English Rewind - Entertainment: Describing sounds

???? Waves, birds, babies or bagpipes? What are your favourite sounds? In this programme Callum looks at ways of describing the sounds you love in English, and we hear the favourite sounds of the BBC Learning English team, while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of the BBC Learning English programme Entertainment. What are your favourite sounds and which English words can you use to describe them? Tell us in the comments ????????????

Useful vocabulary:
✔️ crashing waves - an expression for when a rough sea hits a beach
✔️ soothing - if a sound is soothing, it makes you feel calm and relaxed
✔️ (a baby) cooing - the happy sounds that a baby makes
✔️ (a cat) purring - the sound that a cat makes when it is happy

Describing sounds
✔️ I love / like + the sound of + noun
Examples:
I love the sound of laughter
I like the sound of the rain

✔️ I love / like + the sound of + noun + -ing
Examples:
I love the sound of birds singing
I like the noise of children playing

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English Rewind is a collection of programmes from the BBC Learning English archive. This episode of Entertainment was first published on the BBC Learning English website in May 2006. To download the audio and script pdf for this programme, visit our archive here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1446_entertainment/page20.shtml

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