Why are fewer people going to the countryside? 6 Minute English
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Fewer and fewer people are going out for a walk in the countryside. Our obsession with social media platforms seems to have something to do with it. Neil and Catherine talk about the trend of staying indoors and teach you six items of vocabulary.
You'll find the transcript here: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/...
𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝟔 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬:
Is the internet good or bad?
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The power of smell
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Are you excited about the World Cup?
• Are you excited about ...
Is gaming a sport?
• Is gaming a sport? 6 M...
𝐕𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲
𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞
to go out somewhere, but usually when the conditions are bad
𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬
those who became adults in the early 21st century
𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐗
those who became adults in the 1980s and 1990s
𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐥
amazing, surprising and unbelievable
𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬
activities that prevent us from doing more important things
𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞
new informal word made with the sufix 'able' and it means 'suitable for posting on the social media platform Instagram'
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Not going out
Fewer and fewer people are going out for a walk in the countryside.
Our obsession with social media platforms seems to have something to do with it.
We’re talking about the trend of staying indoors.
When was the last time you went for a walk in the country for fun, for exercise or relaxation?
Fewer and fewer people are venturing out into the country. To venture out somewhere is to go out somewhere, but usually when the conditions are bad. It’s a big challenge, or even a risky activity.
I don’t think a walk in the countryside is a particularly dangerous activity, even in bad weather. It’s not one of the reasons people gave in a recent survey for why they don’t do it.
In fact, one of the biggest reasons people gave was that it wouldn’t look good on their social media!
4 in 10 millennials think they should spend more time in the countryside.
A quarter of them know and believe that it’s much better and easier to relax in the countryside, but they just don’t go. It’s phenomenal - amazing, surprising, incredible, and unbelievable.
Millennials are young adults now in the early 21st century, people who were born in the 1980s and 1990s.
The age group before millennials is Generation X, who were born in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s.
There are just so many other distractions and it’s just so easy for people to stay indoors. They’re using excuses like they haven’t got the right clothing, it’s not instagramable, would you believe it?
A distraction is something that takes away your attention from doing something important.
These days we have a lot of distractions or things that offer us easy entertainment.
So it’s very easy to come up with an excuse for not taking the time to go outside.
Another very good excuse of course is the weather. It’s not a lot of fun to go out if it’s cold and pouring with rain.
A very wise person once said that there is no such thing as the wrong weather, just the wrong clothing!
True. But you have to have the right clothing in the first place and if the weather is terrible you might be not able to get good pictures for your Instagram account. They might not be instagrammable. Instagrammable means it’s suitable for posting on Instagram.
BBC Learning English is certainly instagrammable, facebookable, tweetable, and youtubable. You can find us on all those platforms as well as on our website - bbclearningenglish dot com.
Vocabulary: to venture out somewhere, millennials, Generation X, phenomenal, distractions, instagrammable
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It happens because people don't often see their homeland. Some pf them goes to the work and home again. It seems like life is the same it was yesterday. Wherever people are right now they always miss their home or countryside. In my country people who left my country after a few times they returned again. They say that it's comfortable to them to live there. They are more happier in their countryside. Honestly i don't want to live my countryside too. We have quote like "Where you were born, there you are needed". I totally agree with it
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Neil: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute
English. I'm Neil.
Catherine: Hi! And I'm Catherine.
Neil: Now, Catherine, when was the last time you went for a walk in the country for fun, for exercise or relaxation?
Catherine: People do that?
Neil: Well, believe it or not, they do.
Catherine: Interesting, people are strange.
Neil: Well, it sounds like you should pay close attention to today's programme because it's all about how fewer and fewer people are venturing out into the country.
Catherine: Well, I wonder if that word is part of the problem. To venture out somewhere suggests that it's a big challenge, or even a risky activity.
Neil: I don't think a walk in the country is a particularly dangerous activity, even in bad weather. It's not one of the reasons people gave in a recent survey for why they don't do it. In fact, one of the biggest reasons people gave was that it wouldn't look good on their social media.
Catherine: Well, of course, why would you go for a walk in the rain in the country if you couldn't get good snaps for your social media account?
Neil: Interesting you should say that because it's the topic of this week's quiz question. In the survey what percentage of people gave the poor social media photo opportunity as their reason for not wanting to venture out into the countryside. Was it:
a) around 10%, b) around 30% or c) around 50%? What do you think?
Catherine: To be honest, I don't think that would be a good excuse at all, so I'm going to say it's just 10%.
Neil: Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme. Annabel Shackleton is from an organisation called Leaf - Linking Environment and Farming. They want to encourage more people to visit the countryside. She recently appeared on the BBC's Farming Today radio programme. She gave her response to the survey we mentioned which revealed that many of us prefer to stay indoors. What does she say a quarter of people in the survey know and believe?
Annabel Shackleton: I can't believe that 4 in 10 millennials think they should spend more time in the countryside and a quarter of them know and believe that it's much better and easier to relax in the
countryside but they're just not going out. It's phenomenal.
