Скачать или смотреть Podcast | Dancing for the brain

Not a dancer? You might change your mind once you hear the benefits! Beth and Neil discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary. Inspired by BBC Learning English's 6 Minute English.

This week's question
What is the name of a traditional English folk dance where performers wear black hats and colourful waistcoats and hit sticks together while moving in patterns?
a) The Highland fling?
b) Flamenco? or,
c) Morris dancing?
Listen to the programme to hear the answer.

Vocabulary
boogie / strut your stuff / throw shapes / hit the dance floor (modern idioms): dance

like nobody's business (idiom): very well, or very quickly, or in very large amounts

a release: a process of freeing emotions, feelings or tension from the body

at all costs: whatever happens; used to emphasise that something must (not) be done, even if this requires a lot of effort, time, money etc.

sit on the fence (idiom): delay making a decision; avoid deciding in favour of one action over another

twitch: sudden small jerky movement or spasm in a part of your body
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