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Excuse me. Sorry. Um, do you speak

English?

>> No, I don't. Sorry.

>> English. Do you speak it? Yes. English.

English. Do you English? English. Do you

speak it?

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>> What did I say at the beginning now?

Hello,

>> how are you? Without an answer, but

that's very English.

>> It is very English.

>> All right.

All right.

>> All right. Uh so today we're going to be

playing a little scenario game with you

>> as usual.

>> As usual, putting you to the test

>> and proposing five situations that will

happen to you in the UK and will happen

to you in the UK if you come. Let's call

them unwritten rules of the UK.

>> The first one is already an odd one

then.

>> There's no should or shouldn't in that

one. Well, basically there's a should.

>> Hold your horses. We'll get on to that

in a minute. I just want to quickly say

that if you're listening to this podcast

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aware that this podcast is also

available as a video on YouTube and

we're going to be showing some pictures

in between Easy and I of the sort of

proposed scenarios. And I would like to

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leave comments uh below the YouTube

video saying any other cultural dos or

don'ts that you know of in the UK

because there's five here, but there are

many, many, many, many, many, many more.

>> Many, many, many, many,

>> many, many, many, many, many, many more.

Okay, first one.

>> Topic of the week. You're at a

pedestrian crossing

>> in London.

>> I don't know where this is and I don't

know why the guy only has socks on. This

is an AI image I've created.

>> Oh, he has socks on.

>> Socks and a vest, which is very English

cuz it looks like winter time.

>> A tank top.

>> A tank top. But look, it's like it's

autuminal and he's wearing a vest.

>> Very English. AI knows British people.

>> Don't ever wear a winter jacket. Number

one,

>> that could also be a cultural rule.

>> No. Please wear a jacket.

>> So, you're at a traffic light and the

pedestrian light is red. Don't walk.

However, you're looking left and right

and there are no cars.

>> You now want to suggest that I say,

>> "Yeah,

>> don't wait for the light to turn green,

which is absolute rubbish."

>> Why? Why for you? safety. In Germany, we

obey the rules and

you should wait.

>> You're teaching a bad lesson to children

by doing this because you should

probably always wait for the light to

turn green, especially if you're

driving.

>> But it is very culturally acceptable in

the UK to cross on a red light.

>> People wouldn't look at you weird. Not

at all.

>> Yeah. This is very normal. We made a

video in Berlin about not about the

people standing at red lights and there

are no cars coming at all and just

standing still waiting for green which

seems very bizarre to me but this is

very normal. This is very normal. Sorry.

Next one. Scenario number two. Let me

propose this. You walk into a pub.

You get to your table and you sit down

and then you're looking around.

Everyone's drinking beers and you're sat

there.

>> Yeah. No one will ever come and ask you

what you want to drink. You need to get

at least if it's a pup in a restaurant

that's different. Um there's also pop

restaurant mixes where you could maybe

maybe it's where it's maybe not so sure

where they might have a restaurant part

and a pub part. Pop part you have to get

your own drink. The restaurant part they

might serve you. But in general in a pup

you are not being served. Um, so you

need to go to the bar, make your order.

If you order food, you should have a

place before cuz then you have a table

number and then you have to order food

to that table number and that food is

then being brought to that table.

>> That's a really good one. I was only

going to say the thing of you must go up

to order, but you make a good point

because some pubs if you want to order

food, like you say, they'll bring it to

you, but you have to know what table

you're sat at and they'll be numbered.

And sometimes you'll stand in a queue

for 10 minutes and they'll say, "What

number table you at?"

>> Oh, no. I need to find a table. And then

come back into the queue.

>> Most of the time, typical British pub,

you have to go to the bar. No one's

coming. Okay,

>> next one.

>> Before we go on to our next one, I

actually want to quickly jump into a

topic we have in our normal audio

podcast.

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>> Thanks one.

>> Oh yeah, I did this wrong.

>> Recently

recently.

So the scenario for the listeners and

for you guys is you get to the bottom of

the escalator and you decide that you

don't want to walk up it. You don't want

to be in a rush. You don't want to be

part of the rat race. You want to stand.

Where do you go?

>> You're frozen like a rabbit in the

headlights. No, actually not sure.

Again,

if you stand and now I wasn't really

sure if you stand, you should probably

stand on the right side because on the

left you're walking.

>> Absolutely.

>> It's it's difficult because sometimes it

makes sense like, oh, the left side is

for like the place where you would

usually be in that lane going somewhere.

So maybe you'd overtake.

>> Overtaking the motorway is on the right

side. Very confusing. But London

escalators are so full you cannot make

it wrong. You can't

>> you definitely see what the others are

doing.

>> Yeah. Rarely you'd see it empty or

rarely you'd be the first at the

beginning of a long queue of people.

>> Yeah.

>> So yeah, standing on the right moving on

the left. That's always the rule on all

escalators all over the UK, especially

the London Underground. Going up or

down.

>> Up or down.

>> Next one.

>> Next one.

>> What was that person doing? Yeah, I had

to type in so many things to make it

look like how I wanted. And this looks

20% of how I wanted it.

>> This is a till.

>> Yeah, it is a till at the supermarket.

>> Why does it look like they're driving a

train?

>> I don't know. There's all kinds of

things going on here. So

>> yeah,

>> the scenario for this one is you are in

the queue at the supermarket with your

trolley full of groceries

and there's maybe three or four people

in front of you, three or four people

behind you, and then you see the till

the left or right of you, a new cash egg

sits there and opens up their till.

What do you do in the UK? Because in

Germany, I've seen some pretty crazy

carnage going on. people racing.

>> Yeah.

>> To the cashier desk that's become open.

