A Walk In The English Countryside With My Sister | English Conversation Practice

Eat Sleep Dreamers welcome to a very special English lesson because today I'm going to

introduce you to my sister.

I am super excited.

So I'm visiting her at the moment.

She lives in the beautiful English countryside and we went for a walk and had a really lovely

conversation.

And we were talking about our childhood memories so things that we used to do in the past that

we don't do anymore and I thought what a great opportunity for you guys to listen to some

really natural English conversation.

We don't change our accents, we don't try and slow down for you guys.

This is really natural British English so listen to us put the subtitles on, ok?

If you need a bit of help add the subtitles and yeah I just hope you enjoy it.

Eat Sleep Dreamers how are you?

Welcome, you might notice I'm with someone.

I'm with my sister.

Hello.

This is my sister Anya or Annie as I like to call her.

So I've come out here to the countryside where she lives.

We're going for a walk, it's absolutely beautiful around here.

The green trees, the leaves, the grass, beautiful British countryside.

So we were talking about our childhood memories and I wanted to share that with you guys.

Now one amazing thing I remember about visiting Grandma was that she'd make this amazing chocolate

pudding and chocolate sauce.

I mean that was.

The best dessert ever!

It was amazing.

And she never gave us the recipe.

No.

And she denied that it was the best dessert ever and even that she used to make it but

we used to think it was amazing.

Yeah she'd make it for us every time we went there and yeah she never gave us the recipe

which we are very upset about.

Eat Sleep Dreamers really quickly check out the field here, look at this.

English countryside.

And a telephone line as well yeah.

So yeah Grandma used to cook some amazing food and I think maybe that's one thing that

you notice or that you remember as a kid about visiting your Grandma or your Grandfather

is just the cooking.

What else did she used to cook for us?

Lemon chicken.

That was amazing and just traditional English food.

British food.

Roasts and I was going to say lasagna.

Lasagna, traditional English food like lasagna.

Lamb chops!

Lamb chops yep with mint sauce.

She was a great cook.

Yeah pork chops, she was a great cook.

Another memory that I've got is when we were naughty.

When Annie and I were naughty our Mum used to give us television bans.

Oh huge!

Yeah, that was the worst and you used to say 'well I don't care anyway' and she'd go 'ok

well that's another day then' and we'd be like 'I don't care about that either' 'right

well that's another day'.

Oh no!

I used to hate that.

So yeah, so a television ban.

So you'd done something naughty and Mum would say right no television for one day and as

Annie said suddenly if you said I don't care then you'd have two days and it would grow

and it would just be awful.

Yeah and thing is nowadays television ban, I mean my kids don't even really watch tv,

you know it would have to be an iPad ban.

They would hate that.

They would hate that.

Some kind of device ban.

Yeah.

But yeah TV they'd be like seriously whatever.

Yeah, we don't care.

That was awful.

That was the worst and then you know there was that one time that you.

Dad was telling you off and he said Thomas come down the stairs and you got yourself

dressed up fully in Knight's gear with your wooden sword and you descended the stairs

to take on Dad and you made him laugh so much that he forgot what he was angry about.

But I was really serious, I was like furious.

Yeah of course you were.

I was going to attack him.

But that's what made it so cute you were only about four.

Oh we're going in here.

It's so quiet here Eat Sleep Dreamers.

Not like in London where it's really noisy.

It's so quiet I love it.

One day we'll get you out here.

I'm not sure, I'm not sure.

Move away from London, come and join us and the birds.

I could live in the countryside.

Yeah for about a day.

For a day then I've got to go back to London.

Yeah.

So do you remember Tom?

Every summer we used to spend in Broadstairs?

I do, I do yes.

Six weeks, we'd pack our bags at the start of the summer, get on the train from Victoria

and travel down.

It took us two hours because it was a slow chug chug train in those days.

A chug chug train, interesting English there Anya!

Chug chug, I guess it kind of means a slow train, right?

Yeah, it chugged along, it didn't speed along, not like now.

And we'd arrive by the sea in Broadstairs in our little cottage and spend the summer

just living like little urchins in a t-shirt and a pair of shorts and we'd have all our

meals on the beach.

Picnic lunches, eggy rolls and then in the evening we'd have a bbq and then fall in to

bed absolutely exhausted and wake up in the morning ready for some more fun.

