1、your nameA Brief Introduction to the United KingdomWeek 1 Aug,2019your name?The full name of the country:the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?The UK includes 4 parts within the one nation-state?The island of Great Britain is made of England,Scotland and Wales,and Northern Island,
2、a province on the neighboring island of Ireland.General Picture of UKyour nameyour nameyour name“a complicated country with a complicated name”?imperial past?“the empire on which the sun never sets”?UK is no longer an imperial countryyour nameThe Commonwealth of Nations?an organization through which
3、 the fifty or more countries which used to be a part of that empire and maintain links.?Immigration:non-European ethnicity?from some of those Commonwealth countries like India or Pakistan,and the countries of Caribbean.your name?A member of the European Union;?A member of the Group of Eight large de
4、veloped economies(“G8”)八国集团首脑会议八国集团首脑会议(G8 Summit)由西方七国首脑会议演变而来，与会八国也被称为 八国集团。八国是指美国、英国、法国、德国、意大利、加拿大、日本和俄罗斯。?A multicultural society:Christians,Muslims.your name?Britain history has been a history of invasions:Celtic(750B.C.)Roman Empire:(55B.C.410):England and WalesGermanic(410871):the Angles,the
5、Jutes and the Saxonyour nameRaiders from Scandinavia,the ferocious VikingsNormans:from northern France,who were descendants of Vikings.The next few hundred years followingthe Norman invasion can be seen as aprocess of joining together the variousparts of the British Isles under Englishrule.your name
6、Englandyour name?Physically the largest of the four nations;by far the largest population?Cultural and economic dominanceyour nameLondon?dominant in all sorts of way?The seat of government;?Cultural center?Business center?Financial centeryour nameBuckingham Palaceyour nameTrafalgar Squareyour nameWe
7、stminsteryour nameyour nameyour nameLondon Toweryour nameyour nameyour nameScotlandyour name?The most confident of its own identity?The second largest of the four nations,both in population and in geographical area?The Highlands in the north and the Southern Uplands?The largest city is Glasgow,the c
8、apital city is Edinburghyour name?In 1707,by agreement of the English and Scottish parliaments,Scotland joined the Union.?Then followed two rebellions in 1715 and 1745your nameyour nameyour nameyour nameyour nameyour nameyour nameyour nameyour nameyour nameyour namekiltyour nameBagpipesyour nameBagp
9、ipesyour nameyour nameWalesyour name?The capital is Cardiff?This southern area was an important element in Britains industrial revolution,as it had rich coal deposits.?It is very close to the most densely populated parts of central England.your name?Wales has been dominated by England for longer than the other nations of the union.?It also retains its own language,Welsh,a Celtic tongue completely different from English.?In 1536,Wales was brought legally,administratively,and politically into the UK by an act of the British parliament.your name
