My Song, My Home: Bailey in St Ives

Learning English Conversations

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Education, Language Learning

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our new music series My Song, My Home. In each episode we meet a new musician who tells us about their home town and performs a song to help you learn.

Learn vocabulary from song lyrics and hear natural English speakers.

In this episode, we meet musician Bailey who sings for us by the sea.

WATCH BAILEY PERFORM: See St Ives and watch Bailey’s song https://bbc.in/3PD6Omr

WORKSHEET: Find a full transcript, song lyrics and test what you’ve learned https://bbc.in/3DqYkfn

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0:00.0	Hello. This next episode is the first in our new music series, My Song, My Home.
0:07.8	In each episode, we'll meet a musician who'll tell us about their hometown and play a song for us.
0:14.8	It's a great way to practice listening to real English speakers, hear some music and learn lots of English expressions.
0:22.1	We hope you enjoy it.
0:29.9	I think that St. Ives, the thing that's special about it is, like, how coastal it is and how
0:35.9	there's not many places in the UK
0:37.8	especially that look like this
0:40.4	the beaches are you know they look like beaches
0:43.6	you'd find abroad and
0:45.1	the towns are lots of cobblestones
0:48.6	and it's kind of got that British edge to it
0:51.0	as well but it feels so different to anywhere else
0:53.5	at the same time.
1:01.5	Hello, I'm Pippa and welcome to My Song My Home. This is a BBC Learning English series where we explore towns and cities around the UK and meet musicians that live there.
1:16.7	We'll hear about how the place they live has shaped the music they make and learn some English from a performance of their song.
1:26.2	Today we're by the sea in St. Ives with Bailey Tompkinson.
1:31.9	I wasn't born in Cornwall, but I moved here when I was a kid and I went to school here
1:38.1	and I guess this is all I really know in a sense.
1:41.2	I love it here.
1:42.9	It's probably why I never left.
1:52.4	St Ives is a small town on the southwest coast of the UK.
1:57.3	It's in Cornwall, which is a beautiful part of the country, popular with tourists.
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