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This is a traditional English meal called "Fish and Chips".
It's chips with fish.
With chocolate strawberry banana sauce?
Chocolate strawberry banana sauce?
No, Red.
It's with vinegar on the chips.
Here, try one.
Mh. Fish and chips, I love them.
* Music *
This is the Union Jack.
It's the flag of the United Kingdom.
And it's a very special flag.
Because it's made up of three different flags.
It has the flag of Scotland
and the flag of England.
And the flag of Northern Ireland.
This is Saint Andrew's Cross.
A white cross on a blue background.
This is Saint George's Cross.
And this is Saint Patrick's Cross.
And when all three flags are put together,
they make the Union Jack.
* Music *
Behind me you can see one of the most famous places in London:
Big Ben.
Big Ben is also called the Great Bell,
because of the clock at the top of the tower.
The tower is ninety-six meters high.
There are three hundred and thirty-four steps
from the bottom to the top.
And inside the tower there are four mechanics
called "the keepers of the clock".
Their job is to make sure that the clock is always on time.
* Music *
David, here is your breakfast.
Thank you very much, auntie. - Enjoy it.- Thanks.
This is a traditional English breakfast,
called a "full breakfast".
People don't eat this every day for breakfast.
But people often have an English breakfast
at the weekend.
It's made up of fried egg.
Fried tomatos.
Fried toast.
Fried bacon.
Sausages.
And best of all: baked beans.
Which are beans in a very tasty tomato ketchup sauce.
And when people eat an English breakfast
they also have a cup of English tea to go with it.
* Music *
And the newspaper.
Hello.
Two pound twenty-two please.
Here you are.
Sorry, Sir, we don't take euros, we only take pounds.
Oh of course, silly me. Sorry about that.
In England, they don't have the euro, they have pounds.
They have five pounds and ten pounds.
And twenty pounds.
And best of all: They have lots of really nice coins.
This is two p, five p, ten p,
twenty p and fifty p.
But this one is the most important of them all:
It's one pence.
Because a hundred of them make one pound.
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This is a letter box.
In England, letter boxes are red like Red.
And I have a postcard that I want to send.
It's a postcard with a stamp on it.
If you look closely,
you can see that the stamp has got the Queen's head on it.
And if you look at the letter box
then you might see someting to do with the Queen.
What does that stand for?
That's Elizabeth II,
the reigning monarch here in England.
Okay. Can I give you the postcard?
If you like to put it in there,
then I'll open it.
Then we just have to scan the box.
Make sure that we've registered it.
Okay. Thanks very much.
That's it, yeah? - Thanks.- Okay.
That's an English letter box.
* Music *
The boys behind me are playing an English game called rugby.
Rugby startet more than a hundred and fifty years ago.
In a school in England.
The school was called "Rugby school".
The boys were playing soccer at the time.
And one of them picked up the ball and ran with it.
Today the ball looks like this.
And there are fifteen on each team.
And they throw the ball backwards and run forwards.
When they crossed the line,
they score a try and get five points.
Rugby isn't just played in England.
It's played all over the world.
From Australia to New Zealand to South Africa,
Wales Islands, Scotland.
And even in Germany.
* Music *
I am on the River Thames.
The River Thames is the most famous river in England.
It flows all the way from Oxford, which is that way,
to London and to the sea, which is that way.
The River Thames is very famous for two things:
Firstly for its rowing clubs.
Every town on the River Thames has its own rowing club.
And there are rowing races all the time every year.
And the second thing it's famous for is its swans.
Because all the swans on the river belong to the Queen.
And every year, the swans are counted.
So that is the River Thames.
* Music *
In England, telephone boxes are red. - Red.
And in a telephone box
you can make a phone call for ten pence.
Should we make a phone call, Red? - Mhm.
Okay, jump in.
Okay, Red, put the money in the phone.
Hello Holly, it's David. - And Red.
We'll be there in ten minutes.
Okay, bye.
And that is an English telephone box.
* Music *
Behind me, you can see the Tower of London,
another very famous landmark.
The Tower of London is a very old building.
It's over eight hundred years old.
Originally it was a fortress.
Then later a prison.
Many important people went to prison in this building.
And some of them were executed.
That's why the Tower of London has many ghosts.
The most famous ghost is Anne Boleyn,
who walks around the Tower of London with her head under her arm.
* Music *
I'm standing in the London Underground.
The London Underground is also known as the "Tube".
Because the trains travel along tubes underground.
The London Underground is the oldest underground system in the world.
And with its two hundred an seventy stations
and four hundred kilometres of track
it's the second biggest underground system in the world after Shanghai.
But although it's called the Underground,
more than half of the trains travel overground.
* Music *
This is a typical London bus.
It's called a double-decker because it has two decks.
One up there and one down here.
The one down here is called the saloon.
And at the back of the bus there are some stairs
which go up to the upstairs, the top of the bus.
This bus can seat sixty-four people.
But only five people are allowed to stand in the bus.
This bus is very old.
It's fourty-nine years old.
And there aren't many buses left like this today.
What's very special about it, is that at the back the bus is open.
So you can jump off the bus and jump onto the bus,
whenever the bus is standing still.
For example at traffic lights or in a traffic jam.
Now, there are only a very few buses like this in London today
that you can jump on and off.
But today, there are still double-decker buses
and they are still red.
* Music *
In England, all school children have to wear school uniforms.
Both, in primary schools and in secondary schools.
Every day before Holly goes to school,
she has to put on her school uniform.
Are you ready, Holly?
This is Holly's school uniform.
But it's her summer school uniform.
Holly also has a uniform for winter.
Okay, Holly, you can go to school now.
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