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Chapter1

ThetwomainislandsoftheBritishIslesareGreatBritainandIreland.

ThelongestriverofBritain,the_SevernRiver,originatesin

Mid-Wals.

AmongthefourpartsoftheUK,NorthernIrelandisthesmallest.

TheRiverThames,thesecondlargestandthemostimportantriverin

Britain.

_LondonisthecapitalofbothEnglandandtheUnitedKingdom,

EdinburghisthecapitalofScotland,Cardiffisthecapitalof

Walesand_BelfastisthecapitalofNorthernIreland.

Accordingtoa2005estimate,Britainnowhasapopulationofover60

million.AlmostaquarterofthepopulationoftheUKlivesin_England____’s

prosperousandfertile_southeast.

ThemajorityoftheUK’spopulationaredescendentsofthe_Anglo-Saxons,a

_Germanicpeoplefrom_EuropewhowenttoEnglandbetweenthe

5thand7thcenturies.

MostpeopleinWales,ScotlandandIrelandaredescendentsofthe_Celtic

PeoplewhoweretheearlistknowninhabitantsofBritain.

EnglishbelongstotheGermanicgroupofIndo-Europeanfamilyof

language.

TheintroductionofChristianitytoBritainaddedthefirstelementof_Latinand

GreekwordstoEnglish.

EnglishchangedintowhatisdescribedasModernEnglishfromthelate

_15thcentury.

SamuelJohnson’sdictionarywasinfluentialinestablishingastandardformof

_spelling.

StandardEnglishisbasedonthespeechofthe_upperclassof

southeasternEngland.ItisalsocalledQueen___’sEnglishor

_BBCEnglish.StandardEnglishi