How do the english spend their holidays
How do the english spend their holidays
UNIT 22 TOPIC: WEEKEND. PASTIME.
GRAMMAR: REVIEW OF TENSES.
PART A TEXT. WHAT PEOPLE DO IN THEIR SPARE TIME
At weekends in England people like to relax. You can relax in many different ways. Some people like to stay at home with their families, and others like to go out and enjoy themselves. Young people enjoy going out to pubs, to the cinema or to nightclubs. Many young people also like to play different kinds of sports. Tennis is very popular in England in the summer when you can play outdoors Other popular sports are badminton, football, basketball and cricket. Cricket is a very traditional English game. It is played a lot at schools and in villages in the summer.
If you have children, you often go on day-trips to the seaside or take your children to amusement parks or perhaps to the zoo. In the summer, many parents like to take their children on picnics in the countryside, especially if they live in a big city. It is nice to get away from the noise and the traffic at weekends and relax in the country.
If you have a house in the country you probably spend a lot of your time in the garden. Gardening is another very traditional English pastime. People are very proud of their gardens and spend many hours trying to grow beautiful flowers and rare bushes.
English people usually have about 5 weeks’ holiday a year, apart from public holidays like Christmas and Easter. Many people like to go abroad for their holidays because the English weather is not always sunny. People want to lie in the sun and swim in the sea. So they cross the Channel and go to France, Spain or Italy. Some people fly, but a lot of people drive in their cars to the beaches in Southern Europe. However, many people also enjoy staying in Britain and visiting other regions of their own country. They like going to the sea-side in the south of England or the Lake District in the north. Many people also go to Scotland. It all depends on what you enjoy doing. You can relax in many different ways in England.
Comprehension
/. Listen to the text » What People Do in their Spare Time» and answer the questions:
How do people relax at weekends in England? What sports are popular in England? Where do people spend their holidays?
//. Read the text and analyse the language peculiarities of the text. Do some exercises in the next section to remember them.
Special Difficulties
/ Ask and answer questions. Use the verb «enjoy».
— Do you enjoy skating?
— Yes, 1 enjoy it very much.
1. Your son/read. 2. Mike/the picnic 3. Mary/dance. 4 You/the party. 5. you/watch films on television 6. Peter/the concert. 7 You/ /classical music. 8. Your friend/ski. 9. You/tish. Ш. Lucy/play tennis.
//. Complete the utterances using the word combination «enjoy oneself (oneselves)»:
///. Paraphrase using the verb «enjoy»:
1. Mike likes boating. 2. Helen liked the film very much. 3. We had a good time at the party. 4. I’m fond of gardening. 5. Did you like the book? 6. He likes walking in the forest. 7. Do you like Indian films? 8. You are fond of playing chess, aren’t you? 9. We liked swimming in the lake.
IV. Say that you or some other people are proud of smb/smth:
e.g. Mrs Smith/her son
Mrs Smith is proud of her son.
1. Mr Baxter/his wife. 2. We/our children. 3. George/his brother. 4. Ann/her daughter. 5. Mr. Collins/his collection of stamps. 6. The boss/his office.
V. Make up your own sentences using the verb «spend» + Participle J:
e.g. My son/read detectives
My son spends hours reading detectives. 1. My father/fish. 2. Jack/play football. 3, Marian/work in the garden. 4. David/listen to pop music 5. My daughter/do her homework 6 She/play the piano.
VI. Fill in the gaps with, either «other» or «another» (self-check) :
VII. Translate into English (self check):
1. Тебе нравятся французские фильмы? — Да. 2. —Мне не понравился концерт. А тебе? — Мне тоже. 3. Один из ее сыновей летчик, другой — дипломат. Она очень гордится ими. 4. — Этим летом мы отдыхали на юге.— Вы хорошо провели время? — Да, погода была великолепная. Мы наслаждались, купаясь в море и загорая. Мой муж проводил много времени за рыбалкой. Это его хобби.
