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