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1、your nameA Brief Introduction to the United KingdomWeek 1 Aug,2011your nameThe full name of the country:the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandThe UK includes 4 parts within the one nation-stateThe island of Great Britain is made of England,Scotland and Wales,and Northern Island,a p
2、rovince on the neighboring island of Ireland.General Picture of UK your 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 Nationsan organization through which the f
3、ifty or more countries which used to be a part of that empire and maintain links.Immigration:non-European ethnicityfrom some of those Commonwealth countries like India or Pakistan,and the countries of Caribbean.your nameA member of the European Union;A member of the Group of Eight large developed ec
4、onomies(“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 nameBritain history has been a history of invasions:Celtic(750B.C.)Roman Empire:(55B.C.410):England and Wales Germanic(410871):the Angles,the Jutes and th
5、e Saxon your 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 nameEnglandyour
6、 namePhysically the largest of the four nations;by far the largest populationCultural and economic dominanceyour nameLondondominant in all sorts of wayThe seat of government;Cultural centerBusiness centerFinancial centeryour nameBuckingham Palaceyour nameTrafalgar Squareyour nameWestminsteryour name
7、your nameyour nameLondon Toweryour nameyour nameyour nameScotlandyour nameThe most confident of its own identityThe second largest of the four nations,both in population and in geographical areaThe Highlands in the north and the Southern Uplands The largest city is Glasgow,the capital city is Edinbu
8、rghyour nameIn 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 nameBagpipesyour nameyour nameW
9、alesyour nameThe capital is CardiffThis 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 nameWales 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