This document provides information about English-speaking countries and their culture, literature, music, wildlife, sports, and technologies. It discusses the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada. For literature, it highlights famous authors from each country such as Shakespeare, Dickens, and Rowling from the UK, Swift and Wilde from Ireland, and Twain and Fitzgerald from the US. For music, it notes iconic bands like the Beatles, Queen, and Led Zeppelin from the UK and the diversity of American music genres. It also gives examples of distinctive wildlife like kangaroos and koalas in Australia and New Zealand.

1. ENGLISH AROUND THE WORLD

2. ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES

3. UNITED KINGDOM
UK consists of: Wales, Scotland, England and
Northern Ireland.
The capital is London, the world's most
cosmopolitan city.

4. IRELAND
 The capital of Ireland is Dublin.
 The official languages ​​are: Irish (Gaeilge), native Celtic
language and English, which is constitutionally described as
a secondary official language. Learning Irish is compulsory
in education, but English is widely prevalent.
 The Shamrock is the official symbol of Ireland. Shamrock,
along with green and blue and endearing figure gnome
named Leprechaun, the representation of the culture of
the island of Ireland and his exaltation is visible in the
celebrations of St. Patrick's Day, celebrated on 17 March in
different geographical locations.

5. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
United States of America consists of 50 states,
the fifty stars on the flag displayed. Its capital is
Washington. It is. It bordered by Canada to the
north and Mexico to the south.

6. AUSTRALIA
Australia is located in the continent of
Oceania. The official language is English, since
this continent was colonized by the British.
Canberra is the capital and the most populous
town is Sidney.

7. NEW ZEALAND
It is an island nation in Oceania. Most of New
Zealand's population is of European descent.
Wellington is the capital and the most
populous city is Auckland.

8. SOUTH AFRICA
 This region is known as the Rainbow by great
diversity of cultures, traditions, languages​​,
religious beliefs, ...
The population is black and white.
The capitals are: Pretoria, Cape Town and
Bloemfontein. The largest city is Johannesburg.
One of the most important national sport is
Rugby. In 2010 the World Cup was held.
Undoubtedly one of the most important figures
of the country is Nelson Mandela, who was
president of the country during 1994-1999.

9. CANADA
 Canada is in North America. Its capital is Ottawa and
Toronto is the most populous city. It is the second
largest country in the world. The two official
languages ​​of Canada are English and French.
 When we talk about Canada, we can not ignore the
RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) that
monitors compliance with the general laws.

10. LITERATURE

11. UNITED KINGDOM
The English playwright and poet William Shakespeare is widely regarded as
the greatest dramatist of all time.
 One of his most important works are: Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet
or Othello.
Charles Dickens created some of the world's most memorable fictional
characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian
Period .
 One of his most important works are: The Pickwick Papers or David
Copperfield.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist and
university professor, best known as the author of the classic high
fantasy works The Hobbit , The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
Joanne K. Rowling is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry
Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won
multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies.
Clive Staples Lewis was a novelist, poet and academic. Highlights include works such as The
Chronicles of Narnia.

12. IRELAND
Jonathan Swift satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet
and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
• One of the works that stand out are: Gulliver's Travels or
The Battle of the Books.
Oscar Wilde as an Irish writer and poet. The Picture of Dorian
Gray or Salome are his most important works.

13. CANADA
Margaret Atwood is a prolific poet, novelist, literary critic and
activist Canadian politics.
 One of his most important works is The Handmaid's Tale.
Steven Erikson is a canadian novelist with training in both
archeology and anthropology.
 His best known work is the fantasy series in ten volumes
Malaz: The Book of the Fallen.

14. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
 Mark Twain was an American author and humourist. He
wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn.
 F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short
stories. Include works such as: The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button or The Great Gatsby.
 Stephen King is an american author of contemporary horror,
suspense, science fiction and fantasy. His books have sold
more than 350 million copiesand many of them have been
adapted into feature films, television movies and comic books.
Such as: The Shining or The Dark Tower.

15. MUSIC

16. UNITED KINGDOM
The Beatles
Queen
Led Zeppelin
Coldplay
Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones

17. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The music of the United States reflects the country's
multi-ethnic population through a diverse array of
styles. It is a mixture of West African traditions on the
one hand and Irish and Scottish traditions with the
later addition of Mexican and Cuban elements.
Among the country's most internationally-
renowned genres are hip hop, blues, country, rhythm
and blues, jazz, pop, experimental, techno, and rock
and roll.

18. WILDLIFE

19. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
The Australian fauna is known worldwide:
Kangaroo Tasmanian Devil
Koala

20. SPORTS

21. UNITED KINGDOM
Football has its origins in the UK, plus it was in
this country where formalized and standardized,
making it the most popular sport.

22. SOUTH AFRICA
Rugby is very important in this country. The
national team has won the Rugby World Cup
twice, in 1995 and 2007.

23. CANADA
One of the sports most noteworthy is the
Lacrosse, a quick game between two teams of
ten players each using a stick with a net on the
top to pass and receive a rubber ball with the
aim of holing the ball to score goals on the net
of the opposing team.

24. NEW TECHNOLOGIES

25. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZELAND
The country's diverse scenery, its small size and
government incentives, managed some big
budget movies have been filmed in New
Zealand, the most representative of which is
the film trilogy of The Lord of the Rings and The
Hobbit.

26. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The web and most popular search engines on
the network sites are American ingenuity,
including Google, Facebook, YouTube,
Wikipedia, Blogger, eBay and Yahoo!