880. Is Paris ready for the Olympic Games 2024? 🏊 (Article + Vocabulary)

I read an article about Paris' preparations for the 2024 Olympic Games, discuss the issues, summarise the article and explain plenty of vocabulary. Is Paris ready for the games? What are the attitudes, complaints, expectations and fears ahead of this potentially controversial event.
👉 Episode page teacherluke.co.uk/2024/04/29/...
👉 Article theweek.com/sports/olympics-2...
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:03 Premium news / Vocabulary workshop
0:04:00 Topic begins / Reading from notes
0:04:57 The Week (newspaper)
0:07:36 Questions to think about before reading
0:08:47 Article reading
0:14:29 Summarising the article & discussion
0:58:17 Vocabulary explanations

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[@Oleg-gl4mn]

Luke, thank you for this great episode. Actually, when we hosted the Olympics in Sochi, a vast majority of people opposed to it, because it was too expensive. But now, from my perspective, I can say, that it’s much better to spend money for the Games rather then for wars… ☮️

[@MrDRIYKO]

Russia spent about $70 billion on the Sochi Olympics. Forbes estimated the cost of the war to Russia at $10 billion per month. So far they must have spent 260 billion on killing and destruction.

[@gusfring588]

I'm French, I can say I'm afraid about Olympic games in Paris. There are many problems. Anyway I hope it goes well

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Great way of teaching, thank you so much. Hat up!

[@mollietai8946]

We all wonder. Step up to the Games. Safety is under the radar. God bless France!

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France! ...go to the hill

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Great theme treated in light moment. Thanks teacher.

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Thank you very much. Very interesting article and excellent lesson.

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Hey luke, I really do appreciate ur effort with this lovely article, it was awesome Love ya from AFG 🇦🇫

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[@hm.dasjerdi-yd2us]

Hello Luck!! I really was hoping for another walk and talk one! 😂 It's always great pleasure to see you again. And about Islam, the face covering is called, Borghe that is banned in most of the countries but wearing scarf to cover the hair is fine. Olympics in my thoughts has lost it's meaning because I think it has been created to bring the world together and help a less known country to be known but in these years it became a belonging of rich nations to pass it between themselves

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[@cyuen5381]

Thanks for your class. It is an interesting articles.

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Dude the quality of video is impressive! Did you get a new camera?

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I also thought so! Impressive!

[@weilinlee5649]

Hello Luke, Listening to your podcast is always full of pleasure, this episode 880 is no exception. Thank you very much for expounding this article on different opinions about the upcoming Olympic Games along with such detailed explanation and usage of vocabs and phrases. Thank you again for your time and energy to do such a great podcast, I've rally leaned a lot.

[@elenachazova1562]

Luke, in this video you can be heard using the Olympics as a singular noun. I'd expect both the Olympics and the Olympic games to be plural and used with plural verbs. Would appreciate your explanation.

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

The short answer is that the slight majority of people and publications refer to the Olympics as singular and the Olympic Games as plural. The idea is that the Olympics is one event or one thing (as another example, think of one huge, week-long concert like Woodstock where multiple bands are playing). ellii.com/blog/grammar-rules-for-the-olympics#:~:text=The%20short%20answer%20is%20that,where%20multiple%20bands%20are%20playing).

[@manuela7182]

Given the upcoming winter Olympics in my hometown Cortina, your video was very interesting! I share the same fears and worries. Fingers crossed, let's hope everything goes well.

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IT HAS BEEN STUNNING. THANKS

[@lilanguyen814]

Luke is so excellent. Thank you very much😊

[@Polina_Bragina]

Hi Luke! Thank you for the episode. It was interesting, informative, and entertaining as well. Talking about the Olympic Games these days, I would say that is a controversial event because our world is facing such problems as climate change, economic recessions, and wars. Why do governments waste so much money for this and not for more important things? On the other hand, it gathers people around the world together and potentially creates an open and friendly society, where competition exists only in sports. Furthermore, there are professional sportsmen for whom this is the main event in their careers, usually quite short. I used to watch the Olympic Games when I lived with my parents. They were being broadcast on TV which was often turned on during some competitions. Now I watch KZbin mostly and I’m not interested in sports so much. I prefer to watch corgi races instead 😆

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[@Bihi_Lotfi]

Thank you so much Luke, it’s really very helpful to learn vocabulary through stories or some news. In the timing 28:36 of the video, spended is my English isn’t yours 🤭. Even in Arabic language we make too many mistakes . Thank you so much ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Peace 🕊️

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[@injujuan8993]

I think you are lovely, I think France 🇫🇷 and Paris in particular are lovely and this pre-Olympic talk was absolutely lovely ❤❤❤

[@graciestroh]

Yeah! It’s really hard to Olympic Games in Paris Stadium when I am in the stadium so everyone so excited! So many exciting! And the atmosphere was great to watch and the 😂 celebrations! Good luck! USA team! 😊

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[@vuhoang3053]

tks you i can keep update many information about Olympic. Personally, although this sport even can have some issues, i think it will be successful to support economy for France

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I have learned a lot of useful vocabulary

[@francoiseponteville]

Hello Luke I appreciate a lot your podcast, it’s a very interesting subject. I of ten go to Paris and I feel thé same

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[@emanuelcarvalho6240]

I live in Rio de Janeiro and absolutely nothing has been done!