Catherine: She was talking about a group in the survey which she called millennials. This term refers to people who are young adults now, people who were born in the 1980s and 1990s. Are you a millennial, Neil?
Neil: No, I'm actually Generation X, the age group before millennials. We were born in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s. Shackleton said that a quarter of millennials know and believe that it's better and easier to relax in the country, but they just don't go.
Catherine: She thought it was phenomenal. Now this adjective means that something is incredible, unbelievable. It's often used for something that is positive, something that is very impressive or amazing.
Neil: In this case though she is using it to say how shocked and surprised she is that people know going out in the country is good and a great way to relax but they still don't do it. So what explanation does she have for this phenomenal behaviour. Here's Annabel Shackleton again.
Annabel Shackleton: There are just so many other distractions and it's just so easy for people to stay indoors. You know and they're using excuses like they haven't got the right clothing, it's not instagramable, would you believe it? And yes, it's a shame.
Catherine: She said that there are many other distractions. A distraction is something that takes your attention away from doing something. Usually we think of a distraction as something that delays us from doing something more important.
Neil: These days we have a lot of distractions or things that offer us easy entertainment. So it's very easy to come up with an excuse for not taking the time to go outside.
Catherine: Another very good excuse of course is the weather. It's not a lot of fun to go out if it's cold
and pouring with rain.
Neil: Well, a very wise person once said that there is no such thing as the wrong weather, just the wrong clothing!
Catherine: True, Neil, but you have to have the right clothing in the first place and if the weather is terrible you might not be able to get good pictures for your Instagram account. They might not be instagramable. Now you're not going to find that word in the dictionary, but you probably know that
the suffix able means 'possible'. So put 'able' on the end of Instagram and you get instagramable.
Neil: And that brings us neatly back to our question. What percentage of people in the survey said that they wouldn't go out in the country because they wouldn't get good pictures for social media?
Was it around 10%, 30% or 50%. What did you say, Catherine?
Catherine: I said 10.
Neil: And the answer was about 30%!
Catherine: What is the world coming to?
Neil: I don't know what the world is coming to, but we are coming to the end of the programme, so time to review today's vocabulary.
Catherine: We started off with to venture out somewhere, which simply means to go out somewhere,
but usually when the conditions are bad, for example - it was pouring with rain but I still decided to venture out to the shops.
Neil: We heard about millennials and Generation X. Different age groups, millennials are those who became adults in the early 21st century, and Generation X are from the previous generation, who became adults in the 1980s and 1990s.
Catherine: Something phenomenal is amazing, surprising and unbelievable.
Neil: And then we had distractions for activities that prevent us from doing more important things.
Catherine: And one of the biggest distractions is social media. Put the suffix able onto the end of the name of a social media platform and you create a word that describes something that is suitable for posting, so instagramable.
Neil: bbclearningenglish is certainly instagramable, facebookable, tweetable and youtubeable. You can find us on all those platforms as well as on our website. So do check us out there before joining us again for more 6 Minute English. Goodbye.
Catherine: Goodbye!
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Fewer and fewer people are going out for a walk in the countryside. Our obsession with social media platforms seems to have something to do with it. Neil and Catherine talk about the trend of staying indoors and teach you six items of vocabulary.
This week's question:
In the survey, what percentage of people gave the poor social media photo opportunity as their reason for not wanting to venture out into the countryside? Was it:
a) around 10%
b) around 30%
c) around 50%
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary
to venture out somewhere
to go out somewhere, but usually when the conditions are bad
millennials
those who became adults in the early 21st century
Generation X
those who became adults in the 1980s and 1990s
phenomenal
amazing, surprising and unbelievable
distractions
activities that prevent us from doing more important things
instagramable
new informal word made with the sufix 'able' and it means 'suitable for posting on the social media platform Instagram'
Transcript
Note: This is not a word for word transcript
Neil
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Neil.
Catherine
Hi! And I'm Catherine.
Neil
Now, Catherine, when was the last time you went for a walk in the country for fun, for exercise or relaxation?
Catherine
People do that?
Neil
Well, believe it or not, they do.
Catherine
Interesting, people are strange.
Neil
Well, it sounds like you should pay close attention to today's programme because it's all about how fewer and fewer people are venturing out into the country.
Catherine
Well, I wonder if that word is part of the problem. To venture out somewhere suggests that it's a big challenge, or even a risky activity.
Neil
I don't think a walk in the country is a particularly dangerous activity, even in bad weather. It's not one of the reasons people gave in a recent survey for why they don't do it. In fact, one of the biggest reasons people gave was that it wouldn't look good on their social media.
Catherine
Well, of course, why would you go for a walk in the rain in the country if you couldn't get good snaps for your social media account?
Neil
Interesting you should say that because it's the topic of this week's quiz question. In the survey, what percentage of people gave the poor social media photo opportunity as their reason for not wanting to venture out into the countryside? Was it:
a) around 10%,
b) around 30% or
c) around 50%?
What do you think?
Catherine
To be honest, I don't think that would be a good excuse at all, so I'm going to say it's just 10%.
