BRITISH

CULTURE
British customs and traditions are famous all over the
world.
For example:
• TEA
TAKE AWAY
Britain is a tea- drinking nation. Take-away meals are very popular
Every day they drink 165 and most towns have a
million cups and each year selection of Indian, Italian,
around 144 thousand tons of Chinese and Greek restaurants.
tea are imported. You will also find Mcdonals, Burger King and S ubway.
Fish and chips is the
classic English take-
away food and is the
traditional national food
of England. The fish is
deep fried in flour batter
and is eaten with chips.
Traditionally, the fish
and chips are covered
with salt and malt
vinegar and, using your
fingers, eaten straight
out of the newspaper
which they were
wrapped in.
 PLACES TO VISIT
Buckingham
Palace is the official
London residence of the
British monarch. The palace is
a setting for state occasions
and royal entertaining, and a
major tourist attraction.
Originally known as
Buckingham House, the
building forming the core of
today's palace was a large
townhouse built for the Duke
of Buckingham in 1703 and
acquired by King George III in
1762 as a private residence,
known as "The Queen's
House".
THE ROYAL ACADEMY

The Royal Academy of

Arts, or as it is often
abbreviated, the RA, was
founded in 1768 by a
group of artists headed
by portrait painter
Joshua Reynolds. Under
Reynolds, the academy
functioned as a school
aimed at teaching
drawing, painting, and
sculpture to young
artists.
 Clock T
ower, P
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Westmi f
nster
• The Clock Tower, often
mistakenly known as Big
Ben. The Clock Tower is
the world's largest four-
faced, chiming turret clock.
The structure is situated at
the north-eastern end of the
Houses of Parliament
building in Webstminster,
London.
MUSIC
The Beatles were an English group of musicians
from Liverpool whose members were
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison,
and Ringo Starr. They are one of the most
commercially successful and critically acclaimed
bands in the history of popular music.
The Spice Girls is an English
all-female pop group, formed
in London in 1994. The Spice
Girls, consisting of: Geri
Halliwell, Melanie Chisholm,
Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown
and Victoria Beckham signed
to Virgin Records and
released their debut single, "
Wannabe", in 1996.
Vivienne Westwood
A teacher turned fashion designer, Westwood is one of the most
influential and recognisable British designers of the past 20 years.
She once said that fashion is, 'life-enhancing and like everything
that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.' 
•
PASTIME
An Italian, a Frenchman and a Mexican went for a job interview in England. Before
the interview, they were told that they must compose a sentence
in English with three main words: green, pink, and yellow.
The Italian was first: "I wake up in the morning. I see the yellow sun. I see the green
grass and I think to myself, I hope it will be a pink day."
The Frenchman was next: "I wake up in the morning, I eat a yellow banana, a green
pepper and in the evening I watch the pink panther
on TV."
Last one was the Mexican: "I wake up in the morning, I hear the phone
"green...green...", I pink up the phone and I say "Yellow?"...

 
The patient to the doctor:
Doctor! doctor!, I have a
big problem, nobody ever
listen to me when I'm
talking.
Doctor: Excuse me, What
did you say?
 
Tongue-twister:
• Betty Botter had some butter,
"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter,
it would make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter--
that would make my batter better."

So she bought a bit of butter,

better than her bitter butter,
and she baked it in her batter,
and the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter
• She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

• Riddle
• You break it even if you name it!
You can find the answer here: liecnse