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The English we speak.

I'm so happy you invited me to come to the woods to do some word watching with you Finn.

I'm glad you came along, Lee. It's a very British hobby.

We love nature and the different species of birds.

Ah, that one, for example, is a swallow.

Ah, pass me the binoculars, please.

Oh, can you see how beautiful it is?

Ah, I can see it clearly.

It's tiny.

It must be a young one.

It's good that the mayor has promised to preserve these works, Finn.

Ah, I wish they would stop building shopping centers everywhere.

But preserving all these areas is Pie in the Skyly.

Pie in the sky?

Where?

These binoculars are good, but I can't see any pie.

No, there's no actual pie up there, Lee. In English, we use the expression

pie in the sky to talk about something good that we would like to happen but which is unlikely to.

So you think the idea of preserving these woods is good, but they might end up building a shopping center here.

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