сочинение "Иностранный язык и страна изучаемого языка"

МБОУ «СОШ с.Орлик Чернянского района Белгородской области»

                                              Сочинение

                  «Иностранный язык и страна изучаемого                          

                                 языка»

                                                        Автор Алексеев Александр

                                                                  Учащийся 5 класса

I study English. Nowadays English has become the world’s most important language in politics, science, trade and cultural relations. Over 300 million people speak it as a mother tongue. The native speakers of English live in Great Britain, United States of America, Australia and New Zealand. English language is a wonderful language. It is the language of the great literature, the language of William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott, and Charles Dickens. I want to know foreign languages because I have always been interested in foreign countries, their cultures and people.

Imagine you are in a medium-sized English town. It is Saturday morning in April and the market place is full of noise. You hear the sound of music, at least one accommodation, a drum, tin whistle and fiddle. As you come closer you see an interesting sight. There are some men dressed in white clothes but decorated in the strangest way with bright ribbons, flowers and small bells. They dance, leaping into the air, stamping their feet, and perform the most complicated pattern of movements. They perform мorris dance and what they are doing is anything up to eight hundred years old. Now you are at the seaside. It is the end of July and the school holidays have just begun. There is a strange little red and white striped tent, and sitting in front of it on the sand, a whole crowd of little children laughing and shouting. They are watching a puppet theatre, Punch and Judy. Mr. Punch in his bright red clothes is, as usual, hitting Judy over the head with a stick, while Tody, the dog, patiently watches. These are just two examples of customs, despite television and other social changes, are alive and well in England. There are many, many more, some of them so local that they are only known in the villages where they take place. Many villages have maypoles which are decorated in early summer and around which children dance.

In the matter of holidays the British are less well-off than other Europeans.  Most people have only three weeks paid holiday per year, and the bank holidays put Britain at the bottom of the list of Common Market countries as far as public holidays are concerned. British “bank holidays” are New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank Holiday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Only when the UK joined the E.E.C. New Year’s Day became a public holiday. The patron saints days are not celebrated with a holiday. They are St.  David’s Day in Wales, St. George’s Day in England and St. Andrew’s Day in Scotland. Only Ireland, both North and South, has a holiday on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th.

I think you cannot speak about England without speaking about its traditions and customs. The knowledge of foreign languages helps people understand each other.