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The English we speak.

From BBC Learning English. Hello and welcome'm Neil.

I'm Neil.

Hey Faye shouldn't we be celebrating?

Why?

Haven't we presented a hundred of these, the English we speak, programs together?

A hundred. Oh no, we've done way more than that. I could present these programs standing on my head.

That, I would love to see.

Not literally. I mean do it easily without difficulty.

I know that, Faye, but you probably could present this program standing on your head,

because you're an old hand at this

excuse me I may have presented this program for many years, but I do not have old hands

how rude don't worry I wasn't referring to your hands. They look

lovely. If you were an old hand doing something it means you are very skilled and

experienced. It was a compliment.

Oh right, thanks.

Let's hear some examples of this phrase in action.

Let's get making to solve our IT problem shall we? He's an old hand at fixing computers.

Miguel is an old hand at map reading, so let's make him the leader on our mountain trek.

I can see you're an old hand at project management.

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