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Luke's English Podcast — «Anyone fancy a brew right now?» — (MP3/Audio)

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<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-size:17px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  — [https://goo.gl/gT1Gbw] In this episode_______________________Everything you need to know about the culture of tea-drinking in the UK.</span></div></H2> <br /><br />

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<div class="JBMCode"> Luke Thompson is an English Language teacher from London but now he teaches English at a university in Paris, while working on other projects including Luke’s English Podcast. He started Luke’s English Podcast in 2009. He is also a stand-up comedian, which means that he likes to stand up in front of audiences of people, and make them laugh.  <br /><br />

He has experience of teaching courses in business English, academic English, legal English, general English and English for exam courses like FCE, IELTS and BEC.  <br /><br />

He graduated from Liverpool John Moore’s University in 1999 with a BA Hons degree in Media and Cultural Studies. He worked at various media production companies before going into English language teaching. He took his CELTA in 2001 and then his Higher Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults (DELTA) in 2006 at UCL. <br /><br />

He writes a lot of ELT materials, and he develops a lot of courses in business English and EAP. He has written original courses for English for the Pharmaceutical Industry, English for the Oil and Gas Industries and English for Journalists, as well as communication skills workshops in presentations, meetings and negotiations. He is a semi-published author with some of his work being used in materials publications in several countries.</div> <br /> <br />

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Essay — «Shopping at IKEA» — A Five Paragraph Persuasive Essay [PDF]

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<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  — [https://goo.gl/RdE01l] Key words: Ikea, ecological modernization, sustainable development, consumption,  discourse, critical discourse analysis, human ecology._______________________IKEA wants to be seen as green.</span></div></H2> <br /><br />

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<div class="JBMCode"> Ecological modernization is a set of principles that presupposes that resolving the environmental crisis can be done within the current capitalistic system. </div> <br />

<div class="citajbm"> IKEA refrains from formulating consumption as an issue of concern, and instead focuses on conceptualizing environmental solutions in innovation, technology, and unclear definitions of sustainability. Additionally, IKEA seeks to increase consumption (defined as sustainable) as part of its environmental policies.</div> <br />

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<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My Hook / Attention Getter :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> When buying home furnishings, most people prefer brand new products, but at what cost? Others will go for those that are already used and are cheaper, hence compromising the value. </div> <br />

<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My transitional sentence :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> Imagine, however, if one could buy something brand new, which has been used, and recycled, at a fair price? Well, IKEA makes it all possible. </div> <br />

<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My Background :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> At IKEA, they reduce, reuse, and recycle while not compromising on the quality of their merchandise. </div> <br />

<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My Thesis Statement :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> IKEA offers a 1) large variety of products, with a 2) large inventory, and 3) lower prices. Affirming that everybody should shop at IKEA, the world-renowned furnishing company, is equipping you with a long-lasting advice. </div> <br />

<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My first body paragraph :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> IKEA provides an “all under one roof” kind of environment with a variety of home furnishings. Its categories include closets, bookshelves, kitchen and bathroom fittings, children’s beds and various other home additions (Jaramillo 52). IKEA provides products with fresh designs that are not confined to a particular class of people. Moreover, its designs will satisfy the diverse tastes that consumers have. One cannot simply walk out of an IKEA store without getting anything that appeals to his needs, style, and sense of allure. The company has included the customer’s prerogative into the way they make their products and an assortment the shoppers can choose from such that the consumer has a sustainable living (Ravn, 23). </div> <br />

<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My second body paragraph :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> IKEA offers the kind of inventory rarely seen among other companies in their dealings with the consumer. They allow the customer to check out the products and even carry them out themselves. IKEA makes it possible for the customer to see in real life and real time how the furnishings will look in their homes from the realistic displays. They offer ideas on the decorations that a customer can add to compliment the setting (Jaramillo 3). IKEA also has a good relationship with their suppliers which offers a conducive environment for the customer to always be assured to get the newest, quality, and accessorized products that have just been produced.</div> <br />