Very simple, simple life.

Yeah, every summer just the same thing and remember we used to go crabbing.

So there are rocks by the beach and you'd go and try and catch crabs which are sort

of shellfish?

Yeah crustaceans.

Crustaceans yeah, and we'd try, we used to try and catch as many crabs as we could and

one year we got so many and we gave them names.

Barnacle Bill.

Lairy Larry.

Lairy because he was angry.

Yeah, it means angry.

So we would catch these crabs and then release them and I remember we used to scream so loudly

when we released them because they'd try and like.

Catch your toes.

Catch you, yeah.

And our Mum could hear us screaming from the beach.

She'd be sitting in a deckchair on the beach and we'd be miles out on the rocks and she'd

be able to hear us scream and know that we'd released the crabs.

Amazing!

So another fun at the beach activity was the great wave game, do you remember that one?

Yeah we used to play this really super fun game where we'd run away, I've forgotten how

we play it.

So a big wave comes rolling in and you have to run from one spot to another on the beach

but as close to the tide line as possible without it getting your feet wet.

Yeah that's right.

And as the tide came in it got harder and harder so sometimes we'd play it up against

the beach wall so we literally had nowhere else to go and this wave would come in and

we'd run and if we got our toes wet then we lost so the wave won.

And we also used to play the great ball in the sky game.

Oh that was a fun one.

When our Dad used to stand on this sort of raised platform and hit a ball up in to the

air and we had to catch it.

There was about you know how ever many of us, a couple, four or five people and if we

caught it then we'd get the point and if we miss it he'd get the point and whoever got

to ten first won the game and that was always really exciting.

I love the way that everything, it used to be the great wave game, the great ball in

the sky game.

Nothing could ever just be kind of you know low key.

It had to be the biggest, the best, the greatest.

Yeah, exactly and that did make it extra special being like 'we going to play the great ball

in the sky game.'

And I remember dad mentioned it in his wedding speech when I got married, he stood up and

did a speech and he mentioned the great ball in the sky game and all our friends who used

to come to Broadstairs came running up saying your dad mentioned the great ball in the sky

game.

They loved it!

Yeah it was very memorable.

I think it's a game that we should continue to play with.

We'll move it through the generations definitely.

So when we were kids and we had lots of, I just remember birthday parties as children.

Yeah.

Bit kitchen table filled with children, miscellaneous children, dad getting his guitar out.

So our dad used to play the acoustic guitar for all the children and he'd sing these songs,

just amazing, like so much fun when you think about it.

And he put together a party tape so we'd sing things like Nellie the elephant packed her

trunk and went off to the circus.

Do you want to sing that for us really quickly?

And we also used to have like little mini discos.

He used to be a dj, didn't he?

Yeah, back in his cooler younger days.

Well yeah when he was cool and young.

And so he'd play songs like Agadoo.

Ohhh so pretty.

Countryside!

So yeah, I just remember as a kid just dancing and singing and eating chocolate cake.

Yeah that was basically your childhood.

Yeah, you remember it well.

I'm a little bit older Eat Sleep Dreamers.

You can't tell though, right?

That was a terrible laugh.

Guys, how was that?

I hope you enjoyed it.

Now what I'd like you to do is in the comments below I would like you to try and write a

sentence using used to or would telling me about your past habits, ok?

So something from childhood, a childhood memory that you have that you can use.

So maybe it's something like 'My grandmother used to make the most delicious food' or 'Whenever

I went to school I'd always want to sit in the red chair.'

Whatever it is, ok?

So any childhood memory you have try and use used to or would, out it in the comments below

and I'll check it and I'll comment and make sure that it is grammatically correct.

And yeah I'll come and say hi and we'll have a little conversation.

Ok, so think about your childhood memory then put it into the comments below this video

and yeah I'd love to se it and love to have a chat with you.

Alright guys, thank you so much for hanging out with me.

If you have enjoyed this, please give it a thumbs up, share it with anyone you know that

is trying to learn English and yeah if you would like another one, another conversation

lesson then please let me know as well.

Alright guys, thank you so much for hanging out with me this is Tom the English Hipster

and you know what time it is.

It's time to take your English to the next level.