Hello and welcome to Real Easy English, the podcast where we have real conversations in easy English to help you understand.
I'm Neil.
And I'm Becca.
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Hi Becca, how are you?
I'm really well, thank you Neil.
How about yourself?
I'm OK, but I wish it was sunny.
Me too.
At the moment it's really horrible and rainy in the UK, but we're going to talk about sunny weather to make us happy.
I'm glad.
I'm happy that's the topic today.
Do you like sunny weather?
Of course.
I love sunny weather.
I think everyone loves a little bit of sunshine.
It's good for you.
Yes, absolutely.
So what do you like to do when the weather is sunny?
When the weather is sunny, I try to spend as much time as I can outside.
So I try to wake up earlier to see the sun.
And I really enjoy walking, riding my bike, going to the beach.
And I will try to stay out for the whole day, especially if the sky is clear, because then we'll have a beautiful sunset.
Absolutely.
Wow.
I can picture all of this.
Yeah.
In the summer in the UK, we're lucky because it's light really late.
And so you can do things outside in the evening.
Yes.
You have a very long day in the British summer days.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you can have too much sun and of course the sun can be dangerous.
So do you do anything to protect yourself from the sun?
I unfortunately don't enjoy wearing sunglasses.
But I know that they're a very good precaution for you.
So a good way to kind of protect yourself, protect your eyes from the sun.
I don't really enjoy wearing hats either.
The only thing that I do that I actually do most days, even when it's not sunny, is wear sunscreen.
Ah, yes, that's a very good idea.
Because my face is very important.
Yes.
So I need to protect, yeah, protect your skin.
So sunscreen or sun cream is stuff that you put on your face, on your skin arms legs body, to protect skin, the skin, from the sun.
Yes, and it's very important that if you are going out on a sunny day, that you put sunscreen on every part of your skin that will be under the sun, because if you forget a certain area, then you might get burnt.
Yes, and sunburn is horrible.
Yeah, it's really not very comfortable, is it?
No.
Do you sit in the shade when it's really sunny?
So the shade is the darker part of outside, maybe a tree or something is in the way of the sun.
And you can sit in the shade of a tree.
Yes, I do enjoy sitting in the shade of trees.
Usually when you go to the park there will be the kind of more shady areas.
When it's sunny, it's really nice sometimes to go to the coast.
The coast is the part of the land that meets the sea.
So there might be a beach there or cliffs or, but the coast is that part where land and sea meet.
Yes, yeah and cliffs are really lovely to go and have a walk on.
They're usually quite high up from the sea level, so you get really beautiful views of the rest of the coast.
I love going to the coast.
Time now for a recap of the vocabulary that we've heard in this episode, starting with the word clear.
If we say something is clear, we mean that there is nothing in the way.
So a clear sky means there are no clouds in the way and you can see the sun.
The sun is bright.
Our next word is shade, and shade happens when something blocks the sun, for example a tree.
Now, under the tree, there will be a darker, cooler area where it's nice to go and relax and get out of the hot sun.
And we heard sunscreen or sun cream.
That's something you rub on your skin so that you protect yourself from the sun, so you don't get burnt.
And the last word we have is coast.
Now, the coast is the place where the land meets the sea and sometimes you'll see a beach there.
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Goodbye.
