Real Easy English: Talking about moving house
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And of course, we have video episodes of Real Easy English so you can watch our presenters with subtitles to help you. Find all our Easy podcasts and videos on our website, bbclearningenglish.com. Hello and welcome to Real Easy English. We're back with another conversation in Easy English to help you learn. I'm Georgie. And I'm Neil. Don't forget that there's a video version of this podcast on our website bbclearningenglish.com. You can read along with the subtitles and download a free worksheet. Hello Neil, how are you doing? Hi, Georgie. Yeah, I'm fine. How are you? Yes, I'm very well too. Thank you. Today, Neil, in this conversation, we're talking about moving house. So when was the last time you moved house?
Oh, I moved house probably 12 years ago. Oh, wow. And why did you move to where you live now? Because my family was getting bigger. More children need more space. So we moved to somewhere bigger and further out of London. How about you? I rent my flat and the place I was living before, the owners of the place... wanted to sell the house. So I needed to move because I couldn't live there anymore. And also my friend had this flat and he was offering me very cheap rent. So that's why I live there. But I'm very happy there because it's between two really nice parks. It has good transport links. And yeah, it was a good, a good decision. And how was the move itself? The move was actually very easy because I don't have many possessions.
I'm a bit of a minimalist. The reason is because I moved country. So I just didn't really have many things to bring back to the UK. So I didn't need a big van or anything. I just ordered a taxi and put all of my bags in the taxi. And it was very easy. And what about you? It was the opposite of that. Oh, no. We had a removal van and some removal men who came and packed everything up in boxes to make sure that things were easy to carry into the van and also that they didn't get damaged. And then they drove all of our stuff to my new house. Yeah. Did you have any fragile bits? So fragile means that it's easy to break, not very strong. Plates and things, did you have? Yes, those things had to be wrapped and protected, otherwise they would break.
Yes. And did you have to move furniture as well? Yeah, we had to move sofas and cupboards and wardrobes and heavy things like that. Yeah. Does sound different to my experience, doesn't it? I didn't have any furniture to take. Do you find moving house exciting? Scary? How do you feel about moving house? I think it's both. It's exciting and scary. It's exciting because this is going to be your new life or where your new life will happen. But it's also scary because you don't know what that's going to be like you don't know what your neighbors are going to be like that's very true you don't know what your new friends are going to be like yes so there's lots of things that you don't know and that's scary but also exciting
Yeah, a lot of uncertainty for sure. Yeah, I think it can depend. It depends if you're moving somewhere better or worse. But yeah, I was quite excited when I moved because I knew that my new flat had a nice outdoor terrace. As I said, we were close to parks and stuff, so I was excited. So Georgie, if you are planning a move, what do you need to do to prepare? Well, you need to do things like setting up Wi-Fi in the new house, other bills like electricity and heating, gas. You need to put your name on the accounts. You need to plan what you're going to take. When you move, it's a really good time to look at all of your possessions and think, what do I need?
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