Brief Summary
This video is about beach activities and the author's personal preferences regarding beaches. He discusses various sports like volleyball, soccer, and football that can be played on the sand, as well as water activities such as boogie boarding, surfing, kite surfing, windsurfing, jet skiing, and sailing. He also shares his reasons for not being a big beach fan, mainly due to his sensitivity to the sun and his preference for other natural environments like mountains, forests, and deserts.
- Beach offers various sport and water activities.
- Author prefers other natural environments like mountains, forests, and deserts.
- Author burns easily in the sun.
The author begins by discussing the various activities available at the beach. He mentions sports like volleyball, soccer, and football, noting that while he isn't a huge beach enthusiast, he enjoys playing beach volleyball due to the fun of moving and diving in the sand. His height gives him an advantage in spiking the ball. While soccer and football can also be fun on the beach, he prefers playing them on grass because it's easier to move around on a flat, larger field.
The speaker transitions to water activities, recalling his experience with boogie boarding as a child, which he found enjoyable. He expresses interest in learning to surf, influenced by his surfer students. Besides surfing and boogie boarding, he mentions more exotic activities like kite surfing and windsurfing, as well as boat activities such as jet skiing and sailing. He has sailed before in the bay and thinks it would be cool to get into, but it requires a lot of practice, training, and dedication.
The author explains why he isn't a big fan of the beach. The first reason is his sensitivity to the sun, as he burns easily. The second reason is his preference for other natural environments like the mountains, forests, countryside, and even the desert. He clarifies that he doesn't dislike the beach, but he simply prefers other nature spots. Despite this, he acknowledges his luck in having lived close to the beach for most of his life.
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0:00 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
0:45 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
1:31 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
2:17 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
3:03 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 [Music] [Applause] [Music]
