内容简介

1- True Brit

2- Arrival

3- The Telephone Box

4- Dress Sense

5- Tea

6- Complaining

7- Politeness

8- Speak Slowly

9- Pronunciation

10- Top Tongue

11- Sense of Humour

12- Body Idioms

13- Terms of Endearment

14- Learning by Doing

15- Pubs

16- Meeting and Greeting

17- Test You English

18- Real English

19- The Bathroom

20- Bed

21- Pets

22- Heavenly Hosts

23- Enjoy Your Meal!

24- Fish and Chips

25- The Mighty Spud

26- Asking the Way

27- Driving

28- Mind the Gap

29- Ye Olde Britain

30- Queuing

31- Shopping

32- Departing

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作者简介

Martyn Ford, writer and illustrator, comes from Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands. Peter Legon, writer and publisher, was brought up in Liverpool and Leeds. In the 1990s they were colleagues at the same Brighton language school, where they first got the idea for Lee Gone Publications. The "How To Be British Collection" (2003) and "How To Be British Collection" Two (2005) ha...

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