Let’s talk about customs and traditions of Great Britain. What famous festivals and celebrations do you know?
To begin with I’d like to point out that British customs and traditions are famous all over the world. When people think of Britain, they often think of people drinking tea, eating fish and chips, colorful royal ceremonies, soldiers in strange uniforms. In Britain customs and traditions play a more important part in the life of people than in other countries. The British are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up.
The British celebrate such public holidays as Christmas, Easter Monday, May Day, the Spring Bank Holiday, and The Summer Bank Holiday.
Besides public holidays there are other festivals, such as Pancake Day, April Fool’s day, Halloween, Guy Fawkes night, St Valentine’s Day and others. I’d like to describe some of them.
What questions can you ask a British teenager about his best holiday celebration?
Which holiday do you enjoy celebrating?
Is it a family holiday or a national one?
What traditions are connected with it?
How do you participate in celebrating?
What part of the holiday do you like most?
What can you tell me about national cuisine of Great Britain?
Foreigners often say that food in Britain is uninteresting and plain, noting fancy, it lacks originality and excellence. But British food is not as bad as some people think. There are many enjoyable dishes which can please even a demanding eater. Fish and chips is a popular and relatively inexpensiveBritish dish. Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding is a traditional English family lunch on Sunday. Apple pie is a favourite sweet in England.
A special place in the life of the British is occupied by tea. They are the world’s greatest tea drinkers. They drink a quarter of all the tea grown in the world each year.
Which festival in Britain will you recommend your friend to visit?
I guess it will be exciting to visit any of the British holidays to see the culture with your own eyes. But, to my mind, it will be interesting to see Halloween. It is a holiday annually celebrated on 31 October. People often dress up as skeletons, ghosts or other scary figures. Common symbols of Halloween include pumpkins, bats and spiders. Some children go trick-or- treating. This means that they dress up and go to other peoples’ houses, knocking on the door for treat of sweets or a snack. Those who do not give out a treat may be tricked with a joke instead.
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Let s talk about national character and stereotypes.
Let’s talk about national characters. They say every nation has got its national traits. What about Belarusians? What are our national traits?
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Belarusian traditions and features of the national character were formed in the course of complex history. The country was engulfed by many military conflicts, World Wars, national liberation revolts, revolutions and repressions. So our extraordinary history cultivated special character traits of our people, the main of them are tolerance and diligence.
Different from anyone else, Belarusians are able to adapt to any circumstances — not to change the circumstances but to change themselves, to accept these circumstances, to live them naturally, in harmony and even with pleasure.
The second aspect of the Belarusian character is that a Belarusian holds tight to what he has gained. He regards the external world with little trust.
At the same time, in the view of Belarusians themselves, they are loved and respected by everyone. People turn to Belarusians for help and support, because they know that a Belarusian will always be responsive and helpful. Belarusian people always enjoy receiving guests and are perfect at this. This tradition is alive today.
To sum up, Belarusian features of character are tolerance and a lack of temper. Belarusians are kind, soft, soulful, hard-working and hospitable. But at the same time they are they are reserved, not very jolly and rather pessimistic.
New Belarusians are rather inclined to intellectual jobs. They earn their living by using brains rather than by digging the soil. The young generation has more Belarusian identity than the Soviet generation. New Belarusians express more interest in their roots and history. Many Belarusians, both young and old, are fond of gardening very much.
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