STEREOTYPES ABOUT BRITISH PEOPLE

STEREOTYPES ABOUT BRITISH PEOPLE

1) Think of some stereotypes we have about British people. Add your ideas to the picture:

Here are some words that will help you to understand the statements from exercise 2:

Queue – stand in a line;

Posh – elegant, upper-class;

Manor -a large country house with lands;

Nanny - a person, typically a woman, employed to look after a child in its own home;

Pale - light in colour or shade.

Top hat - a man's formal hat with a high cylindrical crown.

Tail - a man's coat, cut away over the hips and descending in a pair of skirts behind, usually black and worn as part of full evening dress.

Someone who has a stiff upper lip is very reserved and does not show his/her emotions openly.

2) Read the following statements about British people. Is it fact or fiction? Try to guess.

1) Fact; 2) Fact; 3) Fact; 4) Fiction (mostly); 5) Fiction; 6) Fiction; 7) Fiction; 8) Fiction; 9) Fact; 10) Fiction.