¶ Talking About Extreme Sports
Hello and welcome to Real Easy English. We're back with another conversation in easy English to help you learn. I'm Beth. 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. at BBC Learning English dot com. Hi Neil, how is your day going? I'm pretty good. How are you, 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? Absolutely not. Oh. I think when I was younger I liked the idea of skydiving, but not now. No way. Okay. Can't imagine anything worse. How about you? Well, I actually wanted to go skydiving um 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 l 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. Extreme sports are risky, so there's a lot of risk. Do you like taking risks?
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. Ah yes, bungee jumping. That's when you have uh a kind of elastic rope attached to your feet. and you jump off, for example, a bridge that the the bungee is attached to, and then you kind of
Bounce around at the bottom of the r at the bottom of the bungee line. Upside down. Upside. Maybe into a river. That risk is way too much for me. Yeah. There's you can have too much adrenaline. Yes. Definitely. There's adrenaline and then there's just pure danger. Yeah. Do you think you are adventurous? Um I think I'm adventurous. but not maybe in extreme sports. Um, so
For example, years ago, um my friend convinced me to go shark cage diving. Wow, shark cage diving. 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 b a bit of a risk, but it was also very safe. I don't want to do that kind of thing. Fair enough. Are you an adventurous person? 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. Oh, where's that? In Bolivia. Wow. And it was at about five and a half thousand metres. Uh so it was very, very difficult to breathe. Fortunately, the ski run was shut. So we me and my friend couldn't do it, which is good because it was hard to breathe just standing. Imagine trying to ski. Yeah. Okay. In the same situation. Well, that sounds quite adventurous. Yeah, long time ago.
¶ Essential Vocabulary Review
Okay, 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. 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. 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 sport.
And we heard adventurous. If somebody is adventurous, they like doing exciting or dangerous things. That's it for this episode of Real Easy English. Why not test what you've learnt with the worksheets that you'll find on our website? Go to bbclearningenglish.com. Join us again next time for another conversation in Easy English. Goodbye. Goodbye.