Great video! As a 24-year-old Brit, I would just say that people of my generation actually DO tend to measure personal weight in kilos (although oddly just using pounds is sometimes seen, probably due to the American influence) and Fahrenheit is very rarely used (most Brits I know wouldn't have a clue what 60F would be, for instance). Education in the UK has been solely metric for a while now, so people who grew up learning the metric system in school only have any awareness of the imperial system because of cultural immersion elsewhere in their lives. Metric is used for most day-to-day purposes EXCEPT personal height, pints of milk and beer, clothes sizes (waist, neck circumference, etc) and anything to do with roadways (although signs displaying height limits often have both feet and meters).
Wow, I had no idea Britain used a mix of measurements, I thought we Canadians were the only ones with so much confusion! We actually seem to have the same mix of measurements here in Canada, except for food and weight (for liquids we use "cups" and "litres' and weight we use "pounds" when talking about a person's weight, but at the grocery store, we have a crazy random mix of kilograms/grams and pounds, which can make trying to price out your groceries VERY confusing! Often the sign above the meet will say how much is costs per pound, and then when you pick up the package of meat, the sticker only shows how many grams it contains.)
Brilliant teacher... said by a teacher of English as a foreign language... Clear, calm and amusing, as every teacher should be. Very good job, congratulations!
Hey Gill. First of all your ponunciation is brilliant. I used to live in London and to listen to you is a way to bring London back in my memory. Congratulations!!!
I was at primary school in the sixties and all we learnt was imperial. mm, cm and dm were those other foreign units on the other edge of a ruler that looked very dull in comparison.
In 1997 I was visiting Oxford (in the UK) as a tourist when I need to ask for directions. I was amazed when a guy gave me them in both the imperial and metric system!
A very clear and comprehensive video to understand the disastrous imperial measurement system. Of monstrous and unbeatable abstruseness and complexity.
In Australia, we have used the metric system since the mid-seventies. Consequently I grew up a metric child, with imperial speaking parents, or one that could never full adapt. Interestingly, I do speak in inches and feet sometimes, I think it is because it is easier to say. I am 'five three' for example, or ‘can you cut two inches off my hair’ when I go to the hairdresser. There is also another old measurement that I have used and that is hands. It is used for measuring the height of horses. 🐎 ~ In cooking or baking is also the time I really use the imperial system, and most measures have both, or you can just look it up on the ‘net. The U.S influence of the same is another reason for the use of what we call the old system. Anyway, thank you for this video. 🎓
To further confuse things, the US have changed some of the British liquid measurements we inherited. I assume the portion names are the same, and their parts are also. For example, two pints equaling a quart. And four quarts being equal to a gallon. But the part I do know is that imperial liquid measurements are 20% or 1/5 larger than America's. It therefore takes five US quarts to perfectly equal one Imperial gallon. And so on, like that. However I believe the measurements for length remain the same as ever.
You are correct, the length measurements are the same. I understand that the US volume measurements are based on the old English system. Some time back in the mists of time during the heights of the British Empire, volumes were redefined so that the pint became roughly a quarter larger and was divided into 20 fluid ounces. The USA were not our best friends at the time so naturally they did not change and kept 16 fluid ounces to the pint. It so happens that both fluid ounces are very similar in size so for cooking purposes they are interchangeable.
One rule of thumb idea I use is based on some loose interpretations that help. Think in terms of approximations: First, room temperature in the US is thought of as 70° F, which about equals 20°C. So aim for one of these figures in your home and you will probably be rather comfortable. 2. A yard is just a little short of a meter, as you said. 3. Freezing is 32° for us, but an easy Zero for Europe. Likewise, we BOIL water at 212°F, and 100° in metric. 4. It takes just 2.47 acres to equal one hectare of land. So I just think of 2.5 acres. 5. One American quart is very close to the litre. Most Americans and a great many Canadians are unwilling to change entirely to metric. But it is there, and I don't mind learning the rudiments so we can get on with the business at hand. 6. Metric countries also use the word, "ton". But I think it is spelt, TONNE. And I can not define it further for you.
