TOPIC: FAMILY, FOOD AND DRINK

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FAMILY AND FAMILY LIFE

Nuclear family: a family structure that consists of two parents living
with their children, also known as an immediate family.
In UK, 50 years ago, the typical family was a husband and wife and 2
or 3 children .
Single parent: someone who is bringing up a child or children on their
own, because the other parent is not living with them.

Step family: or blended family is a family where at least one parent

has children, from a previous relationship, that are not genetically
related to the other parent.

 Foster family
a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the c
hild's natural parents but without legally adopting the child.
Adoptive family:
a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child.
Childminder: someone whose job it is to look after children when the
children's parents are away or are at work and they usually work in
their own homes.
Daycare centre :
a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents
work

Childcare : consists all works to look after children.

Family loyalty : behaviour in which you stay firm in your friendship or
support for someone or something among all members of one family.
Child- centred : put the children interest first .
Nursing home : a place where people who are old or who are unable
to take care of themselves can live and be taken care of

Typical family

Living together without getting

married .
Between 2006-2010,about 48 % heterosexual women ages 15 -44 were
not married to their spouse or partner when they first lived with them.
Attitudes towards cohabitation in the UK are becoming
steadily more positive: in 1989, 71% of survey
respondents thought that couples wanting children ought
to get married. By 2002 this had dropped to 51%.
(Source: British Social Attitudes Survey, 1989-2002)

The divorce rate has increased

There were 13 divorces an hour in England and Wales in 2013.
This was a total of 118 140 divorces in England and Wales

Getting married later and have fewer

children People are waiting until later in life to get
married. In 1970 in England and Wales, on average
women married at the age of 22.0, and men at 24.1.
This had risen to 30.8 for women and 33.4 for men by
2009. (Source: ONS, 2011)

FAMILY LIFE
Most parents in UK is child- centred.
People spend a short time for family together.

Weekend is very important in UK

Many activities for children after school

FOOD AND DRINK

The British have a poor reputation for food. Food in restaurants is badly presented.
But the beat British food is generally found in peoples homes.

British cooking
Certain foods are considered essential to traditional British cooking and form the
basis of most meals. These include: bread, pastry,potatoes, especially chips, and
daily products such as milk, cheese and eggs.

They are an important part of the traditional meal of meat and two veg. Because of
the increased cost of meat and various heath scares, many people now eat less
meat.
After the main course, many families often eat a pudding- traditonally sponge or
pastry cooked with jam or fruit, usually served hot with custard, or now yogurt,
fresh fruit or ice cream.

Since 1970s, British people have become more adventurous in what they eat and
often cook foreign dishes. Rice, pasta and noodles are regularly eaten instead of
potatoes.

Supermakets offer an expanding range of foreign foods, including many

convenient foods. Peoples interest in trying new recipes is encouraged.

Food and heath

In Britain, the government regularly gives advice about healthy eating. The main
aim is to reduce the amount of fatty foods and sugar people eat, and to encourages
them to eat more fruits and vegetables. People are also concerned about chemicals
srayed onto crops. Supermarkets sell organic produce, but few people are prepared
to pay the higher prices for this.

British meals
Main meals:
Meal
Breakfast

Meal time
Kinds of food and drink
between about 7:30 and 9:00 Toast, cereal, sausage, bacon,
pudding, egg, bread, cheese,

Lunch

between about 12:30 and

2:00

Dinner

between 7:00 and 8:30

melon, grapefruit or fruit cocktail,

orange juice, tea
Sandwich, cheese and biscuit, soup
and bread, bread roll, salad,,
piece of fruit and a drink
Meat, potato, curry, rice, pasta

Light meals:
Meal

Meal time

Tea-break

about 11:00am

Tea-time(afternoon tea)
High tea

usually between
about 3:30pm and
5:00pm
Between about
5:00pm and

Kinds of food and

drink
Tea or coffe, small
cake
Tea, biscuit,
sandwich, crumpet,
tea-cakes
Tea, cake, bread,
butter, jam

7:00pm

Other meals:
Brunch: a meal eaten in the late morning instead of both breakfast and luch.
A Sunday roast: traditional meal eaten by a family at Sunday lunchtime. People
often eat roast beef with roast potatoes, parsnips, peas, green beans, yorkshire
pudding, bread sauce and gravy,etc... Stuffing may be eaten with chicken or turkey.

EATING OUT AND EATING OUTSIDE

EATING OUT
Nowadays more and more British eat out rather than a few years ago. There
are many different kinds of places to go.

In a coffee shop, you can get a light meal or buy a drink and waiters take
your order and bring the food to your table.
A cafeteria, in schools, companies, you buy your lunch and take it back to
your table.
In a restaurant, an evening meal has 3 courses: starter (soup, salad, seafood), the main course (meat or fish with vegetables or vegetarian food), the last
course (dessert: fruit, cake). The meal usually finished with tea or coffee and
perhaps a mint chocolate.

Chinese and Indian restaurants have long been popular in Britain, but people
love going to other kinds of restaurant like Thais, Turkish, Moroccan or French.
There are certain areas of London where you can find many together.
Indian food comes from the south Asian countries of Pakistan, Nepal,
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as well as India. There are over 8000 Indian restaurants
in Britain and many are run by British Asians-people born in Britain to Asia
parents. The most common Indian dish is a curry.
EATING OUTSIDE
British can enjoy meal in restaurants which have tables outside, on the street
or in the garden with fresh air and sunshine with their meal.
People often have meal in a park, beach or sit on the grass or the sand.
British are into picnics to watch outdoor sports or go to musical evenings in parks.

GOING FOR A DRINK

There are several popular pub names in Britain that you can see hundred
times in the street such as Red Lion, The Kings Head, the George, The Plough.

People go there to have a drink, eat a meal, meet friends, listen to music and
play games like darts. Pubs often have two bars, one usually quieter than the other,
and many have a garden where people can sit in the summer.
Most pubs belong to a brewery (a company which makes beer). The most
popular kind of British beer is bitter. More popular today though is lager. Guinness
is made in Ireland and England and is very popular all over Britain.
Beer and cider in pubs are still sold by the pint (a pint is 568 ml) or half pint.

Pub etiquette
- You have to be 18 years old to order a drink in pub.

- Some pubs will allow people over 14 years old to go inside if they are with
someone who is over 18, but they are not allowed to go to the bar or to have
an alcoholic drink.
- Family pubs welcome people with children and have facilities for them
- Many pubs have non-smoking areas.

- About 10 minutes before closing time, the landlord will ring a bell and will
tell people to order their last drinks
- You must stop drinking 20 minutes after closing time

- Pub open between 11am to 11pm

- Since 2004 November 2005 pubs can apply to extend these hours, so check
the time when you arrive
Pub names
- The names given to pubs often have some historical or local significance
- The picture show on the pub sign which is hung outside may help you to
understand the meaning
- The most common pub names in Britain:

Queen Elizabeth the first

King Henry the Eighth

The Crown represents the king or queen. Many pubs are name after
individual kings and queens.

The Red Lion- the pub name became popular after James the first ordered a
red lion to be displayed outside all public places

Royal Oak- the king Charles the second escaped the Roundheads (at the time
of the English Civil War ) by hiding in the branches of an oak tree
Swan a heraldic symbol, used in the coat of arms of powerful families

White Hart the white hart was the heraldic symbol of the king Richard the
second