Exercise for the lazy ⏲️ 6 Minute English
What is the least amount of exercise you can get away with doing whilst still staying healthy? Sam and Neil talk about it and teach you related English vocabulary.
❓❓❓ This week's question:
According to new UK government advice, what is the minimum number of steps we should walk every day to stay healthy?
a) five thousand steps
b) ten thousand steps
c) twenty thousand steps
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary:
✔️ New Year’s resolution - a promise that you make to yourself to improve your lifestyle by starting to do something good for you (or stop doing something bad) in the coming year
✔️ push yourself - increase the amount of effort you put into whatever activity you are doing; try harder
✔️ trade-off - a situation where you accept the disadvantages of something in order to get the benefits it brings
✔️sedentary - involving little exercise or physical activity
✔️easy win - a task that is both easy to accomplish and brings positive results
✔️(more) bang for your buck - a better result for the same amount of effort you put into something
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@thulinhpham9933
2 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video. It's helpful to me so much. However, a phrasal verb: "Get away with doing" still confused me. Can you explain what does it mean? Thank you so much
Not just learning the English, every topic in 6 Minute English is so much interesting.
@bbclearningenglish
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your lovely comment!
The vocabulary from this video BBC 6 minute English "Exercise for the Lazy": - Resolution (n) - a promise you make to yourself to do something positive in the coming year. Exp: He made a resolution to give up chocolate last year, however, he failed. - Structured exercise (n) - activities like going to the fitness center or swimming. - Treadmill (n) - any type of repeated work that is boring and makes you feel tired and seems to have no positive effect and no end. Exp: the office treadmill. Not as hard as a treadmill. - Push yourself (v) - to try harder or put more effort into what you're doing, to use a lot of effort and determination to achieve something. Exp: You'll never be successful if you don't push yourself. - Easy wins (n) - tasks that are both easy to accomplish and bring benefits. - Sedentary (adj) - involving much sitting and little exercise or physical activities. Exp: a sedentary job like a driver. - Bang for your buck (idiom) - To get more bang for your buck, means, to get better results for the same amount of effort you put in. Thanks for your video. Have a good day!
@benjaminestrada8788
Жыл бұрын
Great. Good job.
@eufbcnsjwbxg7972
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your work. But I think here the treadmill is the device for running.
@AhmedRahi8873
9 ай бұрын
Amazing explain dear.I learnt a lot.
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This lesson was superb! I am so keen on this 6-minute English lessons cz it's not lengthy at all and teaches us plenty of vocab. So this is wonderful.
@bbclearningenglish
Жыл бұрын
We're glad you found it useful!
@omarmanamani7610
Жыл бұрын
Well said I'm a fan my self.
@tturkish_1s686
Жыл бұрын
What’s mean keen?
@omarmanamani7610
Жыл бұрын
@@tturkish_1s686 it means you like something or adure it
@oybekhazratqulov7668
Жыл бұрын
Hello. Who is from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿?
Thank you, BBC Learning English.
Thank you BBC. Greeting from Mexico.
Thank you so much for this lesson! It was wonderful!
This program helps us not only learning English but also getting new interesting information. Thanks a lot .
Thanks for the 6 minutes lessons....Them help me a lot !!!!!!! Hugs from Perú
Thank you BBC for letting me learn english with this useful videos. I will practice speaking and memorizing your script!
Through this advantageous video, I have more motivation to work out everyday in order to stay in shape. I am aware that there are always numerous distractions which deter me from achieving my targets. However, I'll remain my single- minded determination and become a creature of habits. Stay grounded everyone!
Dears... I am a kind of disabled woman,this is because I had a horrible surgery in my column so I am not the woman who used to be in terms of fitness How ever I strongly believe that keep moving is the key to be enough healty and feeling great in mind also. Hugs to everyone. Nice topic BBC teachers!
@benjaminestrada8788
Жыл бұрын
Cheer up, look at these encouraging promise:"... He will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away...."(Apocalipsis 21:3-5).
@onlytere2519
Жыл бұрын
Thanks a bunch Benjamin. God's promises are the ones which support my whole life now. Blessings!!!
Thanks to BBC Leanring English in 6 minute. It is absolutely useful channel to beginner and updated news with volcabulary and lessones in daily life
It has been February and I still fail to complete my new year resolution. Thanks for reminding me by this lesson .
