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Definition Explaining: 10%
1.
The
Canterbury
Tales
:the
first
court
poet
to
write
in
English.
It
is
written
in
a
more
recognizable
version
of
English (known as
of
a
series
of
stories
told
by
pilgrims, and is notable
for
its
diversity
both
in
the
range
of
social
types
amongst
the
31
pilgrims, and the range
in style of the stories they tell.
2.
William Shakespeare
: is
probably the best-known literary
figure
in the world, but little is known of his life. He
excels in
each
kind .His
four
famous
tragedies
are:
Hamlet,
Othello,
King
Lear
,
and
Macbeth;
comedies
are
:
A
Mid
Summer
Night's
Dream,
The
Merchant
of
V
enice,
Twelfth
Night,
As
You
Like It History plays include Richard
Ⅱ
,Richard
Ⅲ
,
He
nry
Ⅳ
,Henry
Ⅴ
etc.
3.
Red
brick university
is an informal term
used to refer to
six civic
universities(such as university of Leeds
，
Sheffild
，
Bristol
，
Mancheste
，
Birmingham and Liverpoo) ,which
were
founded in
the major
industrial
cities
of
England.
All
of
the
six
existing
red
brick
institutions,
or
their
predecessor
institutes,
gained
university
status
before
World
War
I
and
were
initially
established
as
civic
science
or
engineering
six
institutions
are
members
of
the
Russell
Group(which receives two-thirds of all
research grant funding
in the United
Kingdom).
4
.Fry-up
：
Traditionally
，
m
any Britons usually have started
the
day with something called a
‘
Fry-
up
’
between about 7:30
a.m
and
9:00
a.m.A
traditional
Full
English
Breakfast
may
contain : sausages
，
bacon
，
scrambled or fried
or boiled egg
，
mushrooms
，
fried
tomatoes
，
black Pudding
，
baked
beans
，
lly,
breakfast
is
served
with
different
kinds
of
beverage,such as hot tea
with milk added,
orange
juice and
etc.
5.
Easter
:
This
festival
is
on
the
first
Sunday
following the
full
moon
that
occurs
on
or
next
after
March
21
,which
commemorates
resurrection
of
Jesus
Christ
from
the
dead
three
days
after
his
crucifixion
by
Romans.
It
is
the
most
important
Christian
festival
for
many
church-goers.
The
oldest
tradition
is
to
use
dyed
chicken
eggs,
but
a
modern
custom is to
substitute eggs made from chocolate, or plastic
eggs filled with candy such as
jellybeans.
6.
Good
Friday
:It
is
the
Friday
before
Easter,which
commemorates
the
execution
of
Jesus
by
crucifixion.
Good
Friday is a day of mourning in church.
During special Good
Friday
services
,Christians
meditate
on
Jesus's
suffering
and
death on the cross, and what this means
for their faith.
7.
Boxing
Day
:the old custom and a typical
British tradition
celebrated
on
the
day
after
Christmas.
People
used
to
give
Christmas gifts or
money, or
‘
Christmas box' ,
to their staff ,
employees
or
tradesmen (
such
as the
milkman)
or
servants
on
this
day.
And
now
they
mostly
do
shopping,
pay
visits,
enjoy eating or just
relax., it has nothing to do with the sport
of
‘
boxing' !
8.
Trooping the
Colour
:It happens on the second
Saturday
in June when the Queen's
Birthday is officially celebrated by
9.
St.
Patrick
’
s Day
: is
an annual feast day which generally
celebrates Saint Patrick (one of the
patron saints of Ireland)on
March 17.
The day is the national
holiday of Ireland. It is a bank holiday
in
Northern Ireland
and
a
public
holiday
in the
Republic
of
Ireland. and used shamrock/clover
(
三叶草，爱尔兰的国花
)
to
explain
the
Christian
Trinity
—
the
Father,
Son, and
Holy
Spirit.
So,
the
shamrock
is
a
popular
symbol
to
wear
on
St.
Patrick’s
Day,
and
it
is
also
considered
very
lucky
to
wear
something green.
