Dancing for the brain
6 Minute English
BBC
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Not a dancer? You might change your mind once you hear the benefits! Beth and Neil discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary. (Image: Getty)
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| 0:00.0 | 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.com |
| 0:07.0 | Hello this is 6 minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil and I'm Beth. Do you love to boogie on down, strut your stuff and throw |
| 0:16.9 | shapes Beth? What I mean is, do you like dancing? Yes, I love to dance. Just listening to the music and letting it move my body. What about |
| 0:27.1 | you, Neil, do you often hit the dance floor? Sometimes, but I'm not a great dancer. |
| 0:32.7 | To be honest, I get a bit embarrassed. |
| 0:35.1 | But maybe I shouldn't, because it's been proved |
| 0:37.6 | that dancing has many physical and mental health benefits, |
| 0:41.2 | including releasing stress, boosting your mood, or just enjoying a fun night out. |
| 0:47.0 | In this program, we'll be hearing how dancing can benefit our brains and emotions at every stage of life and as usual we'll be learning some |
| 0:56.2 | useful new vocabulary as well. Of course another great thing about dance is |
| 1:01.1 | that there are so many different styles from ballet and ballroom |
| 1:05.6 | dancing to tap, hip-hop and jazz. But my question is about a very unusual style, a traditional English folk dance where performers wearing black hats and colourful waistcoats hit |
| 1:17.7 | sticks together while moving in patterns. But do you know the name of this unusual dance bet? Is it A the Highland |
| 1:26.2 | Fling, B flamenco or C Morris dancing? I think the answer is Morris dancing. |
| 1:32.8 | Okay, we'll find out later in the program. |
| 1:35.8 | Besides Beth, someone else who loves to dance is Julia Ravi, |
| 1:40.1 | presenter of BBC radio program, Mental Muscle. Here Julia tells us exactly why she |
| 1:46.3 | loves dancing so much. I love nothing more than a night or a day out where I can just dance like new ones business. To me it's just such a release and is something that I definitely rely on to get the stress out of my body and I now absolutely love to move. Any chance I |
| 2:07.0 | get I'll dance. Now I know everyone's not a fan because some people can find dancing to be awkward or |
| 2:14.9 | uncomfortable and I've seen people who just avoid the dance floor at all costs but |
| 2:20.8 | dancing is so good for us and potentially our brains. |
| 2:27.0 | Julia can dance like nobody's business, an idiom meaning very well or very quickly. For her, dancing is a release, |
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