Презентация по теме The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandМишанова Людмила ЯковлевнаМАОУ Лицей №28Имени Академика Б.А. Королева

Flag, emblem, anthemGod save our gracious Queen,Long live our noble Queen,God save the Queen:Send her victorious,Happy and glorious,Long to reign over us:God save the Queen.O Lord, our God, arise,Scatter her enemies,And make them fall.Confound their politics,Frustrate their knavish tricks,On Thee our hopes we fix,God save us all.Thy choicest gifts in store,On her be pleased to pour;Long may she reign:May she defend our laws,And ever give us causeTo sing with heart and voiceGod save the our Queen.



GeographyThe total area of the United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 square kilometres. The country occupies the major part of the British Isles archipelago and includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern one-sixth of the island of Ireland and some smaller surrounding islands.


Political statusThe United Kingdom is a unitary state under a constitutional monarchy. Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state of the UK as well as of fifteen other independent Commonwealth countries.Queen Elizabeth II



Politics of EnglandThe Politics of England forms the major part of the wider politics of the United Kingdom, with England being more populous than all the other countries of the United Kingdom put together. As England is also the largest in terms of area and GDP, its relationship to the UK is somewhat different from that of Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.


TraditionsArrangement of the of the house and garden is the most common interest of the British people. All of their leisure time, they devote improvement and decorating homes and gardens under the widows of the living room.



TraditionsBritish people proud their net English very much. English for British people is not only means to distinguish themselves from foreigners. This is the way accurately to determine which social class companion belongs, yet.



Cultural lifeThe royal family, palaces, family castles with ghosts, old universities, famous British pubs, parades of the flowers, the Rochester Sweeps Festival, the royal regatta, The Fab Four "Beatles", druid ceremony, the Robin Hood festival - these are Great Britain.



MuseumsThe British Museum, in London, is widely considered to be one of the world's greatest museums of human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the finest, most comprehensive, and largest in existence and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.



PoetsWilliam ShakespeareJoseph ConradRobert BurnsAgatha ChristieWriters not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J. R. R. Tolkien was born in the Orange Free State, V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, and Vladimir Nabokov was Russian, but all are considered important writers in the history of English literature.





ScientistsSir Isaac NewtonJames Prescott JouleRobert SimsonSir Charles Galton DarwinScience and technology in the United Kingdom has a long history, producing many important figures and developments in the field. Major theorists from the UK include Isaac Newton whose laws of motion and illumination of gravity have been seen as a keystone of modern science and Charles Darwin whose theory of evolution by natural selection was fundamental to the development of modern biology.





ppt_x IndustrialIn the 18th century the United Kingdom was the first country in the world to industrialise, and during the 19th century possessed a dominant role in the global economy.


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