854. The Invitation (Learn English with a Short Story)

🎧 Learn English with a short story.
🗣 Listen & repeat after me if you'd like to practise your pronunciation.
💬Learn some vocabulary in the second half of the video.
📄 I found this story in answer to a post on Quora.com asking about true scary stories.
I thought I could use it to help you learn English. Can you understand the story, and predict the twist at the end?
📄 Read the original by Lance Stephenson here www.quora.com/What-are-the-be...
🔗 Page for this episode on my website with a word-for word copy of the story teacherluke.co.uk/2023/11/28/...
🏆 Sign up to LEP Premium to get extra episodes in your podcast app of choice, all about vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, with stories and more www.teacherluke.co.uk/premium
0:00:00 Introduction
0:03:01 Story starts
0:09:45 Story summary
0:21:05 Vocabulary teaching

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It's a pleasure learning English with you! Parliament should give you a monthly payment for spreading the language like that 😊.

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@@relishrodriguez4954 ; There was a time when having a place in Public Administration was not a profession 🤔

[@jessie566]

Thank you for your enthusiastic teaching. You looks like an actor sometimes, which makes it really fun!!

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Hi Luke. Please more videos with short stories and vocabulary explanations. On the one hand, you learn the formal language, on the other hand, you learn the everyday language when explaining vocabulary and you are so good at both!🤟🏻

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well, there are many videos of this kind in the premium subscription.

[@yurymaestrovitkalov160]

Hello, Luke! Thank you for the story. I think it's a great and a sad story. The guy came to the wrong house. They were not his aunt and uncle, but they seemed to be happy to have a visitor. Maybe they were very old people, maybe they had Alzheimer's disease. And they really didn't want him to leave them.

[@aifoc5054]

Yeah, that's what I also thought

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they wanted to kill him and eat

[@nadjetkellal5557]

Never be naive and trust people you don't know.

[@nadjetkellal5557]

It's a matter of staying the whole night with them and being uncoscious of what is happening around you !!

[@HuongNguyen-dl9qs]

Right. I agree with you guys, the risks were possible in that house. Luckily, he felt an urge to escape from there. Such was a good feeling. The old couple might have been dangerous or might not, but a potential risk was hidden somewhere in the house.

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More podcast like this pls 👍👍 Best regards from Italy !!🇮🇹

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You are the best English teacher I have ever seen!

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I like your podcast for many reasons. I wouldn't enumerate them, but you simply have become my source of inspiration for acquiring the language the most practical way. Thanks very much for bringing us all very interesting episodes one after the other.

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Thanks so much Luke for all your podcasts especially when you share with us the short stories; I love listening and reading them👍👌😊

[@esraalev]

Hello there! Tonight's weather where I live, with its wind, thunderstorms, and rain, is setting the perfect mood for a creepy story. The wind is howling, thunder is rumbling , and rain is pouring down, creating a frightening atmosphere outside. And I love creepy stories 👀

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Your pronunciation is incredible, you are one of the few people I understand perfectly with the level of English I have right now. Greetings from Cuba.

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Thanks Luke! You are wonderful. It was a pleasure to be here with you during this time, listening, learning, laughing and imagining the meaning of the story...

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Luke , please make all your videos like this video include analyzing the vocabularies and grammars

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the way you describe the words, particularly the adjectives is incredible and make thek fixed in memory

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Excelente voz, pausa, ritmo, para educar el oido. Gracias, gracias

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Hello Luke, thank you for another story! I like very much the way you teach english. With your stories I improoved noticeably my leastening skills!❤️❤️❤️

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I came back to English and I'm glad to watch you again! 😊

[@agnieszkag.9581]

I listened to this story twice: during the day and late in the evening. The time of day affects reception! In the evening, the story seems more terrifying. And your comment on this story, Luke, makes it even scarier when you suggest what might have been an ingredient in the dish, what might have been in the locked room. Such uncertainty and ambiguity stimulates our imagination and evokes greater fear than some obvious bloodthirsty monster.😮

[@catherinegergeaux5561]

