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Title: HOW TO BE BRITISH


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HOW TO BE BRITISH
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INTRODUCTION
  • In order to do our presentation we are going to
    talk about
  • 1- Behavior
  • 2- Food
  • 3- Culture / traditions

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BEHAVIOUR
  • The British are
  • Very polite
  • Love dogs
  • Tan very easily
  • They dont speak another language
  • Drink a lot
  • Very patriotic

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FISH AND CHIPS
  • Symbolic dish of English origin
  • Most of the time the fish is cod
  • It is a common take-away food cheap, fast
    tasty
  • The fish is deep-fried
  • 17th century introduced in England by the
    Sephardi Jews

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ENGLISH ACCENTS
  • English people are easily recognized by their
    accent. The United Kingdom is probably the most
    dialect-obsessed nation in the world.
  • However there are different accents Mancunian
    (Manchester) , Scouse (Liverpool), cockney,
    Geordie accent (new castle more generally east
    end of London) , welsh (wales), Scottish
    (Scotland)

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ALCOHOL
  • The British are known to drink a lot of alcohol.
  • Britain has one of the highest drinking rates in
    the world
  • The average drinker in the UK has 15-and-a-half
    liters of pure alcohol a year - the equivalent of
    775 pints of beer that's the same as 500
    glasses of strong wine or 1000 shots of whisky or
    other spirits.
  • The alcohol they prefer is beer , this is where
    their beer belly comes from.

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TEA
  • The British are known for loving tea.
  • In the UK there are various ways of drinking tea,
    but the most common way is tea served with
    milk.
  • The word tea in the UK can also mean an early
    dinner.

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ROYALTY
  • THE ROYALTY IN ENGLAND IS A BIG THING, AND THE
    ROYAL FAMILY ARE VERY RESPECTED AND ADMIRED
    ANYTHING THEY DO, EVEN SMALL THINGS ARE MADE
    HUGE.
  • THE BRITISH ARE EXTREMELY PATRIOTIC, IF ANYONE
    CRITICIZES THE ROYAL FAMILY, ALL THE UNITED
    KINGDOM IS INFURIATED.

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WEATHER
  • England is a beautiful country that has a lot to
    offer to the natives and the tourists but you
    probably already know that the weather in the
    United Kingdom isn't what people go there for.
  • UK rainy most of the time depressing weather
    , the consequences of that are that the people
    living there are more or less pale. They are not
    used to the sun because they dont have any
    beaches (apart from in Wales) when they are
    exposed to it, they tend to burn easily instead
    of tanning.

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Royalty
  • -The British hold a big place in their hearts for
    the queen and all the royal family in general
  • - They are very protective of the royalty
  • - It is part of their culture

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POLITE
  • The English are also known to be extremely
    polite. They apologize often, even when they
    didnt do anything wrong.
  • We hear them apologize about everything
    anything.
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