Téma: Great Britain
Predmet: Angličtina
Zaslal(a): Yumeko
Basic facts
- Population – around 60 million (9 million lives in London)
- Located: in north west Europe and the island of Great Britain and the northern part of Ireland
- Highest mountain – Ben Nevis
- World heritage sites: The Tower of London, Westminster Abbey…
Politics
- Constitutionally monarchy = it has parliament and monarch
- Monarch is Queen Elizabeth II
Life in Great Britain
- Over polite = never tired of saying thank you, please, excuse me
- Self-discipline (people wait in queues)
- Don´t speak too loudly
- Kiss on cheek to say goodbye
- eat too much fast food (no time to cook = too much work)
History
- Romain Period – Romans built paved roads, baths and also Hadrian´s wall as protection against invasion of the Celtic tribes
- The names of Roman towns on Britain often end with – chester – chaster – cester ( Manchester )
- Christianity was brought to Britain
Elizabeth England
- Era of great explores
- First theatres (Shakespeare)
Stonehenge
- the largest prehistoric monument, a huge circle of standing stones on Salisbury Plain
- visitors from all over the world come here and wonder at how these huge stones were transported and erected over 3000 years ago
Interesting places:
- Oxford, Cambridge and St. Andrews – university towns
- York, Bath, Banockburn, Falkirk
- Canterbury – cathedral, museum, Marlowe theatre
- Dover – White cliffs, Dover castle – Key To England
Scotland
- Basic information – inhabitants: 5,4 million
- Area = the size of Czech Republic
- Part of UK
- Official language – English, Scottish, Gaelic
- Scotland has over 790 islands
- Kilt – People began wearing kilt in 18th
- A symbol of rebellion against English rule
- Banned by the British parliament from 1747 to 1783
- Whisky – Water of life = national drink, made from water and barley
- Great Highland Bagpipe = a bag from sheep´s stomach is squeezed under the arm to blow air through the pipes