This is a channel takeover hello you can take over if you like these are two faces
that might not be completely familiar you know this one but you might not know
this one so hi everybody we have a special guest today on love English this
is do you know who she is you might already this is Anna from English like a
native hello everyone Anna do want to say
something about your channel um I have an English channel as I'm sure the name
suggests and I just try and have fun and teach in a unique way but it's all about
language so after after this lovely afternoon tea that we're having
we're going to head to the pub yeah so if you're interested in finding out what
we got up to in the pub and what this one's like after a few drinks then do
check that video out after you watched us eating our afternoon tea
okay so here we are guys having a very British tradition an afternoon tea do
Shall we have a look, yeah and you'll notice there's a little space where a scone
should be where is that scone uh oh! you tucked in straight away. I did!
I was desperate to have a scone , so scone or scone Anna? Well I say scone, yep I say scone
though I'm from the north traditionally from the north you would say scone, like a scone
But in the south we would say scone, I like a scone
See I always like the little joke it's going going
scone sounds like gone gone because you've eaten
so funny, I've got loads, wait until we get to the pub, so yes afternoon tea
we've got three tiers haven't we, we do we have cakes at the top, very sweet little pretty cakes
and then we have our scones or our our scones and lovely finger sandwiches now
this tradition actually comes from the royal family came came from the Duchess
of Bedford who used to get hungry between her lunch and dinner and so she
used to ask for tea and bread and butter and some little cakes to be sent up to
her bedroom where she would share it with her girlfriends oh and they would
have a gossip and I've got lots of gossip to share with you when the camera is off I noticed that
the the sandwiches tend not to have crusts on when you have afternoon tea
did that come from the royal family as well or is that just possibly I think
it's considered more posh isn't it to have the crusts cut off,
do you know a long time ago about four or five
years ago I worked for the Queen no I worked in Buckingham Palace. Leila would love you, Leila loves the queen.
For a whole summer I worked in the palace gardens doing all of her garden
parties she has lots of parties over the summer for special guests and lots of
political royal and and just other guests get to go and actually they do
set they serve cucumber sandwiches but they put a little bit of like a mint
dressing on the cucumber it's delicious and that's always on white bread without
crust so did you ever meet the Queen yes yes she came she did a walk down which
is where you all line up and she comes and talks to everyone. What was she like? She was lovely
she had a crazy outfit on she was lovely she was lovely, she works very hard really yeah
she's definitely always kept to a very tight schedule and if you've ever
watched the crown I think I haven't so I know again Leila's a big fan you have to watch it
Leila actually you can tell us a little bit
about the crown later at the end of this video
yeah recommend it to our students yeah yeah it's so good so good so are we going
to tuck in well afternoon tea isn't complete without the tea part, of course and we do have a couple of pots of tea
tea is always served in a pot isn't it we've got two pots here because we've got
different tea right yes we have Anna what kind of tea is your preference right now I've
gone for peppermint tea because I'm actually pregnant, gossip! She knows, she knows, I am pregnant so I
can't drink caffeine so I'm on peppermint tea today, I would normally go
for English breakfast tea but peppermint tea yeah okay so are you getting ready
to feed the baby with lots of these yummy things, the babies very hungry very excited
amazing so my choice for tea is actually earl grey but today I've got English
breakfast tea but actually I love earl grey tea it's a very old English tea
and yes Leila and I are big fans of that it's kind of a little bit more fragrant
it's very perfumey yes , Anna doesn't like it, she's not quite sophisticated enough, it is
I am a proper northerner, I drink proper English tea, builder's tea
that's that spoon should stand up right in the middle so Leila perhaps you can
give us at this point while Anna and I are going to start tucking in perhaps
you can tell us a little bit more about the vocabulary for afternoon tea and
vocabulary related to it so passing over to you
hi Anna only kidding I'm just a little bit jealous that that you and Sabra are
having such a great time having an afternoon tea what a quintessentially
British thing to do so quintessential or quintessentially emphasising a very
typical traditional sophisticated thing to do so in this case the British
afternoon tea is very much associated with the upper classes as Sabra said the
Duchess of Bedford sure was the one to have invented the afternoon tea but did
you know it was a Queen Victoria that really made it a tradition she was a bit
of a trendsetter that one so Queen Victoria was a rather hmm
large lady so Queen Victoria was known as to love her cake in fact in England
