Az alábbi írás a megadott nyersszövegből összeállított, a téma szempontjából releváns részeket rendezi tematikus egységekbe, hogy érthető, olvasóbarát esszé legyen anélkül, hogy a megadott mondatokat megváltoztatnánk.
Prágai bakancslista: öt nap egy baráti szállásnál
My last holiday was a five-day trip to Prague in the Czech Republic. Instead of staying in a hotel, I stayed with one of my old friends. It was so much fun, and a little bit like my old life. I wanted to do all the same things I did in my university days, so I visited the university. It has changed a lot and looks more modern. We did some touristy things too. We walked up beautiful Petrin Hill and around the castle. The views of the city are amazing up there. We walked across the historic Charles Bridge. My friend's flat is very near the TV Tower so we saw the famous baby statues climbing up it.
Kalandosan vissza a fiatalság ízéhez
Az író a régi egyetemi élete emlékét keresi, ezért ellátogat az egyetemre is. We did some touristy things too. We walked up beautiful Petrin Hill and around the castle. The views of the city are amazing up there. We walked across the historic Charles Bridge. My friend's flat is very near the TV Tower so we saw the famous baby statues climbing up it.
Összegző nevezi bevezető tevékenységek
Last holiday, utazás helyszín és a megemlékezés: Prague, Czech Republic; öt napos időtartam; baráti szállás; egyetemi visszatekintés; városi séták.
Ünnepi és családi hagyományok: ünnepek világszerte
For birthdays friends and family members give usually flowers or little presents just like CD-s or books. People give parties to celebrate their birthday. They invite their friends or go out together. For little kids mothers prepare delicious home-made cakes and put candles on it. My favourite family festival is Christmas, when the hole family gets together. On Christmas Eve people decorate a Christmas tree. We put presents under the tree and have fun. We play a lot with our new board games. We also celebrate Mother’s Day. Children buy flowers or prepare little gifts, drawings or paintings for their mothers. The 14th of February is Valentine’s Day. This is the lovers’ day when people send cards to their beloved someone. On the 8th of March we celebrate women. My favourite festival is Christmas, it symbolizes peace and love. I like the flavour of gingerbread. Christmas is important for me as I can spend more time with my parents who are divorced. There is no work, no school, so I can spend more time also with my friends!
A hazai és nemzetközi ünnepségek gazdag skálája jelenik meg a szövegben: születésnapok, névnapok, anyák napja, Valentin-nap, március 8-a és karácsony hagyományai. Ezek a leírások színesítik a kultúrális háttér megértését, miközben gyakorlati példákat adnak a családi és közösségi ünneplésre: ajándékok, torták, közös étkezések és közösen töltött idő.
Nyaralás módjai és tevékenységek
When people go on holiday, they usually travel by plane, by car, by train or by bus. The time they spend travelling from one place to another is called the journey. People go on holiday because they want to have a good time (or a great time). They try to do activities that they enjoy doing. For example, people who enjoy the nightlife go out in the evenings, and people who love food book (=reserve) tables in restaurants and try the local cuisine. When we do an activity, we can use the verb go + -ing verb; for example, go sightseeing, go sunbathing, go swimming, go diving, go shopping, go fishing, etc. You can also use the expression do (some / a lot of / a little) sightseeing. Sightseeing is the activity of visiting the most interesting places. If you do sightseeing in a big city, you usually visit museums, and historical buildings and monuments.
Before writing your essay, you should think about the information you want to include and also how to organise it. Last summer I went on holiday to New York with my girlfriend. We travelled by plane, and the journey was very tiring. We were really excited about visiting The Big Apple for the first time, so 14 hours seemed a long time. We stayed in a hotel in Manhattan. We booked a room that wasn’t very big or bright, but it wasn’t expensive, and the best part is that the hotel was very close to Central Park. It was fantastic to get up in the morning and go running in the park before breakfast. We did a lot of sightseeing; we visited all the most important buildings and museums in the city. And we also went on a helicopter tour. It was amazing! But the best thing for us was to walk around and watch the people, the cars, and the buildings. It was like being in a film!
