Страноведческий материал по английскому языку
презентация к уроку по английскому языку (10 класс)

                FAVOURITE DRINK OF THE BRITISH AND THE BASHKIRS

“If you are cold, tea will warm you;
if you are heated, it will cool you;
If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
If you are excited, it will calm you.”
― William Ewart Gladstone

A tea bush is a low- growing plant, which is grown in China and India. Tea gathering is very hard and difficult work. The Indian women carry baskets on their backs and they have to gather only young leaves by their hands without using any machinery. After that they dry the leaves.

The first tea was imported from China, but in 1823, a tea plant was found growing in India. And today London's tea markets deal in tea from India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) more than from China. It is supposed that the British drink more tea than any other nation - about 4 kilos a head, or everyone drinks just under three cups a day.

The most popular sort of tea in Britain is Lipton tea. The British have been drinking Lipton tea for more than 100 years.

The English custom of afternoon tea goes back to the late 18th century, when Anne, the wife of the seventh Duke of Bedford, decided that she needed tea and cakes to bring back her energy around 5 p.m.

The Bashkirs have been drinking tea from early times. They have been drinking herbal tea with honey of wild bees. Drinking tea with herbs is very useful. It helps us to be healthy and look nice.

And though we live far from each other, both the British and the Bashkir have the same "weakness": the both like to drink tea very much. 

Do you know why the British drink milk tea?
People of the UK began to add milk to the drink not because of the good taste, because of the economy. In ancient times, tea from China was expensive and was a deficit product. But milk was cheap, so everyone could afford it.
There is another version. At first, people of the UK preferred to drink tea with jam, but they drank tea from porcelain cups, the cups couldn’t withstand high temperatures and cracked. That is why the British began to add milk to the cups first, and then they poured tea into them.

Bashkirs like to drink tea with milk and honey. The villagers say: "We don't eat anything, just drink tea." If guests come, a tea party is arranged first, and then the main feast.

Bashkirs prefer black tea with oregano or matrushka\dushitsa. Also, St. John's wort, thyme, currant leaves, strawberries, and strawberries are added to the tea.

Bashkirs drink tea for any reason: the wedding, after the wedding, at a party, at home and on a picnic. We also love to drink tea in nature with samovar then tea seems even tastier

Idioms about tea

1.  cup of tea — нечто предпочтительное, желательное

Буквально «чья-либо чашка чаю»

Нечто приятное, знакомое, приходящееся по вкусу:

Teaching children to read is just my cup of tea. — Учить детей читать — это мое.

2. not one's cup of tea — нечто чуждое

Буквально  «не чья-либо чашка чаю»

«Не мой конек», «не мое»:

Going to church, Mary said, was not her cup of tea. — Ходить в церковь, сказала Мэри, ей не по нраву.

3. tea party — 1) безумная вечеринка 2) простое и приятное событие

Буквально  «чаепитие»

1. Буйная, шумная, «безбашенная» вечеринка: There was a loud tea party going on in the pub when Jess came in. — Когда Джесс вошла, в пабе как раз была шумная и буйная вечеринка.

2. Легкое и приятное событие, не вызывающее опасений и волнений: The test was a real tea party. No sweat. — Экзамен был легким. Никакого напряга.

4. not for all the tea in China — ни за что на свете

Буквально  «да ни за весь чай в Китае»

Ни за какую цену, никогда в жизни:

I wouldn't give up my car, not for all the tea in China. — Я не отдам свою машину ни за какие богатства мира.

5. tempest in a teapot — буря в стакане воды

Буквально «буря в чайнике»

 Также tempest in a teacup («буря в чайной чашке) в британском варианте — storm in a teacup. Слишком бурная реакция на незначительное событие:

All that because a handful of the thousand invited guests didn't show up? What a tempest in a teapot! — И все это потому, что кучка из тысячи приглашенных гостей не явилась? Что за буря в стакане воды!

6. tea and sympathy — сочувствие, сострадание

Буквально «чай и сочувствие»

Старомодное выражение, обозначающее поддержку и сострадание к тому, кто расстроен:

Sometimes people want practical advice and sometimes they just want tea and sympathy. — Порой нам нужен дельный совет, а порой — простое человеческое сочувствие.

Tea in the USA

The tradition of evening tea drinking in the United States did not take root: after the rulers of the United Kingdom introduced a tax on the import of tea into the United States in 1773, American colonists defiantly poured a load of tea into the waters of the Boston harbor. The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the development of the American Revolution, and the purely English five-o’clock tradition came to naught.

Therefore, if you order tea in the United States, in most cases they will bring you iced tea with ice and lemon, which perfectly refreshes on a hot day.

My Internet friend from the USA also said that no one drinks tea like the Bashkirs or the British, they prefer coffee.

At the end I want to say that tea at all times remains an integral part of Bashkir and English culture! So let’s drink tea from samovar and let’s not interrupt the traditions of our ancestors!

ЛИТЕРАТУРА:

1.chayguru.info

2.fito-tea.com

3. ru.wikipedia.org

4. infourok.ru

EAST OR WEST HOME IS BEST .

based on the story of

« BROWN WOLF»  BY JACK LONDON

Jack London, the famous American writer, was born in San Francisco in 1876. The family was poor and Jack began to work  very early, when he was only nine years old. He got up at three o’clock in the morning and carried newspapers. After that he went to school. When the school was over, he carried the evening newspapers. On Saturdays and Sundays he worked at a hotel. The boy liked to read and spent all his free time with books. Jack left school at 13. After that he worked ten and more hours every day, but soon lost his job. When he was nineteen years old , he entered the univercity, but soon he left it. Jack found work at a factory and in the evenings he wrote poems and shot stories. But nobody wanted to publish his stories.

Gold was found   in Alaska, so London went there. He lived in Alaska for a year, but did not find any gold. He met heroes for his stories there – the strong men, who became the prototypes of his heroes. Some of his stories were published in 1898 and people liked them very much.

 The story "Brown Wolf" was written in 1907. It isn’t just a touching dog story, but also the story about freedom,loyalty.The  theme of the story is the loyalty and loyalty of the dog. The main problem with the story is the problem of choice. Jack London masterfully shows that for a man and a dog the choice is different.  

The writer managed to convey the situation of meeting the dog, old and new owners as if from all points of view at once. Each character has its own truth, but people are humbled with the choice of a dog. The very fact of the unexpected meeting of the first owner of the dog with her in California brings the story closer to the novel. But still the work does not go beyond the genre limits of the story, all its surprises are natural and believable.

While living in California, Brown Wolf, the dog-wolf is feeling the call of the wild nature of the desolate and frigid North. Neither the affection that surrounds him, nor the good living conditions can make him overcome his innermost desire to go back to his roots...

Why did Wolf always run away to the North as soon as he was strong and fresh and was given freedom? Why did he choose hard,severe northen life instead of living in sunny California?

ЛИТЕРАТУРА:

1.А.Р.Старков "Учебное пособие для 10 класса средней школы" "Просвещение",1986г.

2.Джек Лондон "Бурый Волк",1906г. Перевод Зинаиды Вершининой,2011г.