M5U2The United Kingdom知识点学案.docVIP

M5U2The United Kingdom知识点学案 Important sentences in the Unit Reading How many countries does the UK consist of? England can be divided into three main areas. Do you know what they are? You can clarify this question if you study British history. Now when people refer to England, you find Wales included as well. 现在当人们说到英格兰时，你会发现威尔士也包括在其中 Happily this was accomplished without conflict when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well. However the southern part of Ireland was unwilling and broke away to form its own government. To their credit the four countries do work together in some areas, but they still have very different institutions. 值得赞扬的是，这四个国家的确在一些方面共同合作，例如在货币和国际关系方面；但是有些制度仍然区别很大 Northern Ireland, England and Scotland have different educational and legal systems as well as different football teams for competitions like the World Cup! Although, nationwide, these cities are not as large as those in China,they have world-famous football teams and some of them even have two! It has the oldest port built by the Romans in the first century AD, the oldest building begun by the Anglo-Saxons in the 1060s and the oldest castle constructed by later Norman rulers in 1066. The third,the Vikings influenced the vocabulary and place names of North England and the fouth the Normans,left castled and introduced new words for food. You must keep your eyes open if you are going to make your trip to the United Kingdom enjoyable and worthwhile. Using language Worried about the time available, Zhang Pingyu had made a list of the sites she wanted to see in London. To her surprise,Zhang Pingyu found the Queen’s jewels guarded by special royal soldiers who, on special occasions, still wore the four-hundred-year-old uniform of the Queen Elizabeth I. Then as she came out of tha abbey, Pingyu heard the famous sound of the clock, Big Ben, ringing our the hour. What interested her was the longitude line.It is a imaginary line dividing the eastern and western halves of the