hello and welcome back to love English as you can see this is a bit more of a
relaxed lesson it is it's so relaxed I'm forgetting to speak alright guys so today we are
going to share with you 40 fascinating facts well you decide if
they're fascinating about us things that you might not know maybe one or two
things you might have guessed but certainly there's quite a lot you've never heard
of before and of course we are answering the questions that we asked you about so
what did you want to know about us things you wanted to ask us we are
answering those in this lesson but we thought we'd do it in a bit more of a
creative way so 40 facts about Leila and Sabrah which may or may not be
fascinating
so these are 20 facts that are actually 40 because there's two of
us so 20 times 2 equals I think I can just about work that out 40 so fascinating
fact number one I'm actually and you might not believe this I'm older I'm
older than Sabra it's true I am older than you just a year a year yeah that's right
yeah 10 months actually it's under a yeah 10 months
round it up so Leila is a little bit older than me which may explain how she likes to be the older sister yeah
I though you were gonna say how I'm more mature...humm wouldn't put it that way, that's number 1 guys
the next fascinating fact about us is
I'm a Leo and Leila is a Libra so that's our star sign I don't know which
part of the world you are and if you use the Chinese horoscopes or if you use the
Western star signs we used to tend to use Western over here don't we and yes I'm
a Leo the Lion creative she's got a mane yeah maybe
creative, fiery, yeah a bit fiery yeah what about you Leila
I'm very balanced sometimes, I am a libra we both I think what our star signs share in common
is that we both like luxury yeah that's true really, we like the good life, yeah that's probably
why we get on actually yeah that's true actually
yeah we like for example Earl Grey tea not English breakfast so we like Earl
Grey tea yeah it's true, the good things yeah
expensive food expensive wine rich men so next fascinating fact is we both did
our master's degrees at the same University in very similar subjects
that's very true actually very similar subjects I did multimedia journalism and
you I did media production and I specialized in script writing for film
and television now this is a really random fact and
it's a bit odd it's just a random thing to happen but we
actually met when we were much younger but
yeah at college so in England after school at 16 you go on to college or
sixth form we both went to college yeah and we met there and we were how old ?We
were 16 , 16/17 um yeah and we knew each other not very well but we
definitely knew each other as acquaintances and we weren't sure
whether we could be friends or not back then Leila what was your impression of
me? Jazz hands, on she thought I was very
dramatic I love drama she thought was very dramatic and probably a bit too bit
of a keen drama person, jazz hands, but when we say jazz hands, we should probably explain, so
jazz hands is in musical theatre any plays with music often the stars do this so
somebody who is very into drama we will often say there are a jazz hands kind of
person, so your opinion of me? So my opinion of Leila was that Leila was quite a little bit
snobby she thought she was a little bit high and mighty she was always
looking very fashionable though, she had, as she does now, very long legs and
she used to be kind of wandering around the university, wandering around the college
looking a little bit snobby and like no man could ever get her one did
eventually but it did take quite a few years, oh this is a good one and we're going
to answer it in the interesting way yeah our worst habits spots you're gonna tell
me why I'm gonna do new yours okay this is a real test of friendship I
hadn't thought about mine yet I'm thinking on the spot don't do you know
what - I think though so I love Leila very much but I think it could be she's a little
bit bossy she she can't help it she likes to have things into under control
she can be a little bit bossy with other people she likes to tell them what to
do you know children adults , students other teachers, cats so she's a little bit
bossy that's what I would say okay okay what's mine, oh you have so many wonderful qualities
it's hard to choose a bad one, i thought you were gonna say you have so many awful ones
Oh I don't know what I'm gonna say that's terrible that means
that Sabrah is just perfect in every way it's not true, bet you're gonna say lateness, you're getting better but ok yeah
maybe your concept of time rather than being late you just have a different concept of time
you're on Sabrah time yeah probably I have got a bit better yeah I do know that if
I say a time expects Sabrah at least half an hour later yeah that time I
think you're better than you used be I am better than i used to be I do a problem of time
Leila's right - poor Leila when we first started working together
she used to wait for about an hour for me, you did it on purpose so I had to set up
everything, I am much better now not bad ah this is nice best qualities yeah okay
you start, it is going to take a while for me oh okay I would say Leila is very kind extremely kind she always when
I come here to her house now she always feeds me very well she always make me
makes me lots of drink she's a very kind person she'd go out of her way for other
people she's very kind ah okay I think with you I think I would say
you're very sociable I think I rely on Sabrah sometimes in social situations
because I get to a point and I just can't be bothered
but Sabrah is always very good with people very charming charismatic chatty I think
that's probably your biggest strengths aww that is very sweet, I do love people, I am a people person
you are, I'm more cat okay cool ah which brings us perfectly to the next one is rather
brings us perfectly to the next point which is the fact that we are very
