Life in London: Visiting an art gallery
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Today we are out and about in the suburbs of London. Come with me and visit a very special shop, an art gallery full of paintings, sculptures, and other art works. But it's an art gallery with a difference, as money made from sales goes to an organisation called Street Souls, a charity for homeless people. We'll be chatting to David, who runs the gallery and chooses the art works to display there. We'll hear about the special opening of the gallery, attended by a famous London-based film star (I'll give you a clue -- he has appeared in Lord of the Rings!). This is a chance for you to listen to real conversation between two native English speakers, as well as to learn about English culture. So, if you're ready, let's go in...
Learn more about Artful Pelican and the Street Souls organization at their Facebook pages:
/ artfulpelican
/ streetsoulshomeless
Did you like this video? Why not watch Jade's video tour of another part of London called Covent Garden:
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TRANSCRIPT
Gill: Hello. I'm Gill at engVid, and today we're doing something a little bit different for our lesson. We are going to be visiting a place in... Seven miles away from Central London, the Artful Pelican Art Gallery, which is a small art gallery and shop. And if you visit or if you're in the U.K., or if you visit a U.K. city you will probably see places like this, so this lesson will help you to find out what to expect if you go in one of these places. It's also an opportunity to hear two native English speakers, that will be me and David, the owner of the shop, speaking, having a conversation in English, so it's an opportunity to hear an English conversation between two people. Okay, so... And also we'll be seeing what kind of thing to expect if you visit an art gallery like this; pictures and sculptures. And so, we'll be seeing pictures of London, pictures of famous people who you may have seen in films, so let's go in and have a look.
David: Hi, Gill.
Gill: Oh, hi, David.
David: Hey. It's nice to see you.
Gill: Hi. Nice to see you. How are you?
David: Excellent. Thanks.
Gill: Oh, good.
David: You too?
Gill: Fine, thank you. Thank you for letting us come in...
David: Hey.
Gill: And have a look around.
David: You know you're always welcome.
Gill: Oh, that's really nice. Well, thank you.
David: This has always been one of my favourites, this charcoal. Amazing art.
Gill: That's lovely. Lovely detail. So, David, so you've been here for a while now, haven't you?
David: Yes.
Gill: I remember the place gradually being decorated and open.
David: Yeah, well, we... I would imagine sometime around about May 2015.
Gill: Yes.
David: And we opened in July in 2015.
Gill: Right, that sounds about right. Yeah.
David: Yeah.
Gill: So that's nearly going on two years?
David: We're getting on for two years, aren't we?
Gill: Yeah.
David: I think you came to our opening, didn't you?
Gill: I did.
David: When we had Sir Ian McKellen here.
Gill: Yes.
David: And a big crowd.
Gill: Wow. You could hardly move.
David: No. It was...
Gill: The place was packed, wasn't it?
David: It was good. It was a nice, fun evening; and very well-supported.
Gill: Yes, it was really nice. And to get Sir Ian McKellen to come and...
David: Quite a coup.
Gill: Open the place was a real coup, wasn't it?
David: Yeah, and it went very well.
Gill: And it was so nice to see him so close. He was about, you know, where that chair is away from me, and I thought: "My god, that's Sir Ian McKellen."
David: "It's really you", yeah.
Gill: And I'd first seen him on the stage in the 1970s, and been really knocked out by his...
David: Oh, good.
Gill: Like, he was in the Shakespeare play, Richard II, so that was when I first ever saw him.
David: So we fulfilled a wish, then, you got to meet him.
Gill: So all those years later, there he was.
David: Oh, good.
Gill: Slightly nearer.
David: He was very good with everyone that came, yeah.
Gill: So that was great, that was great because he cares a lot about the charity.
David: He cares a lot about homelessness.
Gill: Yes.
David: He has two pet likes, which is homelessness, which is what we're all about.
Gill: Yes.
David: And AIDS, they're his two main... main things.
Gill: Right. Yes, yes.
David: So the homeless thing...
Gill: Yeah.
David: He was very keen to help.
Gill: Yes, yes. So you... This is an art gallery, obviously, but you have this sort of fundraising element for charity?
