Life in London: Visiting an art gallery
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 เม.ย. 2018
- Today we are out and about in the suburbs of London. Come with me and visit a very special shop, an art gallery full of paintings, sculptures, and other art works. But it's an art gallery with a difference, as money made from sales goes to an organisation called Street Souls, a charity for homeless people. We'll be chatting to David, who runs the gallery and chooses the art works to display there. We'll hear about the special opening of the gallery, attended by a famous London-based film star (I'll give you a clue -- he has appeared in Lord of the Rings!). This is a chance for you to listen to real conversation between two native English speakers, as well as to learn about English culture. So, if you're ready, let's go in...
Learn more about Artful Pelican and the Street Souls organization at their Facebook pages:
/ artfulpelican
/ streetsoulshomeless
Did you like this video? Why not watch Jade's video tour of another part of London called Covent Garden:
• Welcome to London - To...
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", yeah.
Gill: And I'd first seen him on the stage in the 1970s, and been really knocked out by his...
David: Oh, good.
Gill: Like, he was in the Shakespeare play, Richard II, so that was when I first ever saw him.
David: So we fulfilled a wish, then, you got to meet him.
Gill: So all those years later, there he was.
David: Oh, good.
Gill: Slightly nearer.
David: He was very good with everyone that came, yeah.
Gill: So that was great, that was great because he cares a lot about the charity.
David: He cares a lot about homelessness.
Gill: Yes.
David: He has two pet likes, which is homelessness, which is what we're all about.
Gill: Yes.
David: And AIDS, they're his two main... main things.
Gill: Right. Yes, yes.
David: So the homeless thing...
Gill: Yeah.
David: He was very keen to help.
Gill: Yes, yes. So you... This is an art gallery, obviously, but you have this sort of fundraising element for charity?
David: Well... Yes, of course, it is an art gallery, but it's a non-profit art gallery.
Gill: Right.
David: So no one earns a salary in here. Every penny of the profits gets plowed back into the gallery or at homeless projects, Street Souls. So we help homeless people street-level.
Gill: Right.
David: And in particular homeless artists through the art gallery. […]
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The best and the most lovely teacher I've ever had.
Cheers from Brazil.
I love your videos, Gill. I am a big fan of yours. Your accent is fascinating.
We love you Gill 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Indeed we do !🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Super useful and informative lesson. I really liked and enjoyed the conversation between Gill and David. It was a natural conversation between this two native speakers where you can hear real English. Thank you very Much Gill!
I've frankly loved your visit, Gill.I look forward for another stroll. Thank you!
I love to see how she is passionate about art and considers non native speaker for how they might feel. LOVE YOU GILL
Thank you Gil, it was amazing to look around that sort of non-profit art gallery, and because I'm an elderly foreign student of 73 years old, I appreciate a lot the transcript. ( It was very useful to understand better ). ( Is the sentence correct ? )
Mariella Ferrari ,
I want to congratulate you! I'm very glad to hear you are a 73 years old student! I'm a 52 years old student and study English is challenging but also tiring for me sometimes. I think you're Italian, because your name is Italian, so I feel pride since I'm Italian, too. You are very inspiring.
Thank you TV for your congratulations....yes I'm Italian too, but if I may correct you....." pride " isn't the adjecive....you have to say " I feel proud ". If Mrs Gil will correct us, I should very glad. I'm so happy to have the opportunity to practice Enlish language by on-line, because I didn't study when I was younger, and I'm so fond of English culture !! Now that I'm retired, I should like to travel and the English language is very useful !!!!!!
Mariella Ferrari
Of course you can correct me, I appreciate it a lot, so I can improve myself. I'm a housewife and I hope to travel abroad in the future, too.
To TV, ........sorry, I didn't want to be rude about " pride " or " proud " Really it doesn't matter, I understood your feeling about beeing Italian, I'm proud too to be Italian, but to know the English language it's amazing because you can connect whith the all world !!!! Thanks again for your comment !!!
Mariella Ferrari,
don't worry! You didn't rude at all, why do you think so? I'm sincerely glad about you correct my grammar mistake, it's a way to improve.
