Can you keep a secret? ⏲️ 6 Minute English

2024-05-16に共有
Are secrets always negative? Or can they be positive too? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.👇👇👇

❓❓❓ While travelling in Indonesia, BBC TV presenter, Joanna Lumley, believes she discovered the unknown secret ingredient in Coca Cola. But what is it?

a) cinnamon
b) nutmeg
c) ginger

Listen to the programme to hear the answer. [Cover: Getty Images]

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Vocabulary:
✔️spill the beans - (idiom) tell people secret information
✔️guilty pleasure - activity that you really enjoy, but which also gives you a feeling of guilt or shame for liking it
✔️marriage proposal - asking someone to marry you
✔️the whole point of (something) - the most important reason or purpose for something
✔️evil eye - superstition in which someone causes injury or bad luck through a look
✔️burdensome - worrying, troublesome, distressing

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コメント (21)
  • Here’s the vocabulary list : -spill the beans ( reveal a secret ) - a guilty pleasure : something you enjoy doing with a feeling of shame -a marriage proposal: ask someone to marry you - the whole point : the important thing, the fact of the matter - the evil eye : bad luck through a look -burdensome : distressing, troublesome
  • I completely agree that all the secrets we need to keep. Especially if it's a positive event
  • @jetsaelvm
    I good at keeping secrets because I always forget what people tells me.
  • @gm1rv-ame
    Thanks to 6 minutes English, I could achieve my goal. Thank you sooo much! From now on, I will also continue to study English hard:) This topic was very interesting for me as usual. Keeping a secret is sometimes difficult…
  • It is so out of habit for me to spill the beans. It is a guilty pleasure for me to reveal them to someone. I cannot keep any secret, as soon as I know something I genuinely want to share it with someone. However, the whole point of it is I do not know too many secrets to tell someone about. So, when it happens, I cannot keep myself under control. I do not believe in the evil eye as strong as you are.
  • I'm a kind of person who never spills the beans and has the ability to take secrets with me to the grave caz this is what is known as honesty.
  • I always enjoy listening to your voices and explanations. Thank you for your job, well done)))
  • Thank you for always providing great content! However, I'm troubled by the fact that the podcast transcription function is no longer working. If it's disabled in the settings, I hope it will be reactivated. This content is essential for my daily English study, so I hope you will maintain its ease of use.
  • I am good at keeping secret.In my opinion i’m reliable person. Actually my friends can share their feelings with me😋I never spill the beans
  • I must confess I'm terrible at keeping secrets. I'd rather spill the beans or spill the tea than take a secret with me to the grave.