hi guys welcome to another session here
with me Anna English on English like a native and I'm joined by the lovely
Sabrah and we do have Laila supporting us here today as well. Now what we're doing is
we're actually visiting a traditional British pub. Now pub is short for public
house we're gonna go in here I'm gonna get ourselves a drink. Yep the rounds on me. What you gonna have? I think I'm gonna have a cider. Yep,
not quite as strong as a beer but What percentage is
your..."I''ve got Aspels on tap which I think is about 5%" Hi Anna, hi Sabrah, it looks like you're having a great time in the pub I'm just a little bit
jealous and for the sake of authenticity I've poured myself a nice glass of gin
and tonic. I've even got a slice and ice Let's go through some of those
expressions and key terms to help you guys understand what they are talking
about. Now to buy a round or to say this rounds on me means that you are paying
for everybody's drinks now this could get a little bit expensive if you're in
a big group. I prefer to buy small rounds however you don't have to do this in
British culture you can say actually I'm gonna buy my own thank you. So when we're
measuring the strength of alcohol, how alcoholic it is, we measure it by
percentage however we should also note that when we talk about driving we
actually talk about units of alcohol so you have to be careful you're only
allowed three units when you are driving otherwise you're over the limit, that
means that you've drunk too much and you are not allowed to drive in the UK.
We are very strict here so a pint of beer is just over two units of alcohol that means
that usually you can have a pint or a pint and a half that will take you to
your limit, three units. So this man is the bartender he works behind the
bar. Do you have a landlord or landlady here? Not here, we're a managed house so we have managers rather than landlords. In this place you serve food right
so you have.... in a lot of pubs you'll have like pub food, pub grub like
chips, burgers and this place is pretty special because, we have slightly more,
you have more a restaurant, a bistro.... we are a pub slash restaurant. It's
amazing food. This is what's on tap so I have my on tapped here, I have
lagers, I have a cider, I have Guinness, which is a stout then we
have these which are called real ales. Fabulous so lots to choose from, but you're going to have the cider. I think I am, what bottles do you have? Bottles I have various flavoured ones, pear, strawberry & lime, passion fruit & wild berries. So much to choose from. actually I am just thinking that I better not have a cider because we've just had a cream tea so I'm sugared out. So I think I might just have a bottle of Peroni please. I'm more of a bottled beer girl. so normally if you order a beer in a pub
then you'll be asked whether you want a pint for a half pint
would be the typical way to go. I don't drink beer, if I do I have to have it with
lemonade. I'm a bit of a sandy girl. Wow you are such a lightweight. I am a lightweight I'm terrible. Now talking about pints that is exactly how we measure
beer. you would never go to a pub ask for a glass of beer you would ask for a pint
or a bottle. So basically if you're having a pint of beer you would ask what
beer they have on tap so a tap usually refers to where the water comes out of
but in this case we are talking about where all the beer comes out of behind
the bar. Now behind the bar you would have a bartender or a barman we don't
really say barwoman sounds a bit strange you call her a bartender that's
the neutral form both male or female Well in fact the pronunciation barman
barman you've got a schwa at the end so it's not bar-man its barman barman now I
know Sabrah also mentioned landlord and landlady, now these are not necessarily
the owners of the pub but they are the proprietor that means that they run and
manage the pub and the license to serve alcohol is in their name so often you
would see the landlord or the land lady's name above the door in the pub
that you are going in. Don't get confused with landlord and landlady when it comes
to renting a property so that is where somebody owns the house and you pay
money usually monthly to live in that property which they own. Okay well so
because I am pregnant my my steer clear of the alcohol. Soft drink.
Drinking responsibly! So I think actually I'm just going to go
for my classic at the moment which is my usual...... she has done this twice today.
I'll just have my usual that's what you say you go to a pub, if they know you, say
I'll have my usual, and my usual is lime & soda please. Big? Small?
