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- Hello and welcome to Real Easy English, the podcast where we have real conversations in easy English to help you0:00
- learn.0:07
- I'm Neil.0:07
- And I'm Beth.0:08
- You can find a video version of this podcast and a worksheet to help you learn on our website bbclearningenglish0:10
- .com.0:18
- How are you today, Beth?0:25
- I'm OK, Neil.0:27
- I'm a little bit tired.0:28
- How are you?0:30
- I'm very well.0:31
- I'm fine.0:32
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- Great.0:33
- Good, good.0:33
- Well, today we're going to talk about mistakes.0:35
- So hopefully I won't make many mistakes being tired.0:38
- No.0:42
- Mistakes.0:43
- Mistakes can be things that are wrong, like a mistake in a maths problem.0:44
- But we can also use mistake to talk about really big things in life, decisions that you've made, actions that0:49
- you've taken.0:56
- Yes, that's true.0:57
- So I think let's start the conversation.0:58
- Let's do it.1:01
- So Beth, have you made any mistakes recently?1:02
- Yes.1:06
- So I recently left my suitcase on a train by mistake.1:07
- Oh no.1:14
- So I was travelling from home to Leeds on the train and I got to the station at Leeds and1:14
- there were loads of people and they were football fans and they were singing really loudly and I just wanted1:24
- to get off the train and that's what I did.1:32
- And then I realised about half an hour later that I didn't have my suitcase.1:34
- Oh no.1:40
- So yeah.1:41
- That's a bad mistake.1:42
- mistake.1:44
- Did you get it back?1:44
- I did.1:45
- I was so lucky.1:46
- The train stopped at Leeds.1:47
- So when I realised, I ran and said to the people on the platform, my suitcase is on the train1:49
- and they held the train for me.1:57
- And I ran up the platform, I grabbed my suitcase and then they blew the whistle and the train went.1:58
- I was so lucky.2:05
- But yeah, that was a big mistake.2:06
- And I will not make that mistake again.2:08
- Everybody says that.2:10
- So earlier we said that mistakes can be small things, like my suitcase, but there are big mistakes that we2:14
- can make.2:23
- So have you ever made a big mistake, do you think?2:23
- Yeah, well, once I had a job that I really, really enjoyed.2:27
- I was teaching at a school in Prague in the Czech Republic, teaching English.2:31
- And I loved the job and I had loads of really good friends but i had this feeling that i2:36
- needed to go move somewhere else do something else with my life and so i resigned um but then about2:41
- a week or so later i realized that i really really didn't want to leave that school so i went2:50
- back to the boss and i said i've changed my mind i want to stay and he said well it's2:58
- too late because i've given your job to somebody else oh no that's so sad so you left your job3:05
- left prague no actually a bit like your suitcase beth um it ended up it ended up being okay because3:12
- the person who took my job um then decided that he didn't want the job either so in the end3:20
- i did stay so when we make mistakes neil sometimes we then have a regret or we regret the thing3:26
- that we did that means that we feel bad about it or we wish that we'd done something differently do3:36
- you have any regrets yeah when i was a kid i guess i was probably 12 or 13, I had3:44
- some piano lessons and I quit as soon as I could.3:52
- My parents gave me that choice.3:59
- And I regret that because I love music and I play guitar and I think I would have enjoyed playing4:01
- piano.4:09
- I always think, to be honest, you shouldn't have any regrets because whatever Whatever you've done, you've learnt something from4:10
- it.4:18
- Even if something bad happened, then you know for next time and it's a kind of self -improvement thing.4:18
- That is a very positive attitude to mistakes, Beth.4:27
- Yeah, I think it's important to learn from your mistakes and that's a common expression in English, to learn from4:30
- your mistakes.4:39
- Let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt in this podcast, starting with mistake.4:45
- And a mistake is an action that is wrong or that you do when you don't mean to.4:51
- And we can make a mistake â that means we do something wrong.4:57
- Or we can do something by mistake, which means we do something accidentally without meaning to.5:01
- For example, I left my suitcase on the train by mistake.5:08
- mistake.5:13
- We also heard regret, which means feel bad or sorry about something you've done or a mistake that you've made.5:13
- And we heard learn from your mistakes, which means remember the mistake and then not do it again the next5:21
- time.5:28
- That's it for this episode of Real Easy English.5:30
- You can test yourself on what you've learned with a worksheet on our website bbclearningenglish .com.5:33
- See you then.5:38
- Goodbye.5:39
- Bye.5:40
- you5:43
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