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00:00Do-do-do-do-do
00:30Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-wa
00:33Do-do-do-do-do-do-wa
00:37Our troubles are over.
00:51Ha, ha, ha. You are emigrating.
00:55Excuse me if I'm not the laugh.
00:57We are going to make everybody rich.
00:59Hey, I am like very much to be rich.
01:02This time next week, we could have half a million pounds.
01:07We're a banko.
01:09We win on the football pools.
01:11You never win on them.
01:13Sure. We have a good system.
01:16All we got to do is pick 11 matches.
01:18That gives us 220 lines.
01:20We're bound to get one line, right?
01:22All right. How much we each be paid?
01:2420 peas each.
01:25Okay, I think.
01:26Now, pick the match you think is going to be a scoring draw.
01:30Okay.
01:31Two, Monter, two.
01:34Derby v Queen's Park.
01:36Derby v Queen's Park.
01:37Okey-cokey. Next customer.
01:39Please, sir. Please, sir.
01:40Okay, pick the match.
01:42Arsenal.
01:43Arsenal.
01:44No, mate.
01:47Fulhamu.
01:48Vio.
01:49Tokyo.
01:51Okey-cokey-o.
01:53Who's next?
01:55This is my money.
01:56Okay, pick it a match.
01:57Tartelpool v Port Valley.
02:03Okey-cokey.
02:04And the next one.
02:05Yes, please.
02:07My scoring match being
02:08Liverpool v.
02:11The City of Bristol.
02:13Liverpool v.
02:14The City of the Bristol.
02:16Okay.
02:17Who's the next?
02:17What's going on here?
02:19We are doing the football puddles.
02:21You want to join in, Professor?
02:22Only 20p.
02:23You could win a half a million.
02:25I could also lose 20p.
02:27What's the 20p?
02:29It may not mean much to you,
02:30but it does to me.
02:30I don't exactly earn a fortune
02:31teaching English.
02:32Why not?
02:33You ask for a lift-on.
02:36A lift-on?
02:38More money.
02:39You mean a rise.
02:41Arse.
02:43Forget the 20p's.
02:44We give you the free line.
02:45Now, just pick the match.
02:46Yeah, we're supposing
02:47we pick the match later, all right?
02:48Right now, we've got work to do.
02:50Now, come on, in your places.
02:50Settle down.
02:53Right now, tonight,
02:54we are going to concentrate
02:55on the art of conversation, all right?
02:57We'll start with you, Ali and Anna.
02:59Do you come out here, please?
03:01Now, you have never met before,
03:02and you are sitting on a park bench, Anna.
03:05When along comes Ali
03:06and sits next to you
03:07and starts a conversation, all right?
03:09Carry on.
03:11Good morning, lady.
03:16Come along, Anna.
03:16Say something.
03:17I never speak to strange men in the park.
03:19Very commendable,
03:22but let us assume
03:22that this time you do.
03:23Start again.
03:25Good morning, lady.
03:26Good morning.
03:28It is being a very nice day.
03:30Ja.
03:32No, this is supposed
03:33to be a conversation in English.
03:34Up to now,
03:35you've said
03:35good morning and ja.
03:37Would you try and speak in English,
03:38please?
03:38Start again, Ali.
03:40Good morning, lady.
03:42Good morning.
03:43Oh, blimey.
03:44It is being a very nice day.
03:48Yes.
03:49It is nice weather.
03:51Yes.
03:52It was also very nice weather yesterday.
03:56Yes.
03:57Perhaps it will also be nice weather tomorrow.
04:01Yes.
04:03Or perhaps it could be raining.
04:05Yes.
04:06Perhaps it could be raining.
04:08All right.
04:08That'll do.
04:09Thank you, both of you.
04:11Absolutely scintillating.
04:13Right.
04:14Juan.
04:14Si, senor.
04:15Would you come out, please?
04:17Right.
04:17Now, you are sitting in a restaurant.
04:19Eh.
04:20Spanish restaurant.
04:21Yes.
04:21If you like.
04:22When, uh,
04:23Su Li enters.
04:24Eh.
04:25Perron, senor.
04:27What is a Chinese girl doing
04:29in a Spanish restaurant?
04:30Is she like Spanish food?
04:33Ah, so right.
04:34Right.
04:34The restaurant is crowded,
04:35but there's an empty seat at Juan's table.
04:37All right.
04:39Juan, what are you doing?
04:41Eh.
04:41I was slinging on the table.
04:43Yeah.
04:44Carry on.
04:47Excuse, please.
04:49This seat taken?
04:50No.
04:50You seat.
04:51You seat.
04:53Around me to introduce myself.
04:54Chung Su Li.
04:55My name is Carlos.
04:58Juan, what do you mean, Carlos?
05:00Eh.
05:01I never give my right name
05:03when I pick up her name.
05:06Plenty smarter.
05:07You're not supposed to be picking her up
05:09just having a conversation.
05:11Well, well.
05:12Uh,
05:13you want a drink?
05:15I don't drink.
05:16Bad for River.
05:17Uh,
05:18cigarette?
05:20I don't smoke.
05:21Bad for Rungs.
05:23Heh, heh, heh.
05:25I bet you're not married, eh?
05:28You are very loo.
05:30Hey!
05:32What's the matter with you?
05:34I just make a joke?
05:35What you want to talk about?
05:37We could discuss whether dictatorship
05:38or plurality
05:39better than dictatorship
05:40or bourgeois capitalists.
05:41We can't do that.
05:44Why not?
05:45Because I don't understand
05:47what you're talking about.
05:48So, Lee,
05:51does every conversation
05:52have to be a political rally?
05:54Chairman Mao, he's saying,
05:55we must climb
05:55use every opportunity
05:56to split socialist doctrine
05:58amongst unrightened people.
05:59Yeah, well, I'd be grateful
06:00if you would keep Chairman Mao
06:01out of the classroom, all right?
06:02Thank you, both of you.
06:03All right?
06:03Now, um,
06:04Max and Danielle,
06:06would you come out, please?
06:08Right, now, let us assume
06:09that you are at a party
06:10and you've just been introduced
06:11to Danielle.
06:12Now, use your imagination
06:13and, uh, make a conversation.
06:26Hello, beautiful.
06:28Hello, gorgeous.
06:30Hey, this party,
06:32not very good, eh?
06:33Why not we go, uh,
06:34somewhere else?
06:36D'accord.
06:37Let's go back to my place.
06:39Okay.
06:43This was a short conversation.
06:47Mr. Brown,
06:48there's an old geezer
06:49who wants to see you.
06:49He's sitting in the canteen.
06:51What does he want?
06:51I don't know,
06:52but he said he's very urgent.
06:53Oh, very well.
06:54While I'm away,
06:55you can do some exercises.
06:56Hey, I know plenty exercise.
06:59One, three, four, six,
07:01seven, nine, six,
07:02twenty-four.
07:03Oh, uh, not those sort of exercises.
07:05Exercises from your books,
07:07page 120.
07:08Sorry, wrong number.
07:09Would you like another cup of tea,
07:25Mr., um, uh...
07:26English.
07:27No, thank you.
07:28Oh.
07:29Oh, you know,
07:30you do remind me of my husband.
07:32Really?
07:33Yeah, just before he died.
07:35Oh!
07:35Oh!
07:35Oh!
07:35Oh!
07:39Oh, Mr. Brownstone.
07:43Brown?
07:44Oh, Mr. Brown, yes.
07:45I'm English.
07:45Oh, congratulations.
07:49No, my name is English.
07:52Oh, sorry.
07:53Can we sit down?
07:54Well, I'm rather busy.
07:55I won't keep you a moment.
07:56After all,
07:56this is a rather confidential matter.
08:05My card.
08:06Ah, the English School of Languages,
08:09Principal H.C. English.
08:10That's right.
08:11Now then,
08:12I shall come straight to the point.
08:13Good.
08:14No use beating about the bush.
08:16No.
08:16After all,
08:17procrastination is a thief of time.
08:19Absolutely.
08:20Never put off till tomorrow
08:22what you could do today.
08:23Very true.
08:25Now then,
08:26where was I?
08:27Well, you were going to go
08:28straight to the point.
08:28Ah, yes, yes, yes.
08:29Thank you very much, Mr. Brownlow.
08:31Brown!
08:31Brown!
08:32Brown!
08:32Yes.
08:33Well, now,
08:33you see,
08:34our teacher of English
08:35for foreign students
08:36has left us rather hurriedly
08:38and I want you
08:39to take his place.
08:40Oh, you're offering me a job.
08:42Your name was given to me
08:44by one of your former students,
08:47Miss Svensson.
08:49Ah, yes, Ingrid.
08:50Ingrid.
08:51Yes,
08:52but I'd like you to start
08:53as quickly as you can.
08:55Well, I haven't said
08:56I'll take the job yet.
08:58The starting salary
08:59is 5,000 a year,
09:01rising to 7,500
09:02by yearly increments.
09:04That's very generous.
09:06The labourer
09:06is worthy of his hire.
09:08What do you say?
09:09Well, I'd like to think it over,
09:11if I may.
09:11Very well.
09:12Don't keep me waiting too long.
09:14I need to know by tomorrow.
09:16Goodbye, Mr.
09:18Brown.
09:19I know, I know.
09:20I know.
09:20Bad news, Mr. Brown?
09:29Oh, on the contrary.
09:30I've just been offered
09:31a job at 5,000 a year.
09:33That's nice.
09:34Hey, are you going to take it?
09:35Well, I said I'd think it over.
09:36I mean, after all,
09:37money isn't everything.
09:38Oh, that's true.
09:39There's such a thing
09:39as job satisfaction.
09:40Yeah.
09:41It's something money can't buy.
09:42No.
09:43So I've decided what to do.
09:46You're going to stay here?
09:47No, I'm taking the job.
09:50Leaving?
09:57Yeah, I'm sorry
09:57to spring it on you
09:58like this, Miss Courtney,
09:59but it's too good
09:59an opportunity to miss.
10:00I see.
10:02And when do you propose
10:03to take up this new position?
10:04Well, he wants me to start right away,
10:05so I thought I'd report to him
10:06first thing in the morning.
10:07That doesn't give me
10:08much time to find a replacement.
10:10Yeah, I know,
10:10but I can't afford to wait
10:11and risk losing the job.
10:13Very well, Mr. Brown.
10:14You have obviously
10:15made up your mind
10:16and I wish you every success.
10:19I hope you'll be happy,
10:21but I think I can safely say
10:23you won't find another principal
10:24like me.
10:25I'm sure I won't.
10:39Right, time's up.
10:40Would you leave your books
10:41on my desk?
10:42But before you go,
10:43I've got something to tell you.
10:45I shan't be teaching you
10:46after tonight.
10:47Oh, Master Jesus.
10:49Deary me,
10:50have you got the bag?
10:51The bag?
10:54Yes, please.
10:56Has Missy Calderney
10:57given you the bag?
10:59You mean the sack?
11:01Jelly good.
11:03So, I shall be leaving
11:04for a better job.
11:05Ah, no, perhaps.
11:07We are being very sad
11:09to be losing you.
11:09I shall miss you
11:11very much.
11:13We shall whole miss you.
11:14Ah, maybe you change
11:16your mind, eh?
11:17Oh, I must strike
11:18while the iron is hot.
11:19Holy ravioli.
11:22You're going to get
11:23a job in a laundry.
11:25I was just choosing
11:27a figure of speech.
11:29I should be doing
11:29the same job
11:30but at a commercial school
11:31for a lot more money.
11:33Well, come along.
11:35Thank you, everybody.
11:39Well, I hope you
11:41have the much luck.
11:42Thank you, Giovanni.
11:48Amigo.
11:50May your days
11:54be filled with happiness.
11:56You're soon, honey.
11:59Auf Wiedersehen.
12:00Anna.
12:03May Allah
12:04watch over you.
12:05You too, Annie.
12:09Jolly good rat
12:10com, Led Blown.
12:13Au revoir,
12:14Monsieur Brown.
12:15Et bonne chance.
12:24Shalom, moche.
12:33Goodbye, Master.
12:35Shimila.
12:42Macho.
12:44Success.
12:45Terrible.
12:55Oh, my goodness.
12:56It's okay.
12:57It's okay.
12:57I don't know if this
12:58can be here.
12:59Oh, my goodness.
13:00Oh, my goodness.
13:00Oh, my goodness.
13:01Oh, my goodness.
13:01Oh, my goodness.
13:02Oh, my goodness.
13:02Come.
13:04Come.
13:11Good morning.
13:12Good morning.
13:13What can I do for you?
13:15I'm Jeremy Brown,
13:16English teacher.
13:17You offered me a job yesterday.
13:19Oh, of course you are.
13:21Do forgive me.
13:21I'm terribly sorry.
13:22I've got such an awful memory
13:24of faces, Mr. Brownlow.
13:25Brown.
13:26Brown.
13:26Brown.
13:26Yeah, please.
13:28Quite all right.
13:28Well, when shall I start?
13:31Start what?
13:32Teaching.
13:33I'm accepting the job.
13:35Oh.
13:36Have you left your other position, then?
13:38Well, yes.
13:38I gave him my notice last night.
13:40Dear, dear, dear, dear, dear.
13:41I suppose unfortunate.
13:42Why?
13:43Well, you see, we don't need anybody now.
13:45The chap that left came back again.
13:46Good, isn't it?
13:50Well, not for me, it isn't.
13:51No.
13:52Oh, no, no.
13:53I suppose not.
13:54No, no.
13:54Well, I...
13:55My dear, what will you do now, Mr. Brownstop?
13:59Brown?
13:59Brown, Brown, Brown.
14:01Well, there's only one thing I can do.
14:02What's that?
14:03Which way's the nearest unemployment exchange?
14:24And there's Sid.
14:28Hello, Mr. Brown.
14:29What are you doing here?
14:30I thought you'd left.
14:31Yeah, well, said it I, but the job was already taken.
14:32Ah, what'd you do?
14:34Well, I went to the unemployment exchange
14:35and told them that I had 5A levels
14:37and was a BA Oxon.
14:38What'd they say?
14:39Offer me a job as a road sweeper.
14:42Here.
14:43Have you ever worked on the market
14:45so I could get you a job, you know?
14:46No, doing what?
14:47Oh, are you any good at the bunny?
14:49Uh, what bunny?
14:50The bunny rabbit.
14:51The rabbit and pork.
14:52The spill, the chatter.
14:53Oh, the talk?
14:54Yeah.
14:54What would I have to rabbit about?
14:56Oh, uh, well, hold that
14:57and I'll give you a rough idea.
14:58Now, you've got a stall in the market, you see,
15:00and you've got the people around you.
15:02And you say, now, come here,
15:03I'll tell you what I'm prepared to do.
15:04I've got three little lots here
15:05and the gold you get in the chain worth £20.
15:07The gold price is worth £15.
15:09The gold earrings, don't they look nice?
15:11Don't they look nice?
15:12If you're willing to do any jeweler shopping
15:14on Oxford Street, you'll cost you £40.
15:16And now I'll tell you £40, £30, or even £20.
15:19A tenner would be a bargain.
15:20One price, one price only.
15:21Speak up, speak up shop.
15:23Third come, third serve.
15:24A five of the lot.
15:25I'll take it.
15:28Now, I'm only demonstrating.
15:30Oh, sir.
15:31What do you say?
15:32No, I don't think it's quite me somehow.
15:34You'll have to go back on the dole, then, won't you?
15:35Well, I could ask Miss Courtney for my old job back.
15:37Do you think you'd give it to you?
15:38Oh, I'm sure she will, if I crawl enough.
15:44Enter.
15:44Hello, Miss Courtney.
15:45Hello, Miss Courtney.
15:47Mr Brown, this is a surprise.
15:50Did you forget something when you left last night?
15:53No, no.
15:54Then to what do we owe the honour of this visit?
15:55Well, I, uh, you've done something to your hair.
16:00My hair?
16:01Yes, it looks different somehow.
16:02Much more feminine.
16:03Oh, really?
16:06Yeah, if you don't mind me saying so, you really look quite attractive.
16:09Oh.
16:11All right, Mr Brown, what are you after?
16:12Well, I'm wise enough to know when I'm being softened up.
16:17Now, what is it you want?
16:19Oh, a reference, no doubt?
16:20Well, not exactly.
16:22Well, what is it, then?
16:23Well, I'll come straight to the point, Miss Courtney.
16:24Good.
16:24I thought about this new job last night,
16:26and I've suddenly realised that money isn't everything.
16:28Really?
16:29After all, you can't buy happiness.
16:31So you've decided not to take this job?
16:34You're very perceptive.
16:35I tried to telephone you earlier today to ask you to bring back the register.
16:39Mr English said that you weren't there
16:40because there hadn't been a vacancy after all.
16:43Ah.
16:45So now you've come crawling back to me, expecting to be reinstated.
16:48Yeah, well, I would be grateful.
16:49I mean, after all, it'd be much easier on the students.
16:51I mean, easier all round.
16:53Oh, I quite agree.
16:54Oh, good.
16:55Except for one thing.
16:57I have already engaged a new teacher.
17:01Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
17:04I'm wondering what a new teacher will be like.
17:06He won't be as nice as Mr Brown.
17:08Maybe we have a lady teacher.
17:11Hey, listen, everybody.
17:12The boss is back.
17:13Mr Brownell?
17:14That's right.
17:15Sid just told us.
17:16He didn't get the job.
17:17He can't be coming back here.
17:19It's too late.
17:21We got a new teacher.
17:22If new teacher leaves,
17:24Professor, he can come back.
17:26How can new teacher leave?
17:28We fix it.
17:30We all act as stupid.
17:34New teacher thinks,
17:36I don't teach these people.
17:39I leave.
17:40That's a good idea, amigo.
17:43We all give stupid answer.
17:45For you, that is easy.
17:48Sit down, everybody.
17:50Hurry up.
17:50Sit down.
17:51This is your new teacher, Mr Wilkins.
17:54Mr Wilkins, these are your students.
17:55You'll soon get to know them.
18:06Any problem,
18:08I shall be in my office.
18:08Right.
18:13I do hope we're all going to get on together
18:15extremely well.
18:17Now, you.
18:18Can you tell me how far you're up to?
18:20Por favor.
18:21How far are you up to?
18:24Ah, si, si.
18:26Ah, I am, uh,
18:28five feet eleven inches.
18:31No, no, no.
18:32Not how tall you are.
18:35Five feet eleven inches.
18:37Never mind.
18:38I'll soon find out what progress you've made so far.
18:41Now, you.
18:42What is the feminine of Drake?
18:45Miss Drake.
18:48Really?
18:49You.
18:49Spell cough.
18:52K-O-F-F.
18:55What is an apostrophe?
18:57According to the New Testament,
18:59there are twelve apostrophes.
19:02Peter, Andrew, James, the son of Zebedee,
19:04John, Philip, Bussolomew, Thomas, Matthew,
19:06James, the son of Alphars,
19:07Thaddeus, Simon, and Judas.
19:10You.
19:11Give me a sentence using the word defer.
19:15Minx are bred for defer.
19:19You.
19:23Explain the meaning of the phrase
19:25to bury the hatchet.
19:27To chop someone's head off.
19:31You.
19:32Complete the following proverb.
19:33People who live in glass houses
19:35should get undressed in the dark.
19:38Explain what is meant by a circular letter.
19:45Most certainly.
19:46A circular letter
19:47is the letter O.
19:51You.
19:52Hato.
19:53Oh.
19:54What is an aspirate?
19:56It is on.
19:58Tablet's on.
19:59You take on.
20:00We know you have cold on.
20:04You.
20:05Could you please,
20:07please tell me,
20:08what is the opposite of a coward?
20:12A bullard.