Text Exercises
/. Ask and answer questions on the text.
II. Speak on weekends and holidays in England.
III. How do you usually spend your weekends? Do you go in for sports? What is your favourite sport? Where do you usually go for your holidays? Why?
How do the english spend their holidays
Project Britain
British Life and Culture
by Mandy Barrow
The weekends are a time for families in Britain. Often the parents are not at work having worked a five day week from Monday to Friday. Saturdays are a busy time for shops with many families going shopping.
Sundays used to be a very special day of the week in Britain. It was the one day of the week for ‘worship and rest’. The shops were closed and most people were at home or at church. Popular leisure activities on Sunday used to be going to church and doing odd jobs around the home such as gardening and DIY.
Until a few years ago shops were not permitted to open on a Sunday. Sundays today are becoming like any other day other week with shops open. Some families will now spend their time shopping rather than going to church or they will combine the two activities.
Britain is becoming a far less Christian country with fewer people regularly attending Church.Many Christian’s believe that Sunday should be kept special, as a time given to worshipping God. They think it is important for Christians to meet together, listen to readings from the Bible and celebrate Holy Communion. Others believe that it is important that families have time to be together. (The shopping hours on a Sunday are less than on any other day of the week.)
How do people spend their free time?
People enjoy various indoor and outdoor activities in Britain.
An Euro stat survey, the EU’s statistical office, discovered that people in Britain spend about 45% of their free time watching television, 24% of their free time socializing, 22-23% on sport and hobbies, and 10% on other activities. Other popular leisure activities are listening to the radio, listening to pre-recorded music, reading, DIY, gardening, eating out and going to the cinema.
The most common leisure activity in the UK is watching television. The average viewing time is 25 hours per person per week. Almost all households have at least one television set. The proportion of households using satellite, cable or digital television was 44 per cent in 2002. Many television programmes are about wildlife, animals, holidays, cooking and gardening. All these things are much cherished by British people.
What television programmes do British people watch?
People in Britain listen to an average 15 hours and 50 minutes of radio each week.
The only radio I listen to is the Top 40. I like to find out who is number one in the pop charts each week.
» My parents listen to the radio in the mornings and when we are having our evening meal.»
In 2005/06, 88 per cent of UK households had a CD player and 79 per cent a mobile phone. In April to June 2006, 26 per cent of people aged 15 and over owned an MP3 player.
In January to April 2006, 56 per cent of households in Great Britain had a desktop computer, 30 per cent had a portable or laptop computer, and 7 per cent had a handheld computer.
The second most popular activity in Britain is visiting or entertaining friends or relations.
«Mum and Dad go out and visit friends at least once a week. Sometime me and my brother go too. Every Wednesday after school James and I go to see our gran.»
Cinema (Movie house)
Britons made 123 million visits to the cinema in 1998 making it the most popular cultural activity in the UK.
«I like to go to the cinema with my friends at the weekend whenever there is a good movie on.»
Eating out has grown in popularity, with British people spending in 1999 an average of £5.63 per person per week on food (excluding alcohol) outside the home.
«We go to McDonalds at least once a week. Sometimes we have a pizza delivered to our house. Occasionally we will go to a restaurant.»
Homes and Gardens
The British are known as a nation of gardeners. Most people have a garden on their property. Gardening has been a popular pastime since Roman times.Many people in Britain are proud of their houses and gardens. They want their houses and gardens to look nice. Every town in Britain has one or more DIY (Do it Yourself) centres and garden centres. These are like supermarkets for the home and garden. These places are very popular with British home-owners at the weekends.
«We don’t have a big garden like some people. Dad likes to mow the lawn. Sometimes I help him. Mum looks after the flowers. She weeds the garden so that the garden looks good. I am growing some vegetables in my garden.»
Activities outside the home
Saturday is traditionally the day for shopping and watching sports.
A newspaper survey found that 20 per cent of women are compulsive shoppers.
Saturday is the main day when we go shopping. Sometimes we will go into town after school.
