unit 1 other countries, other cultures word power

课件36张PPT。Unit 1牛津高中英语第九模块Word PowerDescribing a countryBrainstorming We have learned the passage ‘Canada---land of the maple tree’.
What subjects are covered in the reading passage ?
How are these subjects organized ?Canada---land of the maple treeArea
Climate
Landscape
Flora and fauna
Resources
Population Lifestyle
Cities
Language
History
Society
SymbolBrainstormingIf we were to write
a book about The
United Kingdom,
what subjects
should be covered
in the book ?DiscussionThe united KingdomGeography
History
Society
Commerce
CultureThe united KingdomGeography
Area
Climate
Landscape
Flora and fauna
Resources
Cities
History
Prehistory
Early inhabitants
Invasions from Europe
Post-war immigrants
Society
Population
Language
GovernmentRule of the monarchy
Modern politics
Law
Education
Economy
Agriculture
Commerce
Trade and industry
Manufacturing
Transport
Culture
Religion
Tradition
Customs
Lifestyle
The arts
appendixQuizNow lets have a quiz about Britain.
Let’s see how much do you know about BritainWhat is the area of Britain ? Total
244,820?km2?(79th)
94,526?sq?mi?
It is a sovereign state to the northwest of mainland Europe. It includes the island of Great Britain and the north-east part of the island of Ireland, together with many small local islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. What is the climate like in The UK ?England has a temperate climate, with
plentiful rainfall all year round, though the
seasons are quite variable in temperature.
However, temperatures rarely fall below
?4?°C and will only rise above 32?°C in the
height of the summer. The prevailing wind is
from the southwest, bringing mild and wet
weather to England regularly, from the
Atlantic Ocean. It is driest in the east,
warmest in the southwest in winter , and
warmest in the southeast in summer.Snowfall
can occur in winter and early spring.What is the Landscape like in the UK ?The United Kingdom is
bounded by the Atlantic
Ocean and its ancillary
bodies of water, the North
Sea, the English Channel, the
Celtic Sea, St George's
Channel and the Irish Sea. It
is linked to France by the
Channel Tunnel. What about the resources in The UK ? Compare with many other countries, Britain has considerable reserves of coal. Today British coal mining is called a "sick" industry.Natural gas and oil was discovered in 1965 and oil in 1970 under the North Sea.Britain was the first nation to build a large iron and steel industry. Rich deposits of iron ore were found in central England.As with the coal industry, Britain's steel industry is declining.What about the cities in The UK ? London - 7,172,091 (though the City of London proper is one of the smallest cities in England)
Birmingham - 970,892
Other major cities with urban sub-area populations in excess of 250,000 inhabitants are Belfast, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kingston Upon Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stoke on Trent and Wolverhampton.Something about the history of the UK.PRO-FEUDALISM?HISTORY??
The?first?known?setters?of?Britain?were?the?Iberia.
Julius?Caesar,?the?great?roman?general,?invaded?
Britain?for?the?first?time?in?55BC.?For?nearly?400?
years,?Britain?was?under?roman?occupation.
The?roman?built?two?great?walls?to?keep?the?Picts:?
There?were?the?Hadrian’s?wall?and?the?Antonine?
wall.
In?the?mid5th?century?a?new?wave?of?invaders,?
Jutes,?Saxons,?and?Angles?came?to?Britain,?they?
were?three?Teutonic(Germanic)?tribes.
In?597,?pope?Gregory?I?sent?st.Augustine?to?
England?to?convert?the?heathen?English?to?
Christianity. Alferd,?king?of?Wessex,?was?strong?enough?to?
defeat?the?Danes.?He?is?known?as?the?“father?of?
Britain?navy”.
The?Norman?conquest?of?England?isthe?best
known?event?in?English?history.?Under?William,?
the?feudal?system?in?England?was?established.
?FEUDALISM?PERIOD???
The?Doomsday?Book,?completed?in?1086,?was?the?result?of?general?survey?of?England?made?in?1085
Henry?II?was?the?first?king?of?the?House?of?
Plantagenet.?He?ended?the?disorders?of?king?
Stephen?.Something about the history of the UK.The?baron’s?charter,?or?Magna?Carta,?as?it?
came?to?be?known?was?presented?by?a?delegation?
of?their?class?to?the?king?and?his?advisers?in?the?
summer?of?1215.
It?was?a?statement?of?feudal?and?legal?relationship?
between?the?crown?and?the?barons,?a?guarantee?of?
the?freedom?of?the?church?and?a?limitation?of?the?
power?of?the?king.The?statute?of?Wales?in?1284?
placed?the?country?under?English?law?and?Edward?Ⅰpresented?his?newbornson?to?the?Welsh?
people?as?the?Prince?of?Wales,?a?title?held?by?the?
heir?to?the?throne?ever?since.Something about the history of the UK.When?Edward?Ⅲ?claimed?the?French?