I agree with you, English language connect people: we are Italian and are chatting in English, perhaps we shouldn't ever talked each other in Italian language. I want to tell you more about this: I believe studying English allows us to know deeply our native language due sometimes we have to try another way to tell what we mean.
For this reason I want thank Mrs Gill for the beautiful video, but also for giving us the input for this pleasing exchange opinions.
Very nice to meet you, Mariella.
Hello Gill... I am Susana from Córdoba, Argentina. What a beautiful work the owner of that art gallery does... Helping homeless people... And there are so many different kind of art there... Thank you for showing us that place...!
Dear Gill: Thanks for that video! I liked it very much!
amazing so nice and lovely place many thanks gill❤👌💕⚘
Always so creative! You are big
Another fantastic class, not only teaching us but also showing us London around. I love it. Thank you so much.
Wonderful video ,Gill. Thanks a lot! ❤
Great video. I lived in Paris about two years and visit art galleries was one of my favourites pleasures 😙😙
Happy Teacher day
No number of thank you, can ever be enough to express the gratitude for the innumerable things I learned from you
Sara from Iran
5th October
So good to see, a wonderful gallery and homless people getting real help!❤
Thank you Gill!🌹
I'm missning your lessons!
I’m a native English speaker from America who loves your videos. You’re so kind and welcoming. Ty for all the work you put into your videos.
I love art galleries. Thank you for taking me along to this lovely gallery.
Most fascinating English teacher ever found ....❤❤❤
Very interesting lesson. Thanks to you Gill and to Mr. David also 🙏
I was there -National Galery- 22 years ago. Gill thanks for every thing. You are great!!!
very nice and really inspiring interview ! in particular the way Gill communicate. Just amazing ! I love it ! I'd love to see much more interviews with Gill. That could serve as a textbook interview really useful, not only for English learning but also as an example of a very positive, and interesting conversation. Thank you Gill !
You are the best and the loveliest teacher ever !!!
wonderful video about art galleries. That chic touch has not been lacking and refinement has reigned
Love u, Gill!! ❤️ 🇧🇷
Thank you for your excellent work Gill! Help us a lot
i really like it.. the way you transfer the lesson in such great way like conversation with someone or visiting someplace and have a look around it.. great... can't wait for another great video
wow～ Gill‘s Vlog~around London 👍✨
This lovely lady made my English lessons so unforgettable. I love her
Beautiful! You have such great ideas for teaching. Thank you so much!
Dear Gill, thanks so much, great job!
Love to watch this...thanks Gill
That was very interesting! Thank you Gill and big greets to the Gallerie man und his wonderful Gallery🥰👏🏻
Thanks for giving us a benefit info about an art gallery ❤ thanks Mrs Gill
Thank you Gill again for showing us to this interesting Art Gallery, you are right,I am a person English is my second language,
I keep on watch your program hopefully this will improve my English speaking capacity,When I learned that this shop is a non
Profit art gallery and is helping the homeless people,I am really respect David for doing such a wonderfull thing to the community
even though I still find some difficult to listen to David’s conversations, but I have no problem to hear what you said,by the way
I know Jack Nicolson and Dr Who,I also like the sculpture which have his hair blowing in the wind,I hope you can understand
What I try to write about this fantastic visit in the gallery,bye now.
I believe.. the best most lovely teacher I've ever had.!!
Thanks Gill.. Nestor from Tucuman, Argentina
Wonderful persons and place. Thanks for this exhibition.
They are doing a noble job, helping the homeless people and making their day will definitely give you mental satisfaction. I love it.
That was interesting visit to art gallery. and useful listening to a conversation between two native speakers. thank you Jill for that !
I love you so much tbh. Remind me of my nana.
I Love seeing Teacher Gill who is very nice to give learners many amazing video with nice voices and even more:)) thanks so much to Madam Gill !
Thank you for these useful videos you're brave and perfect teacher
Thanks Gill.i love you and your lesson
You are a amazing woman...your English language is so clear and simple 👌👏👏👏
I love
I'm from Bahrain 🇧🇭
My lovely teacher it's a wonderful lesson thank you a lot for this effort. Really these lessons are so useful
Lovely, Gill. Thank you.
