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!
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.
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, ice ho...
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 mindblown when h...
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.
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 thi...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 "beh...
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 non-native o...
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.
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 podcas...
This episode of the podcast features another playtester of Kingdoms of Deceit from Nottingham in England who goes by the name of Major, Emperor Zero or simply George. We mostly end up winding each other while trying to talk about Kingdoms of Deceit, the game I have been developing. In this part 1 we talk about the people we play with, the reasons why Major is a great podcast guest, reasons why he likes to play KoD and last but not least Major shows off his infamous God's voice. Also you will be ...
In this episode, I ask you to help me select the best jingle for Zdenek's English Podcast future episodes from top 5 tunes which were randomly generated for me on Jukedeck.com . Please listen and then come along to Zdenek's English Podcast Facebook group where you can vote for your favourite jingle.
This episode features Clare, a history graduate and currently an English teacher who has lived and studied in both Czech Republic and Russia. We go through various topics, especially teaching English, but also Clare's experience of living abroad. Finally, we touch upon Donald Trump and the radicalism in the society.
This is the second part of a chat with Eva and her boyfriend Mark. This time it focuses on their working experience in a Greek hotel which did not exactly go according to plan. After that we move on to the topic of Brexit. At times, the episode feels like an angry rant of the three of us but is certainly inevitable. We did try to lighten the atmosphere up to end on a positive note so Eva and Mark give some recommendations on how to spend a holiday in Prague. Despite having a negative tone becaus...
Do you remember Eva from England whom I met during my Celta course duing summer 2015 and who nailed it with that post-CELTA interview? Well, guess what! She is back. And this time she brought her cool boyfriend, too. It's a pleasure to listen to them because of their clear RP accents. So in a nutshell, this is an interview with two native speakers from England recorded in a pub in Prague. In part one we talked about Mark's dissertation. Mark is a linguist and his mission is to teach computers sa...
good old RTC is back!!! Enjoy I and Honza looking back at the previous year and celebrating the coming of year 2017!
This is the concluding episode of Taking the DELTA series. First, I shall tell you about my impression of the Module 1 Exam. This is followed by my sincere apology. But more importantly this episode is a large chunk of 4 interviews. which was recorded on the last days of the DELTA course. This gives you a unique chance to listen to my 4 classmates who also took the course. Who are they? How do they evaluate the course? Would they recommend it? How did they feel during the course? What was the ha...
In this episode you will find out whether I passed Module 2 of the DELTA Module 2 or not. I also answer couple of questions and address a few topics. How did it feel when I received the email about my result and in what kind of way did I read it? What are my reasons for getting this particular kind of result? Do I have some reservations about the DELTA Course and if so, what are they? What are some of the most important things I learnt about myself thanks to the DELTA course? And lastly I someho...
This is part 4 of "Taking the DELTA" series in which I embark upon a perilous journey of trying to describe my feelings during a super intense full-time course for English teachers which I took in summer 2016. This particular episode is devoted to my remaining assessed lessons. This episode is the core of the whole series. I experienced some unforgettable moments which enabled me to understand my own personality better. This episodes involves some explicit language so I do not recommend it to li...
This is the third part of Taking the DELTA series. How did I did in my first important assessed lesson? What do you have to do to pass an LSA? What does LSA even stand for? Find answers in this episode. As a bonus, I am adding a recording my friend Ethan and his friend custom-recorded to glamorise my lesson plan.
The is the second part of the Taking the DELTA series. In this part you hear me fixing a few problems that arose during the last episode. The main content revolves around me talking about the DELTA interview which I needed to pass in order to be accepted for the DELTA course, about what my typical DELTA day looked like, and my feelings of trials and tribulations during the DELTA input sessions and how it contrasted with my university years. There are a lot of put-downs and self-criticism involve...
In the first part of this episode I remind everyone what this podcast is and why I decided to start doing it years ago, as well as explain my long podcasting absence. In the second part I move on to the main subject which is the DELTA Cambridge course which I took this summer. There is only time for the intro in this episode. I will tell you more in the subsequent parts of this series.
Hello listeners, here is one more episode before I embark on a journey of professional development. I should be back after about 2 months. In this particular episode I catch up with my friend Ethan, a native speaker from London. You might have heard some previous episodes we recorded earlier, if not feel free to browse the archive. The topics of this episode are obvious. It's Brexit, football and also generally what Ethan has been up to.
This episode features my very good friend George. In it we give our top 10 lists of our favourite board games. What are our favourite games? Why do we enjoy playing these games? Do we have any crossovers? Can we guess each other's top 5? As well as good recommendations for great games or games you could use in the classroom as a teacher, you can hear some general banter between 2 friends. Listen out for some interesting slips and even grammar mistakes on my part. Feel free to give us feedback on...
This is the second part of the discussion with Shaun, my native speaker friend who I met through playtesting my board game called Kingdoms of Deceit. In this episode we talk about this game. We explain what it is, and how you play it. Shaun will tell you what he particularly likes about the game as well. We also invite you to join this wonderful community of online board gamers where you can get to know a lot of native speakers and practice your English with them while having fun. If you are up ...
This is a highly requested episode which I recorded with my friend Shaun, a native speaker from England. This particular part is devoted to Brexit, a decision of the UK to leave the EU, which shook up the country and pretty much shocked the whole Europe. What are some possible implications for the UK? How does a member of young adult generation feel about this? Shaun has a lot to say. Don't forget to tune in to part two in which we will talk about my game Kingdoms of Deceit.
