Brits have a strong obsession with tea drinking, which originated in the 1600s when the British East India Company controlled tea imports. Afternoon tea is a traditional British custom involving small sandwiches, scones, cakes and muffins consumed around 4pm. There are also cream teas involving just scones, clotted cream and jam as well as high tea, which was originally a hot dinner. Making a proper cup of tea involves using freshly boiled water and brewing the tea for 2-5 minutes before adding milk, unless the tea is made in a pot in which case milk is added first.

1. The most interesting
facts about British
culture and society.

2. Why are Brits so
obsessed with tea
(одержимы чаем)?
Want to chat with your
friends? Invite them for a
cup of tea. Going through
(переживаете) a personal
drama? The nice cup of tea
make everyone feel better!!!
Why Britain became one
of the biggest tea drinking
nation in the world?

3. In the middle of 1600s the
British East India
Company controlled the tea
imported (привозимый) in
Britain. While other
countries still drank coffee,
Britain became a tea
drinking nation.

4. Afternoon tea
Low tea is calling so because
of low tables on which it was
served on and came about in
1841. Today Brits enjoy
afternoon tea about four
o'clock in the afternoon. It
includes a set of finger
sandwiches (канапе-сэндвичи),
scones (булочки), cakes and
homemade muffins.

5. Cream tea
Cream tea (чай со
сливками) is a
more simple kind
with scones
(булочки), clotted
cream (топлёные
сливки) and jam
( варенье).

6. High tea
Also known as meat tea which was
actually a hot dinner of meat pies,
vegetables and bread, eaten at the
end of the day with a cup of tea. It
was called high tea due to the high
tables it was served on.

7. Tea rooms
In the 1880s tea rooms have
become popular among women
as respectable places where they
could go to meet up with friends
for a chat.

8. Tea bags
97% of tea used in Britain
available in tea bag format.
During the 1900 tea
merchant (торговец) Thomas
Sullivan sent out examples of
tea to his customers
(покупателям) in silk bags
(шёлковые пакетики), but they
became fashionable in
Britain until the 1950s.

9. How to make
tea the
British way?
In Britain,
however, people
need something
warm and
strong, to get
through these
cloudy, rainy,
windy and
generally grey
days.

10. How to make
the perfect
cup of tea?
You should use freshly boiled
(свеже-вскипячённую) water,
which in the UK is usually comes
from the electric kettle.
And you have to make sure
(убедиться) that your tea is
brewed (заваривается) from
about two to five minutes.

11. Milk first, then
tea or tea then
milk?
Scientists at University Col
lege London have finally wo
rked it out.
They say that tea made in a
cup
should have the milk added
(добавлено) after the water.
But if the tea is made in a p
ot (в чайнике),
then the milk should be ad
ded first.

12. Dunking
Dunking (макание) - is the art of dipping a biscuit ,
which is call less sweet cookie, into your tea.
Recent research (недавнее
расследование) has found that the best dunking biscuit
is a rich (сдобное) tea biscuit.
And that the chocolate ones are even better.

13. How to make breakfast
like a Brit?
Nowadays, most
Brits enjoyed the
fry-up English
breakfast only at
the weekends.

14. Ingredients:

15. 1# Eggs
2# Bacon
3# Sausages
4# Black
pudding
5# Baked beans
6# Toasts
7# Mushrooms
8# Tomatoes

17. How to speak British?
1# Away with the fairies (ушёл в себя)
2# Swings and roundabouts (когда закрывается одна
дверь, всегда открывается другая)
3# Horses for courses (каждому своё)
4# Bob’s your uncle (всё в порядке)
5# Donkey’s years (долгие годы)
6# To have a butcher’s (взглянуть)
7# It’s monkey’s (ужасно холодно)

18. Thank
you very
much!!!