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739. The Escaped Man (Short Story for Learners of English) Vocabulary _ Grammar(M4A_128K) · Luke's English Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello listeners and hello video viewers. It's time to do
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  Speaker 1: another story on the podcast. This time, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be reading a story called The Escaped Man by an
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  Speaker 1: author called ct Platt. The story is presented on commaful
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Commaful dot com is a website where you
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  Speaker 1: can find short stories, fan fiction, and other reading texts
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  Speaker 1: and it's all presented in a nice and easy to
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  Speaker 1: read format. So this time the story is The Escaped
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  Speaker 1: Man and it's written by ctplat. Okay, and the way
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  Speaker 1: this is going to work is that I will read
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  Speaker 1: the story once and you can just try and follow
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  Speaker 1: it and understand it. And then I will summarize the
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  Speaker 1: story very quickly in plain English to make sure you've
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  Speaker 1: understood basically what happened. And then we will go through
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  Speaker 1: the story again, line by line, and I will break
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  Speaker 1: it down for language, and I will teach you bits
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  Speaker 1: of vocabulary and bits of grammar. I'll point them out
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  Speaker 1: for you, so not only can you enjoy hopefully and
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  Speaker 1: entertaining story, but also we'll use it as a way
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  Speaker 1: to learn some English. Okay, learning English through stories is
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  Speaker 1: a great idea and it tends to work because it
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  Speaker 1: places language in a vivid context and is generally quite
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  Speaker 1: entertaining and fun. So listen to the story and then
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  Speaker 1: let me break all the language down for you bit
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  Speaker 1: by bit. Okay, so we're nearly ready to start reading
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  Speaker 1: the story. Just before I read it to you, here
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  Speaker 1: are a few questions, okay, just to help you focus.
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  Speaker 1: So question number one is where does the story take place? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think? Where's the location of this story
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  Speaker 1: and how do you know? And secondly is this American
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  Speaker 1: English or is this British English? And how do you know?
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  Speaker 1: And thirdly, the third question is simply what is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen next? Can you try and guess what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen next? Okay? Right, so if you're ready, let's begin,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to go to commaful dot com now
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  Speaker 1: and start reading through The Escaped Man. Okay, So I
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  Speaker 1: want you to try and get into the right mood here.
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  Speaker 1: This is a sort of a mystery story, okay, and
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  Speaker 1: it's got a slightly dark atmosphere to it. So here
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  Speaker 1: we go. Imagine the rain, rainfall, Imagine the rain beating down.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go The Escaped Man by C. T. Plat.
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  Speaker 1: The rain was falling heavily. It was like driving through
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  Speaker 1: a thick curtain of water. He eased off the accelerator
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  Speaker 1: a little. Had to be careful driving on wild nights
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  Speaker 1: like these. The last thing you'd want is to have
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  Speaker 1: an accident or breakdown. You just want to be at
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  Speaker 1: home on these stormy nights. The thwack thwack of the
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  Speaker 1: windscreen wipers was hypnotic. He stared out into the glow
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  Speaker 1: of the headlights. The rain sounded like white noise interference
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  Speaker 1: as it battered the car. He was reminded of the
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  Speaker 1: opening scenes of a Hitchcock film. Through the wash of
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  Speaker 1: the rain, he spotted a figure at the side of
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  Speaker 1: the road. The person wore a green Parker and had
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  Speaker 1: their thumb jerked out. Why on earth would anyone be
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  Speaker 1: hitchhiking tonight. Surely you would just stay pert until the morning.
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  Speaker 1: There must have been in a rush to get where
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  Speaker 1: they were going. He signaled down and pulled over. The
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  Speaker 1: hitchhiker climbed in. He shut the door quickly, glad to
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  Speaker 1: be out of the rain. He pulled his hood back
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  Speaker 1: and sighed. He was somewhere in his mid twenties and
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  Speaker 1: had wild red hair and a thick beard. Awful night, eh,
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  Speaker 1: said the driver. The hitchhiker held his gaze for a
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  Speaker 1: long moment. Drops of rain water trickled down his face. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is. The driver pulled out and continued through the storm.
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  Speaker 1: The hitchhiker glanced over his shoulder into the blackness behind them.
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  Speaker 1: You okay, the hitchhiker simply nodded. They drove on in
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  Speaker 1: silence for a short while. The BBC radio phone in
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  Speaker 1: blaring out from the car's speakers, filled in for conversation.
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  Speaker 1: They listened to the radio and their own thoughts as
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  Speaker 1: they moved on. Where are you headed, asked the driver north.
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  Speaker 1: The hitcher pointed, You're traveling to visit friends. Hum. The
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  Speaker 1: driver couldn't tell if that hum was a yes or
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  Speaker 1: a no. He adjusted his tie nervously. The hitcher stared
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  Speaker 1: at him in his suit and tie. The hitcher seemed
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  Speaker 1: scruffy in comparison in his Parker and pink Floyd T shirt.
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  Speaker 1: Do you work around here? Asked the hitcher. Yes, said
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  Speaker 1: the driver. I was stuck late at the office. You
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  Speaker 1: know how it is? No, not really Again, they drifted
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  Speaker 1: into silence. The talk show radio show carried on as
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  Speaker 1: they drove through the wind and rain. The hitcher shifted
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  Speaker 1: in his seat and stared out of the windscreen. No music,
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  Speaker 1: The hitcher asked, what is there no music we could
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  Speaker 1: listen to. I like the talk radio shows. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: really a music fan. The hitcher's eyes glazed over for
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  Speaker 1: a moment, then he spoke, I like listening to music,
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  Speaker 1: calms me down. The driver said nothing. Several miles later,
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  Speaker 1: there was a news bulletin on the radio. The reporter
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  Speaker 1: tried to remain professional as she read the announcement, We
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  Speaker 1: are getting reports that a patient has escaped from a
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  Speaker 1: Manchester psychiatric institution. The man is said to be psychopathic
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  Speaker 1: and is said to have a history of murder. The
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  Speaker 1: hitcher jabbed a finger on the button on the radio panel.
