The document provides an overview of culture and society in Great Britain. It outlines that the United Kingdom is a unitary state comprised of four constituent countries, with England accounting for over half of the total land area. The main languages spoken are English, Welsh and French, though over 300 languages are represented in the overall population. Notable British contributions discussed include William Shakespeare as the most important English author, Henry Moore as the most important sculptor, and The Beatles as the most commercially successful band in history. Popular foods mentioned are fish and chips and apple cake. Key sights to see include Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and iconic red telephone booths.
4. GEOGRAPHICAL MAP
England accounts for little
more than half of the total
UK surface, occupying
130,410 square kilometers.
Most of the country consists
of lowland with some
mountainous terrain in the
northwest. The highest
mountain in the region is
Scafell Pike (978 meters) and
is located within this area.
The main rivers and
estuaries in England are the
Thames, Severn and the
Humber.
6. CURRENCY
1 £ = 1,232 €
The pound is the currency of the
United Kingdom and the Crown
Dependencies and British Overseas
Territories. In its other colonial
territories using different currencies
but the pound set: Gibraltar
pound, Falkland Islands pound and
Saint Helena pound. One pound is
divided into one hundred pennies
7. LANGUAGE
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (5,000), Bengali (400,000), Eastern Panjabi (471,000), Estonian
(14,000), Greek (200,000), Gujarati (140,000), Hakka Chinese (10,000), Hebrew
(8,000), Hindi (240), Italian (200,000), Japanese (12,000), Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, Kashmiri
(115,000), Kirmanjki, Latvian (12,000), Leeward Caribbean Creole
English, Lithuanian, Malayalam (21,000), Maltese (40,900), Mandarin Chinese
(12,000), Mirpur Panjabi (25,000), Morisyen (1,000), Moroccan Spoken Arabic
(5,800), Northern Kurdish (23,800), Northern Pashto, Parsi (75,000), Portuguese
(17,000), Seraiki, Shelta (30,000), Sindhi (25,000), Somali (1,600), Southern Pashto
(87,000), Southwestern Caribbean Creole English (170,000), Sylheti (300,000), Tagalog
(74,000), Ta’izzi-Adeni Spoken Arabic (29,000), Tamil, Turkish (60,000), Urdu
(400,000), Vietnamese (22,000), Western Farsi (12,000), Western Panjabi
(103,000), Yoruba (12,000), Yue Chinese (300,000)
English, Welsh and French are the more common languages in
uk (more than 97% of population talk anyone of thelse but there
are a lot of others languages:
8. LITERATURE
the English author most important was Shakespeare, he wrote Hamlet, Romeo and
Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream,
9. ART
Henry Moore, was considered the most important British sculptor
Lucian Freud is the most important painter ,whose work: Benefits
Supervisor Sleeping in 2008 set a world record for sale value of a painting
by a living artist.
£17.2 million
10. MUSIC
The Beatles are the best-known British artists of history
They became the most commercially successful and
critically acclaimed act in the history of popular
music. The group's best-known lineup consisted
of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George
Harrison, and Ringo Starr