Traditions and Customs in the UK

Traditions and Customs in the UK

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Traditions and Customs in the UK

X: Food and Drinks X: Music and Literature X: Religions and Beliefs X: Sports and Hobbies

X: Traditional Festivals

Traditions and Customs in the UK

Food and Drinks British food has traditionally been based on beef, lamb, pork, chicken and fish and generally served with potatoes and one other vegetable. The most common and typical foods eaten in Britain include the sandwich, fish and chips, pies like the cornish pasty, trifle ['tra fl] and roasts dinners. Some of our main dishes have strange names like Bubble & Squeak [skwi:k] and Toad-in-the-Hole. The staple foods of Britain are meat, fish, potatoes, flour, butter and eggs. Many of our dishes are based on these foods.

Traditions and Customs in the UK

These two platefuls of food were served up in a pub. Steak and Kidney [kidni] Pie with chips and salad

Chicken Salad

Traditions and Customs in the UK

Britain is a tea-drinking nation. Every day they drink 165 million cups of the stuff and each year around 144 thousand tons of tea are imported.

Traditions and Customs in the UK

Tea in Britain is traditionally brewed in a warmed china teapot, adding one spoonful of tea per person and one for the pot. Most Britons [br tn] like their tea strong and dark, but with a lot of milk.

Traditions and Customs in the UK

Question If someone says 'let me be mother' or 'shall I be mother', What does it mean? It means they are offering to pour out the tea from the teapot.

Traditions and Customs in the UK

Music and Literature Throughout its history, the United Kingdom has been a major exporter and source of musical innovation [ n ve n] in the modern and contemporary eras [ r ], drawing its cultural basis from the history of the United Kingdom, from church music, from Western culture and from the ancient and traditional folk music and instrumentation of England,Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Traditions and Customs in the UK

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616)[nb 1] was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent [pri:em n nt] dramatist.[1] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon [eiv n]".[2][nb 2] His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays,[nb 3] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Traditions and Customs in the UK

Question 18世纪，苏格兰诗人罗伯特彭斯编写了小 诗Auld Lang Syne,在苏格兰低地语中意 为逝去已久的日子。这首苏格兰民谣，成 为了英国除夕夜街头人们相拥祝福合唱的 歌、《魂断蓝桥》插曲、BBC逍遥音乐会 的终场曲。在中国，有一个耳熟能详的名 字 _______

Traditions and Customs in the UK

Religions and Beliefs Everyone in Britain has the right to religious freedom in teaching and worship. Today nearly all of the world’s religions are practiced in Britain as groups of immigrants have brought their re

ligions practices with them. There are two established churches in Britain: the Church of England and the Church of Scotland.

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Question: What’s the church’ s name? Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton

Traditions and Customs in the UK

Westminster Abbey威斯敏斯特大教 堂

Traditions and Customs in the UK

Sports and Hobbies The national sport of the UK is football. The UK has the oldest football clubs in the world. The UK doesn’t compete as a nation in any major football tournament. Instead the home nations compete individually as England , Scotland , Northern Ireland and Wales .

Traditions and Customs in the UK

Gardens are important to many British people and gardening is one of the most popular pastimes. Public buildings of every Kind are decorated with brilliant windows boxes and hanging baskets of flowers.

Traditions and Customs in the UK

Question Down by the Salley Gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.