Name: Learn to talk about mermaiding in 6 minutes!
Uploaded: 2018-02-27T02:00:43.000Z
Duration: 6 min 15 s
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Rob: Welcome to 6 Minute English, the programme

and bring you some useful items vocabulary. I'm Rob.

Rob: Now Neil, I know you're a keen swimmer.

Neil: I am. I try to get to the pool once a week

Rob: That's good to hear because swimming

is one of the best sports for keeping fit.

It's an aerobic exercise - aerobic means a very

The opposite of this is anaerobic - and for my question

today Neil, I wonder if you know which of these activities

exercise? a) weightlifting, b) kickboxing or c) dancing

Rob: Is that really your favourite sport?!

Anyway, we'll find out the answer at the end

do you visit the swimming pool very often?

Rob: Only to use the cafe! I don't like anything

I just don't like getting wet - and swimming up and down

Neil: Well there are alternatives to plain swimming.

Rob: Synchronised - that's moving together at the same

Neil: How about the new craze of 'mermaiding'

The idea originated in America but is now popular in

Neil: Let's hear from an expert - Emma Longden,

who's founder of Fin2Fit - which runs classes,

teaching the skills of swimming safely like a mermaid...

Emma Longden: Mermaiding is putting a monofin on

and getting in the water and swimming like a mermaid.

Rob: OK, so I would need to wear a monofin

- the prefix 'mono' means 'only one or single'

- so a single fin -that's like a mermaid's tail

- then I just get in the water and swim around

like a mermaid - I'm not so sure about that Neil

Emma Longden: It gives children's confidence in water

a boost, it improves their water strength,

it works your legs, your core - it improves the children's

swimming technique, flexibility, balance, co-ordination

- you get the reward, you get the social aspect -

they're learning vital life skills along the way.

Neil: So there are many benefits to mermaiding Rob.

Improving confidence, strength, technique

and it's good for your cardiovascular system

Rob: I like the sound of the social aspect

- and by that Emma means being with other people

and having fun. It's an activity that's sociable.

And it teaches life skills - useful skills

that help you deal with everyday challenges.

Well that's great for kids - and that's the problem.

Rob: Mermaiding is for kids - so I can't get involved

Neil: You can Rob. According to Emma, it's growing

any excuse to live out your fantasies hey!

Emma Longden: There are so many adults that actually

dreams that they wanted to be a mermaid when they

opportunity and now it's here and now it's available...

So yes, we do a lot of adult classes as well.

Neil: There you go Rob - living out your childhood

dreams - that doing things you wanted to do

when you were a child. Like being a mermaid!

Rob: Sorry Neil, that wasn't a dream for me

- although I did dream of swimming like a shark once!

of aerobic exercise - but earlier I asked you

what an example of anaerobic exercise is.

Is it... a) weightlifting, b) kickboxing or c) dancing

Rob: You were Neil, well done. Any exercise

that consists of short exertion, high-intensity movement

is an anaerobic exercise - such as weight lifting,

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Learn to talk about mermaiding in 6 minutes!

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