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hermine		#101	[url]	[-]
Moderator Super Member Posts: 6454 08/11/09 9:37 AM Moderator	Oh that was the reason why I didn`t meet you there. I have been waiting for ages on you at the lobby. Last Edited By: hermine 08/11/09 9:44 AM. Edited 1 time.
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hermine	Happy Birthday M1!	#102	[url]	[-]
Moderator Super Member Posts: 6454 08/11/09 10:19 AM Moderator	I will send you a nice view of the Motorway 1 once and now! Motorway 1! The though there won`t be any speed limit on the Motorway makes me happy!
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Lynne Hand	Re: Happy Birthday M1!	#103	[url]	[-]
Super Member Posts: 28447 08/11/09 1:11 PM Your Teacher	Hi Hermine, We really do call it the M1. If you asked for directions to motorway 1, people would be confused. As for no speed limit. Just drive over the border to Germany and hit the Autobahn. Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org Last Edited By: Lynne Hand 08/11/09 1:17 PM. Edited 1 time.
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hermine		#104	[url]	[-]
Moderator Super Member Posts: 6454 09/11/09 8:18 AM Moderator	Okay I will only use M1. What do you mean with hit the Autobohn? I doubt it is allowed to use high speed on German`s highways (AmE).
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Lynne Hand		#105	[url]	[-]
Super Member Posts: 28447 09/11/09 10:32 AM Your Teacher	There are great long stretches of motorway in Germany with no speed limit. It's great! Actually it's terrifying. Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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hermine		#106	[url]	[-]
Moderator Super Member Posts: 6454 09/11/09 10:41 AM Moderator	Okay, there are more Porsche owner in Germany than here!
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Lynne Hand		#107	[url]	[-]
Super Member Posts: 28447 09/11/09 10:55 AM Your Teacher	According to a report, commissioned by the Arts Council for Wales, Wales has become an "empty" country in people's minds and is not seen as a cultural destination. According to the report people in Wales are perceived as rude and offensive and their English neighbours are put off by the hostile welcome they receive in "the valleys". Tourists reckon the weather is awful and the people are rude by speaking to their English visitors only in Welsh. One traveller from the north of England said he had been ignored by Welsh-speakers during a recent trip, adding: "Its when you walk in and they suddenly swap from one language to the other." I have to say that this can be true. On my last visit to Wales I went into a clothes shop with hubby, we had been in their cafe and the shop assistants had been chatting away in English, but as soon as we walked into the actual shop they started speaking Welsh. So, hubby and I started speaking German - that shut them up. I am half Welsh myself, so I'm only half rude and offensive. Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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Lynne Hand		#108	[url]	[-]
Super Member Posts: 28447 10/11/09 4:57 PM Your Teacher	Bonfire night in the UK is sometimes quite dangerous:- You can read more about Bonfire Night on the British culture pages. Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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CKR		#109	[url]	[-]
Keen Member Posts: 41 26/11/09 10:35 PM	Today I did a rather spontaneous lesson with haircutting trainees about 'England'. I asked them what they know about England. Here is what they came up with: London Bridge [sic], Queen, Lady Diana, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, driving on the left side, fish'n chips
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Lynne Hand		#110	[url]	[-]
Super Member Posts: 28447 27/11/09 1:20 PM Your Teacher	Hi CKR, Yup - that about sums it up. Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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CKR		#111	[url]	[-]
Keen Member Posts: 41 27/11/09 9:42 PM	Some experiences I made when I worked as an agency nurse in Sheffield back in 2003: - British people form a proper queue when they wait at a bus stop and it is absolutely not allowed to overtake or something like that. However, when they are waiting for a train, the usual clusters appear when it comes to entering the train. - When you step on the feet of a British person, he / she is the one who excuses him/herself. - People are very .. errm ... I don't know how to say it: the nurses in the hospitals said a lot of pet names to the patients: love, sweetheart, sweety, etc. Sounded strange to me (Come on, sweety, keep on trying to cough it up. Be brave, love.) - I couldn't find proper bread, I mean proper German wholemeal bread. You could only buy toast there and I had to eat tons of it because it doesn't satisfy your hunger the way a good and heavy rye bread would. - People love to write cards. Some patients in hospital had the whole wall behind them papered with greeting cards and there were lots of card shops.
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Lynne Hand		#112	[url]	[-]
Super Member Posts: 28447 28/11/09 4:53 PM Your Teacher	Hi CKR, Well I figured out the bus thing. In the UK the buses used to only have one door, in Germany buses often have two doors, so where would you queue, and the trains have lots of doors - so no need to queue. PS - You don't overtake in a cue, you cut in (it's a capital crime). Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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hermine		#113	[url]	[-]
Moderator Super Member Posts: 6454 03/12/09 12:27 PM Moderator	Once the British smog was famous and I am wondering where it is gone. Lynne, do you know surely what the government has done to solve that problem? I think it is typically for England to solve such big environment problems. Thanks!
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Lynne Hand		#114	[url]	[-]
Super Member Posts: 28447 03/12/09 3:18 PM Your Teacher	It's simple Hermine, we stopped burning coal. Many areas of the UK are designated "smokeless" now where you can only burn certain kinds of fuel. Now we've just got to clean up our carbon act. Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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hermine		#115	[url]	[-]
Moderator Super Member Posts: 6454 04/12/09 10:58 AM Moderator	Oh really and what do the Britains use to get their rooms warm?
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Lynne Hand		#116	[url]	[-]
Super Member Posts: 28447 04/12/09 3:32 PM Your Teacher	Usually gas central heating. Using "natural" gas of course. Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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hermine		#117	[url]	[-]
Moderator Super Member Posts: 6454 08/12/09 10:47 AM Moderator	Lynne, I do not think a single domestic can make such a mess. Where there industries or such things involved? What government was in power at that time? A time ago I watched a Christmas speech by the English Queen Elisabeth and so did I recently. I was wondering whether the Queen did anything about her appearance or not? What do you believe in?
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Lynne Hand		#118	[url]	[-]
Super Member Posts: 28447 08/12/09 12:50 PM Your Teacher	Hi Hermine, Burn coal in enough houses (around one million) and you can indeed make such a mess. Local industry played a part, but the main cause was domestic. I've added an article to the English magazine for you. The London Smog Disaster Your Teacher http://www.learn-english-network.org
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hermine		#119	[url]	[-]
Moderator Super Member Posts: 6454 10/12/09 7:15 PM Moderator	Thanks!
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