Most Brits are unwilling to change completely to metric as well. I work in a UK university and recently asked one tall MSc student what his height was. He replied that he was six foot four. I was surprised at this because I was given to understand by those who want to force metric on us that only old people use feet and inches and everyone else uses metric. The student replied that he can relate to feet and inches and wouldn't know what his height was in mm or cm.
I live in Canada. The system we had when I was a child was the imperial. Although it is officially metric now, we kept on using the old imperial system as well. For instance, I’m a structural engineer and I use both on a regular basis. But, I have to admit it was the first time that I heard « stone » being a measurement unit for weight (14 pounds). I wonder if the people in the brick and stone business ever used it in their careers.
Your explanations are very useful and understandable every time! It's not easy for me as German to learn this "not-metric-system". I think also that it is a very good idea to write down the things you have said in the description. It would be great when you would be teaching us the way how to talk about the time. For example "the lesson will begin at 7:45 in the morning and will end at 8:30". Is it possible to say "at 17:00 o'clock"?
That was a nice lesson. It is not too hard to convert one unit to another, once you learn their values, but the metric system is intrinsically more practical. Everything is in units of 10 and it is much easier to do most of the calculations with that kind of system.
The reason we buy in litres but measure fuel consumption in mpg is because we only change when forced to do so. Back in the 70's the new rule was that petrol could no longer be sold in gallons, but had to be sold in litres. All the pumps were changed and we had to get used to converting litres to gallons. An Imperial gallon is roughy 4 1/2 litres. The Government didn't or couldn't legislate on how we thought so we still measured fuel consumption in mpg and still do to this day.
Not sure how or why this vid was recommended for me as I'm a native English speaker, but I watched it anyway and it was actually quite interesting. I've always wondered how in the hell we got the Imperial system here in the United States when the majority of the world uses the metric system, never knew it came from the UK. We still buy gas (or petrol as you would call it there) by the gallon here. We don't use stones as a weight measurement though, we would just say the full weight in pounds. We still use fahrenheit and acres here. Very interesting to learn similarities and differences between the U.S. and the U.K.
I forgot to give the approximations for the kilo and the km. It takes 2.2 pounds to make a kilo of something. And a kilometre equals .6 miles. (6/10 mile.)
I am from EU (Italy) and I work in retail (fashion) in UK. Honestly speaking, I haven't problems with inches and related convertion but I have someones with feet to measure the height.
Another, very palatable video of yours. And I thank you. Yes, Canada and the US do use the TON measurement. In the US, that is 2,000 pounds. But there are a few varieties of that weight name that are specialised, such as the long ton, the metric ton, etc. Now please tell me, what is the plural or group name for the imperial STONE?
We do use tons in the Netherlands, it’s a thousand of kilograms. So 1.000 kilograms of carrots would be one ton of carrots. When you buy a house, it’s even €100.000 to call it a ton. 4 ton = 400.000 since houses aren’t available with price tags of less than one ton.
Tour explanations are Always very clear and interesting. The lesson concerning the R.P. and the various accents was really helpful to me. Talking about numbers I Remember a words which Means 144 (of course It Is not One hundred 44!) But I don't remember the Word. Can you help me? Thank you very much and Cheerios from Sardinia.
Interesting...For some reason I thought everyone had switched to the metric system besides us Americans. Most people look at me like I'm crazy when I say my height in feet/inches or mention yards and miles when I'm outside the USA! Great video :)
+Pick Up English Most things you can buy are labelled primarily in the Metric system, grams / kilograms, millimetres / metres, and millilitres / litres. Beer and milk are the main exceptions. People just like the amount of a pint. Our old fluid measurements might share the same name as yours, but the British Pint, Quart, and Gallon are 20% bigger than the American ones. A US Pint is 0.473 litres, whilst the British Pint is 0.568 litres. I'm sure if we'd had the smaller pint that there would not have been any resistance to moving to 1/2 litre measures in pubs. As it is, a 500ml glass contains about 14% less beer than our pint glass. Our cars have speedometers that show both miles per hour and km per hour, but the miles tend to be in a larger easier to read type. Our road signs still show miles and yards too. When talking about temperature, it seems older people use Fahrenheit, certainly when talking about the weather or setting an oven, whilst younger people are more likely to use Celsius (Centigrade).
