Fire

Learning English Conversations

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Everyone knows what fire is, don't they? Think again! Roy and Feifei teach a new meaning.

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English we speak.
0:09.0	From BBC Learning English.
0:12.0	Hello. See Learning English. English. Hello and welcome to the English we speak with me, Faye,
0:18.0	and me Roy.
0:20.0	In this programme we have a word that is used to say that something is amazing or extremely good.
0:26.0	Speaking of which, have you seen that new blockbuster that everyone's talking about?
0:31.0	Unicorns eat bananas in the Stars?
0:35.0	What kind of title is that? That film sounds awful.
0:39.6	It's not.
0:40.6	Unicorns Eat Bananas in the stars is fire.
0:45.0	Fire?
0:46.0	The unicorns that eat bananas in the stars are on fire.
0:50.0	What is this film about?
0:52.0	No, Roy, don't be silly.
0:54.3	The banana eating unicorns aren't on fire.
0:57.8	That would be ridiculous.
0:59.7	I said the film is fire.
1:02.1	I mean that the film is fire. I mean that the film is amazing.
1:04.0	Ah, of course we use fire to describe something that is really good.
1:09.0	For example, your t-shirt is fire, Faye Faye Faye.
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