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Talking about siblings

Episode 250613 / 13 Jun 2025

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Introduction

Neil and Georgie have a real conversation in easy English about their families. Learn to talk about your brothers and sisters and whether they are like you.

Vocabulary

siblings
brothers or sisters

similar
almost, but not exactly the same

get on (well) with
have a good relationship

close (with a person)
like someone and see or speak to them often

Transcript

Georgie
Hello and welcome to Real Easy English, the podcast where we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn. I'm Georgie.

Neil
And I'm Neil. And you can watch a video version of this podcast and get a free worksheet at bbclearningenglish.com.

Georgie
Hi, Neil. How are you?

Neil
Hi, Georgie. Yeah, I'm very good. I'm excited.

Georgie
Why?

Neil
I'm going to a birthday party.

Georgie
Whose birthday party?

Neil
My sister's.

Georgie
Your sister. Well, that's funny, because today we are talking about brothers and sisters. Or siblings.

Neil
Yeah. Do you have any siblings, Georgie?

Georgie
I do, I have one sister. She is younger, but she is taller and more mature and more sensible than I am. How about you?

Neil
Exactly the same. Yes, I have a younger sister, but she's a bit more grown up than me.

Georgie
A better version of you?

Neil
Yeah, definitely.

Georgie
Are you similar? Well, are there any similarities between you and your sister?

Neil
Well, I mean, physically we don't look similar, but some people say we do. I can't really see it. But I think some aspects of our personality are similar. We like some of the same things. It's, you know, it's good when we meet, but we don't meet very often.

Georgie
How often?

Neil
Every few months.

Georgie
Yeah.

Neil
Yeah. Because, you know, she lives in a different city and has her family and life's busy.

Georgie
Yeah. I'm lucky because my sister lives in London. So we are able to see each other quite regularly.

Neil
So, Georgie, are you close to your sister?

Georgie
Yes. I would say that we are close. Growing up, we weren't so close. I would say. Although I think she disagrees. But since we went travelling together, we became closer because we had this kind of special experience together. We were very far away from home. We had to do lots of difficult things, you know, organising. We were, yeah, together against the world. So we became close.

How about you? Are you close with your sister?

Neil
I think when we're together, we get on well. But then we can go a long period of time where we don't really talk, and that's OK.

Georgie
That's OK. It's life.

Neil
So, you have a sister and you get on well. But do you wish that you had more siblings?

Georgie
Yes. I wish I had a brother. It might sound strange, but I've always wanted to know what a boy in my family would look like. Yeah, it might change the dynamic a little bit, though. What about you?

Neil
Yeah, when I was younger, I thought it would be nice to have a brother, an older brother to kind of show you the way.

Georgie
Yeah.

Neil
Because probably, you know, as the older sibling, you're kind of, you get to do everything first, and that's sometimes good and sometimes bad.

Georgie
But it's funny because the stereotype of older siblings is usually that they are more responsible and sensible because they had, you know, the more rules growing up. And then when the younger sibling comes, they have less rules or fewer rules. But I think that my sister is the more serious and better behaved one.

Let's recap the vocabulary we heard in the conversation. We had siblings, which means brothers and sisters.

Neil
We heard similar, which means almost, but not exactly the same.

Georgie
We had get on with, which means to have a good relationship with someone, for example. I get on well with my sister.

Neil
We heard the adjective close. If two people are close, they like each other and they talk to each other often.

Georgie
And that's it for this episode of Real Easy English. You can find a worksheet on our website and lots more episodes to help you practice. bbclearningenglish.com.

Neil
Join us again next time when we'll talk about what worries us. See you then.

Georgie
Goodbye.

 

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