How to be British N°4: British Beer or Instant English

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	How to be British N°4: British Beer or Instant English

Wilhelmina

2-25-2007 5:02 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2ef9c2c6-a532-4a14-b560-7dae30bb04c6/765B5D69-3E0B-4AE2-A7BF-F2869623123D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.lgpcards.com/cards/card04.html" href="http://www.lgpcards.com/cards/card04.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.lgpcards.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lgpcards.com/cards/card04.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.lgpcards.com/img/28776AA1-D4DA-404B-8243-A6A64DC614D4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lgpcards.com/cards/card04.html"><TABLE cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD> </TD><TD> </TD><TD><H3>British Beer
or
Instant English!</H3>
		  </TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="2"><B>Units</B></TD><TD><B>Language level</B></TD></TR><TR><TD><B>1</B></TD><TD><B>pint</B></TD><TD>No change to your English</TD></TR><TR><TD><B>2</B></TD><TD><B>pints</B></TD><TD>Your English goes up a level</TD></TR><TR><TD><B>3</B></TD><TD><DIV align="left"><B>   “</B></DIV>
		  </TD><TD>Your English goes up a level (but the grammar disappears)</TD></TR><TR><TD><B>4</B></TD><TD><DIV align="left"><B>   “</B></DIV>
		  </TD><TD>You become very fluent, but start mixing English with your own language</TD></TR><TR><TD><B>5</B></TD><TD><DIV align="left"><B>   “</B></DIV>
		  </TD><TD>You discover you can sing in English, and are brilliant at karaoke</TD></TR><TR><TD><B>6</B></TD><TD><DIV align="left"><B>   “</B></DIV>
		  </TD><TD>You suddenly know lots of taboo words in English (fortunately, no-one 
			else seems to understand them) </TD></TR><TR><TD><B>7</B></TD><TD><DIV align="left"><B>   “</B></DIV>
		  </TD><TD> You can’t speak English at all (and also forget your own language) 
		  </TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="2"><B>Over 7
(Danger Zone!)</B></TD><TD>You start speaking American English</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/765B5D69-3E0B-4AE2-A7BF-F2869623123D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>