David: Well... Yes, of course, it is an art gallery, but it's a non-profit art gallery.
Gill: Right.
David: So no one earns a salary in here. Every penny of the profits gets plowed back into the gallery or at homeless projects, Street Souls. So we help homeless people street-level.
Gill: Right.
David: And in particular homeless artists through the art gallery. […]
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Cheers from Brazil.
Hello Gill... I am Susana from Córdoba, Argentina. What a beautiful work the owner of that art gallery does... Helping homeless people... And there are so many different kind of art there... Thank you for showing us that place...!
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No number of thank you, can ever be enough to express the gratitude for the innumerable things I learned from you
Sara from Iran
5th October
Dear Gill, thanks so much, great job!
How interesting Mrs Gill, you're so good at this, teaching and communicating. I must confess I couldn't follow David at first, so I had to put the english subtitles on, I' ll keep on learning with your english tutorials, thanks a lot 🤗🇦🇷
Fabulous
This is wonderful ❤
Nice video ❤
Nice! Thank you 😊
Amazing thanks alot
I love your videos, Gill. I am a big fan of yours. Your accent is fascinating.
We love you Gill 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Indeed we do !🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Thank you Gil, it was amazing to look around that sort of non-profit art gallery, and because I'm an elderly foreign student of 73 years old, I appreciate a lot the transcript. ( It was very useful to understand better ). ( Is the sentence correct ? )
Mariella Ferrari ,
I want to congratulate you! I'm very glad to hear you are a 73 years old student! I'm a 52 years old student and study English is challenging but also tiring for me sometimes. I think you're Italian, because your name is Italian, so I feel pride since I'm Italian, too. You are very inspiring.
Thank you TV for your congratulations....yes I'm Italian too, but if I may correct you....." pride " isn't the adjecive....you have to say " I feel proud ". If Mrs Gil will correct us, I should very glad. I'm so happy to have the opportunity to practice Enlish language by on-line, because I didn't study when I was younger, and I'm so fond of English culture !! Now that I'm retired, I should like to travel and the English language is very useful !!!!!!
Mariella Ferrari
Of course you can correct me, I appreciate it a lot, so I can improve myself. I'm a housewife and I hope to travel abroad in the future, too.
To TV, ........sorry, I didn't want to be rude about " pride " or " proud " Really it doesn't matter, I understood your feeling about beeing Italian, I'm proud too to be Italian, but to know the English language it's amazing because you can connect whith the all world !!!! Thanks again for your comment !!!
Mariella Ferrari,
don't worry! You didn't rude at all, why do you think so? I'm sincerely glad about you correct my grammar mistake, it's a way to improve.
I agree with you, English language connect people: we are Italian and are chatting in English, perhaps we shouldn't ever talked each other in Italian language. I want to tell you more about this: I believe studying English allows us to know deeply our native language due sometimes we have to try another way to tell what we mean.
For this reason I want thank Mrs Gill for the beautiful video, but also for giving us the input for this pleasing exchange opinions.
Very nice to meet you, Mariella.
Super useful and informative lesson. I really liked and enjoyed the conversation between Gill and David. It was a natural conversation between this two native speakers where you can hear real English. Thank you very Much Gill!
I love you so much tbh. Remind me of my nana.
Dear Gill: Thanks for that video! I liked it very much!
I've frankly loved your visit, Gill.I look forward for another stroll. Thank you!
Always so creative! You are big
amazing so nice and lovely place many thanks gill❤👌💕⚘
Wonderful video ,Gill. Thanks a lot! ❤
wow～ Gill‘s Vlog~around London 👍✨
I love to see how she is passionate about art and considers non native speaker for how they might feel. LOVE YOU GILL
Love u, Gill!! ❤️ 🇧🇷
Great video. I lived in Paris about two years and visit art galleries was one of my favourites pleasures 😙😙
Gill thanks please make a video on life england and this and your all videos were supper thanks
I Loved and I have a new place to visit in London! I must to confess: at the first listening was hard to understand but, after I read the conversation was easier and to know the gallery was amazing!
