seminar 1

1. Seminar 1

Great Britain: general information
Ассистент кафедры МККиП
Челнокова В.С.

2. Notions and names:

•Great Britain
Geographical term of the island
where are situated 3 regions of
the UK – England,
Scotland and Wales

3.

•The United Kingdom
of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
a full name of the state
•The UK
the abbreviation of a full
name of the United
Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern
Ireland

4.

•the British Isles
it’s a large group of islands, lying
off the north-western coast of
Europe. The BI consists of 2
large islands – GB and
Ireland, separated by the Itish
Sea and a lot of small islands
(British Islands)

5.

Look at the map and find out
the following isles:
•Isle of Man (о. Мэн)

6.

Look at the map and find out
the following isles:
•Isle of Man (о. Мэн)
•Isle of Wight (о. Уайт)

7.

Look at the map and find out
the following isles:
•Isle of Man (о. Мэн)
•Isle of Wight (о. Уайт)
•Orkney [ˈɔːknɪ] Islands
(Оркнейские острова)

8.

Look at the map and find out
the following isles:
•Isle of Man (о. Мэн)
•Isle of Wight (о. Уайт)
•Orkney [ˈɔːknɪ] Islands
(Оркнейские острова)
•Shetland Islands
(Шетландские острова)

9.

Look at the map and find out
the following isles:
•Isle of Man (о. Мэн)
•Isle of Wight (о. Уайт)
•Orkney [ˈɔːknɪ] Islands
(Оркнейские острова)
•Shetland Islands
(Шетландские острова)
•Outer Hebrides [ˈhebrɪdiːz]
(Внешние Гебриды)

10.

Look at the map and find out
the following isles:
•Isle of Man (о. Мэн)
•Isle of Wight (о. Уайт)
•Orkney [ˈɔːknɪ] Islands
(Оркнейские острова)
•Shetland Islands
(Шетландские острова)
•Outer Hebrides [ˈhebrɪdiːz]
(Внешние Гебриды)
•Inner Hebrides
(Внутренние Гебриды)

11. A trick question! – Isle or Island?

12. A trick question! – Isle or Island?

•In practice there is no difference, they can be used
interchangeably, but isle is archaic. Anything called isle
can also be referred to as an island.

13. A trick question! – Isle or Island?

•In practice there is no difference, they can be used
interchangeably, but isle is archaic. Anything called isle
can also be referred to as an island.
•It is also thought that "Isle" means less piece of land
then "island“.

14. A trick question! – Isle or Island?

•In practice there is no difference, they can be used
interchangeably, but isle is archaic. Anything called isle
can also be referred to as an island.
•It is also thought that "Isle" means less piece of land
then "island“.
•“Isle” can also be used with some proper names (e.g.
Belle Isle, Garden Isle)

15. Another trick question! – Why in these two words (isle and island) the letter "S" isn't read?

Another trick question! – Why in these two words (isle and island)
the letter "S" isn't read?

16. Another trick question! – Why in these two words (isle and island) the letter "S" isn't read?

Another trick question! – Why in these two words (isle and island)
the letter "S" isn't read?
There was an ancient word "iland" (without
"S"). At the same time there was French
word "isle“, which has been changed to "ile"
when Frenchmen started to skip letters. Then
somebody decided these two words to be related
and somehow it combined into "island"

17.

•Albion
•Britannia
The first and the most ancient the name of the island, given
name of the island, that comes to British Isles by the
from ancient Greek and Romans in 500-600 BC.
Romans. Floating to the By the first century BC
island, they saw white huge “Britannia”
replaced
mountains (Greek “Albion” - “Albion” as the prevalent
white); sometimes used poetically. name for the island of
GB

18.

•Britton
•Brit
the ancient name of the native It’s a colloquial word to
people of Britain, given by “Britton”
the Romans. It’s a Celtic
tribe, who inhabited the island
from the iron age till the
middle ages

19.

•The Union Jack
the national flag of the
UK

20.

•God Save the Queen,
God Save the King
the hymn of the UK

21.

22. Lake Poets – Озерная школа

a group of Romantic English poets, who all lived in the Lake District of
England in the first half of the nineteenth century. The three main figures of
what has become known as the Lake School were William Wordsworth
(Уильям Вордсворт), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Сэмюэл Тейлор
Кольридж) and Robert Southey (Роберт Саути).

23. 1.1. What is the difference between the names “Great Britain”, “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” and

“The British
Isles”?

24.

25. 1.2 The political division of the UK

26. 1.3 The flag of the UK.

27. A trick question!

… Again
Why isn’t Wales on the UK flag?

28. A trick question!

… Again
Why isn’t Wales on the UK flag?
Wales is not represented on the Union Jack with a
Welsh Dragon (the emblem of Wales) because when
the flag was created in 1606, the Principality of Wales
was already united with England. Wales was not seen
as one of the separate kingdoms that made up the
United Kingdom and did not warrant its own
symbol on the flag.

29. 2. Geographical survey

30. 2.2. Highland

31.

32. 4.2. Fahrenheit and Celsius temperatures

33. 4.3. Sayings about the weather

• “Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red • “Rain foretold, long last. Short notice,
sky in morning, sailors take warning.” soon will pass.”
• “The higher the clouds, the finer
•“One swallow doesn’t make a spring”
the weather.”
•“One cloud enough to eclipse the sun”
• “Clear Moon, frost soon.”
•“Everything is good in its season”
• “When clouds appear like towers, the •“April showers bring May flowers”
Earth is refreshed by frequent showers.” •“After rain comes fair weather”
• “Rainbow in the morning gives you •“If it rains before seven, it will clever before
eleven”
fair warning.”
•“There is no bad weather. There bad
• “Ring around the moon? Rain
clothes”
real soon.”
•“A snow year – a rich year”

34. “Rain cats and dogs”

•“Rain cats and dogs” – England
•“Rain trams and omnibuses” – England (the beginning of the
XX century)
•“Rain like a cow” – USA (The 40s of the XX
century)
•“Rain duke Georges” – New Zealand

35. 5. Plant and animal life