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A glimpse of Great Britain
Presented by Pavel Ivanov6 «Z» school 887
2. Layout • Opening slide • National identity • The Union Jack • England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland • Political system • The most remembered kings and queens • Guy Fawkes story • The British Humour • The world’s first: invention of the train • The world’s best: Liverpool’s FOUR
3. National identity Full name of the country United Kingdom – England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland Britain = England, Scotland, and Wales Capital: London Population: 60.8 mln (as of 2011 census) Currency: British pound Language: English
National Flag
Patron Saints
4. The Union Jack
England (St. George)
Scotland (St. Andrew)
Wales(St.David)
Ireland(St. Patrick)
5. England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
England (capital: London)Wales (Cardiff)Scotland (Edinborough)Northern Ireland (Belfast)
Flower emblems
Rose Daffodil Thistle Shamrock
Constitutional monarchyMonarch Parliament; the Cabinet
6. Political system
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (b. 1926) came to the throne in 1952.
7. The most remembered kings and queens
Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603)
King Henry VIII (1491-1547)
Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
8. Guy Fawkes Story
Guy Fawkes Night
The plot failed
The criminals were put to death
the first train - Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’the Tube (London Underground)
A portrait of George Stephenson
9. The first in the world
10. The British humour
• the reserved British • a sense of humour and irony• difficulty of understanding the British
humour for foreigners - knowledge of the realities of the
country – its history, people and places• playing with words• a joke
11. The Beatles
The group from Liverpool (1963) : John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr(Years active: 1960-1970)
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