...and me, Roy.

Roy, what are you holding?!

This? It's a sword.

I can see it's a sword!

Why do you have one?

Well, I overheard you saying your friend Sandra is living in a bubble. So I asked my pal at the museum if I could borrow a sword to help your friend escape!

No, Roy. I said 'Sandra lives in a bubble', but it means that she doesn't really accept new ideas and all her friends have the same way of thinking.

'Living in a bubble' is the expression we're looking at in this programme.

Ahhh, that makes more sense.

I just imagined that she might have got stuck in a bubble after washing her hands.

Roy, your imagination never ceases to amaze me.

You know what we should do?

I think we should listen to some examples...

Bob and his friends think that climate change isn't real. They live in a bubble.

Nelson lives in a bubble. He never tries new food or goes out with new people.

Geraldine doesn't want to meet my new friends. She thinks they live in a bubble.

This is The English We Speak from BBC Learning English,

and we're talking about the expression 'living in a bubble' which is used to describe someone who doesn't listen to people with different ideas, or maybe is a little sheltered from society.

I think it's sad when people live in a bubble because they don't get to experience new ideas or have their minds changed.

I don't live in a bubble. It's why I like working with you - because you have very different ideas to me and I like to listen to them.

You're always wrong, but I still like you.

Thanks Feifei. I guess I should take this sword back to the museum.

You should. Bye, Roy.

Bye.