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.
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 and check that out the link will be on
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