G1 uk basic inforamtion

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England

Scotland (Gaelic name – Alba)

Northern Ireland (Irish name – Éire [era])

Wales (Welsh name – Cymru [kemri])

FLAG

CAPITAL

London*

Edinburgh

Dublin

Cardiff

OTHER IMPORTANT CITIES

Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford, York

Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Perth, Edinburgh

Belfast, Cork, Derry

Newport, Swansea

English

English and Scottish Gaelic

English and Irish

English and Welsh

NATIONAL LANGUAGES NATIONAL SYMBOLS

The Harp Three Lions Emblem

tha flag - (named St Andrew’s Cross)

Daffodil

The Shamrock

red rose The Red Lion

The leek the Celtic Cross

SAINT PATRON CURRENCY WORTH TO SEE

FAMOUS MUSICIANS

FAMOUS WRITERS

oak

thistle

St George (the 23rd of April is the national day) Pound Sterling – (£) London City, Windsor Castle, Stonehenge*, Hadrian’s Wall, Kings College Cambridge, Dover The Beatles*, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elthon John, Queen, the Rolling Stones William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe,

Saint Andrew (the 30th of November is the national day) Pound Sterling – (£) Glasgow, Aberdeen, countless historic castles, Highlands, Loch Lomond Annie Lennox, Wet Wet Wet, Travis, Simple Minds Sir Walter Scott, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie,

Saint Patrick (the 17th of March Pound Sterling – (£) Dublin City, Newgrange (older than the pyramids), Giant Causeway, Cliffs of Moher U2, Enya, The Corrs, Sinéad O’Connor, Clannad, The Craberries, Jonathan Swift, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel

The Red Dragon

St. David (the 1st of March is the national day) Pound Sterling – (£) Snowdon (the highest mountain in Wales), Seven Wonders of Wales, Snowdonia National Park Manic Street Preachers, Tom Jones, Duffy Roald Dahl, Dick Francis, Dylan Thomas, Ronald


Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Wolf, George Orwell, J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, Agatha Christie OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE CUISINE

scientists: Sir Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, Charles Darwin apple pie, fish and chips, Sunday roast (roast beef and potatoes with vegetables and Yorkshire pudding)

ICONS phone box, English weather, The Thames, the Bobby, Robin Hood, Monthy Python, Bowler Hat (melonik), Big Ben, a cup of tea, Wimbledon, James Bond, pubs, black cabs, Tower Bridge, double deck bus, The London Eye

J.K. Rowling, Robert Louis Stevenson

Sean Connery (actor), Alexander Graham Bell, James Watt, Alexander Fleming, smoked salmon, scotch broth, porridge, short bread, haggis (minced animal’s guts with vegetables) kilt (a skirt for men), bagpipes (traditional Scottish instrument), Edinburgh (the capital of Scotland, like Rome, was built on seven hills), tartan, tweed, Ben Nevis (the highest mountain in the UK), Highlands, Loch Ness, Loch Lomond

Becket, James Joyce Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats,

Stuart Thomas, David Jones

Kenneth Branagh, Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Farrel

Richard Burton and Sir Anthony Hopkins (actors), Cathrene ZetaJones (actress)

soda bread, Irish stew, coddle, Irish whiskey, Guinness beer, Irish coffee

lamb, leek, parsnip, cockles, welsh cakes,

clover (koniczyna), the Titanic, Giant’s Causeway, Saint Patrick’s Day

red dragon, daffodils, Welsh National Costume, harp, sheep, druids, The Millenium Stadium (the national stadium of Wales, locted ic Cardiff


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