A small yes please. So yes if you do normally if you having something with
soda they might ask you if you want ice or lemon. If you're having a whiskey they
might ask if you want it on the rocks, yeah so straight while Sabrah is paying
for this round I'm gonna hand over to you Leila to recap some of that
vocabulary. Now I mentioned before about with a gin and tonic you can have a
slice and ice so basically, a slice is a wedge of lemon or lime it just brings
out the flavor of the gin, ice of course is ice but did you also know that you
could have whisky on the rocks. You might hear this in some films this
means that whiskey mixed with nothing but on the rocks meaning on top of some
ice. you put ice in the glass. In my gin and tonic is tonic
now tonic is a really nice mixer so a mixer is something like tonic water or
coca-cola or orange juice that you mix with alcohol to either bring out the
taste to make the taste more or to basically weaken the alcohol. If you
drink vodka straight meaning without a mixer you're drinking only vodka now who
would do that? Cheers yeah, thank you for joining me. Ah no I'm very
happy to join you absolutely. Bottoms up! I'm gonna sip this very carefully because and I've already had a Prosecco and I don't wanna get tipsy, yes, I don't want
to make a bad impression on Anna. No in the north we would say and this is
definitely slang we would say tiddly we're get a bit tiddly, I say tiddly as
well because I'm also from the North even they're kind of betraying my
northern roots but we say tipsy yeah and if you are very very drunk yeah you
could say sloshed yeah hammered yeah there are then some words
that aren't so family friendly so we won't say the words we don't want
YouTube to ban our videos, but I'm sure we definitely covered them in previous
videos yeah. You can also say merry actually for tipsy, I think that's a bit old fashioned
though and my grandma would say merry. really "Oh I'm a bit merry". I think I've said that before. Maybe I'm old fashioned. So Cheers is what we say
in English when we make a toast together when you clink your glasses together. In
Italy they say salute or chin chin What do you say in your country? How do
you clink glasses are together? Of course Bottoms Up is a more informal
expression meaning the bottom of your glass should go up because you'll be
drinking the alcohol. I'm surprised because you're looking lovely, doesn't she look lovely? You paid for it. You ordered the alcohol I just ordered a
soft drink. yeah. I'm surprised you didn't get ID'd. Thank you and are you my new
best mate. You see I think the problem was the light was a little bit bright in
the dim the dimmer light I can get ID'd. this means is someone getting you a
drink? has someone taken your order of food or alcohol? so if you're not being
served you might say "no I'm not" so to get served to be served. Now in the UK we
have chains of pubs that means a pub that has the same name and is owned by
the same company. so a chain of pubs. So in the UK we have Wetherspoons pubs
they're quite nice, cheap, cheerful, they'll serve you a pint. Now in the UK
you need to have your ID, your identification, because actually
if you look under 25 then they have their rights to ask for your ID in this
country whether you are buying alcohol at a supermarket or in the pub you need
to carry some identification, your ID. I'm always asked for my ID. so like what's
the most common one you said? So the most common one is the Red Lion
there's about 900 pubs in the UK with the name the Red Lion. Very closely
followed by the Royal Oak, and of course these names guys they're very
connected to royalty which is obviously so much of a part of our history. So the
Red Lion obviously the lion is one of the symbols of the Empire of Britain and
then the royal oak obviously royal where the oak Oak is a kind of tree so I'm not
quite sure where they're going but then you have pub names that are like two nouns
something and something, like the Fox and the hound, or the dog and partridge, and
you have some really bizarre ones as well. Obviously you know that Leila and I
live in Bournemouth and in Dorset which is very rural. We have really funny names
like the mouse's tail, the snake cattle the snaggle tooth, the square and compass things like
that, very bizarre but yeah they're very they're so quintessentially English. yeah
I think traditional pub food is great but if you don't want to go for the pub
grub there's always going to be bar snacks you'll get things like crisps and
not yeah pork scratchings you're not very good for us vegetarians but pork
scratchings are a big favour yes do you know why I know we have these salty
snacks on the bar because salt makes you more thirsty yeah and they can convince
you to buy more drinks as you go and the snacks are free yeah and you're like
this is very kind of them it's all again now I love pubs snacks. I cannot have a
drink without snacking a little bit I often like to get some peanuts maybe a
bag of crisps say when I had some crisps with a gin and tonic last week. so pub
snacks include crisps, peanuts, but in England we have this way
thing called pork scratchings. now if I explain what it is you'll probably never
