Name: Talking about your childhood: 🧒🧸👶 Real Easy English
Uploaded: 2026-02-08T17:00:05.000Z
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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English, the podcast where we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn.

You can find a video of this podcast and find a worksheet to help you learn on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.

So we'll talk about life, how it was, what our lives were like when we were children.

So, Neil, what do you remember most about your childhood?

Well, it was such a long time ago, but I can remember things obviously quite clearly.

I lived in a different country when I was a child.

I lived in Canada until I was 10 years old.

So I can remember very hot, humid summers, but very long and very cold and snowy winters.

So you always, like, made snowmen, I guess, and had snowball fights?

Yes, we always had a white Christmas, which is great.

And I don't think I've ever had a white Christmas in England.

Well, I moved house or my family moved house when I was 10, so I feel like a slightly similar thing where all of my childhood memories really are in this house and playing with my friends that lived in that village and went to my primary school when I lived in that house, having friends over for tea, that's a lot of.

And what kind of things did you do when you were a child?

What kind of hobbies and interests did you have?

Well, my friends and I used to always put on shows.

We would do gymnastics shows in the garden.

We say, mom, dad, come and watch my gymnastics show with my friend.

We wrote our own songs once, my friend and I recorded onto a tape.

We recorded our own song onto a tape and we sent it to a recording studio in the hope that they would sign us.

I think we need to hear it maybe at the end of the show.

What sort of hobbies did you have when you were a child?

I just remember playing outside a lot with my friends and having adventures and also doing lots and lots of sport.

So I always liked football and cricket and I played when I was in Canada, I played ice hockey.

I'd say I'm better than most British people.

How do you think the world has changed since you were a child?

The world is really different from when I was a child because when I was growing up, we didn't have the Internet or mobile phones.

And I think they've made such a difference to the way people communicate with each other.

And it drives me mad sometimes because my son would try to arrange to go out with his friends just to go to the park in a group chat, and

Yeah, it's 100 meters down the road, knock the door.

I think for me, like, something that's really changed is like I was saying about tapes, like, the idea of playing a tape or putting a CD in a CD player, like, brings back amazing memories.

I used to have a CD that I would play and then I'd sing really loudly and I would imagine that then suddenly the band would be in the garden and they'd be there singing with me.

But I think those physical music devices, even, like having a video or a dvd, like, they bring back loads of memories for.

Let's recap the language we heard in our conversation about childhood.

Starting with childhood, which is the period of time when you are a child, we had memory.

A memory is something that you can remember from the past.

We can say that something brings back memories, which just means that it reminds you of something that happened in the past.

And when we talk about things in the past, we often use the past.

For example, I said that I played in the street with my friends.

And we also heard used to and would, which is used when we talk about things that happened a number of times in the past.

So, for example, I used to play ice hockey.

It means I played ice hockey a lot and now I don't anymore.

And that's it for this episode of Real Easy English.

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