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Talking about extreme sports

Episode 260206 / 06 Feb 2026

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Introduction

Beth and Neil have a real conversation in easy English about extreme sports – the activities that get your heart racing. Learn to talk about risks, adrenaline and being adventurous.

Vocabulary

extreme sports
sports that are dangerous but that some people find exciting

risk
chance that something bad could happen

risky
having a high chance of danger or misfortune

adrenaline
hormone produced by the body when we are frightened, excited or stressed

adventurous
happy to do exciting or dangerous things

Transcript

Beth
Hello and welcome to Real Easy English. We're back with another conversation in easy English to help you learn. I'm Beth.
 
Neil
And I'm Neil. Don't forget, there's a video version of this podcast on our website, where you can find subtitles to read along. That's at bbclearningenglish.com.
 
Beth
Hi, Neil. How is your day going?
 
Neil
I'm pretty good. How are you, Beth?
 
Beth
I'm good, thank you. Today we are talking about extreme sports. Now, these are sports that are very dangerous, but that people enjoy doing. So, an example of that is skydiving. That is an extreme sport where you jump out of a plane. Would you like to go skydiving?
 
Neil
Absolutely not.
 
Beth
Oh.
 
Neil
I think when I was younger, I liked the idea of skydiving, but not now – no way.
 
Beth
OK.
 
Neil
Can't imagine anything worse! How about you?
 
Beth
Well, I actually wanted to go skydiving years ago, and I tried and they cancelled it. So, I rebooked and then they cancelled it again, and I booked it for a third time and it got cancelled again. And I thought, "Something is telling me to never go skydiving," so I haven't been and I never will. But I think it sounds amazing. Like, the adrenaline that you get when you jump out of a plane, and then seeing all of the views, must be amazing.
 
Neil
Extreme sports are risky, so there's a lot of risk. Do you like taking risks?
 
Beth
No, not really. I don't think there's any extreme sports that actually I would like to do now. Something I definitely wouldn't want to do, because I think the risk is too much, is bungee jumping.
 
Neil
Ah, yes. Bungee jumping. That's when you have a kind of elastic rope attached to your feet and you jump off, for example, a bridge that the bungee is attached to. And then you, kind of, bounce around at the bottom of the rope... at the bottom of the bungee line.
 
Beth
Upside down... maybe into a river. That risk is way too much for me.
 
Neil
Yeah, there's... You can have too much adrenaline.
 
Beth
Yes, definitely. There's adrenaline... and then there's just pure danger.
 
Neil
Yeah. Do you think you are adventurous?
 
Beth
I think I'm adventurous, but not maybe in extreme sports. So, for example, years ago my friend convinced me to go shark-cage diving.
 
Neil
Wow! Shark-cage diving?
 
Beth
We had to get into a cage and there were great white sharks around us. They were absolutely enormous, but I wasn't scared at all. It was amazing just seeing these animals, but I think that's probably quite adventurous and it was still a bit of a risk, but it was also very safe.
 
Neil
Hmm. I don't want to do that kind of thing.
 
Beth
Fair enough. Are you an adventurous person?
 
Neil
Well, it sounds like I'm not. I guess maybe I used to be more. I did try once to go skiing on the highest ski run in the world.
 
Beth
Ooh! Where's that?
 
Neil
In Bolivia.
 
Beth
Wow!
 
Neil
And it was at about five and a half thousand metres. So, it was very, very difficult to breathe. Fortunately, the ski run was shut, so me and my friend couldn't do it, which is good, because it was hard to breathe just standing. Imagine trying to ski...
 
Beth
Yeah. OK.
 
Neil
...in the same situation.
 
Beth
Well, that sounds quite adventurous.

Neil
Yeah. Long time ago.
 
Beth
OK. Let's recap the vocabulary we heard during the conversation. We heard extreme sports, which are sports that are dangerous but that some people find exciting.
 
Neil
People who enjoy extreme sports like taking risks. A risk is the chance that something bad could happen, and the adjective we use is risky.
 
Beth
And we heard adrenaline, which is something the body produces when we are frightened or excited. Our body produces a lot of adrenaline when we do extreme sports.
 
Neil
And we heard adventurous. If somebody is adventurous, they like doing exciting or dangerous things.
 
Beth
That's it for this episode of Real Easy English. Why not test what you've learnt with the worksheet that you'll find on our website? Go to bbclearningenglish.com.
 
Neil
Join us again next time for another conversation in easy English. Goodbye!
 
Beth
Goodbye!

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