BBC Real Easy English 如何用英语谈论孩子

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Hello, and welcome to Real Easy English,
the podcast where we have real conversations
in easy English to help you learn.
I'm Neil.
And I'm Beth.
You can find a video of this podcast and
find a worksheet to help you learn on our website bbclearningenglish.com.
Hello, Beth, how are you?
I'm very well, thank you. How are you, Neil?
I'm very happy. The sun is shining today.
It is. It's a beautiful day.
What are we talking about?
Today we're talking about our childhoods.
So we'll talk about life,
how it was,
What, what our lives were like when we were children.
How interesting. Let's get started.
So, Neil, what do you remember most about your childhood?
Well, it was such a long time ago,
but I can remember things, obviously, quite clearly.
I lived in a different country when I was a child.
Where did you live?
I lived in Canada until I was ten years old.
So I can remember, very hot, humid summers,
but very long and very cold and snowy winters.
So you always, like, made snowmen, I guess, and had snowball fights?
Yes. We always had a white Christmas, which is great.
And I don't think I've ever had a white Christmas in England.
Not in the south of England.
Well, I moved house,
or my family moved house, when I was ten,
so I feel like a slightly similar thing
where all of my childhood memories really are in this house and playing
with my friends that lived in that village and went to my primary school
when I lived in that house. Having friends over for tea.
That's a lot of, yeah, strong memories of of my childhood.
And what kind of things did you do when you were a child?
What kind of hobbies and interests did you have?
Well, my friends and I used to always put on shows.
We would do gymnastics shows in the garden.
We'd say, 'Mum, Dad, come and watch my gymnastics show with my friend'.
We used to do singing concerts.
We wrote our own songs.
Once, my friend and I recorded onto a tape.
Do you remember tapes?
Of course I remember tapes.
We recorded our own song onto a tape,
and we sent it to a recording studio in the hope that they would sign us.
Is it a good song?
It's great.
I think we need to hear it.
Maybe at the end of the show.
What about you?
What sort of hobbies did you have when you were a child?
I just remember playing outside a lot with my friends
and having adventures and also doing lots and lots of sport.
So I always liked football and cricket and I played when I was in Canada.
I played ice hockey.
That's cool. Can you still ice skate?
I'm OK. I'd say I'm better than most British people.
Because you grow up in Canada
skating.
Yeah.
But I'm not brilliant.
How do you think the world has changed since you were a child?
The world is really different from when I was a child.
Because when I was growing up, we didn't have the internet or mobile phones.
And I think they've made such a difference
to the way people communicate with each other.
And it drives me mad sometimes, because my son will try to arrange to go out
with his friends, just to go to the park, in a group chat,
and then nothing ever happens.
And I just say, 'just go there'.
Yeah.
It's a hundred metres down the road.
Knock the door. But I don't think that happens any more.
No, I think for me, like,
something that's really changed is, like I was saying about tapes,
like the idea of playing a tape or putting a CD in a CD player.
Like, brings back amazing memories.
I used to have a CD that I would play,
and then I'd sing really loudly,
and I would imagine that then suddenly the band would be in the garden
and they would, and they'd be there singing with me.
But I think those physical music devices even like having a video or a DVD,
like, they bring back loads of memories for me.
Let's recap the language we heard in our conversation about childhood,
starting with 'childhood', which is the period of time when you are a child.
We had 'memory'.
A memory is something that you can remember from the past.
We can say that something 'brings back memories',
which just means that it reminds you of something that happened in the past.
And when we talk about things in the past, we often use the past
simple. For example, I said that I played in the street with my friends.
And we also heard 'used to' and 'would', which is used when we talk
about things that happened a number of times in the past.
So, for example, I used to play ice hockey.
It means: I played ice hockey a lot, and now I don't any more.
And that's it for this episode of Real Easy English.
Why not test what you've learnt with the worksheet
Thanks for joining us, and goodbye.
Bye.
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