The British people are rather reserved. They dont like .ppt

The British people are rather reserved. They don’t like to talk of personal affairs such as money, wage, age, or wealth but they like to talk about the weather. Sometimes they even argue heated over what the weather is going to be like. Perhaps it is nothing more than custom. But the custom has something to do with the variability of the British weather. (para.1) Britain has a changeable weather. “Other countries have a climate; in England we have a weather.” This statement is both revealing and true. It has been said that one can experience four seasons in the course of a single day! Day may break as a balmy spring morning .an hour or so later black clouds may have appeared from nowhere and the rain may be pouring down. At midday conditions may be really wintry with the temperature down by about eight degrees or more centigrade. And then, in the late afternoon the sky will clear, the sun will begin to shine, and for an hour or two before darkness falls, it will be summer. (para.2) Another feature of the British climate is its “strange” temperature. It’s “incompatible” with its latitude. Its temperature in winter is “too high” but is “too low” in summer. Broadly speaking, the days are long in summer, but the temperature is only about 20°C for most time, not so long as you might imagine. In winter, even though it’s the coldest month, the average temperature seldom gets as low as 3°C below. And sometimes you may very well get a spell of winter in summer and vice-versa. (para.3) The uncertainty about the weather has had a define effect upon the Englishman’s character; it tends to make him caution, for example. The foreigner may laugh when he sees the Englishman setting forth on a brilliantly sunny morning wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella, but he may well regret his laughter later in the day! The English weather has also helped to make the Englishman adaptable. Whatever the weather conditions they met abroad , they had already experienced something like