Real Easy English: talking about exercise Beginner shadowing lesson
Georgie and Neil from BBC Learning English talk about the sports they play in their spare time, though neither of them really plays one. Neil goes running at lunchtime and helps his son train for cricket, while Georgie runs and does yoga, which relaxes her after a stressful week. When Neil says he found yoga too boring, Georgie tells him it is wonderful.
What you practise by shadowing it
- Questions with When that fall at the end: When do you do yoga? When do you like to go running? When did you last go for a run, Georgie?
- Stress on the words set against each other: Not this weekend, but next weekend, I have plans to go running with my friends.
- A phrasal verb said as one unit: I'd like to take up yoga. So, you can take up a sport or take up learning a new instrument.
- Beginner
- Video
- 5:09
- 69 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.
I'm Georgie.
And I'm Neil.
In this podcast, we have real conversations in easy English to help you improve your language skills.
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The video has 69 sentences. The rest are in the app. Practise them all
Words and phrases
- take up
- start a new hobby or activity
- spare time
- time when you are not working
- free time
- time when you can do what you like
- hobby
- something you do for fun in your free time
- go for a run
- go running for exercise
- next weekend
- the weekend that is coming
- last weekend
- the weekend that has just passed
- as well
- too; also
- at the same time
- together, not one after another
- social media
- websites and apps for sharing with people
- kind of
- a little; in some way
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
