Real Easy English: Talking about animals

Pibisi podcast on suurin jatkoa. Suppia ja A.B. ja ne tieten väärässä ole. Nimittäin siipyveikkojen kastikeet sopivat makaronladikkoihin takoihin salatteihin jyneimityt, yli ja tieten myös niihin siipi. Uusimpana tulokkana kauppoehdyltä löytyy siipyveikkojen mangaavan erokastikko. Makia ei liian ja pienempi ennellä polteella varustettu Koveri. Testaappa! Siipyveikkoot! Aiva jäätävä jingille. Hello, Welcome to Real Easy English. We're back with another conversation in Easy English to help you learn. I'm Neil. And I'm Beth. You can find a video of this podcast with subtitles over on our websites. Go to BBCLearningEnglish.com. Hi, Beth. How are you? I'm good. Thank you, Neil. How are you? I'm very well. Good day. We're talking about animals, not pets, though. We're talking about wild animals. And wild animals are animals that live without the help of humans. Do you have a favorite wild animal, then? Well, I think I like the gazelle. I was not expecting that answer. Why a gazelle? Because they are so elegant. You know, they kind of float and bounce when they're running and I think they just look really beautiful. Okay. Have you seen a gazelle in the wild? I haven't, though. Okay. Well, we don't have many interesting wild animals in the UK. We do. I mean, they're all small. We have squirrels. Yes. And foxes. And rats. Well, yeah. Every, everywhere has rats. Hedgehogs. Hedgehogs are cute. Yes. And I have seen deer. Oh, yes. Same. I have a squirrel story, actually. Go on. I was asleep the other day. A head noise. It woke me up and I went into the bathroom. And there was a squirrel on the floor in my bathroom and it saw me and it jumped out the window and I thought, have I gone crazy? Am I dreaming? But there was a squirrel in my bathroom. Thankfully, it didn't come into the house. Have you ever seen a really interesting or unusual animal? I have. I saw blue whales many years ago. I was travelling with a friend and we went on a boat to try and see whales and we did see blue whales. There were quite a lot of them and we saw a mother and her baby. So even a baby blue whale is absolutely huge and we were in a very small boat. It wasn't a tourist big boat. It was just us. And when you're on a small boat and you can see these huge whales, it was quite amazing. Yeah. I'm a bit jealous. What wild animals have you seen? I saw an animal called a vacuña. A vacuña? I've never heard of that. What animal is that? It's like a llama or an alpaca but it's smaller and I was in South America, out in the middle of nowhere, in the countryside and I went to a cafe and there was a vacuña in the cafe. Inside the cafe. Yeah. It's really surprising but also really cute. Was it a wild animal or like a pet of the cafe? I'm not really sure. I don't know if the cuniers make pets. Are there any animals that you would like to see in the wild? Yeah. I think I would like to see a lion in the wild but also I wouldn't like to see a lion in the wild because that could be the end of your life. So it depends on the circumstances? Yes. I was thinking about tigers that I would like to see a tiger in the wild but again I don't want to just be walking up a mountain and suddenly a tiger is right in front of me. I would not like that. No. So would you like to go on a safari for example? I would. Yes. I would really like to go on safari because you can see so many animals in the wild there all the lions and elephants, hippos sounds amazing. OK, it's time to recap the vocabulary that we used in this podcast. We talked about wild animals. If an animal is wild it means it lives without the help of humans. And we also use wild as a noun, the wild. So this means places that are natural where humans don't help animals or plants. And we talked about some of the animals we want to see using the structure would like to plus the infinitive. So for example, I would like to see lions and I would like to go on safari. That's it for this episode of Real Easy English. Don't forget to go to our website where you can find a free worksheet to download. This is BBCLearningEnglish.com. And we'll be back next week with another conversation in Easy English. Goodbye for now. Goodbye. Thanks for listening to this episode. Have you heard our new podcast Beating Speaking Anxiety? It's all about how to fight your fears of speaking English. Be your scared of making mistakes, worried you won't understand people, or worried you can't be yourself when speaking English. Each episode tackles a different fear with experts to help you improve your speaking confidence. Search Learning English Conversations in your podcast app to find the latest episodes.