Neil
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme. Annabel Shackleton is from an organisation called Leaf - Linking Environment and Farming. They want to encourage more people to visit the countryside. She recently appeared on the BBC's Farming Today radio programme. She gave her response to the survey we mentioned which revealed that many of us prefer to stay indoors. What does she say a quarter of people in the survey know and believe?
Annabel Shackleton
I can’t believe that 4 in 10 millennials think they should spend more time in the countryside and a quarter of them know and believe that it's much better and easier to relax in the countryside but they’re just not going out. It's phenomenal.
Catherine
She was talking about a group in the survey which she called millennials. This term refers to people who are young adults now, people who were born in the 1980s and 1990s. Are you a millennial, Neil?
Neil
No, I'm actually Generation X, the age group before millennials. We were born in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s. Shackleton said that a quarter of millennialsknow and believe that it's better and easier to relax in the country, but they just don’t go.
Catherine
She thought it was phenomenal. Now this adjective means that something is incredible, unbelievable. It's often used for something that is positive, something that is very impressive or amazing.
Neil
In this case though she is using it to say how shocked and surprised she is that people know going out in the country is good and a great way to relax but they still don't do it. So what explanation does she have for this phenomenal behaviour. Here's Annabel Shackleton again.
Annabel Shackleton
There are just so many other distractions and it's just so easy for people to stay indoors. You know and they're using excuses like they haven't got the right clothing, it's not instagramable, would you believe it? And yes, it's a shame.
Catherine
She said that there are many other distractions. A distraction is something that takes your attention away from doing something. Usually we think of a distraction as something that delays us from doing something more important.
Neil
These days we have a lot of distractions or things that offer us easy entertainment. So it's very easy to come up with an excuse for not taking the time to go outside.
Catherine
Another very good excuse of course is the weather. It's not a lot of fun to go out if it's cold and pouring with rain.
Neil
Well, a very wise person once said that there is no such thing as the wrong weather, just the wrong clothing!
Catherine
True, Neil, but you have to have the right clothing in the first place and if the weather is terrible you might not be able to get good pictures for your Instagram account. They might not be instagramable. Now you're not going to find that word in the dictionary, but you probably know that the suffix able means 'possible'. So put able on the end of Instagram and you get instagramable.
Neil
And that brings us neatly back to our question. What percentage of people in the survey said that they wouldn't go out in the country because they wouldn't get good pictures for social media? Was it around 10%, 30% or 50%. What did you say, Catherine?
Catherine
I said 10.
Neil
And the answer was about 30%!
Catherine
What is the world coming to?
Neil
I don’t know what the world is coming to, but we are coming to the end of the programme, so time to review today's vocabulary.
Catherine
We started off with to venture out somewhere, which simply means to go out somewhere, but usually when the conditions are bad, for example - it was pouring with rain but I still decided to venture out to the shops.
Neil
We heard about millennials and Generation X. Different age groups, millennials are those who became adults in the early 21st century, and Generation X are from the previous generation, who became adults in the 1980s and 1990s.
Catherine
Something phenomenal is amazing, surprising and unbelievable.
Neil
And then we had distractions for activities that prevent us from doing more important things.
Catherine
And one of the biggest distractions is social media. Put the suffix able onto the end of the name of a social media platform and you create a word that describes something that is suitable for posting, so instagramable.
Neil
bbclearningenglish is certainly instagramable, facebookable, tweetable and youtubeable. You can find us on all those platforms as well as on our website. So do check us out there before joining us again for more 6 Minute English. Goodbye.
Catherine
Cat: Interesting, people are strange! hahhahahah...so cute!
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This one is for this programme: downloads.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/6min/180726_6min_english_not_going_out_download.mp3
There are such people everywhere, it doesn't matter where you go. They aren't aware of what they're missing. Instead of getting closer (or coming back) to the old good nature, they prefer opposite things, which unavoidably mean away from it. Pity!
I live in the country
Could you tell me about the year of Generation Z?
Hi Kim sokhom Generation X = those who became adults in the 1980s and 1990s.
You'll find the key words and the transcript for this programme on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-180726
Thank you very much!
BBC learning English is also whatsappable 😂😂 I was born in 1997, so am I millennial?
I believe you are!
Could you tell me the year of Generation Z?
The girl is so nice
Hm, go outside to the country only for the reason to get instagramable pictures is really strange )) From my point of view, modern people should have a rest of hustle and bustle of cities, should be close to the nature. And it doesn’t matter how old one is.
Well, the only thing is funny in this video for greek people is that you say what "phenomenon" means and in greek this word is "φαινόμενο".
Subtitles will help some of us please do something.
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Where is the option for subtitles
Its 99%
LMAO
Shame to instagramable people :/
I was born in 1999. Am I a millennial?
Yess
LMAO
For some people nowadays every moment in their life is becoming instagramable, such a disaster.
Fewer and fewer people are going out for a walk in the countryside, because they prefer to play virtual games rather than to do something real. just like this podcast fake. if it not in the dictionary it not a real word it's slang.
We really need to stop creating lame and uninspiring word. Instagramable?