872. The Birthday Party (Learn English with a Short Story)
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- Опубликовано: 10 мар 2024
- Learn English with another short story. This time it's a 300-word story by Katherine Brush, often used in literature classes, full of vivid imagery and with an emotional twist. I read the story to you, and then go through each line, explaining vocabulary and grammar.
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Hello! It's interesting to read the different interpretations you have of this story. 💔❤
I assumed that the wife is the victim here, but some of you have a different perspective. What did he say to her? After at least 10 years of marriage, wouldn't she know that he doesn't like surprises like this? What is the significance of the pink candle?
In any case, it is a sad story and we just want them to be happy together!
They should go to couples therapy🙂
I think that not all people like to be surprised, especially introverted individuals. They often dislike being the center of attention. The husband appears to be introverted and is upset that his wife didn't realize this after spending these years together as a couple!
By the way, once I was people- watching, and some guys misunderstood me and sent me a kiss in the air, which embarrassed me!
I guess every couple should go to the therapist 😅
@@olenamazur2548 Probably, except Luke, I'd rather see him as the therapist😉
@@NicaVero_ that's true .He seems peaceful and balanced. 🤗
Happy Ramadan for all Muslims are used to watching this show ....Ramadan Mubarak
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You're a really great teacher and I like to study with your short stories. It's a real pleasure. Thank you!
Excellent story! Also, Ramadan Mubarak to all Muslims who are watching this show...
Ramadan Mubarik Sir.
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Thank you and happy Easter for all Catholics in World
Despite I am a Spanish and my poor knowledge of the English language, was very easy for me to understand the story and your explanations. Congratulations
Unmistakably you are a good British teacher thank you for your nice short story
What a heartbreaking story... I could imagine the hole episode as I would be there... And I enjoyed very much your explanation of this little "tragedy". Thank you!
You make me love the English with your own storytelling style.
Luke, You’re a great teacher. I wish the best for You.
It has been a long time that I was looking for a perfect method to learn English. Appreciation is in order for your unique method and all your efforts.
I LOVE WHEN YOU TELL SHORT STORIES, these are my favourite videos. Thanks you for everything.
Luke, thank You so much for this episode! Brilliant work! You're not only taught us the vocabulary, but also had provided a good lesson of fine literature and life itself.
Happy ramadan today for all muslims in world thanks so much mr luke handsome 🎉❤
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Thank you very much, Luke, for your interesting podcast. I enjoy all your episodes, but I particularly prefer the short stories. Please prepare more episodes of short stories.
Thank you! It was incredibly interesting to hear your explanations about the use of words to create a dramatic story.
Thank, teacher Luke, for helping me learn English better and easier. Your videos are very helpful, especially for beginners like me. Please try to make more similar videos. Thanks a lot🥰🥰
Thank you very much, Luke! Your work is important
Excellent as always ✨
With your brilliant accent and wonderful explanations 👉we visualized all the characters and scenes !!!
👉you are an amazing English teacher ✨📚💯🎧🎤🎼👏
Thank you Luke for another episode. I love listening to you, it means a lot to me. I repeat your comments, this is how I learn phrases and words😊 Cool !
Barbara
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This is my first time that I listened your podcast, and I realized that was a great work. Thank you very much from El Salvador
By the way thanks a bunch for being as good teacher as you are . I like listening to you as frequent as I can and it has always been really helpful!
Such a sensitive and rich performance Luke. Thanks a lot!
Thank you for this lesson which includes the nice short(important :)) story with the tender and insightful guide of you , and moreover you can help us talk and think about their feelings in ENGLISH. -a lady From Korea.
Definitely, one of the best and fresh way of teaching English 👍
Dear Luke , you are reading stories to us the way you speak as a native . This is what people want . Read with stories. When you read I can imitate your text along with you .Millions out there expecting you to read out with text .
Thanks, teacher Luke. The story itself is plenty of adjectives, adverbs and phrases to describe personality, feelings and human condition despite it is sad too because of the husband reaction. Very useful, indeed! Have a nice week!
