TOPIC: leisure time

Contents: 1:Leisure time activities in the US and the UK.

2:Traditional holidays in the US and the UK.
3:Special occasions in the US and the UK.

Teacher : Nguyễn Minh Đức

Group’s members: H’ Hân

Nguyễn Thị Pha Lil
Châu Thị Hồng Hiểu

BRITISH & AMERICAN

CULTURES
LEISURE TIME

UK US
Like people everywhere, sometimes choose recreation that just provides rest
and relaxation: watching television, going out for dinner, and visiting friends
are simply enjoyable ways to pass the time.

Leisure
time
 A. Leisure time activities in
the UK
• Watching TV : 89,9%
• Friends and family : 89,4%
• Listening to music 79,4 %
• Internet and emails 71,5%
• Tourism - visiting places 68,1%
• Sports and exercise 57,9%
B. Leisure time activities in the US

• Watching TV ~ 2,7 hours

• Socializing and communicating ~ 38 minutes
• Playing games, using computer ~ 25 minutes
• Participating in sports, exercising ~ 19 minutes
• Reading ~ 18 minutes
• Relaxing and thinking ~ 17 minutes
• New Year’s Day
• Easter
• Halloween
• Thanksgiving Day
• Christmas Day
• Boxing Day

Traditional holidays in
the US and the UK.
• New Year's Day falls on January 1 and marks of a new
year.
• The start of New Year's Day, at midnight, is heralded by
fireworks, parties and special events, which are often
televised. Very few people have to work on the day itself.
• Many people make New Year's resolutions. These are
usually promises to themselves that they will improve
something in their own lives.

New Year’s Day in the US

• Wear special clothes
+Yellow clothes with the desire to find love
+Silver clothes with a desire for wealth
• Americans eat cabbage, sardines and honey to bring luck
and money.
• A common symbol of New Year's Day is Baby New Year.
This is often a white male baby dressed in a diaper and a
hat.

New Year’s Day in the US

Image of falling glass balls
On the last night of the old year, people
gather at Trafalgar Square and Piccally
Circus or around the places where
London's Big Ben clock bell can be
heard to signal the New Year has
arrived.
• New Year's Eve is not a public holiday. Businesses have
normal opening hours.
• People may spend the last few hours of December 31
preparing to be or receive first-footers.
+ The girl has a light blond hair, the owner is unlucky all
year.
+black-haired man, the owner is lucky all year.

New Year’s Day in the UK

• Easter Sunday is one of the biggest celebrations
of Christianity (12/4)
• People give each other chocolate Easter eggs and
Easter bunnies or hollow plastic or cardboard
eggs filled with candy.

Easter
• Originated in Europe
• • The universe is born of an egg, so the egg is the symbol
of the beginning, the beginning, and that leads to the
creator, that is God
• • Eggs are also a symbol of revival
• • The eggshell crack is a symbol of the resurrection from
death
• • Eggs have a circle, which is the beginning and the end,
the sky and the earth.

The meaning of giving

Easter eggs
• Halloween is an observance annually celebrated on October
31.
• Common symbols of Halloween include pumpkins, bats
and spiders.
• Halloween celebrations include parties where guests are
often expected to arrive in a costume to reflect the day's
theme.
• Children often play "trick or treat" .
• In the UK, the focus of the Halloween festival is the
bonfires on the streets.

Halloween
 FEW PICTURES OF HALLOWEEN
Children often play "trick or Bonfire about Guy Fawkes'
treat" . story
• Thanksgiving Day in the United States is a holiday on the
fourth Thursday of November. The day after is also
known as Black Friday.
• Thanksgiving Day is a day for people in the US to give
thanks for what they have.
• Thanksgiving in UK has no set date; organization time
will depend entirely on weather conditions and regional
culture.

Thanksgiving Day
• Many people in the United States celebrate Christmas
Day on December 25. The day celebrates Jesus Christ's
birth.
• Many people decorate their homes, visit family or friends
and exchange gifts.
• It is common to organize a special meal, often consisting
of turkey and a lot of other festive foods, for family or
friends and exchange gifts with them.

Christmas Day
• Boxing Day is the day after Christmas Day and falls on
December 26
• Boxing Day is a time to recover from the excesses of
Christmas Day and an opportunity to spend time with
family, friends, and neighbors.
• Boxing Day is also an important day for sporting events.

Boxing Day
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is
an American federal holiday United States
marking the birthday of
Martin Luther King Jr. It is
observed on the third
Monday of January each year.
King's birthday is January 15.
He was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1964, which
successfully protested racial
discrimination in federal and
state law.

Martin Luther King's birthday

 United Kingdom
• The Queen celebrates two birthdays each
year: her actual birthday on 21 April and
her official birthday on (usually) the second
Saturday in June.
• The occasion is marked publicly by gun
salutes in central London at midday: a 41
gun salute in Hyde Park, a 21 gun salute in
Windsor Great Park and a 62 gun salute at
the Tower of London.

The Queen's birthday

 The Continental Congress
declared that the thirteen
American colonies were no
United States
longer subject (and subordinate)
to the monarch of Britain and
were now united, free, and
independent states.
Independence Day is commonly
associated with fireworks,
parades, barbecues, carnivals, in
addition to various other public
and private events celebrating
the history, government, and An 1825 invitation to an
traditions of the United States. Independence Day celebration
Independence Day
or The Fourth of July
 United Kingdom
• Britain has no unique national day. It has a number of
days of celebration which go largely uncelebrated, and
others which are associated with the constituent
countries of the United Kingdom. The latter category
includes St George's Day in England, St Andrew's Day
in Scotland, St David's Day in Wales and St Patrick's
Day in Northern Ireland.

• At present, the Queen's Official Birthday is marked as a

de facto national day by British diplomatic missions
overseas but not in the UK itself.

British National Day

• Like other countries, large and small, the United
States and the United Kingdom also have many
festivals held every year, including those that are
now well known worldwide

Special occasions in the

US and the UK
Guy Fawkes Night is a festive event held on November
5th every year to commemorate the failure of a group of
Christians who plotted to set down a gunpowder store to
overthrow Parliament in London but failed

Guy Fawkes Night

The pastry festival, held on the third day of confession, the
day before fasting, is a long-standing traditional festival
and has been loved by the people of the fog.

Cake international
George's Festival is on 23/4. This is also Britain's National
Day. St. George is the patron saint of England

St George day
Chelsea Flower Festival is the largest flower and garden
design exhibition organized by the Royal British
Trimming Society in May every year and lasts for 5 days.

The UK favorite flower and

garden show
The sheep parade
festival is a 4-
day festival in
the town of
Ketchum, to
honor the history
and traditions of
long-standing
sheep in the
western United
States Trailing of the Sheep
festival
 For over a
hundred years,
fried pork
intestine has
always been
considered
indispensable dish
on Thanks giving
in Carolina.
Therefore, every
year, people here
will hold Chitlin Chitlin Strut - South
Strut festival to Calorila
honor this dish.
 This festival is
quite famous in
the United States,
held every year in
the Pauls Valley,
Oklahoma. This is
a competition
where people have
to use their hands
to catch fish in the
lake
 Fishing festival
The Roswell new
Mexico UFO
Festival is the
anniversary of
UFO flying
down the town
and appearing
UFOs in the sky,
held by Mexican
people in early
July every year. UFO festival in Roswell
New Mexico