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  Speaker 1: Teeny pop music blurted out from the speakers. The driver
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  Speaker 1: stared at his passenger, his question unasked. I hate the news,
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  Speaker 1: answered the hitcher. It's so depressing it brings me down.
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  Speaker 1: There's never any good news, is there. The driver didn't reply.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry, I'm not the killer, said the hitcher, fidgeting
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  Speaker 1: with his coat. Don't worry, I'm not the killer. No,
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  Speaker 1: said the driver. I mean no of course you aren't.
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  Speaker 1: They drove on, listening to the crappy pop music and
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  Speaker 1: over excited radio DJs. The rain pounded on the car.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do for a living, asked the driver.
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  Speaker 1: The hitcher was quiet for a moment, then he grinned,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a writer. Really, how interesting have you had anything published?
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  Speaker 1: No as yet, I'm an undiscovered artist. I'm sure you'll
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  Speaker 1: make it. What are you working on at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: I'm writing a novel. Oh yes, it's about a serial killer.
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  Speaker 1: The driver didn't speak. He flicked the radio station back on.
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  Speaker 1: A man was rambling on with himself about the change
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  Speaker 1: in days. His wheelie bins were emptied. Where can I
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  Speaker 1: drop you, asked the driver. The hitcher said nothing. When
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  Speaker 1: the driver glanced round, his passenger had his eyes closed.
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  Speaker 1: He was either asleep or feigning slumber. So just drove
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  Speaker 1: on through the storm down the snaking lanes. An hour later,
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  Speaker 1: the storm still growled and raged. The hitcher looked out
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  Speaker 1: of the window. The driver steered the car in silence.
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  Speaker 1: Another news bulletin came over the radio. We're getting more
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  Speaker 1: information on the escaped patient. The killer's name is Simon Hughes.
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  Speaker 1: He escaped from the Green Pasture's Institute. Earlier this evening,
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  Speaker 1: Simon Hughes made his escape by changing from his hospital
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  Speaker 1: issue uniform into a suit and tie and pretending to
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  Speaker 1: be one of the medical staff. He stole a car
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  Speaker 1: and drove off. The hitcher turned to the driver, What
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  Speaker 1: did you say? Your name was? My name's Simon? The
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  Speaker 1: hitcher stared in shock. Simon grinned. The headlights of a
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  Speaker 1: passing car glinted off the knife blade in Simon's hand. Dun, dun, dumn.
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  Speaker 1: The end. Okay, so that's the escaped man. By ct Platt.
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  Speaker 1: What were the questions I asked you? Where does this
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  Speaker 1: take place? Was the first one, And the answer to
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  Speaker 1: that question is that the story takes place somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: the UK. I think it's England, and in fact, since
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  Speaker 1: the killer escaped from from an institute in Manchester, I
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  Speaker 1: think it must take place in the north of England,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere British English or American English. It's British English, as
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  Speaker 1: we will see in a moment as I go through
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  Speaker 1: the storyline by line, I'll point out the things that
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  Speaker 1: show that it's British English. And thirdly, what is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen next. Well, I just wanted to kind of
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  Speaker 1: keep you on your toes. But did you did you
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  Speaker 1: if you see that twist coming? Because there was a
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  Speaker 1: twist in the story. That sort of thing is called
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  Speaker 1: a twist. Did you see the twist coming? Some of
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  Speaker 1: you will have seen it coming the first time I
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  Speaker 1: read this. I have to be honest, I sort of
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  Speaker 1: saw it coming because the way the story was setting
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  Speaker 1: things up seemed a bit too obvious, and I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be a twist here. Let me explain
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  Speaker 1: what happened then. So a man was driving through the
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  Speaker 1: rainy streets of England somewhere and he sees a hitchhiker
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  Speaker 1: and it's raining very heavily, so he lets the hitchhiker in.
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  Speaker 1: The hitch hiker behaves a little bit suspiciously and seems
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  Speaker 1: to be a bit disdainful or hateful towards the driver.
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  Speaker 1: And the way the characters are described, it sort of
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  Speaker 1: presents the driver as a much more normal person wearing
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  Speaker 1: a suit, they've been to work, just friendly giving someone
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  Speaker 1: a ride in their car, and the hitch hiker is
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  Speaker 1: presented as someone with wild red hair. They do something
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  Speaker 1: a bit more unconventional in their work writing a book
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  Speaker 1: about a serial killer. He seems to be a bit
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  Speaker 1: sort of anti establishment or antisocial in some way. He
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  Speaker 1: seems like a slightly scary character. And then we hear
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  Speaker 1: on the radio that a serial killer has escaped from
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  Speaker 1: an institute. An institute would be a hospital or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, and so naturally we think that it's the
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  Speaker 1: hitchhiker with his crazy appearance and his scruffy look and
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  Speaker 1: his kind of serious, slightly psychotic behavior. But then it
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  Speaker 1: turns out that the serial killer is the driver of
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  Speaker 1: the car, because the next news bulletin explains that the
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  Speaker 1: psychotic killer escaped from a hospital, changed their clothes into
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  Speaker 1: a suit and stole a car. And the name is
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  Speaker 1: is Simon Hughes. And this person's wearing a suit, the driver,
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  Speaker 1: and he's in a car, and so the hitchhiker sort
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  Speaker 1: of gets shocked and realizes that this could be the killer,
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  Speaker 1: and it turns out that the driver is also called Simon.
