How big is london compared with other cities
How big is london compared with other cities
1. How big is London compared with other cities? 2. Where do people usually arrive when they travel to Britain by sea or air? Wh
Ответ:
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Объяснение:
What did the family do yesterday?
Mr Smith washed his car yesterday morning. Mrs Smith watered plants in the garden. Then they cleaned the yard and played chess. In the evening their boys listened to the music and watched TV. Their little sister played dolls and then cried a little. In the evening the children brushed their teeth and went to bed.
Aunt Nelly worked in the kitchen all day. She baked a delicious apple pie. Then she washed the dishes and looked very tired. In the evening she brushed her hair and talked on the phone. Her husband smoked a cigarette and waited for her in the garden.
There is a table but there isn’t bookshelf in my room.
There is a TV but there isn’t computer in my sister’s room.
Next to thier house there is a shop and opposite their house there is a bus stop.
There aren’t any posters but there are photos of his friends and parents in my dad’s cabinet.
here isn’t lift but there is winter garden in their house.
There isn’t desk but there is a lot of posters on the walls.
There is a carpet in her parents bedroom but not in her.
Страноведение. Great Britain (texts for beginners, основные факты для начинающих)
Это первая статья из цикла «Страноведение. Великобритания». Разнообразные задания по теме помогут вам получше узнать историю и культуру великой страны, язык которой вы изучаете. Возможно, вы захотите посетить ее, чтобы своими глазами увидеть удивительные места, о которых прочитаете и поговорить с жителями на их родном языке. Прочитайте несложный текст (Great Britain, text for beginners) и вы узнаете основные факты об этой стране.
Страноведение. Великобритания. Задания (вводные)
Task 1. Эти имена имеют отношение к Великобритании. Что вы знаете о каждом из них?
the Beatles, Luis Carol, Scotland, Agatha Christie, Cardiff, Conan Doyle, Robinson Crusoe, Wales, Charles Dickens, Mary Poppins, Isaac Newton, London, Robert Stevenson, England, Oxford, Charlotte Bronte, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Rudyard Kipling
Great Britain. Texts with Tasks
Task 3. Перед тем как читать текст про Великобританию, найдите на карте географические названия ниже:
Task 4. Переведите предложения ниже и найдите на карте части Соединенного королевства и их столицы. Запомните их.
Task 5. Вспомните слова по теме «Страноведение»: be situated in, be separated by (from), be washed by, include, consist of, capital, island, continent, main, part, point, narrow, the narrowest, near, the nearest.
Task 6. Прочитайте текст про Соединенное королевство.
New Words:
Great Britain (text for beginners)
(after the textbook by Afanasjeva, V)
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the UK) is the official name of the state, which is situated on the British Isles. This state is also called Great Britain after the main island with the same name. The UK consists of four countries, which are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Their capitals are London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.
Geographical position of the UK. Географическое положение Соединенного королевства
The UK is an island state. The two main islands are Great Britain (where England, Scotland and Wales are situated) and Ireland (where Northern Ireland and the independent Irish Republic are situated). The two islands are separated by the Irish Sea. The UK is washed by the Atlantic Ocean in the north and the North Sea in the east.
The UK is separated from the continent by the English Channel and the Strait of Dover. The Strait of Dover is the narrowest part of English Channel. The nearest point to Europe is Dover which is only thirty-two miles from France. Dover is one of the most ancient ports. If you cross the English Channel by ferry you can see the white chalk cliffs of Dover and Dover Castle.
Dover Castle – Дуврский замок (фото автора)
Nationalities. Национальности
Everyone who was born in Britain is British. People from England are English. People from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are not English. They are Scottish or the Scotts, Welsh and Irish.
Languages. Языки
Everyone in Britain speaks English. But in some parts of Scotland and Wales people speak different languages as well. The Welsh are especially proud of their language. They like to speak Welsh, to sing songs in Welsh and when you travel you can see road signs in Welsh all over Wales. Everyone in the UK speaks English but they all speak it differently. A Scottish person has to listen carefully if he wants to understand a Londoner or a Welsh person.
Population. Население
More than 56 million people live in Britain. Many of them live in big industrial cities like London. The biggest cities of England are Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool (England); Edinburg, Glasgow, (Scotland).
Nature. Природа
Foreigners are often surprised by the fact that much of land in Britain is open country. There are many lonely hills, quiet rivers, deep lakes and just farmlands especially in the south of the country. The open country is named Lowlands but it changes for hills called Highlands in the north of the country.
Climate. Климат
The climate in Great Britain is very mild. The winter temperature is between +3° and +7°. Snow does not cover the ground very long, except on the mountains. The summer temperature is between +15° and +18°. It often rains.
The English weather is very changeable. So when English people make plans for holidays they usually begin, “If the weather…”
State Symbol. Государственный символ
The flag of the United Kingdom is known as the Union Jack. It is made up of three crosses: the cross of St. George (the patron saint of England), the cross of St. Andrew (the patron saint of Scotland) and the cross of St. Patrick (the patron saint of Ireland).
Упражнения к тексту «Great Britain»
Упражнение 1. Read the text and complete the following sentences:
Упражнение 2. Complete the following sentences making the right choice.
Упражнение 3. Fill in articles where necessary.
(1) ________ United Kingdom is situated on (2) ________ British Isles which are separated from (3) ________ continent by (4) _________English Channel and (5) _________Strait of Dover. (6) __________two main islands of (7) _________ British Isles are (8)_________Great Britain and (9) ________Ireland. (10) _______ England is situated in (11)________ south of (12) _______ Great Britain and (13) _______ Scotland in its (14) ________ north. (15)_______ two big islands are separated by (16) _______ Irish Sea.
Упражнение 4. Complete this text about Great Britain and learn it by heart.
A lot of tourists come to Great Britain every year to do some (13) …. in its big and small towns.
Упражнение 5. Match the words in the two columns to say what these places are famous for. Make notes to remember.
Example: London is famous for its places of interest.
The places of interest: the Lake District, Hadrian’s Wall, Stonehenge, Land’s End, Cambridge and Oxford, Heathrow, Greenwich, Liverpool, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Descriptions:
Упражнение 6. Answer the questions.
Упражнение 7. Match the country and its symbol.
Countries of the UK: England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland
Symbols: Daffodil, Rose, Shamrock, Thistle
Let Us Read
18. Learn to read these words, 
29.
19. Choose the names of the cities from the list in ex. 18, find and show them on the map. Read the names aloud.
20. Read the text, give the names of the five principal parts of the country described in the text and show them on the map.
Discover Britain: England
30. The United Kingdom is very small compared with many other countries in the world. However there are only nine other countries with more people, and London is the world’s seventh biggest city. When you travel about the country you can see how the scenery changes right in front of your eyes. Highlands turn into lowlands, forests and hills turn into meadows and plains very quickly. It’s hard to believe, but in Great Britain one can find practically any type of scenery. Often what people first notice about Britain, especially if they arrive by plane, is the green of the fields, hedges and trees. Britain is an unusually beautiful country!
We want to take you on an exciting journey through the whole country from Scotland and Northern Ireland to England and Wales. We’ll begin our journey with England, the largest part of the UK, visiting its regions: the Southeast, the Southwest, East Anglia, the Midlands and the North of England.
The Southeast is a highly populated region of England; there is a lot of industry near the Thames and there are a lot of roads and motorways. London, the capital of the UK, and such historical cities as Windsor, Dover and Brighton are situated here. When people travel to Britain by sea or air they usually arrive in the Southeast, for this is where the main passenger ports and airports are. Heathrow Airport, one of the world’s busiest airports is about 33 km west of central London. However, there is still attractive countryside in the Southeast. The County of Kent situated here is known as the garden of England. The Southeast is famous for its resorts, Brighton is, probably, the best known of them.
The Southwest is the region where the main activity is farming. Although there are some very big farms, most of them are small family farms where dairy products are produced. The Southwest used to be known for its pirates. The romantic past makes it a popular place for artists, writers and holidaymakers. The two principal cities of the region are Bristol and Bath. If you want to see the famous Stonehenge, one of the remarkable historic places in the UK, you should also come here. The most westerly point of Great Britain “Land’s End” is also in the Southwest.
East Anglia is very flat and it is another farming region. It has beautiful cities, such as Cambridge, with fine historic buildings. The part of East Anglia called the Fens consists of miles of flat land with almost no trees or hedges. It used to be partly covered by the sea and now produces good harvests.
Oliver Cromwell, an English general and politician (1599—1658) who was leader of the army against King Charles I in the Civil War and later became Lord Protector of England, was born in the Fens area. East Anglia is isolated from the rest of Britain because of its position away from the main national roads and because of its shape: it is more than half surrounded by the sea.
The Midlands, known as the heart of England, is the largest industrial part in the country. The most important industrial cities are Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, which is one of Britain’s big ports, and Birmingham. The two famous Midlands cities, Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford are connected with English culture: Stratford is the birthplace of the great William Shakespeare and Oxford is famous for its university.
The North of England has some of the wildest and loneliest parts of the country, but also some of the busiest industrial cities. Here you can find deep valleys, rivers and waterfalls, hills and mountains. This part of the country is rich in coal which is important for the region’s 1 industry.
