The title says a lot already. So, the presentation is about how do britons spend their free time. Also it is concerned on traditional cuisine of Irish, English, Welsh, Scottish and differences in it.

1. Festivals, eating habits,
leisure and recreation in
Great Britain
Prepared by Anzhelika Bila, PAUB

2. Festivals

3. Glasgow Celtic Connections Festival (January–February)
started in 1994 in Glasgow,
Scotland, and has since been
held every January. Featuring
over 300 concerts, talks, free
events, late night sessions and
workshops, the festival
focuses on the roots of
traditional Scottish music.
The festival is produced and
promoted by Glasgow’s
Concert Halls.`

4. Glasgow Film Festival (February)
is an annual film festival based in Glasgow, Scotland. The festival began in 2005. By 2015,
the festival had seen audience figures top 40,000 for two consecutive years.

5. Glasgow International Comedy Festival (March)
is a comedy festival in
Glasgow, Scotland, which
started in 2002 and is held
annually in March. It is the
largest comedy festival in
Europe and attracts visitors
from all over the world.

6. Robin Hood Festival
(August)
is held for the first week of August, annually, over
a quarter of a century, in Sherwood Forest,
Nottinghamshire, England . Green felt caps, bows
and arrows and garlands of flowers, fancy-dress
props, and every day there are opportunities for
children to join in theatrical re-enactments of the
Robin Hood story, to the hilarity of their parents.

7. Edinburgh International Festival (August)
is an annual festival of performing arts in Edinburgh, Scotland, over three weeks in August.
By invitation from the Festival Director, the festival brings top class performers of music
(especially classical music), theatre, opera and dance from around the world.

8. Eating habits

9. Pies, puddings, buns and cakes

10. Black pudding Plum pudding

11. Savory pie Sweet pie

12. • Bath Buns • Chelsea Buns

13. • Eccles Cakes • Banbury Cakes

14. The Great British Breakfast
"And then to breakfast, with what appetite you have." Shakespeare

15. • A Full English Breakfast may have black pudding, baked beans, bacon, fried egg
and fried bread.

16. • A Full Scottish, as above but may also have, Potato Scones, Haggis and Oatcakes.

17. • Full Irish – again, as above but may also have White Pudding and Soda Bread.

18. • A Full Welsh – Laver bread or laver cakes. These are neither bread or cakes
but made with seaweed and cooked with oatmeal.

20. Lunch

21. Did you know….?
The most eaten ‘convenience' food in
the world was invented by an English
aristocrat with a passion for gambling,
the Earl of Sandwich. To ensure he
didn't have to stop playing and to
keep his hands clean for the cards, the
Earl of Sandwich asked for meat to
be put between two slices of bread.

22. A Ploughman's lunch
is a traditional lunch for
farmers: a bread roll,
Cheddar cheese, Branston
pickle and salad, perhaps with
a pork pie.

23. Dinner

24. A Sunday roast
is a traditional meal eaten by a
family at Sunday lunchtime; for
example, roast beef with roast
potatoes, parsnips, peas, Brussels
sprouts, green beans, Yorkshire
pudding, bread sauce and gravy.

25. Leisure and recreation

26. What do British people like doing at the weekends ?
The weekends are a time for families
in Britain. Often the parents are not
at work having worked a five day
week from Monday to Friday.
Saturdays are a busy time for shops
with many families going shopping.

27. Sundays used to be a very special day
of the week in Britain. It was the
one day of the week for 'worship
and rest'. The shops were closed and
most people were at home or at
church. But nowadays Sundays are
becoming like any other day other
week with shops open. Some
families will now spend their time
shopping rather than going to
church or they will combine the two
activities.

28. How do people spend their free time?
• Television
is most common leisure activity
in the UK . The average viewing
time is 25 hours per person per
week. Many television
programmes are about wildlife,
animals, holidays, cooking and
gardening.

29. • Radio
People in Britain listen to
an average 15 hours and
50 minutes of radio each
week. Usually in the
morning and having a
lunch.

30. • Digital devices • Visiting friends and relatives

31. is the most popular cultural
activity in the UK.
• Cinema

32. • Gardens
Gardening has been a popular pastime
since Roman times. Every town in
Britain has one or more DIY (Do it
Yourself) centers and garden centers.
These are like supermarkets for the
home and garden. These places are
very popular with British home-
owners at the weekends.

33. Where do British people go on their holidays?
The traditional British holiday is a seaside
holiday. Children used to watch a Punch
and Judy show (puppets) and ride
donkeys along a beach. Many British
people spend much of their free time
during the summer months down by the
sea. Children enjoy swimming in the sea
and building sandcastles. There are places
near the sea, such as Blackpool,
Scarborough and Bournemouth, where
there is plenty to do even if it rains.

34. TOP Destinations for British
tourists
Preferred mode of transport to
holiday destinations
• Air 43 million
• Sea 9.7 million
• Channel Tunnel (train) 5.6 million