Thank you BBC✨
I liked this podcast ,Bbc 6 minutes lesson is always informative and helpful for learning new vocabulary as well. I thank Bbc team from India. 😊
This is certainly a good topic. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this video. It's useful for me. Here are words and idiom which I learn from this video. 1.New year's resolution. 2.Sedentary 3.recap 4.moderate 5.Bang for your buck 6.active travel 7.easy win
From China, 6 minute English is an awesome programming for English learners. I want to say a Chinese idiom "相见恨晚" which means feeling sad meeting something good after a long time. It's a good listening material, also you can speak following it to improve your spoken English. My resolution of new year is to improve my spoken and listening English, because I will want to Paris to take part in a competition as respondent. Also in this year, I face to CET-6 and TOFEL examination. All of these are important, that' really a key year. In the interview in Tsinghua university or Peking university they prefer testing you in English, and then if you want to go abroad, either US, UK, JP etc. All universities need good English ability, I have poor English since I was a kid and can't get away from it. In new years, my best wishes and the most great resolution is to improve my English largely. Love 6 minute English. Best wishes.
@bbclearningenglish
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing!
This short video is useful for us in two ways one is to improve our english communication and also we get a knowledge on a subject, it's very superb.
wonderful words and expressions.
Hello!from Japan. I really like watching 6-minute english 😊 My new year's resolution is to study english harder than before. then I hope I can listen to this program without subtitles.
@user-db25zvq6xa
Жыл бұрын
You can do it!! 頑張って!!
Thank you BBC learning English for providing such a beneficial 6 minutes videos..these are really helpful to all the learners throughout the world ❤ I have taken this year the new year resolution to get a command over English 😊 Love from India ❤
I really like this channel. I learn many new information via this channel. Thanks a lot for the effort
My new year resolution is to listen to BBC learning English for 6 minutes a day. And I am trying to push myself to do it every day because I know that is an easy win.
@bbclearningenglish
Жыл бұрын
A great resolution! Good luck!
Thank you for the video 🙋♂️
Thank you Neil and Sam you make my homework so easy😊
Thank you guys for important lessons video 😊❤️
I think this is one of the most important episodes😍
This channel is very useful that it help me a lot learning english I love this type od videos!!
I made a New Year's resolution already. I committed to myself that I must be fluent in English. But it turns out to be harder than I thought.
@bbclearningenglish
4 ай бұрын
💪 Keep practising and you'll continue to improve!
There are many exercises for lazy people like me. Everyone deserves the best health to have, doesn't they? Sp we should do some sports activity. There are many types of sports activity, it helps to chill out sometimes. When you're stressed out it's a good decision to do exercises. You improve yourself at first. And secondly you get happier a lot. Thanks BBC
Very useful video! I learned new words and exprssions. And I believe that I'm going to start exercise at least 3 times a week. Thanks!!!
@bbclearningenglish
Жыл бұрын
That's great! Hope you enjoy it!
@RichardOKLOU
Жыл бұрын
@@bbclearningenglish Of course! And I'm grateful for this kind of contents which help me to improve my English.
My summary while listening A lof of people have made resolutions such as doing more exercises on their daily basis but most of them fail to do so. The today’s topic is discussing about how to do the least amount of exercise to achieve health goals. According to Dr. Zoe Saynor - a sports physiologist, if we don’t have much time to execise, we could try to work out in shorter sessions with higher intensity. One effective way to work out for office workers is that they could travel more actively by walking faster. Even though they’re unable to achieve 10,000-step goal daily, it would be beneficial for them when walking 5000 steps with faster speed.
Hii Thank you. I am from Uzbekistan .By the help of bbc I improved my listening score ❤. Thanks a lot
@bbclearningenglish
2 ай бұрын
😊 We're very glad to hear that. 👏 Well done!
Wow! so practical, so practical!! We cannot thank you enough!!! Love from Nepal
@bbclearningenglish
Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome! Which of the words and expressions were new for you?
Thank you
I love this channel ❤
I am keeping watching BBC learning English everyday to improve my English listening skills.
@yuk4818
Жыл бұрын
me2
really very beneficial to our practical life
Which is dialect spoken most of the time american and british dialect? And which one to learn
Excellent 6 minutes English I like
It is perfect for me. I am supper lazy 😥😥😥😥 I am on my bed when listening to the postcard. Thank you so much for sharing, BBC
@metuuboy
Жыл бұрын
Hhhh
I also want to broadcast like these guys do it like a pro ❣❣❣
Thanks
One of my resolutions every year is to take up reading books and exercise like Mr. Neil. But like him, i am too serendary to get my ass off until one day when i was too disappointed with my life, i thought i needed to trade off getting out of comfort zone with living a dream life. Though my living area didn't have much space for exercising, i tried my best to get bang for my buck. That's how i changed my life. What about you?
@bestkoorahd6939
Жыл бұрын
I recommend you to exercise at least 20 minutes a day no matter what kinda sport any activity is good for your health but according to reading books, it isn't essential you can listening audiobooks and you can do it
Despite knowing the outcome of exercise we procrastinate. We do not push ourselves toward arduous or cumbersome exercises. Sometimes easy win exercises seem difficult to us. we prefer lying on our bed to going out and walking for a while.
Thank you/
Dear moderators, please, give us not only vocabulary in the description box, but examples with sentences. Thank you!
