Problèmes très britanniques – Éviter les gens



Very British Problems, une série télévisée sur Channel 4, est amusante à regarder et idéale pour pratiquer l'écoute et l'expression orale en anglais. Il est particulièrement utile à ceux qui se préparent à Ielts, Cambridge FCE, CAE et CPE.

Ce clip provient du premier épisode de très British Problems (Saison 1 - Episode 1 - Autres personnes).

Grace Dent, Tameka Empson, Jocelyn Jee Esien et James Corden réfléchissent à la tentative d'éviter le contact humain.

Transcription

I live on a street where -- when I come round the corner, I often see some of my neighbours standing in their gardens and I sometimes just go and hide round the corner... and go on my phone for a bit because I don't want to talk to them about the bins.

You know when you try to avoid somebody and you pretend you're on the phone...?

"Sorry, I've got take this," and it's not ringing. It's clearly...

"I have to take this."

"Hello?"

"Sorry, my love. What did you say? Mm-hmm. Oh, wow."

"Yeah, OK. Sorry, can you..."

(He mouths)

"Sorry, sorry... Hmm?"

(She titters)

I've done that a load of times and people will just believe you.

They will go, "Oh..." [HE MOUTHS]

That's it. It's a great one.

"Sorry, I've got to... Hello?"

Gone, see you later, bang.

That's a real favourite of mine.

Yes, who but the British could see the mobile phone and realise that its main benefit would be as a means of AVOIDING conversation.