British Pubs | Join The Girls & Learn About The British Pub | British Traditions & Culture

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 and check that out the link will be on

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until next time should we get another cheeky round in? yeah

let's get another round in thanks for watching! Cheers