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Well I'm in the supermarket today. I'm not really sure that I have everything I want so I'm kind of wandering around here. Trying to make sure that I have everything. I decided to make an aubergine bake. So for that, I need some pasta, tomato sauce…. I already have the aubergine, mozzarella and herbs but um, yeah. I just feel something is missing. And, I just came from the coffee shop next door. While hanging over my decaffeinated coffee I was also contemplating my next project. Before you get too excited, it's nothing really exciting but I'm just considering making a few changes to my, my teaching practice and what I do or perhaps just incorporating more things. I haven't quite decided.

Oh, look at this… my goodness me olive oil. The price is £6.79 for olive oil. And, that's a little bit too expensive for me. I think that's virgin olive oil. But it still doesn't convince me to buy it.And I see there’s two two Arab men kind of hanging over the bottles, mourning the price and I'm not surprised. I'm also mourning the price when I see it.

Oh delicious what's (this)…. lovely raw jumbo king prawns. I love king, prawns…. in Spanish they're called Gambas, at least one variety is.I I love those. Um, I also love octopus but there's no chance of finding that here. What's this…. peppercorn smoked mackerel fillets oh no thanks ….covered in sugar. Um, Oh, mozzarella. Yeah, I'll definitely have some of this. Um, and also Greek yogurt. Yeah, I think that's really necessary. Uh,

Oh yeah, this is very interesting…. they have vegan cheese here but they no longer call it cheese, they just call it vegan. And because of that, Uh, you're supposed to recognise it so they put it in exactly the same pack as ordinary cheese. They sit it next to the cheese and they call it “vegan”, but recently, that's been a big debate about whether they can call it real cheese because it technically isn't, I don't know what it's made of, but if it's vegan, it's not dairy….

Oh delicious a roast whole chicken for £4.99. Yeah, but it's tiny. The weight is 0.8 kilograms,,,goodness knows what that is. I’d need to know that in pounds, but it looks tiny. What's this… vegan spreads? Oh yeah. This is supposed to be hummus but they can't call it hummus anymore because of our advertising rules. Anything vegan needs to have its own name. It can’t say vegan cheese or vegan hummus because that's not what it is.

Halloumi, I love that. Um, anyway yeah, I'm just wandering around here, so Uh, just to carry on with what I was saying. Uh yeah, I'm just contemplating my future when I was hanging over a cup of coffee this morning just thinking about …you know, we're all looking for new projects to be involved with So I'm just seeing what that looks like.

New hobby, maybe. Um, Or new project at work. I don't know, but I'll keep you posted on that. Oh delicious tuna steaks. Oh, I love those.

Um, Okay. Let me just describe what I'm seeing. I'm in a kind of like Warehouse supermarket. Um, everything is Uh, kind of packed to the ceiling in this place and it has like those low hanging fluorescent lights. And as I'm walking around I can see that It's quite busy, particularly the alcohol section. And it's only 11 A.M right now. Local time. Uh, So, it's a bit early to be thinking of those kind of things.

Yeah, very nice. So Oh, Nutella, oh delicious. I love that. That's that chocolate spread. I think it's Italian. It's lovely. Um, but I can't have any of it, but it is very nice. Oh delicious runny honey. £2.25. I don't know why that would be so expensive. I mean runny honey, is it not just, um, just from the bees.

But yeah all kinds of natural food’s expensive, isn't it? Oh, I'm just watching these two Arab boys, who were staring at the olive oil. They've now bought loads of biscuits. Um, Yeah, and Indian sweets as well.

The great fire of London.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome again to another Teacher Joseph podcast.

(OAP is usually written as OAP - not O.A.P.)

Today, we are asking what is an OAP. An OAP is an old age, pensioner. Now, we never say the word “Oap” We always spell out the acronym, an OAP. And this is how we refer to older people.

It may be a pensioner in receipt of government benefits, but it might just be an older person who looks a little bit frail. Frail, just means maybe not as fit as once they were…. an old age pensioner, that's how we talk about older people,particularly those who are receiving the government state pension and are aged around 50, well, actually no 60, 65.

Yes, I think 65 is the earliest date these days you can receive the government benefit. Now, there's a headline in our newspaper today that talks about the rise of OAP shoplifters. Now, as I mentioned the other day, on this podcast, shoplifting is kind of a big thing in the UK now.

Nine pounds for a beer?

Out for a Walk

To bow to pressure.

Morris Dancing and other news from the UK.

As I mentioned, St. George’s Day can be a little bit controversial because the day is often

heavily politicized. English and British people generally are reclaiming their right to proclaim

themselves as Scottish or English rather than simply saying they are British.

Today in our media there's some pictures of some of the celebrations which took place

yesterday. There's Morris dancers... now Morris dancers are very specifically English traditional

dancers who sometimes appear when there's English... very specifically English celebrations.

It's like an English folk dance. Now, many people don't know this, but in the same way as you

have Scotland with bagpipes and you have Irish people doing river dancing and talking in Irish.

In England they have Morris dancers.

Now, this is often overlooked because it's not so well known. In a country, which is full of

diversity... English traditional things often get overlooked. Of course there's the traditional

English pubs. That's one thing which English people recognise as being something which

belongs to them but they do also have some dancing.

Morris dancers are usually men who wear white suits with some red sashes across their body.

They're often wielding white flags and have bells tied to their legs to make noises as they move.

We use the word “wield” when someone is handling a flag or a weapon or generally holding something. You might recognise that word from the headlines in the newspaper.

Shakespeare's birthday, St George's Day and other British news.

What does Saga mean and Princess Kate's brother James has problem with the neighbours