Sports and Physical Recreation
Sports and physical recreation have always been popular. Local governments provide cheap sport and leisure facilities such as swimming pools, tennis courts, parks and golf courses. People go to watch other people play sports like football or take part in sports themselves.
Read more about the different sports we play
Pubs (Public Houses)
Mandy is the creator of the Woodlands Resources section of the Woodlands Junior website.В
The two websitesВ projectbritain.comВ andВ primaryhomeworkhelp.co.ukВ are the new homes for the Woodlands Resources.
Mandy left Woodlands in 2003 to work in Kent schools as an ICT Consultant.
She now teaches computers atВ The Granville SchoolВ andВ St. John’s Primary SchoolВ in SevenoaksВ Kent.
Unit recently, the British enjoyed less holiday time than most European nations Nowadays, almost every full-time employee is entitled to four weeks or more of paid hot day. Much of this free will be spent at home or visiting relatives, especially at Christmas. “Taking a holiday” means going away from home for at least a few days. About 80 per cent of British managerial and professional classes have at least one holiday of five days c more a year, but less than half the inanual working class will spend their savings on this pleasure. (Older pensioners and families with young children find “going away” particularly difficult.)
How do the British spend their holidays? Let’s return to the Taylor family. Carol and Bill assume that they will spend their main holiday together. While the children were growing up, they used to spend two week each summer, usually in Wales. Ones they hired a caravan on the seashore when the children were very young. It was cheap an convenient, but neither Bill nor Carol enjoyed being so close to all their neighbours. The children, however, loved playing on the beach. Then they bought a tent, and used to spend one week with Carols parents, with the children camping in the garden, and one week in various campsites around Wales. Many of these are in very beautiful place, and they allow more privacy than caravan sites. Showers, toilers and a shop are normally available. The family walked, explored mountains and streams took picnics on boating expeditions on takes, and visited castles, eaves and historic sites.
One year it poured with rain, it was impossible even to read in the tent, and everyone was very bad-tempered; so the following year Bill and Carol was tired of doing the housework on holiday too. Eventually they decided they could afford to go France, for a camping holiday. The family drove to the warm south, explored France an occasionally ate in cheap French restaurants.
Sarah and Martin, then they were married with one baby, wanted sun about all. So they bought a “package” of an airfare, hotel reservations, and (sometimes) excursions and a group guide. They knew before they started exactly how much their holiday would cost. Spain is popular because it offers a wonderful climate. Package holidays are cheap and very convenient, but since they are organized for groups, you have to have similar tastes to those of all the people on holiday with you.
As a student, Peter bought a European “Railcard” for a month, and travelled wherever he wished on the European railways. He met hundreds of other young people, wandered round half a dozen famous European cites and lived on buns and pies bought c: station platforms. He slept on Greek beaches, and spend a weekend with a drunken Dutchman mending bicycles in a small Dutch town. He was proud of the distance he had covered.
Разработка к уроку «Holiday-making»
How do the British spend their holidays?
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«Разработка к уроку «Holiday-making»»
1. Christmas (Xmas) – Рождество (25 декабря), главный церковный и светский праздник года в Великобритании и США. Рождественские святки отмечаются с середины декабря до 6 января (Twelfth Night); 25 и 26 декабря – официальные выходные дни.
2. package tour / holiday – комплексная туристическая поездка\экскурсия (с одновременной оплатой полного обслуживания, включая проезд, гостиницу, питание, посещение зрелищных мероприятий и т. п.)
Phonetic Notes: managerial, castle, glamorous, extravagant, honeymoon
Until recently, the British enjoyed less holiday time than most European nations. Nowadays, almost every full-time employee is entitled to four weeks or more of paid holiday. Much of this free time will be spent at home or visiting relatives, especially at Christmas. «Taking a holiday» means going away from home for at least a few days. About 80 per cent of British managerial and professional classes have at least one holiday of five days or more a year, but less than half the manual working class will spend their savings on this pleasure. (Older pensioners and families with young children find «going away» particularly difficult.)