should you come and visit us you can even find a cake named after her the
Queen Victoria sandwich or sponge however you like it Anna I can't believe
you've met our current Queen Queen Elizabeth I am a huge fan of the Queen
and I do really like the royal family shame Harry's not available so Sabra you
want me to explain vocabulary about the afternoon tea did
you think I didn't notice the glass of bubbly sat next to your scone guys
rewind and have a look you'll notice that Sabra is not just drinking tea she
has a glass of bubbly now a glass of bubbly actually refers to a glass of
champagne or Prosecco we're getting a taste for the Italian Prosecco in this
country now if you like with an afternoon tea you can have tea or a
glass of Prosecco if you're feeling a little bit naughty so Sarah and Anna
showed you the scone I think I say scone not scone Anna and on a scone you need
to put jam and cream now there's some controversy over
the cream should come first or the jam I personally prefer to have cream than Jam
and it is a very special kind of cream it's called clotted cream basically a
very very thick cream that really you don't want to eat too often otherwise
you might end up a bit like Queen Victoria I've said I mentioned I do
prefer Earl Grey tea Anna mentions builders tea this is the
very typical tea that we drink in our households normally builders tea is just
a cheap cup of tea and we call it builders tea because traditionally in
the UK we would offer the Builder or workman a cup of tea if they come over
and do any work for us we wouldn't offer coffee funnily enough England really is
a tea-drinking nation now sandwiches Anna and Sabra mentioned that we cut the
crusts off our sandwiches to make finger sandwiches I suppose they're finger
sandwiches because they look like well they don't really look like fingers but
they're long and thin so close enough now we cut the crusts off because
actually in the UK a lot of people especially children don't like crusts on
their bread crust is the outside of the bread that goes a bit hard when it cooks
now if you grew up in England the chances are when you were a child you
didn't like crusts on your sandwich and your mum or dad or grandmother would cut
them off often we had a joke that was if you
don't eat your crusts you won't have curly hair doesn't make a lot of sense
really does it now a great verb that Sabrah used at the end of the first part
was to tuck in this is a lovely phrasal verb informal of course but if you say
to somebody tuck in it means go ahead eat enjoy yourself so back to Sabra and
Anna for their lovely afternoon tea I'm not remotely jealous don't worry I've
got my biscuit in mug of tea
lovely we have been absolutely pigging out do you think the baby's happy Anna
the baby the baby is definitely happy. Although I think there is room for a little more there are a few cakes left
on the stands we've still got cream and jam yeah, super super yummy, the thing about afternoon tea
guys is that it was originally a light bite do something to kind of stave
off hunger so to keep you going between meals but actually it definitely isn't. It is not
afternoon tea is calorie free always when you eat it with me it's calorie
free it's wiped away we've got a few more cakes to get through but yes so
Anna do you reckon that we should get going to the pub I think it's time to
get down to the old pub so if you are interested in finding out more about a
British pub and you want to come and find out what this one's like after
she's had a few drinks oh you don't want to know do come and
join us on that video I'm sure it'll be linked below guys in the description box go ahead to
Anna's channel to go and see that so yes okay guys well we've got lots more
to get through so I'm afraid we're going to have to and thank you for having me
Oh No thank you so much for joining me for this very indulgent treat shall we
say and thank you to Leila as well yeah you couldn't be with us but we'll eat a
cake for you yeah we're eating for you as well
Leila Anna's eating for two but I am eating for you
right guys bye!
So good so good Sabrah seriously your best friend and you can't even bring me back
a scone you're just eating all of them now sabra correctly pointed out that
they had been pigging out to pig out is again well it's a little bit strange
because it's an almost phrasal verb or maybe more
idiomatic expression to say that you've been eating too much like a pig to pig
out and it is more informal of course another lovely adjectives that Sabra and
Anna used was indulgent and afternoon tea is very indulgent to indulge
yourself is to enjoy something perhaps a little too much that might be good for
you but again too much of a good thing now earlier Sabra mentioned how much I
love the Queen and I do I think she's an incredible woman if you would like to
learn more about the Queen I strongly recommend the Netflix series the crown
it's incredible not only is it great for your language as they speak RP and they
really use a wide range of language it also teaches you so much about the
British monarchy and history in Britain so check the crown out next time you're
watching Netflix now head over to Anna's channel to check out pub language plenty
of slang and really useful language should you ever go to a British pub
thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe
Sabrah I'm waiting for my scone