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 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 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 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 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]
