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Week 1 讲义Good morning everyone! How are you today? From today, I’ll guide you to visit some English speaking countries. Anyone can list some of them? Ok, now we’ll start our journey from the motherland of English.Before we start our topic, I want to make a survey. What do you know about this country?St. George’s cross, three lions coat of arms, red double decker bus, black taxiWhat is the name of this country?People in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were once separate nations; England has controlled the other nations over a period of several centuries. The name “Britain” comes from the Brythons (Britons) who migrated from the European Continent before 300 BC. The name “England” comes from the Anglo-Saxon conquerors; it means “Angela-land”, the land of the Anglo-Saxons, collectively known as Angles who migrated from the northwest of the European Continent in the 5th century AC. The name for the Union that once existed in the period between 1800 and the early 1920’s was “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, which changed to its present form in 1927 after the 26 Irish Free States achieved their independence in the early 1920’s.Introduction of The UKThe national flag: the Union JackThe Union Jack is a combination (union) of the flags of St. George (England), St. Andrew (Scotland) and St. Patrick (Ireland). The flag of St. George is white with a red cross. The flag of St. Andrew is blue with a white diagonal对角线 cross and The flag of St. Patrick is white with a red diagonal cross. The flag represents a union of countries. The Union Jack is a misnomer用词不当 for the actual flag, because a jack is a flag that is flown on a jackstaff船头小旗杆 which is a small flag pole on the back of a naval ship舰艇 . Hence the flag should be called the Union Flag. Jack意为悬挂在船首表示国籍的小旗。national emblem Welsh Dragon. It is not represented in the UK Flag because Wales was ruled directly from London. (before the 1st version of UK flag, Wales had already been conquered and co