https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/0ea18cf3-fb50-449a-894a-4c9eef6d76dd Are you keen on spending money or are you a proud saver? Today’s programme is all about ‘thrift’, which has to do with living a simple life free from the need to constantly buy the latest products. Neil and Sam talk about the history of 'thrift' and teach you related vocabulary. This week's question What percentage of people in the UK, do you think, have less than £1000 in savings? Is it... a) 5%, b) 15 % c) 30% Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabulary flourish grow or develop successfully frugality being careful not to spend too much money or eat too much food agenda specific aim or reason for a particular group to do something basic needs the basic necessities needed to survive, like food, clothes and shelter, and nothing extra moral slide decline in standards of moral (good, fair and honest) behaviour truism something that is so obviously true it is not worth saying You can download the audio and the transcript from our website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-200618 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝟔 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬: The decline of the apostrophe https://youtu.be/bq9U_3exOLo Women in politics https://youtu.be/pfJ15WGdoWo Could you give up booze for a month? https://youtu.be/9bSMwNO_OCY Low emission zones https://youtu.be/oRhVmbfy1sY Is the pasty really Cornish? https://youtu.be/RNZwLILj0Uw #learnenglish #bbclearningenglish #thrifty #thrift #saver #spender Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:23:21 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.pavel-english.ru https://video.pavel-english.ru/client/assets/images/icons/icon-96x96.png https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/0ea18cf3-fb50-449a-894a-4c9eef6d76dd All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.pavel-english.ru/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.