TOPIC: HOUSES IN BRITAIN, MEDIA, SPORT

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HOUSES IN BRITAIN
CHOOSING WHERE TO LIVE
Towns and cities in Britain have grown a lot in size over the two centuries.
Many people live in the suburbs, areas on the edge of a town. The oldest houses are
usually those closest to the town center.
People consider villages to be pleasant place to live, because not only they
are quieter but also less polluted than towns and are closer to the countryside. They
usually contain a range of houses, including old cottages and new houses and
bungalows.

BUNGALOW

Rented houses are more and more popular. Young people and those who
cannot afford to buy a house live in rented accommodation. Some rent a furnished
bedsit, others rent a flat or house.

BEDSIT
Houses are bought and sold through estate agents.
HOUSES, BUNGALOWS AND FLATS
Most houses are built of brick with a tiled roof and stone (especially in the
country).

Detached house: -the largest and most expensive type of house

-not joined to other houses and have a garden round it
-have at least 3 bedrooms, one or more living room, a
separate dining room and kitchen downstairs

Semi-detached house: -extremely common

-built in pairs with one house joined to the other along one
side.
-have 2 or 3 bedrooms
-have a separate garden at the front and the back for each
house

Terraced house: -date from Victorian and Edwardian

-built manly for working-class people.
-4 or more houses are joined together in a row
-no front garden
-2 bedrooms, a sitting room, a kitchen, an arrangement called 2 up.
2 down.

Cottage: - small, very old village houses

-many have been modernized inside but still keep the wooden beams and
other features that are thought to give them character.

High-rise blocks of flats: -sometimes over 20 storeys high with several flats on
each floor, were built in many towns in the mid 20th century.
SPACE FOR LIVING
Houses in Britain often seem small for the number of people living in them.
In some cities, house prices are too high for people to afford one. Many families
share one bathroom or their children share one bedroom.
In order to overcome the problem of lack of space some people have a lot of
conversion to make a new bedroom in the roof space. Others and an extra room or
bathroom downstairs.

MEDIA
NEWSPAPERS
Kinds of newspaper:
National paper: a paper that is sold throughout the country
Local paper: a paper produced in one town
Daily paper: the paper that you can buy every morning

 Broadsheet: a serious paper that reports world events

Tabloid: a paper containing sensational stories about the private lives of rich
and famous people
Some images:

Parts of the paper:

In the UK, 50% of adult read a national newspaper and nearly 27% read a regional
daily newspaper.
The national press
Consists of 11 morning daily papers and 11 Sunday papers.
National newspapers are often described as boadssheet or tabloid papers on the
basis of differences in format, style and content. Many newspapers have colour
pages and most produce extensive supplements as part of their Saturday or Sunday
editions.
Regional newspapers

There are more than 1,300 regional and local newspaper titles and 95 regional
press publishers, the top 20 of which account for 85% of all UK regional and local
newspapers titles. Most towns and cities throughout the UK have their own
regional or local newspaper.
The minority ethnic press
There are several newspapers and magazines produced by minority ethnic
communities in the UK. Most are published weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
The Asian Times is an English language weekly for people of Asian decent.
Publications also appear in other languages.
Electronic newspapers
Most national newspapers have set up websites, providing access to articles from
their printed titles or on-line versions of their papers. Some offer additional special
interest sites.

THE TIME

- A national newspaper published daily in the UK

- Its cover price in the UK is 60p on weekdays, and 1.10 on Saturday.

- The times Sunday sister paper is the Sunday times, a broadsheet. its cover
price is 1.60

TV AND RADIO
- Over 90% of British homes have a TV and the average person watches the
box 24 hours a week.