20:14Well,
20:17I am appalled
20:19at your lack of knowledge
20:20of the English language.
20:21In all my years as a teacher,
20:23I have never come across
20:24a class as ignorant as you are.
20:26Well,
20:26no wonder your former teacher left.
20:28It's not to make
20:29any ordinary man leave.
20:31However,
20:32I am no ordinary man.
20:35I shall look upon this task
20:38as a personal challenge.
20:43I am going to teach you all English
20:44if it takes me a lifetime.
20:47Now.
20:54Hello,
20:55Mr. Brown.
20:56What are you doing here?
20:57I'm not quite sure.
20:57Miss Courtney telephoned me this morning
20:58and said she wanted to see me.
20:59You don't know what it's about, do you?
21:00I've got no idea.
21:03Why don't you go in and ask her?
21:05It's just good.
21:08Entra?
21:10You, uh,
21:10wanted to see me,
21:11Miss Courtney?
21:12Oh, yes,
21:12Mr. Brown.
21:14Are you still jobless?
21:16Yeah,
21:16I'm afraid so.
21:17I was offering an other job
21:18this morning,
21:18but I turned it down.
21:19Not enough money?
21:20Well,
21:20the money was all right.
21:21On the face of it,
21:22it seemed quite attractive.
21:24Office,
21:24virtually my own boss.
21:25Just didn't like the idea
21:26of working below ground.
21:28On the underground?
21:30No,
21:30gentlemen's conveniences.
21:33That's okay.
21:35Well,
21:36would you like
21:37your old job back?
21:38Yeah,
21:39but I thought you'd already
21:40offered it to someone else.
21:41Well,
21:41I had,
21:42but he telephoned this morning
21:43to say that he had left.
21:45Oh,
21:46did he give any reason?
21:46None whatsoever.
21:49Well,
21:49Mr. Brown,
21:49I suggest you start immediately.
21:51Ah,
21:51right,
21:52Miss Courtney.
21:52On a temporary basis,
21:54of course.
21:59The boss is coming.
22:03Nice to see you,
22:04boss.
22:05Three hooray,
22:06hip-hip's for the boss.
22:08Hooray,
22:08hip-hip!
22:09Hooray,
22:10hip-hip!
22:11Hooray,
22:11hip-hip!
22:13Oh, no,
22:13boss.
22:14Thank you very much.
22:15It's all right.
22:16We are getting you back.
22:18What do you mean,
22:18you are getting me back?
22:19Well,
22:20it's like it is,
22:21professori.
22:22We have the good news,
22:24and we have the bad news.
22:25All right,
22:26what's the good news?
22:27Oh, blimey.
22:28We are getting rid of Mr. Willikins,
22:31so that you can be returning.
22:32You mean,
22:33he left because of your behaviour?
22:34Not so.
22:35Last night,
22:36a monsieur English
22:37came to find you.
22:38Ah,
22:38from the commercial school?
22:39Yeah,
22:39he's wanting to tell you
22:40he has a job for you after all.
22:42Oh,
22:42well,
22:43that is good news.
22:44But now,
22:45we come to the bad news.
22:48We are be tell,
22:49Mr. English,
22:50you are not be want job with him.
22:52So instead,
22:53he give job to Mr. Willikins.
22:55Hey,
22:56we plenty smart,
22:57huh?
22:59Oh,
22:59yes,
22:59plenty.
23:00Professori,
23:01we have the more good news,
23:03and the more bad news.
23:04All right,
23:05come on.
23:06First,
23:06the more good news.
23:07We've got eight scoring drawers
23:10on the football pools.
23:12The bad news is,
23:14we forgot to post the coupon.
23:18So I've got some good news
23:20and some bad news for you.
23:21Firstly,
23:22the good news.
23:23Now that I'm back,
23:24I'm staying.
23:25Hey!
23:27And now for the bad news.
23:28From now on,
23:29you get extra homework
23:30every night.
23:31Ah!
23:33Now,
23:33Mum,
23:33let's go!
23:37The dead news.
23:40And I'm up to bed.
23:42Here I go!
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