British pubs
05 Декабря 2011 в 17:44, контрольная работа
English –genii of comfort. Nowhere in the world there is such a warm, cozy interiors, as in British houses, and the older the house, the more generations living in it, the more it is appreciated.
There is only one place where a foreigner traveler can come in an coziness of the English fireplace and its name is a pub.
Pub – a unique and absolutely typical phenomenon of English life. It is as an integral part of the English landscape as green fields, sheep and old oaks under fast floating clouds.
British holiday
10 Января 2011 в 12:35, реферат
One of them is, of course, New Year's Day on the first of January. It is not so popular in England as in our country, but it is rather popular in Scotland. On that day people usually visit their friends and there is a lot of dancing and eating. In Scotland people bring a piece of coal for good luck in the New Year.
British architecture
17 Декабря 2011 в 13:38, лекция
There is no place in all Britain and few in the whole world, so surrounded by mystery as the group of huge, rough-cut stones which people call Stonehenge – place of the “hanging stones”. This “Riddle of Ages” is situated on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, a county in south-western England. It is the most famous and probably the most remarkable of all prehistoric monuments in the country. Started 5,000 years ago and remodelled several times in the centuries that followed. It represents one of the most remarkable achievements of prehistoric engineering. It is made of many upright stones, standing in groups of twos, 8,5 meters high. They are joined on the top by other flat stones, each weighing about 7 tons. They form a 97 foot-diameter circle that once held 30 columns and an inner horseshoe of even grander blocks, some 200 feet tall.
British univercities
20 Февраля 2013 в 18:24, творческая работа
There are more than forty universities in Britain, of which 35 are in England, 8 in Scotland, 2 in Northern Ireland and 1 in Wales. The two oldest universities in England are Oxford and Cambridge. These date from the Middle Ages. Oxford is the oldest of these two universities, it is more philosophical, classical, theological. The history of Oxford began in 1243, that of Cambridge in 1348. Among the English universities Oxford and Cambridge have a special eminence, and they are different from the others.
The British inventors
04 Ноября 2011 в 21:28, реферат
An invention is a novel composition, device, or process. An invention may be derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived, in which case it may be a radical breakthrough. In addition, there is cultural invention, which is an innovative set of useful social behaviors adopted by people and passed on to others. Inventions often extend the boundaries of human knowledge or experience.
The British Royal Family
13 Февраля 2013 в 17:17, реферат
The term “The Royal Family” has no strict legal definition. Nor does the family have a constitutional role, but the work of its members is an essential part of the modern monarchy.
Queen Elizabeth II became Queen of the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth on the sixth of February ,nineteen fifty-two (1952) . As of today she has reigned for 60 years, and she is celebrating the Diamond (60th) Jubilee of her reign in two thousand twelve. She is head of the British Royal Family, has 4 children, 8 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchilden, and is 86 years old.
British Traditions and Customs
22 Декабря 2011 в 15:08, сочинение
British nation is considered to be the most conservative in Europe. It is not a secret that every nation and every country has its own customs and traditions. In Great Britain people attach greater importance to traditions and customs than in other European countries. Englishmen are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up. The best examples are their queen, money system, their weights and measures.
Peculiarities of British Dialects
30 Ноября 2011 в 13:27, реферат
Language is the most important means of human being. Many peoples on the Earth have no means of representing their speech in the form of writing. In fact, some authorities estimate that there are more than two thousand languages in the world which have never been reduced to writing. Writing, therefore, must be considered a secondary manifestation of language.
Peculiarities of British Dialects
03 Марта 2013 в 11:10, реферат
The reason why we have chosen this theme is that of enlargement of our knowledge of English language, of penetration in its historical past. These materials will help us to evaluate and understand the peculiarities of foundation and development of this language, its dialects and accents. Our aims are:
to examine the most prevalent British dialects;
to compare their lexis (the word stock of the dialect), grammar and phonetics with those of Standard English ones, and to clarify what is the difference between them;
to show the peculiarities of British dialects
Changing Values and Norms of the British Family
15 Декабря 2011 в 18:50, реферат
The family in Britain is changing. The once typical British family headed by two parents has undergone substantial changes during the twentieth century. In particular there has been a rise in the number of single-person households, which increased from 18 to 29 per cent of all households between 1971 and 2002.
Differences between american and british english
26 Февраля 2013 в 12:35, доклад
In the early part of the seventeenth century English settlers began to bring their language to America, and another series of changes began to take place. The settlers borrowed words from Indian languages for such strange trees as the hickory and persimmon, such unfamiliar animals as raccoons and woodchucks. Later they borrowed other words from settlers from other countries - for instance, chowder and prairie from the French, scow and sleigh from the Dutch. They made new combinations of English words, such as backwoods and bullfrog, or gave old English words entirely new meanings, such as lumber (which in British English means approximately junk) and corn (which in British means any grain, especially wheat).
Ethnic and geographical identity of British people
21 Сентября 2011 в 21:30, курсовая работа
The geographical term Great Britain was used to distinguish the largest of the British Isles from Brittany, or Little Britain. When James I succeeded Elizabeth in 1603 he proposed that the union of the crowns should be followed by a governmental union and suggested the name Great Britain. Though the English Parliament could not be brought to agree, James adopted the name by proclamation and used it on his coinage.
Корпоративная культура British Airways
17 Января 2011 в 16:58, доклад
Компания British Airways является крупнейшей авиакомпанией и национальным авиаперевозчиком Великобритании, а так же одной из крупнейших авиакомпаний Европы.Её слоган «World"s favourite airline», который обязывает компанию быть лучшей среди всех. Опыт данной компании - яркий пример изменений корпоративной культуры.
Changes in British English pronunciation during the twentieth century
26 Декабря 2011 в 16:45, реферат
The consonant system of three pairs of plosives (p,b;t,d;k,g) four pairs of (supraglottal) fricatives (f,v; θ,ð; s,z; ʃ,ʒ) a pair of affricates (ʧ,ʤ), a trio of nasals (m,n,), a glottal fricative (h), and four approximants (a pair of liquids and a pair of semivowels: l,r; j,w) was in the twentieth century the most stable part of the English phonological system, having remained the same for centuries.