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British Population and Major CitiesLearning Focus Warm-up Activities Skimming and scanning (the UK) 1. what’s the total population in the UK, how much does the number of English account for? 60 9975 000; 80% 2. What’s the particular language in Wales, how many people speak it? How about in the Highlands of Scotland? Celtic, about 1/4of Welsh; Gaelic language, about 58 000 3. Who are the earliest and the latest invaders? Iberian (about 3000 B.C.); Normans (about 11th century) 4. Who are the descendents of the Gaels of the Celtic tribes? And who are the descendents of the Britons of the Celtic tribes? Modern Scots and Irish; Welsh 5. What are the three great Germanic tribes that form the basis of the modern British people? The Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes 6. How much of the population lives in cities and towns? 80% 7. What are the main factors that cause the slow population growth in the 19th century? The limitation of emigration, the fall of the birth rate and the rise of the death rate. 8. what has produced 5%of non-European ethnicity in the 1950s and 1960s. Immigration from some Commonwealth countries People Overall population: over 60 millions Distribution: England: about 50 million Scotland:over 5 million Wales: around 3 million Northern Ireland: about 1.7million Ethnicity The majority of this population are descendents of the Anglo-Saxons Most people in Wales and Scotland are descendents of the Celtic people The Irish people were also Celtic in origin immigrants Percentage of total UK Population Ethinic Groups of total White British 85.7% White Irish 1.2% White (other) 5.3% Mixed race 1.2% Indian 1.8% Pakistani 1