Lesson 1
Politeness the British way
hi guys and welcome back to love English I'm Leila and today's lesson is going to help you be more polite the British way today we're going to look at idioms to help you become...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Part of Sounding polite and considerate
British politeness idioms
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Lesson 2
Please, thank you, and bad language
good manners and politeness is in the UK always using please and thank you is vital if you want to have good manners but on occasion we all uh sorry pardon my French idiom numbe...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 3
Pardon my French
but if you do in front of your teacher in front of someone's Parents try not to do it in front of children then you can say pardon my French excuse my French idiomatic expressio...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 4
The done thing
say something is the done thing an action is the done thing in this case we're saying it's the correct way to behave in a particular situation so for example it's the done thing...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 5
Origins of mind your p's and q's
five I actually did a little bit of research here because the origins of this expression are mixed a lot of people are saying different things the expression is to mind your p's...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 6
Using mind your p's and q's
advising them to be careful of how they behave rather than being too aggressive and strong behave be good you can say mind your p's and q's make sure that you behave in the corr...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 7
Overstep the mark and cross a line
the boss was really angry you overstepped the Mark when you told him he was wrong in front of everyone or stronger Rudder you really crossed a line when you told her she'd put o...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 8
Speak out of turn
of turn in the meeting I was afraid to speak out of turn I was afraid to say something in the wrong way at the wrong time in case I caused off fence okay idiomatic expression nu...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 9
Out of order
wrong way or you can strengthen this by adding an intensifier you can say and this is a little bit slang bang out of order that was bang out of order that was completely wrong c...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Language: en
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