Feifei Hello and welcome to The English We Speak with me, Feifei…
Roy …and me, Roy.
Feifei In this programme, we have a word that is used to say that something is amazing or extremely good. Speaking of which have you seen that new blockbuster that everyone’s talking about, ‘Unicorns Eat Bananas in the Stars’?
Roy What kind of title is that?! That film sounds awful!
Feifei It’s not! ‘Unicorns Eat Bananas in the Stars’ is fire!
Roy Fire? The unicorns that eat bananas in the stars are on fire?! What is this film about?
Feifei No, Roy! Don’t be silly, the banana eating unicorns aren’t on fire! That would be ridiculous. I said the film is fire. I mean that the film is amazing!
Roy Ahhh of course! We use ‘fire’ to describe something that is really good! For example, your T-shirt is fire, Feifei!
Feifei Thanks, Roy! I bought it this week! It’s official merchandise for the film!
Anyway, let’s listen to these examples…
Examples Have you checked out my new phone? It’s fire. It can do so many cool things!
I went to a concert to see ‘Rob’s Rolling Biscuits’ last night. Their new song is fire.
That new series everyone is talking about is fire! It’s got dragons, zombies and vampires in it. I love it!
Feifei This is The English We Speak from BBC Learning English and we’re talking about the word ‘fire’, which is used to say that something is amazing.
Roy I might have to go tonight and watch the film at the cinema.
Feifei You definitely should. It’s straight fire! We sometimes put the word ‘straight’ in front of ‘fire’. Straight here means ‘very’.
Roy So I probably should have said your t-shirt is straight fire, then.
Feifei Only if that’s what you really think! You haven’t even seen the film yet!
Roy What about my T-shirt? Do you think it’s fire?
Feifei Honestly, no. It looks like it needs to be put in a fire. You should just burn it. The film on your T-shirt is not fire! That film is terrible.
Roy OK, maybe I’ll buy a new one today.
Feifei Bye, Roy.
Roy Bye.