<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My third body paragraph :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> ‘When the deal is too good,’ they say, ‘think twice.’ Not at IKEA. Who does not want to purchase cheap products? IKEA goes a step further by reducing costs except the one’s linked to the quality of the product. This is made possible by allowing customers to choose, collect and assemble the products on their own. Hence reducing the expenses of storing and transporting the products (Jaramillo 54). In essence, the consumer gets a better deal for a product of higher quality at IKEA than from other furnishing manufacturing companies. The idea of having low prices from manufacturing to the distribution and eventual sale of the product allows IKEA to compete with the others in the industry while having quality designs (Jaramillo 3). The products made by IKEA last long and therefore bringing satisfaction into homes for a long time. Whoever said that “cheaply is expensive,” has not visited an IKEA store. </div> <br />

<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My Conclusion :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> In promoting its mantra to better the life of everyone, IKEA has succeeded in enhancing people’s livelihood by offering quality products at pocket-friendly prices. Anyone who shops anywhere else for home furnishings should have the experience of [3)] low prices, [1)] high variety products and designs, and [2)] excellent inventory at an IKEA store. Swedish built company, IKEA is a brand new, used products’ brand that has stood the test of time and competition. If it’s worth it, do not pay much. </div> <br />

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<span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> WORKS CITED —  REFERENCES :  </span> <br /><br />

• [1] Correa Jaramillo, Andrea. "How IKEA should enter in the Colombian market." DISSERTATION TO OBTAIN THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. ÉCOLE INTERNATIONALE DE MONTPELLIER MONTPELLIER, FRANCE, MAY 2010. Print.  <br /><br />

• [2] Ravn, Kenneth. "The Ikea message: deconstructing Ikea's environmental discourse-Sustainability and profit." Bachelor thesis in Human Ecology (Supervisor: Anders Burman). Sweden: Department of Human Ecology, Lund University, 2015. Print.

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Essay — «Good Advice is Rarer Than Rubies; An Analysis» — [PDF]

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<div class="JBMCode"> His narrative moves quickly with a colloquial idiom. From Miss Rehana eating her chili pakoras and Mohammed Ali peddling his advice for would-be visa seekers to the ever-suspicious British consulate sahibs, Salman Rushdie sketches an evocative cameo in quick, broad, calligraphic strokes. </div> <br />

<div class="citajbm"> Salman Rushdie, who often regards himself as a "bastard child of history", displays in this collection a kaleidoscopic view of the world embracing both fable-like parables (mostly set in India or Pakistan, in the “East” section of the book) and sophisticated parodies of contemporary global society (in the last section). This carnivalesque mongrelization also erases the limits between the sacred and the profane, the cult and the popular, the tragic and the trivial; and it is only from this prism that one can understand the ironic conflation of widow-burning or arranged marriages with Star Trek fantasies or Elvis Presley’s songs. </div> <br />

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<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My Hook / Attention Getter :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> What a dreary task it turns out to be, when one can almost always tell the next twist in a piece of literary work. Usually, a writer’s main objective is telling their narrative to an audience. An alluring story, however, should be able to capture the audience’s attention from the beginning until the close of it.  </div> <br />

<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My transitional sentence :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> Salman Rushdie has composed an enthralling story by injecting suspense into his short story <i>Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies</i>.  </div> <br />

<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My Thesis Statement :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> The British Indian novelist and essayist uses a point of view that enables the reader to <strong><span style="font-size:20px; color: #000000; background-color: #FFFF00;">1) </span></strong> understand the characters and their lives deeply, <strong><span style="font-size:20px; color: #000000; background-color: #FFFF00;">2) </span></strong> examining where and when it happens while <strong><span style="font-size:20px; color: #000000; background-color: #FFFF00;">3) </span></strong> infusing it with figurative language. </div> <br />

