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