@AHHaDiFoRYoU
Жыл бұрын
right sir
I'm from Viet Nam, it brings me many benefits!!!!
@studywithme1605
Ай бұрын
i'm from Vietnam too
this channel is helping me so much, thankyou❤
@bbclearningenglish
4 ай бұрын
You're so welcome!
I rather like listening on KZread b/c I can check some vocab and missed speaking parts from subtitles.
Very nice
What does she mean when she says "....One of the exciting areas in the literature that is coming out in the moment is actually walking faster...." Can sb please explain, thank you so much!
Stretching and deep breath in the morning is a good idea for lazy people who don't like to do exercise
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Lovely
"One of the exciting areas in the literature that's coming out at the moment, is actually walking faster." => I don't understand this sentence. Can someone explain it?
Can you put vocabularies on the screen for better learning. Thank you so much.
@bbclearningenglish
Жыл бұрын
Hello! Do you mean the subtitles? Yes, this episode has subtitles! :) You may need to change something in your settings so that you can see them.
@quynhhuong5018
Жыл бұрын
@@bbclearningenglish I mean vocabulary summary in the end of the video. I think seeing it on screen is easier to learn than reading in subtitles because we can take a screen shot. Thank you for reading 💙.
Im not comfortable i rather stay in 2. Get away but 3. structured 4. Moderate exercise 5. So few 6. Minimum number treadmill 7. Not as hard as 8. There is clear evidence 9. Push urself to swim 10. In order to get 11. Sedentary 12. Specifially 13. No time to 14. Yes especially over longer perood of time 15. Active travel 16. Intensive
Hello from Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Please write down the new vocabulary, i could Not Unserstand
@bbclearningenglish
7 ай бұрын
Here are the vocabulary items for this episode: New Year’s resolution a promise that you make to yourself to improve your lifestyle by starting to do something good for you (or stop doing something bad) in the coming year push yourself increase the amount of effort you put into whatever activity you are doing; try harder trade-off a situation where you accept the disadvantages of something in order to get the benefits it brings sedentary involving little exercise or physical activity easy win a task that is both easy to accomplish and brings positive results (more) bang for your buck a better result for the same amount of effort you put into something
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How has you day been Is this correct present perfect tense sir like where has your brother gone And sir do you know wher is resturent ? Incorrect Do you know where the restaurant is ? why this is correct ?
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Hi guys! if you wanna practice English, let's chat (maybe via Zoom etc.)
Moving the mouse and clicking its buttons whole day can be quite a heavy exercise which might even cause calluses on the hands!
My level is beginner. I can understand BBC.
now i feel that i like a person who is bottoming in social
In the question you make at the begining: What is the least amount of exercise someone can get away with doing while still staying healthy? What does get away with mean? I know get away with something means to do something wrong and not get a punishment about it, to get your way in other words but in this question i can't get the meaning
@bbclearningenglish
Жыл бұрын
Hey there! The sentence means 'what is the minimum you can do to still be healthy?'. 'Get away with' here means 'achieve something, but not in the best way or putting in too much effort'. We hope this helps.
Why 6 minutes app is not working?
@bbclearningenglish
Жыл бұрын
Hi! Sorry you're having problems. We've just checked the app and this episode of 6 Minute English seems to be working fine at our end...
@nirajpaija7310
Жыл бұрын
@@bbclearningenglish is there any way how to fix it? I feel more comfortable on app.
My healthy app said 10 thousand steps. And until the last month, I did everyday... In half work day
Please enable caption
@bbclearningenglish
Жыл бұрын
Hi! This video has subtitles - you might need to enable them in your settings to see them! :)
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Its only ....
It's funny, if you search about the 10,000 steps rule, you will find a BBC's note that says actually this rule is false. Jajajajajajaja
it is just audio
Hey bbc am requesting you pls don’t use any image in the podcast instead of image you can make a video so that it would be more interesting
@bbclearningenglish
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your feedback! 6 Minute English is a podcast - we make it into a 'video' so people can listen to it on KZread, but we have no plans to add any animation to this programme. We have lots of teaching videos if you would prefer, though! :) Here are some you might like: News Review (every Wednesday) kzread.info/head/PLcetZ6gSk968l1s4WuxwyhiyEUmg5GOZC Live English class (every Thursday) kzread.info/head/PLcetZ6gSk969sLncvJL_OOJoWPBKvPQsu You ask, we answer kzread.info/head/PLcetZ6gSk968nUdj5-kLphOTmo5dt9t2E English In A Minute kzread.info/head/PLcetZ6gSk96_Fprtuj6gKN9upPjaDrARH
Iam tto lazy in learning english
@zubeetech1932
Ай бұрын
I also
There any one want practice english with me
so great! I love it .
this programe very helpfull , but i need more consistency🥲
Thank you
Very nice