Feifei Hello. This is The English We Speak with me, Feifei…
**Roy
**…and me, Roy.
Feifei Roy, what are you holding?!
**Roy
**This? It’s a sword.
FeifeiI can see it’s a sword! Why do you have one?
**Roy
**Well, I overheard you saying your friend Sandra is living in a bubble – so I asked my pal at the museum if I could borrow a sword to help your friend escape!
FeifeiNo, Roy – I said ‘Sandra lives in a bubble’, but it means that she doesn’t really accept new ideas and all her friends have the same way of thinking. ‘Living in a bubble’ is the expression we’re looking at in this programme.
**Roy
**Ahhh, that makes more sense. I just imagined that might have got stuck in a bubble after washing her hands.
FeifeiRoy, your imagination never ceases to amaze me. You know what we should do?
Roy I think we should listen to some examples…
ExamplesBob and his friends think that climate change isn’t real. They live in a bubble.
Nelson lives in a bubble. He never tries new food or goes out with new people.
Geraldine doesn’t want to meet my new friends – she thinks they live in a bubble.
FeifeiThis is The English We Speak from BBC Learning English, and we’re talking about the expression ’living in a bubble’ which is used to describe someone who doesn’t listen to people with different ideas, or maybe is a little sheltered from society.
**Roy
**I think it’s sad when people live in a bubble because they don’t get to experience new ideas or have their minds changed.
FeifeiI don’t live in a bubble. It’s why I like working with you – because you have very different ideas to me and I like to listen to them. You’re always wrong, but I still like you.
**Roy
**Thanks Feifei – I guess I should take this sword back to the museum.
FeifeiYou should. Bye, Roy.
**Roy
**Bye.