School System
What age can students leave school in the UK?
18
What is a dialect?
Variation of a language
What festival does the tradition Jack-in-the-Green take place in?
Mayday
What are the names of the 4 countries in the UK?
Minus points if you get this wrong because I have told you 100000 times :)
England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
Name the famous English poet/playwrite
William Shakespeare?
What time do students usually finish school?
3:30pm
What does 'a piece of cake' mean - in terms of idioms?
Something is 'very easy'
What country did Bog Snorkelling originate in?
Wales
Name a city in Scotland that we have seen in the presentations
Edinburgh/Aberdeen/Glasgow
Who wrote Matilda?
Roald Dahl
What are the names of the 4 stages of education/schools?
What are the Cumbrian numbers used for today?
Sheep counting and knitting
What was the tradition where people tried to eat as much as they could of a certain thing?q
Nettle-eating contest
What is the name for a Newcastle Accent?
Geordie
What book did we mention that Charles Dickens wrote?
Oliver Twist
What is the name of the exams you take when you are 16 and how are they graded?
GCSEs, graded using numbers 1-9
What does the slang word 'chunder' mean?
What are the names of the music festivals that take place at the same time in two different places?
Leeds and Reading Fest
What is the name for a Liverpool accent?
Scouse
Journalist
How many people did I say were in my school?
What does the slang word 'Biddies' mean?
Old Ladies
Who was the video about for the Birmingham accent?
Peaky Blinders
Charlotte and Emily