英语presentation__(British culture and life英国文化与生活)PPT

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• Between lunch and evening dinner, there is a light meal of afternoon tea in Britain, which is taken between 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon. • The light meal of afternoon tea is known as high tea, which is actually a mixture of tea and supper. • High tea is prepared with a cooked dish or sandwiches, and accompanied by a pot of tea. • Now tea is a working class name given to the evening meal.
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Top British Universities
• Cambridge University 剑桥大学 • Oxford University 牛津大学 • London School of Economics and Political Science伦 敦政治经济学院 • London University 伦敦大学 • York University 约克大学 • Imperial College, London University伦敦大学帝国理 工学院 • Nottingham University 诺丁汉大学 • Warwick University 华威大学 • King’s College 国王学院
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British meals mean different things at different times to different people. • The first meal of the day is breakfast which is now often hurried and informal. • Traditionally it is a hearty (丰盛) meal eaten in many homes throughout the country, particularly at weekend. • The traditional English breakfast is a fried or grilled （烧烤） dish consisting of bacon, eggs and sausage （香肠）， mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding, and fried bread or potatoes.
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• In recent years a light breakfast , usually called continental breakfast has become popular in Britain. • A light breakfast has no cooked dish and consists of fruit juice or cereal [`siəriə]谷类食品, and marmalade [`ma:məleid]果酱 and coffee.
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• If the girl changes her mind, she usually returns the ring. • If they continue getting along well, the engagement ring will be replaced by the wedding ring of plain gold.
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Universities
• Legally independent and enjoy complete academic freedom. • Councils chancellor vice chancellor • There is no national entrance examination of any sort in Britain. (grades, school reference, an interview) • Now there are more than 100 universities.
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Higher Education
• A total number of 170 higher education institutions: 1.Universities 2.University sector colleges 3.Teacher-training colleges
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British Education
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Educational System
1.Primary Education (5-11) 2.Secondary Education(11-16) 3.Further Education(16-18) 4.Higher Education(18- )
Tips:The engagement ring is placed on the third finger of the girl's left hand.
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• For the wedding, most British couples, whether religious or not, will go to church to have the ceremony. For the church ceremony, the bride dressed in a long white dress and attended by her close friends and relatives. • Other couples may go to a registry (登记 )office to have the ceremony, where the ceremony is usually less formal and more purely legal.
Tea time
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• The evening meal varies from family to family. • If the dinner is taken in the evening, it is usually sumptuous. • Supper means a light meal taken in the evening. • It is less grand and usually cold.
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• Lunch is a midday meal, usually eaten between 12:00 and 2:00pm. • For those who have supper in the evening, it will usually be the main meal of the day. • Dinner for lunch consists of meat, potatoes and other vegetables.
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• Implement two-tier school system in the UK: public schools provide free education; private schools generally pay school fees by parents. In the UK approximately every thirteen school-age children in private schools have an entry (the exact ratio of 7%). The age of sixteen years of age into the private school of foreign students generally. UK total of 2,400 private schools, most of them old prestigious school.
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Degrees
• In British universities and colleges, students usually spend 3 years of full-time studying for the first degree, BA or BSC. • If they want to obtain a master degree in art (MA) or in science (MSC), they will need another one year of full-time or two years part-time study. • To obtain a doctoral degree requires from 3 to 5 years of study and research.
British custom and culture
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郑丹 孙煜婷 张敏 庄婷
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• marriage • meals • education
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The marrying age
• According to English law , no child can get married below the age of 16. If they are between 16 and 18, the parents' consent (同 意 ，准许)to the marriage is necessary, but over the age of 18, the parents' consent is unnecessary. • Most girls and nearly all men are over 18 when they get married.
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The process
• It is quite normal for a girl of 16 to go out with a boyfriend. • If they are together for a long time and know each other well, the girl would invite her boyfriend to her house to meet her parents. • If they had made private promise to marry, the boy will buy an engagement ring (订婚戒指 )for the girl.