The main attractions of the North of England are certainly the Lake District, the cities of York and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Many tourists come over especially to look at the ruins of Hadrian’s Wall, a stone wall built across the North of England by the order of the Roman ruler Hadrian to defend the Northern border of Roman Britain from the Scottish tribes.
1 a region — район
22. Match the words in the two columns to say what these places are famous for.
Example:London is famous for its places of interest.
1) London
2) the Lake District
3) Oxford
4) Hadrian’s Wall
5) Heathrow
6) the Fens
a) the biggest airport in England
b) the fact that it was built by Romans
c) its places of interest
d) the fact that Oliver Cromwell was born there
e) its 12th century university
f) its lakes and beautiful scenery
24. Guess what the names of the places marked with the numbers are, check yourselves with the help of the tape, 31.
How does London’s spate of killings compare with other cities?
London’s homicide rate is higher than New York’s only by a narrow measure, and for its population size is not the worst in the UK
A forensic tent covers the scene where a fatal stabbing took place. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
A forensic tent covers the scene where a fatal stabbing took place. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
A spate of recent suspected murders in London has prompted concerns about rising levels of knife and gun crime in the capital. There have been attempts to place the figures into context, both historically and by comparison with other places, but how accurate are the reports?
The Met said on Wednesday that it had recorded 55 suspected murders since the start of 2018 – including the deaths of two children whose bodies were found in Sussex. That number – marking more than a quarter of the year gone – is just over half the total in the capital for all of last year. The total in 2017 was 116, excluding the deaths in the Westminster, London Bridge and Finsbury Park terrorist attacks.
The spike has therefore been significant. If there is no let-up in the violence, by the end of the year the number of killings could reach levels last seen in 2005, when there were 181.
One of the more eye-catching comparisons has been with New York, presumably because it is etched into the public consciousness as a place associated with high levels of violence. That reputation may be somewhat unwarranted these days; the murder rate in the US city has plummeted since the early 1990s, when it stood at about 2,000 a year. But the comparison is still interesting as the two cities have a similar population size and similarly mixed demographics.
The Sunday Times was the first to report that London’s murder rate had overtaken New York’s for the first time in modern history, with 15 suspected murders in the UK capital in February and 22 in March, compared with 14 and 21 respectively in the US city.
But in January there were eight in London and 18 in New York, and the tallies for the year to date are neck-and-neck.
The latest New York police department figures show 54 suspected murders so far in 2018, although the media appear to have reported at least two more since, which would put New York ahead of London by one. Last year the number of suspected murders in New York was 292 – 150% higher than in London.
So it is premature to say London has a higher murder rate than New York, other than in the short term. And despite the negative publicity, London does not even have the highest murder rate in England and Wales when population is taken into account.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics for homicides (also including manslaughter and infanticide), filtered by particular police constabularies, show the Met had the ninth highest homicide rate (12.2 per million population) in 2016/17, or the eighth highest if the 96 Hillsborough deaths added to South Yorkshire’s tally were excluded. Excluding South Yorkshire, Greater Manchester had the highest homicide rate (19.1) and Lincolnshire the second highest (17.5).
As the UK’s biggest city by far, London would be expected to have consistently the highest number of homicides, and it has, excluding Hillsborough, but murder rates as a proportion of population are higher elsewhere, and not just in other large cities.
Конспект урока по теме: «Англия»
1.Every year a lot of people visit Britain.
Can you think of any reason for traveling to the UK? Complete the Word Web.(рис.1)
2. Comment on places
Are there any castles in France?
Yes, there are some beautiful castles in France.
1. castles in France
2. churches in London
3.gardens in Paris
4. cliffs in Dover
5. Roman remains in Italy
6. places to see in your country3. Find Ann’s answers to the questions of her friends.(reading for detail)
Where did you go? I visited Britain with my family.
I was in Scotland with my mother.
I was in Britain with a group of students.
How did you travel? We traveled by Channel ferry and coach.
We took the train to Edinburgh.
We flew to Heathrow airport and then by tube to London.
Where did you stay? We stayed in a large hotel near the beach.
We lived in a youth hostel.
We stayed with my uncle and aunt in their house.
Listen to Ann’s story and check yourself:
I was in Britain with a group of students from my school. We flew to Heathrow airport and then went by tube to London. We lived in a youth hostel. We swam, played tennis, went canoeing. We also took a coach tour round London, visited Edinburgh and York, saw many castles and stately homes. It was the best holiday I’ve ever had. I really enjoyed myself meeting new people, eating excellent food and visiting new places.
What parts does the UK consist of?
What part did Ann visit?
Lets prepare for travelling to England too.
4. You are translators. Translate from Russian into English, please.
5. Proper names. Listen and read these words:
