54 English Listening Practice Stories – Speak English Naturally With UK Gardening Trends – part 1

54 English Listening Practice Stories – Speak English Naturally With UK Gardening Trends – Nói Tiếng Anh Tự Nhiên Với Xu Hướng Làm Vườn Ở Anh – part 1

Hi there join me today for a relaxed friendly chat and let’s explore the joyful world of gardening together this is great practice for you understanding spoken English with a relaxed subject and more of a conversation really let’s look at evolving UK gardening Trends look at how changing weather patterns the changing

Gardens and creating eco-friendly spaces that encourage Wildlife have you ever thought that perhaps those old-fashioned annual flower beds and well-trimmed Lawns aren’t the future of gardening perhaps chaotic natural growth and sustainability is taking center stage in your garden too Shifting the traditional image of the garden especially the English

Garden I thought I’d give you an update today on my garden personally but also on Trends things that are happening in gardens in the UK and how our priorities are changing the UK is famed for its Gardens and TV programs like our own BBC Gardener world are watched all across the world

We we know this because many of the gardens featured in the viewers Gardens videos come from people in different countries and do you know how I mentioned in my news podcast last week 651 that is that it’s been really dry and little rain in the UK this

Summer and for the past couple of years well we have had some rain now since that podcast and it’s sunny again before I continue just a reminder that if pronunciation is your difficulty or if you would like to make big improvements to your pronunciation of spoken English then obviously I recommend lots

Of podcast listening but but also we do have our adep English consonant pronunciation course this covers absolutely everything about consonant pronunciation it’s on our courses page at adep english.com go and have a look so I came to gardening young I’ve gardened since I was 21 years

Old but back then it was seen as something that only old people did not just that old people had more time for it but really that only old people would want to do gardening but have you noticed how gardening is experiencing a surprising Revival amongst young

People maybe you’re one of them what was once considered an activity for the older generation for people who are retired perhaps is now being embraced by the young as a form of self-expression and a way to connect with nature even people who don’t have Gardens are transforming their balconies into thriving green

Spaces to thrive t h r i v e that means to grow really really well I think that there are a variety of reasons for this interest in the climate interest in growing your own food being free of pesticides and insecticides interest in ecology and the environment I think that gardening and

Growing things has a therapeutic value therapeutic t h e r a p u t i c means it’s like a therapy it has a positive effect it makes you feel better and that’s both mentally and physically I also think that the interest in gardening amongst young people has grown because many young

People live in flats and apartments possibly without outside space and there’s a recognition that living a life where you move between your flat the the bus or train and an air conditioned workplace is very disconnected with nature so there’s a want to be in nature in green spaces and perhaps have a hand

In what grows there