对英国的简略介绍教学教案.ppt

A Brief Introduction to the United Kingdom;The full name of the country: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland The UK includes 4 parts within the one nation-state The island of Great Britain is made of England, Scotland, and Wales, and Northern Island, a province on the neighboring island of Ireland.;“a complicated country with a complicated name” ;The Commonwealth of Nations;A member of the European Union; A member of the Group of Eight large developed economies (“G8”) 八国集团首脑会议 (G8 Summit)由西方七国首脑会议演变而来，与会八国也被称为八国集团。八国是指美国、英国、法国、德国、意大利、加拿大、日本和俄罗斯。 A multicultural society: Christians, Muslims.;Britain history has been a history of invasions: Celtic (750B.C.) Roman Empire:( 55B.C.– 410) :England and Wales Germanic(410—871): the Angles and the Saxon ;England;Physically the largest of the four nations; by far the largest population Cultural and economic dominance ;London;Buckingham Palace;Trafalgar Square;Westminster;London Tower;Scotland;The most confident of its own identity The second largest of the four nations, both in population and in geographical area The Highlands in the north and the Southern Uplands The largest city is Glasgow, the capital city is Edinburgh;In 1707 by agreement of the English and Scottish parliaments, Scotland joined the Union. Then followed two rebellions in 1715 and 1745;Wales;The capital is Cardiff This southern area was an important element in Britain’s industrial revolution, as it had rich coal deposits. It is very close to the most densely populated parts of central England.;Wales has been dominated by England for longer than the other nations of the union. It also retains its own language, Welsh, a Celtic tongue completely different from English. In 1536, Wales was brought legally, administratively, and politically into the UK by an act of the British parliament.