Do you know Britain ?

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Do you know Britain ?
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• The United Kingdom of Great Britain and
  Northern Ireland (the UK) occupies most of the
  territory of the British Isles. It consists of
  four main parts England, Scotland, Wales and
  Northern Ireland. London is the capital of
  England, Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland,
  Cardiff of Wales and Belfast of Northern
  Ireland.

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Union Jack
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You find out about

• The Royal Family
• National holidays
• Places of interest
• Means of transport
• Fish Chips

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The Royal Family

• The British Royal Family is the group of close
  relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom.

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Meet the members of the Royal Family
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The head of UK is Queen Elisabeth ??
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National holidays
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New Years Day
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• In England the New Year is not as widely or as
  enthusiastically marked as Christmas. In
  Trafalgar Square there is also a big crowd and
  someone usually falls into the fountain.

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St Valentines Day
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• February 14th . Valentines Day has been a day
  for lovers since ancient times. At this time of
  the year valentines it is traditional for
  young people to send cards and presents with red
  hearts on them to one another.
• People usually do not sign these cards and a
  lot of time is spent trying to guess who has sent
  them.

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Easter
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• Easter is a religious holiday, and Easter
  Monday is a bank holiday. Certain old traditions
  are observed, whether it is celebrate as the
  start of spring or a religious festival.
• London greets the spring with a truly
  spectacular Easter Parade. The British celebrate
  the idea of new birth by giving each other
  chocolate Easter eggs which are opened and eaten
  on Easter Sunday. On Good Friday bakers sell hot
  cross buns, which are toasted and eaten with
  butter.

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Queens Birthday
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The queen turned in April, but tradition holds
that "Trooping the Colour" - the public party for
the monarch's birthday is held in June when the
weather is better. The custom dates from 1748,
and every year's parade was held in bright
sunshine. The parade featured more than 1,100
soldiers, including the famous Foot Guards, who
wear bright red coats and bearskin hats.

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May Day
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• May 1st was an important day in Middle Ages. In
  the very early morning, young girls went to the
  fields and washed their faces with dew. They
  believed this made them very beautiful for a year
  after that. Also on May Day the young men of
  each village tried to win prizes with their bows
  and arrows, and people dance round the maypole.
• Many English-villages still have a maypole,
  and on May 1st , the villagers dance round it.
  You can see one in the picture below.

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Halloween
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• On 31st October the British celebrate
  Halloween. The word is a corruption of All
  Hallows Eve. It refers to the fact that this day
  comes before 1st November the religious feast
  of all Saints.

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Christmas
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• Christmas Day, December 25th , is probably the
  most exciting for most British families. On the
  Sunday before Christmas many churches hold a
  carol service where special hymns are sung as it
  is the Christian celebration of the birth of
  Christ. Sometimes carol-singers can be heard on
  the streets as they collect money for charity.
  Most families decorate their houses with
  brightly-colored paper and holly, and they
  usually decorate a Christmas tree.

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Boxing Day
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• December 26th is called Boxing Day because this
  was the day for giving Christmas presents (in
  boxes) to the milkman and postman. Today, people
  still give a Christmas box to postmen,
  milkmen, servants, dustmen, and tradesmen it is
  usually some money.

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Places of interest

• Great Britain is rich in world-famous places.
  Certainly among them there is famous Big Ben,
  London Eye, The Houses of Parliament, Buckingham
  Palace, Trafalgar Square, The Tower.

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Big Ben
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The Houses of Parliament
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London Eye
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The Tower
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Trafalgar Square
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Buckingham Palace
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Means of transport
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London double-decker
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London cabs
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Fish Chips
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• In the United Kingdom, fish and chips became a
  cheap food popular among the working classes with
  the rapid development of trawl fishing in the
  North Sea in the second half of the nineteenth
  century.

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• Made by Drofa Ann
• Form 8-B
• School 1