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Advent
'Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat!'
Christmas is the biggest festival in Britain and is celebrated on 25th December. The four weeks before Christmas are called Advent, and are traditionally celebrated in churches by lighting a candle each Sunday during Advent. Nowadays, many people in Britain are not very religious, but they still celebrate Christmas. But watch out - the preparations begin long before Advent. In fact, as early as September or October, you start to see signs that Christmas is on the way.
Рождественский и новогодний праздники живота не за горами
The first places to tell us that we should be thinking about Christmas are the shops. People in Britain spend on average over 600 pounds (around $1000) per person on Christmas every year, and the shops encourage people to spend more and more.
Shops put up Christmas decorations and play cheesy Christmas songs or carols; and some shop workers wear Christmas hats. Some big shops on Regent Street and Oxford Street in London create wonderful displays in their windows with moving characters, falling snow, colourful lights and music.
So what do people buy in preparation for Christmas? Well, Christmas decorations; Christmas cards to send to your friends and relatives; presents for your loved ones and wrapping paper to wrap them up with. And of course food! Apart from the special Christmas dinner of roast turkey or goose, people buy lots of chocolates, nuts and snacks for everyone to enjoy.
But the children are the most excited that Christmas is coming. They start making lists of presents they would like, and give them to their parents, or send them to Santa Claus. In December, they can also open their Advent calendars. Advent calendars are a way of counting down to Christmas. They have a window to open for every day from 1st - 24th December (Christmas Eve).
A basic Advent calendar has a Christmassy picture behind each window, but the children's favourite is usually a chocolate Advent calendar, with a chocolate for every day of the month. It's a great build-up to the overeating that goes on at Christmas!
NOTES:
• Advent - рождественский пост
• watch out - будьте на чеку
• is on the way - приближается
• cheesy - незамысловатые
• carols - рождественские песенки
• wrapping paper - упаковочная бумага для подарков
• аpart from - помимо
• Christmassy - рождественскую
• build-up - подготовка
• overeating - перееданию/объедаловке/празднику живота
New Year in England.
The most common type of celebration is a New Year party, either a family party or one arranged by a group of young people. This usually begins at about 8 o’clock. And goes on until the early hours of the morning . Sometimes the hosts make a big bowl of punch which consists of wine, spirits, fruit juice and water and varying proportions. There is usually a buffet supper (легкий ужин) of cold meat, pies, sandwiches and biscuits.
At midnight the radio is turned on, so that everyone can hear the chimes (куранты) of Big Ben, and at the hour a toast is drink to the New Year. The party goes on. Another popular way of celebrating the New Year is to go to a New Year’s dance. Most hotels and dance halls hold a special dance on New Year’s Eve. The hall is decorated, there are several different bands and the atmosphere is very festive.
The most famous celebration is in London, round the statue of Eros (памятник филантропу графу Шафтсбери ) in Piccadilly Circus where crowds gather and sing to welcome the New Year. In Trafalgar Square there is also a big crowd and someone usually falls into the foutain.
Those who have no desire or opportunity to celebrate the New Year themselves, can sit a watch other people celebrating on TV.
January 1st , New Year’s Day, is a public holiday. Some people send New Year cards and give presents, but it is not a widespread custom. This is the traditional time for making New Year resolutions (обещания, которые дают себе под Новый Год) for example to give up (бросить) smoking or to get up earlier. However these are generally more talked about than put into practice.
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They don't teach it at school: 11 Bill Gates's rules
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!
To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice.
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Не учат в школе: 11 правил Билла Гейтса |
Недавно в одной из школ Билл Гейтс говорил об 11 вещах, которым не учат в школе. Главная мысль миллиардера заключалась в том, что воспитание в духе политкорректности создало поколение детей, которые оторваны от реальности и в будущем не смогут выжить в суровом мире.
Правило 1: Жизнь несправедлива – привыкайте.Правило 2: Общество совершенно не волнует Ваша САМООЦЕНКА. От вас ждут ДОСТИЖЕНИЙ прежде всего.
Правило 3: Вы НЕ БУДЕТЕ зарабатывать $60,000 в год сразу по окончании школы. Вы не станете вице-президентом с личным водителем, пока вы не заработаете на то и другое.
Правило 4: Если вы думаете, что учитель слишком суров по отношению к вам, - это еще цветочки. Подождите, пока у вас появится босс.
Правило 5: Жарить гамбургеры - ниже вашего достоинства? Ваши дедушки и бабушки считали совсем по-другому. Для них жарить гамбургеры было возможностью зацепиться в этой жизни.
Правило 6: Если у вас что-то не вышло, это не вина ваших родителей, так что не надо хныкать, УЧИТЕСЬ на своих ошибках.
Правило 7: Родители не всегда были такие скучные, как вам сейчас кажется. Может быть, постоянная забота о вас сделала их такими? Они вас кормят, одевают, постоянно слушают, какие вы замечательные. Так что прежде чем критиковать поколение своих родителей, начните с себя.
Правило 8: Быть может в вашей школе некорректно открыто называть неудачника неудачником. А может, в вашей школе их вообще не осталось - но только не в жизни. В некоторых школах уже невозможно остаться на второй год, потому что вам дается СТОЛЬКО попыток СДАТЬ экзамены, сколько необходимо для перевода в другой класс. В жизни все СОВСЕМ по-другому.
Правило 9: Жизнь не делится на семестры. У вас не будет летних каникул, и ваш работодатель не будет помогать вам НАЙТИ СЕБЯ. Вам придется делать это самим в свое свободное время.
Правило 10: В телевизоре не показывают НАСТОЯЩУЮ жизнь. В реальной жизни не получится весь день сидеть в кафе и болтать с друзьями.
Правило 11: Поласковее с «ботаниками». Один из них может оказаться вашим боссом после окончания школы.
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В этой истории: об основательной подготовке к празднованию Рождества.
Учите новые словечки и совершенствуйте английский!
________________________________________
Advent
'Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat!'
Christmas is the biggest festival in Britain and is celebrated on 25th December. The four weeks before Christmas are called Advent, and are traditionally celebrated in churches by lighting a candle each Sunday during Advent. Nowadays, many people in Britain are not very religious, but they still celebrate Christmas. But watch out - the preparations begin long before Advent. In fact, as early as September or October, you start to see signs that Christmas is on the way.
Рождественский и новогодний праздники живота не за горами
The first places to tell us that we should be thinking about Christmas are the shops. People in Britain spend on average over 600 pounds (around $1000) per person on Christmas every year, and the shops encourage people to spend more and more.
Shops put up Christmas decorations and play cheesy Christmas songs or carols; and some shop workers wear Christmas hats. Some big shops on Regent Street and Oxford Street in London create wonderful displays in their windows with moving characters, falling snow, colourful lights and music.
So what do people buy in preparation for Christmas? Well, Christmas decorations; Christmas cards to send to your friends and relatives; presents for your loved ones and wrapping paper to wrap them up with. And of course food! Apart from the special Christmas dinner of roast turkey or goose, people buy lots of chocolates, nuts and snacks for everyone to enjoy.
But the children are the most excited that Christmas is coming. They start making lists of presents they would like, and give them to their parents, or send them to Santa Claus. In December, they can also open their Advent calendars. Advent calendars are a way of counting down to Christmas. They have a window to open for every day from 1st - 24th December (Christmas Eve).
A basic Advent calendar has a Christmassy picture behind each window, but the children's favourite is usually a chocolate Advent calendar, with a chocolate for every day of the month. It's a great build-up to the overeating that goes on at Christmas!
NOTES:
• Advent - рождественский пост
• watch out - будьте на чеку
• is on the way - приближается
• cheesy - незамысловатые
• carols - рождественские песенки
• wrapping paper - упаковочная бумага для подарков
• аpart from - помимо
• Christmassy - рождественскую
• build-up - подготовка
• overeating - перееданию/объедаловке/празднику живота
New Year in England.
The most common type of celebration is a New Year party, either a family party or one arranged by a group of young people. This usually begins at about 8 o’clock. And goes on until the early hours of the morning . Sometimes the hosts make a big bowl of punch which consists of wine, spirits, fruit juice and water and varying proportions. There is usually a buffet supper (легкий ужин) of cold meat, pies, sandwiches and biscuits.
At midnight the radio is turned on, so that everyone can hear the chimes (куранты) of Big Ben, and at the hour a toast is drink to the New Year. The party goes on. Another popular way of celebrating the New Year is to go to a New Year’s dance. Most hotels and dance halls hold a special dance on New Year’s Eve. The hall is decorated, there are several different bands and the atmosphere is very festive.
