A brief introduction to the UK 英语国家概况1.ppt

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1、TheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIrelandXiongliMainTopicsDifferentNamesforBritain12MajorCities3People4GeographyTheUnionFlag5In1970,theBBCshowedaseriesofprogramsaboutthehistoryoftheBritishEmpire.Beforetheseriesstarted,theyadvertisedit.Theadvertisementmentioned“Englan

2、d’shistory”.Withinafewhours,theBBChadreceivedthousandsofangrycallsofprotestanditwasforcedtomakeanapology.Whodoyouthinktheangrycallerswere?WhydidtheBBCapologize?1.DifferentNamesforBritainFullname:theUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIrelandFourconstituentpartsofthenation:

3、TheislandofGreatBritain:EnglandScotlandWalesNorthernIreland*SomeProperNames:EnglandBritainBritishIslesTheCommonwealthofNations1.DifferentNamesforBritainTheBritishIsles--ItisagroupofislandsoffthenorthwesterncoastofEurope.Thegroupconsistsoftwomainislands,GreatBritainandIreland

4、,andnumeroussmalleraffiliatedislands.Ofalltheislands,thelargestoneiscalledGreatBritain.ThesecondlargestoneisIreland,whichistothewestofGreatBritain.Thus,BritishIslesdoesn’trefertoGreatBritainonly.Britain--ItistheshortformforGreatBritain.OfficiallyitshouldbetheGreatBritain.The

5、islandofGreatBritainisdividedintothreeparts:Englandinthesouth,ScotlandinthenorthandWalesintheSouthwest.EnglandCapital:London(alsothelargestcityofEurope)Highlyurbanised(80%incities)ThelargestintermsofsizeandpopulationWeknowthatEnglandisonlyonepartoftheGreatBritain.Itisveryimp

6、ortantintheUK.TheimportanceissogreatthatforeignpeopletendtousethewordwhentheymeantheU.K.Commonwealth(英联邦)TheCommonwealthofNations,usuallyknownastheCommonwealth,isavoluntaryassociationof53independentsovereignstates,mostofwhichareformerBritishcolonies,ordependenciesofthesecolo

7、nies.TheCommonwealthisnotapoliticalunion;ThesymbolofthisfreeassociationisQueenElizabethII.2.GeographyLocationoftheU.K:Themainlandareasliebetweenlatitudes49°Nand61°Nandlongitudes8°Wto2°ETotalterritory:242,910squarekilometers2.GeographyTheUKisborderedbyfourseas:tothesouthbythe

8、EnglishChannel,whichseparatesitfromcontinentalEurope.totheeastbytheNorthSea