Wiedza o Wielkiej Brytanie lekcja 2

England and its regions

1. Tourist natural attractions, monuments;[pictures of
Stonehedge(?), t *+ +
2. England : capital London, largest city- London, patron saint. St. George, national
symbols; St. Georges cross (a red cross on a white ground) national day: St. Georges
Day (23rd April), symbols: John Bull ( fictional character perfonifying Englishness,
looking like an 18th c. Country squire), the English gentleman
#The picture of West Bromwich, st.georges day#
3. England(map):
- predominantly lowland
-some upland regions in the north( the Pennine Chain;, the Cumbrian mountains)
also in the south-west in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset
- 8 regions: the North- East the North- West, Yorkshire nad the Humber the West
Midlands, East Anglia ( the eastern region), the South- West, the South-East
-the greatest concentrations of population: London and the South East, West
Yorkshire. * ??? +
4. England is famous for: Canterbury, Oxford, Brighton, Acot, Windsor, Dover
#Picture of Canterbury, Cathedral#
#Picture of Ashmolean Museum#
#P. of Radcliffe Camera#
#Oxford, college builddings#
#The white cliffs of Dover#
#Dover Castle#
#Ascor 2013, the arrival of the Queen#
#Windsor Castle#
#Brighton Pavilion#
5. Other places of interest in South- East:
- Hampton Court( a great palace built in 1515 and given by Cardinal Wolsey to Henry
VIII)
- Eton College (a pbulic school for boys started in 1440)
#Picture#

The South-East the commuters land; the richest region of England #pic#
6. The South- West (known as the West Country)
famous for : - Bath, Plymouth, Stonehenge, Salisbury, Glastonbury, 2 national parks
(Dartmoor & Exmoor), Bristol
- the English Riviera(mid climate, long coast)
#pic of bath#; #bath on the river Avon#
- Beer, Devon #pic#;
- Bristol
-The Dart River #pic#
- Lands end, Penzance #pic#
- Stonehenge#toloczkolubicipki# - near stonhenge are the celebratings of it #Pic of
archdruid#
- Salisbury Cathedral
-(food) Cornish Pasty: potatoes + vegetables

7. The West Midlands, famous for: Birmingham, Coventry, Stratford, Ironbridge
- Staffordshire pottery (produced near Stoke- on- Trent); esp. Wedgwood, Spode and
Minton
- Ironbridge: town in Shropshire, early centre of Industrial Revolution, with the firt
major iron bridge in the World, opened in 1779
- #Pic. Of Stratford on Abon (where Shakespire was born) #(Stratford): Cottage
House, Staffordshire Figures

8. The East Midlands: Lincoln, Nottingham(Robin Hood), The Peak District in Derbyshire
- Lincoln Cathedral
- Nottingham Castle
- Derby, silk mill
- The Peak District(big monument of vine at biceps)