Hello and welcome to the English Like a Native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week 21,
day 5 of your English 5 a day, the second season.
This series is indulging your desire to dip daily into the English language so that slowly but surely you become more confident and more like yourself.
when communicating in English.
So today it's Friday and we are going to bring together all of the vocabulary that we've heard this week in one big story.
Now remember, you can access the database of all the vocabulary from the entire series,
season one and two, via our database.
I'll leave a link for you in the show notes.
But now, settle down.
Make yourself comfortable and let's go into Storytime.
Last weekend, I decided to take my electric bike on the train into the countryside.
It was the first time I'd attempted such a journey with my e-bike and I was travelling to visit my friend who lives in a small village.
Unusually for someone living in the countryside, she doesn't own a car.
This might sound strange until you learn that my friend actually lives in a van with her husband.
They typically park it in this village during the summer months, making it their home.
She doesn't like driving the van around much.
It's expensive to run and difficult to park.
She doesn't see it as a vehicle per se.
It's her home.