1. HOLIDAYS IN GREAT
BRITAIN
Zuzanna Krzemińska
Justyna Małecka
Alicja Aleksander
Aleksandra Kupis

2. Holidays as the
Vacation
When?

3. In Poland
Summer Holidays
End of June till 31st of August

4. In Great Britain
24 July – 31st of August

5. Winter holidays
Two weeks in the range between
20th of January and 2nd March
depending on Voivodship in Poland
17 – 21 February in England

6. Duration of the school year in
Great Britain
Average year – 190 days
 Division of the school year in three
terms

◦ Autumn Term
◦ Spring Term
◦ Summer Term

Additional three half therms

7. Duration of the school year in Poland
Avarage amount of school days in this
school year is 187
 Division of the school year in two
terms:

◦ Winter Term
◦ Summer Term

8. Informal division of the
holidays
 Special
Days
 Public/Bank
Holidays

9. Special Days
For example:
 Valentine’s Day
 Mother’s Day
 New Year’s Eve
 Christmas Eve
 Halloween

10. Special days we don’t know in
Poland

Twelth night (5th January)

St. George's Day (23th April)

Trooping the colour (June)

Remembrance day (11th November)

Stir up Sunday (24th November)

11. Bank/Public Holidays

What are the bank holidays?
•
The name „bank holiday”

12. Some history

1871

Sir John Lubbock

The Bank Holidays Act

It introduced: Easter Monday, the first
Monday in August, the 26th
December, and Whit Monday

13. Examples of polish „public
holidays”
Date
Name
1 January
Nowy Rok, Świętej Bożej Rodzicielki
6 January
20 April
21 April
Trzech Króli (Objawienie Pańskie)
Wielkanoc
Poniedziałek Wielkanocny
1 May
3 May
Święto Pracy
Święto Konstytucji 3 Maja
Zesłanie Ducha Świętego (Zielone
Świątki)
8 June
19 June
13
Days
Boże Ciało
15 August
Święto Wojska Polskiego,
Wniebowzięcie Najświętszej Maryi
Panny
1 November Wszystkich Świętych
11
November
Święto Niepodległości
25
December
Boże Narodzenie (pierwszy dzień)

14. English public/bank holidays
Date
1 January
Good Friday
21 April
Easter Monday
-
Royal wedding
5 May
Early May Bank
Holiday
26 May
Spring Bank Holiday
-
Days
New Year's Day
18 April
8
Name
Queen's Diamond
Jubilee
25 August
Summer Bank Holiday
(August Bank Holiday)
25 December
Christmas Day
26 December
Boxing Day

15. Additional questions

Are shops, supermarkets opened on
bank holidays?

What about museums and other
public attractions?

16. When to do shopping then?

Bank holiday shop opening times are:
10am to 4pm (or 11am to 5pm)

The only day when all shops with no
exeptions are closed is Christmas
(25th December)

17. Extra Info

Employees, who work on Bank
Holiday usually get paid extra:
Time-and-a-half or even double
time

What, if a bank holiday falls on
Saturday or Sunday? 

18. The way British people spend
their summer holidays

Traditional British holiday
=
seaside holiday

19. Seaside holidays activities
Ride donkeys
Punch and
Judy show
Candy floss
Stick of rock sweet

20. Other seaside activities

21. British people and holidays
Abroad
13, 8 mln
11, 1mln

22. Holiday trips abroad
1971 - 6.7 million
 2005 - 66.4 million
 Two-thirds of these
visits abroad are
holidays with about
half (47 per cent)
package holidays.


23. TOP Destinations for British
tourists 2005

24. Preferred mode of transport to
holiday destinations
43 million
9,7 million
5,6 million

25. Popular holiday trends
Most holidays - July and August
 Winter and spring - a second holiday
abroad
 Seaside package holidays as the most
popular type of holiday
 4 weeks holiday per year and 2 weeks off
in the Summer for most working people


26. A Timeline of British Holiday
Habits
1800-1850
 „holy”
days
1850 1900 
the
creation of
a national
railway
system
19001960s popular
weekends
and
holiday
camps
1970s 
evolution
of airlines
1980s package
holidays
1980s1990s packages
to the USA
1990s –
2007 –
packages
much
further:
Australia,
Bali or
even to
Arctica

27. Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T9
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 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk18898676
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28. Thanks for
watching!