The UK in Spring | Slow British English Vlog

My name is Evie and this is a video in

slow English to help you practice your

listening comprehension.

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>> Today, we are in a car park.

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>> We are in

a car park. I am at

Currys, which is basically like

it's this shop right here.

Currys in the UK is a tech shop, so they

tell they sell technology.

Um and I just bought a new camera and a

new microphone because

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>> I think if anybody has seen my old

videos,

um my audio is kind of bad.

I also

was filming a lot on my phone and this

means that my phone would die really

quickly

and sometimes

I would run

Anyway, sometimes I would run out of

storage. So, I bought a camera and it's

so cute. It's this. It's the DJI Osmo

Pocket 3 and it's so small. Uh I also

have Wilson with me.

I have Wilson.

Today in the village, it is the spring

show. So, the plan is to go to the

spring show, which I will show you

later. So, yeah, let's um let's spend

the day together and um I will show you

the UK in springtime. I'll show you the

UK in the spring.

I now need to drive home.

I'm going to listen to the new Harry

Styles album.

Oh, Wilson's hot.

Um I'm going to listen to the new Harry

Styles album.

Kiss all the time, disco occasionally. I

love it.

And my favorite song on the album, oh my

god, he's so hot.

My favorite song on the album is Taste

Back. So, if you want music

recommendations, I really like Taste

Back by Harry Styles.

Anyway, let's go.

Oh my god, they're so cute.

They're like tiny little ponies.

That was all right. This one didn't turn

Grab. We just arrived. I need to put on

Wilson's harness

and

I'm going to get a coffee and we're

going to head for a walk.

Um he's seen a dog, he's going to go

crazy.

No.

Before we go for a walk,

um we're going to head to the cafe

and I'm going to just sit and enjoy the

sunshine a little bit.

So, this way to the cafe.

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>> Me and Wilson are

on a walk. We just had

a coffee

and I wanted to explain about the spring

in the British countryside.

So, we do not have like a particular

celebration.

Um

we do have an Easter egg hunt

on Easter Sunday with children. So, if

you are a child in the UK at Easter,

on Easter Sunday,

the Easter rabbit

I just watched this clip and I called it

the Easter rabbit.

It is literally not called the Easter

rabbit.

It's called the Easter bunny.

The Easter rabbit

which is a mythical figure, a made-up

figure,

will come

and hide chocolate eggs

in your garden and

children will have an Easter egg hunt

where

they go around their garden and find

these chocolate eggs.

Children will do Easter egg hunts, but

for adults,

unless you are a Christian,

there is no particular

special event at Easter.

Um the spring is more a time where

everyone is happy because

we have nice weather like we have today.

So, this is one of the nicest days we've

had all year in terms of weather. Go,

Wilson.

There's a really cute cottage

with a thatched roof.

Really cute.

Wilson

Wilson loves being

in the long grass.

I have had this phone. No, [ __ ] I have

had

this camera and this new microphone for

about

2 hours

and already I have lost the clip.

So, the microphone has a magnet. It has

a magnet on the back to put it on your

clothing

and I've lost it.

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>> I have literally used this camera for

like 5 [ __ ] minutes.

What am I like?

Oh, well.

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>> We're now going to walk down this path,

but I wanted to show you as well more

trees.

So, we had a really big storm a few

weeks ago

and lots of trees fell down. So, you can

see here

these are the roots of the tree.

We also have lots of these old walls in

the UK. So, this is a wall. It's made of

stones. It's man-made. So, it's made by

people

and it's covered in green moss.

Can you see all of the moss?

It's a very old wall and trees

are growing out of the top.

Wilson gets really excited when he's in

a forest

because he loves to chase squirrels.

He loves to chase squirrels. Can you see

he's trying to find squirrels right now?

I think as well, squirrel

is one of the most difficult words for

non-native English speakers.

They find the word squirrel really

difficult to say.

So,

maybe see if you can pronounce squirrel

correctly. I think Americans say like

squirrel.

Squirrel or squirrel

if you prefer British English.

