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I'm Neil. And I'm Beth.
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Hi Neil, how are things?
I'm very well, thank you Beth.
How about you? I'm very good, thank you.
Now in today's episode, we are going to talk all about us.
Yes, that's right. We'll help you learn to talk about yourself, your feelings and your personality.
OK, so Neil, what do we mean by personality?
Well, we use the word personality to talk about the type of person we are.
So, how we behave, how we feel, how we think.
For example, we can have a warm personality or a friendly personality.
OK, so Neil, how would you describe yourself?
What kind of personality do you have?
Ah, that's difficult, Beth.
I think I'm quite calm, laid back maybe.
I don't get too upset or angry very easily.
How about you, Beth?
What's your personality?
I think that when I first meet people, I'm quite shy.
I'm a bit quiet and I don't say much and maybe feel a bit nervous.
But as soon as I get to know somebody, I am much more confident and then I'm very chatty and talkative.
So then I do talk a lot.
OK, Beth. So can you tell me what your interests are, what you like doing?
Well, I really like reading.
I read quite a lot and I listen to audiobooks as well.
I find lots of different topics interesting and I also love going to the theatre.
I find that really exciting.
What about you? I really like spending time with friends, chatting, having a laugh and I really like live music too.
So Neil, you said you like going to watch live music.
Why do you enjoy that?
Yes, I get really excited to see a new band that I like, that I've heard and I haven't seen before.
And I think it's also really exciting to hear live music because it exists just then, that moment, and it's never repeated.
Yeah, that's kind of why I love going to the theatre.
it's special because it's just one performance anything could happen and it's really exciting to just be there in the moment now when you're with your friends I know that you laugh quite a lot would you say that you have a good sense of humor maybe yes I do I like laughing and I think I like to see
the funny side of things in the world.
So, usually everybody has a sense of humour.
It just means the kind of things that you find funny.
Yeah. And Beth, I remember once you told me you and your friend have a secret language.
We do. It's very silly.
She made it up when she was a child and she taught me it.
So sometimes we have secret conversations and it's very silly and we find it very funny.
I would say I have a silly sense of humour.
Well, Beth, I've learned a lot about you today.
Shall we have a look at the vocabulary we used during our conversation?
Yes. So we had personality.
That is the type of person you are.
We've had a sense of humour, the types of things that make you laugh.
And throughout the conversation we have used adjectives that end in ED and ING.
For example, Neil, you are excited to watch live music because you find the live music exciting.
We use adjectives that end with ed, like excited and interested.
When we mean our feelings, you are interested in something.
And we use adjectives that end in ing to talk about the thing that gives you that feeling.
For example, you find live music exciting and I find reading books interesting.
That's it for this episode of Real Easy English.
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Next time on Real Easy English, we'll talk about a very British topic, the weather.
See you next time. Bye.
Bye.
