Нужно составить 10 вопросов в Past Simple по этому тексту. English Traditions
Every country and every nation has its own customs and
traditions. You cannot speak about England without speaking
about its traditions and customs. Englishmen are proud of their
traditions and carefully keep them up.
The English are stay-at-home people. “There is no place like
home”, they say. When they don’t work they like to spend their
days off at home with their families.
Englishmen are very fond of fireplaces, that’s why many of them
prefer the open fire to central heating.
They like to live in small houses with a small garden. People all
over the world know the saying “The Englishman’s home is his
castle”.
They say that English people keep to their traditions even in
meals. Porridge is the dish Englishmen are very fond of. Many of
them eat porridge with milk and sugar for breakfast. As for the
Scots, for example, they never put sugar in their porridge, they
always put salt in it.
By the way, breakfast time in England is between seven and nine.
Then, between 12 and 2 there comes lunch time. In some English
houses lunch is the biggest meal of the day — they have meat or
fish, vegetables, fruit or pudding.
In the afternoon, at tea-time the English like to have a cup of tea
with milk.
Some Englishmen have their dinner late in the evening. For
dinner they have soup, fish or meat, vegetables, pudding or fruit.
For supper they usually have a glass of milk and a cake or a cup
of tea and a sandwich.
The English are tea-drinkers. They have it many times a day.
Some Englishmen have tea for breakfast, tea at lunch time, tea
after dinner, tea at tea-time and tea with supper. Some English
families have “high tea” or big tea and no supper. For high tea
they may have cold meat, bread and butter, cakes, and, of
course, a lot of tea. The Englishmen always drink tea out of cups,
never out of glasses.