Thank you and hugs! ☺
Great Gill
Agree. No problem to understand Gill immediatly, but unfortunally I can't say the same for the gentleman. He speaks a little tight and quick for my listening skill.
Her videos are amazing. R.I.P beloved Gill❤
Beautiful,I hope in these times "he" and "she" can be stay together,the artists suffer too much,good video
Dear Gill. Thanks for this video. I liked it very much!
That's a Lexus RC isn't it? Ah, quite a nice choice, Gill!
Amazing. .Gill thanks for this video and for all lessons you are Best teacher in the world. .I am from Africa from sudan. .but I live in France now
Thank you for these useful videos you're brave and perfect teacher
12 kilos...that's...like 25 pounds?
Thank you for your excellent work Gill! Help us a lot
Thank you Gill again for showing us to this interesting Art Gallery, you are right,I am a person English is my second language,
I keep on watch your program hopefully this will improve my English speaking capacity,When I learned that this shop is a non
Profit art gallery and is helping the homeless people,I am really respect David for doing such a wonderfull thing to the community
even though I still find some difficult to listen to David’s conversations, but I have no problem to hear what you said,by the way
I know Jack Nicolson and Dr Who,I also like the sculpture which have his hair blowing in the wind,I hope you can understand
What I try to write about this fantastic visit in the gallery,bye now.
She's very sweet. I find these videos very relaxing
Here in Brazil, I'm an English professor as well, and I recommend this channel to all of my fellow students. Lovely, as always, and I surely will love to visit this gallery once in London!
Cheers
Ma'am, I adore you.
You are a amazing woman...your English language is so clear and simple 👌👏👏👏
I love
I'm from Bahrain 🇧🇭
It's a big riddle for me to sort situations and rules of usage SHALL WE, AREN'T WE and others if the first part of the question doesn't contain WE SHALL NOT, WE ARE and others accordingly (6:23)...good evening, dear Gill
You are the best and the loveliest teacher ever !!!
Very knowledgeable and very interesting video, thank you so much mam
Gill has a will for everyone. There is a Gill there is a way.👍😊
English is easy, you can be very busy.
So everyone must improve the language which is number one in the world
Thanks a lot for your kind videos.
God bless you🙏
I am glad to see such a place! Congrads and thanks for reminding us what real art is for: creating beauty for beautiful purposes in life :)
Both teacher and the gallery owner lovely. This program fix me many questions about using English.Thank you！
So I really saw the different things from the native speakers like Gill and David and I thought that If I find Gill I can talk with her all day, but sorry me If I have found David, I will be stunned a little bit for me. So, I must practice more for understand the native speaker like David.. lol, I am just kidding guys. I really love and fascinate in Gill's accent, and love David.. cheers.
Hei , Gill
I can read and write English but my problem is speaking
What can Ido plz?
very nice and really inspiring interview ! in particular the way Gill communicate. Just amazing ! I love it ! I'd love to see much more interviews with Gill. That could serve as a textbook interview really useful, not only for English learning but also as an example of a very positive, and interesting conversation. Thank you Gill !
We love you Gill 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
That was quite good, I'm from Africa I was born and lived in suadi Arabia and they don't have such places like this, so I hope that one day I'll be able to to come to England. 😊
I just found your videos and I love them so much... I am an English teacher from Costa Rica and I really want to visit England...
Nice conversation. Please add more advance English conversation videos with transcripts. Thank you .
there are ART galleries outside the UK.
Hello mam ..i m from India...i regularly follow ur video its realy help me lot to learn English.
Hi Gill, just saw your video on weekdays, the link between Wodin and Mercury, may be found in Wodins ravens, who got him information form around the realm....
Guys, maybe somebody will be in London at the end of August/start of September and wants to visit this gallery,we could meet there and go together :)
That was very interesting! Thank you Gill and big greets to the Gallerie man und his wonderful Gallery🥰👏🏻
Thank you.I love that place so much. And , I will visit there one day🌝👍
I'm starting out professionally as an artist. I'm selling some canvas. I have a new channel here. I need to organize my first exhibition soon
mam good morning (mam namaskar) i am saresh from india .Mam could you help me in spoken english i am very poor in english,plese mam respond and help me how i be a good speaker because iam very hungry for english.
It is a lovely video. But you and your friend speak very fast for me. So I must listen again and again...
In the beginning I thought the store is very small but I shocked because it's very huge and has many floors
I love your videos gill my sweetheart and I'm 123 years old my douther thankyou
I was there -National Galery- 22 years ago. Gill thanks for every thing. You are great!!!
wonderful video about art galleries. That chic touch has not been lacking and refinement has reigned
What an incredible idea for video 👍 but why you don't have more views 😢😅💕
Most fascinating English teacher ever found ....❤❤❤
Wonderful persons and place. Thanks for this exhibition.
Woo what a lovey description of the area n thing, keep going ma'am we expect more videos as well.
I don't understand a host of art gallery. Because I turn on subtitles in settings video. Nice and interesting video.
I can understand Gill's English .. But able to catch the man's English
It's an honor for me and for all people of thd world to watch on tv Duchess of Walles Kate Middleton.
Very interesting lesson. Thanks to you Gill and to Mr. David also 🙏
Thanks for giving us a benefit info about an art gallery ❤ thanks Mrs Gill
My lovely teacher it's a wonderful lesson thank you a lot for this effort. Really these lessons are so useful
Great 👍
There's nothing better than watching you. 👍🏿😍
Hi,Gill ，I have been learning English for many years , but my English language is very bad about listening and writing . Can you help me ? Looking forward to your reply .
Hi - you've probably made progress without realising, as language learning is so gradual. My advice is to keep working on it, and cover all four aspects (reading, writing, listening, speaking). And keep yourself refreshed by ensuring lots of variety, eg news articles, films, different websites, quizzes, stories, poems, songs, etc :-)
I'll need to visit this art gallery, love it. Thanks
I like your videos madame gill thank you very very much and you a good madama
Thanks for this!!😍😍😍
Brilliant, it was like being there!
Dear madam :
Your video is amazing! I liked it a lot. It would be nice if you could teach us with more material like this. Also it would be nice to get to know other sites of London and the everyday situations.
Thank you and take care.
:)
More videos in places in London i adore it !! :-)
Hey, Gill you’re so lovely, so adorable, omg I wish I knew you! I’m dreaming to be a lovely lady just like you in a future! You’re my inspiration! Thank you! Ksenia, 27 from Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺
Every single video is a motivated for me to learn English
How interesting video! Authentic english and enriching
What a heartwarming video! :)
İ did not understand anything from Man.. i am so sorry
My favorite English teacher
Really mam i am very attract you,and your teaching
What a pleasure of class! You are amazing Gill, you are the perfect image of a teacher. Thanks for teaching with such a lovely kindness... You should create an Instagram account! Thank you, again... Leandro from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Thanks lovely teacher from Peru love you
Great and inspiring video! This is a good option to get into the real life an practice. A little bit noisy at the beginning and the end because of the open door to the traffic street plus the bit bad resonance in the representation rooms. A lovely host and a nice gallery and additionally a very good structure to support needy people and artists! I can see myself sitting in the background room at the desk painting and creating pictures maybe in cooperation with someone and chatting.
David cannot match your accent purity ....
You're spontaneous and excellent a teacher .
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Thanks Gill.i love you and your lesson
Excellent video. Thanks
This question is off topic, but the beginning of the video reminded me. Is the word cafe pronounced differently across the various UK regions? Being a prodigious consumer of British television shows, I’ve heard it pronounced ‘kaf’ as well as ‘ka-fei’. Thanks again, Gill.
Yes, it can be pronounced differently -- 'kaf' is quite casual/informal. I also heard it pronounced KAFF-i in the Midlands. Bearing in mind also that it's a French word, and appears in several other languages ... ;-)
Thank you. The Midlands pronunciation is new and exciting. I’ll have to try it out on my wife and watch her funny response. 😀. (We were both born and raised in Louisiana.)
thank you so much for this video...you're so lovely and enchanting! keep up the good work, darling! cheers from Brazil, São Paulo.