<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My first body paragraph :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> What would a story be without characters? It would not be a story. Characters are the centerpieces through which the reader visualizes the story as it unfolds. The writer of this short story uses the third person limited point of view to tell the story of Muhammad Ali and Miss Rehana. It is limited because the writer only has access to Muhammad’s experiences, whose thoughts he reads frequently and deeply. When Muhammad Ali sees Miss Rehana, he feels himself “[...] becoming young again [...] [o]ld fool [...] the oldest fools are bewitched by the youngest girls” (Rushdie 5, 11). From Muhammad’s point of view, we realize that he is indeed an old man now, but his attraction for Miss Rehana makes him wish for his youth, “[...] and those eyes did bad things to his digestive tract.” (Rushdie 6). The suspense in the story holds me still as a reader, and I crave to know what exactly Muhammad will do about his feelings and how Miss Rehana would respond if at all he expressed himself. From Muhammad’s point of view, the reader is placed into the story. We get to know that Muhammad’s aim is to swindle the naïve people by lying to them that he has connections that will enable them to get the papers they need to migrate to England. However, he is hesitant to do the same to Miss Rehana. The suspense that this creates enables a reader to sympathize with the character, a literary device the writer uses.  </div> <br />

<H2> <div style="text-align: center"> <span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> My second body paragraph :: </span></div></H2> 
<div class="citajbm"> When Miss Rehana arrives at the gates of the British consulate, yet there is a “dusty compound between the bus stop and the consulate” (Rushdie 6) that is filled with people, we are drawn to the fact that the story is not on British soil, and Miss Rehana needs some assistance to be there. Or maybe it is just the people waiting. Well, we cannot ascertain that, unless we read some more. Suspense. “She was standing in at a hot snack stall in the little shanty town by the edge of the compound” (Rushdie 6). A shanty town? Near a consulate? “He led her to the low wooden desk in his special corner of the shanty town” (Rushdie 7). Now, why is there a market of sorts at the edge of a British consulate? This plagues a reader with curiosity to understand more about the characters’ culture. We get to know, from this setting, that these people love chilli-pakoras. Miss Rehana buys Muhammad a pakora to thank him for his ‘advice’ (Rushdie 13). The setting in this story is a day, and to find Muhammad still waiting outside the gates despite doing nothing, affirms that he was attracted to Miss Rehana. Miss Rehana’s plight is also revealed in our waiting for her. We get to know what her story is. </div> <br />

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<div class="citajbm"> Writers are thought-provoking people, to the reader’s advantage. Their use of language while telling a story, always weaves an intricate web that does the trick in creating suspense. Miss Rehana tells Muhammad that she is a “[...] a poor potato” (Rushdie 7). A metaphor that gives a peak on what her life is like compared to the other women, but how else would a reader know if they do not read on? Suspense. “Good advice should find good money” (Rushdie 7), which is an analogy that lets us understand that this character is indeed poor, yet she does not wallow in self-pity. “She was a sparrow [...] they were men with hooded eyes like hawks” (Rushdie 9). A metaphor and a simile, used by the character Muhammad to explain the reality of things. She is the prey and the people at the consulate are predators and so she should be wary of them. It is indeed ironic of Muhammad to say so because he is also a hawk preying on the Tuesday women. The writer utilizes hyperboles as a literary device, “[...] love stories and green medicine, both of which cured happiness” (Rushdie 13, 14) which is an exaggeration that explains that the characters are usually sad when they leave the consulate. It also suggests that the consulate crushes the Tuesday people’s dreams every Tuesday.  </div> <br />

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<div class="citajbm"> Salman Rushdie’s "Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies" is indeed a spellbinding story from the fore to the last word. He employs <strong><span style="font-size:20px; color: #000000; background-color: #FFFF00;">1) </span></strong> the character’s point of view, <strong><span style="font-size:20px; color: #000000; background-color: #FFFF00;">2) </span></strong> the setting, and <strong><span style="font-size:20px; color: #000000; background-color: #FFFF00;">2) </span></strong> expert use of language that intrigues one into the need to read the next word each time. He dwells on the plight of the people of this particular place, which is a constant need to escape the life that they are living. In the premise, he sets up that most want to leave. The writer, hence, makes the reader appreciate the characters, and with the use of suspense, helps to understand them deeply. </div> <br />

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<span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> WORKS CITED —  REFERENCES :  </span> <br /><br />

• [1] Kumar, Amitava (Ed.) <i>Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate</i>. New York: Routledge, 2004.  <br /><br />

• [2] Rushdie, Salman. "Good Advice is Rarer Than Rubies". Revere Books ABAA & IOBA. 1994. Print.  <br /><br />

---. <a href="http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/368990613.pdf" title="">East, West</a>. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. <br /> 
---. East, West. London: Vintage, 1995.

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