Tom Wilkinson

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Hello, I'm Tom Wilkinson and welcome to the Thinking in English podcast, a podcast for intermediate to advanced level English learners.

Today we're going to talk about one of the most famous historical objects in the world, the Bayeux Tapestry.

The Bayeux Tapestry is a huge piece of embroidered cloth, about 70 metres long, covered with pictures showing kings, soldiers, ships, horses and battles.

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Hello, I'm Tom Wilkinson and welcome to the Thinking in English podcast, a podcast for intermediate to advanced level English learners.

British food has a bit of a reputation.

I'm sure that, for a lot of you, the words British food brings to mind boiled vegetables or overcooked meat, greasy breakfasts and meals that are, above all, rather bland.

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Hello, I'm Tom Wilkinson, and welcome to the Thinking in English podcast, a podcast for intermediate to advanced level English learners.

Where is the best place to study English? Is it better to move to Britain, the US, or another English-speaking country? Or can you learn effectively at home? Does studying in person produce better results than studying online? Is a private one-to-one class better than a small group or a large class? What about structured lessons that teach grammar and vocabulary compared to conversation-focused classes? In this episode, we're going to look at the research behind these questions and try to work out what makes an English learning environment effective.

The goal of this episode is to explore what combination of place, teaching, interaction, and practice gives you the best chance of improving your English according to academic research.

Yeah.

supercharged musical family of Tim Wilkinson, Tom Wilkinson and Lynette Murdoch have sort of been the organisers and creators and then the idea is essentially we play some fantastic music and get together and have dinner and yarns together and then the proceeds go to a charity of some sort so this year they'll go to Hospice Taranaki And yeah, well, part of it's just that you get to spend three or four days amongst relatively like-minded people doing something creative outside the hubbub of ward rounds and emergency resuscitations.

Yeah, and also having that wonderful impact on the community with the money going towards the hospice in the area.

Yeah, no, it's, I think, and it's also one of those things that music's traditionally had quite a long history of having charitable works associated with it, I guess.

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[pensive music] Hello, I'm Tom Wilkinson, and welcome to the Thinking in English podcast, a podcast for intermediate to advanced level English learners.

Singapore is one of the wealthiest and most modern countries in the world, but that wasn't always the case.

Today, I want to discuss the history of Singapore.

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Uh, stupid bullshit aside though, uh, we got some great connective tissue here that is worth paying attention to, uh, for kind of the side enjoyment we have on these type of episodes, but also might prove you are a secret mastermind, Tom.

I might.

Uh, both-

I love it

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I don't know how you keep on doing it, Tom, but, uh-

Me neither, Finn.