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Part one the United Kingdom of Britain and North Ireland

p3 1 What’s the differences between Britain and the British Isles, Great Britain, England, the UK and the British Commonwealth?

2 tell

3 geographical names of the UK

3 tell the 3 political divisions on the island of Great Britain

p4 1 the British Empire gradually disappeared and it was replaced by the British Commonwealth of the Commonwealth of Nations in 1931

2 the Commonwealth

3 Describe the geographical position(features) of Britain

4 it is separated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel in the south and

the North Sea in the east

5 the English Channel

p5 1 Chunnel

2 the north and west of Britain are mainly highlands.

3 England occupies the largest, southern part of Great Britain with Wales to its

west and Scotland to its north.

4 Whereabouts in Great Britain are mostly highland and lowland

p6 1 the Pennines

2 tell the

3 natural zones in Scotland

3 Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Britain is located Scotland.

p7 1 in Britain, the longest river is the Seven River

2 Thames River

p8 the largest lake in Britain is the Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland

p9 1 What factors influence the climate in Britain 2 tell the characteristics of Britain’s climate

p11 1 Describe the distribution of Britain’s population

2 Britain has a population of 57,411,000

3 Britain is a densely populated country with an average of 237 people per square

kilometre and it is very unevenly distributed.

p12 1 What is the difference between ancestors of the English and Scot, Welsh and Irish 2 During the fifth century when the Roman Empire fell, the Germanic Angles and Saxons

invaded and conquered Britain.

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3 It was from the union of Norman conquerors and the defeated Anglo-Saxons that the

English people and the English language were born.

p13 1 What are the differences in character and speech between southern England and

northern England

2 in Britain, southerners speak the type of English closer to BBC English

3 Cockney

4 the ancestors of the Welsh were the ancient Britons

p14 1 Eisteddfodau

2 How do the Welsh keep their language and culture?

3 What’s the main problem in North Ireland?

p15 1 the immigrants came from the West Indies, India and Pakistan(排除型选择)

2 Which part of Britain has the most rainfall and which part is the driest?

p16 1 the first known settlers of Britain were the Iberians

2 Why do we say that English nation is a mixture on nationality of different origin?

p17 1 Earliest invasion of England is by Celts

2 the Celts began to arrive about 700 BC and kept coming until the arrival of the

Romans.

p18 1 the Celts’s religion was Druidism

2 British recorded history begins with the Roman invasion

3 Julius Caesar

4 for nearly 400 years Britain was under the Roman occupation

p19 1 Hadrian’s Wall

2 Antonine Wall

3 York had been created as a northern stronghold

p20 1 the first Christian Emperor, Constantine, was proclaimed in AD 306

2 tell why the Roman impact upon the Britons was surprisingly limited

3 Who were the Anglo-Saxons, how did Heptarchy come into being?

p21 1 Angles

2 seven principal kingdoms

3 Heptarchy

4 when the Northumbrians submitted to him and took him for their master in 829,

Egbert actually became an overlord of all the English

5 the Anglo-Saxons brought their own Teutonic religion to Britain

p22 1 a monk called Columba established a monastery.

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