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6 Minute English

Are you following your dreams?

6 Minute English

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Hear about two people who dared to follow their dreams and are happy to have done so.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a download from BBC Learning English. To find out more, visit our website.

0:14.0

Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil.

0:18.0

And I'm Beth.

0:19.0

When I was a boy, I wanted to be a fireman when I grew up.

0:23.0

How about you, Beth? Did you have any childhood dreams?

0:27.0

I wanted to be an astronaut and fly to the moon.

0:30.0

When we're young, most of us have big dreams and plans for the future.

0:35.0

Unfortunately, as we grow up, these childhood dreams often get lost in the adult world of jobs, money, families and careers.

0:44.0

But not for everyone.

0:46.0

Daisy from New Zealand and Herman from Argentina are two people who decided to follow their childhood dreams.

0:54.0

They wanted the world to become a utopia, a perfect ideal society where everyone is happy and gets along with each other.

1:02.0

In this programme, we'll be hearing how Daisy and Herman made their dreams come true, not by changing the world, but by changing themselves.

1:12.0

And as usual, we'll be learning some new vocabulary too.

1:16.0

But before that, I have a question for you, Beth. Following your dreams can be tough.

1:22.0

But not following them can leave you regretting all the things you wanted to do, but didn't.

1:28.0

In 2012, Australian nurse Brony Ware wrote her bestselling book, The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying, after interviewing terminally ill patients about their life regrets.

1:39.0

So, what do you think their top regret was?

1:42.0

Was it A, I wish I hadn't worked so hard, B, I wish I had followed my dreams or C, I wish I'd made more money.

1:51.0

Well, I'll guess it's B, they wish they'd followed their dreams.

1:55.0

Okay, Beth, I'll reveal the correct answer at the end of the programme.

1:59.0

The first dreamer we're going to meet lives in Riverside, a peace loving community in New Zealand where everyone shares everything.

2:08.0

Riverside members work for the community's businesses, including a farm, a hotel and a cafe.

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