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Tag: Film
It’s a pretty amazing lifestyle, it really is
They say dogs are a man’s best friend, but not for this bloke! He’s living the life on a remote island with the local wombats. 🐾
Ever dreamt about escaping the rat race to your own personal utopia? Well, how about befriending local wombats? Back Roads guest presenter Paul West heads to Flinders Island in Tasmania to meet up with eco warrior Addy Jones and his little mate Womy the wombat.
Vocabulary chunks to learn from the video :
We’ve got a wombat in the car
I look after orphaned ones
What was it that first drew you to the island
The biodiversity
They are still untouched
The people are wild as the weather
He’s a bit of an eco-warrior
Whose passions range from
Making surfboards out of recycled materials
Wildlife rescue
In that regard its very special
I’m comfortably broke but very healthy
The environment for one
It’s not for everyone because it is very remote
Logistically it’s a bit of nightmare
You can’t have everything
It’s a pretty amazing lifestyle, it really is
Everybody would want to live this way
Tom, Sarah, and their daughter Neesa live in a 20sqm off-grid tiny house on a property on the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. Instead of paying rent, they share the work of looking after the land with the owners, and both families share in the farm’s abundant produce. We were inspired by how much happier they’ve found themselves by living with less.
Tom is a medical doctor and Sarah is an illustrator but both have chosen to reduce their work to almost nothing in order to have more time to focus on living well – a lifestyle choice that is more possible for many of us than we might think. This little 6-minute film has been one of our most popular to date – perhaps because it describes a lifestyle so many of us would love to be living.
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Vocabulary chunks to learn from video :
Living Simply
This is my wife Sarah
The house is 20 square meters
This L shaped space
A bit of a deck at the back
Mobile broadband
Hot water is from a gas cylinder
Keeping an eye on her
We need to radically rethink how to live
A healthy step for us
Be okay with the downsizing
Look out to trees and green
I don’t know the term for it
Working in the vegetable garden
Building, digging so that’s most of my work
Part-time I work as a GP (General Practitioner)
Our costs are fractional to what they were in town
I don’t have any stress about money
Which is a huge benefit
Emotionally I’m healthier
I’m much more in touch with sense of well-being
Maybe there is another way of being secure
Working in exchange for rent
Sharing and gifting of what we have
A more affluent lifestyle
Listen to what their hearts tell them will make them happy
Having the courage to act on it
For me this turns out to be what I love
Everybody would want to live this way
Meet South Africa
South African Tourism
Vocabulary chunks to learn from video
- What is Mbhaco you may ask
- A Xhosa Bride
- He needed to find inspiration elsewhere
- Where was this elsewhere
- If any inspiration needed finding it would be here
- Cows with horns that stab the rain
- Perhaps rubbing shoulders with kings and queens
- Consult the elders
- It was further than a short walk away
- He wasn’t one to give up
- He looked to the mountains
- The valley of a thousand hills
- Ballroom dancing
- So inspired
100% Pure New Zealand – Back to Nature
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Where there’s a will, there’s a way #19
[Primitive Technology ]
Primitive Technology: Iron prills – Creating Iron prills from scratch
Read more about this project HERE
About Primitive Technology
“Primitive technology is a hobby where you make things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. This is the strict rule. If you want a fire- use fire sticks, an axe- pick up a stone and shape it, a hut- build one from trees, mud, rocks etc. The challenge is seeing how far you can go without modern technology. If this hobby interests you then this blog might be what you are looking for.” READ MORE
Where there’s a will, there’s a way #18
[Primitive Technology ]
Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Cement – Creating wood ash cement from scratch
Read more about this project HERE
About Primitive Technology
“Primitive technology is a hobby where you make things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. This is the strict rule. If you want a fire- use fire sticks, an axe- pick up a stone and shape it, a hut- build one from trees, mud, rocks etc. The challenge is seeing how far you can go without modern technology. If this hobby interests you then this blog might be what you are looking for.” READ MORE
Where there’s a will, there’s a way #17
[Primitive Technology ]
Read more about this project HERE
About Primitive Technology
“Primitive technology is a hobby where you make things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. This is the strict rule. If you want a fire- use fire sticks, an axe- pick up a stone and shape it, a hut- build one from trees, mud, rocks etc. The challenge is seeing how far you can go without modern technology. If this hobby interests you then this blog might be what you are looking for.” READ MORE
Where there’s a will, there’s a way #16
[Primitive Technology ]
Read more about this project HERE
About Primitive Technology
“Primitive technology is a hobby where you make things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. This is the strict rule. If you want a fire- use fire sticks, an axe- pick up a stone and shape it, a hut- build one from trees, mud, rocks etc. The challenge is seeing how far you can go without modern technology. If this hobby interests you then this blog might be what you are looking for.” READ MORE
In a place of great minds
Eddie Redmayne wins the 2015 Oscar for Best Actor at the 87th Academy Awards for his performance in The Theory of Everything.
Vocabulary to learn after watching the video :
In a place of minds
A PhD in Physics
In a place of great minds
I’m a Cosmologist
I study the marriage of space and time
The perfect couple
One never knows when the next great leap forward is going to come or from whom
What if I reversed time, to see what happened at the beginning of time itself
Wind back the clock
Keep going
Life expectancy is two years
I want us to be together for as long as we’ve got
You don’t realize what lies ahead
This is going to be a very heavy defeat
But I love him and he loves me, we’re going to fight this illness together
Brilliant ! Brilliant ! Well done!
Life is everything
It has been a great joy to watch this man defy every expectation, both scientific and personal
Love is everything
There should be no boundaries
However bad life may seem, while there is life there is hope
Vocabulary in Chunks 
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