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.

Listen to hear real English speakers, learn through songs and hear common English expressions.

We hope you enjoy it.

Music English expressions. We hope you enjoy it. Welcome to My Song My Home. In this series, we meet musicians around the country and learn some English from their songs.

You can find a full transcript for this episode on our website, BBClearningenglish.com.

In this episode, Alice will tell us about becoming a musician in Leeds and perform one of her songs for us to learn.

I want to scream, so I'll just sing. We meet Alice in the city centre in a busy cafe in an area called Granary Wharf.

There's lots of places to drink, lots of places to eat,

and then it's got a really good sort of like open area where you can sit outside and eat food and catch up with friends and take a

stroll along the canal. So it just feels like a nice open space in the heart of the centre.

That's why I love it. Granary Wharf is by the canal. That's a man-made stretch of water where boats can travel between cities.

Alice likes the area because it's close to the locks.

These are gates in the canal and river to help boats get through.

And it's just such a beautiful place to be in.

It's kind of like this wide open space within the city centre.

And if silence fell afterward this wide open space within the city centre.

Alice has lived in Leeds for 13 years since moving here to study at university.

She originally grew up in a small village.

It's a tiny little place and there isn't much going on there.

It's pretty quiet, it's beautiful, but if you want to be a musician,

there aren't many platforms to kind of use and utilize to kind of develop yourself.

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