Read and Speak. Круглова М.В. - 65 стр.

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If you are told ‘to help yourself’ to something, it doesn’t mean that your host is

rude - he or she is showing that you are completely accepted and just like ‘one of the

family’.

It is considered rude - or bad manners - to smoke in someone’s house without

asking ‘Do you mind if I smoke?’

If you enjoyed the evening, call your hostess the next day, or write her a short

‘thank you’ letter. Perhaps it seems funny to you, but British people say ‘thank you,

thank you, thank you’ all the time! They say ‘thank you’ even when they give money

to a shop assistant.

In recent years smoking has received a lot of bad publicity, and fewer people now

smoke. There is no more smoking on the London Underground, in cinemas and

theatres and most buses. Many companies have banned smoking from their offices

and canteens. And non-smokers can be rude to smokers who break the rule and

smoke in public places. There are, however, special smokers’ carriages on trains and

special cinemas for those who haven’t given up smoking yet.

Good and bad manners make up the social rules of a country and are not always

easy to learn because they are often not written down in books! The British have an

expression for the following these «unwritten rules»: «When in Rome, do as Romans

do».

1. What are visitors to Britain surprised by? Why?

2. What shows that the British are very reserved?

3. Do you often follow the rule «When in Rome, do as the Romans do»?

Render the contents of the following text in English.

III. The Globe Theatre

In 1949, an American actor Sam Wanamaker came to London and decided to visit

the site of the famous Globe Theatre where Shakespeare had staged his plays. All he

fond, however, was a plague on the wall of a brewery: «Here stood the Globe

Playhouse of Shakespeare». Wanamaker was so shocked that he decided to rebuild

the Globe.