Name: Talking about games 🎲♟️🃏 Real Easy English
Uploaded: 2026-03-15T16:28:02.000Z
Duration: 5 min 39 s
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I'm not tired yet, but give me till this afternoon.

So, Beth, what are we talking about today?

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.

We did that in the park, didn't we, with our team?

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.

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.

Yeah, no, probably Monopoly lasts for so long.

People get really aggressive and competitive with Monopoly, don't they?

It's like they think the game is their real life and they get so angry and people lose friendships.

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.

It's like you're not following the rules as well.

But no, because now it just feels dishonest if I.

If I win a game I want to win because I actually was good enough or did well enough to win.

So, Georgie, a quiz is a type of game, I guess.

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 socializing 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.

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.

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.

Cheat 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.

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Talking about games 🎲♟️🃏 Real Easy English

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