I do love your lessons, what you have taught us isn’ t English but also art, history and culture as well. I love listening to your voice. It seems like the song from The sound of music. You look like the leading actress as well. God bless you.
What a heartwarming video! :)
Amazing. .Gill thanks for this video and for all lessons you are Best teacher in the world. .I am from Africa from sudan. .but I live in France now
I'll need to visit this art gallery, love it. Thanks
Huge thanks dear Gill
You're spontaneous and excellent a teacher .
that's really nice, thank you Gill
Dear Gill. Thanks for this video. I liked it very much!
I am glad to see such a place! Congrads and thanks for reminding us what real art is for: creating beauty for beautiful purposes in life :)
Both teacher and the gallery owner lovely. This program fix me many questions about using English.Thank you！
I Loved and I have a new place to visit in London! I must to confess: at the first listening was hard to understand but, after I read the conversation was easier and to know the gallery was amazing!
Thank you and hugs! ☺
Great Gill
Agree. No problem to understand Gill immediatly, but unfortunally I can't say the same for the gentleman. He speaks a little tight and quick for my listening skill.
How interesting Mrs Gill, you're so good at this, teaching and communicating. I must confess I couldn't follow David at first, so I had to put the english subtitles on, I' ll keep on learning with your english tutorials, thanks a lot 🤗🇦🇷
I love your video so much you make me remember my grandmother, 🌹🌹😍 thank you so much
Thanks Gill, excellent idea to follow the dialogue between native English in an environment as interesting as this art gallery
We need more videos like this Teacher, It is very helpful to learn English
A lovely video Gill, thank you.
Thank you for your video, Gill! Always so informative 👀🙌🏼
How interesting video! Authentic english and enriching
Fantastic teacher 👏👏👏
thank you so much for this video...you're so lovely and enchanting! keep up the good work, darling! cheers from Brazil, São Paulo.
Thanks for this!!😍😍😍
Brilliant, it was like being there!
Thank you for your lovely video.
Woo what a lovey description of the area n thing, keep going ma'am we expect more videos as well.
wow ! Thank you Gill.
Thank you.I love that place so much. And , I will visit there one day🌝👍
Enjoyed the tour, quite interesting.
Thanks lovely teacher from Peru love you
I just found your videos and I love them so much... I am an English teacher from Costa Rica and I really want to visit England...
Indeed it's a outstanding gallery
Great and inspiring video! This is a good option to get into the real life an practice. A little bit noisy at the beginning and the end because of the open door to the traffic street plus the bit bad resonance in the representation rooms. A lovely host and a nice gallery and additionally a very good structure to support needy people and artists! I can see myself sitting in the background room at the desk painting and creating pictures maybe in cooperation with someone and chatting.
What an amazing idea.
We love you too , Gill! Thank you
Thank you so much ! I like the lesson.
Very knowledgeable and very interesting video, thank you so much mam
I like museum 👌thank you Gill
Excellent video. Thanks
David has Australian like accent, lovely! Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing, Gill! Love your English lessons!
I love art gallery very pleased!
Merci Gil. J'adore votre videos.
Really very nice.... Work
Thank you Gil❤️❤️❤️
Here in Brazil, I'm an English professor as well, and I recommend this channel to all of my fellow students. Lovely, as always, and I surely will love to visit this gallery once in London!
Cheers
Thanks for showing friend it really great when I visit London I must reach this place.
Thanks for showing friend really great when I visited London I must resch this place my love teacher 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💜💜💜💜💜💙💙💙💚💚💚
👍👍👍....Thanks so much!
Thank you Gill
Thank you Gill.
Great 👍
The best of the best beautiful and amazing teacher the hugth world i love you dear gill .greeting and kiss from argentina !!!!!!
Great teacher 🇦🇴🇦🇴
There's nothing better than watching you. 👍🏿😍
Fabulous
Every single video is a motivated for me to learn English
Thank you ma'am.