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Oct 20
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78: The Secret Rules of British Life Nob...

Isi & Mitch
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Crossing on a red light? Table service in a pub? Bus, supermarket and London Underground ettiquette? Mitch tests Isi with 5 very British scenarios to see if she knows the unwritten rules of British life.

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Intro

Isi:
[0:22] Hello!

Mitch:
[0:24] Hello! Welcome to the Easy English Podcast.

Isi:
[0:28] I'm pro-leaving this out next time. We should... please leave your comment on Spotify, or your other favourite apps. On Spotify you can leave a comment and say, stop telling us which podcast we are listening to.

Mitch:
[0:43] What did I say at the beginning now? Hello!

Isi:
[0:46] How are you? Without an answer, but that's very English.

Mitch:
[0:51] It is very English.

Isi:
[0:52] Alright. - Alright, mate. - Alright.

Mitch:
[0:54] Alright. So today, we're going to be playing a little scenario game with you. - As usual. - As usual, putting you to the test. And proposing five situations, that will happen to you, in the UK and will happen to you in the UK, if you come. Let's call them 'unwritten rules of the UK'.

Isi:
[1:15] The first one is already an odd one then. There's no should or shouldn't in that one. well basically there's a should.

Mitch:
[1:21] Hold your horses. we'll get on to that in a minute. I just want to quickly say, that if you're listening to this podcast, on your podcast app, you should be made aware, that this podcast is also available as a video on YouTube and we're going to be showing some pictures, in-between Isi and I, of these sort of proposed scenarios.

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