>> Well, you must have heard already at

least in our podcast and videos that

queuing is very very very serious

business in the UK. Um, so if you queue

for the till and another till opens up,

then obviously you're still you have

your position in the queue and so you

respect everyone else's position, which

means that you offer all the people in

front of you to go to that open till

first, which basically means that the

person that already puts their stuff on

the how do you call it

>> the conveyor belt,

>> they obviously stay there. The next one

already should be offered by the one

behind. So it's like a it's like a

domino effect. It

>> is. Yeah. It's perfect.

>> So they offer first and if they say no

I'm staying here then that person

offer behind them should well anyway you

should see like I stay in my position.

>> Yeah.

>> And I moved with that.

>> It's very

>> I completely like that. I hate it. I

hate a strong I don't like when in

Germany people just race for the open

till and they basically wear number 20

in line

>> and then go there and it's like you're

>> I agree.

>> Why did we all It's just It's so It's

like an elbow society. We call this in

German.

>> You say it in a You said it in a very

good way, but when you're in this

scenario, it's very hard to know to do

what you're saying because no words will

ever really be spoken.

>> That's true. You're not.

>> Yeah. But also like there'll be the

people behind you won't say anything to

you, but they will give you that

opportunity to move over.

>> Oh, yeah. But maybe you do a little hand

gesture.

>> Yeah. There'll be very slight subtle

things going on which you need to look

out for. But essentially, people behind

you will typically know they have an

opportunity there.

>> It's very royal in a way.

>> After you. After you, madame. After you,

sir.

>> Oh, thank you. That's very kind.

>> You're very welcome. Have a great day.

Enjoy your

shreddies.

>> Marvelous. What are shreddies?

>> That's some breakfast cereal. I don't

know. Enjoy your marmalade on toast.

Okay, last one.

Similar to what was going on in the last

picture. This one is, and we've spoken

about this a couple of times actually,

>> and there's two parts to this as well,

right? I think

>> you're waiting at the bus stop to get

your bus home from a big night out

>> and uh you as you get there there are so

many people who are also waiting for the

same bus as you and your bus turns up.

>> Mhm.

>> There are two steps to this whole

procedure now in my mind of what you

need to be doing. Okay.

>> In mine too.

>> Okay. How do you navigate this?

Well, they're actually even more than

two, but I know what you mean. The

people coming out and people going in.

This is two steps. But first of all, you

preparing myself.

>> Breathe.

>> You come to the bus stop and we have had

this in Brighton in the night a lot of

times or in the evening.

>> Um there are people waiting obviously

there are different bus lines also

coming.

>> True.

>> So basically there could be 40 people

waiting at a big bus stop.

>> M. So you kind of look around you and

you also see when someone arrives to the

bus stop so that you know Mhm. Mhm.

Okay. Okaym. You don't have to count,

but you have you get if you live in the

UK, you get assistant.

>> Yeah. Cuz people won't be queuing before

the bus arrives.

>> No. So you kind of have to know who was

here first.

>> Mhm.

>> Then when the bus arrives, people do a

quue for that bus. But that's how you

kind of have to know again like at the

tail. Yeah, you were first. Okay.

And then

what first happens though is you leave.

You let everyone that wants to

>> freeze.

>> Everyone that wants to leave the bus

leaves the bus first.

>> Yeah.

>> So, and you also don't give them way.

They have the full freeway. So, you

don't quue in in front of the door but

next to it. So, you let everyone pass.

You even look in. Anyone else? Someone

coming from, you know, double decker

buses. Some woman from

>> Absolutely. Always maybe a woman sort of

reassembling her her pram to put her kid

in. She's folded up.

>> You wait for that. You offer help when

someone needs help.

>> It's true.

>> And then then you can slowly enter the

bus. Our bus. We should actually do an

whole episode about bus rules.

>> True. There are many rules on a bus.

>> Many rules. And for more of that, we'll

be talking a bit more about other little

unwritten rules and other little easy

English and Mitch and easy updates in

our after show, which is all part of our

learner membership. Uh, but well done.

You smashed it. Absolutely amazing. And

we hope that you all now understand all

these. Maybe you can write in the

comments below of other ones that you

know about, not real laws, but unwritten

laws of the UK.

>> Mhm.

>> Yeah. And as always, you'll hear from us

again soon.

Hello, I am English.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
scenario /sɪˈnɑːrioʊ/ B2	noun - a sequence of events, especially an imagined or projected one.
podcast /ˈpɒdkæst/ B1	noun - a digital audio or video file or series of files available for download to a computer or mobile device, typically available as a subscription.
regularly /ˈregjʊləli/ B1	adverb - at fixed intervals; habitually.
analytics /ænəˈlɪtɪks/ C1	noun - the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data.
interaction /ˌɪntərˈækʃən/ B2	noun - the action of acting on each other.
cultural /ˈkʌltʃərəl/ B2	adjective - relating to the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a society.
scenario /sɪˈnɑːrioʊ/ B2	noun - a sequence of events, especially an imagined or projected one.
basically /ˈbeɪsɪkli/ A2	adverb - fundamentally; essentially.
horses /hɔːrsɪz/ A2	noun - large strong animals used for riding or pulling things.
available /əˈveɪləbl/ A2	adjective - able to be used or obtained; at someone's disposal.
obey /əˈbeɪ/ B1	verb - comply with; conform to.
acceptable /əkˈseptəbl/ B1	adjective - able to be agreed to or approved.
queue /kjuː/ A2	noun - a line of people or vehicles waiting their turn.
conveyor /kənˈveɪər/ B2	noun - a belt or series of rollers used to transport objects.
typically /ˈtɪpɪkli/ B1	adverb - usually; generally.
relaxed /rɪˈlækst/ A2	adjective - free from tension and anxiety; calm.
atmosphere /ˈætməsfɪər/ B1	noun - the mood or feeling created by a place, situation, etc.