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Abroad, would you prefer to be ___ to someone’s house or a local restaurant?

Agatha Christie

All the public holidays, except ___are movable, that is they do not fall on the same date each year

Although tourism can boost the economy, with foreigners spending large amounts of money, tourists can push up the cost of ___ for the locals who are used to paying low prices

Americans have always been concerned ___ making the chores of everyday life less tiresome and distasteful

Among them the Edinburgh International Festival has now firmly ___ its reputation as one of the foremost events of its kind in the world

Another most popular activity on this day (consist) of a visit to a pub — either a walk to the local pub, or often nowadays a drive to a more pleasant country pub

As Americans say about sports, “you can’t___ them all,” but then, you don’t need to.

Church bells ___ another typical feature of an English Sunday morning, though few people go to morning service

Cricket ___ a very long game, and quite dangerous

Cricket is not ___ only by men

Do you always notice when the actors suffer ___ stage-fright?

Do you mind if I___?

Do you need ___ back to Stockholm?

Each year more English people go to different parts of continental ___

Every Englishman is a countryman ___ heart

Everyone looks forward to the weekend and when Friday comes along, as people leave work they say to each other: “Have a nice ___”

Few English people rent houses or flats for their holidays, but one of the traditional ways of spending a summer holiday is in a ___, which may have a card in its window advertising “apartments”, or “bed and breakfast”

He has ___the Old Year out and the New Year in

He liked music but didn't play ___ piano.

He never went to ___ theatre or to the cinema

He was fond ___ swimming, skiing or playing golf

Holiday camps are ideal places for people who do not want the effort of looking ___entertainment

How ___ Agatha Christie get her education?

How ___ difference is there between home cooking and restaurant food?

How ___ novels did Agatha Christie write?

How do people celebrate Thanksgiving ___ in the US?

How do people celebrate ___ fourth of July?

How often ___ they have boat races?

However, the development that arises from the influx of tourism can destroy places of natural beauty as hotels and entertainment complexes ___ up

However, unfortunately there are some factors that the country should be aware ___ before it opens its doors to the flood of tourism

I ___ wondering if you’d got my email about our meeting next week

I haven’t really ___the chance to visit anywhere yet

I know they ___showing an interesting collection of sculptures in the National Gallery

If the weather (be) fine, people may decide to go out for the day

Inventors, businessmen, designers, neighborhood initiatives and interest groups, public officials and private citizens – all seem to ___ trying to make things better, more efficient, more readily available, more convenient

It is not surprising, since nobody in Britain lives more than one hundred and twenty ___ from the sea

It is possible to arrange a walking or cycling ___, moving from hostel to hostel

It looks ___ if I’m going to be busy all morning

It was the British who started the fashion ___seaside holidays

It will help us ___ the way we speak

It’s ___ of you to offer but really, you relax.

It’s nice to hear ___ you

It’s not surprising that a recent Thanksgiving tradition is to sit after dinner in front of the TV watching a professional ___ game

I’m just ___ a reply to you

I’ve never tasted anything quite ___ this pudding

Jack London

Let me ___ give you a hand with those cups.

Local corporations, universities, schools and societies have their own ___traditions

Many families prefer to bring ___ the New Year at home, with music or dancing, cards or talk

Many take their cars, often with tents and caravans, others use the ___agents’ scheme for group travel and hotel booking

Many years he may ___ lived in the city, but he does not believe he really belongs there

Most people in Britain work a five-day week, from Monday to ___

OK, that ___ like a good idea

On Halloween the children go from house to house, knocking on doors and saying “___or ___ ”

On Saturday afternoon the most important sporting events of the week take place — football, rugby, horse-racing and other ___

On Sunday most people ___ in bed for at least one hour longer than usual

On weekdays shops close between 5.30 and 6.00 p.m. and they are closed all day ___ Sunday

One of the traditional ways of spending a summer holiday is in a boarding-house, which may have a card in its window advertising “apartments”, or “bed and ___”

Our football team ___ had five wins and two draws this season

Schools, colleges and universities are also closed on Saturdays and ___

Self-assurance, willingness to ___ eccentricity, law-abidingness, a curious mixture of conservatism and enterprise — all these are generalizations which hold reasonably true of all classes of the British people

Shall we have something to drink before we ___ order?

