Name: I say this EVERY DAY!! | Summer Edition ? | British Accent (Modern R.P) ??
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Hello there lovely people, welcome back to English with Catherine.

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If you're new here, hello, welcome, this is my channel, my name's Catherine.

And if you're a loyal subscriber, thank you so much.

This is the YouTube channel where you will learn daily natural English that is in use today.

And some of this stuff you really can't learn in textbooks, I'm afraid.

Today's video is called I Say This Every Day, Summer Edition.

As you can tell from my dress, it's a lovely summer's day.

You're going to learn some English for having small talk, for making plans, for making new friends, and even having deeper conversation.

I don't know what we're waiting for, let's just get started.

Small talk, this is part of daily life here in Britain, especially if you live here, you're going to have to get used to having small talk with strangers.

People just love to chat here, so you have to be ready.

It's an absolute scorcher today, isn't it?

I've talked about this before, but when the weather is really hot in England or in the UK, we're likely going to remark on it.

An absolute scorcher, as you probably worked out, means very hot, probably over 25 degrees.

Of course, we have the tag question at the end, isn't it?

It doesn't need an answer, we just use them to make conversation flow.

This is what we say when we're asking if you're going on holiday.

Us Brits start planning our holiday in, like, January.

January, February, and March, they're quite dark, dingy months.

So in around June or July, people start saying this in small talk.

You know when this happens to me is when I'm in the hairdressers.

I don't usually like small talk in the hairdressers, I get really awkward for some reason.

Now, if you actually want to see people and do things in your life, you need to know how to make plans.

I'm actually a real planner, so I love a calendar and a diary.

Do you fancy coming over for a barbecue this evening?

This is actually something that a friend said to me the other day.

And I was so happy because I haven't been to a barbecue yet this summer.

And barbecues are quite a big deal in the UK.

As soon as the sun kind of peeps out from behind the cloud, everyone's like, get the barbecue, and we go.

We're using do you fancy to make plans here.

And it's a nice way of asking someone, is this something you'd like to do?

We say come over when we want to invite someone to our home.

We never really say come to my house, come to my flat.

Come over on Saturday or come over on Monday for coffee.

Also, nice weather encourages spontaneity in us Brits.

We're not usually very spontaneous as a nation.

But when there's gorgeous weather, it's almost like you have to seize the moment.

So that's when we're likely to be our most spontaneous, inviting people over in the same day.

Now guys, what do you do if someone invites you to something and you want to say no?

You want to politely decline, but you're not sure how to say it in a nice way without sounding a bit too direct.

I'm really sorry, but I'm a little bit busy later on.

So here we're politely declining, but we're also suggesting doing it another time.

It's just no today, but not tomorrow maybe or next week.

Or I'm really sorry, but I've already made plans.

Again, we're saying no, but we're suggesting another plan to make up for it.

What about if you want to say yes to an invitation, but with some conditions?

So you can go, but maybe not till later or after you've done something you need to do.

I've got to drop Freddie off at a friend's first, but then I'll head over.

Here we're using the phrasal verb to drop off, meaning you have a child, you need to take your child to their friend's house or somewhere, and that's what we say.

In the UK, it's the etiquette, as I'm sure it is in your country, to bring something to an event or to an occasion if you've been invited to it.

Or if it's a barbecue, you could say this,

And that's saying you'll go to a shop on your way to their house and get some burgers for the barbecue that will probably end up completely burned later on.

When you want to tell them you're coming and you're going to be there very soon,

That means you've already started your journey to their house, to their home, and you're going to be there soon.

You're at a party, which can be a very scary environment if you're not feeling very confident with your English.

So as we all know, in conversation, we're likely to be asked what we do for a living, what we like, what we dislike, whether we have children, what our life plans are, maybe.

Now, I don't always like asking this question.

It's perfectly fine to ask it, obviously.

But I like to ask about what someone likes in life.

Because sometimes what they do for money or what they do for a job isn't necessarily what they love doing in their spare time.

We're not all lucky to have a job that we absolutely love.

Sometimes we don't want to talk about it.

So you could ask, what are you into, then?

But what are you into is just a very general way to ask that.

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I say this EVERY DAY!! | Summer Edition ? | British Accent (Modern R.P) ??

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