+Learn English with Bryce You *still* think America is the *only* country which uses Imperial Units? Think again! There are a total of 14 countries which uses *both* Imperial Units with Decimal Units! Do not believe me? Google it up!
The problem with gping on the Internet and converting metres to feet is that they give as, say 450g = 0.99 pound. That is misleading. It is not 9.9 ounces as there are 16 ounces in a pound. It is actually 15.8 ounces. They give imperial measurements as decimals.
Ms.Gill ,you are great teacher,you speak so good and clean ivin me beginner in English understand you very good,thank you so much for you wonderfull videolessaens.
We understand them. I should point out that the Americans went to the moon using these measurements, whilst the Russians failed, using your shitty French metric system. Stupid Frog.
What happened to Celsius? I thought that centigrade is on it's way out, being replaced with Celsius. BBC made the change in 1985. Or is it still widely used?
When the change was made from Fahrenheit to Celsius, it was thought that the British public would accept it more if it was called centigrade. When it was thought we had got used to this it was renamed Celsius. I've occasionally looked up recipes online and it takes me back to my childhood when an American website expresses oven temperatures in Fahrenheit. I love it.
You can use 'feet' for the plural of 'foot' -- in fact I think it sounds odd to say 'I'm six foot tall' rather than 'I'm six feet tall', but people do often say 'foot' instead of 'feet' in conversation. For meter(s) you should use the plural if it's more than one meter, eg 'The wall is 4.5 meters high.' :-)
I'm a naturalised British. I got used to the imperial system, except for the weight measurements. I have a lot of problem converting kilograms to stones AND pounds. Usually what happens is that a converter takes the stone value and adds a decimal to the bit that comes afterwards. So for example, 78kg becomes either 12.25 stones or 12 stone, 3 lb. I mean.. come on! That's really annoying. At least make fully working converters! I don't get why decimalise a system that was designed to be not decimal in the first place!
Centimeters are on the rulers and tapes, though some have both centimeters and millimeters. As for inches, feet and yards, they are used in the U.S. However, metric is taught in most Americans Schools and used in Maths texts. I noticed you did not measures grams for weight, nor kilos. Think they should be included. In some places in the UK, as recently as 2015, people have road signs Telling distances in miles or miles / km. It's a lot to take in.
In general it is really useful & nice. I would appreciate if you started your explanation from the smaller units to bigger ones. Do you use "yards" when talk about your height?
We never use yards for height even if were talking about buildings, you always use feet. Yards is more of a distance context such as 500 yards down the road or four yards long but never 4 yards high. I would explain why this is but i honestly have no idea its just one of them things.
It is propably working in a company but there is a problem...my accent and sense is british but the company is american, so, what Am I supposed to do...do a feedback learning American skilles? Helpd me
Hi - you don't have to change your accent to work in a company - it's quite usual for colleagues to have different accents. The main thing is to speak clearly so that people will understand what you're saying :-)
Hi - those four words are all pronounced differently, because the vowel sound is different in each one. I recommend this website, which has audio clips you can listen to: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/heat
+kaweeJay That is because most Asian countries use the Decimal Unit as opposed to the Imperial Unit. I am an American who knows the Imperial Unit *and* Decimal Unit. How tall are you in centimeters? How much do you weigh in kilograms? I can tell it to you in Imperial Units. I say 'Decimal' rather than 'Metric' because I *HATE* the French Scientist who invented this Decimal Unit; 'Metric' is a French word!
So,it seems to me the british way of measuring things is less precise.More figurative/visual,maybe? Whereas the metric system is perhaps more intellectual/number based.Does this make sense? Also,yeah,we use a bit of both systems here in Canada.
