Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles you're watching Real English with real teachers real teachers hello my name is Harry welcome to real English with real teachers and today we're asking the people of London what are your plans for today Melvin I'm Harry lovely to meet you so i'm here with melvin umm and Melvin what are your plans for today? well i'm about to see a new agent to take on some modeling jobs and then after that I'm going to get the train back to Nottingham where I live wow ok what what type of modeling jobs? well who knows i suspect it might be woolly cardies OK yeah good for this kind of type of weather right well it is yes but I think it's probably knitwear for the older more distinguished gentleman ok ok anything that would suit me? well I can see clearly that you are a distinguished gentleman but perhaps not an older distinguished gentleman such as myself nice to meet you and you are adam, pleasure, so Ryan Adam what are you doing here today today we're looking around London to find different spots to do a film filming we're filming? well sort of we're finding different locations okay what kind of filming are you doing? we're in the process of producing our own short flm so now we're just doing location scouting to shoot it next month so i'm here with James and katie and we are next to big ben and I'm wondering what are you up to today? probably go to Camden check out some of South bank you know and then just bum round London I suppose for a bit no hard-and-fast plans yet but we'll see where it takes us nice nice phrase hard and fast I like that i'm here with Roger today outside the millennium wheel and I just want to know Roger what are you up to today? I'm going to have lunch with a friend ok anything else? and I'm in a play reading group afterwards so quite a busy day yeah actually we intend to pop into the national gallery to look at the Caravaggio's, so a hard working day ha ha ha well i worked until I was 70 and now I'm retired so you're able to enjoy your retirement now yes indeed congratulations and may I ask you what're your plans for this evening? well I'm gonna go home I'm going to pick up my two little dogs, Archie and Kipper I've got two small miniature schnauzers which strangely enough look exactly like me clearly they take after their father what are your plans this evening? This evening errrm go to the gym I think after the gym get something to eat maybe a few drinks later on nice and what about you? Same i'll be joining him ha ha ha ok and what are you doing this evening? we're actually going to IKEA because I just moved up here with them and we're just gonna go find some furniture so it's not very exciting but something to do so it's not so bad lovely very nice ya okay what are you doing this evening? umm.. this evening is our play reading group. There will be about a dozen of us and we take turns on deciding what the play so ... the rest of us don't know until we turn up what sort of character you're going to be wow okay and going back to the last play reading what was.. what was happening in that play reading? that was an Alan Ayckbourn comedy so it was a a social comedy is good but .. we have a huge variety they'll be tragedies and dramas and whodunits and comedies it's a mix occasionally even Shakespeare not too often though oh that sound quite serious Shakespeare though are you quite a professional actor would you say? no not really.. more of a hobby? umm well I did win a prize once for singing I was unanimously voted worst karaoke singer of the night fantastic what song was it? 'raindrops keep falling on my head' and behave yourself or I'll sing it again! ha ha that's amazing! and do you have any plans.. any holiday plans for the near future? any holidays booked? D'you know what I don't i was just thinking the other day that this is really remiss of me not having anything planned for the autumn I would very much like to go to Japan have you ever been to Japan Harry? I've never been to Japan I went to Asia I've been to Cambodia and Thailand but never Japan.. and what interests you about Japan? well besides the culture the erm.... ..the scenery is fantastic and.. it's an island nation very similar to ourselves I think we've probably got a lot to learn from one another absolutely and do you like sushi? D'you know I'm vegetarian, so I do like vegetarian sushi but I don't eat anything that's ever had a pulse ok fantastic well thank you very much for speaking with me today and have a good day! You're welcome! and towards Christmas have you got any plans for that for that month? Ummm nah not at the moment.. I'm not really a big Christmas person so no plans at the moment okay and what about yourself? that month it's my birthday that much so yeah I haven't set anything (plans) yet though no plans well I hope you have a good month with christmas and the birthday thanks very much have a lovely day. Cheers, thank you. Cheers going on towards Christmas Have you got any plans for Christmas? not yet probably.. I've got Uni(versity) so do that. Might pop over to Disneyland try and get a cheap deal there apart from that there isn't anything I don't really plan that far in advance yeah i'm the same I'm the same excellent and have you been anywhere nice this summer? I've been working in Italy so I've been working for about two-and-a-half months and then i go back next year as well to work so... whereabouts in Italy? Verena so.. working on one of the campsites there and then next year it's Venice so it's quite nice sounds beautiful thank you very much both of you no problem. It was a pleasure have a lovely day! thank you thank you okay and last question and have you been anywhere recently in the last summer months abroad? yes we've just come back from a cruise umm.. in.. taking us from Southampton to Bordeaux and then northern Spain Portugal southern Spain and finishing off in Barcelona that sounds lovely bordeaux a lot of wine? Well it would be rude not to drink it when you'e there wouldn't it!? unfair to the Bordeaux people.. it would be rude not to! ok brilliant thank you very much Roger my pleasure thank you very much
A2 UK evening bordeaux umm melvin lovely christmas How To Speak English Like A Native Speaker - London Interviews Episode 01 106 15 michael posted on 2017/12/10 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary