Public Holidays in the United Kingdom

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Traditional Meals in Britain

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ЛЕКСИКО-ГРАММАТИЧЕСКИЕ УПРАЖНЕНИЯ

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___ usual meals in ___ Britain are: ___ breakfast, ___ lunch, ___ tea and ___ supper. Breakfast is generally ___ bigger meal than they have on ___ Continent, though some English people like ___ continental breakfast of ___ rolls, ___ butter and ___ coffee. But ___ usual English breakfast is porridge or cornflakes with ___ milk or ___ cream and ___ sugar, bacon and eggs, marmalade made from ___ oranges with buttered ___ toasts and tea or coffee. For ___ change, you can have ___ boiled egg, ___ cold ham or, perhaps, __ fish.

People in ___ Britain generally have ___ lunch about one o'clock. ___ businessmen in ___ London usually find it impossible to come ___ home for ___ lunch, and so they go to ___ cafe or ___ restaurant; but if they are making ___ lunch at ___ home, they have cold ___ meat (left over probably from yesterday's dinner), ___ potatoes, ___ salad and ___ pickles with ___ pudding of fruit to follow. Sometimes people have ___ mutton chop or ___ steak and ___ chips followed by ___ biscuits and cheese.

Afternoon tea you could hardly call ___ meal but it is ___ sociable sort of ___ thing as ___ friends often come in then for ___ chat while they have their cup of ___ tea with ___ cake or ___ biscuit.

Some ___ people also have ___ «high tea». They say there is no ___ use for these ___ afternoon ___ teas where you try to hold ___ cup of tea in ___ one hand and ___ piece of ___ bread and butter about as thin as ___ sheet of paper in ___ other. They have it between __ five and six o'clock, and have __ ham or tongue and ___ tomatoes and salad or sausages with __ good strong tea, plenty of ___ bread and butter, then stewed fruit, with ___ cream or custard and ___ pastries or ___ good cake. And that's what __ Englishman calls __ good tea.

There are eight public holidays, or bank holidays a year ___ Great Britain, that is days ___ which people need not go in to work. They are: Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank Holiday and Late Summer Bank Holiday. The term «bank holiday» dates ___ to the 19th century when ___ 1871 and 1875 most ___ these days were constituted bank holidays, that is, days ___ which banks were to be closed. The observance ___ these days is no longer limited ___ banks.

All the public holidays, except Christmas Day and Boxing Day observed ___ the 25th and 26th ___ December respectively, do not fall ___ the same date each year. Good Friday and Easter Monday depend ___ Easter Sunday which falls ___ the first Monday ___ May. The Spring Bank Holiday is ___ the last Monday ___ May, while Late Summer Bank Holiday comes ___ the last Monday ___ August.

Most ___ these holidays are ___ religious origin, though ___ the greater part ___ the population they have long lost their religious significance and are simply days ___ which people relax, eat, drink and make merry.

Certain customs and traditions are associated ___ most bank holidays. The reason is that many ___ them are part ___ holiday seasons like Easter and Christmas seasons which are religious ___ origin and are marked ___ centuries-old traditions.