Afternoon everyone , glad here to share this time’s presentation with all of you . And today my topic is Leisure Activities In Britain.
1. First I’m going to show you two groups of brief statistics of how the Britons spend their free time. From the first one we can see ，generally，their leisure time is divided into three main parts …which I think include …
2. The second group of statistics is a little bit specific .As we can see , …
3. Here I am to say that DIY used to be very popular in Britain but a recent research suggests that Britons' love affair with DIY is waning(decline), and they would rather employ someone else to do the home improvements.
Today I am not going to introduce all of the above , instead I choose several kinds of activities that we might not be familiar with .
I divided the project into two part as Leisure at Home and Leisure outside the Home.
About Leisure at Home , I select three aspects ——British Soap Opera，puzzle and gardening.
OK ,then let’s begin with the British Soap Opera.
Well ,as we have known from those two groups of statistics, watching TV is a very popular pastime in the UK . But what kind of programmes do British people like to watch? Well, the most-watched TV programmes every week are very popular dramas that are usually on at least four times every week. They are dramas based in one neighborhood that try to describe ordinary life in the UK ——we call these dramas ‘soap operas’ or ‘soaps’.British Soap Operas can be very very long, and some of them have even lasted for several decades.
Let’s look at the two main popular ones .they are both very long .
1. The first one, Eastenders, which is called伦敦东区/东区人in Chinese, set in the East End of London. You know that , the former East End usd to be regarded as a slum , where poor people gathered to live, including the famous “Jack the Ripper”(for 开膛手杰克in Chinese ). And now , the place has attracted many talented young artists and designers. The drama started in 1985 and is still continuing to be on till now by BBC . Here is the screenshot(截图) for Eastenders from the official website of BBC. And we can see… till now ,it has lasted for 28 years.
2. The second one, is considered to be more famous. That is Coronation Street . In Chinese means 加冕街. It is set in a suburb of Manchester and it’s supposed to represent working class life in the north of England. Also ,it is regarded as the
UK's longest-running TV soap as it has been on since 1960 , lasting for 53 years. And the mark in the right picture is in memory of its 50th anniversary , in 2010. It is also said that Coronation Street is the Queen’s favorite TV soap and have won many big prizes in Britain .
Then let’s move on to the second part about Leisure at Home. That is——puzzle.
You know that,nearly three quarters of people in the UK now do some sort of puzzle, from newspaper crosswords and coffee-break teasers to puzzles in magazines and even taking part at home in TV shows. And we can see how popular puzzle is in Britain .
●Of course ,most of us have played it when we were young ,and now let’s
have a small review for it.
When we are doing a Cross Word Puzzle, we are supposed to do …the first acros s line … the word consist of 9 letters and it is easy to come up with the word “honeymoon”. Also ,the following steps are just similar . In particular, we will often have a special sense of achievement when we have finished the whole puzzle.
●I am sure you know the famous handsome guy ——yes he is Beckham . But
do you know what he is doing? He seems to enjoy it a lot . Yes, he is doing a Cross Word Puzzle. The two pictures are also my screenshot, from the
