Hello, this next episode is part of our music series, My Song, My Home,

where we meet a musician who tells us about their hometown and plays a song for us.

You'll learn through music, practice listening to real English speakers,

and hear lots of English expressions.

We hope you enjoy it.

Music English expressions. We hope you enjoy it. Welcome to My Song My Home. In each episode, we visit a different town and meet a musician that lives there.

Today, we're going to the east of England to meet Adam.

I'm Adam Thomas and I'm a singer-songwriter. I bus school over the country, especially in my hometown

with Ipswich. In today's episode, Adam will tell us more about his hometown of Ipswich

and will hear him perform one of his songs in the centre of the town.

Keep listening to learn some vocabulary from his music.

And find a transcript of this episode to read along on our website, BBClearningEnglish.com.

Ipswich is a town in Suffolk.

It's one of the country's oldest towns

and the town centre has lots of old buildings and streets.

The one thing I love about Ipswich is if you look at eye level,

it just seems ordinary, but if you look up,

you see all these buildings that are historic and there must

be so much history behind these buildings and what's happened here before.

Adam says Ipswich seems normal at eye level. That's if you look straight in front of you.

But if you look up, you can see the old and beautiful buildings.

Adam grew up in a village just outside Ipswich with his brothers, and he discovered he wanted to play music by accident.

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