I think that Imperial or US standard measurements can be just as precise, maybe more so in some situations. My old school ruler had various inch subdivisions with 1/64 being the smallest. That has a greater precision than the mm. Having said that,I expect everyone measures to the precision appropriate for the situation. I might, for instance say "the shop is 100 yards up the road on the left". It's only a rough guess. Many younger people in the UK talk in metres and they would say "100 metres up the road on the left". There's a 10 % difference but it's only an approximation.
Great video! As a 24-year-old Brit, I would just say that people of my generation actually DO tend to measure personal weight in kilos (although oddly just using pounds is sometimes seen, probably due to the American influence) and Fahrenheit is very rarely used (most Brits I know wouldn't have a clue what 60F would be, for instance).
Education in the UK has been solely metric for a while now, so people who grew up learning the metric system in school only have any awareness of the imperial system because of cultural immersion elsewhere in their lives. Metric is used for most day-to-day purposes EXCEPT personal height, pints of milk and beer, clothes sizes (waist, neck circumference, etc) and anything to do with roadways (although signs displaying height limits often have both feet and meters).
I am glad that you are able to explain those two different systems of measurement very clearly.
They are quite confusing.
Thanks!
Gill, you are the best! I have been learning a lot with your classes.
Wow, I had no idea Britain used a mix of measurements, I thought we Canadians were the only ones with so much confusion! We actually seem to have the same mix of measurements here in Canada, except for food and weight (for liquids we use "cups" and "litres' and weight we use "pounds" when talking about a person's weight, but at the grocery store, we have a crazy random mix of kilograms/grams and pounds, which can make trying to price out your groceries VERY confusing! Often the sign above the meet will say how much is costs per pound, and then when you pick up the package of meat, the sticker only shows how many grams it contains.)
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Well UK USES THE SAME METRIC SYSTEM OF THE USA!
Canada is the only country I actually like, I'm English
Well we all have the same queen!!!
Same in ireland lol
Hi
Brilliant teacher... said by a teacher of English as a foreign language... Clear, calm and amusing, as every teacher should be. Very good job, congratulations!
Which measuring system do you want to use?
Britain: Yes
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Hey Gill. First of all your ponunciation is brilliant. I used to live in London and to listen to you is a way to bring London back in my memory. Congratulations!!!
Thank you so much, Ms. Gill. Since I was a school-boy, I had to learn the British Units by heart many times. So I’m very familiar with them.
Length
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
22 yards = 1 chain
10 chains = 1 furlong
8 furlongs = 1 mile
Area
1 acre = 4,840 square yards
1 acre = 43,560 square feet
Weight
16 ounces = 1 pound
14 pounds = 1 stone
2 stones = 1 quarter
4 quarters = 1 hundredweight
20 hundredweights = 1 ton
Volume or Capacity
2 pints = 1 quart
4 quarts = 1 gallon
2 gallons = 1 peck
4 pecks = 1 bushel
8 bushels = 1 quarter
Currency
12 pennies = 1 shilling
20 shillings = 1 pound
Zaw Htet Myint we don't use shillings anymore.
100 pennies=pound
A great shame too. The old system had character.
I was at primary school in the sixties and all we learnt was imperial. mm, cm and dm were those other foreign units on the other edge of a ruler that looked very dull in comparison.
+Zaw Htet Myint
I am a *pathetic* 5 feet 1 inch, 100 pound woman!
Why pathetic? Because I am too short and too thin.
Time
60 seconds = 1 minute
60 minutes = 1 hour
24 hour = 1 day
7 days = 1 week
In 1997 I was visiting Oxford (in the UK) as a tourist when I need to ask for directions. I was amazed when a guy gave me them in both the imperial and metric system!
A very clear and comprehensive video to understand the disastrous imperial measurement system. Of monstrous and unbeatable abstruseness and complexity.