Hi Luke, It is only yesterday that I came across your podcasts. A genuine pleasure to hear speaking english as if a friend was talking to us. Or sharing part of the afternoon, casually chattering with us in our living room. Today I listened to the short story you called The Invitation : I found it really thrilled and compelling ! Let me tell you why. As soon as the author drove through the countryside, signs of desolation appear - scattered here and there in his story : the poor reception of the phone, the old fashioned map he had to rely on, the roads without any names and the scarce post signs if any... at last this thickening sense to be away from any kind of civilisation... Lost ! Let's go further... The house completely covered in leaves, branches and overgrown trees : there we are ! At that stage, I felt we were heading to a kind of a split space-time story ! (which would have been fine, too) Ant then, comes this fairy-tale encounter. Now, imagine the old couple ; from their point of view a stranger has suddenly appeared in the night, a lonely young man lost in the remote countryside. Well,then : a warm -hearted welcome will confort him, for sure, and what's best than a nice stewed meal to lift his mind up ?! We would had been grateful to any parents if our beloved son - those room is shut since its departure (or death ?) - had recieved such warmful greetings. And since the lost young man showed signs of trouble or despair - he never stopped talking of his family and of a cousin whom he should meet here - We decided to keep him here over night - sound and safe - presuming that a return home would have been too hazardous in his state. The following development gave us reason - for as soon as we headed to our son's room - left empty since his departure - and getting it ready for him, our young fellow had vanished ! Disappeared in the thickness if the night ! What a weird feeling indeed ! For my part I do believe this story is true. It also can be seen as a metaphore of what this young man was then living. Il belongs to him and only he will find out. What is sure is that he still recalls it seven years later... Kind regards

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I've been listening to this story for the third time, I write down the most important and useful words and phrases. And it's really helpful for improving my English, I think. Anyway, Luke, I just wanted to say you that you are an incredible teacher. And you are the number one teacher for me. 🎉❤

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Thank you very much, Luke😊. Learning English through story was engaging as always. My favourite type of podcast on LEP. Do them more often, please 🙏 I wanted to add that your podcasts are included in the recommendation list for emproving listening skill, in the first place, by one popular English school in Russia - Inglex. This was exiting to find out 😉

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It is the first time I hear your podcast and I absolutily loved it . I learned a lot in a very pleasant way. You are an amazing teacher. Thank you. Regarding the storie, I think he was very clever to get away from there, because the night would bring the really scary part of it.

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Thank you for sharing a Premium episode. You sound like having a bad cold, hope you get better Luke.

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this is very wonderful series, please make more videos about teaching English with a short story like this, thank you so much

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This is a brilliant story. You read perfectly, the pauses are very well made - it is easy to understand the story. Thank you! 🙂

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I really like your short stories but sadly have finished all of them recently. Hope you can introduce more stories ;) Thanks!

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Hi, Luke, I am delightful to hear the story. As I said before you are fantastic narrator. I love that ❤

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알아듣기가 쉽고, 집중이 잘 되고, retelling해주고, 이야기를 전체적으로 스토리텔링해주니까, 생각하게 해주는 수업이네요. 퀄리티있는 수업 감사합니다 ^^!

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OMG ! That was spine-chilling. I expected a more dramatic ending, though! Thanks for the content. I love your podcast.

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Thank you teacher Luke. I enjoyed the story. I cringed when his mom said his aunt called and said he never arrived. At first I thought he was rude. Later I was very happy to learn that he got a narrow escape. Thank you.

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The premium podcast has more short story episodes! I’ll do more on the free podcast as well.

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Hi, Luke! The moment you read the first lines, I expected to hear something like the story about how a cousin lured the main character to his house and locked him in a room with an enormous wild very aggressive Brazilian cat. The story was written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Though I was mistaken, the story you read is not less tense, creepy or scary. And I don’t think he confused the address. Remember, he had never contacted them, let alone seen them, and all of a sudden, he got invited to their place . It looks very suspicious , to say the least. The character of your story was clever to follow his gut feeling, which saved his life. Thank you for all your episodes. And congratulations for your baby son. May he be a healthy child!

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I've chills... A strange atmosphere took hold throughout this story which lead me to imagine what could happen in such a weird situation. Brrr

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You're an amazing teacher! You deserve a medal (or maybe a monthly award) for helping people learn English! 0:00: 📚 The podcast episode features a short story used for teaching vocabulary and grammar. 5:45: 🃏 A visit to the aunt's house turns into a fun game night of Uno. 12:30: 👥 A man receives a dinner invitation from relatives he has never met before, leading to a surprising and remote encounter. 18:00: 👻 A mysterious and potentially scary story about strange people and odd behavior. 23:58: 📶 The video discusses phone reception and network coverage. 30:00: 🗺 The video discusses the concept of layout and giving excuses in conversation. 35:49: 🍽 A man finishes a meal prepared by unknown people, raising questions about their intentions. 41:58: 🚗 The speaker discusses the efficiency of different types of cars and explains the meaning of 'puzzled look'. 47:34: 🤔 The video discusses assumptions and irritability in a situation. 53:19: 🤔 The speaker recounts a story of going to the wrong house and causing confusion with their mom. 59:33: 🎙 The speaker discusses the plan to cover grammar in a premium episode and encourages listeners to sign up for it.

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