Chatterbox #293 – The history and culture of tea in the UK

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🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Who doesn’t love a hot cup of tea? Most countries have some kind of tea culture. However, the British think of tea as especially important to their culture. In fact, many people think of tea when they think of elements of British culture. In this Chatterbox episode, Anna talks with Andrew about her country’s relationship with tea and how important it is. So put the kettle on and sit back for an interesting conversation! Chatterbox is a Culips series for high and intermediate English learners in which native English speakers have a conversation on an interesting topic. Listening to this series will help to improve your listening skills and to expand your vocabulary. Fun facts In this episode, Anna mentions that Turkey is the country with the highest consumption of tea in the world. The average Turkish person drinks 3.16 kg of tea per year, whereas people in the #2 country, Ireland, drink 2.19 kg of tea per year. Every other country surveyed consumes, on average, under 2 kg of tea per year. There must be some amazing tea in Turkey! Expressions included in the study guide To come on the scene Fabric of social culture [Something] tea Criminal Just a splash To dress up Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Step On by Jahzzar Image: Sincerely Media and Rachel Cheng (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name is Andrew and my name is Anna and you're listening to the
0:08.5	Culeps English podcast. cast.
0:19.0	Hey there everyone, welcome back to Kuleps. This is Chatterbox, the KUPS series for intermediate and advanced English learners
0:24.0	that features natural unedited conversations between native speakers
0:28.8	about compelling topics or trending current events or a hot issue.
0:34.4	And today I'm joined by my co-host Anna.
0:38.1	Hey there, Anna.
0:39.3	Hey Andrew, and hello, all the listeners. So Andrew I'm super excited for this episode because
0:46.2	today we're going to be talking about tea and the culture and history of tea drinking in the UK.
0:55.0	So as you can imagine, this is definitely my cup of tea.
0:59.5	I had to, I'm sorry, I had to.
1:00.9	I had to. I had to.
1:01.9	I had to. Anna, could you quickly explain that joke for our listeners?
1:06.4	What does it mean if something is your cup of tea?
1:09.0	Yeah, I'm not sure if it was a joke, but we'll say it was a joke. If something is your cup of tea it means that you like it. You enjoy it, it is your thing.
1:18.6	So it's an idiomatic expression that means that you enjoy or like something exactly and and I'm really
1:25.2	excited for this episode too because I think this is a huge cultural difference in
1:30.6	fact between the UK and North America because we don't really have a
1:35.7	sophisticated tea drinking culture in North America. Of course people drink tea
1:41.0	it's common to drink tea but it's common to drink tea, but it's not as central to the culture of
1:46.2	North America as I think it is in the UK.
1:49.5	So I'm really excited to chat with you and to hear and learn all about it.
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