The most interesting facts

about British culture and

society.

Why are Brits so

obsessed with tea (одержимы

чаем)? Want to chat with your friends? Invite

them for a cup of tea. Going through

(переживаете) a personal drama? The nice cup of

tea make everyone feel better!!!

Why Britain became one of the biggest tea drinking nation in the

world?

In the middle of 1600s the British

East India Company controlled the tea

imported (привозимый) in

Britain. While other countries still drank

coffee, Britain became a tea

drinking nation.

Afternoon tea

Low tea is calling so because of low tables on which it was served on and came about in 1841. Today Brits enjoy afternoon tea about four o'clock in the afternoon. It includes a set of finger sandwiches (канапе-сэндвичи), scones (булочки), cakes and homemade muffins.

Cream teaCream tea (чай со сливками) is a more simple kind with scones (булочки), clotted cream (топлёные сливки) and jam ( варенье).

High tea

Also known as meat tea which was actually a hot dinner of meat pies, vegetables and bread, eaten at the end of the day with a cup of tea. It was called high tea due to the high tables it was served on.

Tea roomsIn the 1880s tea rooms have become popular among women as respectable places where they could go to meet up with friends for a chat.

Tea bags

97% of tea used in Britain available in tea bag format. During the 1900 tea merchant (торговец) Thomas Sullivan sent out examples of tea to his customers (покупателям) in silk bags (шёлковые пакетики), but they became fashionable in Britain until the 1950s.

How to make tea the

British way?In Britain,

however, people need something

warm and strong, to get through these cloudy,

rainy, windy and generally grey

days.

How to make the perfect cup of tea?

You should use freshly boiled (свеже-вскипячённую) water, which in the UK is usually comes from the electric kettle.And you have to make sure (убедиться) that your tea is brewed (заваривается) from about two to five minutes.

Milk first, then tea or tea then 

milk?Scientists at University College London have finally worked it out. They say that tea made in a cup should have the milk added (добавлено) after the water. But if the tea is made in a pot (в чайнике), then the milk should be added first.

DunkingDunking (макание) - is the art of dipping a biscuit , which is call less sweet cookie, into your tea. Recent research (недавнее расследование) has found that the best dunking biscuit is a rich (сдобное) tea biscuit. And that the chocolate ones are even better.

How to make breakfast like a

Brit?

Nowadays, most Brits enjoyed the

fry-up English breakfast only at the weekends.

Ingredients:

1# Eggs2# Bacon3# Sausages4# Black pudding5# Baked beans6# Toasts7# Mushrooms8# Tomatoes

How to speak British?

1# Away with the fairies (ушёл в себя)2# Swings and roundabouts (когда закрывается одна дверь, всегда

открывается другая)3# Horses for courses (каждому своё)4# Bob’s your uncle (всё в порядке)

5# Donkey’s years (долгие годы)6# To have a butcher’s (взглянуть)7# It’s monkey’s (ужасно холодно)

Thank you very

much!!!