Interesting facts about the British and the United Kingdom

ü The British did not wash under running water. These special caulk a sink stopper, gaining it the hot and cold water and wash!

ü Until recently, the British did not have central heating! This innovation introduced by foreigners, rushed to settle in UK. Moreover, the British long resisted!

ü The English, the rule of privacy! It means - put your your nose into other people's business. Your case is not all - from the name of an Englishman and a stranger to you absolutely any information about him, ending his no known secrets!

ü You can engage a stranger in conversation Englishman in only two ways - expressing an opinion about the weather or ask for help! To talk to you and not Hello How do you do, but only a question form to comment on the weather - you will immediately receive a reply! If your client with a similar question a comment - agree. It is an unwritten rule! Generally English weather-talk separate ritual that schools learn good manners in detail.For example,'When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather' In fact, 'Ooh, isn't it cold?' - Like 'Nice day, isn't it?' And all the others - is English code for 'I 'd like to talk to you - will you talk to me?', or, if you like, simply another way of saying 'hello'.

ü The English have not called your name when meeting, in contrast to the Americans, who once claimed - Hello, I'm John Roberts! Very rarely you can present to someone, and someone to you, but do it quickly and probormochut only names. If you kindly provide your name, the middle class and any higher - sheepishly answer you some welcomed, but his name will call. To find the name, you have to find a common friend who, knowing you personally, to tell you the name of your new friend. Or make every effort to gently and politely get to know and wait to be told you the name of the same.

ü The British love to play his famous Guessing-game. Since ask each other direct questions about privacy - about the kind of work, marital status, presence of children, place of birth, place of residence and other intimate - the British categorically not taken, they are trying to ask indirect questions and have to guess the answers to them unasked questions.

ü The British prefer to mail the phone! Negotiate a business meeting or invite to dinner or reception made in writing, not by phone.

ü English dream (as opposed to the U.S.) - to become the owner of the land and estate, and engage in a garden there!

ü The English have three national passion - gardening, collecting (hobby) and pets. If you are lucky and you are invited to visit the English house, you will not show it, but the garden show necessarily. Or garden or flower pots on the window sill!

ü In England, dogs do not bark, the birds in the park are not afraid of man, and all the cats and dogs are fed everything! This is a unique paradise for pets - they are loved and cherished.

ü The British are known for their love of queues. The famous joke - no matter where was the Englishman, he immediately forms a neat turn of one. At bus stops they made to queue.

ü The British fans are all kinds of rules. They "love to play by the rules", and they find themselves in a new environment with new people tend not to learn, and learn the rules! They are terribly legitimate individualists.

ü The value of Oxford and Cambridge are not in the high level of education - he's not as high as at Harvard, or even in our MSU. The purpose of the two best British universities do not provide the knowledge and cultivate the character of the leader - someone who can run the country. In England believe that the best learning - is training in practice and not in high school. And the best schools should build character. The knowledge and skills a person acquires during operation! By the way, the best means of educating certain traits considered sport - and not just there, but it is a team sport.

Литература

o http://www.english-with-vera.ru/2011/10/interesnye-fakty-o-zhitelyax-united-kingdom/

o http://i-fact.narod.ru/britan.html

o http://www.engwebcountry.ru/view_topic.php?id=4

o Английский язык для экономистов. Агабекян И.П., Коваленко П.И. 4-е изд, перер. и доп., Ростов н/Д, изд. Феникс, 2004 - 416с. Серия "Высшее образование".

o Кузовлев В.П. - Английский язык. 9 класс. Книга для чтения