Time for tea!

Today we are going to learn how to make the perfect cup of tea (according to British people anyway)

The British have drunk tea for 350 years! The first  tea came from China and later from India. In the North of England "What´s for tea?"  means "What´s for dinner?" This is because people drank tea with their meal. Even today this is a very popular costume.


You need:

A kettle for boiling the water                                                   

A teapot big enough for four cups

Three teaspoons of tea or three teabags

Two tea cups, teaspoons and saucers

A jug of cold milk


Watch this video to learn how to make the perfect cup of tea!






Now let´s read this article from The Telegraph to learn more things about tea and the British

Or is this how to make your perfect cup of tea?

International Tea Day- The Independent:

Famous quotes about tea

"A cup of tea would restore my normality."- Douglas Adams

"Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea." - Lu T’ung

"Where there’s tea, there’s hope." – Arthur Wing Pinero

"Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!" Agatha Christie.

"The milk-first school can bring forward some fairly strong arguments, but I maintain that my own argument is unanswerable.

"This is that, by putting the tea in first and stirring as one pours, one can exactly regulate the amount of milk whereas one is liable to put in too much milk if one does it the other way round." - George Orwell

English afternoon tea etiquette:




The art of making tea sandwiches! 


Did you know that a lot of idioms in English contain the word tea?

Try to guess the meaning of some of the most famous ones:

"It is not my cup of tea"
"A storm in a teakettle"
"A storm in a teacup"
"Not for all the tea in China"
"It´s a tea party"
"Weak tea"

They are all very well explained in this video from BBC Learning: