Shopping in the UK

Click here to listen to Dan and Rob talking about shopping centres and comparing shopping in a local high street and a shopping centre.

The Bullring in Birmingham is the UK's busiest shopping centre, but how many people, on average, visit the Bullring each year? Is it:

a) 27 million
b) 37 million
c) 47 million

Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme! You can also read the transcript here.

What about you? Do you prefer shopping in a local high street or in a shopping centre? Why? (as a comment to the post)

Source: BBC 6 Minute English

Pronunciation /s/ and /z/

Dream holidays

 
Welcome, everybody! Listen to some people talking about their dream holidays.

What about you? Write a few lines on what your ideal holiday would be like as a comment to this post. Read your partners' contributions and we'll discuss them on Wednesday.