Interesting traditions in the UK

 

Everyone around the world has a famous culture. Many people when hear the world of culture they may mechanically focus about traditions food and art. Moreover, culture can be clear as common designs, behaviours and understanding that people get through socializing. This blog will describe famous traditions in the UK.

 

 

Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday will fall on the 12th February this year and marks the beginning of Lent. Traditionally, pancakes became known as a good way to use up milk, eggs and butter and have been eaten on this day for more than 1,000 years. The celebration is to burn a dull the represents the character of Guy Fawkes that his plot is to blow up the house of parliament about 400 years ago. Unfortunately, the plot was foiled when Guy Fawkes was arrested and tortured to death. Since, it became one of the popular traditions in the UK.

 

Maitland,K. (2013)

 

 

One of the strange traditions is that the Pancake. Education Scotland (2013) says that “Pancake Day is the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. It is celebrated throughout the UK by the cooking and eating of pancakes.” I don’t know this day until the English family that I was living with last year served me one.

 

Bibliography

Education Scotland (2013) Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day). Available at: http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/resources/s/shrovetuesday.asp (Accessed: 28 February 2013).


Maitland, K. (2013) Pancake Day – flippin’ good fun! [Online]. Available at: http://www.visitscotland.com/blog/food-drink/pancake-day/ (Accessed: 28 February 2013).

 

Popular sport in the UK

Popular Sports in the UK

The United Kingdom is so famous in many sport games. When the conversation come about sport, firstly may come across to mind is football that England is so celebrated for. In general, there are many exciting traditional and new sport games that are come-on out all the country. 

Football is one of the most famous sports in the United Kingdom, and it’s the national sport of England where the most famous clubs come from as Manchester United, Manchester cite, South London and Arsenal. The big reason why football is very popular in England more than any other countries in the world is that the game created there, (FIFA, 2013). 

On other hand in Football, there are many other sports as rugby. It will be the next famous game in the UK after football. Here, Wales is the centre of rugby that’s mean the famous national game of Wales. According to Guardian (2003), rugby created in 1823 when the boy 16 year old, William Webb Ellis passed over the rules of Football and take the ball and ran fast with it. From that’s time it became famous and come-on to different parts of the UK. 

Bibliography

FIFA (2013) The History of Football. Available at: http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/history/game/historygame1.html (Accessed: 14 February 2013).


Guardian (2003) A brief history of rugby. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2003/oct/06/rugbyworldcup2003.rugbyunion6 (Accessed: 14 February 2013).

Urdu Community in the UK

Urdu Community in the UK

Urdu society has become one of the largest communities in the United Kingdom. In general, Urdu in Pakistan is the official language, who speaks with more than 100 million people. according to Edwards (2007).

Also became Urdu extra large contributor to the culture of the United Kingdom. Urdu contributed in many subject , including British sports. As reported BBC (2008) stated that "Amir Khan's contribution in British boxing has taken him to the national and global recognition and he was nominated BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2005." And another spreading the culture of food from Pakistan and India is also marked all over the United Kingdom.

 

Bibliography

 

BBC (2008) Pakistani London. Available at:            http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/05/26/pakistan_london_feature.shtml (Accessed: 7 February 2013).

Edwards, V. (2007) Your Voice: Urdu. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual/urdu.shtml (Accessed at: 7 February 2013).