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6M English from bbclearningenglish.com Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English.
I'm Alice.
And I'm Finn.
Hello.
Hello Finn.
You're off on holiday tomorrow aren't you?
I am and you know, I'm dreading it.
I hate flying.
Do you?
I didn't know you had a phobia and that means a strong and unreasonable fear of something.
Well, I don't think this is a phobia because it isn't unreasonable.
Flying thousands of feet up in the sky in a tin can.
You know, that's not safe.
Flying is safer than you think, Finn.
It's much riskier to drive or cycle to work.
And actually, risk-taking is the subject of today's show.
Risk means the chances of something bad happening.
For example, did you know that your chance of being knocked off your bicycle and killed during a one-mile journey is the same as your chances of winning the national lottery?