Burlington Arcade

British Green Architecture Seminar

Spring 2022

English 101

Lesson 1

"Imagine you are in London"

1. How would you describe a mate who is wearing a jumper?

2. What would you find in your boot and in your bonnet?

3. What would you expect to see in a zebra crossing?

4. Where would you take a caravan?

5. When would you use a torch?

6. Why would you take a lift to your first floor flat?

7. What's a lorry on the M-1, A-4, or B-32 doing?

8. Would you get a full English breakfast in your self-catering accommodation?

9. What's a milk float?

10. When would you have biscuits with gravy?

11. Where would you find aubergines, courgettes, and haricots verts?

Lesson 2

1. Which of the following might you eat in Edinburgh? Tatties, neeps, or haggis?

2. If your hostess offers pudding, what would you expect to eat?

3. How much would you normally tip your waiter in a restaurant?

4. Where would a Brit wear braces?

5. Describe how well a bespoke dress shirt would fit you?

6. Why would you be able to buy plasters at a chemist?

7. What would you use a duvet for?

8. Who lives in a housing estate?

9. Who would you find on a football pitch when the Premier League is in play?

10. What would you buy from an iron monger?

11. If your flatmate asked you to meet in reception at half eight, what would you do?

12. If you paid a clerk five bob for a £1.78 purchase, what notes and coins would you get in change?

Lesson 3

1. Where would you encounter a rough sleeper?

2. Would you rather be nicked, pissed, snogged, or shagged? And why?

3. What time is tea time? And what would you expect to be served?

4. What would you drink in a saloon?

5. Where would you find a swede?

6. What would you expect to find at a help point, tea point, and power point?

7. When would you hire a mini-cab?

8. When might you eat treacle?

9. When would you help your hostess wash up?

10. Where would you mind the gap?

11. Who would you accuse of constant whinging?

12. What would you find in Downing Street?

Lesson 4 "Miss Manners Edition"

1. Is it acceptable to stand next to your mate on an escalator? Why or why not?

2. After entering Baker Street tube station, how do you find your way to the Jubilee Line train to Southwark?

3. When you return to Baker Street, how do you find your way out?

4. Which way do you look for traffic before entering a London zebra crossing?

5. How do you know where to sit on the train to Manchester?

6. Describe pedestrian etiquette on the London pavement.

7. How do you order and pay for lunch and a drink at the local?

8. When is it ok to tuck in?

9. What day is 4-6-19?

10. What part of Moscow would you describe to your host as being dodgy?

11. Describe the scenario when a laddette from Cymru orders a half Brain. 

Lesson 5 

1. Who are the delegates at a conference?

2. What's a ginger?

3. What's the difference between a single and a return?

4. Where is it ok to urinate outdoors in London?

5. When do early days occur?

6. Who are holiday makers?

7. How would you respond when a bloke asks, "Are you all right?"

8. How would you spend your gap year?

9. Explain how to sort your London assignment.

10. Describe how you'd employ trainers in Hyde Park.

11. What would a punter do at a football match?

Lesson 6 

1. Traditionally, when would you pull a cracker?

2. What would you expect to do in a rest room at work?

3. In what month would it be appropriate to wear a vest in the park?

4. Where would you find a full trolley?

5. What sort of advice would you get from a solicitor?

6. If the tosser was on the pull, what's the likely outcome?

7. If you order lemonade with your crisps, what would you get?

8. If you were enjoying a fag and a bird grassed you, what happened?

9. When is it appropriate to knock up your mate?

10. How would you wear a muffler?

11. Describe the render of Hill House.

For MANY more lessons go to 
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