The Britain Out of Doors

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The Britain Out of Doors
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After all, the machine culture is rapidly
bringing us nearer to the age of leisure and man
will be compelled to play more and work less.
----The Important of Living

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The Britain Out of Doors

• Characteristics

There are greater gender and class difference.

• Less provision for woman in many public leisure
  facilities.
• Voluntary organizations and sporting facilities
  used less by women than men.
• More men than women spending their time in the
  local pub.
• Old people and young unemployed persons having
  least money to spend on leisure
• People in higher class having more financial
  resources available for leisure than those in
  lower class.

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Going out---a night at the theater

• Where to go?
• West end---many of the capitals 100 theaters
• Royal Shakespeare Company
• Regional theaters
• Universitiesperformed by touring companies and
  students

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Pubs

• Misconceptions
• English pubs are similar to bars?
• People only drink in the pubs?

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Divided into two parts

• Public bar lounge bar
• More man more woman
• Sparsely furnished
• More customers less customers
• More noisy quieter
• Cost less cost more

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snack bar providing food like
sausages?ham?olives?salad etc.restaurant

• Entertainment
• Darts(??), skittles (???)dominoes?snooker and bar
  billiards
• There is often a local league in which teams from
  pubs in the area play against each other

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Horse racingthe sport of kings

• A long history
• An expensive hobby to own a race horse
• But interested in racing is not restricted to the
  rich

Steeple chasing
Flat racing
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Sports

• 1 soccer
• 2 cricket

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Football

• Invented in Britain
• The favorite winter game

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Cricket a Very English Game

• Shepherds of English invented cricket
• Pervading all sections of English society,
• Popular both in city and rural areas

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Leisure Activities Away From Home in China

• Most people in China like to do out of door
  activities that are economical and good for
  health. The most popular are going to the
  park?playing badminton and climbing mountains.
• The young like to do something exciting like
  sports and going to disco while the old like to
  do something mild like going to the park and
  practicing taiji.
• People in cities spend more time and money going
  out than those in the rural areas.

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Leisure Activities Away From Home in China
Britain

• Leisure activities in China dont have distinct
  class division.
• There is no out of door activity in China highly
  shared by all ages as going to pubs in Britain.

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Causes for difference

• Different culture background
• Different polices made by different governments
• Different lifestyles and hobbies
• Different economic situations

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Thank you very much

• For where there is love, there is jealousy a man
  who loves life intensely must be always jealous
  of the few exquisite moment of leisure that he
  has
• ----The Important of Living(???)

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Reference

• The Importance of living
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• http//ox.icxo.com/htmlnews/2005/01/20/555385.htm
• http//news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2003-01/21/co
  ntent_700292.htm