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Talking about games

2025/4/11
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Beth
一位获得艾美奖和格蕾西奖的商业分析师和《Jill on Money》播客主持人,专注于个人财务和投资建议。
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Beth: 我对游戏的喜好取决于游戏类型。我喜欢肢体活动和充满乐趣的运动型游戏,例如在公园里奔跑嬉戏。但是,我不喜欢棋类游戏或纸牌游戏。我更喜欢那些需要互动和交流的纸牌游戏,例如需要在几秒钟内说出三种交通工具名称的快速问答游戏。然而,那些需要动脑筋且节奏缓慢的游戏,例如大富翁,我并不喜欢,因为它们可能会持续很长时间,而且容易让人感到厌烦。 我讨厌作弊,因为我认为赢得比赛应该靠实力和技巧,而不是通过不诚实的手段获得胜利。我认为作弊是不道德的行为,违背了游戏的规则和精神。 Georgie: 我喜欢各种类型的游戏,包括运动游戏和益智游戏。我尤其喜欢在酒吧里和朋友一起玩益智游戏,因为这不仅能娱乐身心,还能在不经意间避免一些社交上的尴尬。 我喜欢酒吧问答游戏,因为它既能让我与朋友们进行社交互动,又能让我在答对问题时获得满足感。我曾经赢得过几次酒吧问答比赛,这让我感到非常自豪。然而,我不喜欢像大富翁这样的游戏,因为它们不仅耗时长,而且容易引发玩家之间的争吵和冲突,甚至会导致友谊破裂。 在我小时候,我曾经喜欢作弊,但现在我已经改变了这种想法。我认为作弊是不诚实的行为,赢得比赛应该靠实力,而不是作弊。现在,我是一个遵守规则的人,我不喜欢作弊,也不赞成作弊行为。

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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English. In this podcast, we have real conversations in Easy English to help you learn. I'm Beth. And I'm Georgie. You can find a video version of this podcast and a worksheet to help you learn on our website bbclearningenglish.com.

So how is your week going Georgie? It's going well. It's only Monday. I'm already quite tired. How about you Beth? I'm okay. I'm not tired yet but give me till this afternoon. So Beth, what are we talking about today? Today we're going to talk about games, the kind of games we like playing, maybe games we don't like as much.

So shall we start the conversation? Yes, let's get started. So Beth, do you enjoy games? It depends on the kind of games. I think if it's something physical where you're, I don't know, running around a park or being silly, sporty things, those kind of fun games I enjoy. But if it's like board games or card games, honestly, I don't really like them.

What about you? I do like games. I also like sporty games. We did that in the park, didn't we, with our team? We did, we did. Which was really fun and it's a good bonding experience. But I, unlike you, do like hard games and I enjoy playing them with friends in the pub. I can be quite awkward, so sometimes if I feel like I don't want to talk anymore, I suggest a game and then we don't have to talk to people anymore.

I feel like if it's a card game where you have like a question and it's like, I don't know, you've got five seconds, like name three modes of transport. Those kind of like talking, fun, laughing games with cards I enjoy. But if it's something to do with...

The heart and the diamond. Oh, no. I just think I'd rather have a conversation and just talk to my friends or whoever I'm with. Okay, so you don't like slow games, so probably you wouldn't like things like Monopoly, which go on for hours your whole evening. Honestly, I think I had a bad experience as a child with Monopoly. This game, we went away with all of our neighbours.

There were lots of people and we played a game of Monopoly and it lasted about, I don't know, five hours. Probably not that long. Yeah, no, probably. Monopoly lasts for so long. But also people get really aggressive and competitive with Monopoly, don't they? Is that because people cheat?

Yeah, well, people can cheat, yeah, for sure. But people get... It's like they think the game is their real life and they get so angry and people lose friendships. Like, that is my house. Now, you said cheat. What does that mean? Well, cheat is to kind of...

lie or say something that isn't true for example you might pretend that you have something and actually you don't cheating is seen as negative yes um it's like you're not following the rules as well that's it yeah do you like cheating

When I was a child, I liked to cheat. But no, because now it just feels dishonest. If I win a game, I want to win because I actually was good enough or did well enough to win. Yes. Are you a cheat?

I'm not a cheat because I think I'm too much of what we call a goody-goody, someone who likes to follow the rules. So Georgie, a quiz is a type of game, I guess. Do you like quizzes?

Yes, I also like quizzes. I used to go quite a lot to something we have a lot in the UK called a pub quiz, where you go to a pub, there are lots of teams and you answer questions with your team. And I used to really enjoy that because A, you're socialising with your friends in the pub, but I find it really satisfying when you get the questions right. I've actually won a couple of pub quizzes. Have you? Yeah. Wow.

Well done. It's really hard sometimes when all of the questions are general knowledge that you don't know anything about. That's really boring. But when you know the questions, it's fun. Let's recap the vocabulary we had during the conversation. We had board games. These are games where players usually move pieces around a flat board like chess.

We had quiz, which is a game where you answer questions. Cheats means to be dishonest when playing a game. And you can also call a person a cheat if they are dishonest in a game. We had goody-goody, which is someone who likes following rules, like me.

And you can do a quiz on our website. Go to bbclearningenglish.com and you'll also find a worksheet there so you can test what you've learnt. Next week, we'll be talking about the city and the countryside. See you then. Bye.