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A famous race-course is located near Epsom, where a popular annual horse race is held

A game of football usually lasts for two and a half hours:

All around the coasts there is sea-fishing, and in inland waters there is coarse fishing (catching the ordinary fish well-known in our country) with many competitions

Americans use the word "hunting" to include the shooting of birds

Basketball and volleyball have been invented in America

Golf was invented in Holland, but has been played in Scotland for at least 400 years

Health is better than wealth

If you need to buy some medicine you should go to the supermarket

If you've got a sore throat you go to the psychiatrist

In soccer a team is composed of a goalkeeper, three backs, two half-backs and six forwards:

One man's meat is another man's pleasure

Tennis is played with an egg-shaped ball, which may be carried and thrown (but not forward)

The caber is a very heavy and long stick

The Cup Final at Wembley remains, though, an event of national importance

The greatest event in tennis is the Wimbledon International Tennis Championship held near London

There is a game called rugby football, so called because it originated at Rugby, a well-known American public school

When an Englishman asks you about your health, he is probably only doing so out of politeness unless he knows you have been ill

When the British people use the word hunting they usually mean wolf-hunting which is a popular sport among the rich

When there are races people all over the country bet on the results

A popular paper contains many photographs; its articles are often sensational and mostly deal with private life of famous people

A quality paper is a serious newspaper, which publishes articles and commentaries on politics

Although the press in UK is legally free, the danger lies in the fact that the majority of people are not aware of the ownership

American newspapers get much of their news from the same source as all newspapers in the world - the two world's largest news agencies - AP (Associated Press) and UPI (United Press International)

At the East End theatres you can get the best of everything - an excellent orchestra, famous conductors, celebrated singers and well-dressed audience

Behind the cinema screen there is a stage, so that the building can be used for concerts and other performances

Channel 1 forms part of the independent television network and provides a national TV service throughout Britain

Horror films offer the viewer flying saucers, extraterrestrial living beings, space battles and explosions of planets

In the cinema there are usually one main film, a news film, and a "trailer" telling about the film for the next week

Most daily papers in the USA are of the "quality" rather than the "popular" variety

Most of Saturday newspapers contain more reading matter than daily papers include "colour supplements" - separate colour magazines, which contain photographically-illustrated feature articles

Newspapers in Britain are mostly owned by the government or political parties

Seats in the upper balcony are the most expensive, those in the boxes are the cheapest

The BBC World Service reflects British opinion and the British way of life

The best seats at theatres are those in the stalls and the gallery

The famous Royal Shakespeare Theatre is situated outside London, at Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace

The oldest concert hall in London is the nineteenth century Wiliam Hall

The political tendency of quality papers varies from conservative (the "Daily Telegraph") or conservative (the "Times") to centre (the "Independent") and liberal (the "Guardian")

The ВВС has four national radio channels for listeners in the USA

Theatres are very much the same in London as anywhere else: the chief theatres, music halls and cinemas are in the West End

Tickets for afternoon performances are more expensive than those for evening performances

Basically people in Britain live in two types of houses, all depending on your income: in terraced houses, and in detached houses

Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland is the leading industrial centre and a large port

Bond Street near St. Paul's Cathedral is a busy street full of London, provincial and foreign newspaper offices

But the usual English breakfast is rolls and butter and coffee

Darts is a game in which feathered arrows, called darts, are thrown at a board divided into sections with numbers on them

Everybody in the clan had the same family name, like MacDonald or Macgregor (Mac means "son of")

In Wales oatmeal is the chief cereal

Most foreigners are astonished at learning that there is no written constitution in Great Britain

MPs are elected either at a general election, or at a by-election following the death or retirement of an MP

One of the most famous places in London is Downing Street, the London residence of the Prime Minister