I saw the King's speech. I got about an hour into the film before I realized it's not about a peach. Yeah, now that was a joke. If you are laughing, nice one, good for you. But if you're not laughing, that's all right, because it's quite a bad joke, really. Now, I'm going to talk about 127 hours in the next episode, so I'll leave that until later. And they're about acts of bravery and courage in the face of difficult challenges. They were both nominated at the Academy Awards this year.
Hi! Learn some really useful idioms and listen to an authentic interview with a native speaker in this episode of Luke's English Podcast. This episode is about The King's Speech - an excellent film which recently won 4 Academy Awards at The Oscars, including the award for Best Actor for Colin Firth. FOR VOCABULARY NOTES & DEFINITIONS, LISTENING EXERCISES AND VIDEOS CLICK HERE
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