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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English.
In this podcast, we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn.
I'm Georgie.
And I'm Beth.
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Hello Beth, how are you today?
I'm very well, thank you.
How are you?
Yes, I'm fine, thank you.
Today we're talking all about being creative.
If you are a creative person, you enjoy things like art or making things and you have lots of ideas.
Okay, so let's get started.
Are you a creative person?
Well, we have quite a creative job, don't we?
We are always coming up with ideas for new series.
Editing videos is quite a creative thing.
I think I'm creative.
What about you?
Yeah, I think, especially when you talk about what we do for work.
We invent new ideas and write scripts, and that is quite inventive.
But what about outside of work?
That's what I was going to say.
Yes, outside of work...
I don't have any hobbies that are creative.
But when I was at school, I used to do photography as a class.
And that was quite creative.
You have to have a good eye when you do photography.
But nowadays...
I don't do much actually.
Sometimes I like colouring in with those colouring books.
I enjoy that.
But I also think you're not really creating much.
You're just choosing the colours.
Yeah, you almost need to draw the picture and then colour it in yourself.
Yeah, maybe I'll do that.
Maybe I'll try that.
What about you outside of work?
I think I was probably more creative when I was younger.
Although one of my friends at the moment is pregnant.
So I have been making a blanket for her baby.
It's a patchwork quilt.
So that means there's different squares of fabric and I've been cutting them out and sewing them together with my sewing machine.
What colours are in your patchwork?
Well, they're kind of blues and whites and orangey because she doesn't know if it's going to be a boy or a girl and they're all a little bit patterned.
So yeah, so I've been making that so recently I have been creative.
Nice, and Beth, are there any creative things hobbies you'd like to try?
Actually, I never know someone who does ceramics, so they make pots and mugs and plates and he does classes.
So I'd quite like to take up ceramics or something like that, just to give it a try.
That's a really good idea because then you can have new things to have in your kitchen.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And again, it's something I did as a child for fun, but I wouldn't really think about doing it now.
But if I like took it up as a hobby, then it's something creative to do.
Nice to do with your hands.
What about you?
I don't have any ideas at the moment, but I would like to spend my free time doing something creative because I think it's quite therapeutic.
It's a good way to take your mind off the stresses of life.
So yeah, no ideas yet, but watch this space.
OK, let's recap the language we heard during the conversation, starting with creative, which describes someone who likes art or has lots of ideas.
We also had sewing, which is when you make things from material, like clothes or blankets.
We also had ceramics, which is also called pottery, which is when you make things like bowls and plates out of a material called clay.
And if you take up a hobby you start doing it for the first time.
And that's it for this episode of Real Easy English.
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Bye.