different on this very key point I think because when I know this about person I
know what kind of person they are are they a cat or a dog person? So Leila
could you guess what she is Cat Cat Cat crazy crazy cat lady these are my babies
let's show a picture there's Millie the little black one and that's
Maya, but I am definitely a dog person yeah and I love cats but
I don't find they understand the concept of pet very well my dog knows he's my
pet that he must come to me he will be cuddled where as a cat, on their terms
on their terms, they do what they want, they are a bit kind of superior I find yeah
okay so here's a poll guy, it's gonna be there tell us whether you're a cat or a dog
person so you can click that poll
so lots of you ask us about our nationalities a lot and where we're from
we are of course British but Leila is a little bit more interesting than that
I'm very interesting ah I'm 50% Iranian 50% English and 25% Welsh dunno 125 %
yeah don't know how that works okay my father is Iranian
my mother is English but on her side her family are from London and Wales
So I'm a little bit Welsh should I could do that, i am fabulous in Wales, so Catherine Zeta-Jones eat your
heart out, well I am mostly British but I have some
Irish blood on my father's side and I have some Spanish on my mother's
side although there is a little bit of mystery on my mother's side because I
have an Arabic name Sabrah and should be pronounced Sabrah actually and we think
that this name is in the family and we think it could be because there was
Lebanese blood but far back but it would be like like great-grandparents
something like that so probably this little finger is Lebanese right now on
a similar theme, the dish we cook best now because I am half Iranian I cook
Persian food really really well so if there's any Iranians watching this video
anyone who's had Iranian food Persian food really , uh what do I cook, uh Bademjan
Zenfolio, oh I think those are my top three - she's very good I
have had her food it's very tasty ok I cook paella very well, Spanish dishes really
paella and tortilla they are probably my best ones and I love Mexican food as well so
sometimes I make fajitas things like that, if you used your little finger you could do Lebanese
do the hummus, so a lot of you ask us if you speak other
languages and as a matter of fact we both do but not fluently so I speak Spanish
but not too fluently I am probably intermediate
not too bad I'm a bit rusty though and i speak a little Italian, what about you Leila, I'm advanced
elementary Italian I understand more than I speak but I will be learning more
Italian if you want to watch me try and learn Italian you can go to Instagram and see
me do some funny things yeah but yes I need to speak more Italian because
obviously my husband is Italian so my mother-in-law is Italian so yeah so guys
comment below encourage Leila to learn Italian say something to her in Italian
and your challenge is that you have to reply in Italian yeah that's a good
challenge to write something to our lovely Leila and she'll reply in Italian
so the most beautiful place you have ever visited so you can say country or city
or location it doesn't matter you go first I have to say I think it would be
a toss-up which means a very close tie between Thailand and Italy Thailand was
beautiful I went to this beautiful marine park it was absolutely stunning
crystal waters little islands until the horizon it was incredible it's beautiful
I do love Italy though that's always a special place in my heart
the culture, yeah I don't know just everything about it the way the houses
are the sea, the beach i don't know just everything so I think Sabrah if I took you to my
favourite place we would have to share it okay Venice, Venice is my favourite place I
think you would fall in love with it too I bet it's just such a unique city it
did yeah it's amazing it's so beautiful and there's all different streets and
roads and piazzas that you can explore yeah that's really cool all while eating
a lovely bowl of spaghetti and having a spritz yes yeah aww three the spritz not spaghetti
guys of course all around the world there are beautiful places we're just
saying from our limited experience of traveling please do tell us a beautiful
place that you think we should go to perhaps in your country you can be our
travel guides okay so is this going to be
controversial your favourite nationality to teach I feel a bit bad answering this
oh yeah every nationality has a different kind of quality a different
charm, Arabic students can be very sweet and they really try really hard and sociable but
for me it's another toss up between Spanish and Italian
I am gonna say Italian just because I'm have an affinity with the Italians, I'm gonna say Italian
ok for me I love all the nationalities but in terms of being good
students and working really really hard I have to say from Thailand
the Philippines yeah I think they work so hard and I think they're really diligent
and they are very polite to their teachers a real culture of respecting your teacher
but I love all the nationalities to be honest I think you're all lovely in a
different way, South Americans are fun, I was gonna say Brazilians are amazing to teach students
from Africa can be extremely polite outgoing and kind and polite you're all
lovely you are right so favorite English
accent Sabrah but this is kind of international so it doesn't have to be
just in the UK, it can be Australia New Zealand Ireland America, ok i think a
lovely southern Irish accent how would that go? It just sounds so beautiful when you're
talking in a southern Irish accent after the little leprechauns and I think when
the girls talk in Irish accent just not sound ever so lovely, you do sound lovely in Irish, oh Sabrah's accents are phenomenal, ok
South African accent I love
I think there's just something very natural very relaxed similar it's
something between Australia and England you like the South African accent Leila little bit like that isn't it....
