Real Easy English: Talking about the beach
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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English. We're back with another conversation in Easy English to help you learn. I'm Neil.
And I'm Becca and you can find a video version of this podcast on our website that comes with subtitles to help your learning. That's at bbclearningenglish.com.
Hi Becca, how are you?
I'm really well, thank you, Neil. How about yourself?
I'm very well. You look very relaxed though, so what have you been doing?
Well, I've recently been to the beach. I went to visit my parents and they live quite close to the beach, so that's probably why I look and feel very relaxed.
The beach, fantastic. Well, we are talking about the beach today. Okay, Becca, when you have a beach day... Do you like to sunbathe, which means lying on the beach in the sun doing nothing? Or do you prefer to do something active like swimming? People often play sports on the beach, that kind of thing.
I do love to sunbathe, but we don't have a lot of sun in the UK and the temperatures aren't always the best for sunbathing. But it's still something I really enjoy doing. I'll sunbathe for a little bit. I'll kind of, I'll cook under the sun and then I'll go for a swim to cool down. But yeah, I prefer more relaxing activities. I know some people enjoy like beach volleyball or some people like long, long coastal walks. But yeah, I prefer kind of just staying in one spot and relaxing there. How about you?
I prefer to do something active at the beach, swimming. I like to play beach football, beach cricket, whatever. And if I am lying or sunbathing, I like to read a book. But it's a bit uncomfortable.
It can be. It can be uncomfortable. Yeah. Also, you mentioned that you like playing some sports on the beach. I imagine it can be quite difficult to play sports on a pebbly beach, right? Pebbles are small stones and very different to sandy beaches. Sand is quite soft and I guess easier for beach football and beach cricket.
Yeah. Lots of the beaches in the UK are pebble beaches with stones on them rather than sand. And yes, it can be more difficult. It can really hurt your feet.
Sometimes it is quite funny on a pebbly beach to see people coming out of the sea from their swim and then kind of, you know, finding it quite difficult to walk along the beach. It sometimes is quite funny.
How about food? So do you take a picnic to the beach?
Yeah, sometimes. Another reason, actually, we talked about pebbly beaches is But I really love a pebble beach because it's easier to have a picnic on a pebble beach. I don't know about your own experiences, but every time I sit on a sandy beach with a lovely picnic, it always gets ruined by all of the sand.
Exactly. You end up... With a kind of crunchy sandwich.
Yeah, sandy sandwiches.
Sandy sandwiches.
Not tasty. So I do love a picnic on the beach. But yeah, you do have to be careful about where you are and the wind as well.
Yes, especially in the UK.
Yeah.
Because they're quite windy.
Very windy in the UK.
But... The world is full of beautiful beaches. Have you got a memory of a favourite beach you've been to somewhere?
Yes, I have. Beautiful memories. Probably the most recent and the most beautiful was when I was in Thailand last February. Very cold and rainy in the UK. So I decided to go to Thailand and I just remember seeing the sunset at the beach and I'd never seen the sun so red before.
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