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What are the British like?
• They're quiet, good-natured and polite.
• They like to live quietly.
What will an Englishman do if you try to make him do something that he doesn't want to do?
• He'll say "No."
• He'll argue.
When does an Englishman become angry?
• When he writes to the newspapers.
• When cats come into his garden.
Why don't the British talk to people they don't know?
• Because they think that perhaps the people want to be alone.
• Because they're unfriendly.
When does an Englishman say: "Excuse me! "?
• When he treads on someone's foot.
• When people need to stand up in a cinema so that he can get to his seat.
What does an Englishman think about people in other countries?
• He thinks he's a better lover than they are.
• He thinks they're better lovers than him.
What do the British do if a foreigner speaks to them in his language?
• They answer loudly in English.
• They say that it's better for foreigners to learn English.
Why do the British feel sorry for foreigners?
• Because they think the foreigners are going to speak to them.
• Because the foreigners weren't born British.
What kind of record does an Englishman try to make?
• He tries to put more people in a telephone box than ever before.
• He wears the clothes of two hundred years ago, and fights old wars again.
What will an Englishman tell you if you talk to him?
• To come to his house for a cup of tea.
• All kinds of things that you don't want to know.
They think it's wrong to talk to somebody who perhaps wants to be alone.
• They think they shouldn't talk to somebody who perhaps wants to be alone.
• They think they needn't talk to somebody who perhaps wants to be alone.
People need to stand up in a cinema so that he can get to his seat.
• If the people don't stand up, he can't get to his seat.
• If he can't get to his seat, the people won't stand up.
Because the Englishman's so polite, some people say that he's a very bad boy-friend.
• The people say: "The Englishman isn't polite enough to be a good boy-friend."
• The people say: "The Englishman's too polite to be a good boy-friend."
He asks her if the seat's comfortable.
• He says: "How comfortable's the seat? "
• He says: "Is the seat comfortable? "
They say that it's much better for foreigners to learn English.
• They say that foreigners should learn English.
• They say that foreigners learn English better than they do.
They're always afraid that someone's going to speak to them; if anyone does, they answer very loudly in English.
• If anyone's afraid, they answer very loudly in English.
• If anyone speaks to them, they answer very loudly in English.
Although they're rather afraid of foreigners, the British also feel sorry for them.
• The British are rather afraid of foreigners, but they're sorry for them, too.
• The British aren't afraid of foreigners, and they aren't sorry for them, either.
He tries to put more people into a telephone box than ever before.
• He tries to put more people into a telephone box than there are in front of it.
• He tries to put more people into a telephone box than any other person has.
He'll show you all kinds of places that you don't want to go to.
• You don't want to go to the places that he shows you.
• You don't want to show him the places that you go to.
Perhaps he'll ask you to come to his house for a cup of tea.
• Perhaps he'll say: "Do you like tea? "
• Perhaps he'll say: "Would you like some tea? "