Things which we associate with England:
ENGLISH BREAKFAST: consists of fruit juice, cereal, a cooked dish (usually bacon and eggs), toast with butter and jam and tea or coffee to drink
Scrambled eggs with bacon
Fish & chips
Apple pie
Christmas pudding
Yorkshire pudding (a traditional Sunday lunch)
Pubs
custard
gin and tonic
sense of humour (Monty Python, Benny Hill)
bowler
gentlemen
Princess Diana
BBC
FAMOUS PLACES:
Stonehenge
Big Ben
London Eye
Westminster
Buckingham Palace
Madame Tissaud's
Oxford
Cambridge
Piccadilly Circus
Trafalgar Square
FAMOUS PEOPLE:
-LITERATURE: William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen,
-FAMOUS LEGENDARY CHARACTERS: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes,
-FAMOUS POLITICIANS: Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair
-FAMOUS MONARCHS: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, Mary Stuart, Queen Victoria,
-FAMOUS POP STARS: Spice Girls, Sting, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Ringo Star, Robbie Williams, John Lennon, Rolling Stones, Rod Steward, Elton John
-FAMOUS SCIENTISTS: Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin
-FAMOUS ACTORS: Sean Connery, Hugh Grant, Laurence Olivier,
FIVE O'CLOCK- tea time; tea is a light meal consisting of tea and cakes, biscuits and sandwiches
FAMOUS SHOPS AND DEPARTMENT STORES: Marks & Spencer, Selfridges, Harrods
HOLIDAYS:
BONFIRE NIGHT -celebrated every year on 5 November in memory of a famous event in the British history-the Gunpowder Plot; it is also called Guy Fawkes Night.
HALLOWEEN- the night of 31 October; it is a time when children have parties, dress up as witches, make lanterns out of pumpkins and they play "trick or treat".
CHRISTMAS: the British do not celebrate Christmas Eve. On 25 December children finds their Christmas presents in stockings which they hang near the chimney or the fireplace on 24 December. On Christmas Day the British spend their time with their families, at home. They have Christmas dinner which traditionally consists of roast turkey, roast potatoes, Brussels sprouts and other vegetables and of Christmas pudding (rich dried-fruit pudding)and brandy butter. After dinner, everyone pulls paper crackers, which make a loud bang and contain paper hats, jokes and small toys. The day after Christmas is called Boxing Day and then people usually goes out to enjoy themselves.
