The Lumber Room (Learn English with a Short Story) [979]

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  Hello, listeners.

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  Welcome back to Luke's English Podcast.

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  How are you doing today?

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  I hope you're doing well.

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  Yes, in this episode, it is time for another short story on the podcast.

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  I'm going to tell you a short story and then use it to help you learn English in context.

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  Today's story is called The Lumber Room, and it was written by...

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  Hector Hugh Munro, who is better known by his pen name, which is Saki.

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  So an English writer of short stories and considered to be a bit of a master of the genre of the short story.

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  Have you ever read any other work by Saki?

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  Do you know this writer?

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  This is one of his.

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  well-known stories.

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  This story is just under 2,000 words long so it will probably take about 10 to 15 minutes for me to read it from start to finish.

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  After that I will summarise it to help you make sure that you've understood the main details.

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  And then I'll go back through the story text line by line and I'll take the time to explain a lot of words,

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  phrases, bits of grammar and so on.

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  So listen to the story, try to follow it.

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  You can consider that to be a little test of your English listening if you want.

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  Then keep listening and I will summarise it all so you can check that you've definitely understood this,

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