tailieunhanh - Part 18- Britain

Tham khảo tài liệu 'part 18- britain', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Questions and suggestions 183 several thousand travellers in the country both traditional gypsies who have led a nomadic life for generations and more recent converts to this lifestyle often known as New Age Travellers see chapter 13 for an explanation of New Age . Their homes arc the vehicles in which they move from place to place and they are often persecuted by unsympathetic authorities. For these people the problem is not that they are homeless but in the official attitude towards their way of life. QUESTIONS 1 British people living in flats in other parts of Europe have sometimes been absolutely horri fled when they realize that they are supposed to have the same colour flowers on their balconies as all the other flats in the block. Why are they so horrified 2 How do you explain the popularity of the different types of dwelling in Britain Are the same types popular in your country 3 Even in a small town in Britain several offices and shops will be occupied by companies called estate agents whose only role is to help people buy and sell their houses hi the same town however there may be no housebuilding companies at all to which people could go. Why do you think this is Is the same true in your country 4 In modern Britain there is no widespread feeling of resentment against aristocrats who live in large beautiful country houses. Why not 5 In 19 3 3 George Orwell wrote a book called Down and Out in Paris and London recounting his experiences mixing with homeless people in these two cities. In the book he compares the laissez-faire attitude towards homeless people in Paris with the rigid attitude in London In Paris if you had no money and could not find a public bench you would sit on the pavement. Heaven knows what sitting on the pavement would lead to in London -prison probably. It has been observed that the contrast is now the other way around. It is now in Paris not London that homeless people if they want to avoid being taken away by the police need to make