[@vivianayacar3041]

Very interesting article!!! I don't mind the Olympics at alll

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[@veronicabroccardi9375]

Hey Luke! Have you happened to watch the new series 'Baby Reindeer' by any chance? I think it would be an interesting topic for one of your episodes.

[@denerbernardes9970]

Congratulations on the Topic covered. here in Brazil this problem is much bigger they are exchanging nature for increase in P.I.B (gross domestic products) i know the subject is controversial however in my opinion until the issue of overpopulation is resolved it is impossible to reverse ecological devastation. I live in Minas Gerais land of Pelé my grandmother said that when leaving the house on the farm she had to take the dogs due to the presence of Jaguars... today there are not even fish in the rivers... MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON US. 😥😥🙏🙏🌿🌴🌴🇧🇷

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Luke, thank you very much for your podcast, I watch it periodically and I like it very much. I live in Russia, and this situation with the invasion in Ukraine and the whole war that is currently taking place in this region, of course, is concerning all of us. It's terrible, exhausting and unhuman action. We're all against this war , we're against putin and all what he's doing in the world. We're getting very scared for what this so-called politician is saying about the nuclear strike, about the invasion, about the war, about killing civilians and killing in general. Thank you for your words and your understanding of this tense situation. I want you to know that we against the war and it is very dangerous to have such opinion in Russia nowadays. I could go in prison for these words and all critiсism of russian system. Sorry for my poor English ..that's why I listen for your lessons.

[@MrDRIYKO]

Respect to you man! It's great to find out that adequate people are still there

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[@mafiamafia915]

Hope we'll be able at least to watch the games here in Russia. Thank you for the lesson!!

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[@julianatheodoro6071]

You are right! I live in Rio and all those promises were just a lie. They refurnished some parts of the city, while others are still not good. A good thing about it,it is that "The Porto Maravilha" they rebuilt is still a nice place to visit on the weekends,other than that,we still have a lot of things to be done.

[@neochtang]

Why did the article say “Plan Bs and Cs” instead of “plan B and C”? If there are more than one plan B, what does plan C mean?

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Good point

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Now its a new Olimpic discipline Swiming on open water

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[@sezenpalaz427]

I think there are pros and cons … if I were Parisian I wouldn’t want a big event in my city because of the huge chaos it would cause !!

[@bernardhernandez6882]

The recording of this episode is not perfect, there are a lot of cuts during the hearing

[@veronicabroccardi9375]

Hey Luke! Have you happened to watch the new series 'Baby Reindeer' by any chance? I think it would be a good topic for one of your episodes😊

[@LukesEnglishPodcast]

Yes, I saw it. Totally dark and messed up!

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I imagined that you felt a bit empathetic with the protagonist when he did stand-up comedy😅

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@@veronicabroccardi9375 Yes, but thankfully my experience wasn’t quite as bad as his.

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Except of the Russian Joke 😂😂😂

[@vlad_popovich]

thank you, Luke. topicks become deeper when you light it up with your olimpic torch of thoughts. lol !warning! stupedly created by Human Intelligance after watching learning materials

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sir it’s scorching in 🇧🇩

[@Ivsaprikin]

40:46 на самом деле,Кремль больше волнует заявления Макрона о том,что он отправит своих солдат воевать с Россией,чем олимпийские игры

[@Ivsaprikin]

@@Mike-fn8dj я не говорил ,кому что можно и кому что нельзя ... Речь была о том ,что волнует Кремль . Макрон то может солдат отправить ,но закончат они как на днях по Часовым Яром закончил Габен Шупо

[@Ivsaprikin]

@@Mike-fn8dj и да ,если уж Макрон так не любит Россию и Путина ,то пусть не закупается рекордными объемами газа ... А то Кремль ему козни строит , а он кремлю целые карманы денег напихивает

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Hi teacher from Ukraine❤

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かっこいい！！！

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Love from Iraq 😊

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Our iraqi team will be there in Paris to join in Olympic games ❤

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Light - lit - lit - Lighting - Lighteningh (ligthen) - lightning. OH MY..... hahahahaha

[@catdoggy6548]

explanation　is very good thanks

[@valergio572]

I'm not a skeleton😄 By the way, people are so stupid - they want Olympic Games in EU, and don't want to stop the war in UE. Thanks, Luk!

[@mohamedadam3089]

British accent is difficult.. I don't know why???

[@abdulkadircldr4053]

!!! Thank you Luke !!! I try to listen to you. And I love you and your podcast. you mentioned the Olympic games, but I wish you mentioned Palestine a little bit. Which one is the most important now for you game or death? Strangely, you have never talked about Gaza in your podcasts. Why??? Are you afraid of your career?