Being Polite in English… Even When You’re Running Late 😅

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  hello and welcome back to your english five a day the english like a native podcast This is your daily dunk

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  into the English language so that, with relative ease, you can, over time, improve your English listening,

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  expand your active and passive vocabulary and generally feel more comfortable with the English language.

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  We've been here for quite a long time now, but in this season, season three, we've been following one.

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  Big journey of our character Gabriel.

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  Why?

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  Because learning through story is so much easier and so much fun.

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  My name is Anna.

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  This is week 11, day two.

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  Now yesterday, Gabriel arrived in a beautiful Somerset village and settled in to a cosy cafe,

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  only to realise that he had completely forgotten something important.

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  Today, things become a little more stressful and along the way, we explore some very British ways of being polite.

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  As always, supporting materials for this season are available at www. joinelan. com forward slash plus.

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  Now, let's begin with a snapshot.

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  Rushing to join an important online meeting, Gabriel politely asks, would you mind?

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  When making requests, offers after you at a doorway and hears pardon when he isn't understood.

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  He's thanked with much obliged and responds with my pleasure, though not always entirely sincerely.

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  OK, a little bit tricky, I think, that snapshot.

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  But let's break down today's vocabulary.

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  First, we have the phrase after you.

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