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Talking about home towns

Episode 241108 / 08 Nov 2024

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Introduction

Neil and Beth have a real conversation in easy English about their home towns. Learn to talk about the place where you live.

Vocabulary

grow up in
live somewhere when you were a child

busy
lots of people and activity

quiet
not much noise or activity

boring
not interesting

Transcript

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

Beth
And I'm Beth. Remember, you can read along with this episode on our website: bbclearningenglish.com.

Neil
How’s your week going, Beth?

Beth
Yeah, very good, thank you, Neil.

How are you?

Neil
I'm pretty good, thank you.

What are we talking about today?

Beth
Well, today we are talking about our home towns, that is the places that we are from.

Neil
OK. So, where are you from, Beth?

Beth
I am from Cumbria, but specifically, I grew up in a very small, quiet village, almost in the middle of nowhere. What about you? Where did you grow up?

Neil
Well, I am originally from Portsmouth, which is a city on the south coast of England, but I've moved around quite a lot, not really lived in Portsmouth much.

Beth
OK. So, Neil, you lived in a lot of places when you were younger. But where would you say that you grew up? So, where did you live mostly when you were a child?

Neil
Well, I lived in Canada from the age of four until 10. So, I grew up a lot in Canada, but also then we moved back to England, and I did the rest of my growing upin the south of England.

Beth
Really interesting. So, when you lived in Canada, what was your home town like? What kind of place was it?

Neil
Well, it was a suburb so it was quite quiet. But it was quite close to a big city, Toronto, so you could go to the big city. But mostly when I was that age, I just stayed in my neighbourhood which was quite quiet and boring.

Beth
Yeah, I suppose I… I didn't live in a suburb. I lived in a village, but it was outside of a city, and that city was quite busy, so lots of people. But because I didn't spend loads of time there unless I went shopping, where I grew up was just quite quiet and small, maybe even boring to be honest.

Neil
So, Beth, do you miss your home town?

Beth
I really liked living in the countryside. There were loads of fields around and it was really easy to just have a nice walk and not see anybody. Whereas where I live now, there's lots of houses and lots of people so it's quite different.

Do you miss growing up in Canada? Would you consider moving back there?

Neil
I don't know. It's a long time ago. I had a nice time as a child. There was lots of freedom and I could go and play in the woods and in fields with my friends, so that was really good fun. And there was loads of snow in the winter, which was brilliant because we always had a white Christmas.

Let's recap the vocabulary we heard during the conversation.

We had grew up in, lived somewhere when you were a child.

Beth
And we heard lots of adjectives to describe places like busy, meaning lots of activity and people.

Neil
Quiet, not much noise or activity. For example, Beth, your village was quiet. There was not much happening there.

And boring, not interesting.

Beth
Thanks for listening to Real Easy English. Find more programmes to help you with your English on our website: bbclearningenglish.com.

Neil
Next time. We'll talk about technology.

Beth
See you then!

Neil
Goodbye!

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