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   Júlia Bácskai -  Atkári  Headway Intermediate (Third Edition), p. 32. In Britain… you can get married when youre 16.  you cant drink alcohol until youre 18.  you have to wear a seat- belt in a car. you can vote when youre 18.  young people dont have to do militar y service.  there are lots o f public places where you arent allowed to smoke.  Att a ch m e nt s t o t he ha nd o ut : Exercise 2. „Queue jumpingis frowned upon.  It is impolite for men to wear hats in churches. When yawning or coughing, it is all right not to cover your mouth with your han d. When you are first introduced to someone, you shake hands. A smiling face is not welcome. People drive on the right side of the road. People open doors for others. You are not expected to greet people with a kiss. It is normal to talk loud in public. It is all right to stare at anyone in public. It is impolite to ask a lady her age. You are required to avoid gestures such as backslapp ing and hu gging. Feel free to spit. It is normal to burp in public. It is impolite to speak with your mouth f ull.

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  • Jlia Bcskai-Atkri

    Headway Intermediate (Third Edition), p. 32.

    In Britain

    you can get married when youre 16.

    you cant drink alcohol until youre 18.

    you have to wear a seat-belt in a car.

    you can vote when youre 18.

    young people dont have to do military service.

    there are lots of public places where you arent allowed to smoke.

    Attachments to the handout:

    Exercise 2.

    Queue jumping is frowned upon.

    It is impolite for men to wear hats in churches.

    When yawning or coughing, it is all right not to cover your mouth with your hand.

    When you are first introduced to someone, you shake hands.

    A smiling face is not welcome.

    People drive on the right side of the road.

    People open doors for others.

    You are not expected to greet people with a kiss.

    It is normal to talk loud in public.

    It is all right to stare at anyone in public.

    It is impolite to ask a lady her age.

    You are required to avoid gestures such as backslapping and hugging.

    Feel free to spit.

    It is normal to burp in public.

    It is impolite to speak with your mouth full.

  • Jlia Bcskai-Atkri

    Exercise 4.

    TABLE MANNERS

    Next time you ______ next to an Englishman in a restaurant, ______ him carefully to see how

    he eats. Table manners are perhaps ______ less seriously than they were twenty years ago, but

    there is still a tendency, especially among older people, to judge ones fellow-country-men by the way they ______ a fork or pass the salt.

    Dont ______ with your mouth full a very sensible stipulation. Dont put your elbows on the table this resulted in whole generations of British children who sat upright with their hands folded uncomfortably in their laps between courses.

    Dont ______ too much on your plate at a time it ______ better in the eyes of the British to gorge yourself on six small helpings than to ______ one large one to start with.

    You should never ______ the last piece of meat or the last potato from the serving dish it is fascinating to ______ a group of still hungry diners ______ a dish around with one slice of

    meat on it, each of them too polite to take it.

    Particularly interesting is the way the British handle their cutlery. A fork, for example, in the

    best British society, is only ______ to ______: it is ______ either vulgar or foreign to turn the fork over and scoop up vegetables. The sight of an Englishman ______ a last pea around

    his plate, ______ to catch it on the prong of his fork, ______ British sporting instincts at their

    best.

    Soup spoons are also handled in a very unusual way . The best mannered people always scoop

    up their soup by moving the spoon away from them, not towards them. The last tasty

    mouthful of soup must not be ______ out by tipping the plate towards one.

    Less sensible ______ what the British ______ with their cutlery to ______ that they have

    finished. In most countries, people ______ wise enough to put their knife and fork on the

    plate in the three oclock position: parallel to the edge of the table, so that they cannot knock them into their laps. The British ______ to the six oclock position.

    Finally, every Englishman ______ with him a store of polite and complimentary phrases for

    his hostess; How nice, This really is good, I dont ______ how you do it, etc.

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    (taken from: This Is Britain Today)