Lifestyle in Britain. Дворжец О.С. - 126 стр.

           married later in the year and I’d                far to go into Bristol – get the bus, or
           like to know, should I make the                  you can walk if you wanted, and I
           guest list, the people to invite, or             mean with it being the second biggest
           should my daughter?                              city in England you’ve got every shop
I:         Well, usually the bride’s parents                you can imagine.
           can choose the guests, because               2   Well, recently spare time has become a
           they pay for the wedding!                        little non-existent. But I do quite a lot
Mrs R:     Yes, but ought I to ask for sug-                 of music. And socializing and I mean
           gestions?                                        basically this year there’s a lot more
I:         Yes, you should ask the bride-                   work and a lot more organization to do
           groom’s parents for suggestions.                 so there isn’t very much during the
Mrs R:     And is it all right if I give them a             school day. I mean there are quite of-
           maximum number?                                  ten large gaps. The school day is struc-
I:         Oh yes, yes, usually this depends                tured so that there are large gaps be-
           on the size of the church or how                 tween lessons sometimes but in prac-
           much you want to spend on the                    tice you tend to have to work or do
           reception, but you should invite                 something else in that time.
           members of your family and the               3   I’ve got a lot of work to do outside of
           bridegroom’s family in equal                     actual classes, I’ve got a lot of home-
           proportion.                                      work to do. Then there are extra things
Mrs R:     But what should I do about my                    like preparing essays for the Internet –
           daughter’s friends? Are they                     our Internet website. I have to prepare
           counted as family, or not?                       an essay for geography and an essay
I:         Um, you could ask your daughter                  for Spanish every now and again and
           and her boyfriend to give you a                  also I’m, well I’m part of the catering
           list of the friends they would like              committee so I have to do quite a bit of
           to invite. So then you have three                work for that – and various responsi-
           groups of guests: your family,                   bilities within the house. Socially, go-
           the other family and the couple’s                ing up to Clifton village, shopping,
           friends.                                         things like that. Every now and again a
Mrs R:     I see, thank you. One thing, can I               bit of sport if I’m lucky. But generally
           decide how many friends they                     it’s a lot of work, and you’re just trying
           should invite?                                   to get some free time to relax and un-
I:         Oh, yes. If you’re paying.                       wind really, and get up and get your-
Mrs R:     Thank you.                                       self away from the pressures of every-
                                                            day school life.
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Students in England talk about how they
use their free time.                                    … in the coming week. And a few exhibi-
I = Interviewer 1-3 = Students                          tions that I’d like to highlight. The exhibi-
                                                        tion at the Cleveland Craft Centre shows
I    If your lessons finish around lunch                the work of Philip Webb, an architect from
     time or early afternoon, what do you               1831 to 1915. Whilst at the Kirk Leven
     do with the rest of the day?                       Old Hall you can see the picture book ex-
1    It depends, really. Now that we’re in              hibition until June the twenty-fourth. And
     our final year there’s always quite a              in Hartlepool the Gray Art Gallery is
     lot of work to do but apart from that              showing two photographic exhibitions, the
     we’re right next to Clifton, which is              first on experimental photography, and the
     like a village, so we can go in there, go          second called ‘Nicaraguan photographs’ by
     to cafes, go to shops, and then it’s not           Bob Anderson.

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