The most famous celebration is in London, round the statue of Eros (памятник филантропу графу Шафтсбери ) in Piccadilly Circus where crowds gather and sing to welcome the New Year. In Trafalgar Square there is also a big crowd and someone usually falls into the foutain.
Those who have no desire or opportunity to celebrate the New Year themselves, can sit a watch other people celebrating on TV.
January 1st , New Year’s Day, is a public holiday. Some people send New Year cards and give presents, but it is not a widespread custom. This is the traditional time for making New Year resolutions (обещания, которые дают себе под Новый Год) for example to give up (бросить) smoking or to get up earlier. However these are generally more talked about than put into practice.
Учите новые словечки и совершенствуйте английский!
________________________________________
Advent
'Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat!'
Christmas is the biggest festival in Britain and is celebrated on 25th December. The four weeks before Christmas are called Advent, and are traditionally celebrated in churches by lighting a candle each Sunday during Advent. Nowadays, many people in Britain are not very religious, but they still celebrate Christmas. But watch out - the preparations begin long before Advent. In fact, as early as September or October, you start to see signs that Christmas is on the way.
Рождественский и новогодний праздники живота не за горами
The first places to tell us that we should be thinking about Christmas are the shops. People in Britain spend on average over 600 pounds (around $1000) per person on Christmas every year, and the shops encourage people to spend more and more.
Shops put up Christmas decorations and play cheesy Christmas songs or carols; and some shop workers wear Christmas hats. Some big shops on Regent Street and Oxford Street in London create wonderful displays in their windows with moving characters, falling snow, colourful lights and music.
So what do people buy in preparation for Christmas? Well, Christmas decorations; Christmas cards to send to your friends and relatives; presents for your loved ones and wrapping paper to wrap them up with. And of course food! Apart from the special Christmas dinner of roast turkey or goose, people buy lots of chocolates, nuts and snacks for everyone to enjoy.
But the children are the most excited that Christmas is coming. They start making lists of presents they would like, and give them to their parents, or send them to Santa Claus. In December, they can also open their Advent calendars. Advent calendars are a way of counting down to Christmas. They have a window to open for every day from 1st - 24th December (Christmas Eve).
A basic Advent calendar has a Christmassy picture behind each window, but the children's favourite is usually a chocolate Advent calendar, with a chocolate for every day of the month. It's a great build-up to the overeating that goes on at Christmas!
NOTES:
• Advent - рождественский пост
• watch out - будьте на чеку
• is on the way - приближается
• cheesy - незамысловатые
• carols - рождественские песенки
• wrapping paper - упаковочная бумага для подарков
• аpart from - помимо
• Christmassy - рождественскую
• build-up - подготовка
• overeating - перееданию/объедаловке/празднику живота
New Year in England.
The most common type of celebration is a New Year party, either a family party or one arranged by a group of young people. This usually begins at about 8 o’clock. And goes on until the early hours of the morning . Sometimes the hosts make a big bowl of punch which consists of wine, spirits, fruit juice and water and varying proportions. There is usually a buffet supper (легкий ужин) of cold meat, pies, sandwiches and biscuits.
At midnight the radio is turned on, so that everyone can hear the chimes (куранты) of Big Ben, and at the hour a toast is drink to the New Year. The party goes on. Another popular way of celebrating the New Year is to go to a New Year’s dance. Most hotels and dance halls hold a special dance on New Year’s Eve. The hall is decorated, there are several different bands and the atmosphere is very festive.
The most famous celebration is in London, round the statue of Eros (памятник филантропу графу Шафтсбери ) in Piccadilly Circus where crowds gather and sing to welcome the New Year. In Trafalgar Square there is also a big crowd and someone usually falls into the foutain.
Those who have no desire or opportunity to celebrate the New Year themselves, can sit a watch other people celebrating on TV.
January 1st , New Year’s Day, is a public holiday. Some people send New Year cards and give presents, but it is not a widespread custom. This is the traditional time for making New Year resolutions (обещания, которые дают себе под Новый Год) for example to give up (бросить) smoking or to get up earlier. However these are generally more talked about than put into practice.
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