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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English.

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In this podcast, we have real conversations

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in easy English to help you learn.

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I'm Georgie.

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And I'm Beth.

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You can watch a video version of this podcast and

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find a worksheet to help you learn on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.

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Hello Beth, how are you today?

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I'm very well, thank you. How are you?

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Yes, I'm fine, thank you.

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Today we're talking all about being creative.

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If you are a creative person,

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you enjoy things like art or making things and you have lots of ideas.

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OK. So, let's get started!

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Are you a creative person?

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Well, we have quite a creative job, don't we?

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We are always coming up with ideas for new series.

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Editing videos is quite a creative thing.

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I think I'm creative. What about you?

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Yeah, I think especially when you talk about what we do for work.

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We invent new ideas and write scripts, and that is quite inventive.

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But what about outside of work?

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That's what I was going to say.

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Yes. Outside of work,

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I don't have any hobbies that are creative,

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but when I was at school, I used to do photography as a class,

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and that was quite creative.

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You have to have a good eye when you... when you do photography.

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But nowadays I don't do much, actually.

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Sometimes I like colouring in with those colouring books.

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I enjoy that, but I also think you're not really creating much.

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You're just choosing the colours.

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Yeah, you almost need to draw the picture and then colour it in yourself.

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Yeah, maybe I'll do that.

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Maybe I'll try that. What about you?

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Outside of work?

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I think I was probably more creative when I was younger.

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Although, one of my friends at the moment is pregnant,

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so I have been making a blanket for her baby.

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It's a patchwork quilt, so that means there's different squares of fabric, and

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I've been cutting them out and sewing them together with my sewing machine.

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Wow. What...

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what colours are in your patchwork quilt?

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Well, they're... they're kind of blues and whites and orange-y,

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because she doesn't know if it's going to be a boy or a girl.

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And they're all a little bit patterned, so, yeah.

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So, I've been making that so recently,

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I have been creative.

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Nice! And, Beth, are there any creative things, hobbies, you'd like to try?

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Actually, I know someone who does ceramics,

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so they make pots and mugs and plates and he does classes.

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So, I'd quite like to take up ceramics or something like that,

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just to give it a try.

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That's a really good idea, because then you can have new things to have

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in your kitchen – things that you can actually use.

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Exactly. Yeah.

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And again, it's something I did as a child for fun,

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but I wouldn't really think about doing it now.

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But if I, like, took it up as a hobby,

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then it's something creative to do, yeah.

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Nice to do with your hands.

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What about you?

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I don't have any ideas at the moment,

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but I would like to spend my free time doing something creative

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because I think it's quite therapeutic.

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It's a good way to take your mind off the stresses of life.

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So, yeah, no ideas yet.

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But watch this space!

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OK. Let's recap the language we heard during the conversation,

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starting with 'creative', which describes someone who likes art

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or has lots of ideas.

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We also had 'sewing', which is when you make things

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from material like clothes or blankets.

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We also had 'ceramics', which is also called 'pottery', which is

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when you make things like bowls and plates out of a material called clay.

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And if you 'take up' a hobby, you start doing it for the first time.

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And that's it for this episode of Real Easy English.

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Remember, you can test what you've learnt using the worksheet

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on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.

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See you then!

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Bye!