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Zdenek’s English Podcast

Zdenek Lukas•rss.com
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Language Learning

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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Episodes

Episode 116 - Graham in the (Kebab) House (part 1)

In this episode I took my friend Mirek up on the offer to meet up with Graham from Canada to carry out an improvised interview. It took place in Samer's Kebab right before the Linguistic Circle, which is the event I have been organizing for my students. Graham is an educated young businessman from Canada who has already got some vast travelling experience which he is willing to share with us. He will also tell us a lot about his stay in the Czech Republic and The part 2 will follow. Let me know ...

Apr 22, 2015•42 min

Episode 115 - Chat TIME with Alex (part 2)

In this episode we pick up on the light-hearted chat with Alex from the previous edition of the podcast. In this one in particular I try to throw in selected idioms related to "time" but admittedly it does get out of control on couple of occasions.

Mar 27, 2015•45 min

Episode 114 - Chat TIME with Alex (part 1)

This is the first part of an interview with Alex, a Czech girl who has lived in Canada for a short time and whose brother was on the team of people responsible for the film Hobbit.

Mar 19, 2015•40 min

Interview in Czech with My Former Russian Student Kuba

This is my first attempt to record an episode of a podcast in my native tongue. The way I speak speak there is really weird but I hope learners of Czech as a second Language find this interesting and motivating. Kuba is an example of a guy who learnt Czech to a high level in a record time so if you wonder how he managed that, and more, listen to this.

Mar 06, 2015•35 min

Episode 113 - The Conditional Rant

This Episode is the long awaited unveiling of the rap song I have written in order to teach you conditional clauses and wait for it...I HAVE ALSO RAPPED IT! First of all I explain what got me to do this and what kind of challenges I had to face. Then you will have an exclusive chance to listen to the full song (about 7 minutes) and finally I will give you a vocabulary analyses of chosen expressions from it. On balance, a real treat, don't you think? :)

Mar 03, 2015•44 min

Mirek's Interview with Zdenek from ZEP

I was interviewed by Mirek who is going to write his thesis on Podcasts in English Language Teaching. I speak about Luke's English Podcast, my podcasting journey and I make an unsuccessful attempt to do a Cockney accent.

Feb 26, 2015•18 min

A Short Message - My New Toy

This is just a short message for you to fill the time before I release the interview with the winner of ZEP competition :)

Feb 19, 2015•10 min

Episode 106 - ZEP Competition (6-7th Place)

The person who finished in the shared sixth/ seventh place of the competition is revealed in this episode. I also take a brief look at the genitive case.

Feb 02, 2015•45 min

A Short message

This quick message is mainly a call on Ben from Algeria to get back to me so that we can record his competition entry. I also outline what kind of blunder I made with Daniele's contribution. In addition, I shortly talk about how I featured on the Chatcast as a host with 7 more people.

Jan 19, 2015•4 min

Episode 104 - Michal and Bart's First English Interview

In this episode I decided to give a chance to two young Czech teenagers to have a say on the podcast. The first ten minutes are the introduction to this episode. I basically explain the context in which this recording was made. After that I start shooting loads of questions at Michal and Bart to keep the conversation going. We talk about their attitude to English, their interests such as bodybuilding, handball, and so on and then we plunge into the animal world with a series of questions about a...

Jan 14, 2015•34 min

Episode 102 - Ethane (part 3)

This is the final part of the interview with Ethan recorded in the second largest city in the Czech Republic Brno. For this one I prepared idioms related to music. At the end there is another piece of music from Ethan.

Dec 29, 2014•27 min

Episode 101 - Ethane (part 2)

This is the second part of the interview with Ethan I recorded in Brno. This time we focus on Ethan’s music and his DJ career. Ethan exclusively provided some pieces of his music for the podcast. I selected the one I liked the best and played it at the end of this episode. This is where you can listen to his music or even download for free: https://soundcloud.com/ethane.

Dec 28, 2014•37 min

Episode 100 - "100"

This is the 100th episode of Zdenek‘s English Podcast. Naturally, I used this milestone episode as an opportunity to review my podcasting history, but also to greet all my listeners and thank them for being with me. A special tribute was paid to Luke’s English Podcast and shootouts sent to people who run other podcasts of Leppers’ production. I once again made it clear what my future plans and ambitions are. Admittedly there are some obstacles in my way but I tried to give a motivation speech to...

Dec 27, 2014•44 min

Episode 99 - Ethane (part 1)

This episode was recorded in Brno. It features an interview with my English friend Ethan (at the time of the recording slightly under the weather) who has come to live to the Czech Republic for a term as a part of his university programme. I ask him about his experiences living here, about the encounters with Czechs. Ethan explains what it is like to study Czech and tries to compare his university city Bristol to Brno. He also foreshadows what we will talk about in the second part of this interv...

Dec 14, 2014•34 min

Episode 98 - Competition Announcement

In this episode I am going to tell you about a competition which I have decided to launch for you, i.e. the listeners of this podcast. I hope you will all understand my instructions and at least some of you will take part, if not with the ambition to win, at least just for the hell of it. So this episode is about me kind of laying out the rules of the competition and also giving you reasons as to why you should enter it. Don't forget the registration deadline is 24th December. If you are interes...

Dec 07, 2014•15 min

Episode 97 - Iceskating with a Lifeguard

This is an improvised episode, recorded in an ice rink, which I produced with a friend of mine who has recently come back from a working holiday in the USA where he worked as a lifeguard.

Dec 03, 2014•34 min

Episode 96 - The Accent Girl

In this episode I called on skype Gabriela from Brazil, my favourite contestant of Luke's English Podcast competition. She is only 13 and has already wonderful English. Especially her accent and pronunciation are truly admirable. I tried to present a theory as to how she managed to do that. We discuss various topics, such as learning English, Luke's English Podcast, Doctor Who, and more. Don't forget to listen to the very end. Gabriela made an icing in the cake for you - a recording in which she...

Nov 29, 2014•49 min

Episode 95 - Talk with Bill: Language Dissection

This is the last episode from a mini-series featuring the American pastor Bill. In this one I scrutinize the interesting items of vocabulary for you. I hope you find it useful and I apologize for slight deviation to the correct pronunciation of the words dissect and dissection. If you want to know about the cut-throat competitions of other podcasters that I am facing these days, my attitude to it and how jealous I was that the triumvirate of Leppers had Luke on their brand new podcast called Cha...

Nov 20, 2014•36 min

Episode 94 - Questions for Bill

This episode of the podcast is a direct continuation of the intriguing dialogue I had with the American pastor Bill in episode no.92. This part is basically Bill’s interaction with the podcast fans whom I asked prior to the interview to come up with some interesting questions. What temperature is there in hell? What brought Bill to faith? In Bill’s opinion, toward whom is there the largest religious intolerance in the USA? What does Bill say to my obstinate animosity towards anyone trying to hav...

Nov 11, 2014•28 min

Episode 93 - Sticky Notes (Installment 1)

This is a brand new improvised episode in which I decided to go through some of the sticky notes found in my room and explain the bits of vocab written on them. I have recorded and uploaded it in a record time = in less than 2 hours, which has never happened on this podcast. For this reason this episode is a ground-breaking one. It will certainly give you a taste of what it is like when I record myself without editing. don't forget that it is an improvised episode. Hence it brings a lot of hesit...

Nov 05, 2014•45 min
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