Hello and welcome to Real Easy English.
In this podcast, we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn.
I'm Neil.
And I'm Georgie.
How are you today, Georgie?
I'm very well, thank you, today.
Neil, how are you?
I'm OK.
I've got one or two little worries.
Have you?
Well, that's interesting because we are talking about worries today in this podcast.
Worries are problems that make you feel upset or scared.
So, shall we start the conversation?
Let's do it.
So, Neil, you said you've got a couple of little worries.
Do you want to share them?
Yeah.
I think when you have kids, you're kind of slightly worried all the time.
And yesterday, my son got hurt playing cricket.
And so this morning...
I just wanted to make sure he was feeling okay before he went to school.
And how was he this morning?
He seemed okay.
Yeah.
He seemed a bit bruised.
Oh, no.
An injury to the knee or something?
Shoulder.
Ouch.
And arm.
Gosh.
Yeah.
And are you someone that worries a lot?
No, not really.
Um, sometimes um, but i think there's lots of stuff that you can worry about and if you, if you, worry about all of it, it can really affect you badly.
So i try i know it's difficult sometimes not to worry too much about things that aren't so important.
My thing is that Worrying about a problem or a thing doesn't actually help.
So I'm I'm a in general, I'm a person that doesn't worry too much.
I kind of just think whatever happens happens.
So I'm generally quite chilled and relaxed.
And yeah, my friend always helps, says that to me, because she's someone that worries a lot about everything travel, you know all of those things and she always says how are you always so relaxed about things that go wrong, but you can't change?
You can't change them.
So That's true.
That's a very healthy attitude, probably.
So I don't tend to worry a lot, but you worry a little bit because you have kids.
What kinds of things do you do to make yourself feel more relaxed?
Well, I think, like you said, one useful thing to do could be to try to be rational.
So to think that what you're worried about probably isn't that important or likely to happen.
Yeah, so you're quite chilled, as you said.
That must be nice for your friends.
Yes.
And if you have, like you said, a friend who worries about everything, how do you help them?
Finding maybe a distraction, like something that makes you feel...
Good like a TV program that you love or seeing friends That love you.
That can make you feel more relaxed.
Mindfulness techniques as well.
Maybe jigsaws.
I've talked about puzzles in the past Do you have any other tips?
No, these are all very good ideas.
Thank you.
I
Yeah, I think it can be useful to have something that distracts you, like maybe drawing, listening to music, playing an instrument can help.
Something that just kind of takes that time away.
It takes your mind off the stress.
Yeah.
OK, let's recap the vocabulary we heard during the conversation, starting with worry.
A worry is a problem that makes you feel upset or scared.
And worry is also a verb.
So, for example, I worry about my kids.
Yes, and we also use the adjective worried to describe that feeling of being scared or upset about something.
For example, I'm worried about climate change.
And we heard the expression take your mind off, something which means to do something to stop you worrying.
For example, I play my guitar to take my mind off my worries.
We also heard chilled, which is another word for relaxed or calm and it's quite an informal word.
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