The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

 The Grampian Mountains

The Pennines

The Cambrian Mountains

Washed by – the Atlantic Ocean, the
Irish Sea, the North Sea, the English
Channel

Mountains – the Grampian Mountains,

the Pennines, the Cambrian Mountains

Rivers – the Severn, the Thames, the

Clyde

Climate – mild

Population – nearly 60 mln

Cities – London , Glasgow, Liverpool,

Leeds and others

Capital – London
London
Glasgow
Liverpool
Leeds
 The Weather in Britain

The British Isles have a

mild climate.

Rivers are never frozen.

It rains very often in all

seasons in Great Britain.
Autumn and winter are the
wettest.

On the average, Britain

has more than 200 rainy
days a year.
 Britain is known all over the
world for its fogs. Sometimes fogs
are so thick that it's impossible to
see anything within a few meters.

The winter fogs of London are,

indeed, awful; sometimes all
traffic is even stopped.

So, we may say that the British

climate has three main features:
it is mild, humid and very
changeable.
 The Queen and the
Parliament
In Britain the Queen
Elizabeth II is the
Head of State, but in
fact she doesn’t rule
the country. The
Queen is a symbol of
the country history
and its traditions.
 She travels about the United Kingdom, meets different
people and visits schools, hospitals and other special places.
So do all the members of the Royal family.
 The real power in the
country belongs to the
British Parliament and
to the British
Government.

The House of Lords The House of Commons

The Flag of the United Kingdom.
The Union Jack
The Union Jack is made up of three crosses
 Holidays in Great Britain
There are six public holidays in Britain.
Christmas Day is
celebrated on the
25th of December.
People celebrate
the birth of Jesus
Christ. They
celebrate it by
attending church,
cooking special
food.
People buy a Christmas
tree and decorate it with
toys, coloured balls and
little coloured lights.

On Christmas Eve people

put their presents under
the tree.
For Christmas lunch people eat
turkey, potatoes and green
vegetables. Then they have the
Christmas pudding. At five o'clock
it's time for tea and Christmas cake.
Every year there is a very big Christmas tree
in the centre of London, in Trafalgar Square.
This is a present from the people of Norway to
the people of Great Britain. They send it to
Londoners every year and Londoners
decorate the Christmas tree.

In the evening before

Christmas people like
to come to Trafalgar
Square to look at the
tree.
On Christmas Eve the streets in
London are decorated, too.
 
 The day after
Christmas is
Boxing Day.
People usually
visit their
relatives and
friends. They do
not work on that
day.
 Easter is the holiday when
believers celebrate the
resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead.

The Easter egg is the

most popular emblem of
this holiday.

Nowadays Easter eggs

are usually made of
chocolate in Great Britain.
Spring Bank Holiday , Late Summer
Bank Holiday are the holidays when all
banks are closed and if the weather is fine
many families take a picnic lunch or tea
with them and enjoy their meal in the
open air.

Bank Holiday is also

the time for big sports
meetings.
The Tower of London
London
The National Gallery
Big Ben
The Houses of Parliament

The British Museum Trafalgar Square St. Paul’s Cathedral

London Eye Buckingham Palace Hyde Park Westminster Abbey

London is a green city. There are many
parks in London.
Hyde Park St. James’s Park

Regent’s Park
 London’s famous Zoo is in Regent’s Park. In the Zoo
there are animals and birds from different countries and
continents. The English enjoy visiting the Zoo.
 The Houses of Parliament
The Houses of Parliament is a long building that
stretches for about 1000 feet.
It is the place, where the British Parliament sits.
At one end of the Houses of Parliament is
a famous Big Ben.
 Big Ben
Big Ben is the
large clock in one
of the towers of
the Houses of
Parliament. You
can hear the
sound of Big Ben
every hour in
London.
The clock and the
bell got their
names after Sir
Benjamin Hall. He
was a tall man,
whose nickname
was Big Ben. So
people know the
clock as Big Ben.
 Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is
official residence of the
Queens. The Queen of
England lives there.
Buckingham Palace is very beautiful inside.
It is a wonderful building with a monument in
front of it, which is the Queen Victoria Memorial.
The guard near Buckingham Palace changes
every day at 11 o’clock.
 The National Gallery
The National Gallery is one of the best
picture galleries of the world. Every day many
tourists visit this fine building with tall
columns.
 The Tower of London
The Tower of London is an old castle on the
bank of the Thames.
a fortress a palace

a prison the King’s Zoo

Here many important people were
imprisoned and beheaded.
You can see some
black ravens there.

There is a legend,
that the Tower will
fall if it loses its
ravens. So people
look after them
very well.
Now the Tower is a museum.
 St. Paul’s Cathedral
St. Paul’s Cathedral is one of the greatest
English churches.
The famous English architect Sir Christopher
Wren built it in the 17th century after the
Great Fire of London.

The Great Fire of London

 It took Wren 35 years
to build the Cathedral.

When Wren died he

was buried in St.
Paul’s Cathedral.
It is a beautiful
building with many
columns and towers.
In one of its towers
there is one of the
largest bells in the
world.
 Westminster
Abbey
Westminster Abbey
is one of the most
famous and
beautiful churches
in London. It is
very old too. It is
more than nine
hundred years old.
There are so many monuments and
statues there. Many English kings and
queen are buried there.
 Westminster Abbey is
famous for the Poet’s
Corner too. Many great
writers are buried
there.
For example Chaucer, Charles Dickens and
Rudyard Kipling.
The Abbey with its tall towers is really
wonderful.
 Trafalgar Square
The centre of London is Trafalgar Square.
Some people say it is the most beautiful place in
London.
In the middle of the square stands a tall column.
It is 185 feet high.

It is a monument to Admiral Nelson.

Four bronze lions look
at the square from the
bottom of the
monument.

There are two

beautiful fountains
in the square.
Trafalgar Square is the traditional place for
mass meetings and demonstrations.
Britain is worth
visiting!