your lessons I get to know many new words. It’s really priceless. ❤
I am of one your premium listeners because you're such an amazing teacher. I enjoy listening to you, and your teaching is great. Thank you!
when I feel lonely working on my projects and documents at night, I always come to your podcast, thank you teacher Luke
Wow 😲! We've been in for a treat, Luke! A thousand thanks 🙏 for the podcast! I've loved 😍 this preternatural, beyond-the-grave, sort of Stephen-Kingy, Carpenter-ian short story, with a delicate touch of Hitchcock on it. I couldn't help but being all the time mulling over The Mist, Psychosis... An invigorating shot in the arm for starting the week! Wish you a fruitful one!
More podcast like this pls 👍👍
Best regards from Italy !!🇮🇹
Thanks Luke!
Learning English in a fun way is wonderful!
I think like you!
really an excellent lesson!
I am very pleased to sit listening to you Luke entertaining me and finding myself taking notes as l used to do some 30 years ago during english classes.
Thanks a lot for sharing these enjoyable histories with us. It's really nice to listen to you, and moreover we learn a lot of you. Have a wonderful day! People like you deserve it 😊
Hello there!
Tonight's weather where I live, with its wind, thunderstorms, and rain, is setting the perfect mood for a creepy story.
The wind is howling, thunder is rumbling , and rain is pouring down, creating a frightening atmosphere outside.
And I love creepy stories 👀
Hi Luke! Thank you very much for your podcast. It really helps me to learn English. There are a lot of interesting stories, interviews, visitors. I like your family and your relationship in it. It was very touching to listen your discussion with your wife and daughter when you gave a birth to your son. You are like my relatives from other country))). Be happy and thanks a lot!!!
I like your podcast for many reasons. I wouldn't enumerate them, but you simply have become my source of inspiration for acquiring the language the most practical way. Thanks very much for bringing us all very interesting episodes one after the other.
Luke , please make all your videos like this video include analyzing the vocabularies and grammars
That “insistent” acting is brilliant 😆
I've been listening to this story for the third time, I write down the most important and useful words and phrases. And it's really helpful for improving my English, I think. Anyway, Luke, I just wanted to say you that you are an incredible teacher. And you are the number one teacher for me. 🎉❤
I really like your short stories but sadly have finished all of them recently. Hope you can introduce more stories ;) Thanks!
Thank you, Luke. It was so useful. I find that the format of the short stories with your explanation is very good way to memorise new English words. Please keep doing it.
Great thanks for your job!!! It's enormous help for those who needs to practice their English.
Your voice and pronunciation is extraordinary Lucas. Thank you!
you are the best teacher and comedian I have ever know . Those two combined your episodes never get boring Luke
Very 👍 good I'm from Iran you're one of the best teacher l have seen
Nice, very helpful. I have been listening to these english podcasts in the past two months and it's very helpful to improve my English. . I found that learning English from Story and News is the best way to improve the fluency. Great job, many thanks!!
Thank you very much for the fun lesson! I really appreciate that I can learn English through the stories. Your voice is so good.
Many thanks 🥰🙏
Thank you for your podcast. It is very useful for me to learn English
Excelente voz, pausa, ritmo, para educar el oido. Gracias, gracias
Thank you for this outstanding podcast experience, Luke
Hello Luke, thank you for another story! I like very much the way you teach english. With your stories I improoved noticeably my leastening skills!❤️❤️❤️
Thank you very much, Luke😊. Learning English through story was engaging as always. My favourite type of podcast on LEP. Do them more often, please 🙏 I wanted to add that your podcasts are included in the recommendation list for emproving listening skill, in the first place, by one popular English school in Russia - Inglex. This was exiting to find out 😉
I listened to this story twice: during the day and late in the evening. The time of day affects reception! In the evening, the story seems more terrifying. And your comment on this story, Luke, makes it even scarier when you suggest what might have been an ingredient in the dish, what might have been in the locked room. Such uncertainty and ambiguity stimulates our imagination and evokes greater fear than some obvious bloodthirsty monster.😮
It is the first time I hear your podcast and I absolutily loved it . I learned a lot in a very pleasant way. You are an amazing teacher. Thank you. Regarding the storie, I think he was very clever to get away from there, because the night would bring the really scary part of it.
Thanks so much Luke for all your podcasts especially when you share with us the short stories
Hi Luke,
It is only yesterday that I came across your podcasts. A genuine pleasure to hear speaking english as if a friend was talking to us. Or sharing part of the afternoon, casually chattering with us in our living room. Today I listened to the short story you called The Invitation : I found it really thrilled and compelling ! Let me tell you why. As soon as the author drove through the countryside, signs of desolation appear - scattered here and there in his story : the poor reception of the phone, the old fashioned map he had to rely on, the roads without any names and the scarce post signs if any... at last this thickening sense to be away from any kind of civilisation... Lost ! Let's go further... The house completely covered in leaves, branches and overgrown trees : there we are ! At that stage, I felt we were heading to a kind of a split space-time story ! (which would have been fine, too) Ant then, comes this fairy-tale encounter. Now, imagine the old couple ; from their point of view a stranger has suddenly appeared in the night, a lonely young man lost in the remote countryside. Well,then : a warm
-hearted welcome will confort him, for sure, and what's best than a nice stewed meal to lift his mind up ?! We would had been grateful to any parents if our beloved son - those room is shut since its departure (or death ?) - had recieved such warmful greetings. And since the lost young man showed signs of trouble or despair - he never stopped talking of his family and of a cousin whom he should meet here - We decided to keep him here over night - sound and safe - presuming that a return home would have been too hazardous in his state. The following development gave us reason - for as soon as we headed to our son's room - left empty since his departure - and getting it ready for him, our young fellow had vanished ! Disappeared in the thickness if the night ! What a weird feeling indeed !
