Hello. This is The English We Speak
with me, Feifei...
...and me, Roy.
Roy, what are you holding?!
This? It's a sword.
I can see it's a sword!
Why do you have one?
Well, I overheard you saying your
friend Sandra is living in a bubble -
so I asked my pal
at the museum if I could borrow a sword
to help your friend escape!
No, Roy - I said 'Sandra lives in a bubble',
but it means that
she doesn't really accept
new ideas and all her friends have the
same way of thinking.
'Living in a bubble' is the
expression we're looking at
in this programme.
Ahhh, that makes more sense.
I just imagined that might have
got stuck in a bubble after
washing her hands.
Roy, your imagination never ceases
to amaze me. You know what
we should do?
I think we should listen
to some examples...
Bob and his friends think that climate
change isn't real. They live in a bubble.
Nelson lives in a bubble. He never tries
new food or goes out with new people.
Geraldine doesn't want to meet my new
friends - she thinks they live in a bubble.
This is The English We Speak from
BBC Learning English, and
we're talking about the expression
'living in a bubble' which is used to
describe someone who doesn't
listen to people with
different ideas, or maybe
is a little sheltered from society.
I think it's sad when people live
in a bubble because they don't
get to experience new ideas
or have their minds changed.
I don't live in a bubble. It's why I like
working with you - because you
have very different
ideas to me and I like to listen to them.
You're always wrong, but I still like you.
Thanks Feifei - I guess I should take
this sword back to the museum.
You should. Bye, Roy.
Bye.