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Tv, Mind Your Language - S02 - E03 - Brief Re- Encounter
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00:00Do-do-do-do
00:30Do-do-do-do-do-wa
00:32Do-do-do-do-do-wa
00:34Oh, hello. Is there Parkers?
00:47Look, I'm going fishing this weekend and I shall need some more bait.
00:50No, only on the Thames. The maggots will do.
00:53I'll send something round to collect them.
00:54Oh, by the way, those trout flies I bought from you have been very successful.
00:58Especially the cocky bondu. Seems to attract the trout like a magnet.
01:04Yes, well, thank you again. Bye.
01:12Excuse me.
01:13Park!
01:14You startled me. Do you mind knocking before you barge in?
01:18I'm sorry.
01:18Is that better?
01:24I've lost it.
01:25You've lost what?
01:26I have lost my favourite fly. I had it in my hand a moment ago. I must have dropped it. Can you see it anywhere?
01:31What does it look like?
01:32Well, it's about two inches long, red and black, and it's got a curly tail.
01:35That's...
01:36It's perhaps it's flown out the window.
01:39It is a fishing fly. A cocky bondu.
01:42A cocky what?
01:43Bondu.
01:44Oh.
01:45It must be here somewhere.
01:46Oh, well, if it's here, we'll find it.
01:49Oh, well, perhaps I should come back later.
01:50Oh, Mr Brown, you can join in.
01:53Well, I'm not really that religious, actually.
01:55We are looking for a fly.
01:59A fly?
02:00Oh, yes. It's two inches long, brown, red and black, and it's got a curly tail.
02:05Sounds quite lethal.
02:06Would you mind helping us look for it?
02:08No, not at all.
02:09Oh, I found it.
02:10Where?
02:10It's here, just under the desk.
02:12Oh, I'll get it.
02:12No, stand back, Sid. You'll leave this to me.
02:15What are you doing, Mr Brown?
02:16Stay where you are, Miss Courtney. This will be dangerous.
02:18Yeah, that's right. Not moving.
02:20Mr Brown.
02:22Just a minute.
02:23Better to be safer than sorry.
02:25Oh, I've just remembered. I've been inspected the boilers.
02:34Have you quite finished, Mr Brown, or would you like to borrow a hammer?
02:38You can't be too careful where strange insects are concerned.
02:40Have you any idea where it came from?
02:41Yes, W Parker and son.
02:43Ah, pardon?
02:44Fishing tackle suppliers.
02:46Oh, fish...
02:47It wasn't...
02:49It was.
02:50Oh, have you got any glue?
02:52I don't think Charles are very fond of glue.
02:54No, I suppose not.
02:55I'll buy you another.
02:56Oh, I see that you do.
02:58Excuse me.
03:01Hello?
03:02Speaking.
03:03Pardon?
03:06Is it you?
03:08Is it really you?
03:10It is you.
03:12It's him.
03:12Well, you're coming here.
03:16You're not coming here.
03:20You are coming here.
03:21He's coming here.
03:24He's coming here.
03:24Half an hour.
03:26You'll be here in half an hour.
03:28He'll be here in half an hour.
03:31You'll feel very good.
03:32Oh, until then.
03:33You feeling all right?
03:38That was him.
03:40Yes, and he's coming here in half an hour.
03:41But who is him?
03:42I mean, who is he?
03:42Well, it is him, Anne.
03:43I never thought I'd see him again.
03:45My ex-fiancé.
03:47You mean you were actually engaged at one time?
03:49Well, there's no need to sound so surprised.
03:52But he was over 25 years ago.
03:57I mean, I was just...
03:59Well, I was very young.
04:02I met him at Oxford in the High.
04:05It was raining.
04:06He offered me shelter under his umbrella
04:07and he insisted on buying me a cup of tea and a sticky bun.
04:10How romantic.
04:11Yes, it...
04:12Well, that was how it all started.
04:14Why didn't you get married?
04:15Oh, it was awful.
04:16He left me.
04:16At the church?
04:17In a lurch.
04:19Oh, Mr Brown, I have never told anyone this before.