try it, but here it goes. pork scratchings are... is the fat of a pig
that has been roasted and cooked a lot and made into a kind of crispy snack
it's strange but ask for it next time you order a pint in the UK. now Sabra is
very clever and she knows that pub snacks are a ploy. a ploy means a tricky
slightly deceitful lying way to get you to order in this case more drinks if
you're eating lots of salty snacks then you become more thirsty you need to
drink more so it's a great way to get people up at the bar and asking to be
served so once we've finished our drinks
hopefully you won't like ghazal it down I'm not going to down you're going to
sip it I said before I'm going to sip it so we can guzzle and we can switch which
means to take a big sip or well you can down it I could I'm not gonna down it if
you're down you can do it all in one say you can say in one and one down it down
it and then I can I can never do I think I would be sick
have you ever downed a point no never I can't drink beer I think I have done
down to point many many years ago no one knows this apart for my dentist I once
broke a front tooth opening a bottle of beer with my teeth I know I know so one
of my front teeth and I can't even tell you which one is my dentist is so good
that one of my teeth is a broken tooth and it's been filled perfectly wow I've
never tried to do that yeah I don't know that's hardcore well if you don't have a
bottle opener what are you going to do yes I'm actually talking about opening
bottles when it comes to wine obviously we sometimes have a screw cap yeah
that's true oh it's a cork and the worst thing you
can do is when you're not at home and you don't have a corkscrew and you buy a
corked bottle of wine oh it's the worst and you just like how can we
possibly do this have you ever done it no I haven't thank goodness so I once
tried knitting needles we put a knitting needle down the side try to wedge it
didn't work you can try the bottle in the shoe and you tap the shoe quite
firmly against the wall I know some people have managed it I know other
people who broke in fact Englishman Lucy's boyfriend there was a video once
an Instagram of him breaking the bottle yes if you have any ideas on how to open
a a cork bottle without a corkscrew then we'd love to have the comments below and
perhaps you can share your stories of past drinking yeah pop calls have you
ever been on a football oh yeah pub crawl guys going from pub to pub very
dangerous and by the end that you will be crawling because you would have had
so many drinks you have to finish every drink in each place I find they learn
too much I must admit yeah I'm a lightweight lightweight means you can't
drink a lot of alcohol and if you're not lightweight I guess you're a heavy
drinker or an alcoholic you're hardcore they say we're cause you can take your
drink yes yeah so no I can't I'm what they call a cheap date you
don't have to pay very much for me one glass of wine and I'm done
okay well and Laila that you're on hand now to explain some more recap some of
that vocabulary yes that we've just brought up now there's lots of lovely
verbs that we can use to talk about drinking first of all you should sip your why not
guzzle you're drinking a lot of liquid very fast and you'll probably get rather
tiddly now to take a swig is one big glug or swig of liquid so it's
just one but a big amount so not a small amount like a sip now if you are
ordering a bottle of wine you'll need to have a bottle opener because inside
every red a bottle a white bottle of wine you have a clock so a corkscrew or
a bottle opener will help remove the cork now these days there are many
bottles of wine that are actually screw-top that means they simply unscrew
so you twist you move the top like this and you can open the bottle now Italians
won't like that I certainly don't now in the UK we do like her drink and you can
also go on a pub crawl to crawl at evenings the way a baby moves before
they can walk so on their hands and little chubby legs
now unfortunately pub crawls often end like this but it basically means that
you go around to lots of different pubs in your area I have a drink every one of
them finally if you hear a bell in a pub and they shout last orders it means that
that's your last opportunity to order a drink before the bar closes in the UK
there are specific times that pubs are allowed to serve alcohol in fact
nightclubs as well so last orders is your last opportunity to buy a drink
after that there's a looking in this case a looking that means that the pub
is closed so that no more people try and come in and get served so I hope that
was helpful well our glasses are empty
that means that we've come to the end of today's lesson. thank you very much Leila
for explaining all of that vocabulary for us and thank you Sabrah
for downing a few drinks with me, thank you so much for having me Anna thank you
very much. now don't forget that we have some lesson all about the British
afternoon tea tradition so if you want to see us stuffing our faces and do go
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should we get another cheeky round in? yeah let's get another round in thanks for watching!
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