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  Speaker 1: And then at the end, they've got a knife. A
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  Speaker 1: traffic light or another light from a car reflects off
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  Speaker 1: the blade of the knife, which shows that the driver
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  Speaker 1: is going to kill the hitchhiker. The next victim. So
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  Speaker 1: there you go. That was the twist that it was
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  Speaker 1: the driver that was the killer, not the hitchhiker. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder how many of you noticed that twist before it happened. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now it's time to get into the English teaching side
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  Speaker 1: of this, and so I'm now going to break the
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  Speaker 1: story down line by line, and what we're looking for.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm looking for are bits of vocabulary. So this
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  Speaker 1: could be phrases or any outstanding bits of vocabulary that
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  Speaker 1: I think we're al to be a bit more difficult
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  Speaker 1: the standard stuff. I think that most people will understand
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  Speaker 1: an intermediate level or something. We're looking for phrases and
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  Speaker 1: bits of language that are a bit beyond that kind
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  Speaker 1: of level, and anything else that I think is worth
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  Speaker 1: pointing out. Okay, right, so here we go the escaped
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  Speaker 1: Man by ct Plat. The rain was falling heavily. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what I'd like to point out here is simply that
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  Speaker 1: stories often begin with past continuous. This is past continuous.
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  Speaker 1: The rain was falling heavily. In fact, it's a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a cliche that stories begin with the rain falling.
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  Speaker 1: You know, It's a sort of a cliched way to
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  Speaker 1: begin a mysterious story, it's just to say that it
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  Speaker 1: was raining heavily. The rain was falling heavily. Now, stories
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  Speaker 1: often begin with past continuous because we use past continuous
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  Speaker 1: like this, that's the verb b in the past, that's
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  Speaker 1: was or were plus an ig form. We use this
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  Speaker 1: to set the context in which the main events of
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  Speaker 1: the story happen. So, for example, you know, it could
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  Speaker 1: be the sun was shining and the birds were singing.
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  Speaker 1: I was driving along in my car when something happened.
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  Speaker 1: And those past continuous contextual things always get interrupted or
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  Speaker 1: are followed by past simple past simple. These are the
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  Speaker 1: main events of the story. This happened, then this happened,
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  Speaker 1: Then this happened, just the main events of the story,
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  Speaker 1: one after the other. Whereas past continuous this thing was happening,
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  Speaker 1: here was the situation interrupted by a past simple event.
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  Speaker 1: The rain was falling heavily. He eased off the accelerator
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Okay. This also past perfect, which is
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  Speaker 1: used to describe background details backstory. For example, the rain
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  Speaker 1: was falling heavily. It hadn't rained like this for months.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is the first time. This was the
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  Speaker 1: first time it had rained like this. So we used
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  Speaker 1: past perfect to describe events before the main events that
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about. I'm pretty sure there's no past perfect
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  Speaker 1: in this story, though, but we do get bits of
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  Speaker 1: past continuous again, just to establish the context. We'll point
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  Speaker 1: them out as we go through falling heavily. Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: rain was falling heavily. It was like driving through a
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  Speaker 1: thick curtain of water. It was like doing something so
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  Speaker 1: just you know, nice descriptive language. This is what we
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  Speaker 1: call a simile whenever you use the word like. It
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  Speaker 1: was like blah blah blah. You know, the sun was
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  Speaker 1: like an orange in the sky. The rain was like
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  Speaker 1: a thick curtain of water. In fact, it probably was
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  Speaker 1: a thick curtain of water, but anyway, it was like
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  Speaker 1: and then an ig form, meaning it was similar to this.
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  Speaker 1: It was like driving. It was like walking. It was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, teaching. It was like driving through a thick
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  Speaker 1: curtain of water. That's fairly clear. He eased off the
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  Speaker 1: accelerator a little. The accelerator is the pedal in the
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  Speaker 1: car that makes the car drive faster. Hmm. That's the accelerator.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pedal on the floor and you press your
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  Speaker 1: foot on it. In order to go in order to
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  Speaker 1: move forwards. But if he eased off the accelerator, to
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  Speaker 1: ease off means to put less pressure on or to
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  Speaker 1: slow down basically. But when you're pressing your foot on
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  Speaker 1: the accelerator, you have to press it down with some force,
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  Speaker 1: and if you ease off, it means you put less
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  Speaker 1: pressure on, use less force, Take your foot off the
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  Speaker 1: accelerator a little bit and slow down. He eased off
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  Speaker 1: the accelerator had to be careful driving on wild nights
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  Speaker 1: like these. Wild meaning normally we have wild to describe
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  Speaker 1: animals which are not domesticated or not pets like you know,
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  Speaker 1: an elephant would be a wild animal, or any other
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  Speaker 1: animal that you would encounter in the wild, like a
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  Speaker 1: bear or just you know, any kind of bird. These
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  Speaker 1: are wild animals wild nights. Wild nights like these, where
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  Speaker 1: the rain is falling down heavily, we don't quite know
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen. It's a bit dangerous. Wild means
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  Speaker 1: unpredictable and potentially dangerous. The last thing you'd want is
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  Speaker 1: to have an accident or breakdown. The last thing you'd want.
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  Speaker 1: This is quite a nice phrase, the last thing. No,
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  Speaker 1: you could be the last thing you want or the
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  Speaker 1: last thing you'd want. So you could have wood here
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  Speaker 1: or not. And this is wood. By the way. The
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  Speaker 1: last thing you'd want is to have an accident. You
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  Speaker 1: can use that for other things, like you know, you
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  Speaker 1: should probably take an umbrella, and right, you should probably
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  Speaker 1: take an umbrella with you because the last thing you
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  Speaker 1: want is to get caught in the rain. You know,
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  Speaker 1: best packs and water with you because the last thing
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  Speaker 1: you want is to get thirsty on the road. You know.
