English Traditions. Англійські традиції
Кожна країна і кожна нація мають свої традиції і свої звичаї. Не можна говорити про Англію, не говорячи про її традиції і звичаї. Англійці пишаються своїми традиціями і всіляко підтримують їх. Англійці – домосіди. “Немає місця кращого, ніж дім”,- говорять вони. Коли вони не працюють, вони люблять проводити вихідні дні вдома з родиною. Англійці дуже люблять каміни, тому багато хто з них віддає перевагу відкритому вогню над центральним опаленням.
Вони люблять жити В невеликих будинках з маленьким садом. Люди в усьому світі знають прислів’я:
Англійці – великі любителі чаю. Вони п’ють його багато разів на день. Деякі англійці п’ють чай за сніданком, під час ланчу, після обіду, у “час чаю” і за вечерею. Деякі англійські родини п’ють “вечірній чай” і обходяться без вечері. Під час “вечірнього чаю” вони їдять холодне м’ясо, хліб з маслом, тістечка і, звичайно, п’ють багато чаю. Англійці завжди п’ють чай з чашок і ніколи – зі склянок.
Every country and every nation has its own customs and traditions. You cannot speak about England with-out speaking about its traditions and customs. Englishmen are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up. The English are stay-at-home people. “There is no place like home”, they say. When they don’t work they like to spend their days off at home with their families.
Englishmen are very fond of fireplaces, that’s why many of them prefer the open fire to central heating. They like to live in small houses with a small garden. People all over the world know the saying “The Englishman’s home is his castle”. They say that English people keep to their traditions even in meals. Porridge is the dish Englishmen are very fond of. Many of them eat porridge with milk and sugar for breakfast. As for the Scots, for example, they never put sugar in their porridge, they always put salt in it. By the way, breakfast time in England is between seven and nine. Then, between 12 and 2 there comes lunch time. In some English houses lunch is the biggest meal of the day – they have meat or fish, vegetables, fruit or pudding. In the afternoon, at tea-time the English like to have a cup of tea with milk.
Some Englishmen have their dinner late in the evening. For dinner they have soup, fish or meat, vegetables, pudding or fruit. For supper they usually have a glass of milk and a cake or a cup of tea and a sandwich. The English are tea-drinkers. They have it many times a day. Some Englishmen have tea for breakfast, tea at lunch time, tea after dinner, tea at tea-time and tea with supper. Some English families have “high tea” or big tea and no supper. For high tea they may have cold meat, bread and butter, cakes, and, of course, a lot of tea. The Englishmen always drink tea out of cups, never out of glasses.
Vocabulary:
Custom [‘kAstam] – звичай fire-place [‘faiapleis] – камін to keep up [ki:p лр] – підтримувати pudding [‘pudirj] – пудинг
Questions:
What can you say about the English? Where do the English like to spend their days off? Where do they like to live? What sayings do you know about the English? Do they have traditions in meals?
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