04:22Oh, well, if you'd rather not.
04:23No, sit down.
04:24Well?
04:24Well, for years I have kept this terrible secret to myself.
04:29Now, he is coming back into my life again
04:30and I feel I must tell someone
04:32and I think I can trust you, Mr Brown.
04:34Well, I'd rather not if it's going to cause any embarrassment.
04:36Oh, it won't embarrass me.
04:37Yeah, but it might embarrass me.
04:38No, I'm sure it won't.
04:39Well, anyway, he asked me to go down to Brighton with him
04:42for one of those, you know, weekends.
04:44Oh, double room, Mr and Mrs Smith.
04:46Exactly.
04:47And you refused?
04:48Oh, no, I went.
04:51I even remember the hotel.
04:53Oh, the Bella Vista opposite the abattoir.
04:56Very Bella Vista.
04:58Well, we booked in
04:59and Albert, being the thoughtful man he was,
05:02he let me go upstairs first to prepare myself, as it were,
05:06whilst he had a drink in the bar.
05:08Getting up a bit of Dutch courage, eh?
05:10I beg your pardon?
05:11He was such a lovely person waiting to be, um...
05:15What happened then?
05:16He didn't turn up.
05:18He got drunk, passed out,
05:20and spent the night on a settee in the residence lounge.
05:23How despicable!
05:24Well, I went home and I refused ever to see him again.
05:27I heard later that he was working in the Far East.
05:30But I must admit,
05:33I have always cherished a secret hope
05:35that he might one day come back.
05:38Excuse me, please.
05:39Yes, Ali, what is it?
05:40Please come quickly.
05:41We are having plenty of trouble in the classroom.
05:43So what do you mean, trouble?
05:45Maxie and Giovanni,
05:46they are murdering each other.
05:48Come on, Dan.
05:49I'm ready when you are.
05:50And I'm ready when you are.
05:51Come on, Dan.
05:52Come on.
05:54Come on, Dan.
05:56Okay.
05:57Oh, sure, Dan.
05:59You're going to be sorry.
06:01We seals are going to be sorry.
06:02Okay.
06:03Come on, then.
06:04I'm waiting for you to come on.
06:05I'm waiting for you to come on.
06:06Come on.
06:07Stop this brawling.
06:08Oh, so lucky for you, Profissori.
06:09Stop me from giving you a black eye.
06:11You're lucky I didn't even make your nose.
06:13I will not have fighting in the class.
06:15Fighting?
06:16It was more like dancing.
06:18I was just warming up.
06:20Yeah, me too.
06:21What is all this about?
06:22I tell you, Profissori.
06:23Isa call me a wop.
06:25And she's calling me a greaseball.
06:29Come on, everybody's sitting down.
06:31I wish you could pick up proper English as quickly as you pick up slang.
06:34I have enough trouble with Ellie and Ranjeet.
06:35Now, don't you two start falling out.
06:37Now, shake hands.
06:37Come on.
06:39Right, now, tonight I want to concentrate on English conversation,
06:42the sort of things that you have to say during the course of every day.
06:44All right?
06:45For example, Ranjeet, where would you take a check?
06:47A check of Slovakia.
06:48A check for a certain amount of money.
06:59Where would you take it?
07:00To a bank.
07:02Right.
07:02Juan.
07:03Yes, senor.
07:04If you felt ill, what would you do?
07:05Go to bed.
07:08Before that.
07:09Take the clothes off.
07:12You could go to the doctor's.
07:13No, no, doctor.
07:15Doctor killed my uncle in Madrid.
07:18Who?
07:19Gee, my uncle, he has pain in the chest.
07:22He goes see doctor.
07:23Doctor, he listen and say,
07:26All right.
07:27Ten minutes later in the street, my uncle,
07:30finito.
07:32What, a heart attack?
07:33Motocard.
07:37Well, you can hardly blame the doctor for that.
07:40Gee, the doctor, he was driving them all.
07:43Oh, Tarot.
07:48Oh, so?
07:49Although weights are now metric in this country,
07:51we still use an old system, which is known as what?
