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Everyday life of American people as
compared with British way of life.
Executors: Razumeeva Albina
Student of the 10th form, gymnasium № 70.
The teacher: Kirikova Rosa Alexandrovna.
Ekaterinburg, 2006
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The aim of my project work is to learn some information about everyday
life of people from the USA and Great Britain. I wish to widen my
knowledge about their habits, houses, favourite food, transport, job,
teenagers, education, and timetable, peculiarities of the language,
traditions, fashion and clothes in detail. I think that this information is
quite useful because our way of life differs from theirs.
While working over this topic I put some objectives:
Firstly - to develop skills of research work and their application to the
solution of actual practical tasks and to widen my outlook as for everyday
life of Americans and British is concerned.
Secondly -to enlarge my vocabulary with terms connected with the topic.
Thirdly - to find out answers to some questions closely connected with
the topic and to learn some more information about the lifestyle of
American and British people; to compare the information about the UK and
the USA; to help my friends with some advice how to behave in these
countries.
Finally I wanted to improve my knowledge of the English language, to
investigate the theory that could be helpful for my future career.
While working on my project I have come to such hypothesis: I suppose
that Russian people can easily feel comfortable in the USA and Great
Britain.
English Character.
The first chapter
points out the English
character and its
peculiarities. As for me I
was surprised that they
called themselves the
most illogical people. But
I thought they were
prim, cold, practical and
snobbish and of course
very polite. But now I
don’t think so.
The American
character
The second chapter
focuses on American
character. Because
Americans have come from
so many nationalities,
there is a far wider range
of what is “acceptable”
than in some countries
where the inhabitants have
grown up with a common
heritage.
Traditions, Holidays and
Customs of Great Britain
The third
chapter is mostly
about traditions
and customs of
Great Britain,
which are bright
interesting and
amazing.
The National Holidays
in the USA
In my forth chapter
there is some
information about
National Holidays in
the USA which differ
from British ones
because their essence
and ways of
celebrating.
In the next
chapter I explore
the roots of the
British language.
After that the
following chapter
is about the
differences
between British
and American
English.
One Day with
the British
Family
In the seventh
chapter I show one
day with the British
family where you can
see a typical day of
British. I want you to
feel the atmosphere
of their life.
One Day in the
American
Family
And my last chapter
is about the way of
life in the American
family. Here you can
find the information
about American
lifestyle from every
point of view.
Table of Contents.
Practical Part I
Questionnaire
Practical Part II
Practical Part I
After I have read the letters from my friends
who stayed in the USA and in Great Britain I
realized that their perception of the country was
different. For example most of the visitors of
the USA said that they would like to live only in
New York or any other big city as the life in small
towns is too dull for them. As for people who
visited Britain they didn’t experience such a big
culture shock and they were eager to choose any
place for their living either a big or a little town.
But all of them mentioned that both Americans
and British were friendly and kind to them. And
of course everybody noticed that Russian culture
differs greatly from American and British
culture though it doesn’t interfere with mutual
understanding.
Questionnaire.
Where would you like to study?
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The USA
Great Britain
Russia
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Where would you like to live?
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36
The USA
Great Britain
Russia
36
If you have a choice to live in New York, London or
Ekaterinburg what city will you choose?
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43
New York
London
Ekaterinburg
36
Which way of life is closer to you?
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American
British
71
Do you think that British people are prim, cold,
practical, snobbish and reticent?
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yes
no
71
Do you like American nation?
36
yes
no
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don't know
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Do you think that British English and American
English are different or the same?
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Different
The same
93
Is it possible that Russian people will feel comfortable
in the USA or Great Britain?
36
yes
no
64
Practical Part II.
In my second part of the practical work I interviewed three
American women who lived in the USA in the state of Utah
and now live in Russia. I can say that I got great pleasure from
the conversation with them and I want to mention that this
three American women were very chatty, cheerful,
considerate, easy-going, kind, sociable, liberal and smiling.
They seemed to be very patriotic and they wouldn’t like to live
and study in any country but America. Moreover they know
history and traditions of their country very well. I learnt a lot
of useful facts about their lifestyle.
Besides I would like to add that in February I had a chance to
spend some days with British teenagers. They came to my
school on exchange programme. We went to the tourist center
and talked a lot, so I can say that we have a lot in common.
They were very interesting, cheerful and polite, but seemed to
be a bit childish. To my mind Russian teenagers are more
serious.
So I asked them
questions like that:
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What country would you like to live in?
What country would you like to study in?
What do you think about Russian people?
Do British people know a lot about Russia?
If yes, what do they know?
• What is the main difference between
Russian and British from your point view?
In conclusion I want to say that
socializing with the foreigners is very
important not only for language
studying but for self-development. We
become more tolerant and widen our
knowledge about the world. So my
hypothesis is right that Russian people
can feel comfortable in the USA and
Great Britain.