Questions On The Text-Foreigner A Britain

CHAPTER 1.
• What did Pablo think was crazy about British pubs?
The closing time because when British pubs close, in Spain there are pubs that have not even opened
• Why do people go to Trafalgar Square on New Year's Eve and what exactly do they want to hear?
Because it is the traditional place to celebrate New Year's Eve in London at midnight people go to hear the bells of Big Ben, but itis impossible because there is much noise.
• Why is the Globe Theatre famous?
Because the original Globe Theatre was where most of Shakespeare's plays were performed for the first time. the theater was destroyed twice and rebuilt three hundred years later.
• Why are plays only performed in the Globe Theatre during the warm summer months?
Only acts in the warm summer months because thetheatre hasn’t roof in the center of the building and due to the climate of London, the weather is very important
• In Shakespeare's time, who played the female roles in his plays and why?
The female roles were represented by male adolescents because women were not allowed to be an actress at the time of Shakespeare.
CHAPTER 2.
• Why is travelling on the Tube in London interesting?
Because yousee people of different races and you realize what the people are accustomed to interact with different people.
• What do people do at the Notting Hill Carnival?
Thousands of people go to carnival to eat West Indian food and dance to Caribbean music. Even If close their eyes can imagine that they are in the Caribbean.
• What is a Cockney?
It from the East End of London. It's a very strangeway of talking, called Cockney rhyming slang.
CHAPTER 3.
• Who built the city of York and what was it originally called?
The city of York was built by Vikings and named “Jorvik”
• What is guesthouse or B&B?
It's a type of hotel in Britain. Sometimes it's called a B&B (Bed and Breakfast). Because you can sleep and breakfast.
• What period of time covered at the Jorvik Viking Centre?
One ofthousand years from 948 AD until 1960's.
• What do we learn about the most famous stained glass window in York Minster?
The most famous window at the far east of the cathedral and has the genesis and apocalypse, therefore the story of the beginning and end of the world.
• What might you hear at night in the Castle Museum?
You might hear on the castle ghosts of former prisoners, crying andpulling their chains across the stone floors.
CHAPTER 4.
• What is special about Oxford University?
Oxford University is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world. twenty-five British prime ministers have been educated there, as well as many other famous people like the poet and writer.
• Why was Antonio disappointed when he arrived in Oxford?
I was disappointed becausehe was impressed when he came to Oxford and Paul sawmodern shops, Burger King and Pizza Hut everywhere. while the thought of a city full of history
• What effect has the Scholastica Massacre had on life in Oxford?
Townspeople and university students haven't got on well with each other for more than 600 years. The problem started in 1355 due to the slaughter of scholastic.
• What unusualtradition is there in Oxford in May Morning, after the May Ball?
The tradition is to jump from the bridge into the river fully clothed and drinking champagne.held in May with the arrival of spring.
CHAPTER 5.
• Give three reasons why Antonio was happy that Nicola had invited him to her parent's house for Christmas?
The first reason was that his parents were in the U.S.A and he hadn’t made anyplans. In second place he was very excited because he had never spent Christmas in England and finally the father of Nicola had a Bentley in which he was very interested.
• Why did Antonio enjoy himself on Christmas Eve?
Because even though he was not a member of the family. Nicola's family made him feel as if he were.

• When do the British have Christmas dinner and what is the traditional...