The How To Be British Collection One
Description
With a globalised mass culture standardising our food, our social customs and even our language, where can the overseas visitor find a truly British experience?
The answer lies in the How To Be British Collection, which celebrates the traditional values of our reserved, polite, pet-loving, tea-drinking nation — values which have long made Britain ‘different’.
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Content
2 - 2 Arrival [Seite 4]
3 - 3 The Telephone Box [Seite 5]
4 - 4 Dress Sense [Seite 6]
5 - 5 Tea [Seite 7]
6 - 6 Complaining [Seite 8]
7 - 7 Politeness [Seite 9]
8 - 8 Speak Slowly [Seite 10]
9 - 9 Pronunciation [Seite 11]
10 - 10 Top Tongue [Seite 12]
11 - 11 Sense of Humour [Seite 13]
12 - 12 Body Idioms [Seite 14]
13 - 13 Terms of Endearment [Seite 15]
14 - 14 Learning by Doing [Seite 16]
15 - 15 Pubs [Seite 17]
16 - 16 Meeting and Greeting [Seite 18]
17 - 17 Test Your English [Seite 19]
18 - 18 Real English [Seite 20]
19 - 19 The Bathroom [Seite 21]
20 - 20 Beds [Seite 22]
21 - 21 Pets [Seite 23]
22 - 22 Heavenly Hosts [Seite 24]
23 - 23 Enjoy Your Meal! [Seite 25]
24 - 24 Fish and Chips [Seite 26]
25 - 25 The Mighty Spud [Seite 27]
26 - 26 Asking the Way [Seite 28]
27 - 27 Driving [Seite 29]
28 - 28 Mind the Gap [Seite 30]
29 - 29 Ye Olde Britain [Seite 31]
30 - 30 Queuing [Seite 32]
31 - 31 Shopping [Seite 33]
32 - 32 Departure [Seite 34]
2 Arrival (p. 4)
You can see the visitors arriving at British airports, their wide eyes and flushed faces expressing the mingled wonder and apprehension they feel. They’ve made it! They’re actually here, in this fairy tale land of knights and wizards, princes and pop idols, the birthplace of the industrial revolution, computers, human rights, pork scratchings, evolution, lawn tennis, parliament and punk.
Some of the new arrivals look a bit disorientated and confused, which is only natural as everything here is so different and, well, so much better! But life here can take a bit of getting used to: driving on the left, being ruled by a Queen, pouring gravy or custard over everything and of course getting around in English the whole time!
One thing the visitor soon discovers: although Brits come in many di. erent shapes and sizes we are united by one very important characteristic: we are all waiting for the weather to ‘buck up’.
Avoid sayingTell me — why do you have a royal family?
Expressions to learn
Hello. You must be Big Ben.
I’ve heard a lot about you.