Hagyományok és ünnepnapok földrajzi változatossága
Paragraph 1: Where, when and how you travelled.
customs and traditionsMany countries around the world share certain holidays, such as New Year’s Day, Easter and Christmas, but not every country celebrates them in the same ways or even on the same day. We celebrate birthdays, namedays, wedding anniversaries, March 15, Easter, Whitsun, Mother’s Day, August 20, October 23, All Soul’s Day, Christmas and New Year’s Day. In Hungary most people get married on a Saturday afternoon. All couples have to get married in a registry office, and those who are religious have a church wedding, too. In the registry office, the ceremony is led by a registrar, and the couple and their two witnesses sign the register. The bride wears a long white wedding dress with a veil and a train, and the bridegroom an elegant dark suit with a white shirt and a tie. The bride holds a bouquet, and the bridegroom has a buttonniere. After the ceremony there is a reception, which held in a restaurant, and in villages is often held in a big tent. At the reception several kinds of dishes are served and the new couple cuts the wedding cake. At midnight the couple change their clothes and the so-called bride’s dance starts. All the guests dance with the bride and give some money to the couple to contribute to their new life together. Namedays aren’t celebrated, for example, in English-speaking countries. In Hungary namedays are almost as important as birthdays and are celebrated in all families.At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas is a holiday full of traditions. The most important day is Christmas Eve, December 24, when the family comes together for the Christmas dinner. The traditional dishes are fish soup, stuffed cabbage and poppy seed and nut rolls. The Christmas tree is decorated before the dinner with sweets, brightly coloured lights and glass ornaments, and Christmas presents are placed under it. At midnight lots of families go to church for the midnight service. On Christmas Day and Boxing Day relatives visit each other and have lunch together.In England Christmas Eve is the time for the annual office party and many English people go to a midnight mass, while others go to church on the morning of Christmas Day. In Hungary on New Year’s Eve people usually go to parties where they eat and drink and enjoy themselves. At midnight they drink champagne and sing the national anthem. Then people go to the streets and watch the fireworks.In England people go to parties or dances on New Year’s Eve. At midnight they drink a toast to the New Year and link arms to sing Auld Lang Syne. In London thousands of people gather to celebrate at Trafalgar Square.At Easter we celebrate the Resurrection, that is, the rising of Jesus Christ from the tomb three days after his crucifixion. On Easter Sunday morning we eat ham, hard-boiled eggs and cold pork in aspic. On Easter Monday boys visit their relatives and friends and sprinkle women and girls with perfume or water. They get chocolate or painted eggs, and chocolate bunnies. In England many people go to church on Easter Sunday. The Hungarians celebrate March 15th, the day of the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848-49, August 20, the day of King Stephen I. and October 23rd, the day of the Declaration of the Hungarian Republic. As far as I know, public holidays in England are called bank holidays because on these days the banks are closed. New Year’s Day, Easter Monday and Boxing Day are bank holidays. May Bank Holiday is the first Monday in May. The British also celebrate St. Valentine’s Day, May Day, the Queen’s birthday, Halloween, Guy Fawkes Night and Armistice Day.St. Valentine’s Day, February 14th, is the day of lovers. also celebrate some holidays which are not common in other countries, for instance Valentine’s Day (February 14th), April Fool’s Day (April 1st),May Day (May 1st) and Halloween (October 31st). An important Welsh holiday is St. David’s Day (the patron saint of Wales) on March 1st, and in Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) is the day celebrating their patron saint. Midsummer’s Day (June 24th) marks the longest day of the year, and Guy Fawkes’ Day (November 5th) commemorates the survival of the monarchy and the King after Guy Fawkes unsuccessfully tried to kill him in 1605.In the United States each state has its own legal holidays but most states observe the holidays set by the federal government. These holidays are: New Year’s Day (January 1st), Martin Luther King’s Birthday (3rd Monday in January), Washington’s Birthday (3rd Monday in February), Memorial Day (last Mondy in May), Independence Day (July 4), Labor Day (1st Monday in September), Columbus Day (2nd Monday in October), Veterans’ Day (November 11), Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday in November) and Christmas Day (December 25).As in Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day is observed in America, a day when people wear green for the Irish saint. Many of the holidays have traditional foods and activities associated with them, and nowadays it’s commond to send greeting cards to family and friends on many of these days.On Halloween children dress up as witches or in other costumes, make lanterns of pumpkins and light candles inside them to scare the witches away. They visit houses wearing costumes and knock at the door, and when it’s opened, they say trick or treat. Trick means playing a joke, and treat means getting a gift, usually sweets.
Vizuális segédeszközök és források