Crown?by?the?right?of?his?mother?Isabella,?
the?French?refused?to?recognize?the?claim?
because?the?Salic?Law?debarred?females?
from?the?succession.?In?1337?Edward?
declared?a?war?that?was?to?last?a?hundred?
years.?Black?Death?swept?through?England?
in?the?summer?of?1348?without?warning.?It?
killed?between?one?half?and?one?third?of?the?population?of?England.Something about the history of the UK.What is the population of The UK ?Population?
?2007?estimate 61,100,835?(22nd)
?2001?census 58,789,1945? What about the languages spoken in the UK ?languages
Official languages English
In addition to English (use established by precedent), Welsh is recognised in Wales as a "language of equal standing" Since 2005, Scottish Gaelic has enjoyed the status of "an official language of Scotland commanding equal respect to the English language"Government
The United Kingdom is a Constitutional Monarchy, with executive power exercised on behalf of the monarch by the Prime Minister and other cabinet ministers.
The current Prime Minister is Tony Blair of the Labour Party. He will be replaced by Gordon Brown What do you know about the government of the UK ?What do you know about the rule of the monarchy of the UK ? Queen Elizabeth II??
The United Kingdom is a
constitutional monarchy
comprising four constituent countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The current monarch is Queen Elizabeth II who is also Queen and Head of State of fifteen other Commonwealth Realms including Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Jamaica. What do you know about the law of the UK ? The United Kingdom has three distinct systems of law. English law, which applies in England and Wales, and Northern Ireland law, which applies in Northern Ireland, are based on common-law principles. Scots law, which applies in Scotland, is a hybrid system based on both common-law and civil-law principles. The Act of Union 1707 guarantees the continued existence of a separate law system for Scotland. The United Kingdom contains some of the world's leading seats of higher education, such as the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, along with Imperial College, the London School of Economics, King's College London (KCL) University College (UCL) of the University of London, University of Edinburgh, St Andrews University. ]
In 2007 there are 112 universities/university colleges in the UK. This amounts to 138 university-level institutions if the distinct constituent colleges of the University of London and University of Wales are defined as separate universities. Most of the UK's major cities are home to two or more universities.What do you know about the education of the UK ? The Britain were pioneers in modern
agriculture and were among the first to bring
science and machinery to farming. The new
farming has been called "agribusiness".
There are mainly six farming types in Britain.
They are arable farning, dairy fariming,
stock farming, mixed farming, hill farming
and market gardening.Because of the cool
climate, apples, pears and plums grow very
well in Britain.The North Sea has very good
fishing grounds. What do you know about the agriculture of the UK ? Britain is the fifth largest trading country in the world. Napoleon called it a "nation of shopkeepers".Britain's foreign trade is mainly with other developed countries. which accounts for 79% of exports and 85% of imports. About half with EC.Traditionally, Britain has had a deficit on visible trade and a surplus on invisible trade.How about the trade of the UK The textile is one of Britain's oldest. Textiles were on of the country's most vauluable exports.Britain became a world leader in shipbuilding during the middle of the 19th century. The two main centres for shipbuilding were on the River Tyne near Newcastle, England and on the Clyde near Glasgow in Scotland. The Britain motor industry now dominated by four firms (Ford, the Rover Group, GM-Vauxhall, and Peugeot). There are three areas in Britain which have seen some high-tech industrial growth. Scotland has Europe's largest collection of foreign-owned chip factories. Over 90% of the companies are from the U.S.A., Japan, the Netherlands and Germany.How about the industry of the UK The government's Department for Transport oversees the well-developed transport system in the United Kingdom. A radial road network of 29,145 miles (46,632?km) of main roads is centered on London, Edinburgh and Belfast, whilst, in Great Britain, a motorway network of 2,173 miles (3,477?km) is centered on Birmingham and London. There are a further 213,750 miles (342,000?km) of paved roads.How about the transport of the UKSomething about the culture in the UKCinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has been influential in the development of cinema, with the Ealing Studios claiming to be the oldest studios in the world. Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry is characterised by an ongoing debate about its identity, and the influences of American and European cinema. Famous films include the Harry Potter, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and James Bond series which, although made by American studios, used British source materials, locations, actors and filming crew.Something about the culture in the UKBritish literature
The countries that make up the United Kingdom have provided some of the world's most notable and popular authors, poets and literary figures. William ShakespeareCharles Dickens Something about the culture in the UKBritish Music
Notable composers from the United Kingdom have included William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Arthur Sullivan (most famous for working with librettist Sir W. S. Gilbert), Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Benjamin Britten, pioneer of modern British opera. London remains one of the major classical music capitals of the world.Something about the culture in the UK Religion in the United Kingdom
Canterbury Cathedral is the mother church of the Church of England, which itself is the mother church of the Anglican Communion.
The UK is today a predominantly secular state with only 38% of the population believing in a God. People identify themselves with religion in the UK for both cultural and religious reasons and this is reflected by the disparity between the figures for those believing in a god and those identifying themselves with a particular religion.What is the British common wealth of nationsAnswer to C1.history
2.society
3.England
4.government
5.monarchy
6.commerce
7.trade
8.Agriculture
9.resources
10.population
11.lifestyle
12.customsQueenGovernmentMinisterLabourPartyAnswer to DGoodbye