In Australia, we have used the metric system since the mid-seventies. Consequently I grew up a metric child, with imperial speaking parents, or one that could never full adapt. Interestingly, I do speak in inches and feet sometimes, I think it is because it is easier to say. I am 'five three' for example, or ‘can you cut two inches off my hair’ when I go to the hairdresser. There is also another old measurement that I have used and that is hands. It is used for measuring the height of horses. 🐎 ~ In cooking or baking is also the time I really use the imperial system, and most measures have both, or you can just look it up on the ‘net. The U.S influence of the same is another reason for the use of what we call the old system. Anyway, thank you for this video. 🎓
Probably because the majority of the colonists of Australia were brits they brought the imperial system now but also combined with the metrics.
To further confuse things, the US have changed some of the British liquid measurements we inherited. I assume the portion names are the same, and their parts are also. For example, two pints equaling a quart. And four quarts being equal to a gallon. But the part I do know is that imperial liquid measurements are 20% or 1/5 larger than America's. It therefore takes five US quarts to perfectly equal one Imperial gallon. And so on, like that.
However I believe the measurements for length remain the same as ever.
You are correct, the length measurements are the same. I understand that the US volume measurements are based on the old English system. Some time back in the mists of time during the heights of the British Empire, volumes were redefined so that the pint became roughly a quarter larger and was divided into 20 fluid ounces. The USA were not our best friends at the time so naturally they did not change and kept 16 fluid ounces to the pint. It so happens that both fluid ounces are very similar in size so for cooking purposes they are interchangeable.
Gill, you are so adorable! Thank you very much for the video!
This video was so helpful! I also loved the way you explained it, you were very clear. Cheers from Chile :)
One rule of thumb idea I use is based on some loose interpretations that help. Think in terms of approximations:
First, room temperature in the US is thought of as 70° F, which about equals 20°C. So aim for one of these figures in your home and you will probably be rather comfortable.
2. A yard is just a little short of a meter, as you said.
3. Freezing is 32° for us, but an easy Zero for Europe. Likewise, we BOIL water at 212°F, and 100° in metric.
4. It takes just 2.47 acres to equal one hectare of land. So I just think of 2.5 acres.
5. One American quart is very close to the litre.
Most Americans and a great many Canadians are unwilling to change entirely to metric. But it is there, and I don't mind learning the rudiments so we can get on with the business at hand.
6. Metric countries also use the word, "ton". But I think it is spelt, TONNE. And I can not define it further for you.
Most Brits are unwilling to change completely to metric as well. I work in a UK university and recently asked one tall MSc student what his height was. He replied that he was six foot four. I was surprised at this because I was given to understand by those who want to force metric on us that only old people use feet and inches and everyone else uses metric. The student replied that he can relate to feet and inches and wouldn't know what his height was in mm or cm.
I live in Canada. The system we had when I was a child was the imperial. Although it is officially metric now, we kept on using the old imperial system as well. For instance, I’m a structural engineer and I use both on a regular basis. But, I have to admit it was the first time that I heard « stone » being a measurement unit for weight (14 pounds). I wonder if the people in the brick and stone business ever used it in their careers.
OMG! I love her! She is soooo cute. No matter what she is talking about, i want to listen to her like forever.
Shut up she is ugly and forgot the currency
Your explanations are very useful and understandable every time! It's not easy for me as German to learn this "not-metric-system". I think also that it is a very good idea to write down the things you have said in the description.
It would be great when you would be teaching us the way how to talk about the time. For example "the lesson will begin at 7:45 in the morning and will end at 8:30". Is it possible to say "at 17:00 o'clock"?
That was a nice lesson. It is not too hard to convert one unit to another, once you learn their values, but the metric system is intrinsically more practical. Everything is in units of 10 and it is much easier to do most of the calculations with that kind of system.
You are correct, Gill - in Britain we now buy petrol in liters BUT we still talk about the efficiency of a car in miles per GALLON! Strange
The reason we buy in litres but measure fuel consumption in mpg is because we only change when forced to do so. Back in the 70's the new rule was that petrol could no longer be sold in gallons, but had to be sold in litres. All the pumps were changed and we had to get used to converting litres to gallons. An Imperial gallon is roughy 4 1/2 litres. The Government didn't or couldn't legislate on how we thought so we still measured fuel consumption in mpg and still do to this day.