- There are 5 TV channels in Britain: BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel

5
- About 26 % of British homes subscribe to satellite or cable TV

BATTLE OF THE SOAPS

- Soaps are popular serials which dramatize their characters daily lives.
- The story lines are entertaining, but often unbelievable.
- Soaps are broadcast either three or five times a week and each episode last
about half an hour
- Nearly half the population watches one or both of the two most popular,
coronation street and Eastenders
- Coronation street has been running since December 1960 and is set a
working class area of Manchester
- Eastenders is set in the East End of London
RADIO WAVES

- The BBC broadcast on five national and 39 local radio stations

- Local radio stations put on programmers which interest people who live in
that area
- Radio 1 is still the most popular radio station with an average of 9.6 million
listeners
- It used to have many more listener, but is now not so popular because of
competition from 150 new commercial radio stations

SPORT
The most popular sport is football which has an enormous lead over its rivals
except in Wales , where rugby union is generally perceived from outside as being
the national sport

Cricket is popular in England , but is less important in the other home nations
,rugby union and rugby league are the other major team sports .

Major individual sports include athletics, fencing , golf , motorsport ,and

horseracing.

Tennis is the highest profile sport for the two weeks of the Wimbledon
Championships .

The United Kingdom :

has given birth to more major sports than any other country including :
football [soccer] ,tennis , squash , golf , boxing , rugby union ,rugby
league ,cricket , snooker , billiards ,badminton , and curling .
play a key role in the development of sport such as boxing and Formula
One
does not compete as a nation in any major football tournament.
There is talk of a united team taking part in the 2012 Summer Olympic Game
,which are to be held in London .

The English and Northern Irish football associations have confirmed participation
in this team while the Scottish FA and the Welsh FA have declined to participate
,fearing that it would undermine their independent status

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The UK is home to many world renown football clubs ,such as Manchester
United ,Chelsea ,Liverpool ,and Arsenal in England , and Celtic and Rangers in
Scotland . Clubs compete in national leagues and competitions and some go on to
compete in European competitions : and many British teams have become
European Cup : Liverpool [5 times] , Manchester United [twice] ,Nottingham
Forest [twice ] ,Aston Villa and Celtic .
Cricket was invented in England .There are league championships but the English
national team dominates the game in Britain .There is no UK team ,Although
some Welsh and Scottish players have played for England ,it is in England where
cricket retains its major fan base in the UK ,English cricket grounds include Lords,
the Brit Oval ,Headingly ..However ,Cardiffs Sophia Gardens ground has
become increasingly popular in recent years.

Both forms of rugby are national sports . Rugby league originates from and is
generally played in the North on England ,whilst Rugby Union is played
predominantly in Wales , Ireland and Sothern England , it is considered the
national sport in Wales .Rugby football differs internationally to association
football ,as the England ,Scotland , Wales ,and Ireland teams do come together to

from the British and Irish Lions ,though they do all compete separately
internationally for the most part .

The Wimbledon Championships are international tennis events held in Wimbledon

in South London every summer and are seen as the most prestigious of the tennis
calendar.

Racing is also very popular in England .It originated under Charles 2 of England as
the sport of King and is a royal pastime to this day .World-famous horse races
include the Grand National , the Epsom Derby and Royal Ascot

Golf is one of the most popular participation sports played in UK ,with St

Andrews in Scotland being the sports home course .

Rowing is a well - established sport in the UK and is strongly associated with

public school and Oxbridge .The most famous rowing events in the UK are the
boat race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities and the Henley Regatta .

Britain is the centre of Fomula One ,with the majority of the Fomula One teams
based in England ,and move world titles won by drivers from Britain than from
any other country .
Sports have their own special place in the English calendar

The annual Six- Nations rugby Tournament ,involving England ,Scotland , Wales
,Ireland , France ,and Italy ,start of the year in January .

For horse racing fans there is the Cheltham Gold Cup in March, the Grand
National at Aintree near Liverpool and the Derby at Epsom in June .
The Oxford Cambridge University Boat Race takes place on the Thames in the
spring [in late March or early April]
This is followed by the FA [football Association] cup final in May.
The Wimbledon tennis championships at the end of June and the five day long
cricket Test matches throughout the summer
In July there is the British motor- racing Grand Prix at Silverstone circuit in
Northamptonshire and the British Open golf championship.