How do the British spend their holidays? Let’s return to the Taylor family. Carol and Bill assume that they will spend their main holiday together. While the children were growing up, they used to spend two weeks each summer, usually in Wales. Once they hired a caravan on the seashore when the children were very young. It was cheap and convenient, but neither Bill nor Carol enjoyed being so close to all their neighbours. The children, however, loved playing on the beach. Then they bought a tent, and used to spend one week with Carol’s parents, with the children camping in the garden, and one week in various campsites around Wales. Many of these are in very beautiful places, and they allow more privacy than caravan sites. Showers, toilets and a shop are normally available. The family walked, explored mountains and streams, took picnics on boating expeditions on lakes, and visited castles, caves and historic sites.
One year it poured with rain, it was impossible even to read in the tent, and everyone was very bad-tempered; so the following year Bill and Carol rented a cottage – in Scotland. Sarah and Kate began to dream of something more glamorous; Carol was tired of doing the housework on holiday too. Eventually they decided they could afford to go to France, for a camping holiday. The family drove to the warm south, explored France and occasionally ate in cheap French restaurants.
Sarah and Martin, when they were married with one baby, wanted sun above all. So they bought a «package holiday» in Spain. By paying a single payment to the travel agent they received a «package» of an airfare, hotel reservations, and (sometimes) excursions and a group guide. They knew before they started exactly how much their holiday would cost. Spain is popular because it offers a wonderful climate. Package holidays are cheap and very convenient, but since they are organized for groups, you have to have similar tastes to those of all the people on holiday with you.
As a student, Peter bought a European «Railcard» for a month, and travelled wherever he wished on the European railways. He met hundreds of other young people, wandered round half a dozen famous European cities and lived on buns and pies bought on station platforms. He slept on Greek beaches, and spent a weekend with a drunken Dutchman mending bicycles in a small Dutch town. He was proud of the distance he had covered.
Kate, when she was 21, together with a friend spent a holiday working in a home for mentally-handicapped children. A group of volunteers took the children on excursions to the seaside, to the country, and to a special performance of a children’s play. Kate and her friends relaxed each evening in the village pub where they became very friendly with some of the «locals» (regular customers of the pub).
Free of their children, Bill and Carol decided to be extravagant and fly to Italy. They booked a hotel in Florence, spent a week in the art galleries and churches there, and then spent another week visiting nearby smaller but beautiful Italian towns. Since they had to spend money on airfares, hotels, meals out and travel, the holiday was very expensive. But it was wonderful – «like a second honeymoon», said Carol.
These are typical «middle-class» holidays. Holidays at the seaside, in boarding houses (much cheaper than hotels), caravans, and holiday camps were the traditional holidays of working class people. Now many of them fly on package holidays to Spain. Group holidays, whether in holiday camps in Britain or in hotels in Spain, are much cheaper, and therefore offer the possibility of a proper holiday to people with less money. But even with packages, it is the individual who chooses whether to go and makes the arrangements.
1. to assume – 1. принимать, брать на себя: to assume responsibility; 2. предполагать, считать: e.g. Let’s assume that it is true.
2. to hire – 1. нанимать: to hire a servant; 2. брать напрокат: e.g. to hire a car.
3. a shore – берег моря, озера: e.g. They had a house on the shore of Lake Geneva.
seaside – 1. приморский курорт; to go to the seaside – поехать на морской курорт, поехать к морю; 2. (редк.) морской берег, побережье; to live at the seaside – жить у моря; a seaside town – 1. морской курорт; 2. приморский городок.
4. to rain – идти (о дожде): e.g. It has been raining since morning. to pour (with rain) – лить как из ведра: e.g. What a day! It’s pouring! a shower 1. душ: e.g. to take a shower; 2. ливень: e.g. The travellers were caught in a shower.
