A glimpse of Great Britain

Presented by Pavel Ivanov6 «Z» school 887

2. Layout • Opening slide • National identity • The Union Jack • England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland • Political system • The most remembered kings and queens • Guy Fawkes story • The British Humour • The world’s first: invention of the train • The world’s best: Liverpool’s FOUR

3. National identity Full name of the country United Kingdom – England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland Britain = England, Scotland, and Wales Capital: London Population: 60.8 mln (as of 2011 census) Currency: British pound Language: English

National Flag

Patron Saints

4. The Union Jack

England (St. George)

Scotland (St. Andrew)

Wales(St.David)

Ireland(St. Patrick)

5. England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

England (capital: London)Wales (Cardiff)Scotland (Edinborough)Northern Ireland (Belfast)

Flower emblems

Rose Daffodil Thistle Shamrock

Constitutional monarchyMonarch Parliament; the Cabinet

6. Political system

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (b. 1926) came to the throne in 1952.

7. The most remembered kings and queens

Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603)

King Henry VIII (1491-1547)

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

8. Guy Fawkes Story

Guy Fawkes Night

The plot failed

The criminals were put to death

the first train - Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’the Tube (London Underground)

A portrait of George Stephenson

9. The first in the world

10. The British humour

• the reserved British • a sense of humour and irony• difficulty of understanding the British

humour for foreigners - knowledge of the realities of the

country – its history, people and places• playing with words• a joke

11. The Beatles

The group from Liverpool (1963) : John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr(Years active: 1960-1970)

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