For my part I do believe this story is true. It also can be seen as a metaphore of what this young man was then living. Il belongs to him and only he will find out. What is sure is that he still recalls it seven years later...
Kind regards
I came back to English and I'm glad to watch you again! 😊
You are amazing teacher luke there is no start a day but listening to your podcast to cheer me up and then my day being started
Hi, Luke, I am delightful to hear the story. As I said before you are fantastic narrator. I love that ❤
Hello Luke ! This is Hailee who is from China ,l like the way how you teach and hope you can tell more stories in the future ❤
I just want to say that I am watching this episode from Iraq. I would like to say that the most beautiful thing in this video is that when you made the sound of the door in the creepy houses 😂😂😂
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the way you describe the words, particularly the adjectives is incredible and make thek fixed in memory
OMG ! That was spine-chilling. I expected a more dramatic ending, though! Thanks for the content. I love your podcast.
Thank you for sharing a Premium episode.
You sound like having a bad cold, hope you get better Luke.
Dear Luke: Thanks for your explanation in English. I am studing English since few months, and my teacher have sent me your video. It was amazing, entendible, with clarity and very interesting. You have an excellent communication and voice. Thank you a lot again :)
This new podcast episode which I've just finished listening was really interesting🌟. I really enjoyed it! Thank you for everything! 😁
Thanks for helpful videos. I like your clear voice. I'm from Japan, and I had allergic to English. I didn't have confidence to use English, especially in grammar. You explain difficult words easier, so I can understand these stories.
Thank you so much Luke for your excellent videos! Merci beaucoup Monsieur! 😊
It is amazing way to listen to the spech for a long time without any tension. All of this pretty comprehansive.
thank you very much luke, for your nice, clear and understandable explanation I really love it
Thank you, Luke, you are the best. Great Podcast.
Hi sir. To be honest I always pick up more useful vocabs from your podcast. You really deserve millions of respect. I am from Morocco.
You are the best teacher that I have ever seen.❤
Thank u teacher Luke.
Your explanation is clear and easy to understand, wonderful. 🙏🏻
Bless you for your great work 🙏
Thank you teacher Luke. I enjoyed the story. I cringed when his mom said his aunt called and said he never arrived. At first I thought he was rude. Later I was very happy to learn that he got a narrow escape. Thank you.
Hello Luke, I love this episode. It is interesting and informative. Thank you so much. 💓
Thank you so much for your work !!
This is a brilliant story. You read perfectly, the pauses are very well made - it is easy to understand the story. Thank you! 🙂
Your English lessons are the best!!! Thank you🙏
this is very wonderful series, please make more videos about teaching English with a short story like this, thank you so much
Very interesting and efficient way of learning English
Thank you for making your podcast Luke I really appreciated ❤
Thank you so much for your podcast
So great, after realizing this podcast I feel enthusiasm while speaking in English. Many thanks.
The wonderful lesson! Thank you Luke !
When it was mentioned that the guy had eaten a pot roast I had a thought it had been made from his cousin😅
this is a great way of learning english! thank you so much!
Teacher Luke, you are truly good at making sound effects.❤❤
You are the excellent story teller. I wish to have some more from you
great lesson. good comunication
Thank you for the podcast! I enjoy it!
What is the main reason to attract to you programme is clear pronunciation. That is remarkable to non native Lerner. That capability only few have
I live in Canada ( French speaking side ) I would like to speak English fluently and I found this video, but your English isn’t like other people speak here but it’s very interesting like it . Thanks.
Great podcast! Thank You Luke 😊
I had never seen before a excellent teacher like you
Thank you for these videos. They are great for learning English. Please, keep going.
Very grateful
Maria:)
Thank you Luke I ´m very fond of your short stories
Hello Luke!!! This short story really captured my attention.I enjoyed it very much and besides, you are a very good teacher because of your way of teaching ,you are vey punctillious and I like it.Thanks a lot.
Super & Great Sir.
Thanks very much Sir.
Thank you Luke .. your videos are sooo useful and informative
Formidable ! Thank you so much for your professionalism!
Hi Luke, you make such a good podcast,I improve my listening skills
You're a great story teller and litteraly my heart was increasingly beating widely 😅 nice story
No doubt U are the best English teacher and ur podcast is great, I understood all story,it was easy for me. The English it was my favorite subject in school,when I was young Thank u a lot
Very first time here, in your Chanel, and I love the story and your class... Thank you, I really appreciate it. From now on, I'll keep an eye on your work.
thank you. You are the best bodcast I found until now.
Thank you for the sharing.
Thank you for this great lesson!
Thank you!