B1 English Listening Practice - The Beach

hey everybody welcome to this b1 English

listening practice video you can use

this video to train your listening and

comprehension as I speak so today I'm

gonna talk about the beach this is a

subject that most people like because

most people like the beach but I would

say that I'm actually in that small

minority of people that don't really

love the beach

I'd say that I sometimes like going to

the beach but honestly I prefer other

types of terrain but I'll get back to

that later let's talk about all the cool

beach activities that you can do first

of all there are a ton of cool sports

that can be played in the sand like

volleyball soccer football etc I've got

to say that even though I'm not all that

crazy about the beach beach volleyball

is one of the sports that I love the

most

there's just something about moving and

diving around in the sand that I really

like and I'm fairly tall so I have the

advantage of being able to spike the

ball over the net which is pretty fun

soccer and football can also be fun to

play on the beach but for me I think I

prefer to play those sports on normal

grass it's just easier to move around

it's flat and you can play on a bigger

field so besides sports of course one of

the other things that people do on the

sand is sunbathe now this is something

that I could never do in a million years

because I burned super easily if you put

me out in the Sun for a few hours I'd

come back looking like a ripe tomato no

joke I'm sure some of you might say

something similar some of us get a nice

tan when we're out in the Sun and some

of us burn badly I remember one of my

all-time worst sunburns was when I went

on a pretty long bike ride wearing a

sleeveless shirt it was kind of cloudy

outside so I didn't think I needed

sunscreen and boy was I wrong

my arms were peeling for a long time

after that day okay so back to the beach

let's talk about some of the different

water activities now growing up I did

some boogie boarding which I actually

find pretty fun it just doesn't look as

cool as surfing if you've never been

boogie boarding before it's when you

have a rectangular board and you lie

down on it and when a big wave comes it

pushes you into the shore it's pretty

fun I've actually been thinking about

learning to surf recently because I've

had a few different students who are

surfers and they

talk to me about it and made it sound

pretty cool so maybe I might try it but

I don't think I'd be that good at it

besides surfing and boogie-boarding

there are also some other more exotic

looking activities like kite surfing and

windsurfing and some boat activities

like jet skiing or sailing I have been

sailing before but on the bay not in the

ocean sailing is something that would be

cool to get into but it takes a lot of

practice training and dedication and so

I don't think I'll ever go that route

alright so I mentioned earlier that I'm

not a big beach guy and that's mainly

for two reasons the first is the Sun I

burn easily and the second is that if I

have free time I prefer to go to other

places like the mountain the forest the

countryside even the desert so it's not

that I don't like the beach I just like

other nature places better but despite

that fact I've lived close to the beach

for most of my life and I know I'm lucky

for that alright so that's all for today

leave a comment and tell me some of the

things that you like doing at the beach

I'll see you next video

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