Sunday 14 March 2010

Newspapers

The main differences between a broadsheet newspaper such as The Guardian or The Times and a tabloid newspaper like The Sun or The Daily are:
l The former is an official broadcast media, fairly and objectively report some news including politics, business, environment and so on.
l The latter is not as formal as the former, it also contains some gossip news about some famous persons.

By contrast, I prefer the former in daily life, because I’d like to know some offbeat news and interesting stories of some local areas. But if I have assignments to do, the tabloid newspapers are not as helpful as the official newspapers do. The Guardian and The Times are more useful to our essays.

Wednesday 20 January 2010

education

most education system of British and Chinses are the same, for example, both have nursery schools and private schools in own countries. In China, we do have senior school enterance exams which is similar to UK's GCSEs. Because of the large population in China, so the competition is very intense. Also the university enterance exams we have just like the A-levels in Britain, students have to study hard and try their best to get high marks in the exam so that they can get the opportunities to enter their ideal universities.
On terms of private schools, it may be a little difference between this two countries. In China, usually, private schools are not as normal as public schools, it not means private schools are bad. For example, generally speaking, primary public schools accept pupils when they reach 8 years old, but in private schools they don't obey this rule and accept pupils no matter they are 7 or 6.

Sunday 17 January 2010

food

A traditional English breakfast is a cooked meal which may contain food such as sausages, bacon, kippers , sblack pudding, scrambled or fried or poached egg , mushrooms, fried tomatoes, baked beans, hash browns and toast.
















For lunch, many people eat a sandwich. Some people have a simple meal such as cheese and biscuits or soup and bread. It is also traditional for people to go to a pub with some friends for a pub lunch and a drink. Fish and chips is the traditional diet of UK which is convinent and cheap.












Mostly, potato is common to see in the meal. To tell the truth, I don't like English meals very much, except for the delicious cakes. By contrast, there are various types of Chinese food. We always balance the vegetable and meat in a meal.