1. General information about the UK I.
Gymnázium Pavla Jozefa Šafárika
Kód ITMS projektu:
Názov projektu: Kvalitou vzdelávania otvárame brány VŠ
General information about the UK I.
Vzdelávacia oblasť:
 Jazyk a komunikácia
Predmet
 Anglický jazyk
Ročník, triedy:
 VIII.OA
Tematický celok:
Reálie anglicky hovoriacich krajín
Vypracoval:
 Ing. Diana Matisová
Dátum:
 4/2015

2. Obsah The British Isles
The British Isles, The United Kingdom, Great Britain or England?
Political division
Union Jack
Saint George
Saint Patrick
Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland
Capitals
Quick Quiz

3. The British Isles Great Britain: England, Wales, Scotland 2. Ireland:
The British Isles consist of more than two large islands...:
Great Britain:
England, Wales, Scotland
2. Ireland:
the Irish Republic, Northern Ireland

4. The British Isles ... and 5000 smaller islands.
3. Smaller islands – include:
The Isle of Wight
The Isles of Scilly
The isle of Man
Anglesey
Hebrides or Western Isles
Orkneys
Shetlands

5. SHETLAND ORKNEY HEBRIDES ISLE OF MAN ISLE OF SCILLY ISLE OF WIGHT
CHANNEL ISLANDS 5 5

7. The British Isles, The United Kingdom, Great Britain or England?

8. The British Isles The British Isles consist of:
- two large islands – Great Britain (England, Wales, Scotland) and Ireland (The Irish Republic, Northern Ireland) and more than 5000 smaller islands

9. The United Kingdom
“United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” consist of:
The UK is a union of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Crown dependencies (the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) are largely self-governing with the UK responsible for their defence and international relations and are not part of the United Kingdom.

10. Great Britain Great Britain consist of:
Great Britain is an island that consists of three somewhat autonomous regions that include England, Scotland, and Wales.

11. Political division 1. England + Wales
Henry Tudor – Welsh prince became King Henry VII. of England. Wales was united with England in 1536 under one Parliament – under Henry VIII. - Acts of Union
2. England + Scotland
Scotland was dynastically united with England in 1603, when Elizabeth I. died without a heir and King of Scotland inherited the crown of England and became King James I. of England and Wales and King VI. of Scotland, Act of Union 1707 – The Parliaments of England, Scotlan, Wales - united

12. Political division 3. England + Ireland
Ireland was conquered by Henry II. in 1171, but the first King of England who also took a title of King of Ireland was Henry VIII. in 1541
Act for the Union 1801 – established the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (in 1801 Ireland was united with Great Britain) 12

13. Union Jack
The union of England, Scotland, and Ireland is symbolized by the British national flag, called the Union Jack – Union flag
made up from the flag of:
The Kingdom of England (St. George´s Cross)
The Kingdom of Scotland (St. Andrew´s Cross)
The kingdom of Ireland (St. Patrick´s Cross) 13 13

15. Saint George Saint George and Dragon
According to the Golden Legend, there lived a dragon in Sillene (Lybia) that poisoned all the countryside. People had to give it two sheep everyday. When it was not enough,
they had to give it their child. One day, it was the king´s daughter. Saint Geogre kill the dragon – all people converted to Christianity.

16. Saint Patrick Saint Patrick and snakes, shamrocks
Legend - he banished snakes from Ireland. No snakes exist on the island today - but they never did (icy ocean waters).
Snakes = evil in literature, "when Patrick drives the snakes out of Ireland, it is symbolically saying he drove the old, evil, pagan ways out of Ireland brought in a new age,"
three-leafed shamrocks to explain the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) 16

17. Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland
In 1922 Ireland was partitioned into two parts:
1. Northern Ireland (6 Protestant countries of Ulster)
2. The Irish Free State (The Irish Republic) – 26 Catholic countries of Ireland
In 1922 – full title of United Kingdom (UK) was changed:
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 17

18. Capitals England – London Wales – Cardiff Scotland – Edinburgh
Northern Ireland – Belfast
Ireland - Dublin

19. QUICK QUIZ a) the United Kingdom b) the British Isles c) Great Britain
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER
What can you see in the picture?
a) the United Kingdom
b) the British Isles
c) Great Britain

20. QUICK QUIZ a) St. David´s Cross b) St. Andrew´s Cross
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER
Union Jack consist of these Crosses:
a) St. David´s Cross
b) St. Andrew´s Cross
c) St. Patrick´s Cross

21. QUICK QUIZ a) St. George b) St. Patrick c) St. Andrew
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER
Who drove snakes out of Ireland?
a) St. George
b) St. Patrick
c) St. Andrew 21

22. QUICK QUIZ a) 1801 b) 1922 c)never CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER
When was Ireland divided into 2 parts and why?
a) 1801
b) 1922
c)never 22 22

23. POUŽITÉ ZDROJE
VESELÝ, K.: The English speaking countries – Reálie anglicky mluvícíh zemí. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství s.
SHEERIN, S., SEATH, J., WHITE, G.: Spotlight on Britain Second edition. Oxford s.