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Did you like this video? Why not watch Jade’s video tour of another part of London called Covent Garden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vbpnDAGVEeZg&index34&listPL-Q2Xro-OWKe-pXnqtUKfD2Gpsbpu6Gl7
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/
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