British sayings for a better life :)

"A cup pf tea solves everything"

Nothing makes you sound more British than using their own traditional sayings, which are full of knowledge and wisdom. But don't worry, traditional doesn't always mean old-fashioned! The cup of tea has been around for quite a while and it doesn't go old! You will impress more than one Brit for your knowledge of popular culture when dropping one of these, why don't you try?!

How are you? You OK?

I don't know about you, but as an English learner I have found myself thousands of times repeting the same phrases again and again every time they asked me the most common British question "How are you?"! It's so embarrassing! You know you seem like a parrot but still when that moment comes you just say that phrase that we all learnt in the school and makes you look so nice and polite "I'm fine, thank you, and you?" This doesn't need to happen again! Just learn these common answers and they will think you are so British as them!

British humour and riddles!

British humour is widely known for its particular taste of sarcasm, ambiguity and mockery of failure. We can see it in comedy films, they always laugh about themselves or about each others with the same show of non-offense intentionality. It helps to not take life too seriously! With this exercise I want to show you what is British humour like, so you can learn a few jokes to practice with your British friends! Fancy a riddle? Enjoy!

Is that rain?

There are lots of ways to say that it's raining in British English, some more polite than others, but here we have a couple that I hope you can learn and practice!

How is the weather today?

British people love to talk about the weather, even if it doesn't change much during days. When travelling in a city bus or a train you will find that at least 5 out 10 conversations mention the weather! You can initiate a conversation with a extrange by asking how cold it's outside or if you will need an umbrella, everyone does it at some point. Here we have a few tips on how to do it!

Newspaper vocabulary

Nothing is so British as a newspaper, except...yes, the morning paper with a breakfast cup of tea. But even if they don't like tea British people are born with a newspaper under the arm, or so it seems like! Generally they like being informed of the news early in the day and even of what's on on television that night; it's a good conversation topic, don't you think? If nothing else, just talk about the news! That's why I have chosen this topic for my first entry, so you can get talking British English as soon as possible. Let's see how much newspaper vocabulary you know with this exercise. Good luck!

See you soon! http://ieltsliz.com/newspaper-vocabulary/