As for the end of this story it is obviously clear that this couple has been suffering for many years(((nothing will change till the moment one of them will split up such a sad marriage...unfortunately it's a reality,and while they are together they don't have a chance to be satisfied ,calm and happy.....
Who knows? It was only a moment of their lives....I do not like watching people while they are sitting at a restaurant having dinner at all. It Is their private lives. I wish them love AND peace!
One of those lovely, relaxing and perfect episodes, you would listen to more than once ❤
Thank you Luke for trying to teaching. I like your way of teaching.
Hello! I'm charmed by your voice! And I'm captured by your work here! I'm studying English, happy to find your podcast ❤
Thank you for the great lesson, and for editing the video with text on the screen, Luke! For anyone getting ready for the IELTS writing test, this lesson has a lot of great descriptive vocabulary words for you to learn!
Hello Luke, I’ve been listening your podcast over month now and my english is getting better each day. I wish you all the best - you deserve it! Just keep doing what you’ve been doing. You’ve got the power to make other people feel happy! Thanks a lot.
Yes, I don't know why, but I'm felling like you.
Hola, estoy aprendiendo el ingles americano, confirmame si ese acepto es britanico? ó no importa?
This story was heartbreaking. Also, you can really relate because all of us have either seen or probably even experienced something like this. Apart from good listening practice, it's a great writing model, too!
I am not used to listen british english! But I just loved to hear your class, your english. And I am very happy that I understood everything! Thankyou
Maíra from Brazil 🇧🇷
This is a masterpiece of a short story and what it makes it really sad is your wonderful explanation of line to lline.There are things I would not think of myself but completely agree with you. I really sympafised with the woman and felt sorry for her.Catherine Brush has an exquisite sense of observation catchi g the hidden meanings in people ' s behaviours. Thank you for this story and your comments.
read it with you, really can get the great of how this short story delivered. The loneliness, hopelessness in marriage is expressed unmistakably without even a single word to say it
Though the story is simple and brief, it is very sentimental and thought provoking, what i feel is the couple lacks mutual understanding and love which is inevitable for a warm relationship... Thanks a lot Mr. Luke the great teacher❤❤ wishes from God's own country...
Thanks teacher Luke i hope that you know how much you have wonderful impact on all my learning English and make another joyful day god bless you
Luke, thanks a lot for this story and your deep rereading of it! This almost forgotten feeling of diving into lines and internal conversation with the writer!
These comments sum up the purpose of reading a passage of a story. As readers we all rewrite our own version of events as described by the characters.
This for me personally is the beauty of reading.
Hello, Luke! Thank you very much for your videos and podcasts! Episodes about real life thought-provoking stories like this are so compelling!
Thank you, teacher Luke. The lesson that i learnt from this emotional story is to know the person you're with. I mean, their behaviours before they beat you with their arrogant.
I love these stories. Thanks for your great work.
Hi Luke, thank you very much for your last episode. Your reading was impeccable as usual, and all the comments were pertinent. Listening to you explaining not only the meaning but also the valour of the phrase “fadingly pretty” it occurred to me that literature shows us a wider use of language and let us see not only its practical utility in terms of communication but also its beauty (its increasingly beauty). Thank you again and cheerful greetings from Argentina! Sebastián (the regretful ninja)
Thank you for this great story. 😊
You are a unmistakably great teacher
Hi there , I am brasilian, and I am very happy to find your RUclips channel . Thank you, it's really great 👍
Teacher Luke! Thank you for your teaching intensive reading comprehension!!!!
Awesome work! It made me think it could be turned into a nice class activity) Sort of " finish-the-story" or "what-do-you-think-might-have-happened". Thanks a lot, Luke!
Thank you for choosing the story and the explanation 😊
Thank you Luke that you have been running your channel! We are happy to see you!!!! Your channel is super useful entertaining and wonderful!!!!
This video was suggested to me by RUclips and I am grateful for this. I'm trying to reach the fluency by myself, and the way you teach gave me courage to study again. A huge hug from Brazil.
Thanks a lot, Luke, for your captivating podcast. I thoroughly enjoy every episode you release.
0:00: 🎉 A short story about a birthday party with a twist.
5:52: 💔 A heartbreaking story of a couple at a birthday party, revealing their strained relationship through subtle interactions.
10:59: 💔 Heartbreak and hidden unhappiness in a seemingly glamorous marriage.
17:06: 👫 Insight into a couple's relationship dynamics based on unmistakable behavior indicating marriage.
21:25: 💔 Fading beauty and sadness in a relationship affecting a woman's appearance.
26:58: 🎂 Embarrassment over a simple birthday cake reflects the husband's arrogance and lack of appreciation.
32:21: 📖 Revelation of the wife needing help discreetly, husband's embarrassment highlighted through language use.
37:37: 💔 Difficulty facing a distressing situation, leading to avoiding eye contact and waiting in discomfort.
43:14: 🎩 A woman in a carefree and happy mood cries under the big brim of her hat at a party.
You are amazing Mr. Luke's
The story really touched my heart. It’s about English couple in an enough old time, but such things may happen and happens everywhere. But thank you, Luke, for the nice lesson!
I really enjoy it. The situation was a little bit sad at the end. Thanks a lot luke.❤
Be excited in the way you interpret the story! Thank you so much!
Yes Luke is a great teacher!
Тhanks Luke!I decide to listen short stories for the first time.I like your explaining of words .
Thank you so much
Great! Thank you!
Thank you you are great teacher
thank you for sharing an interesting but sad story. Anyway, I like your detailed elaborations on the vocabulary of the story.
Hi Luke, a short, good story. A snapshot of the feelings in a relationship. Well explained by you and good for reading and practising speaking.Thanks for that.
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Красавчик, отличная работа!
Thanks for the prodcast!!!
You are great man Luke, happy Ramadan for all Muslims
Thanks! The best english teacher in the world!
Thank you so much!
Hi Teacher Luke, I always really enjoy your episodes because they are so attractive as well as your way to analyse them. My heartiest congratulations and kudos on your amazing performances and your professional skills.
I love your stories and more importantly the way you explain them to us. Thank you
Your are so right!
I am delighted to find your podcast on RUclips. Many thanks from Sydney Australia.
Thank you, Luke for your story and your time🙏
I enjoy your reading... thx a lot
Thank you very much ! Very helpful !
I think this moment 47:28 at the restaurant concentrates the whole life as a wife of that woman. It was a life made up of numerous disappointments and delicate fillings that only met rudeness and indifference . In my opinion this is the motif of her fainted prettiness, the life with a self-satisfied and gross man. I imagine her eyes being often brimmed with tears.
Thank you so much for reading and explaining this short story.
Hi thank you so so much l love your padcast and your explain 🙏🙏🙏
Очень грустная история, разбивающая сердце. Не смотря на языковые различия все мы люди и чувства испытываем одинаковые. Всем добра и взаимопонимания 🙏🏼
The explanation is very clear and easy to understand. Thanks for this lesson. As a non native speaker, this kind of podcast helps us for our English listening skills...
your stories have given me the ability to gain more vocabulary.
I become more fluent.
I appreciate your dedication.
keep going 💪
All of us, I think, know this kind of couple... Thanks Luke, you are a great narrator too, like Mrs. Bruch.
Thank you❤
Thanks Luke. Thanks for all you do. And, Happy Ramadan 🎉🎉🎉
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Thank you for your help! Best regards from Poland! 🖐️
Luke, thank you very much. What a great idea to read, retell and explain interesting stories like this one.
Thank you dear Sir Luck💐🙏💐🙏💐
I love the way you tell story is just amazing!!
It's great of the way you explain. Thanks so much
Thanks so much for sharing the best way to explain vocab & meaning
🙏Really amazing learning experience
Excellent analysis of the theme and the vocab
I really enjoyed it, not only as a lesson, but as literary experience. It makes may day. Thank you.
47:07 Have a lovely day mr luke ❤
Happy ramadan to all Muslims
I am proud that I was able to understand the first minute of this video
Its ashamed that I don’t have a time to see and hear all your stories.. from time to time i come across your stories and I enjoy it and learned alot… thank you alot ..
You are the best, Thank you so much! I am from Brazil.
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Luke, You’re a amazing teacher. Thank you.