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Zdenek’s English Podcast

Are you studying English alone? Are you at B1, B2, or C1 level? Do you need more listening practice? If so, I might be your guy!!! 😇.I’m a university and DELTA-qualified English teacher from the Czech Republic with almost 15 years of experience teaching English to foreigners in the Czech Republic, UK, Ireland and Vietnam. Come along for the ride!

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Episode 183 - Freestyle Chat with Marzena and 2...

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/07/23

In this episode I talk to Marzena, a colleague teacher of mine from Poland. We discuss how this summer school experience has been for us so far, including its positives and negatives. We also tell a few amusing anecdotes. Later in the episode we get a surprising visit. Despite my initial reservation, we go along with it and it turns out to be a wonderful conversation.

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43:06

Episode 182 - Talking to Mark aka Russian about...

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/07/17

In this episode I meet up with my Russian friend who happens to be living in London since he was ten. When you speak to him, you wouldn't really think at all he actually is a non-native. We mostly talk about his experience and challenges of learning English and we also delve into British education system a lot. Mark is one of the best people to have on my podcast because he is an English learner that made it. So if you want to find out more, for instance how we two know each other and what are

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36:00

Episode 181 - London adventure: talking to Michaela -...

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/07/13

Finally I managed to come out of my comfort zone and accepted an offer to work in Wembley, London for a few weeks teaching kids in a summer school. In this episode I talk to Michaela, my English colleague. She is somewhat a globetrotter and she has been nicknamed Sunshine. It's very interesting to listen to her adventures which lead her to this point.

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38:48

Episode 180 - A Word with A Rising Star Teacher (part 2)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/07/05

This is the second part of the interview with Marvin, an English teacher from Great Britain. Following the previous episode, we continue talking about teaching English, but we also go into football a bit.

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29:32

Episode 179 - A Word with a Rising Star Teacher (part 1)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/06/17

In this episode I talk to Marvin from England who is an English teacher just like me and who has similar approach in teaching. He is very positive and passionate about teaching and definitely a great guest to have on the podcast. He aims high and I find that very inspirational. Fun fact, he is actually a listener to my podcast, although he is a native speaker himself. Don't forget to tune in for part tune which will be published some time next week.

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42:26

Episode 178 - How I Took IELTS ( part 2)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/06/11

This is the second part of a 2-part series about how I took the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) exam. In this particular episode I go on about the speaking part of the exam.

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Episode 177 - How I Took IELTS ( part 1)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/06/03

In this well prepared double episode I will be telling you how I took the IELTS exam. I will look into what went according to plan, what shocked me, where I lived up to my expectations, how I coped with a lack of sleep, and my overall feelings about the exam experience and how satisfied I am with my score in all 4 parts.

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29:37

Episode 176 - Garden Ramble

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/05/28

This episode was recorded outside in my garden. I took on a challenge to talk without any prior preperation, without having any notes, or following a script. I also refrained from doing any post-recording editing, keeping in all hesitations, false starts, etc. So if you want to hear me struggle to keep this 30-minute monoluge going, have a listen. As for the topics and themes, I ended up talking about different things such as the weather, my English fluency, my future, my broken computer,

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41:18

Episode 175 - First Lepster Meet-up in Prague (part 2)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/05/27

This is the second part of the episode which was recorded during the first Lepster meet-up in Prague. It starts with an arrival of a Japanese Lepster Yusuke. In this episode we discuss what makes Luke's English Podcast so great, we talk about our favourite episodes, and we specualte over possble objectives Luke could achieve in his life. On top of that, I ask everyone a blasphemous question "what the worst episode of LEP is" and why we think that, Jakob ,who is half-French, gets

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Episode 174 - First Lepster Meet-up in Prague (part 1)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/05/20

This episode was recorded during the first official Prague Meet-up of Luke's English Podcast listeners. It features listeners Zdenek (Czech), Jakob (French-Czech), Alex (Russian), and Michail (Russian). The entire episode is dedicated to Luke's English Podcast as we discuss numerous questions related to it such as "when did we start listening", "how do we describe a true Lepster", etc.

