880. Is Paris ready for the Olympic Games 2024? 🏊 (Article + Vocabulary)
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- čas přidán 23. 06. 2024
- 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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Your concern is justified. Because Israel can organize terrorist attacks on behalf of Palestine or any other organization that may be associated with Palestine. Israel always commits terrorist attacks and other crimes under a false flag. For example, how Israel attacked the International Trade Center on 9/11 in New York in 2000. Israel has created many extremist organizations such as ISIS, Al Qaeda and others to commit crimes against Islamic and Western countries. In Tel Aviv there is a special “Islamic Institute” that trains “Islamic preachers” whose task is to pretend to be Islamic preachers to induce teenagers and not very smart adults to commit crimes against innocent people in Islamic and Western countries. Many crimes have been committed around the world in this way. One of the latest is a terrorist attack in Russia, in Moscow, in the Crocus City Mall shopping center. ) We should all pray that the Olympics in Paris will be safe and we should all help the police and be vigilant. ☮️
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 than for wars… ☮️
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.
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I'm French, I can say I'm afraid about Olympic games in Paris. There are many problems. Anyway I hope it goes well
Your concern is justified. Because Israel can organize terrorist attacks on behalf of Palestine or any other organization that may be associated with Palestine. Israel always commits terrorist attacks and other crimes under a false flag. For example, how Israel attacked the International Trade Center on 9/11 in New York in 2000. Israel has created many extremist organizations such as ISIS, Al Qaeda and others to commit crimes against Islamic and Western countries. In Tel Aviv there is a special “Islamic Institute” that trains “Islamic preachers” whose task is to pretend to be Islamic preachers to induce teenagers and not very smart adults to commit crimes against innocent people in Islamic and Western countries. Many crimes have been committed around the world in this way. One of the latest is a terrorist attack in Russia, in Moscow, in the Crocus City Mall shopping center. ) We should all pray that the Olympics in Paris will be safe and we should all help the police and be vigilant. ☮️
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We all wonder. Step up to the Games. Safety is under the radar. God bless France!
France! ...go to the hill
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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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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 CZcams mostly and I’m not interested in sports so much. I prefer to watch corgi races instead 😆
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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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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.
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I have learned a lot of useful vocabulary
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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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I think you are lovely, I think France 🇫🇷 and Paris in particular are lovely and this pre-Olympic talk was absolutely lovely ❤❤❤
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.
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).
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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 .
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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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Thank your for this amazing video, you have no idea how it helped to me! It gaved me too much vocabulary. This is the first time i watch an entire video and i learnt a lot. Regarding to your question about the fact of celebrating olympic games in Paris, I honestly hope everything goes well. France is a country that I love specially because i lived there (in Toulouse) and they deserve the best. If I were french, I'd be proud of belong to a city hosting the Games. It is the oportunity to display all the good things they have!
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.
Respect to you man! It's great to find out that adequate people are still there
You are not a Russian, it's clear. Russian people love their country and of course their President. We are for Vladimir Putin. We don't meet real Russian people who say bad things at the head of the country. A lot of people pretend they are Russians on purpose to say awful stuff about President. It a simple vile policy.😊
One more blind hater of Russia. Nothing new...
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
Luke, you definitely need to make one long episode, something like 3 hours long, just dedicated to all the accents and impersonations You do. Cockney, posh cockney, Robert De Niro, Liam Neeson, Obama etc, etc, etc...I am laughing every time. Thanks for the great entertainment.
After EuroBasket 2013, there were many unfinished hotels and stadiums left in my country. Corruption is the main problem of such events.
Great podcast, and very ilustrative of the many problems the whole world is facing. Race, pollution, religion intolerance, and so on. In every story there are many sides you treated them wisely.
As a French living in Paris I can say that apartment rent prices are going crazier than usual because of Olympics. We are not ready yet for the infrastructure like bus and so on. And let’s hope there will be no heatwave 😅
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Very interesting article!!!
I don't mind the Olympics at alll
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It’s a really good episode, I listened twice to it, learned some good vocabulary and also some good facts about the Olympic preparations😄😄😄love love love to this podcast 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 oh and please name things as they are like you did for Russia and Ukraine, it’s not war between Hamas and israel, it’s a genocide by israel against the indigenous people of Palestine ☺️☺️✨🫶🏻
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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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Thank you, Luke, for the almost two hours of enjoyment! Especially I liked your reincarnation into a London’s gangster, despite the lack of comprehension the ascent.
Hope we'll be able at least to watch the games here in Russia. Thank you for the lesson!!
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Very interesting podcast. Thanks a lot even " I suffered " lol lol " for all the vocabulary . I'm French acting on a humanitaria mission in El Salvador. I'm not interested in these games espacially in this period of great unrest in the word.
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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.
Looking good, dude, looking good! Hey, Luke, have you seen Liam Nisson as Cupid video? It's hilarious!
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26:37 Hi Luke, Was that *nationalised* or *naturalised* as French?