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Get Ready for the Class
•Form groups and find your group find your group leader .leader .
• Number each paragraph in your Number each paragraph in your reading material.reading material.
•Get your attention ready.Get your attention ready.
Unit 2 The United Kingdom
Are you English?
No, I’m not. I’m British.
Sorry, are you from England?
No, I’m from Britain.
A brief introduction to the UK .
England is divided into 3 zones.
The cultural importance of London.
How did the UK come into being?
Fast Reading
What is the text mainly about?Tip: To get the main idea quickly, to read the first or the last sentence of each paragraph.
Part1(para.1-3)
Part2(para.4)
Part3(para.5-6) UKEngland
London
Match each part with its main ideaThe structure of the passage.
Careful ReadingPart 1How the UK was formed
England
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
EnglandWales
In the 13th century AD
Scotland
In the 17th century AD
Great Britain
In the 13th century AD
…get Ireland connectedto form the United Kingdom
Ireland
Northern Ireland
southern part of Ireland broke away
England Wales Scotland Northern
Ireland
……you find Wales included…..
work together
& work independently
the Union Jack
-ed 作宾语补足语
Part2 England is divided into 3
zones
industrial
most of the population
for convenience
writer’s opinion
It’s a pity that……
historical architecturewhere
London
cultural
political
historical
Part3 The cultural importance of
London.
invaders What did they leave?
Romans
language and government
Vikings
castles and new words for food
London
cultural
political
historical
The cultural importance of London.
museums, art collections,theatres, parks, buildings
national government and administration
the oldest port, building, castle
Part3
invaders What did they leave?
Romans
language and government
Vikings
castles and new words for food
Anglo-Saxons
the Normans
towns and roads
vocabulary and place-names of the North
Which group of the invaders did not influence London?
What do you think of these invaders?
pains & something new
River ThamesLondon Eye
Royal Greenwich Observatory
格林威治皇家天文台London Bridge & River Thames
Buckingham Palace 白金汉宫Westminster Abbey, England
西敏寺
Stonehenge
温莎堡 Windsor Castle
Fill in the blanks.
The full name of Britain is the ______ ________ of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .It consists of four parts ,which
are _________,______,______ and _____________. people always think ______ is a part of England. The flag of the UK is called the __________ .The four countries have different _____________.
______ is the largest of the four countries and it is ______ ____ three parts. Most of the people settled in the ________,but most of the large _________cities in the _________and the North.
________ ,the capital of the UK, was influenced by some ________ and was the greatest __________ treasure.
United Kingdom
England ScotlandWales Northern Ireland
WalesUnion Jack
England divided
into SouthMidlands
London
institutions
industrial
invaders historical
Going to The UK
1.Choose one part that interests you most in our passage.2.More information about the UK.
1.Read the passage and review what you have learned in this period2.Go to the library or surf the internet to know more about the UK.
Assignment
http://www.bbc.com/http://britain.com/
http://www.theuktoday.co.uk/
The University of Oxford
University of Cambridge