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Major English-speaking Countries: A Survey
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choose only ONE of the two
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Topic
1:
What is the
issue of British culture that interests you the
most before you start to learn
this
course? Do you have a different perspective over
the same issue when you finish
your
study, and what are the differences?
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Topic 2:
What is the issue of
American culture that interests you the most
before you start to
learn this course?
Do you have a different perspective over the same
issue when you
finish your study, and
what are the differences?
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above
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give your answers or comments to the
topic you have chosen;
3.
express your ideas in English with
at least 1200 words
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write in
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give a proper title to your
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British Pub
Culture
The British diet really
can’
t give people a deep impression.
But the British pub
culture does make
people more than impressed, but also fascinated.
If someone truly
wants to understand
the local culture of Britain, the most effective
way is to step into
those pubs.“ If you
haven’t been to pub, you haven’t been to Britain”
as the British
people tell to
foreigners. In fact it really like they said, the
pub culture is absolutely
essential for
the UK as part of social life.
In the
UK, the pub was called
“
public
house”
and
the
word
“
pub
” is short of
it
.
Britain’s current pub is
about more than 80,000, different sizes
and different forms.
Pub has
become one of the unique features of the cities
and towns throughout the UK.
Britain’s
pubs are mostly
beautiful and
fascinating names, such as
The
Mermaid
,
The
Red
House
and
Cattle in
Forest
,
The Jolly
Sailor
as well as
Charming
Port.
British
bar has become
an important part of the British life has a
history of hundred years, it
originated
in 11 Century. Like a church, a pub is usually the
center of a community.
There are two sections of bar in pub:
public bar and saloon bar or lounge bar. In
public bar, there is a small place
available to customers for handled game. They take
darts,
throw
them
to
the
dartboard.
When
three
rounds
have
been
finished,
the
one
who gets the least scores should treat
others with drink. Such kind of game has a long
history of several hundred years.
Saloon bar is usually quiet has spacious seats.
But
you have to pay more 50% than
usual for the same beer. It’s the
gathering place for
the famous
intellectuals to talk of everything.
In
the
pub,
there
are
usually
a
variety
of
alcoholic
and
non-alcoholic
drinks.
Alcoholic drinks usually include beer,
cherry, champagne, wine, cocktail, vermouth,
liquor
and
whisky
as
well
as
brandy.
Some
non-
alcoholic
drinks
like
fruit
juice,
bubbling wine, sweet, cola and mineral
water also very popular. There are many kind
of beer, pasteurized beer, bitter,
Guinness, pale ale and mild ale that were on
draught.
And some beers on the bottle
like light ale, brown beer and stout. In addition,
the pub
sometimes
offer
a
without
carbon
dioxide
draught
beer.
Although
the
pub
has
a
variety of drinks, but the
British people like the most is the beer. Britain
has more than