5. a caravan – 1. караван; череда, вереница: e.g. It was getting dark when the caravan of pilgrims reached Canterbury; 2. жилой автоприцеп, дом-фургон: e.g. In summer we hired a caravan and spent a month at the seaside.
6. a camp – лагерь, стоянка, место привала; a summer camp – летний лагерь для детей и молодежи; to camp – разбивать лагерь; to camp out – ночевать на открытом воздухе; to go camping – жить в палатках (в туристическом, молодежном лагере): e.g. Camping has long become a popular way of holiday-making for thousands of people all over Europe.
7. hike – поход (пеший); to go on a hike – пойти в поход; to go hiking – ходить в походы: e.g. In Austria, we went on lots of great hikes. / to hitch-hike – путешествовать автостопом.
8. site – место для чего-либо: e.g. A home for the elderly will be built on the site of the old hospital. / a building site (Amer. a construction site) – строительная площадка; a campsite – палаточный городок, кемпинг;a caravan site – место стоянки домов-фургонов, городок из домов-фургонов.
10. to afford sth / to afford to do sth – иметь возможность, быть в состоянии сделать что-либо; позволить себе (сделать) что-либо: e.g. I cannot afford the journey. He cannot afford to speak freely.
12. (health/holiday) resort – курорт; seaside resort – морской курорт; summer resort – летний курорт: e.g. I want to go to a lively resort where the nightlife is exciting.
13. excursion – экскурсия; to go on an excursion – пойти/поехать на экскурсию: e.g. We went on an excursion to Stonehenge.
16. famous – известный, знаменитый: e.g. Charles Dickens became famous after the publication of «The Pickwick Papers». / to be famous (for) – быть известным, славиться чем-либо: e.g. Saint Petersburg is famous for its monuments and palaces.
17. proud – гордый: e.g. Henry is a very proud man. to be proud of sb/sth – гордиться кем-либо/чем-либо: e.g. Margaret is proud of her daughter – she is a talented pianist. / pride – гордость: e.g. His pride did not allow him to take money for the work.
18. sight – красивый вид, зрелище / sights – достопримечательности; to see / to do the sights – осматривать достопримечательности: e.g. We spent the afternoon walking around Rome, seeing all the sights. / sightseeing – осмотр достопримечательностей: e.g. By this time, I was sick of sightseeing; to go sightseeing – осматривать достопримечательности / a sightseer – тот, кто осматривает достопримечательности, любитель достопримечательностей
19. to be good-tempered – иметь хороший характер; to be bad-/ill-tempered – иметь плохой характер; быть раздражительным: e.g. Pressure at work was making her more and more bad-tempered.
20. a boarding-house – пансион, меблированные комнаты с питанием: e.g. Mrs. Allistone has been staying at this boarding house for over a year.
21. eventually – в конечном счете, в итоге, в конце концов: e.g. Eventually he will gain by the reform.
22. to wander – бродить, странствовать: e.g. Look at this little boy wandering about the campsite – perhaps he has got lost.
23. to arrange – 1. организовывать: e.g. Ann is arranging a surprise party for Russell’s birthday. 2. приводить в порядок: e.g. The girl arranged her hair and went out. Before going away Ted arranged his business affairs. 3. располагать в определенном порядке, классифицировать: e.g. The books were arranged in the alphabetic order. 4. уславливаться, договариваться, приходить к соглашению: e.g. A marriage has been arranged between Mr. Brown and Miss White. I have arranged to meet her at ten o’clock. I have arranged for a car to meet you at the airport. / arrangement – 1. организация, подготовка чего-либо: e.g. Who is responsible for the arrangements for the President’s visit? / 2. приведение в порядок: e.g. The arrangement of the furniture in our new house took a long time. 3. договоренность, соглашение; to come to an arrangement – прийти к соглашению; to make an arrangement (for) – договориться, условиться; организовать что-либо: e.g. Have you made arrangements for your journey to Scotland? 4. аранжировка (муз.): e.g. an arrangement of orchestral music for the piano
to be entitled to sth – иметь право на что-либо: e.g. The employees of our company are entitled to a four-week holiday every year.
