Великобритания

1. A glimpse of Great Britain
Presented by Pavel Ivanov
6 «Z» school 887

2. 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. 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

4. National Flag
Patron Saints
4. The Union Jack
England
(St. George)
Scotland
(St. Andrew)
Wales
(St.David)
Ireland
(St. Patrick)

5. 5. England, Wales, Scotland,
Northern Ireland
England (capital: London)
Wales (Cardiff)
Scotland (Edinborough)
Northern Ireland (Belfast)
Flower emblems
Rose Daffodil Thistle Shamrock

6. Constitutional monarchy
Monarch
Parliament; the Cabinet
6. Political system
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
(b. 1926) came to the throne in 1952.

7. 7. The most remembered
kings and queens
Queen Elizabeth
(1533-1603)
King Henry VIII
(1491-1547)
Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

8. 8. Guy Fawkes Story
Guy Fawkes Night
The plot
failed
The criminals
were put to
death

9. the first train - Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’
the Tube (London Underground)
A portrait of
George Stephenson
9. The first in the world

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

12. THANK YOU !