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  Speaker 1: So the last thing you'd want is to have an
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  Speaker 1: accident or breakdown. And this is a breakdown. Okay, the
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  Speaker 1: noun a breakdown. This is when the car has a
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  Speaker 1: problem and doesn't drive anymore. That's a breakdown. That's the noun.
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  Speaker 1: We also have the verb version, and that's to break down.
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  Speaker 1: Notice that we if it's a verb, we stress the
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  Speaker 1: second part to break down. Okay, you better take some fuel.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't want to break down. The last thing you'd
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  Speaker 1: want is to break down. The last thing you'd want
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  Speaker 1: is to have a breakdown. So you have a breakdown
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  Speaker 1: or you break down. You hear the difference in stress.
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  Speaker 1: So when it's a noun, the first syllable is stressed
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  Speaker 1: break down, and when it's a verb, the second part
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  Speaker 1: is stressed to break down. The last thing you'd want
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  Speaker 1: is to have an accident or breakdown. You just want
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  Speaker 1: to be at home on these stormy nights. Theack thwhack
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  Speaker 1: of the windscreen wipers was hypnotic. So windscreen wipers. These
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  Speaker 1: are the things that on a car that helps to
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  Speaker 1: keep the water off the wind screen. They wipe the
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  Speaker 1: water away, right, Those things they call windscreen wipers because
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  Speaker 1: the glass here on the front is the wind screen.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, yes, British English, this is British English
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  Speaker 1: wind screen. In American English they call it the windshield,
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  Speaker 1: but in the UK it's called the wind screen. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So the whack thwack of the windscreen wipers thwack thwack.
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  Speaker 1: These are this is an on a matter payer a
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  Speaker 1: word that sounds like what it's describing, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: describing the noise that the windscreen wipers make. Thwack flack whack.
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  Speaker 1: The thwack thwack of the windscreen wipers was hypnotic, meaning
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  Speaker 1: it's sort of like the repetitive sound hypnotized the driver
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  Speaker 1: a little bit or something like that, sort of a
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  Speaker 1: hypnotic repetitive sound starts to put you into a trance
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  Speaker 1: or something. He stared out into the glow of the headlights.
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  Speaker 1: Stared meaning looked intensely like that, without looking away. He
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  Speaker 1: stared out into the glow of the headlights. So as
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  Speaker 1: I the car, I guess the glow of his headlights
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  Speaker 1: forming a glow, where as the rain is coming down
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  Speaker 1: a glow into the darkness. The rain sounded like white
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  Speaker 1: noise interference as it battered the car. White noise interference.
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  Speaker 1: So interference would be noise which comes in let's for example,
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  Speaker 1: let's say, for example, you're talking on the telephone or
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to the radio, and if there's other noise
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  Speaker 1: like that's interference. It's noise that interferes something else that
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  Speaker 1: you're doing, like listening to the radio. You have to
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  Speaker 1: tune the radio to try and try and get rid
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  Speaker 1: of the interference. So the rain on the car sounded
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  Speaker 1: like white noise interference as it battered the car. So
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  Speaker 1: we know what interference is. It's noise that sort of
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  Speaker 1: interrupts something. But white noise. White noises is a form
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  Speaker 1: of noise that has no distinguished, well distinguishable characteristics to it.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: No rhythm, no melody or anything like that. It's just
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: like the noise that you get when you turn on
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: an old TV and unplug the aerial from the back,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and you just get that's white noise. So the rain
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: sounded like white noise interference as it battered the car.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Batter means hit bam, bam bam. Right, he was reminded
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: of the opening scenes of a Hitchcock film. So, Alfred
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Hitchcockers was a filmmaker famous for his dramatic storytelling, his
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: dramatic visual storytelling, and this is the sort of way
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: that Hitchcock films would often begin. Hitchcock films are also
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: known for featuring like death killers, murderers, serial killers, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: things like that. So it's sort of a bit like
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the beginning of a classic Hollywood thriller or something like that.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Through the wash of the rain, he spotted a figure
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: at the of the road. The person wore a green
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Parker and had their thumb jerked out right through the
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: wash of the rain, he spotted a figure at the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: side of the road. A figure means the outline of
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a person. Okay, so he he spotted a figure at
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the side of the road and the outline of a person.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: The person wore a green parker. A green parker is
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: like a long green coat with a hood on it,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and had their thumb jerked out, so your thumb obviously
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: that when you go hitch hiking, your thumb is what
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: you stick out so people can see that you're hitch hiking.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: He had his jump his jum. No, jum is not
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: a word. I don't know what that is. He had
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: his thumb jerked out to jerk out. I guess means
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to stick out. So to jerk your thumb out is
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: stick your thumb out so people can see it. He
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: had his jump his jump again, why do I keep
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: saying jump? I don't know. He had his thumb jerked
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: out like that, showing that he was hitch hiking. Why
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: on Earth would anyone be hitch hiking tonight? Surely you
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: would just stay put until the morning. They must have
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: been in a rush to get where they were going.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Why on Earth would anyone be hitch hiking tonight? So
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: this on Earth we use this to sort of emphasize
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: our questions, and on Earth goes after the wh question word.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: So if it's, for example, why what are you doing.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: What on earth are you doing? Where are you going?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Where on Earth are you going? Who are you? Who
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: on Earth are you? And so on? How did you
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: do that? How on Earth did you do that? So
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: it just makes the question more emphatic. Why on earth
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: would anyone be hitch hiking tonight? Surely you would just
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: stay put until the morning. To stay put is to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: stay in one place without moving. Just stay put, stay
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: put until I get back. Wait here, stay put, don't move.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Stay put means stay in the same place. They must
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: have been in a rush to get where they were going.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: So the person is speculating here it's in the past,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: so that's why it's must have been. He's certain that
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the person was in a rush. Now, why would this be.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Why would this person be in a rush? Maybe they're
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: trying to escape or something like that. This is what
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the story is sort of suggesting to you. It's cleverly
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: written because the story is telling you this person is escaping.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: The hitchhiker is escaping from something. They're in a rush
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to escape. They're rushing to escape for some reason. I
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: don't think the character is Russian, though I think they're
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: both British. That was the Russian joke. Anyway, he signaled
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: down and pulled over. So when you're driving, you signal
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: with your indicators click click, click, click, click click signal left,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: signal right. In this case, he signaled down. I suppose
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: it means he signaled to pull over and he pulled over.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: To pull over is when the car pulled up at
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the side of the road and stops right, just like
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: a taxi pulls over in order to pick someone up.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: The car pulled over in order to pick up the hitchhiker.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Pull over and pull up as well means basically the
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: same thing. Stop at the side of the road. So
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: he signaled and pulled over. The hitchhiker climbed in. He
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: shut the door quickly, glad to be out of the rain.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: If you're glad, it means you're happy. You're relieved. Ah,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: what a relief to be out of the rain. He
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: pulled his hood back and sighed. Say that side. Ah,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: that's the sigh. He pulled his hood back and side.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: He was somewhere in his mid twenties and had wild
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: red hair and a thick beard. Wild red hair, I
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: suppose it's messy red hair and a thick beard. Awful night, eh,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: said the driver. The driver's quite friendly. Now the driver's
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: on this side. If you're watching the video, you'll see
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that the driver looks to his left because we are
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: in Britain, and in Britain we drive on the left, okay,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: which is in fact the right side of the road.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I know what you think, left, that's wrong. No, left
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: is right because left is right and right is wrong.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, of course, but anyway, in the UK
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: we drive on the left. So if you drive on
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the left, then the driver's seat is on the right
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: of the car. So as a driver, as the driver,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I'm looking this way when I talk to the hitchhiker,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: and the hitchhiker's looking this way. So the driver says,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: awful night, a awful night, trying to be friendly, and
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the hitchhiker held his gaze for a long moment. Someone's
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: gaze is the way that they are looking. So he
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: held his gaze for a long moment, meaning he stared
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: at him like this in his eyes. What did he say?
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Awful night? And then the hitchhiker's response is to do this,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: just holding his gaze, holding his eyes for a long moment.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Drops of rain water trickled down his face. Yes, yes
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: it is. This is the bit I enjoy. I enjoy
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: doing the faces of the driver in the hitchhiker. Yes
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: it is, yeah, said the hitchhiker. What's up with this hitchhiker?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Where's he going in such a hurry? And why's he
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: got such weird behavior? The driver pulled out, which is
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: the opposite of pullover in this case, pull out into
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the road to drive away and continued through the storm.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: The hitchhiker glanced over his shoulder into the blackness behind him,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: glances sort of like, take a quick look again, what's
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the what's this hitchhiker escaping from her? Like? Seems a
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: bit suspicious glancing over his shoulder. You okay, said the driver.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: The hitcher simply nodded, yeah, man, yeah, man, I'm okay.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Like are you okay? Yeah? I think so, hmm. Suspicious behavior.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: They drove on in silence for a short while. They
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: drove on me means they continued driving, So they drove
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: on in silence. So in goes with silence in silence
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and on goes with drive. So they drove on in
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: silence for a short while. The BBC radio phone in
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: blaring out from the cars speakers filled in for conversation.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: So the BBC radio phone in BBC Radio another indication
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: that this is in the UK because the BBC's the
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: British Broadcasting Corporation and a radio phone in, so phone
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: in that is a phrase. A phone in is a
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: radio show where people phone in. Listeners can phone in,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: meaning send telephone calls to the radio station and talk
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: to the presenter during the show. It's a kind of
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: chat show format. The radio phone in, so the BBC
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: radio phone in blaring out from the cars speakers. Blaring
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: out just means making a loud noise, so music blares
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: out from speakers. A radio show blares out from the radio,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: So the BBC radio phone in blaring out from the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: car speakers filled in for conversation, fill in, fill in.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: This is when something is missing and you put something
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: else in as a replacement. For example, if normally you
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: have Sarah as your English teacher and one day you
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: come to school and Sarah is not there and I'm
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: there instead, and everyone's like, where's Sarah. I said, Oh,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid Sarah's sick today. She can't come to school
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: today because she's not well, but I'm filling in for
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Sarah today. Okay, to fill in in this case, I
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: replaced Sarah for a day. In the case of the story,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the radio phone in the noise of the radio filled
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: in for conversation because there was no conversation, so the
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: radio sort of filled in the noise instead replaced the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: conversation that wasn't happening. They listened to the radio and
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: their own thoughts as they moved on. Just listen to
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the radio. Listen to your thoughts is a phrase that
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: we do say as they moved on. So we've got
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: drive on, move on. What else have we got with on?
