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Afternoon everyone , glad here to share this time’s presentation with all of you . And today my topic is Leisure Activities In Britain. 1. First I’m going to show you two groups of brief statistics of how the Britons spend their free time. From the first one we can see ，generally， their leisure time is divided into three main parts …which I think include … 2. The second group of statistics is a little bit specific .As we can see , … 3. Here I am to say that DIY used to be very popular in Britain but a recent research suggests that Britons love affair with DIY is waning(decline), and they would rather employ someone else to do the home improvements. Today I am not going to introduce all of the above , instead I choose several kinds of activities that we might not be familiar with . I divided the project into two part as Leisure at Home and Leisure outside the Home. About Leisure at Home , I select three aspects ——British Soap Opera，puzzle and gardening. OK ,then let’s begin with the British Soap Opera. Well ,as we have known from those two groups of statistics, watching TV is a very popular?pastime?in the UK . But what kind of programmes do British people like to watch? Well, the?most-watched?TV programmes every week are very popular dramas that are usually on at least four times every week. They are dramas based in one?neighborhood that try?to describe?ordinary life in the UK ——we call these dramas ‘soap operas’ or ‘soaps’. British Soap Operas can be very very long, and some of them have even lasted for several decades. Let’s look at the two main popular ones .they are both very long . 1. The first one, Eastenders, which is called伦敦东区/东区人 in Chinese , set in the East End of London. You know that , the former East End usd to be regarded as a slum , where poor people gathered to live, including the famous “Jack the Ripper”(for 开膛手杰克 in Chinese ). And now , the place has attracted many talented young artists and designers. The drama started in 1985 a