10.
Guy
Fawkes
’
Night
:It
is
a
truly
English
holiday
celebrated
in
November.
It
originates
from
the
1605
Gunpowder
Plot-
-a
plan to
blow
up
the
British
Parliament,
kill the
Protestant King and replace him with a Catholic
king.
People celebrate it by having
public bonfires and fireworks. A
straw
effigy called the
“
Guy
”
(one of the conspirators Guy
Fawkes) is thrown on the bonfire. The
biggest Bonfire Night
celebration is
held in Lewes.
Question Answering: 15%
1.
What
is
the
difference
between
UK,
England,
Britain,
Great Britain (GB)
and British Isles?
2.
Say
something
about
“Middle
English”.
Middle
English (ME)
describes
dialects
of
English
in
the history
of
the English language between the High
and Late Middle Ages,
or
roughly
during
the
three
centuries
between
the
late
12th
and the late 15th century.
3. What is
“
Continental breakfast
”
?
(It
’s a small
meal and is not cooked.
It contains a
bread roll
(or
croissant)
with
cheese
or
ham
and
a
cup
of
coffee
or
orange juice.)
4. How many Bank Holidays in England?
And what are they?
There
are
eight
Bank
Holidays
in
England,which
are
New
Year's
Day,
Good
Friday,
Easter
Monday,
Early
May
Bank
Holiday
(
the
1st
Monday
in
May),
Spring
Bank
Holiday
(the
last
Monday
in
May),
Summer
Bank
Holiday
(the
last
Monday
in
August),
Christmas
Day,
and
Boxing
Day
(December
26
th
)
5. What is
the Christmas Pantomime?
A
typical
British
Christmas
tradition,which
is
a
comical
musical play usually based on a popular
traditional
children’s
story.
There
are
two
main
characters
in
the
play:
“the
principal boy”, played by a
young woman, and “the Dame”,
played by a man. It is a play with
songs and jokes which can
be enjoyed by
both adults and children.
6. Say something about the Easter
celebration.
As
Easter
is
always
a
Sunday,
many
countries
in
the
world
also
have
Easter
Monday
as
a
public
holiday.
Some
retail
stores,
shopping
malls,
and
restaurants
are
closed
on
Easter
Sunday. Easter eggs are specially
decorated eggs given out to
celebrate
the Easter addition, the Easter Bunny is a
popular legendary Easter character.
7. What is St.
George
’
s Day?
By
tradition, April 23rd is the day for a red rose in
the button
hole,
the
national
was
certainly
true
that
St.
George's
Day was virtually ignored soon after the biggest
St
Patrick's Day Celebrations.
8. Say
something about Scotland
’
s
Hogmanay
.
“First
Footing”
is
one
widely
practiced
custom
on
St.
George
’
s
Day.
There
is
a
superstitious
belief
that
the
first
person to cross the
threshold of a household in the New Year
can
bring
luck
and
prosperity.
First-footers
often
bring
a
bottle of
spirits (
烈酒
), alcohol, a
lump of coal or a peat
（泥
炭块）
as a gift and
are
given a
“dram
of
whisky”
as
their
reward.
9.
Say
something
about
Black
Death
.
The
Black
Death
is
also known as the
plague
. In the fourteenth
century it spread
rapidly
across
Europe
and
caused
a
massive
reduction
in
population.
People
who
caught
the
disease had
swellings
on
their bodies, sometimes
as big as eggs. Then the black spots
would appear, which gave the disease
its name.
10. Say something about the
English Afternoon Tea.
Anna
Maria Russell
, Duchess of Bedford, is
widely credited
as transforming
afternoon tea in England into a late-afternoon
meal
whilst
visiting Belvoir
the
end
of
the
nineteenth
century,
afternoon
tea
developed
to
its
current
form
and was observed by both the upper and middle
classes.
There are the best things with
a fat pink rose on the side of
each
cup; hearts of lettuce, thin bread and butter, and
the crisp
little cakes that had been
baked,all of these things are laid up
on a exquisite table.
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