Some people bring their own ___, pulling them behind their cars, others hire caravans, already in position

Some people go and watch, others sit and watch the sports programmes on ___

Students, young people working away from home and single people in general like to go ___ for the weekend

Such groups have customs of their own ___ they are very reluctant to change

Sunday always ___ a favourite day for inviting people — friends, relations, colleagues — to afternoon tea, and there are no signs that this custom is losing popularity nowadays

Sunday is the day when most people ___ in some fairly light activity such as gardening, washing the car, taking the dog for a walk

Thai food ___ good

The British are against any suggestion that some modification of their habits, or the introduction of something new and unknown into their lives, might be to their ___

The Festival was a success, and has ___ held annually ever since

The Valentine card that we know today came into ___ during the eighteenth century when the expensive gifts of earlier years had gone out of fashion

The ___ is an essential and much admired part of the rural heritage of England

The coast is ___ most popular place of English people for

The commercial card appeared in the nineteenth century, complete ready-made sentiments and decorations, embossed, brightly coloured and gilded, and later on, lace-edged, ___ and packed in a neat box

The craze reached its height in that first year and many teenagers were hospitalized with

___ ribs and pulled muscles as they went on to ever more complicated moves

The game ___ in a draw

The game of rolling a circle of wood or bamboo along the ground and chasing after it goes

___ centuries

The greatest figure in Hula-Hoop folklore was ___ Elvis Presley

The plastic Hula-Hoop was invented in 1958 and in six months the inventors had ___

20 million of them at $1.98 each

The post-war years have ___ a great growth in the number of arts festivals in Britain and other European countries

The realisation that the weekend is nearly over ___ a slight melancholy on the evening

The teacher told Dick's parents ___ his work in arithmetic was excellent

The village with its church, pub, fishing, cricket, animals everywhere, especially dogs and horses — all this creates an ___ image of Britain

There are holiday camps all ___ the coast of Great Britain

There are youth ___ in different parts of Britain where they can spend their holidays

They like to think that their private customs differentiate them, as groups, ___ the rest of the world

They may go home, go to stay with relatives or friends in different parts of the country, or stay in a hotel or boarding-house in the country or at the ___

Those who stay at home at the weekend try both to relax and to catch up with all the jobs they are too busy to do ___ the week

To go in for

To many people village is a ___ of “roots” and stability

To play the

To what opera house ___ they going?

Tourism can produce more jobs for the local community in ___ industries such as hotels and restaurants

Tourism is one of the ___ growing industries in the world, and therefore it is not surprising that so many countries want to be a part of it

Uncle Oscar didn't go in ___ sports

Uncle Oscar never complained ___ his boring life

Uncle Oscar showed me some stamps and explained ___ they were really very expensive

We are going ___ the new film that is on this week

We should also add to this picture the seaside, a passion for gardening and a love for old customs and ___

We'll be there ___ in time

We'll meet you ___ half an hour near the cinema

What ___ the conductor hold in his hand?

What did they like to watch ___ on the slippery rocks?

What do the orchestra-men do before the ___ of a performance?

What do they say about the cast and the performance ___ general?

What does the author think his ideal holiday will be like ___ he grows old?

What is ___at the "Odeon"?

What usually ___ an opera or a ballet?

What would you arrange for a guest who ___to experience local hospitality?

When ___ Agatha Christie become famous?

When ___William Shakespeare born?

When does every holiday seem ideal, ___ you’re a child or when you’re an adult?

Where ___ we go tonight?

Where and when did they agree to meet ___ next day?

Where did you meet this famous writer? — We ___ him in the library

Where was Mark Twain___?

Who ___ answer the question? — Nobody could

Who played Hamlet in the famous Russian film? — Smoktunovsky ___

Who read the newspaper a minute ago? — I___

Why ___ he watch the film? — Because he liked it

Why are they glad they’ve ___ their opera-glasses along?

Why could Tom ___ out only half the words?

Why does Tom prefer Williams in the ___ of Figaro?

Why does he like ___?

Why doesn’t Tom like to come to the theatre ___ the last moment?

Why don't you find us a story we can make ___ a play?

Why don’t we meet ___ 6.30, outside the main entrance?

Why is it a basic mistake to announce our resolutions ___ everybody?

William Shakespeare

With an audience we'll have ___ speak very clearly

Would you like to try some of ___cake?

Yes, going to the pictures sounds ___ a nice idea

You could never see him in the sitting room in ___ of the television watching sports programs

You know I like historical films better ___ any other kind

___ British people may be conservative about the times they take their holiday, but they have shown themselves very ready to take to new places

___ holidays in the proper sense of the word, with tents, are not so developed in Britain as on the continent

___ is playing Hamlet?

___ most evenings during the festival there are as many as six events to choose from on the official programme: symphony concerts, ballets, plays, recitals – all given by the finest artistes in the world

___ of them took part in the war of 1914?

___ of them was the greatest American humorist?

___ of them wrote in the golden age of English literature?

___ was James Chase's native city?

___ you doing anything today, Mike?

___ you prefer to entertain guests at your home or at a restaurant?

___does it close? – At 5 o’clock