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Episode 173 - Computer Games with PP1

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/05/06

This episode was recorded during a class with my students from the Middle East. The topic was computer games. My students talked about the impact on children, they explained why there is so much appeal for the latest generation, and even explaining some of the computer gaming slang words. At the start of this episode I included a short invitation message. There is a Lepster meet-up taking place in Prague on Saturday, May 13th. All fans of Luke's English Podcast are welcome to join. Listen to

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52:12

Episode 172 - On Travelling with Monika and her Crew

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/04/09

In this episode, I meet up again with Monika. Just to remind you, episode 90 called On Shopping with Monika, which I recorded in London a couple years ago, is according to the stats I have at disposal the most popular "non-Luke" episode of all times on this podcast. Monika is my university classmate and a good friend. This time we met up in Pardubice, Czech Republic and we were also accompanied by her co-workers Dovile from Lithuania and Ludovica from Italy. We were drinking alcohol during this

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39:16

Episode 171 - Insomniac

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/03/31

I recorded this episode because I couldn't fall asleep basically. I think it is quite apparent in my voice. first I welcome new Zeppers, I encourage people to vote Luke in British Podcasting Awards, I briefly talk about my future, I introduce you my new videos that I started doing, and finally I mention the episodes I have in the pipeline.

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Episode 170 - Luke Back on ZEP (part 5 - analysis)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/03/10

This is the final part of a 5-part series called Luke Back on ZEP. Similarly to the previous episode, in this one I am looking at another 25 interesting features of English Language that come out of my conversation with Luke. Linguistically this involves vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, as well as discourse. It might occasionally get a bit geeky but I tried to go for language diversity so, on the whole, I hope that you find this useful.

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55:12

Episode 169 - Luke Back on ZEP (part 4)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/03/07

This is an extension to the triple episode named Luke Back on ZEP. In this episode I am looking at first 25 of total 50 interesting features of English Language that come out of my conversation with Luke. Linguistically this involves vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, as well as discourse. It might occasionally get a bit geeky but I tried to go for language diversity so, on the whole, I hope that you find this useful.

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Episode 168 - Luke Back on ZEP (part 3)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/02/20

This is the final part of a chat with Luke Thompson from Luke’s English Podcast. In this episode you can hear about what Luke likes teaching the most, what are some of his favourite teaching techniques, what it was like recording Pink Gorilla Story 2, and also what episodes he enjoys doing the most. Besides, you will find out more about what the secret of Paul Taylor’s rise is and what it would take to do a live LEP meet-up with listeners.

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Episode 167 - Luke Back on ZEP (part 2)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/02/18

This is part 2 of the Skype call conversation I recorded with Luke right after receiving my module 1 DELTA score. After an introduction in which I try to address the Lepsters to check out ZEP's archive, Luke and I continue with our relaxed free-flowing conversation talking about how our podcasts are doing in general. We mention what kind of episodes we appreciate about each other's podcasts. Luke does impersonations of Obama and Trump as a comical relief and then goes on to revels some cool

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Episode 166 - Luke Back on ZEP (part 1)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/02/14

This series of episodes was recorded a couple of hours after I learnt my result of DELTA module 1. What could possible be a better way for me to celebrate than having Luke Thompson back on the podcast? Honestly, I don't know. As the chat was quite long, I decided to divide it into 3 separate episodes. In part 1, we discuss our experiences of taking the Cambridge DELTA and then we try to break the commonly believed stereotype of a native speaker teacher of English being superior to a

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Episode 165 - A-Z Game with Ritual People

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/02/09

I decided to turn my English class with people from Ritual agency into a recorded freestyle conversation. Yet again, I refreshed the good old A-Z game. This was a wise decision as it lead to a very lively debate. We end up discussing some swearwords so do not listen if you are a prude. As ever, don't forget to leave your feedback.

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Episode 164 - A bit of Banter with Major (part 2)

Zdenek’s English Podcast ·

2017/02/05

This is the second part of lighthearted and extremely geeky chat with George aka Major or Emperor. In this one we go through all the characters of Kingdoms of Deceit and discuss the game's other various aspects and we end up on a high note arguing about the meaning of the phrase "The Dog's Bullocks". You should not listen to this if you are aged under 18, there is some explicit language in there and a bit of bullying towards me. Anyway, as you know I like to cover different things on this podcast

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