British English Speaking

You can find the full web article, media and transcripts for the lesson here: https://adeptenglish.com/lessons/english-speak-3/

I know it's a cliche but the British love a good cup of tea. I once heard someone describe having cake and a cup of tea being like a picnic indoors. So today we talk about a cream tea, and some British culture around drinking tea while we practice listening to English being spoken and practice listening to English speaking in Britain.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
⭐ Henry James

Tea is popular in most parts of the world, in Asia with green tea, and Russia and Europe with black teas, every part of the world seems to have a relationship with tea.

Today we talk about the British obsession with tea. In Britain we drink around 165 million cups of tea a day and given there are only 66.5 million British people each of us drinks a lot of tea.

Tea is just a part of being British so knowing a little about tea is probably useful, even if you just use the knowledge to for an ESL speaking topic or just so you can understand why your British friends are always “putting the kettle on”.