I love the way you teaching us, inspire us understand British culture in each on of lessons
I am from the United States and I use metric system for the sake of conforming to international standards, and adoption by virtually all countries.
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very helpful lesson ms. Gill
It always put a smile on my face when I watch her videos :)
SORRY MAM METRIC SYSTEM IS THE BEST , ITS TIME TO GIVE UP THE CUMBERSOME MEASURING SYSTEM . I LOVE THE WAY THE MAM EXPLAINED ..VERY NICE GESTURES
THX again for this, Gill! Interesting lesson. I' d like to hear something about british customs from your viewpoint. Greetings!
This was useful, I just moved to the uk and I need to learn this for school
And that's the Long and Short of it.
Thank you for sharing this information much appreciated.
Not sure how or why this vid was recommended for me as I'm a native English speaker, but I watched it anyway and it was actually quite interesting. I've always wondered how in the hell we got the Imperial system here in the United States when the majority of the world uses the metric system, never knew it came from the UK. We still buy gas (or petrol as you would call it there) by the gallon here. We don't use stones as a weight measurement though, we would just say the full weight in pounds. We still use fahrenheit and acres here. Very interesting to learn similarities and differences between the U.S. and the U.K.
They used to use Pounds, shillings and pence as the currency in the US centuries ago. Another gift from Britain
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I forgot to give the approximations for the kilo and the km.
It takes 2.2 pounds to make a kilo of something.
And a kilometre equals .6 miles. (6/10 mile.)
Thanks for the very good lessons!
Gill: your lessons have high level, are not heavy, and are warm.
Brilliant ! Mrs Gill you made it easy something quite difficult to understand, british measurements, thanks very much 👏😘
hi teacher gill, it's usuful lesson madam.
thank you for teaching us the british measurement.
thanks madam
Just what I was looking for! Thanks a lot, Gill!
Thank you ma'am,you're great teacher ❤
Great, Gill! Thank you!❤️❤️❤️❤️
When I was young in Hong Kong hongkongers were used to those measures and those were the best till 2022😍😘😚
Thank you Gill for such an informative video.
fabilous ,amusing,perfect,excellent,useful,informative,this lesson deserv all the positive adjectives.
Thanks for helping us, you're an angel 😇
thank you for helping us Gill, it is a good lesson
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Hi Gill I'm an engineer and found this very useful
It is useful to have a little knowledge about imperial measurement. I used to feel confusion when met them in reading.
Thank you for your suggestion. I like this channel.
thank for your fantastic class,,,,,,
I have just started watching it but already gave a 'like' to the video :D She is so cool!
I am from EU (Italy) and I work in retail (fashion) in UK. Honestly speaking, I haven't problems with inches and related convertion but I have someones with feet to measure the height.
Ounces or oz. is another one, and fl. oz. for weights and liquid measures. Used mostly in baking. 🍰
British in the Uk use Imperial.
Irish in Ireland use Metric.
I’ve no idea about schillings and guineas that Holmes was offering his coachman.
Another, very palatable video of yours. And I thank you. Yes, Canada and the US do use the TON measurement. In the US, that is 2,000 pounds. But there are a few varieties of that weight name that are specialised, such as the long ton, the metric ton, etc.
Now please tell me, what is the plural or group name for the imperial STONE?
We do use tons in the Netherlands, it’s a thousand of kilograms. So 1.000 kilograms of carrots would be one ton of carrots. When you buy a house, it’s even €100.000 to call it a ton. 4 ton = 400.000 since houses aren’t available with price tags of less than one ton.
Tour explanations are Always very clear and interesting. The lesson concerning the R.P. and the various accents was really helpful to me. Talking about numbers I Remember a words which Means 144 (of course It Is not One hundred 44!) But I don't remember the Word. Can you help me? Thank you very much and Cheerios from Sardinia.
