leisure activities, festivals and holidays

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HCMC COLLEGE OF

ECONOMICS

Subject: British studies

Teacher: Ms.Minh Student: Tran Thi Minh Hanh Topic: leisure activities, festivals and

holidays

Saturday is a busy time for shops with many families going shopping

Sunday is a very special day of the week in Britain

How do people spend their free time?

 People in Britain listen to an average 15 hours and 50 minutes of radio each week

Digital Devices:

 In January to April 2006, 56 percent of

household in Great Britain had a desktop computer, 30 percent had a portable or

2) Outdoor activities:

 A) Visiting or entertaining friends or relations

Mum & Dad go out and visit

friends at least once a week

Sometime me and my brother

go too

B) Cinema ( Movie house):

 Britons made 123 million visits to the cinema in 1998 making it the most popular cultural activity in the UK

C) Eating out:

British people spending in 1999 an average of 5.63

dollar per person per week on food (excluding

alcohol)

We go to McDonalds at least once a week

Sometime we have pizza delivered to our home Occasionally we will go to a restaurant

D) Sports and physical recreation:

 Local governments provide cheap sport and leisure facilities such as swimming pools, tennis courts, parks and gold courses

 People go to watch other people play sports like

football or take part in sports themselves

II) Holidays:

1) Traditional holidays:

 The traditional British holiday is a seaside holiday

Children used to watch a Punch and Judy show (puppets)

And ride donkeys along a beach

2) Holidays abroad:

 Europe is the most popular destination for UK

residents, accounting for 80 per cent of visits

abroad Spain has been the most popular country

to visit since 1994, with 13.8 million visits in 2005 France was second in popularity, with 11.1 million visits

St Valentines Day (14th )

 Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)

 Lent

 Mothering Sunday (UK Mothers Day)

 Easter

May

 May Day (1st)

 Rochester Swee

ps Festival

 Two Bank Holidays

 Whistun

 Notting Hill Carnival

 Bank Holiday

 Harvest

Festival

October

 Halloween (31st)

November

 Bonfire Night

(5th)

 Remembrance Day

(11th)

 St Andrew's D ay

(30th)

 Advent

December

Advent

Christmas (25th)

Boxing Day (26th)

1)Bank holidays

 British bank holidays are public holidays

and have been recognised since 1871

 Bank holidays are public holidays in the United Kingdom, when banks and many other businesses are closed for the day

The expected dates of bank and public holidays in England, Wales

, Scotland and Northern Ireland are shown below:

England and Wales Scotland Northern Ireland

New Year's Day New Year's Day New Year's Day

Easter Monday 2nd January Easter Monday

Early May Bank

Holiday

(First Monday in May)

Early May Bank Holida y

(First Monday in May)

Early May Bank Holiday

Spring Bank Holiday

(Last Monday in May) Spring Bank Holiday(Last Monday in May Spring Bank Holiday

Summer Bank Holiday

(Last Monday in August) Summer Bank Holiday(FIRST Monday in

August)

Summer Bank Holiday

Boxing Day Boxing Day Boxing Day

2)Shrove Tuesday:

 In the UK, Shrove Tuesday is also known as

Pancake Day (or Pancake Tuesday to some

people) because it is the one day of the year when almost everyone eats a pancake

In 2010 Pancake Day is on Tuesday 16 February

they contain fat, butter and eggs which

were forbidden during Lent

3) St David's Day (The National Day of Wales )

 St David's Day is celebrated in Wales on 1 March, in honour of St David (Dewi Sant), the patron saint of Wales.

This is the flag of St David It is not the flag of Wales

 The national emblems of Wales are daffodils

The national flag of Wales,

4) St Patrick's Day (The National Day of

Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland )

St Patrick's Day is celebrated in the whole of Ireland on 17 March,

in honour of St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.

This is the flag of St Patrick

The national emblem of Ireland is the Shamrock.

Patrick used the three-leaved shamrock to explain how the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit could exist as

separate parts of the same being His followers

took to wearing a shamrock in celebration.

5) St George's Day (England's national

day )

•St George's Day is on 23 April

•St George is the patron saint of England

St George's Emblem The Flag of England

A symbol of England

One of the best-known stories about Saint George is his fight with a dragon

On the Sunday nearest to 23 April, scouts and guides throughout England parade through high streets

and attend a special St George's Day service at their local church.

7) St Andrew's Day ( The national day

 Around midnight on Nov 29, the day before St

Andrew's Day, it was traditional for girls to pray to

St Andrew for a husband They would make a wish and look for a sign that they had been heard

The thistle is widely regarded

as the emblem of Scotland.

6) Trooping the Colour

The official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II is marked each year

by a military parade and march-past, known as Trooping the Colour (Carrying of the Flag).

Each June, the Queen and other members of the Royal Family attend

the Trooping the Colour ceremony on Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall in

London

7) Swan Upping on the River Thames

The Swan Upping event takes place in July each year,

commencing on the third Monday at Sunbury and

ending at Abingdon on the Friday.

The swans on the River Thames are Mute Swans (Cygnus olor) They are not actually mute, they can honk and hiss alot

The Swan Uppers catch and check the health of the swans

and their cygnets through five counties,

from Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, to Abingdon , Oxfordshire

8) Remembrance Day in Britain

Remembrance Day is on 11 November It is a special day set aside to remember all those men and women who were killed during the two World Wars

and other conflicts.At one time the day was known as Armistice Day

and was renamed Remembrance Day after the Second World War.

The "Last Post" is traditionally played to introduce the two minute

silence in Remembrance Day ceremonies It is usually ' played on a bugle (In military(wan doj) life, 'The Last Post' marks the end of the day and the final farewell.)

At 11am on each Remembrance Sunday a two minute silence

is observed at war memorials and other public spaces across the UK