07:54Saria.
07:55Not Noah.
07:56Does anybody know?
07:57They know?
07:59Avoir du poids.
08:00Excellent.
08:01Merci.
08:02Does Avoir du poids ring a bell now, Tarot?
08:04Yes, sir.
08:05Avoir du poids is French for, have you some, piso?
08:09Come on, Tarot.
08:13I don't believe you're that stupid.
08:15Sorry.
08:16Just a juke.
08:18Huh?
08:20Hey, Tarot.
08:22Future, kindly leave your jokes at home.
08:25Right, Zoltan, I'm going to ask you a question.
08:27Yes, please.
08:27Which shop...
08:28Yes, shop, shop.
08:29Yes, which shop would you go to
08:31to buy a packet of cigarettes?
08:33Cigarettes?
08:34Uh, no shop.
08:36Now, come on, Zoltan, you must go to some sort of shop.
08:38Zoltan, no smoke.
08:42Where do you go?
08:43Zoltan, where do you go for chewing gum?
08:45Zoltan, where do you go for chewing gum?
08:46Ah!
08:49Sweet shop.
08:51Sweet.
08:51Sweet.
08:52Anna tells me sweet.
08:55No, sweet, sweet.
08:57Sweet or sweet, what's the difference?
08:59Well, the difference is, Anna, that you must learn to say were and not the.
09:02Were.
09:04The were.
09:05Really go again.
09:06Try again.
09:07The were?
09:08Try saying vo-er without the v.
09:11O-er.
09:13Almost.
09:14Try again, but this time, don't say o-er, just were.
09:18Were.
09:18Were.
09:19Wonderful.
09:20Wonderful.
09:21Uh, Wednesday.
09:22Wednesday.
09:23A wet weekend in winter.
09:24Wet weekend in winter.
09:26Very good.
09:27Very good.
09:32Yes, please.
09:33Do you have a headache?
09:34Oh, no, sir.
09:36Assume you have a headache.
09:38Where would you go to get some aspirin?
09:39Ah, tandoori takeaway.
09:42No, no.
09:43Yes, please.
09:44My jolly good friend who is working there always had plenty of aspirin.
09:48I meant to buy some aspirin.
09:50Why should I be buying them?
09:52When I can be getting them from my friend, but nothing at all.
09:56All right.
09:57Where do you go for aspirin when the tandoori takeaway is closed?
10:00Oh, blimey.
10:01Taj Mahal Curry House.
10:05Mr Miller, would you please tell Ali where you go to get aspirin?
10:08Oh, my chemist.
10:11Where are you going now?
10:13To buy some aspirin for headache.
10:15I thought you said you haven't got a headache.
10:16Oh, blimey.
10:17I got one now.
10:18Oh, come on, sir.
10:20Excuse me, Mr Brown.
10:21The old dragon wants her.
10:22You said do be a bit more respectful, especially in front of the students.
10:25It's up to us to set a good example.
10:27I'm sorry.
10:27Now, what is the old drag...
10:28Miss Courtney?
10:29I've no idea, but I don't think she's very well.
10:32She actually smiled at me.
10:34You feeling all right?
10:46Yes, why?
10:47It sounds as if you were in pain.
10:48I was singing.
10:50I am sorry to bring you away from your class, Mr Brown, but before you leave this evening,
10:54would you mind checking that Sid's locked up properly?
10:57Absolutely.
10:57So he should be.
11:00I was referring to the building.
11:02You see, it is quite likely that I may be leaving early.
11:07Oh, to think he's come back in my life after 25 years.
11:11I think I need another sherry to settle my stomach.
11:15What's the matter?
11:16He's here.
11:17Look.
11:21Where?
11:22Down there.
11:23Oh, oh!
11:25You stupid fool, you have crowned my Albert.
11:32I feel terrible.
11:47I've got a splitting headache.
11:49Look, I am sorry.
11:50It was an accident.
11:50Look, this is Miss Courtney's office.
11:52Oh, wait a minute.
11:53Look, have you got somewhere where I could comb my hair and brush myself down?
11:57I must look presentable for our first meeting after 25 years.