Hi - the word for 144 is a gross: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_(unit)
I am 5' 2'' as well. haha...always love your lesson, Gill !!
Very useful. Excellent teacher
Interesting...For some reason I thought everyone had switched to the metric system besides us Americans. Most people look at me like I'm crazy when I say my height in feet/inches or mention yards and miles when I'm outside the USA! Great video :)
+Pick Up English Most things you can buy are labelled primarily in the Metric system, grams / kilograms, millimetres / metres, and millilitres / litres. Beer and milk are the main exceptions. People just like the amount of a pint. Our old fluid measurements might share the same name as yours, but the British Pint, Quart, and Gallon are 20% bigger than the American ones. A US Pint is 0.473 litres, whilst the British Pint is 0.568 litres. I'm sure if we'd had the smaller pint that there would not have been any resistance to moving to 1/2 litre measures in pubs. As it is, a 500ml glass contains about 14% less beer than our pint glass. Our cars have speedometers that show both miles per hour and km per hour, but the miles tend to be in a larger easier to read type. Our road signs still show miles and yards too. When talking about temperature, it seems older people use Fahrenheit, certainly when talking about the weather or setting an oven, whilst younger people are more likely to use Celsius (Centigrade).
Canadians still you inches and feet in construction.
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You *still* think America is the *only* country which uses Imperial Units? Think again!
There are a total of 14 countries which uses *both* Imperial Units with Decimal Units!
Do not believe me? Google it up!
thank you gill :)
I love your classes, you are great
Great 👍
Gill, could you make a video from diference of British And English?
English is just England. Britain consists of England , Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
The problem with gping on the Internet and converting metres to feet is that they give as, say 450g = 0.99 pound. That is misleading. It is not 9.9 ounces as there are 16 ounces in a pound. It is actually 15.8 ounces.
They give imperial measurements as decimals.
Amazing, as always. Useful and interesting.
Ms.Gill ,you are great teacher,you speak so good and clean ivin me beginner in English understand you very good,thank you so much for you wonderfull videolessaens.
Gill, you great teacher, thank you.
Fantastic!!! Thank you ver y ver y much. So useful
Wonderful British Measurements ! You’re so funny 😆, Gill !
We understand them.
I should point out that the Americans went to the moon using these measurements, whilst the Russians failed, using your shitty French metric system.
Stupid Frog.
What about distance? Is it meters? Like you drive Kilometers? What happened to grams? Is that not used in UK?
GREAT VIDEO !!!! Keep up the good work
You're a great teacher.
Thank You for wonderful lessons:)
What happened to Celsius? I thought that centigrade is on it's way out, being replaced with Celsius. BBC made the change in 1985. Or is it still widely used?
+Steff2929again I believe Celsius and Centigrade are the exact same thing but with a different name.
they are the same.
When the change was made from Fahrenheit to Celsius, it was thought that the British public would accept it more if it was called centigrade. When it was thought we had got used to this it was renamed Celsius. I've occasionally looked up recipes online and it takes me back to my childhood when an American website expresses oven temperatures in Fahrenheit. I love it.
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hello ms gil gr8t lesson very usefull
Thank you so much for your splendid and a good knowledge
Superbe ! I appreciate the way you teach!
is it incorrect to say meters instead foot like when a british persone asks me how tall i'm i must say foot?
You can use 'feet' for the plural of 'foot' -- in fact I think it sounds odd to say 'I'm six foot tall' rather than 'I'm six feet tall', but people do often say 'foot' instead of 'feet' in conversation. For meter(s) you should use the plural if it's more than one meter, eg 'The wall is 4.5 meters high.' :-)
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I convert hectares to acres by remembering the old radio jingle “ 247 Radio 1”
That’s the conversion factor 2.471
I'm a naturalised British. I got used to the imperial system, except for the weight measurements. I have a lot of problem converting kilograms to stones AND pounds. Usually what happens is that a converter takes the stone value and adds a decimal to the bit that comes afterwards. So for example, 78kg becomes either 12.25 stones or 12 stone, 3 lb. I mean.. come on! That's really annoying. At least make fully working converters! I don't get why decimalise a system that was designed to be not decimal in the first place!
