Transcript Comparing Russians and English
The Comparison of Russians and the English
Golovina Olga, 10 “A”, ГОУ СОШ 574
In this project I will compare the following points:
Characters
Climate
Houses
Meals and cuisine
Families
Characters of Englishmen
handshakes are only exchanged on a first introduction Don’t like ask other to do anything Extremely reserved.
Questions like “Where did you buy this watch?” or “What is your salary?” are impossible It’s polite nation. Example: to give up one’s seat to a woman who is standing or to open door for her English sense of humor is specific, but very elegance Thinks, that there island “center of the world” – it’s
Characters of Russians
Always shake hands to each other when they are meeting Russians are to shy to ask for something Russian can ask to you about everething, up to your salary Most of them don’t give up a seat for a women & even for old people & of course they will never open door or carry things for somebody Like to speak with there neighbors about politics, global problems, e.t.
Climate in England
«Other countries have a climate, in England we have weather» Summer in England is so hot, that’s why most of vegetables & plants can die from the drought if they aren’t watered The worst thing of weather in England is thick fog, that happens often The rivers in England never freeze. When there are -8*C in England it’s cold for englishmen the cold.
Climate in Russia
The most exiting season in Russia is winter People go skating & skiing, children make snowmen, throw snowballs & sometimes they come home having their hands frost bitten.
Sometimes, when it’s very cold you can see a wonderful tracery on your windows.
Houses in England
Most people live in small houses built close together and joined to another on one side only by one wall in common.
They are called semi detached . They are usually consist of 2 floors.
Downstairs are the living rooms. They are a drawing room, a sitting room & a kitchen. Upstairs are the bed rooms, a bathroom & a nursery for the children.
The drawing room means that it is the largest room in a house & the one with the best furniture.
There is a fire-place in most of houses, it is usually in the sitting room. They think that electricity is cleaner but a coal fire is more homely.
The front garden is a smooth grass lawn, you can see also there a few flower beds. Back garden is more useful, but less pretty than front one
Houses in Russia
The & front of majority emotions a with house of entrances) neighbors several flats on one floor.
Russian population lives in blocks of flats.
In a house which is not very large (has 3 or 5 stores or only 1 entrance) everybody knows all secrets of the neighbors & share their negative or positive feelings near-living people. When a house is large (has 9 or 16 stores & many don’t know even the names of each other. In there is a children’s playground. There are Usual Russian flat consists of entrance hall, two or three rooms, kitchen, toilet & bathroom which are not very large.
Summary about houses
In both English & Russian houses people have modern conveniences such as central heating, electricity, gas, cold & hot running water, telephone, but both of nations don’t forget about beautiful of nature.
Meals and cuisine
The English usually have 4 meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner.
Breakfast can be a full “English breakfast” of cornflakes with milk and sugar, or bacon and eggs, tost and marmalade, tea or coffee.
Afternoon tea is taken at about 5 o’clock, but it can hardly be called a meal. It is a cap of tea and cake or biscuits.
Dinner is the most substantial meal of the day. It is usually eaten at 7 o’clock. The first course [ kÉ :s] may be soup. The main course will often be fish or meat, perhaps the traditional roast beef of old England, and a lot of vegetables. The next course will be something sweet and often cooked, such as a fruit pie. Last og all there may be cheese, often with biscuits.
It is common knowledge that the English are very fond of tea. They like to have a “nice cup of tea” 6 or 8 times a day, sometimes even more.
Meals and cuisine
At the weekend Russian prefer to get up late and have a good breakfast of scrambled eggs or pancakes. But on weekdays we just have a cup of strong tea or coffee and a couple of sandwiches We enjoy our evening meal at home. To begin with we usually have some salad. For the first course we have some soup. For the main course we have meat, chicken or fish dishes with boiled, fried or mashed potatoes.
For dessert we have some fruit, fruit juice or just a cup of tea with a piece of cake.
Russian food is very plain and healthy.
English average family
English are a nation of stay-at-home.
is no place like «There home», they say. And when man isn’t working he is at home in the company of his wife & children.
A “typical” British family used to consist of mother, father & two children.
Since the low made it easier to get a divorce, the number of divorces has increased. This means that there are a lot of one-parent families. However, the majority of divorced people marry again, & they sometimes take responsibility for a second family.
The average woman gets married at 24.
Mrs. Average now has her first child at the age of 27, but she will have only one or two children: only one mother in four has more.
Russian average family
In Russia over 80 percent of women & about 70 percent of men marry at the age of 25. Every year about one million families break up. About 50 per cent of divorces do not remarry. Over 50 per cent of divorced men remarry within a period of ten years, while 25 per cent of such women do so. The young families have material difficulties. As a result, young couples often have to rely on the assistance of their parents. Most of young people don’t wish to live together with their parents after they get married but about half of them have to do this. As a result these young people don’t have necessary experience in family life.
Conclusion