that so the next one is our favourite international accent so when people are
speaking in English what's our favorite accent to hear it's really difficult so
I think there is some languages that that seem too match English better than
others yeah as of the intonation pattern and some things can sound more natural in
English than others I think I might say and this will be
controversial because I married to an Italian, French, yeah I think I might have to say
French as well, I think the French accent is great I like French but you know what
I like African accent from all over Africa not just some South Africa right so
this is the funniest thing to have ever happened to you in class
oh my goodness I haven't thought about this one okay well while you're
thinking I'll tell you mine so as many of you might know if you watched the
video that I did with my husband I met him when he was my student
I didn't start dating him when he was my student however the fact that I gave him
homework and confiscated his phone I took his mobile phone off him when he was on his
phone in class I think that's quite funny that's really funny
that's hilarious
it's a good story when we have kids
oh I don't know funny students trying to ask you out on a date
oh yeah that's happened actually yeah um there we go yeah I did have an Arabic
gentleman who was very interested in me he was trying to ask me out in class in
front of everybody but he didn't exactly sell himself to me because he kept
showing me how big his tummy was and he kept joking and saying I have twins in my
stomach that's his idea of chatting you up? and then he was yeah asking me out
and he kept spelling my name to me I don't know if he was trying to impress me
that way he used to say Sabrah SABRAH and spell my name to me
right so so what kind of classroom teacher were you or are you
actually so I'd say I'm probably a little bit too soft perhaps although I
can be strict if you really push me but generally speaking I'm quite easygoing
quite friendly I think you and i are quite similar in how we approach teaching, we're quite relaxed
we bring the sense of humour to it you know and I want the students to feel
very relaxed in the class I would rather have a noisy class than a quiet class yeah
exactly yeah but I think I'm possibly a little bit stricter yeah, you might be a bit stricter
we've already established I'm bossy so maybe that's the kind of teacher i am Sabra I
can be strict ah so favorite or best subject best best
subject not favourite best subject at school okay well I can start by telling them my worst subject
my worst subject it was physical education mind too, I hated ( high five)
I hated PE we call it for short in the Uk we were always being forced to go
running in our little shorts in the in cold, in the freezing cold and the rain used to be
told to go swimming in our little swimming costumes again in the rain the
not in a heated pool so that was kind of torture for me I found so I was always
making excused, and I had all kinds of different illnesses over the course
of my education. Me too - I always
had the sick note yeah but my best subject I'd say was English literature
and language as well but my best subject was English literature and my second
probably history so I think I was actually literature was mine yeah I think
when I got to just English overall but even creative writing, now less more academic i am
I am but yeah definitely English overall was my best
subject so we're saving the best one for last that's coming in a moment but our
favourite film okay this is tough choose one each I think I've got mine
and it's a bit naff it's a bit that's a very old-fashioned words for meaning
not cool, er Love Actually, or Notting Hill, something like Love Actually, Richard Curtis, I think Love Actually, love
comedy if you haven't seen Love Actually guys you have to watch we can
link it below yeah love actually I kept my - yeah Love Actually ok can I have two
Love Actually and Notting Hill those are mine okay mine is cliche I think
everyone's, it is a lot of the population's favourite it is the Shawshank
Redemption it's about a prison escape it's brilliant I love it quite an old film
but it gets you here. Hugh Grant's not in that one?
No he is not, it's probably a bit too intellectual for Leila!
right the last one is a little bit personal
yeah yeah okay your idea of a perfect date, my perfect date, romantic date,
ah well I have to say I'm a little bit of a romantic at heart and so my perfect
date would be on gondola in Venice the man bringing me lovely red roses perhaps
giving me a massage as we float along the canals It's gondola gondola it's feminine not masculine no it
should be masculine it makes more sense okay perdóname gondola gondola very
romantic it's very expensive by the way I'm sorry, my poor boyfriend my
perfect date would be gin tonic the cats and Netflix I'm not very romantic
All my romance goes into the movies that I watch and that's as romantic as I get, what is she like
I have not learnt
okay tell us what's your perfect date guys we'd love to hear that would be really
interesting, that's quite a fun topic your perfect date, it says a lot about the person, if you feel comfortable sharing
right guys so that is it
I think we've shared quite a lot about ourselves I think you've learned a
lots more about Sabrah and I yeah I hope
you've got to know us a little bit better not just as
your teachers but as your friendly teachers on the Internet , ( that sounds so strange 😂) and of course
it you can also comment below and ask us a few more questions we will answer them
for you what would you like to know about us
nothing too personal I'm not going to show my bra size or anything I think
that we could end on bras oh okay thanks so much bye bye