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there are others, hm, I'm sure there are
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: others with on, But anyway, we've got drive on and
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: then move on, right. They listened to the radio and
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: their own thoughts as they moved on. Move on, continue moving,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: drive on, continue driving. Where are you headed? Asked the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: driver headed. To be headed somewhere means to be going somewhere.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Somewhere is your destination? Okay. For example, I'm just heading
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: to the pub. Do you want to come? When you
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: get to the pub, you head to the bar. Once
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: you've got your drinks, you head to a table you see,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and then when you're finished you head home. Okay, where
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: are you headed? Meaning where are you going? Basically north
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: pointed and the hitcher pointed. I don't know why it
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: was necessary for the hitcher to point north at this
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: in this case, where are you going north? All right?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Got my compass north that way? All right? Are you
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: traveling to visit friends? That so for the driver, he's
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: trying to make polite conversation. I imagine that the driver would
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: be using that sort of intonation trying to make conversation.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: So are you traveling to visit friends or that sort
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: of thing. Now, by the way, you could repeat after
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: me as we go through this. You could even go
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: back to the beginning of this episode this video and
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: repeat each line after me and try and copy my intonation.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: That can actually be a very good thing to do. Obviously, listen,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: understand the story, understand the bits of English I'm explaining
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: to you, but try to repeat the lines from the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: story as well, and try and give some color and
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: performance to it as well. So you could skip back
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: to the beginning of this and after each line, pause
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: and repeat the line after me, try and make it
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: sound like the way I did it as well. You're
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: traveling to visit friends? Are you? Are you? Are you traveling?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Not are you traveling? But are you traveling? Are you
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: traveling to visit friends? Hmm, that's what hmph means. It
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: means hm. The driver couldn't tell if that was a
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: yes or no. He couldn't identify if hum was a
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: yes or no. He adjusted his tie nervously. So if
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: you're wearing a tie, which is the thing that goes
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: around your neck when you're wearing a suit, and that's
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: pronounced suit, by the way, not sweet or suit, it's suit.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: So when you're wearing a suit with a tie, sometimes
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: you need to adjust the tie as it's around your neck,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: if it's a bit tight or something, or it might
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: just be a nervous habit to adjust your tie, adjust
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: meaning change the way its position, changed the position of something.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: He adjusted his tie nervously. The hitcher stared at him
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: in his suit and tie. So I'm imagining here that
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the hitcher has got nothing but contempt for this driver
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: in his suit and tie. Just to someone who works
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: an ordinary nine to five job, the hitcher seems to
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: be sort of an alternative type person who probably has
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: contempt for people who work normal jobs. The hit stared
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: at him in his suit and tie with a disgusting
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: look of contempt on his face. The hitcher seemed scruffy.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Scruffy means untidy in comparison in his Parker and pink
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Floyd T shirt. And this is the hitcher, right. Do
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: you work around here? Yes, said the driver, So this
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: is where as the driver. I'm trying to be as
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: innocent as possible. Yes, said the driver. I was stuck
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: late at the office. You know how it is. It's
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: maybe a bit posh. Yeah, I was stuck late at
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the office. You know how it is. No, not really,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: says the hitcher, unfriendly again. They drifted into silence a
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: bit awkward. They drifted into silence. Drift So when a
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: boat is on the water, it moves slowly, right, it
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: moves eventually, over time it drifts, and you can drift
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: into silence as well. That's when you slowly drift into silence,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: suddenly slowly become silent. So they're just sitting there in silence.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: The talk radio show carried on, So we got to
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: drive on to move on, to carry on, the talk
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: radio show carried on. As they drove through the wind
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: and rain, the hitcher shifted in his seat. That means
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: he's sort of changed his seating position. Maybe his bum
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: was getting tired or something. Maybe he was feeling a
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: little nervous or anxious. Anyway, he shifted in his seat
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: and stared out the windscreen, or stared out of the
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: wind screen. Windscreen is the big window at the front
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: of the car. That's the windscreen. Then you've got the
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: back window, You've got the side windows, but the main
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: one at the front is called the windscreen. In America,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the windshield. That's what they call it there. They're wrong,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: of course, it's a wind screen. Got the sounds of
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: drilling outside. No music, the hitcher asked, full of hate
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: and murderous rage. No music, he said, sharpening his knife.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: No music, then, but what is there no music we
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: could listen to. I really like the talk the radio
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: talk shows. I'm not really a music fan, said the driver.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: The hitcher's eyes glazed over for a moment. If your
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: eyes glaze over, it's like you suddenly become very bored,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: or it's like you're not really there. So I'm going
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: to try and show you my eyes glazing over on videos.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: This is me all alert and looking wide awake. But
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: if my eyes glaze over, it's like I'm not really
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: concentrating on at all. I'm not really looking at anything
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: in particular. I'm just lost in my own thoughts. My
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: eyes are glazed over a bit like if I go
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: into one of my classrooms full of students learning English
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: and I say, okay, everyone, today we're going to do
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: nine hours of pure grammar, and everyone's eyes probably would
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: just glaze over as they mentally switch off. So anyway,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: the hitchhiker's eyes glazed over for a moment, and then
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: he spoke, and this is where the hitchhiker is revealing
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: his slightly psychotic personality maybe and he says, I like
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: listening to music. Calms me down. When I'm in a
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: murderous rage, the music calms me down. Anyway, I like
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: listening to music. It calms me down, said the hitchhiker
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: in a slightly psychotic moment. The driver said nothing, I've
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: got a nutter in the car. Several miles later, here's
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: another indication that we are in the UK, because we
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: use miles rather than kilometers. A mile is about one
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: point six kilometers or kilometers several miles later, there was
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: a news bulletin on the radio show. A bulletin just
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: means a little news report. The reporter tried to remain
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: professional as she read the announcement. So apparently the reporter
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: was sort of shocked or nervous, but tried to remain professional.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: And now I do this. I'm going to do this
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: in my BBC News Report voice. We're getting reports that
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: a patient has escaped from a Manchester psychiatric institution. The
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: man is said to be psychopathic and is said to
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: have a history of murder. So we're getting reports that
