Real English Lesson 14b - The British -Short Version

The Lesson for this video begins at
http://www.real-english.com/reo/14/unit14.html
then click on "Execise 1".

This is the short version of "What are the British like?" for Beginners.

The long version is for Intermediate students because it include more advanced verb structures.

The Long version is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWL4CUAnVM

Also:
Note: A "CC Double" video is composed of two parts:
1 - The regular video, followed by
2 - The same video with subtitles.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• learn
• english
• esl
• efl
• British
• grammar
• real
• national
• stereotypes
• UK
• TESOL
• TEFL

[lithfrasir]

if i was asked to characterise a country i'd just say i couldnt. there's no such thing as a national character. How can 60 million people be well educated, pompous, stuffy snobs. U yanks watch too much tv

[realenglish1]

You're absolutely right in my opinion. Half of the people we interviewed said that they didn't know, or that any adjective is a stereotype, but I only made this video to introduce new adjectives for people learning English as a foreign or second language.

[tangerchica]

Ok I can see how hard it must be to interview people. I was just suprised by so many negative comments. Apart from this video I like the rest and it is something I can use in my classes.

[realenglish1]

Oh, cool. I'm glad you like the other videos.

[tangerchica]

Ok fair enough, I just thought there could have been a couple more positive comments.

[realenglish1]

I actually agree with you. The British came out the worst of the 5 (Americans, French, Italians, Germans) only because we didn't have enough time to interview a hundred more people in order to get usable positive footage. This is not because everybody was so negative, it just means that our sample was rather negative. We have to interview at least 10 people to get one that is usable, for a large variety of reasons which I can not go into here.

[dominicbonserful]

well educated no just no

[bobbybishopbuffalo]

@curlybobz then you must be out of your damn mind

[ptb2008]

2:04 he must have thought he heard "what are the yanks like"

[vikingraider1]

Awful - the root of all the world's problems ?? Thats rich coming from a yank.

[curlybobz]

When I talk to Englishmen I usually feel God is an Englishman.

[bestowbeweary]

@Ralex004 if you watched 14a you would have heard the rest of the comment from the guy at the end.

[grobo11]

@Elgrande555 British and English are different.

[Ralex004]

SNOBBISH?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!F­uck her...Oops!Sorry...get carried away...Well,there's one thing for sure,we aren't all very posh,pompous people who live in mansions...And that guy thinks that the British are the source of all the world's problems?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Bush was the source of some of them...but then Blair followed...DOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[michaelimk23]

I've never heard of pompous.

[amysorel12]

I mean, mean*