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1. 0:00 Hi Neil.
2. 0:01 How are you?
3. 0:02 Hi Becca.
4. 0:03 I'm very well, thank you very much.
5. 0:05 Have you noticed that it's not summer anymore?
6. 0:08 It's autumn.
7. 0:09 How do you feel about that?
8. 0:10 What do you notice?
9. 0:12 Yes, it is autumn in the UK and the weather's getting a little bit cooler, and the leaves are starting to fall from the trees.
10. 0:21 You like autumn, don't you?
11. 0:22 I love autumn!
12. 0:23 I'm excited for this episode because we're talking all about autumn today.
13. 0:28 We are.
14. 0:28 And people need to know that they can go to our website, bbclearningenglish.com, to get a transcript and a worksheet to help them improve their English.
15. 0:45 So, right now it is autumn in the UK.
16. 0:49 You might hear it as 'fall' in other English-speaking countries.
17. 0:55 What changes happen in the UK during autumn?
18. 0:59 The leaves fall.
19. 1:00 The leaves fall off the trees and they are crunchy on the ground.
20. 1:06 You can make big piles of leaves and jump into them.
21. 1:09 It's so much fun.
22. 1:11 And I love also the crunching sound when you walk over those autumn leaves.
23. 1:17 Before the leaves fall off the trees, they turn into this beautiful orange-reddish colour.
24. 1:25 And I love all of these autumnal colours - so, 'autumnal' being the adjective to describe something that relates to autumn.
25. 1:34 Yeah.
26. 1:35 You really like autumnal things, don't you?
27. 1:38 I do.
28. 1:39 You like to wear different clothes?
29. 1:41 I do, yeah.
30. 1:42 I'm very excited to start wearing jumpers and big boots.
31. 1:47 And, as you mentioned, it's getting colder now so I want to be warm and cosy.
32. 1:54 Cosy.
33. 1:54 That's a fantastic word.
34. 1:57 Cosy is that feeling you have of being warm when things around you are probably a bit cold.
35. 2:05 So, it feels cosy if you go into a house on a cold day and there's a big fire, for example.
36. 2:13 Yeah.
37. 2:14 So, I obviously love autumn.
38. 2:17 How does the changing of the seasons feel to you?
39. 2:21 Well, usually...
40. 2:22 usually I'm not a big fan.
41. 2:25 I don't really like autumn because it means that the summer is over and I love summer and the long, late evenings.
42. 2:33 But this year it was so hot, I've had enough of summer, so I'm very happy that it's autumn.
43. 2:42 Yeah.
44. 2:43 How about you?
45. 2:43 I feel the same.
46. 2:44 I've always loved autumn, but I am a really big lover of summer.
47. 2:51 But yeah, it has been far too hot this summer, so I welcome the autumn this year.
48. 2:57 OK Becca.
49. 2:58 So, what kind of things do we do in the UK in autumn?
50. 3:03 Well, I am excited for Halloween.
51. 3:07 It's not as popular in the UK as it is in the USA, for example,
52. 3:14 but I do love Halloween because I love things that are a little bit scary, and that's at the end of October.
53. 3:21 But on the 5th of November is when we have Bonfire Night.
54. 3:26 Yes, Bonfire Night is when we make a big fire, an outside fire, to celebrate and we stand around the fire.
55. 3:36 And actually it's more about fireworks these days.
56. 3:41 So, fireworks are those very pretty explosions in the sky that we look at on special occasions like New Year and that kind of thing.
57. 3:52 Yeah.
58. 3:53 So, it's usually quite noisy on the 5th of November, but the sky is lit up with beautiful fireworks.
59. 4:00 I can't remember the last time I did a bonfire.
60. 4:03 Do you celebrate Bonfire Night every year?
61. 4:08 Well, I don't have a bonfire because I live in a city and it's not very nice for my neighbours, but when I was younger
62. 4:18 and lived more in the countryside, we would go to a Bonfire Night and
63. 4:24 we would stand around the bonfire and maybe even cook food in the bonfire.
64. 4:31 Oh, OK.
65. 4:32 So, like toasting marshmallows or melting chocolate?
66. 4:37 Baked potatoes.
67. 4:38 Baked potatoes...?
68. 4:40 Yeah.
69. 4:41 I've never...
70. 4:42 I've never cooked a baked potato on a bonfire before.
71. 4:45 Yeah, you wrap the potato in foil and then you put it in the fire, and then you wait.
72. 4:53 And then you open it and it's completely black.
73. 4:57 That doesn't sound very tasty to me!
74. 5:01 It's difficult to get it right.
75. 5:04 Right...
76. 5:05 OK.
77. 5:07 That's a whole new thing.
78. 5:16 Alright, Neil, it's time to recap some of the vocabulary that we used during this conversation.
79. 5:22 And we'll start with one of my favourite adjectives, which is 'cosy'.
80. 5:27 And that's the feeling of being comfortable and warm, especially when perhaps outside it's not so comfortable and warm.
81. 5:36 Yeah.
82. 5:37 And we also heard 'bonfire'.
83. 5:39 A bonfire might make you feel cosy.
84. 5:42 A bonfire is a large fire we build outside for festivals and celebrations.
85. 5:49 Yes, I remember celebrating Bonfire Night as a child and we also saw fireworks.
86. 5:56 Fireworks are explosions in the sky, which make bright, colourful lights for everyone to watch.
87. 6:03 We were also talking about the leaves that fall on the ground, and when you walk on those leaves when they're dry, it's crunchy.
88. 6:12 And 'crunchy' describes the sound that those leaves make and also the sound when you bite into an apple.
89. 6:19 And before the leaves fall, they are orange, and orange and red can be described as autumnal colours,
90. 6:26 'autumnal' being the adjective that describes things that are from autumn.
91. 6:32 That's it for this episode of Real Easy English, but join us again next week for another episode.
92. 6:38 Yes, and you can find more episodes, plus this one and a free worksheet on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
93. 6:47 Bye for now.
94. 6:47 Bye!

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