coffee break english season 1 episode 4 [Music] hello everyone and welcome back to coffee break english my name's josie and i'm mark and we are very happy to be here today josie what are we talking about today today we are in the usa with kate and she's telling us all about where she lives okay and are there any language points that we need to listen out for yes today we are focusing on adverbs of manner um what does that mean so an adverb is basically a word that describes a verb so it describes how you do something like i walk slowly slowly describes the way that i walk okay let's listen to our text and then we'll talk about it afterwards [Music] hey i'm kate and i live in colorado springs in the usa colorado springs is a city in the state of colorado and about 470 000 people live here in general the people who live here are quite friendly and people in shops and restaurants always talk to you politely the city is next to the rocky mountains so you always have an amazing view of them in fact there is a limit on how tall buildings can be so that everyone can see the mountains easily from anywhere in the city because we are so close to the mountains a lot of people love doing activities like hiking and skiing in their free time we work hard during the week so that at the weekend we can escape into the mountains and enjoy nature but it's not just the locals who enjoy being outside and exercising the us olympic team comes to colorado springs to train because it is high above sea level once i saw some athletes training in the mountains they were running up and down them so fast colorado springs is a good place to be if you like being outside because it is often sunny here there are usually around 300 days of sunshine each year and it rarely rains it's not very easy to get around in colorado springs because the public transport doesn't work well a lot of people have motorbikes but they drive very dangerously because colorado is the only state in the us where it isn't a law to wear a helmet on a motorbike i prefer cycling or going by car to get around safely the food here is delicious but we don't eat very healthily we love burgers and barbecued meat and you can easily find tex-mex food because there are a lot of hispanic people here i love living in colorado springs seeing the sun rise over the rocky mountains every morning is the perfect way to start the day do you like your town or city are people friendly what's the weather like [Music] lots of questions from kate there at the end yes that's right i hope our listeners can answer them on facebook after this episode perfect okay let's go back through the text now yes can you read the first phrase mark okay so kate said hi i'm kate and i live in colorado springs in the usa colorado springs is a city in the state of colorado and about 470 000 people live here good so this number four hundred and seventy thousand people you said four hundred and seventy thousand but kate said four hundred seventy thousand so both of these are correct it depends where you're from okay in general the people who live here are quite friendly and people in shops and restaurants always talk to you politely yes so kate says people always talk to you politely this is an example of an adverb of manner and it comes from the adjective polite polite means someone who is nice kind they say please and thank you so we could say people are polite and the adjective polite describes the noun people or people talk to you politely politely describes the verb talk the way that people talk to you is polite okay the city is next to the rocky mountains so you always have an amazing view of them good so an amazing view is a very very good view okay let's continue in fact there is a limit on how tall buildings can be so that everyone can see the mountains easily from anywhere in the city good so there is a limit there is a maximum of how tall buildings can be so that everyone can see the mountains easily easily is another adverb an adverb of manner the adjective is easy and the adverb is easily we can see the mountains easily okay josie so we saw politely and we've seen easily do you always add l y to the end of the adjective good question to make an adverb usually we add l y that's the regular way to do this and in the case of easily the adjective easy it ends in y so when we add l y we change the y at the end of easy to i okay let's look at some further examples in the rest of the text because we are so close to the mountains a lot of people love doing activities like hiking and skiing in their free time good so the people in colorado springs they like hiking walking in the mountains and skiing do you like hiking or skiing mark i love both hiking and skiing but i don't often get the chance to ski unfortunately yes me too i i love hiking so i would love to visit colorado springs good kate goes on we work hard during the week so that at the weekend we can escape into the mountains and enjoy nature good so you asked me before mark if we always add l-y to make an adverb and now we have an example of an irregular adverb we work hard in this case it's quite an easy irregular adverb because the adverb is the same as the adjective so i could say my job is hard there it's an adjective describing my job or i work hard there i'm describing the way that i work okay so we escape into the mountains and enjoy nature yes we uh get away from the city we escape we run away into the mountains okay but it's not just the locals who enjoy being outside and exercising good so the locals the locals are the people who live in a place is local always a noun no in this case local means a person but it can also be an adjective for example the local area where i live that's the the area which is around where i live it's an adjective in that case so who else enjoys being outside and exercising well kate says the u. s olympic team comes to colorado springs to train because it is high above sea level good so it's high above sea level what is sea level mark sea level is the level of the sea where the land meets the sea exactly yes and um the u. s olympic team comes to colorado springs to train they come to to exercise to prepare for their olympic competition okay and the word train that is the same word as the transport so i take the train to work it's the same word with a completely different meaning good okay kate says once i saw some athletes training in the mountains they were running up and down them so fast yes so kate says she saw some athletes training so is an example of an irregular past simple verb and it comes from the verb see we learnt about the past simple in the previous episode okay and at the end of this phrase kate says the the athletes the olympic team were running up and down the mountains so fast fast in this case is another adverb it describes the way that they were running up and down the mountains but the adverb is the same as the adjective in this case that's right we could see my car is fast that's the adjective form and i drive fast using the adverb exactly and is that true do you drive fast mark no i drive very carefully good and a good example of an adverb carefully comes from the adjective careful okay let's take a short break there [Music] each episode of the coffee break english podcast is free and you can use our podcast to help you improve your english but there's more that's right we have a full course available on our website which will help you make faster progress and understand everything much better for every lesson we offer videos bonus audio recordings lesson notes with exercises and vocabulary lists in lots of languages all this is available on the coffee break academy so visit coffee break academy dot com [Music] okay today we are in colorado springs with kate let's continue the text colorado springs is a good place to be if you like being outside because it's often sunny here there are usually around 300 days of sunshine each year and it rarely rains wow i would love to live in colorado springs if they have 300 days of sunshine of sun it sounds perfect very different from scotland that's true josie can i ask you about the word rarely it ends in l y is that an adverb that's a really good question it is an adverb rarely is an adverb but it's not the same type of adverb that we're focusing on today it's not an adverb of manner because it doesn't describe the way that we do an action rarely is actually an adverb of frequency that's right it's the opposite of often which we saw in the previous sentence it's often sunny here exactly let's continue okay now this next part is kate's opinion she thinks that the public transport doesn't work well let's listen to what she says it's not very easy to get around in colorado springs because the public transport doesn't work well yes so kate thinks that it's difficult to get around to move to travel in the city because the public transport so the bus the trains doesn't work well and well is also an adverb of manner but it's a very irregular adverb of manner well comes from the adjective good it's very different very very different so for example we can say your english is good there good is an adjective or you speak english well and well is an adverb describing the way that you speak english good okay kate says a lot of people have motorbikes but they drive very dangerously because colorado is the only state in the us where it isn't a law to wear a helmet on a motorbike yes a lot of people have motorbikes or motorcycles but they drive very dangerously this adverb comes from the adjective dangerous and it's regular because colorado is the only state in the u.
s where it isn't a law where it isn't a rule to wear a helmet what's a helmet mark it's a thing that you wear to protect your head exactly this sounds very dangerous to me i hope that not many people ride motorbikes in this way indeed and if you our listeners are in colorado we would suggest that you wear a helmet yes that is our recommendation to you okay so kate continues and she says i prefer cycling or going by car to get around safely good so safely is the opposite of dangerously and it comes from the adjective safe so if you wear a helmet on a motorbike you are safe okay let's continue the food here is delicious but we don't eat very healthily we love burgers and barbecued meat and you can easily find tex-mex food because there are a lot of hispanic people here good so the food here is delicious it's very very good but we don't eat very healthily healthily comes from the adjective healthy and because it ends in y we remove the y and we add i-l-y now the word barbecued is interesting yes there are a few ways that we can spell barbecue in this case it's spelt b-a-r-b-e-q-u-e and that's the british way to spell it how would it be spelled in america in the u. s we would spell it b a r b e c u e so c replaces q but many people just write b b-b-q the letters because it's quite a difficult word to spell yeah and b-b-q is definitely easier yes okay kate says i love living in colorado springs seeing the sun rise over the rocky mountains every morning is the perfect way to start the day good so she loves seeing the sun rise the sun come up into the sky okay and then she asks us some questions do you like your town or city are people friendly what's the weather like yes and if you have access to our bonus audio for this episode mark and i are having a conversation and we're answering these questions okay you can look forward to that if you don't have access to that then we'll tell you how to get access to that in just a moment for now let's listen to kate's text again hey i'm kate and i live in colorado springs in the usa colorado springs is a city in the state of colorado and about 470 000 people live here in general the people who live here are quite friendly and people in shops and restaurants always talk to you politely the city is next to the rocky mountains so you always have an amazing view of them in fact there is a limit on how tall buildings can be so that everyone can see the mountains easily from anywhere in the city because we are so close to the mountains a lot of people love doing activities like hiking and skiing in their free time we work hard during the week so that at the weekend we can escape into the mountains and enjoy nature but it's not just the locals who enjoy being outside and exercising the u. s olympic team comes to colorado springs to train because it is high above sea level once i saw some athletes training in the mountains they were running up and down them so fast colorado springs is a good place to be if you like being outside because it is often sunny here there are usually around 300 days of sunshine each year and it rarely rains it's not very easy to get around in colorado springs because the public transport doesn't work well a lot of people have motorbikes but they drive very dangerously because colorado is the only state in the u.
