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How many public holidays or Red- Letter Days are there in Britain ? Name them .
8 public holidays in Britain: two at Christmas , one for the New Year (which was only introduced in the late 1970s) two at Easter and three Bank Holidays.

What is the same and what is different about the way Christmas is celebrated in England and Estonia?
In England, there’s common to sing Carol’s and for children , Christmas means pantomimes – plays based on fairy tales which combine comedy , dance and song . A traditional Christmas dinner includes roast turkey with roast potatoes, a range of vegetables, cranberry sauce etc., followed by Christmas pudding and Christmas cake. The pulling of crackers(and the wearing of paper hats) before the meal is quite popular . Afterwards many watch the Queen ’s traditional Christmas address on TV at 3 pm. Christmas actually contains of 3 days: Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. The latter is the first day after Christmas or the first Monday after Christmas if Christmas is on Friday or Saturday.

What is the same and what is different about the way Easter is celebrated in England and Estonia?
Easter lasts for 4 days in Britain: from Good Friday to Eas-ter Monday. Schools close for two weeks. On Good Friday people usually eat small sweet rolls toasted with butter and containing currants with a cross on top representing the wooden cross Jesus died on. On Easter Sunday Christians celebrate the resurrection of Christ. Most people give each other chocolate eggs of all sizes, which are usually hollow or contain sweets. Families with children often have an Easter Egg Hunt in which everybody must look for eggs hidden in the house or the garden .

How do people celebrate Shrove Tuesday in England? Do we celebrate the same day in Estonia?
In Estonia, we don’t celebrate Shrove Tuesday(Pancake Day). Shrove Tuesday is the last day before Lent , a Christian fast which lasts for 40 days before Easter. In the past, Christians used up all their milk, butter and eggs on Shrove Tuesday because they were not allowed to eat them during Lent. Pancake races are often arranged for women in which competitors carry a pancake in a frying pan and have to toss the pancake into the air, catching it again in the pan. Very thin, flat , round pancakes are usually eaten with lemon juice and sugar .

What is a Cockney? (people and language )
Traditionally, a true Cockney is anybody born within the sound of Bow bells (the bells of the church of St Mary -le-Bow). In fact the term is commonly used to denote people who come from a wider area of the innermost eastern suburbs of London and also an adjoining area south of the Thames . ‘Cockney’ is also used to describe a strong London accent and it is associated with working - class origins. A feature of Cockney speech is rhyming slang : ‘ wife ’ is referred to as ‘trouble and strife’ and ‘stairs’ as ‘apples and pears ’.

Explain the following notions: snobbery , inverted snobbery, posh and being posh, blue / white collar workers , underclass, social mobility .
inverted snobbery – middle -class people try to adopt working-class values and habits .
posh – of a class higher than the one I belong to; being posh – being pretentious

In the early years of the twentieth century , the playwright and social commentator George Bernard Shaw remarked that an Englishman only had to open his mouth to make some other Englishman despise him. What was he talking about? Would he say the same thing today ?

In the 1930s people in middle-class neighbourhoods often reacted angrily to the building of housing estates for the working class nearby. In one area they even built a wall to separate the two neighbourhoods! This could never happen today. Why not? What has changed?

English class system has survived in Britain because of its flexibility. How do the social classes differentiate themselves in Britain? What is the role of language, accent, clothes, money , habits and attitudes?
People in modern Britain are very conscious of class differences. They regard it as difficult to become friends with somebody from a different class although most people say they don’t approve of class divisions. An interesting part of the class system is that it has little to do with wealth . Of course wealth is part of it but it’s not always possible to look at the people and say in which class the person belongs. The first sign is the way a person talks. People from different social classes eat different food at different times of day, they like to talk about different topics using different styles and accents of English, they enjoy different sports, they have different values about what things are most important in life and different ideas about the correct way to behave.

Standard English is used ‘naturally’ in everyday speech by between 15% and 30% of the population in Britain. Received Pronunciation (RP) is used in everyday speech by only 3% to 12% of the population. So why is Standard English with an RP accent the usual model for people learning British English as a foreign language? What justification can you find for this practise?

Can you think of examples of British individualism ?
Love of the countryside is a good example of individualism and conservatism – the countryside represents stability. Also British people are much more reserved than the rest European people and they find it difficult to indicate friendship by open displays of affection. British also like to be different from others, for example, they’ll never give up their habit of driving on the left side of the road .

Imagine this situation: you are at home, just about to have lunch , when there is a knock at the door . It is a British friend of yours, not a very close friend, but closer than a mere acquaintance. He or she has come to pay you an unexpected visit . You suggest that your friend comes in and stays for lunch. But your friend is embarrassed to find that he or she has called at a mealtime and refuses invitation. You want to persuade your friend to change his or her mind. Here are two possible ways of doing this”: A) Please stay. We don’t have much, I’m afraid , but we’d be honoured. Whatever we have is yours. B) This is no trouble at all. There’s plenty of food. Don’t think twice about it. We’re used to people popping in. Which of these two do you think would be a more successful way to persuade a British person? A or B? Why?

British people like to ‘ dress down’ on Sundays. What might be the reason ?
British people have to follow clothing formalities all week so they really want to take off their working clothes and dress into something really comfy and scruffy. Lots of men who wear a suit all week can then be seen in old sweaters and jeans , sometimes with holes in them. Male politicians are really keen to get themselves photographed when not wearing a tie to show that they are ‘ordinary’ people.

The British are always talking about the weather . This is ‘an ever-interesting, even thrilling topic, and you must be good at discussing weather’. What might be the reason?

What is the British attitude towards nature / animals ?
British have idealized vision of the countryside and nature. To them, To them the countryside means peace and quiet , beauty, good health and no crime . Even if they can’t afford buying a cottage in the countryside the British spend a lot of their time with nature. They grow plants – gardening is one of the most popular hobbies in the country . Also the British tend to have a sentimental attitude to animals. They even have animal graveyards in Britain; nearly half of the households in Britain keep at least one domestic pet but the love for animals also indicates in wildlife – wildlife programmes are by far the most popular kind of television documentary .

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