It's a water trough

for farm animals

to drink.

Where I live in the UK is the

countryside.

And in some places like where I live,

we celebrate the spring with a spring

show.

And these spring shows will happen in

various villages

where

people will bring in like

flowers that they have grown in their

garden or cakes that they have baked or

jam that they have made

and they will have a competition in the

village to see who has the best spring

produce.

So, it might be who has the best eggs or

who bakes the best cake.

And it's really cute. So, later this

afternoon there is a spring show in a

nearby village.

So, I'm going to go to that.

So,

we have just got back from our walk. I'm

going to drop Wilson home. I'm going to

take Wilson back to the house.

And then it's time to head to the spring

show. And I can show you a little bit

what a spring show looks like.

The spring show is held in the village

hall, which is basically a public

building in the heart of the village.

It's a public building in the center of

the village.

And as you can tell from the clips, it

was very busy. There were lots and lots

of people at the show.

And

I was a little bit hesitant to film. I

was a bit hesitant to Oops, sorry.

I was a bit hesitant to film people

because obviously I do not know if they

want to be in the video. So, I wanted to

explain a little bit what is happening

in these video clips. What is actually

going on? As you can see in these clips,

there are some of the produce and

entries of the spring show. So, many

people submit these yellow flowers

called daffodils, which are a symbol of

spring in the UK.

And basically there is a competition to

see which daffodil is the best.

People also enter things like cakes or

jam and other baked goods.

Uh and there is a competition for

children as well. So, children will

create tiny little fairy gardens and

chocolate cakes.

They also decorate eggs.

Um eggs are a symbol of spring in the UK

because eggs represent new life

um and rebirth. So, eggs were painted by

children as well.

Um there were also some animals made out

of vegetables, such as this worm made

out of a carrot. Um it's all very cute.

And if you win, you get a small amount

of prize money. Only a couple quid, like

a couple British pounds. It's not a lot

of money. Um people mostly just enter

the competition to be a part of the

community. There is also a prize giving.

So, if you win lots of different

categories, you can win a trophy. Um and

they have an award ceremony with that as

well.

There is a speech before the trophies

are given out. And I will include a

small extract of that here as well. The

speech is at native speed. And I am

going to include a small extract, so you

can see if you can understand any of it.

>> I welcome to the annual spring flower

show. It's lovely to see so many people

and wonderful exhibits here today.

It's a huge credit to everyone involved,

past and present, that the village has

both a spring and autumn shows. So, well

done.

As many other villages have lost theirs.

So, congratulations to everyone for just

keeping this going. It's it's amazing.

After the speech and the award ceremony,

there was a raffle.

A raffle is basically a fundraising

competition where you buy a row of

numbers and then they pull numbers out

of a basket. And if they call your

number, then you win.

So, I bought four rows of tickets. And

to win one of the prizes at the raffle,

I needed the right color ticket and the

right number. So, I needed ticket 210 to

be called in the color that I had on my

raffle ticket.

Good.

Another yellow one.

29.

An early one.

29.

I didn't get it on camera, but

I actually won the raffle. Um so, here

is me post win, post glory

um with my new prize.

We're just now leaving the the raffle.

And

they pulled my ticket, so I won.

Um I wanted a bottle of Shiraz.

There was a bottle of red wine,

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>> which I wanted, but

the person before me took the wine, so I

have

an Easter egg instead. This was the

prize that I chose for my winning

ticket. And I have been speaking about

Easter eggs this whole video. So, I

thought I could show you. I figured I

could show you like what an Easter egg

is.

Okay.

So,

Okay. So, this is the Easter egg.

And I'm going to open the box.

And

with an Easter egg, you normally get one

large

chocolate egg.

So, this is the Easter egg.

And then you get some extra chocolates

underneath.

So,

this is a Celebrations egg. So, I have a

box of Celebrations

underneath.

And the egg itself is not solid, so it's

hollow.

Can you hear? It's hollow. So, when I do

this,

the chocolate has

broken.

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>> And um

then you have some chocolate.

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