Project
Britain: The U.K. The
British Isles and Great Britain (GROUP 2: Laia, Anna)
FACTS:
Flag:
Union
Jack
National
day: 23
of april, St George day
Population:
in 2011 was 63,100,000
Area:
The
U.K has a total land area of 244,100 square
kilometres,
that the 99% is land and the rest of inland is water. From north to
south is about 1,000 kilometres long.
Symbol:
Rivers:
the
most important is the river Thames which
flows through Oxford and London
Busiest Aeroport:
Heathrow, in London
a)
Hi! we are Laia and Anna, today we're going to talk about the U.K.,
the British Isles and Great Britain.
First
I want to explain the difference between The U.K., the British Isles
and G.B. The U.K. Is made up for England, Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland, The Great Britain is the island made up for
England, Scotland and Wales and the British Isles are Great Britain
and Northern Ireland.
b) The four countries
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland make up the UK
c) History of the
making of the U.K.
Great
Britain has a long history of invasions of the Celts, The Romans, The
Anglo- Saxons, who crate the name of 'England' that comes from
'Angle-land', The Vikings from Norway, The Normans.
But
the story of the making of the U.K. Can be told with the history of
the Union Jack.
The
Union Jack represented the political union of the three kingdoms of
England, Scotland and Ireland (now only Northern Ireland), and no
Wales because at the begin it only was a Principality. First the
England Flag and the Scotland Flag made the first union jack on 1606
that as known simply as 'the British flag' or 'the flag of Britain'.
Later the Northern Ireland Flag joined and made the actual Union
Jack.
d) Map
e) The official name of
U.K. is: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
f) The capital city of
the U.K. is London