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: a patient has escaped from a Manchester psychiatric institution. That's
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: fairly clear grammar wise, folkab wise. A psychiatric institution would
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: be a sort of a hospital for people with psychiatric disorders.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: That's mental disorders. Here's some grammar. The man is said
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: to be psychopathic and is said to have a history
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: of murder. This is just another way of saying that
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: people say the man is psychopathic. We don't know who
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: said this, or maybe it's not important who said this,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: or it's obvious who said this is probably going to
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: be doctors at the institute. The institution. Well, it's a
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: common phrase is said to be meaning people say, so
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: the man is said to be psychopathic and is said
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: to have a history of murder. Oh, the hitcher jabbed
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: a finger on the button on the radio panel, jabbed
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: we got jerked his thumb out for hitchhiking, and now
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: he's jabbing his finger on the button. To jab your
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: finger on the button means to poke the button, to
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: quickly press the button, bing like that quickly in order
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: to in this case interrupt the radio broadcast. So the
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: hitcher quickly switches off the radio or switches the channel.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Tinny pop music. It blurted out from the speakers. So
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: here's blurted out again, meaning when the noise comes out. No,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: we had blair out, didn't we before? B L A
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: r E. Blaring out from the speakers. Blurting out from
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: the speakers is basically the same thing people can blurt
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: out as well. That's when you say something that without
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: really thinking about it, ban the word just comes out.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: He blurted out the answer without thinking about it, for example.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: So in this case, tiny pop music blurted out from
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: the speakers. Tinny tin tin is a form of metal
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: but if you say that music is tiny, it means
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: that it's trebly. It doesn't sound deep and rich, it's
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: just the sort of just very trebly sounds tiny music.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Pop music blurted out from the speakers. The driver stared
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: at his passenger, his question unasked. So the driver is
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: kind of shocked about the news report. Someone is, someone
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: has escaped, a murderer is on the loose, a murderer,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: and the hitchhiker's just quickly turned off the radio or
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: turned the channel. And so the driver is looking at
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: his passenger like this, did I look the right way
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: in the story? I can't remember that. I hate the news,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: answered the hitcher. It's so depressing. It brings me down.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Depressing means makes you feel sad and depressed. It brings
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: me down means it makes you feel sad and depressed.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Don't bring me down with your bad news. You're bringing
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: me down. This sad music is bringing me down. There's
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: never any good news, is there, said the hitcher. The
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: driver didn't reply. Don't worry, I'm not the killer, said
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: the hitcher, fidgeting with his coat. The hitcher's fidgeting with
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: his coat. If you're fidgeting with something. It means you're
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: sort of playing with something in your hands, maybe because
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: you're nervous or you're thinking about something, but fidgeting means
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: kind of playing with something in your fingers. I always
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: fidget with my train tickets. Don't worry, I'm not the killer,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: said the hitcher, fidgeting with his coat. No, said the driver.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I mean no, of course you aren't. They drove on,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: listening to the crappy pop music. Crappy means bad an
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: over excited radio DJs. The DJ's on DJs on radio shows,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: they're always very excited like this. In fact, they're too excited.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: They're over excited. You're listening to the drive Time show
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: on Radio excited FM. The rain pounded on the car,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: bam bam, bam bam. What do you do for a living,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: asked the driver. The hitcher was quiet for a moment,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: then he grinned, can't really do a grin. You've got
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: to be a really good actor. He's quiet for a moment.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Then a grin is normally it can be quite scary.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I'm a writer, he said, Oh really, how interesting have
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: you had anything published? Said the driver, No, as yet,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I'm an undiscovered artist or another scary thing. Not only
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: is this person slightly crazy and ginger, but also they're
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: an undiscovered writer sort of person who has been slaving
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: away writing but no one has discovered their artistic talent.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: And we know, don't we from history that when poor
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: artists don't get recognized, what happens, That's right, they try
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: to take over the world and try and kill everyone.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: So this is another scary thing about this hitcher, that is,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: not only does he have ginger hair, which is obviously terrifying,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: especially on a dark night. I'm joking, of course, but
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: also he's an undiscovered artist, so he probably hates society
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and hey, people like this idiot in the suit, and
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: the driver says, I'm sure you'll make it. What are
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: you working on at the moment, I'm writing a novel? Oh, yes,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: it's about a serial killer. The driver didn't speak. He
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: flicked the radio station back on. Flick flick, flick, flick flick.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: You flick a switch. Flick means pewing, hit something with
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: your finger quickly, so you flick a switch, or you
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: might flick. Let's say, imagine this, there's a peanut sitting
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: on the table you don't want to eat it. You
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: want to fire the peanut across the garden, so ping
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: you flick it with your finger. That's flick as well,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: flick a switch, flick the channel on the radio. A
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: man was rambling on with himself about the change in days,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: his wheeling bit his wheelibins were emptied. So a man
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: was just talking about uninteresting things. Rambling means talking without
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: any specific purpose or direct long term listeners my podcast
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: should know. Rambling is what I do on the podcast
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: quite a lot, talking without a specific focus, just letting
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: yourself talk and meander and go from one subject to
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: the other. And it's rambling with an A, not with
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: a U. People often write in comments sections and stuff.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: I love your rumbling. It's not rumbling. Rumbling is the
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: sound of thunder. That's rumble, ramble, r amb lng, talking
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: without any particular direction. Also, rambling means walking in the
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: countryside for enjoyment. So anyway, a man was rambling on,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: meaning continuing to ramble. So we've had drive on, move on,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: ramble on, carry on. A man was rambling on with
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: himself about the change in days. His wheelly bins were empties.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Wheelly bins are big bins, big rubbish bins that you
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: put all your rubbish in in your black rubbish bags.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: So in your kitchen you've got your rubbish bin with
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: a black bag in it, and you put your rubbish
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: in there, and then when it's full, you tie it up,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: take it outside and put it into your wheelibin. And
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: the wheeli bin is outside normally the front of the house,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: and when the rubbish removal people come with their big van,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: they take the bin and wheel it on its wheels
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: to the back of the van and then tip the
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: contents into the back of the truck where it gets crushed.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: So a wheelibin is a large plastic rubbish bin with
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: wheels on it which you can move around. And wheelibins
