British measurements: pints, feet, Celsius, and more

If you re interested in British culture, you need to know British measurements. It s useful to know about the different measurement systems, and interesting to learn how they came to be used. In the UK, we use a combination of imperial and metric measurements. In this lesson I will explain the British measurements we use for height, weight, distance, and temperature. I ll also teach you some vocabulary connected with measurement. Watch the video, then take the quiz at and see how you measure up Hi. I m Gill at and today s lesson is all about wonderful British Measurements. Okay The way that we measure things like height, how high somebody is (in my case, not very high); weight, how much people weigh (and again, in my case, not very much); how food and drink are weighed, like the volume, the quantity; property, like space in houses, the space, the shape of a room, how big a room br, br,