I wouldn't bother, myself. People should be able to use kg!
Centimeters are on the rulers and tapes, though some have both centimeters and millimeters.
As for inches, feet and yards, they are used in the U.S. However, metric is taught in most Americans
Schools and used in Maths texts.
I noticed you did not measures grams for weight, nor kilos.
Think they should be included. In some places in the UK, as recently as 2015, people have road signs
Telling distances in miles or miles / km. It's a lot to take in.
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Hello, Gill! Again, an excellent video! It made me curious. Are you for the Brexit? Thanks.
In Australia we use metric but most people of British decent are comfortable using imperial.
In general it is really useful & nice. I would appreciate if you started your explanation from the smaller units to bigger ones.
Do you use "yards" when talk about your height?
We never use yards for height even if were talking about buildings, you always use feet. Yards is more of a distance context such as 500 yards down the road or four yards long but never 4 yards high. I would explain why this is but i honestly have no idea its just one of them things.
@@jacobthrym7552 Thanks!
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Thank you madam, you have a great talent for teaching l am learning from you l have enjoyed the conversation among you to Kamila.thank you madam
Great lesson thank you so much.
Thank you Jill !!!
Thanks teacher you help me a lot because my wish and my dream is to be a good English language speaker
I'm From norwegian . Thank you for this wonderful work we have learned alot from you
It is propably working in a company but there is a problem...my accent and sense is british but the company is american, so, what Am I supposed to do...do a feedback learning American skilles? Helpd me
Hi - you don't have to change your accent to work in a company - it's quite usual for colleagues to have different accents. The main thing is to speak clearly so that people will understand what you're saying :-)
@@engvidGill oh thank you so much dear Gill I apresiate it, and will take your advice 🖤
Hi, i love the british accent. But, how do you pronounce heat, hate, hit, height? Are they being pronounced the same way?
Hi - those four words are all pronounced differently, because the vowel sound is different in each one. I recommend this website, which has audio clips you can listen to: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/heat
@@engvidGill ah, thanks a lot :)
I’ve just loved it, because I love maths!
I have no idea how to use it. In Thailand we use centimeter when talk about how tall ppl are or use kilo for weight hahaha.
+kaweeJay
That is because most Asian countries use the Decimal Unit as opposed to the Imperial Unit.
I am an American who knows the Imperial Unit *and* Decimal Unit.
How tall are you in centimeters?
How much do you weigh in kilograms?
I can tell it to you in Imperial Units.
I say 'Decimal' rather than 'Metric' because I *HATE* the French Scientist who invented this Decimal Unit; 'Metric' is a French word!
Excellent! Thank You!
thank you teacher !
like this very helpful. lady is lovely. nice xalming voice. more please 😁
So,it seems to me the british way of measuring things is less precise.More figurative/visual,maybe? Whereas the metric system is perhaps more intellectual/number based.Does this make sense?
Also,yeah,we use a bit of both systems here in Canada.
I think that Imperial or US standard measurements can be just as precise, maybe more so in some situations. My old school ruler had various inch subdivisions with 1/64 being the smallest. That has a greater precision than the mm. Having said that,I expect everyone measures to the precision appropriate for the situation. I might, for instance say "the shop is 100 yards up the road on the left". It's only a rough guess. Many younger people in the UK talk in metres and they would say "100 metres up the road on the left". There's a 10 % difference but it's only an approximation.
@Gabbiadini
The impossible question: Do you think after Brexit you will slowly switch back to full imperial system?
@@jandaletto probably, as even the younger generation says their height in feet and inches, and shop owners mostly opt for pounds and pints
@@beaker2257 you can go smaller than a millimetre, it is called the micro metre and then smaller than that femtometre
thank you,Gill
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