Can you keep a secret? ⏲️ 6 Minute English

Are secrets always negative? Or can they be positive too? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.👇👇👇
❓❓❓ While travelling in Indonesia, BBC TV presenter, Joanna Lumley, believes she discovered the unknown secret ingredient in Coca Cola. But what is it?
a) cinnamon
b) nutmeg
c) ginger
Listen to the programme to hear the answer. [Cover: Getty Images]
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Vocabulary:
✔️spill the beans - (idiom) tell people secret information
✔️guilty pleasure - activity that you really enjoy, but which also gives you a feeling of guilt or shame for liking it
✔️marriage proposal - asking someone to marry you
✔️the whole point of (something) - the most important reason or purpose for something
✔️evil eye - superstition in which someone causes injury or bad luck through a look
✔️burdensome - worrying, troublesome, distressing
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Here’s the vocabulary list : -spill the beans ( reveal a secret ) - a guilty pleasure : something you enjoy doing with a feeling of shame -a marriage proposal: ask someone to marry you - the whole point : the important thing, the fact of the matter - the evil eye : bad luck through a look -burdensome : distressing, troublesome

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I can only keep a secret if it is not my secret 😅

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Are you good at keeping secrets 🤫?!

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I think iam good at keeping secrets 🤥🤥🤣🤣😂😂

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Yes I am

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Nope 😆

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I completely agree that all the secrets we need to keep. Especially if it's a positive event

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I good at keeping secrets because I always forget what people tells me.

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Ha! Even if it's really interesting?! A couple of small corrections: I AM good at keeping secrets because I always forget what people TELL me. :)

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You've forgotten that nobody tells you their secrets 😅. Just kidding

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I adore this programme!❤

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Thanks to 6 minutes English, I could achieve my goal. Thank you sooo much! From now on, I will also continue to study English hard:) This topic was very interesting for me as usual. Keeping a secret is sometimes difficult…

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Thank you 🙏🏻😊

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I always enjoy listening to your voices and explanations. Thank you for your job, well done)))

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Thank you ✨

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I must confess I'm terrible at keeping secrets. I'd rather spill the beans or spill the tea than take a secret with me to the grave.

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Great use of idioms - well done 👏 !

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and me 😢

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Great job!! Interesting dialogue between respectful people thank you for these videos ❤

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Glad you enjoyed it!

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I encourage my friends to keep their secrets to themselves!

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I'm a kind of person who never spills the beans and has the ability to take secrets with me to the grave caz this is what is known as honesty.

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It is so out of habit for me to spill the beans. It is a guilty pleasure for me to reveal them to someone. I cannot keep any secret, as soon as I know something I genuinely want to share it with someone. However, the whole point of it is I do not know too many secrets to tell someone about. So, when it happens, I cannot keep myself under control. I do not believe in the evil eye as strong as you are.

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For sure I can keep a secret, it’s simple. The BBC is interesting I am Excited about this knowledge.

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Yes , me too

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Interesting topic. I wonder what guilty pleasure is like?🤔 Evil eye sounds scary.😨 I think every family has a bit of secret.🤫 Thanks a lot.

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I am good at keeping secret.In my opinion i’m reliable person. Actually my friends can share their feelings with me😋I never spill the beans😇

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I'm a great secrets keeper, because... knowledge is power. 😉

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I hardly ever spill the beans because it means the person relies on me. So, i think I'm good at keeping secrets.

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Good use of 'spill the beans"!

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I hate keeping secrets

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sometimes I spill the beans when I thought that somethong was not right. The whole point to say is that learning english with BBC Learning english is very important and can give you a great speeches;

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I’m pretty good at keeping secrets as well

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I never spill the beans, i am so good at keeping people's secret)

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Yes I do. And I know a secret about Neal that I"ll never reveal !😅

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A secret which makes me difficult to keep is that I love her 🌜

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I always remind myself to never spill the beans because I totally believe that "A close mouth catches no flies". Moreover, if we share our secret, there will be a lot of evil eyes around us, which will spread a kind of negative for us.

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I tought Coca Cola's secret spice was cinnamon. Hi from Mexico.

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I'm pretty good at keeping secret.❤❤❤

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I am good at keeping the secret so that no one around me will know the BBC Leaning English is the best place to learn 😅

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I am sure 100% I keep secrets 🎉

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Yes I can keep secrets

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0:32 I am bad at keeping secrets

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0:25 what does Give Away mean there?

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If you give away the ending of a movie, you tell someone - who hasn't seen it yet - how the movie ends.

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a guilting project is something that you want to do but it gives you a feeling of shame burdensom = troublesome whole point : most important reason

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Is it nutmeg?

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Utada Hikaru?😂

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Yeah I also thought that haha by Japanese

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Yeah am very good in keeping secrets, let the cat out of the bag.😊

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Hello bbc

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I am not that type of people who always spill the beans

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Jeremy: Who spilt the beans about me eating George's tuna and cucumber sandwiches? Geoff: It was me, sorry, Jeremy. I had to tell George. It's burdensome to keep such a huge secret! Jeremy: The whole point of eating the sandwich was pretending to apologise to George and secretly give him the evil eye. Giving the evil eye to random people is a guilty pleasure. By the way, Georgina told me about your marriage proposal to her. Congratulations! Geoff: Oh yeah! I completely forgot! I'm getting married!

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I am good at keeping my secrets 😏

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Dear BBC, When we pronounce the word 'often', do we need to elide 't' sound or not? If I'm not wrong, without elision 't' sound is American English. Please respond me back. Thank you.

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Native speaks pronounce 'often' both ways - some people pronounce the 't' and some don't, so it's really up to you which you prefer - you'll hear both versions in the UK though :)

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Secrets

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spill the beans : reveal a secret guilty : have done something illegal marriage proposal : ask someone to marry you evil eye : superstition burdensome = troublesome

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Personally, I can't keep a secret with my relatives. I think I would also reveal big secrets like pregnancy although in my country it is considered inappropriate because many people believe in the evil eye. However, I am able to keep other people's secrets

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I keep secrets, i don't spill the beans

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The wholepoint - main reason or purpose Burdensome-worrying or troublsome Spill the beans - reval the secret

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It is a bad habit so spill the beans that’s why if you are told a secret try to not to spill the beans

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Which accent it is?

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British

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Got A secrets can you keep it

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Dont tell about your naimat blessings to other people