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: get emptied by the council when they bring their rubbish
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: van through. And apparently this man on the radio was
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: basically talking about nothing important, talking about the days when
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: his wheelibins were changed, so nothing particularly important, just typical
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: radio talk show stuff. Where can I drop you, asked
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: the driver, meaning where can I you know, deliver you
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: in this in this car meaning stop the car and
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: let you get out. You pick someone up in a
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: car you give someone a lift, and you drop someone somewhere.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: You can just drop me outside the cinema, drop me
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: outside the office. Where can I drop you, asked the driver.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: The hitcher said nothing. When the driver glanced round, had
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: a quick look round his eyes. His passenger had his
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: eyes closed. He was either asleep or feigning slumber. Slumber
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: means sleep. Feining means pretending faking. Feigning slumber then means
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: pretending to be asleep, So he was either asleep or
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: pretending to be asleep. He was either asleep or feigning slumber,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: so he was and his eyes closed. They drove on
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: through the storm down the snaking lanes. Lanes are roads,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: narrow little roads. Snaking means they're turning left to right.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Here we have on comful dot com the picture that
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: normally accompanies this line of the story is not available,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: and instead we've got like a car that says this
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: content is not available in the background instead of a
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: picture of some rain or something. Anyway, the story continues
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: an hour later. The storm still growled and raged growled.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: That's growl is what a frightening animal would do, like
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: a tiger raw, or a lion rah or a crocodile
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: row or whatever it is. The storm still growled and raged.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: The hitcher looked out of the window. The driver steered
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: the car in silence. Steer the car, turn left and
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: turn right. Another news bulletin came over the radio. So,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: by the way, at this point, we all think that
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: the driver is a nice person who just works in
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: an office and who took pity on this hitcher, And
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: we think the hitchhiker is some kind of crazy, antisocial
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: madman who wants to murder everybody, especially this guy in
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: a suit. Another news bulletin came over the radio. We're
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: getting more information on the escaped patient. The killer's name
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: is Simon Hughes. He escaped from the Green Pastures Institute
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: earlier this evening. Okay, more information. His name is Simon Hughes.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: He escaped from the Green Pastor's Pastures Institute. Sounds like
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: a sort of institute for mentally ill people. Earlier this evening,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Simon Hughes made his escape by changing from his hospital
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: issue uniform into a suit and tie and pretending to
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: be one of the medical staff. He stole a car
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: and drove off. Okay, so this is where the twist happens.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: This is when we realize that the killer, the escaped killer,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: is in fact the driver of the car. Because he
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: escaped by changing from his hospital uniform into a suit
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: and tie and pretending to be one of the medical staff.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: He stole a car and drove off. The hitcher turned
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: to the driver, What did you say your name was? Now,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: as far as I know, the driver hasn't given his
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: name yet. Am I right? I don't think this the
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: driver's actually given his name. But anyway, this is the
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: question that you ask when someone has already told you
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: their name and you want to ask again, what did
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: you say your name was? What did you say your
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: name was? Meaning? What's what's your name again? What did
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: you Sorry, what did you say your name was? You've
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: already told me, but I'm asking again, what did you
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: say your name was? Another way of saying it is,
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: what was your name again? Sorry? What was your name again?
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: My name is Simon, said the driver. The hitcher stared
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: in shock. Simon grinned. The headlights of a passing car
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: glinted off the knife blade in Simon's hand, Dan Dan Dah.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Simon is the killer and he's got a knife. Simon grinned.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: The headlights of a passing car glinted off the sign
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: off the knife blade. So the headlights reflected glinted off
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: the knife blade in Simon's hand, and that is the
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: end of the story. Okay, there you go, all right, listeners, Okay, viewers,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: So that's been another story on Luke's English podcast. I
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: hope you've enjoyed it. Listen to some of my other episodes.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I've got lots and lots of other episodes with stories,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: loads of them in fact, on my YouTube channel. I've
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: got a playlist which is called stories, and obviously that's
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: going to contain stories. But not all of my episodes
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: are on YouTube. You should know. So go to my
• 52:41
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• 52:44
  Speaker 1: find the episode archive. Let's have a quick look here
• 52:48
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• 52:51
  Speaker 1: on episodes and then you will find the entire episode archive.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: And I've got over seven hundred I've got nearly seven
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty episodes here a lot. I've been doing
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: this for twelve years. Okay. The podcast is mainly an
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: audio podcast. I also do YouTube videos sometimes. I've been
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: doing more YouTube videos recently. But if you are someone
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: who's just discovered my podcast on YouTube, you should know
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: that I have loads of episodes of the audio podcast
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: which you can listen to. And if you're thinking, Luke,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: can you do an episode about this? Can you do
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: an episode about that? Can you do more stories? There's
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: a good chance that I've done episodes about the things
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: you're interested in, and I have done lots of stories before.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: So if I just type in story, we'll see what
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: we find. Let's have a little look here. I did
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: one about Michael Jackson. Episode nineteen. Let's see number twenty
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: nine is a mystery story that I wrote, which also
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: you can use to learn narrative tenses. You heard me
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: talking about past continuous and past perfect and past simple.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: You get all of that from episode nine. Let's just
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: have a look at a couple of other examples we've got.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Sick in Japan is this true story of how I
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: ended up in a hospital bed. I thought I was
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: gonna die in Japan. Luckily I was okay. The pink
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Gorilla story is an improvised story full of comedy and
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: a stupid chase. I get chased by a pink gorilla
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: through the streets of London. And there are many many
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: more things like that, more stories, and more interviews and
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff in the episode archive, so check
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: them out. Thank you so much for listening to this
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: episode of my podcast. Another thing I should say is
• 54:37
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• 54:40
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• 54:44
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• 54:47
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• 54:50
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• 54:57
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• 55:00
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• 55:04
  Speaker 1: mystery story I wrote, and in that story you can
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: learn fifty different ways of walking, fifty different words, different
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: verbs for walking. That's a lot, all in an interesting
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: mystery story. And that's in my app on your phone. Soon.
• 55:24
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• 55:28
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