📻 Waves, birds, babies or bagpipes? What are your favourite sounds? In this programme Callum looks at ways of describing the sounds you love in English, and we hear the favourite sounds of the BBC Learning English team, while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of the BBC Learning English programme Entertainment. What are your favourite sounds and which English words can you use to describe them? Tell us in the comments 👇👇👇
Useful vocabulary:
✔️ crashing waves - an expression for when a rough sea hits a beach
✔️ soothing - if a sound is soothing, it makes you feel calm and relaxed
✔️ (a baby) cooing - the happy sounds that a baby makes
✔️ (a cat) purring - the sound that a cat makes when it is happy
Describing sounds
✔️ I love / like the sound of noun
Examples:
I love the sound of laughter
I like
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