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This is six minute english from bbc learning english
I'm neil and i'm backer
Cycling is a popular activity in britain
Yes
This year sales of bicycles or bikes as they usually called are up in britain
Many people do cycling
Because it's good for their health and the environment and eelectric bikes are making cccling accessible to more people
Including older people in this episode will visit two countries
And with a long history of cycling and another where it's just getting cstitand and uusuwill be lelearning some useful new words in phres
And
And remember you'll find all the vocayilary from
From eppode de our website
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And a long learning english docom
But
But neil
I have a question about a country
That's wild famous for its bikes
The netherlands also often referred to is holland neththerland cycle networks spreads over nineteen five five thousand miles
And there are more biking in countriand
It's
It's eighmilmillion citizon
And so roughly speaking how many bikes are there in the netherlands
Is it a twenty million
B twenty four million
Or see thirty four million
The i'm going to say see pyylah
Well
We'll reveal the correct answer later in the program
Let's in in the ththerlanlet's hear from marridiglsh
Cee o of amsterdam's urban cycling institution
When icycle tellls bb c world
World service proymin
The icycle is deetch
People's love of cycling
The bicycle is deeply engrained into dutch culture
But the rise of cycling started in the industrial era
When bicycle manufacturing took off
And it went from a toy for a rich lion
Well an everyday tool for transportation
And this was a really important milestone for cycling in the netherlands
Cccling is deeply in grained into dutch culture
Deeply in grained are two words that go together
Commonly
And it means something that's firmly established within a person or culture
And unlikely to change during the eighty nineties
Bike manufacturing took off in the netherlands
Take off aa raser verb meaning to suddenly become popular or successful certain brands
Became symbols of a new comfortable style of bike
New factories made bike cheaper dubai
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This was a milestone for cycle in the netherds
A milestone is an important event in someone's life or in the development of something
Our second destination is better own for cars than than icyyles
Le united
Ararof eemerits or uaeuae is hoping
Cccling could be a greenal way for visitors to explore tourist attractions in cities
Like dulman and abbududuby i refers consullant
Martin
Tilmman who lives in the gulf region
Explained more to bbc world service programmed the inquiry
We also have quality of life and liverability all the cities in the gulf a very competitive
And they would love to be rank very high in those global rankings and cycle is seen as part of that quality of life solution golf cities like to buy one eloputation as places with second quality of life
The phrase quality of life refers to someone's level of enjoyment
Comfort and health
When living in a particular place
It's a measure of a persons overall well being gulf cities are also interested in it
Liability the degree to which somewhere is a pleasant place to live
Cccling is good for mental as well as physical health and dubiys town planners are hoping the six hundred kilometers of cycle tracks already built will make the city more attractive to live in of course
There are big differences between the nevelance and uae
The temperature for one not in dubai
Regularly hits forty five degree celsies martiinly a copy world services
The inquiry that dubai is studying countries like the nethelance not to copy them
But to discover what works that dubaly not a copy and post of what is good in holland or denmark
But the key that we're looking for the principles
Cycling in uae isn't a copy and pastof cycling in holland
Martin uses the phrase a copy and paste to mean the exact copy of something thing which is moved and put somewhere else divii can't simply copy the netherlands and a range of measures including stations and shasharest areas have been created for ccccin the heat
Yes
Ycling isn't the perfect solulution for everyone
Everywhere
But in some places
It can be a popular angry alalternative
Yes
Just at the netherlands
And that reminds me of your question beaker
Oh Yes
I ask you
Roughly how many bikes are there in the netherlands
I said thirty four million was alright
There are certainly a lot of bikes in the netherlands
However there are only roughly twenty four million bikes only a still quite a lot
嗯 Right
Let's reach out the vocabulary
We've land starting
We have deeply in grained a combination of words
Meaning well established and unlikely to change
If something takes off
It suddenly becomes popular or successful
A milestone is an important event in the development on something or someone by ality of life describes a person's well something once ms of their level of enjoyment
Comfort and health
The now livability means the degree to which a place is pleasant to living
And finally a copy in based is an exact copy of something which is then moved and put somewhere else once again are six minute arrap
But remember you can find a transcript and a work sheet and a quiz all over on our website at bb c learning english dot com by
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