12:01Yes, of course, sir.
12:02Straight down there on the right.
12:07Enter.
12:07Hello, darling.
12:18It's you.
12:19Oh, where's Albert?
12:20You haven't pushed him down the stairs, have you?
12:22No, no, no.
12:23He's just gone to comb his hair.
12:24Well, is he all right?
12:25There's no damage, I hope.
12:26I'm afraid there is, actually.
12:27Oh, dear.
12:28Is it bad?
12:29Well, the plant pot's broken.
12:32I was referring to Albert.
12:34Oh, Albert.
12:34No, no, no.
12:34He's fine.
12:35I'll get it.
12:38Darling.
12:38No, it's you.
12:40Yes, this is darling.
12:42No, Miss Courtney.
12:44Albert.
12:45Dolores.
12:46Dolores.
12:50Haven't you a class to attend to?
12:52Yes, of course, darling.
12:53Dolores.
12:55Excuse me.
12:56Must have dropped to 2p.
13:06Must have rolled away somewhere.
13:14I'm glad to see you're all working hard.
13:16What are you studying, Ingrid?
13:19About to improve your bust line.
13:21Very educational.
13:21You can borrow it if you wish to.
13:24No, thank you.
13:26What's keeping you occupied, Juan?
13:28Girls galore.
13:29Well, I'm sure there's not much English in that.
13:30No, but some pretty pictures.
13:33Yes.
13:35Sontan.
13:37Gorgeous chicks.
13:38Well, I'm sure that's not about poultry farming.
13:41Butchama.
13:41Never mind.
13:43Anna.
13:43True romances.
13:46Max.
13:46Football review.
13:48Danielle, toujours l'amour.
13:50Don't the French ever think about anything else other than love?
13:52To the French, there is nothing else.
13:57Giovanni, l'amouré.
13:58In Italy, we're just like the French.
14:02And G, cartoon capers.
14:04I am reading all about Bugs the Bunny and Woody the Pecker.
14:09Annie, the world's most exotic dishes.
14:12I didn't know you were interested in cookery.
14:14Oh, blimey.
14:15When I'm buying it, I did not know it was about cookery.
14:21Jamila, knitting made easy.
14:25Tarot, the confessions of a geisha girl.
14:28Yes.
14:31Well, you might all learn English much more quickly if you began by reading a better class
14:34of literature.
14:35And as you're all obviously so keen to learn English, I'll give you some extra homework
14:38tonight.
14:39Why, it's time you took these lessons seriously.
14:42So, before we break for tea, I'm going to ask you each a question.
14:45And anyone who gives an incorrect answer will be fined 10p.
14:51The money will go to charity.
14:52Hey, who's this bird charity you give our money for?
14:56Oh, dear man, charity is not a bird.
14:59It means an organization, a deserving cause.
15:04Right.
15:04One.
15:05Spell quiet.
15:07Por favor.
15:08Quiet.
15:09Ah, quiet.
15:12No, spell quiet.
15:14Ah.
15:14How much we pay if we are wrong?
15:1710p.
15:18Yes.
15:22Right, Ingrid, give me an example of a preposition.
15:26Um, will you to dinner take me?
15:29I said a preposition, not a proposition.
15:31A preposition shows the relation between a noun or pronoun and some other word.
15:35A gift from Mary, a house for sale.
15:39A date with teacher?
15:40Yes, all right, I'll accept.
15:42Oh, good, tonight we can't.
15:44No, I mean that I will accept your praise, sir.
15:47Now, Ranjit, how do you pronounce the following?
15:49B-O-U-G-H, C-O-U-G-H, and T-O-U-G-H.
15:52You are trying to be catching me out.
15:54And B-O-U-G-H.
15:56Buff.
15:57T-O-U-G-H.
15:59Toph.
16:00C-O-U-G-H.
16:02Cow.
16:04Three out of three wrong.
16:06A thousand apologies.
16:09All right, Giovanni, what is meant by vice versa?
16:12On second thoughts, I won't ask you that.
16:14What is a dipthong?
16:17Is it like a dipstick?
