English Conversation Meeting new people English speaking skills practice

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meeting new people

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hello hi

it’s so nice to meet you lovely to

finally meet you

how are you i’m well how are you

i’m good thank you how are you finding

london

so far it has been incredible like i’ve

been

you know working really hard but also

having lots of fun as well

it’s just the weather that’s not quite

my cup of tea

it’s not great it’s a bit gray at the

moment

it’s a little bit gray and a little bit

drizzly

and a little bit cold for me

i’ve spent a few days up in scotland as

well

which was even colder so i guess

now what’s it like in australia

at the moment we’re just going into

summer so it’s starting to get

warm i’m envious

i’m looking forward to getting back

there actually

do you live near the beach i do

yeah i live in melbourne right near the

beach

yeah and how long are you

going to stay here for probably just

another few days actually so i’ve been

here for about two weeks already

do you miss home not really

it’s nice to get out and explore and see

new things

and meet lots of new people like

yourself

so yeah yeah

i love traveling do you

so where have you been traveling

recently

well i used to live in spain i got to

see quite a lot of spain

i haven’t been traveling recently i did

go on holiday to spain this summer

but i’m looking to move abroad very soon

really i’m looking to

go back to spain very very soon

i would love to visit spain i’ve never

been

haven’t you have you been to many other

countries

i have been yeah i’ve traveled quite a

lot

i’ve been to greece so you know warm

beautiful beaches lovely in summer

that kind of thing i went to greece this

summer

i went to kefalonia one of the islands

it is such a gorgeous part of the world

the food and food

it’s like a mix of greek and italian

food together

just my two favorites the european

summer is

lovely it’s a shame about the winter

i know i’ll make sure that i’m back here

for the summer

next time and you need to visit spain

yes spain is my favorite country in the

world

yes i know it’s been on my list for many

years

and the food there if you like greek

food

then you’re going to love spanish food

i’m a bit tired of eating spanish food

in restaurants

anywhere else in the world except in

spain

it’s just not the same it’s not the same

and i’m looking forward to having my

first proper

siesta as well have you

never had one before we need to correct

that

not officially no so i’ve seen on your

channel

that you quite like cooking

yes how did you get into that

well to be honest i learned a lot from

my fiance cha

so he is an excellent cook and i guess

when you get in a relationship with

someone

you have to kind of up the ante a bit

so he was a really good cook and i

needed to

impress him with my skills

well cooking for one just

isn’t the same is it

actually i’m awful at cooking for one

i always make about six meals worth and

then i have to end up freezing it

which is kind of helpful but i’m not

good at cooking

well i recently moved back with my

parents for a short while

before moving on to another country and

the best part of it

is being able to cook for three other

people

i thought you were going to say that the

best part about it

is you get home-cooked meals every night

no i cook myself

you do it yourself yeah

that’s like my sort of agreement you can

have me here and i’ll cook for you

what’s your specialty well

i did travel to italy a little bit

actually

i didn’t go to italy i went to palermo

in sicily and they taught me how to make

a

mean risotto but i like

experimenting so i kind of ask my dad

and brother

because they’re the most appreciative

what do you fancy

and then i try and do it but with a

twist

so if they want mexican then i’ll do

some sort of

i like to invent we are quite opposite

in that sense

i’m very much like a find a really good

recipe and make the recipe

see i like to find a couple of recipes

take inspiration from them

and then rewrite it myself

that sounds interesting and very

exciting

so what’s your number one recipe then

i love cooking thai food actually

oh i do love thai green curry

yeah but i find it

hard to find a good paste

well i make all my pastes myself

so that’s why mine is so good

but yeah it’s all about the paste right

so you cook that first then you deal

with the rest of it

so you must have lived in quite a few

countries then

i have i’ve definitely tried visited a

few

i’ve only lived in i was born in

australia

and i’ve lived most of my life in

australia

but i have spent some time living in

vietnam and

also in malaysia i’ve never been to asia

at all

haven’t you in fact i’ve only ever left

europe twice once it was to go to

jamaica

and once it was to go to granada

oh really you’re a caribbean kind of guy

i’ve lived in just in spain

i’ve lived in madrid and i lived in

seville

the beautiful part of the world

and london and the countryside in

england

i’m from bedfordshire what’s the

countryside like

so green that sometimes when i get off

the train i have to put my sunglasses on

because it hurts my eyes it’s beautiful

lovely in spring and summer

autumn is stunning because you get all

of the fall of the leaves

yeah and winter’s nice

it does snow occasionally

where i’m from it’s quite flat but if

you go

further further afield you can go down

hills and everything

yeah but i’m looking to live in some

other countries

soon not sure that’s one of the things

that i love most about teaching

and meeting new people is there are so

many opportunities to

you know travel and

go to different places and places that

you

never really expected to go to either

you mean it’s a journey isn’t it

you just end up doing things that you

never

ever imagined and meeting lots of random

people

like me exactly

running to you in london

okay emma well i would love to show you

my neighborhood so why don’t we go grab

a coffee

yeah i’d love to have a little bit of a

walk around

that sounds great let’s do it

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