to put up a tent – поставить палатку: e.g. The tourists put up a tent on the bank of the river.
at Christmas BUT on Christmas Day
historic – historical too – either – also
journey – voyage – trip – travel(s) to come – to go – to arrive
a) Complete the sentences with the words and expressions in the proper forms:
LearnEnglishBest / Рассказы, статьи / Топик Summer Way of Spending Time – Летнее времяпрепровождение
Топик на английском языке Summer Way of Spending Time – Летнее времяпрепровождение
My name is Alia. I’m thirteen. I would like to tell about Summer Way of Spending Time.
In my opinion there is a great number of different ways of spending summer holidays. It depends on person, on his culture, education, age, social level and personal tastes and preferences. So, everyone likes his own way of summertime spending.
It is a great pleasure to have a rest after a whole year of hard work or study. People like to travel during their summer holidays.
Some people go abroad to see new countries, some people prefer to go to the country-side to enjoy country-life far from noise and fuss of big cities. Other people like staying at home doing nothing, but watching TV and playing computer games.
Some people like to spend their holidays in cities, visiting theatres, museums and going sightseeing. But a great number of people go to the seaside.
As for me, I prefer to go on holiday to the seaside. I do not like crowds. My family and I always have our holiday on the coast. Sea and sunbathes, that is what we look forward to every summer. Hotels at the large seaside towns are rather expensive, so we usually go camping.
Last year we spent our holidays in a camp. Each day was full of small joys. We swam in the sea, lay in the sun, played different games and had a wonderful time.
We lived there for about a month. The time passed very quickly. It was a wonderful holiday.
[ перевод ]
Меня зовут Алия. Мне тринадцать лет. Я хочу рассказать о летнем времяпрепровождении.
По моему мнению существует большое количество различных способов времяпрепровождения во время летнего отпуска. Это зависит от человека, от его культуры, образования, возраста, социального уровня, персональных вкусов и предпочтений. Так, каждый находит приятным свой собственный способ летнего времяпрепровождения.
Это большое удовольствие отдохнуть после целого года трудной работы или обучения. Люди любят путешествовать во время своего летнего отпуска.
Некоторые люди выезжают за рубеж посмотреть новые страны, некоторые люди предпочитают выезжать за город, чтобы вдалеке от шума и суеты больших городов насладиться деревенской жизнью. Другие люди любят оставаться дома и ничего не делать, только смотреть телевизор и играть в игры на компьютере.
Некоторые люди любят проводить свой отпуск в городах, посещая театры, музеи и осматривая достопримечательности. Но большое количество людей едет на побережье.
Что касается меня, я предпочитаю проводить каникулы на побережье. Я не люблю столпотворения. Моя семья и я всегда проводим отпуск на побережье. Море и солнечные ванны, именно к этому мы и стремимся каждое лето. Гостиницы в больших приморских городах довольно дорогие, так что мы обычно отправляемся в кемпинг.
В прошлом году мы провели наш отпуск в кемпинге. Каждый день был полон маленькими радостями. Мы плавали в море, лежали под солнцем, играли в различные игры и у нас было замечательное время.
Мы прожили там целый месяц. Время прошло очень быстро., Это был замечательный отпуск.
Questions – Вопросы к топику:
in my opinion — по моему мнению, по-моему
to depend on — зависеть от
social level — социальное положение, уровень
preferences — предпочтения
summertime spending — летнее времяпрепровождение
pleasure — удовольствие
to go (past went, p«p. gone) abroad — уезжать за границу
to go (past went, p.p. gone) to the country-side— уезжать за город
to enjoy — наслаждаться
noise — шум
fuss — суета
sightseeing — осмотр достопримечательностей
as for me — что касается меня
coast — побережье
sunbathes — солнечные ванны, загорание под солнцем
crowd — толпа, столпотворение
to look forward — стремиться
expensive — дорогой
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