Real Easy English: talking about days out Beginner shadowing lesson
Beth and Neil from BBC Learning English talk about days out and day trips. Beth went to a prison museum and walked past Big Ben and the London Eye, Neil spent most of Friday watching a cricket match, and neither of them really likes theme parks. Then each names a day trip they have always wanted to take: Beth to Brighton, and Neil to Paris and back by train in one day.
What you practise by shadowing it
- Answering with the question's own words: How was your weekend, Neil? My weekend was very good. I did lots of fun things.
- Words said together as one, with the stress on the first part: day trip, theme park, roller coasters, thrill seeker.
- A day trip in short steps: Really early train, really late train back and lots of energy. Go up the Eiffel Tower, come back down, go home.
- Beginner
- Video
- 5:57
- 88 sentences
Practise it in the app
Free, no account needed. The app plays one sentence and waits for you to say it.
First sentences
Hello and welcome to Real Easy English.
In this podcast, we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn.
I'm Beth.
And I'm Neil, and you can find a video version of this podcast on our website,
bbclearningenglish.com, where you can also find a free worksheet.
The video has 88 sentences. The rest are in the app. Practise them all
Words and phrases
- day out
- a day when you go somewhere for fun
- day trip
- a visit to a place for just one day
- theme park
- a big park with rides and games
- roller coasters
- fast rides that go up and down
- thrill seeker
- someone who likes risky, exciting activities
- adventurous
- unusual and exciting
- sightseeing
- walking around to look at famous places
- used to
- did often in the past, but not now
- hang around with
- spend time with
- by the sound of it
- from what I hear
- to be honest
- said before telling the truth
How to practise this clip
- Read the sentence and the words to know, then listen to it.
- Say it right after the speaker, slowly at first. The app waits until you finish.
- Play your try next to the speaker's, then say it again until it sounds the same.
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Source
BBC Learning English, Real Easy English, on YouTube