Social life

Silvana Vertopi

Universiteti i Tiranës

Fakulteti I Gjuheve te Huaja

Departamenti i Gjuhes Angleze

MAKE UP THE DEFINITION OF THECONCEPT “SOCIAL LIFE”

Children and Teenagers

Leisure time

Home Life Family

SOCIAL LIFE

Family , children , leisure time , afternoon tea .

Do you think that British Social Life changes from the Albanian One ?

Home Life

• British families are informal and hospitable.

• Members of the family lead their own life and meet for major meals or afternoon tea also to watch TV together in the evening .

• Britain is a nation of animal lovers . Many people in Britain keep pets . More than 50% of British families own a pet .

• Apart from cats & dogs lots of families keep goldfish and budgerigars .

• But many others are keeping snakes as well as tropical fish and spiders .

• Family

• Family is the basic unit of society and traditional family values remain the main stay of national life.

• Nuclear family

• Usually by family or a nuclear family it is understood a married couple with two children preferably a girl and a boy.

Weddings • Weddings are also popular

in Britain. There are almost 400.000 weddings yearly .

• But there are also couples living together having children without being married .

• Also the number of divorces has risen a lot .

• There are also single mothers having babies out of marriage .

CHILDREN

• Their free time is really a time full of activities. Children enjoy playing and watching sports such as football , cricket , tennis and netball .

• Other popular activities are watching TV , playing computer games and cycling etc .

• Many children belong to clubs such as club scouts , judo, carate , dance and youth clubs .

Celebrating the birthday

1. The presents

2. The cards

3. The party

4. The cake

5. The bumps

6. School

Teenagers

They enjoy : chatting with their friends , sending E-mails , using internet to get information , talking with mobiles , playing computer games , listening to the latest music, , shopping for the latest fashion, watching movies on their TV or going to the

cinema .

Leisure activities

• Nowdays British are considered as lucky people because they have a lot of equipments and leisure activities .

• The British are very interested in hobbies that may be different and are a good time to pass the leisure time .

Types of leisure activities

1. Televizion

2. Programs

3. Reality programs

4. American programs

5. Radio

6. Newspapers

7. Holidays ( inside or abroad the country )

In conclusion

• As we can see from the informations above British people like to enjoy their life as well as possible and if they like to do something they do not hesitate.

Home work

• Write an essay on the following topics .

My perfect birthday

My leisure time

My ideal holidays

Questions

• What is the meaning of the word family ?

• Are british children satisfied ?

• List as many leisure activities that you can think of …

•Thank you for your attention !!!!!