British English and American English

British people and American people can always understand each other – but there are a few notable differences between British English and American English

Grammar

Americans use the present perfect tense less than speakers of British English and a British teacher might mark wrong some things that an American teacher would say are correct.

US Did you do your homework yet?

Brit. Have you done your homework yet?

US I already ate.

Brit. I’ve already eaten.

Ветхий Завет (Библия), Книга Екклесиаста, по преданию, написана, мудрым царем Соломоном (гл. 3, ст., 1—8)

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

A time to be born,

And a time to die; 

A time to plant,

And a time to pluck up that which is planted; 

A time to kill,

And a time to heal; 

A time to break down,

And a time to build up; 

Easter in Ukraine

 

Easter is the feast of Christ’s resurrection, which in its observance combines both pagan and Christian elements. Easter (in Ukrainian: ‘Velykden’ or ‘Paskha’) is preceded by seven weeks of Lent and celebrated on each first week after vernal equinox and full moon. It is the most cheerful holiday for orthodox believers.

Easter

Easter, which celebrates Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead, is Christianity’s most important holiday. It has been called a moveable feast because it doesn’t fall on a set date every year, as most holidays do. Instead, Christian churches in

Short films

Short films — короткі документальні відео, в яких розповідається про культуру та траиції Великобританії та США. 

Рівень - pre-intermadiate

Winter holidays and winter food

The period from Christmas and well into the New Year, is marked in Ukraine, a predominantly Christian Orthodox land for the past millennium, by a string of holidays which are often collectively referred to as Svyatky — Holiday Season. Though thoroughly Christianized, these holidays still reveal a deeply traditional character, with some rituals and customs dating from the pre-Christian times. There’s hardly anyone who is not looking forward to Svyatky — the festive season can hardly fail to affect both the old and the young, believers and atheists.

The 15 most irritating people you meet while travelling

You've heard of the book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven?" Well, what about "The Most 15 Irritating People You Meet While Travelling?" It could be your seatmate on the airplane. It could be the obnoxious local you have the misfortune of running into at the hotel bar. It could even be your travel partner.
Either way, these offenders can make your vacation long and miserable. Sure, enduring a trip with them could end up giving you a great post-vacation story you can share with your friends — or an intriguing real-time horror story you live-tweet with your followers. But at the end of the day, these people are vacation ruiners that, along with Montezuma's Revenge, you should avoid during your trip.

Stonehenge

Speculation and excavation

Stonehenge has long been the subject of historical speculation, and ideas about the meaning and significance of the structure continued to develop in the 21st century. English antiquarian John Aubrey in the 17th century and his compatriot archaeologist William Stukeley in the 18th century both believed the structure to be a Druid temple. This idea has been rejected by more-recent scholars, however, as Stonehenge is now understood to have predated by some 2,000 years the Druids recorded by Julius Caesar.