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welcome back to another episode of real English with real teachers we are back
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on the streets of London to expose you to some naturally spoken English so
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let's see who we find today
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what's the first thing you notice when you meet someone new
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their hair yeah what if they're wearing a hat
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if they're bald or not okay
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what is the first thing you notice when you meet someone
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their face
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before we start the video we wanted to tell you about a language
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learning platform that Harry and I have been using heavily for the last two
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years this website is called italki and we love it not only because it's
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it's connecting you with an actual native teacher so we highly recommend
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you check out italki just how Charles has done as a professional football player
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who's just joined Arsenal and we're gonna see how he likes italki thank
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you for giving us 20 seconds of your time Charles
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it is not a problem not at all
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can you quickly tell the
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fans why you decided to come to italki and learn online instead of staying in
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the traditional classroom yes it is quite simple really I could not get to
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the class because I am playing football all day it is a very intensive training so
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online is a very convenient for me to practice my English
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Thank You Charles
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back to the studio yes so we've partnered up with
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video name the first thing that you notice when you meet somebody new
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oh their eyes
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why are the eyes so special cuz you look into them first
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that's how you see anyway yeah or if they have pretty eyes
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yeah and you like them
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if they're just dull eyes then well then you pretend like they're pretty for their sake
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I think mouth in my case oh right
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I tend to look at people being slightly deaf I think I lip read a bit you know
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and so I tend to look at people's mouths rather than their eyes
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anything else that's really important their smile yeah
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okay
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what's the first thing you notice when you meet someone new their eyes their
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teeth okay do you look into their dental records [laughter] no
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do you like it if they've got glasses is that a deal breaker I don't care
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you don't care contact lenses I don't care, no
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take anything yeah
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their smile probably generally speaking British people are quite stereotypically
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bad with smiling at people in the street but oh really
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I think it's quite important in this day and age so yeah
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their face or like their outfit what did you think when you first saw our outfits
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studenty [laughter] that's a good one
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yeah d'you know what I mean I do yeah I feel quite studenty
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yeah yeah something like that
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I think it's me trying to hold
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on to my youth yeah cling to the last shreds
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what's something that you notice about someone when you
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meet them instantly instantly how good-looking they are
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how good-looking they are
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would you say in New Zealand people are more smiley yeah I'd say that
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I'd say that I think that people just get a bad rep and especially big cities
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like London for being busy and not very approachable but most Londoners I
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feel they are quite approachable good
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do you make a conscious effort to just stare at the
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mouth or do you go back and forth between the eyes and the
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mouth or yeah well I think you should look people in the eyes they expect it
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so I make that conscious effort yeah you look at your person's face yes and
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then you ask questions and hopefully you get a feeling for what sort of person
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they are yeah in a short period of time
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do you think it's strange because I
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was talking to Charlie about this the other day he said if you look at someone
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in the eyes for longer than five seconds people get a bit weirded out they feel
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uneasy how do you feel about that no I wouldn't never experienced that no
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I s'pose [suppose] yeah perhaps you're right looking at you now yeah [laughter]
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I am not like my wife she very much
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looks at the person and decides what they're like before even having their
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conversation which annoys me intensely because there are beauty is only
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skin-deep some people have very piercing eyes don't they
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yeah like Hitler the Hitler stare
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his eyes were very distinctive apparently yeah he had a very piercing menacing gaze
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yeah well you haven't you have lovely soft eyes
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so you like to give them a bit more time yeah I do yeah
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does your wife give them a second chance no
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no right so she's quite cut-throat yeah
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anything else that you notice first thing what about with your wife what did you
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I suppose you notice the way they're
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dressed don't you and you form an impression about them by the way they're dressed I suppose
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and you kind of expect a certain style of dress with certain people don't you I
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mean I would look at these youngsters over here and everyone is wearing trainers
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you know there's not one proper pair of shoes amongst them and that's the way they are
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I mean like today I'm wearing a jacket I'm not wearing a tie but
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you look dapper you look very dapper the hat the long coat the shoes
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yeah I mean not many people
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have proper raincoats these days I don't suppose no
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and that's a hangover from when I was at
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work you know so yeah
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still got it when I retired you've got style I think the older generations have a lot
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more style than we do nowadays so we're going to leave Harry there to reminisce over the older
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generation and they're less studenty appearance and ask you the same question
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we asked these lovely members of the public which is what is the first thing
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you notice about someone when you meet them for the first time go ahead and
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challenge yourself to use as many of the highlighted phrases from this video in
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