Peter Kay's Car Share: management speak cliches. (Hilarious, English lesson)
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John is Assistant Manager in a supermarket, where Kayleigh also works. Though he is her boss, they are also friends and share the car journey to and from work every day. The string of middle management power cliches John uses on the phone to HIS boss Dave (while Kayleigh acts them out) is pure comedy gold.
It is also a sweet little study in sociolinguistics. (TLDR: She may take the mickey, but it is precisely because she can't hear, or say, "keep pushing the envelope" or "give 110%" with a straight face, that she is wearing the unisex shop uniform and he is in a suit and tie. )
Note for E2L teachers: Though it is played for laughs, all the cliches John and Dave use are in common use. (Well worth googling the ones you don't know for meaning. Ask your students to guess the origin.)
[Sadly, the best way for your students to get ahead at work is to 'mirror', ie, notice when the boss uses one of these and then use it back to him next time you see him. See: 'Brown-nosing'. ]
Clipped from Peter Kay's Car Share s01e04. If you love the English language, seek it out! The whole series is hilarious and genius.
Property of BBC. Published by me under 'fair use', for educational purposes. No ownership implied.
Jolly quick questions for students:
1. What is a jobsworth?
2. "throw a sickie" - meaning?
3. Why is a "management away-day" funny in this context?
4. What is the hand gesture John gives Kayleigh when she is miming "belt and braces"? Verbal translation? (rude)
5. List the cliches from 1.38 to 2.18. Spot concentrations: which areas of life are they taken from? Why do you think that is? Could you guess how they entered management-speak in the UK?
6. 'Mixed metaphors' are ludicrous and associated with characters, like Shakespeare's clowns, who use language 'above their station' which they really don't understand. Spot any examples?
7. [00.44] "Come on, we've all done it." Done what? (check understanding question).
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🤣I love this!!! Just the words 'team building exercise' brings me out in hives!!!
Went on a strategy away day - leader couldn’t find the meeting room ! People following leader around grounds of hotel 😂
HILARIOUS ! Brilliant acting all round and Kayleigh is adorable in this.:)
He missed thinking outside of the box.
@neilmeldrum5853
Жыл бұрын
And blue sky thinking lol management bollocks
I wonder how many takes that took for not laughing when saying those line in that phone call 🤣 absolute class
Belt and braces 🤣 110% 🤣
That was a world-class squeak she came out with at the end there! Wow!
I work for a huge corporate company and this is so funny because it's so true. We can definitely relate to this stuff.
@deanageorge1692
7 жыл бұрын
Clarissa McPigeon it's hilarious and so true to life
Superb. Music is totally awesome should do a cd of all the ties from both series and donate profits to charity 😂😂😂
@biffgrimes.8345
7 жыл бұрын
I'd buy it .
He missed "blue sky thinking" 👽
I'm from Bolton and recognise many of the streets. Some are right near where I live.
If you tell one of these managers you' re not going to give more than 100% they think you're crazy.
Total bollocks language in every business etc from overpaid arseholes that should spend 50% of their working time on the shop floor. Let them see how hard it is to give at least 80%, whilst taking the insults and abuse from the "always right customers". Great parody from Peter Kay, love it.
110% for a dead end job. Bollocks. 🤣
Love here come back miss u
Omg I recognise the streets I live in little Hulton
I love the Dave Thompson character
Scotch Broth since the Olympics
so true!
He needs a glide path to success. Probably should have run his blue sky thoughts up a flag pole to see who saluted.
Kayleigh is adorable in this scene😋
@Brownalebelly
6 жыл бұрын
Kayleigh is adorable in EVERY scene ;-)
Management / Corporate Speak ... it's all true.
She has the+most seriously 😒 high pitched squeaky voice
Yeah
😃😃😃😃😃
This sounds like my partners zoom meetings every day as he 'works' from home. Hes payed 6k more than me and Im saving lives everyday. Still dont know what he works at
Shame it didn't continue as Dave starts slagging off Kayleigh !
I get PTSD just listening to that.
We went to a "quality meeting" and non of the pens worked.
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Why only half the sketch?
football metaphore going on in the dialogue here? "management away day" "close of play(?) wednesday" "run with that" "enough boots on the ground to wrap our heads round it" "into a corner" "drop the ball in this late stage of the game" great thought out writing.
@UKSCIENCEORG
6 жыл бұрын
Most of those relate to cricket, not football
@fivebats10
6 жыл бұрын
away day is a british rail thing from 70s, close of play - cricket, run with that - american football? boots on the ground - military, paint yourself into a corner - painting and decorating ! drop the ball - rugby or american football?