In episode 3 I talk a little bit about the North West of England, where I was born and now live.
y county is called Cumbria.
In the episode I talked about a few famous places and people. I talked about the history of my town, Whitehaven. And how great the sunsets are here.
I talked about the nearby National Park, the Lake District. Grasmere, one of the many lakes in the National Park, was home to William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, for many years. You can read Wordsworth's famous 'daffodil poem' here:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud
I talked about the different kinds of flowers we have in the springtime in the UK. I mentioned: snowdrops, daffodils and bluebells.
I also talked about my favourite historical resident of the Lake District: Beatrix Potter.
You can learn about her life and see lots of scenes from this beautiful part of the UK by watching the movie 'Miss Potter'. I'm sure you'll recognise her very famous 'Peter Rabbit' in this trailer.
Vocabulary
hesitate - to pause or wait
coastal - an area next to the sea
exporting - to ship things out of a country
lucrative - that is very profitable, makes a lot of money
downside - the negative or bad part of something (sometimes disadvantage)
indicator - a signal or way to identify something
menagerie - a mixed collection, usually used to describe a mixed collection of animals
Botanist - a scientist that knows about nature, usually plant life (in Beatrix Potter's case, mushrooms)
'to hold a dear place in (your/my/our) heart' - idiom - something that you (or in this case a nation) really love and feel affection for
