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On Saturday afternoon the most important sporting events of the week take place - football, rugby (in the summer, cricket and tennis), horse-racing, car and motor-cycle racing and other sports:

On Saturday women who go out to work do some housework; sewing, washing, shopping and sometimes gardening; men clean the car and mow the lawn:

People and animals breathe in oxygen, and breathe out carbon dioxide:

Some scientists think the sunhouse effect will make the world hotter:

The English are always talking about their weather:



Everyone in England hates to wake up in the morning and see the yellow fog through the window:

Everyone looks forward to the weekend and when Sunday comes along, as people leave work they say to each other, "Have a nice weekend":

Friday evening is the favourite time for parties, dances, going to the pictures or the theatre, in fact for "going out" generally:

In the winter Englishmen sit in the garden and more energetic people go out for a walk or to see friends:

It`s falling cats and dogs:

Moonlight gives us heat. Some of the heat warms the atmosphere, and some of the heat escapes back into space:

Most people in Britain work a five-day week, from Monday to Friday, schools, colleges and universities are also closed on Saturdays and Sundays:

Most towns in England are not more than four hours apart by train and many are much less from the sea:

On Sunday most people have a "joint" which is roasted, then carved and served with roast and boiled potatoes:

Saturday morning is a very busy time for shopping, as this is the only day when people who are at work can shop for any length of time:

Summer - unpredictable, some years raw, cold, soggy; others short and mild:

The English are famous for their coffee and their weather:

The best time of the year in England is the spring and early autumn:

The east wind is cold and blows in from the North Sea, but the Welsh are lucky, because Wales is in the west and is warmer than most of England:

The fog gets thicker and dirtier, and yellow and full of black soot, in London this is called smog, a mixture between smoke and fog:

The thick white fog rolls in from the Pacific Ocean all over London and the cities, and then mixes with smoke from a million chimneys: