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Real Easy English: Talking about extreme sports

2/6/20266 min

Do you like taking risks, feeling adrenaline or being adventurous? Learn vocabulary by listening to Neil and Beth have a real conversation in easy English about extreme sports.

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First 90 seconds

  1. Beth· Host0:00

    Hello, and welcome to Real Easy English. We're back with another conversation in easy English to help you learn. I'm Beth.

  2. Neil· Host0:09

    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.

  3. Beth· Host0:20

    [upbeat music] Hi, Neil. How is your day going?

  4. Neil· Host0:28

    I'm pretty good. How are you, Beth?

  5. Beth· Host0:30

    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?

  6. Neil· Host0:50

    [laughs] Absolutely not.

  7. Beth· Host0:51

    Oh.

  8. Neil· Host0:52

    I think when I was younger I liked the idea of skydiving, but not now. No way.

  9. Beth· Host0:59

    Okay.

  10. Neil· Host1:00

    Can't imagine anything worse. [laughs] [laughs] How about you?

  11. Beth· Host1:05

    Well, I actually wanted to go skydiving, um, years ago, and I tried, and they canceled it, so I rebooked, and then they canceled it again, and I booked it for a third time, and it got canceled again, and I thought, "Something is telling me to never go skydiving." [laughs] So I haven't been, and I never will. But I l- I think

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