16:20What do you think?
16:22I think I owe you 10p.
16:26Allie, what does the term coup de grace mean?
16:28And don't you dare say cutting the lawn?
16:30I've never heard any of it.
16:32It means the final stroke.
16:34It's French.
16:35Oh, blimey.
16:35I'm having enough worries learning the English.
16:40It's in fairly common usage.
16:4210p, please.
16:46Taro.
16:47Ah, so.
16:47Decline the verb to jump.
16:52I jump.
16:54You jump.
16:56He jumps up.
16:58She jumps up.
16:59We jump.
17:00They jump up.
17:02Very good, Taro.
17:02But you must try not to end every word in O.
17:05Okay?
17:06Okayo.
17:08Do you mean, as oil is to water, so chalk is to...
17:13Plucky board.
17:15Cheese.
17:1610p, please.
17:17I am not understand.
17:18Well, it's a phrase.
17:19It's in common usage.
17:20They are as alike as chalk and cheese.
17:23But, Master G, chalk and cheese are not be alike.
17:26Exactly so.
17:27It means they're not alike.
17:28Hi, Ingridsy.
17:30I am think it is easier to say they are not be alike than to be talking about chalkies
17:35and cheesies.
17:36Yes, well, I admit we do tend to complicate our language.
17:38Max, er, give me an example of a principal clause.
17:44Santa clause.
17:46My nerds.
17:47Right, just for that, Max, you can write out 20 times a clause is a sentence which is part
17:51of a longer sentence.
17:53Hockey?
17:54Yeah, but not now, in your own time.
17:55And you can give me 10p.
18:01Tanya, as handsome as a prince, as ugly as...
18:06As sweet.
18:08As ugly as sin.
18:1110p.
18:12It was worse, Sid.
18:16Anna, can you give me two different meanings of the word blow?
18:20Yeah.
18:21You can blow like so, or you can give somebody a blow.
18:30Thank you, Anna.
18:32Right, Zoltan.
18:33Yes, please.
18:34Can you give me the past tense of the verb to see?
18:37Eh.
18:41Bochanot.
18:43See, saw.
18:44Ah!
18:45See, saw, see, saw.
18:47Oh, no, no, Zoltan, yeah.
18:48Today I see, yesterday I saw.
18:53Oh, well, it's not really fair to take one from you.
18:55Bochanot.
18:56Oh, I don't know, though.
18:58Wait, 80p in three minutes.
19:00At this rate, we'll soon have a small fortune.
19:02Another cup of tea, Albert.
19:04No, thank you.
19:06Dolores.
19:08A glass of sherry, perhaps?
19:09No, I don't drink now.
19:11I've given it up.
19:12It's a very bad habit.
19:14Oh, you're so right.
19:15I only keep it for visitors.
19:21Oh, dear.
19:23Come on, Dolores.
19:25Think of something a little more sparkling.
19:28I wonder...
19:28Yes?
19:29Will you...
19:29Oh, I will.
19:30Pour me another cup of tea.
19:34Tea?
19:34Yes, please.
19:35But you said you didn't want any more.
19:37I've changed my mind.
19:38Oh.
19:39As a matter of fact, there is something else I want to ask.
19:42Yes?
19:42I know it may sound silly after all this time
19:45and not writing and everything,
19:47but I never forgot you, Dolores.
19:49Yes?
19:50Yes.
19:51And I couldn't believe my good fortune
19:53when I discovered that you haven't married.
19:56I never married either.
19:57Didn't you?
19:58No.
19:59Would it be too much to expect?
20:01Oh, no.
20:01I mean, would you consider?
20:02Oh, yes.
20:03I mean, will you marry me?
20:04Oh, this is so sad.
20:08Oh, Albert, my cup is overflowing.
20:10Oh, Albert.
20:12Oh, so is mine.
20:14Oh, so is mine.
20:15Oh, no, no, it doesn't matter.
20:17Um, what do you say?
20:18Will you marry me?
20:19Oh, yes, please.
20:20Ah.
20:21I get a special licence and we could be married next week.
20:24So soon?
