[966] Here is a super-long seasonal rambling episode, which you can listen to while wrapping presents, finishing some last-minute gift shopping, or (if you don't celebrate Christmas) just doing whatever you normally do in December. This is a long one, but the more you listen, the more it will help your English! 💪🎅

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Join me as I chat to you in English for nearly 3 hours about:

- LEPster listening habits in 2025 (Spotify Wrapped) 🎧

- Messages and emails with funny stories from LEPsters 📧

- Bits of grammar & vocabulary teaching ✍️

- ChatGPT's questionable teaching skills 🤖🤔

- AI hallucinations 😵‍💫

- Dreaming in English 💭

- Responses to recent episodes 💬

- 12 jokes dissected in the Comedy Corner 😂 🐸

- More funny comments from my daughter 👧

- Another dramatic Hollywood action movie screenplay 🎥

...and finally a vocabulary quiz for the whole episode. ✅

All of that in your Christmas stocking 🧦 this week, with cosy log fire background sounds 🔥 as well.

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It is traditional to tell a scary story at Christmas time, so here is one for this year's festive season. The Kit-Bag by Algernon Blackwood is a classic scary tale which will give you a chill, while you stay cosy and warm indoors this winter. Listen and I will explain a lot of vocabulary which comes up in the story.

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In this audio-only episode today you can join me at home as I potter around, and take time to relax while recording a rambling episode for you to enjoy. Enjoy the sounds of street noise outside, and my attempts to find the most comfortable spot in my flat where I can ramble about various things, including several robberies in Paris - one of which is the famous heist at the Louvre museum, where burglars broke in and stole precious jewels worth millions, in broad daylight. The other robbery was more painful - our own apartment, which was broken into earlier this year. Join me as I discuss all of these things and more. The video episode this week is a walk & talk in Paris.

Get the episode PDF transcript 👉 https://teacherluke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/A-Cosy-Rambling-Episode-at-Home-964.pdf

Episode page 👉 https://teacherluke.co.uk/2025/12/01/a-cosy-rambling-episode-at-home-964-walk-talk-mission-in-montmartre/

Walk & Talk: Mission in Montmartre 📺 https://youtu.be/b0THApJaJTs

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