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Not a dancer? You might change your mind once you hear the benefits! Beth and Neil discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.👇👇👇
❓❓❓ 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
c) Morris dancing
Listen to the programme to hear the answer. [Cover: Getty Images]
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Vocabulary:
✔️boogie / strut your stuff / throw shapes / hit the dance floor
(modern idioms) to 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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