20:25Well, we've already wasted 25 years.
20:26We don't want to waste any more.
20:29Oh, wait.
20:30What's the matter?
20:31No, we can't.
20:31We'll have to wait.
20:32You see, my money is tied up abroad
20:34and it'll take several weeks to transfer it over here.
20:37Oh, that's all right.
20:38I have enough money.
20:39Oh, no, dear Loris,
20:40I couldn't have you pay him for the wedding,
20:41the reception and the honeymoon and everything.
20:42Oh, but what is mine?
20:44It's yours.
20:44No, no, it wouldn't be right.
20:46Oh, nonsense.
20:47Don't be so proud.
20:48Well, I'll tell you what I do.
20:50I will use your money on the strict understanding
20:54that I pay you back when mine comes through.
20:57Oh, very, very few inches.
20:59I most definitely do.
21:01Oh, gosh, Albert, I'm so excited.
21:08So am I.
21:13Just a moment.
21:15I've had a little engagement.
21:17I've got to meet a fellow down the road
21:19on some business.
21:20It'll only take a few minutes
21:22and then I shall come back
21:24and take you to dinner somewhere.
21:26Just the two of us.
21:27Oh, that would be lovely.
21:29Don't go away.
21:37Why were you going?
21:41Albert?
21:43Everything all right, sir?
21:44Eh?
21:45Everything all right?
21:45I've just seen a fellow I haven't seen for years,
21:49Albert Collins.
21:50Oh, Albert, Miss Courtney's boyfriend.
21:52Never.
21:53Yeah, it's true.
21:54He's a crook.
21:55He's a con man.
21:56Oh, you must be mistaken.
21:58He's just come back from the Far East.
21:59He's been away for 20 years.
22:00He's been away all right, doing some porridge.
22:04He's been in prison.
22:06He was in the nick with my brother-in-law.
22:08He's in and out of there like the fiddler's elbow.
22:10Do you know what his speciality is?
22:15Finding lonely women, asking them to marry him,
22:17taking their life savings and scarper him.
22:20I'm getting married in the morning.
22:25Enter.
22:26Ding, dong.
22:26The bells are going to try.
22:28Oh, Miss Courtney, I'm afraid I've got some rather disturbing news.
22:31Oh, nothing you could say to me today would disturb me, Mr. Brown.
22:33I think this might.
22:34It's about Albert.
22:35Ah, Albert.
22:36My future husband.
22:38Yeah, you see, I've just been talking to Sid and...
22:40Husband?
22:40Yes, we're getting married by a special licence.
22:43Oh, no.
22:44Oh, now, Mr. Brown, I know you're fond of me,
22:45but you mustn't take it away.
22:48Has he tried to borrow any money from you?
22:50And I fail to see what business that is of yours.
22:52He has.
22:52Look, I hate to have to tell you, Miss Courtney,
22:54but your future husband is a crook.
22:55Don't be so impertinent.
22:57It's true, I'm afraid.
22:58He's a con man.
22:59He specialises in proposing to lonely women
23:01and then taking their money.
23:02Oh, nonsense.
23:03I don't believe it.
23:03Well, ask Sid.
23:04His brother-in-law was in prison with him.
23:06Prison?
23:07Are you sure?
23:08I'm afraid so.
23:10Well, perhaps he's reformed.
23:11Oh, come on.
23:12You don't believe that, do you?
23:14No.
23:17I thought it was too good to be true.
23:20He's coming back to take me out to dinner.
23:22What shall I do?
23:23Don't worry, Miss Courtney.
23:24I'll deal with him.
23:26You just leave everything to me.
23:34Ah, I've got a message for you from Miss Courtney.
23:37Oh, yes?
23:37Push off.
23:40What?
23:41Look, I know all about your little game,
23:42so I advise you to get lost quick before I throw you out.
23:45You and whose army?
23:47Me and this army.
23:48Well, uh, yeah.
24:03Yeah, well, um, perhaps I had better be going.
24:11It's all right, Miss Courtney.
24:12He's gone.
24:13Oh, thank you, Mr. Brown.
24:15Oh!
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