My mother black tea porridge.
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My father always a birthday cake me on my birthday.
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Every person has his birthday. People in different countries spend their birthdays in different ways. Here are four people from different countries. They are talking about how they usually spend their birthdays in their countries.
Jack comes from Spain. "My twenty-first birthday is on a Saturday , " he says. " I'm going out with my friends. To wish me a happy birthday, they will pull on my ear twenty-one times, once for each year. It's an old habit. Some people pull on the ear just once, but my friends are very strict! "
Mr. Sato is from Japan. He's going to be sixty tomorrow." In my country, people call the sixtieth birthday Kanreki, " he says. " It's the start of a new life. The color red is for a new life, so they always have something red for the sixtieth birthday. "
Phillip, from France, smiles and says, "I'm going to be thirty next week, so I want to ask three very good friends out to have dinner. In France, when you have birthday, you often ask people out with you. In some countries, I know it's opposite- people usually take you out. "
Li Xiao is a Chinese girl from Beijing. She is happy and tells us, " Tomorrow is my sixteenth birthday. It's a special day. So we're going to have a family party. l can get some money in lucky envelopes(信封)from my family. My mother will cook noodles that are for a long life. "
bowl of porridge would he like?
English breakfast is a big meal-eggs, (tomato), tea and coffee.
For many people, lunch is a quick meal. In cities, there (be) a lot of sandwich bars. There office workers can buy (they)favorite bread—brown, white, or a roll and even all (kind) of salad, meat and fish. School children can have a hot meal school. But many just take a sandwich, a soft drink some fruit from home.
"Tea" means two things. It is drink and also a meal! Some people have afternoon tea with (sandwich), cakes and a cup of tea.
They usually have the evening meal quite late,6: 00 p. m. and 8: 00 p. m. , and often all the family eat together.
(Englishman) like food from other countries, especially from France, China, Italy and India. People often get takeaway food-they buy the food outside and then bring it home to eat.
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