📻 What do you wear when you're riding a bicycle? Find out about this international annual event while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of the BBC Learning English programme Weekender.

Useful vocabulary:
✔️ sustainable - in a way that doesn't damage the environment
✔️ getting a message out there/raising awareness - making sure people know about something
✔️ frail - weak
✔️ it's empowering - it makes you feel good and strong
✔️ to bring in to question - to challenge
✔️ consumerism - the idea that it's good to spend money on things and own many products
✔️ it's liberating - it makes you feel happy and free
✔️ overwhelmingly positive - very favourable
✔️ media coverage - the way newspapers, TV etc. react to an event

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English Rewind is a collection of programmes from the BBC Learning English archive. This episode of Weekender was first published on the BBC Learning English website in June 2006.

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