The Royal Family
This is the British Royal Family. This is the Queen of England - Queen Elizabeth the Second. The Queen's husband is the Duke of Edinburgh. They've got four children. Their oldest son is Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales. His two sons are prince William and prince Harry. Prince William and Prince Harry are the Queen's grandchildren. They are the sons of Princess
Diana and Prince Charles. William was born in 1982, Harry in 1984. When they are in London, Princes William and Harry live here in Clarence House. They don't live in Buckingham palace. They also live in a house in the county called Highgrove. A lot of people like to see the Royal Family so they often appear in public. They make speeches and meet people all over the world.Vocabulary:
Duke : Duc
Husband: Espòs
Sons: Fills
Appear: Aparèixer
speeches: Intervencions de
Packed lunch
Most schools in Britain provide hot meals and salads every day but many students prefer to take their own lunch to school.
A lot of chocolate, crisp, fatty foods and cool isn't good for people. But these foods are everywhere.
One school in England helps students to eat healthy food with the Green Machine. Green Machines have got lots of interesting snacks. There are cereal bars, organic crisp, yoghurt's, and the drinks in Green Machines are healthy as well. There are frut juices, mineral water and smoothies.
Vocabulary:
Most: La mayoria de
provide :proporcionar
own: pròpia
fatty foods: aliments grassos
healthy: saludable
smoothies: batuts
The school day
For most students in Britain, the school day start between eight thirty and nine o'clock. People travel to school using many different kinds of transport. They cycle, they walk and they com in cars.
After two or three lessons there is a break, This is fifteen minutes when students go out into the playground to have fun after all that concentration!
After bread it's back to work.
After lunch it's back to the classroom. The main subjects in the school timetable are English, maths an science. It es also popular. Then there's French or Spanish, history and geography. Students also study art, music and PE.
Shopping
People in Britain really like shopping. In a recent survey 56% of women between the ages of 16 and 40 described shopping as their main hobby. They often go shopping every day!
Traditional, local shops exist in some areas. they sell different things like food, medicines and cosmetics, clothes and books.
But in most high streets in Britain the same shop names appear all the time.
There are lots of big out-of -town shopping centers where there are many shops in a large indoor area. The most obvious feature is the car park because people drive to the centers.
This is Bluewater near London: It's th largest shopping complex in Europe with over 330 different shops and three big department stores.
BRITISH HOUSES
Well, 90% of the population live in towns.
There are lots of different kinds of houses. This is the kind of house you find in British towns. Terraced houses are joined together-sometimesn in a long row but some tarraces have only got a few houses.
Houses in differents pars of Britian can look very different. There are lots of regional variatons because builders use locar materials. There are also differences in age. some houses are very modern and some are hundreds of years old.
ANIMALS
People love animals. But some of the world's animals are in danger of extinction. There are several reasons for this. But the most serious threat to animals is from man. In some parts of the world people collect rhino horn for use in medicine. Chimpanzee and whale meat are popular with some people.
ANOTHER BIG PROBLEM IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RAINFORESTS. THIS REMOVING THE HABITAT OF MANY ANIMALS, LIKE THESE GORILLA, BIRDS AND PLANTS. THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS IN SOME SPECIES IS NOW VERY SMALL ANK THEY MAY NOT EXIST AT ALL FOR MUCH LONGER. THE WORLDIWIDE FUN FOR NATURE IS AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANITZATION. iT STARTED IN BRITIAN 1961 AND HAS NOW GOT A GLOBAR NETWORK IN 90 COUNTRIES. IN THIS SAFE ENVIRONMENTANIMALS CAN BREED-PRODUCTER BABIES- AND SO INCREASE THE NUMBERS THE ANIMALS ARE THEN PUT BACK INTO THEIR NATURE WILD HABITAT.
BRITISH SPORTS
At the weekend in Britain, millions of people take part in some kind of sporting activity. Half of all men over 16 regularly participate in sport.
Even more people spend part of the weekend watching sport - especially football. From August to April football is everywhere.
Cricket is the main summer sport in Britain. Local teams play in towns and villages every Saturday and Sunday from April to September.
Cricket is played between two teams of 11 people.
Tennis is another popular sport, especially in the summer after the famous Wimbledon championships. There are tennis courts all over Britain.
Other popular sports are golf, swimming, cycling, lee fit and wading. But there is no doubt that for most people football is the national sport.
kind - tipus
LIBRARY AND READING
British people read a lot. THey read books, newspapers and magaxines. And of course they read text messages on their mobile phones. Sixty-five per cent of British people list reading for pleasure´asa major hobby. Aquarter of the population reads more then 20 ooks each year.
You can also now borrow CDs, videos and DVDs of films and television programmes. SOme libraries even let you borrow computer games.
LIbraries are vey important in schools and universitites both for study and for reading for pleasure.
The British LIbrary is one of the world'd greatest libraries. THe Queen opened its new building in 1998.
pleasure - plaer
borrow - demanar prestat
both - tant
building - la construcció de
WEATHER AND THE SEASONS!
The weather is a very popular topic of conversation in Britain. That's because the weather changes a lot.
Sixty-five per cent of all the days in Britain are overcast - dull, grey and often cold. That's 260 dull days.
The seasons in Britain are fairly clear. Winter lasts from December to February. It's cold and wet but doesn't often snow. Spring is from March to May. It starts to get a bit warmer and there are more sunny days. The summer months are June, July and August when it can be very hot. Then the autumn - September, October. November - often has foggy, cold, wet days and the leaves fall from the trees.
weather - el clima
changes - canvis
leaves - fulles