Whizz-kid

Learning English Conversations

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Young, clever and successful: find out a phrase that describes someone like this

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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.
0:17.8	Hello and welcome to the English we speak. I'm Fay Faye.
0:18.8	And I'm Rob.
0:19.8	Have you ever wondered what you'd be doing if you weren't here?
0:24.0	Hmm.
0:25.0	Lying on the sofa, watching TV I expect.
0:28.0	No, Rob, I mean in your career.
0:31.0	If you weren't a talented presenter like you are.
0:35.0	I'd be a financial whiz kid investing in the stock market making loads of money.
0:42.0	A whiz kid? You mean someone young, very clever and
0:45.9	successful at doing something? Yep that's a whiz kid. I don't know why I didn't do it.
0:51.6	Do you want me to tell you?
0:54.0	No, let's just hear about some other whiz kids
0:57.0	who are young, intelligent and successful, just like me.
1:01.0	My nephew is a computer... like me.
1:03.7	My nephew is a computer whiz kid.
1:06.0	He earns a fortune fixing people's laptops.
1:09.6	Our new financial whiz kid has come straight from university and he's doing really well.
1:15.0	She was a whiz kid at university so it's no wonder she's now a partner at one of the top legal
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