The United Kingdom Part 2

The United Kingdom part 2

Get to know geography, points of interest, gastronomy, currency, sports...

1. List five traditional British dishes: chips and ketchup, fish and chips, chicken fingers, hot dogs.

2. What currency would you use if you were living in London? Have a look at the following correspondences and say whether they are correct or not: 3€ → 2₤, 8€ → 10₤, 15€ → 12₤, 30€ → 20₤, 75€ → 50₤

3. As you know, one of the most representative monuments of England is “Big Ben”, could you mention at least five more? The Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, the tower Bridge and the Durham.

4. What sports would you play if you were living there? What do they consist on? Basketball cricket, tennis, rugby and football.

5. As we all know, British are the only people driving on the left. Can you add five aspects on driving in Britain?

6. What are the main differences between British and American English? Give at least five examples -The accent is different

7. Could you mention the most famous kings and queens of England? Could you add some dates?George Vl 1936-1952 and, Elizabeth ll 1952

8. Is Great Britain a Republic or a Monarchy? Is a Monarchy

9. Why do you think it is called “Great Britain” intead of “Britain”? It was called Great Britain .

10.List the name of five rivers placed anywhere whit Great Britain. -Glen -The river Thames -The Ribble -Brick Beck -River Tial

Unit 9 - British healthcare system

Most of time we feel well. We can play sports, go to work and enjoy our lives.
But sometimes we justi don't feel well.
Some people have medical insurance but most people can't afford it and rely on the National Health Servise, NHS.

If you can't get a doctor, there are two other NHS servises you could try.
The first is NHS direct This is the phone servise where a trained nurse will suggest the best way to tread.
The NHS also provides Walk-in Centres in more than 60 locations in Britain.

But many people prefer alternative medicine.
This can include many kinds of treatment using both very old and very modern techniques.

The United Kingdom

Answer the questions. Write the answers in your project's 2 blog.
1. How many independent countries are there in the British Isles? There are two countries
Write their names. United Kingston and Ireland

2. United Kingdom comprises four nations.
Could you name them and their capitals?
England-London
Scotland-Edinburgh
Wales- Cardiff
Northern Ireland-Belfast

3. Which important river goes along Oxford and London? The river:Thames
Where is it wider? Why?

4. Where can you find these things? .
Match them with these museums
1. Egyptian mummies a) Natural History Museum
2. Dinosaurs c) British Museum
3. Pictures by famous painters b)National Gallery

5.Where is the Lake Ness? Why is it famous?
Is in Scotland.
Because there is an imaginarium monster.

6.Which is the political system in the two countries of the British Isles?
1.United Kingdom ( United Kingston is a constitutional monarchy It is governed by a parliamentary system )
2.Ireland (Ireland is a republican system)

7.Can a person swim from Great Britain to France? Yes,it can How far is it? 30km. (3 / 30 / 300 km)

8.Can you find three similarities and three differences between Britain and Spain?
You can look for information about history, political system, lifestyle, etc.

SIMILARITIES
Spain and Britain we are near the sea.
We have a queen and king.

DIFFERENCES
In Spain we talk Spanish, and in Britain they talk British
In Britain they have a "London eye" and in Spain there isn't.
In Spain they popular sport is football and in Britain the popular sport is golf.

Unit 8-Computers in our lives

Computers are a very important part of our lives.
For many young people, playing computer games is their favorite way of spending spare time.
Computers are a very important part of most areas of my life in Britain: library, the police and in school.

The smart home is now a real possibility.
Many homes have got lots of televisions and several computers. That smart home will provide TV and internet sockets in every room so you'll be able to do what you want wherever you want.

Are computers taking over our lives? IN a survey,44 per cent of young people
between 11 and 16 said their PC was a trusted friend. Another survey found that people in Britain spend so much time on the phone, texting and reading e-mails that they no longer have time for conversation.What do you thing about that?

Unit 7 - Transport in London

Exploring Mars is going to be very exciting, but for now, it's easier to explore our own planet! In particular, London.
We're going to follow Freddie as he explores all the different ways of transport in London.
He's a television researcher and he's going to find out about all the different ways of traveling in London. 1.8 million people travel into the center of London by train every day.

The next part of Freddie's journey is on another kind of train called the Docklands Light Railway.
These are computer-controlled trains with no drivers.
The different kinds of transport link up pretty well but sometimes you have to walk from one point in the journey to the next.

People use lots of other forms of transport in London. Some people use boars on the River Thames to go to work.
There is one kind of transport that isn't very good in London and that's the car. They move very slowly because there is too much traffic.
The buses and taxis travel more quickly because they have got spacial lanes on the road.

Unit 6 - Maritime history

In England no town is more than 170 kilometers from the sea. So it's no surprise that Britain has a very important history of ships and the sea.
In Liverpool there is a great museum of maritime history. It's several ships in the docks outside.
Inside it shows what it was like to be on some of the ships.

Between 1830 and 1930 more than nine million people from all over Europe left from the port of Liverpool to start a new life in America or Australia.


One of the most famous shipping companies is Cunard. It's got the world's biggest cruise ship, the Queen Mary 2,witch crosses the Atlantic from Southampton to New York.
The majority of people do travel around the world by plane but ships are still very important for moving goods.

UNIT 5 - British horror histories

British Horror Histories
People like to be stared. They love reading horror stories and watching horror movies.
Some of the most famous horror stories were written by British writes. One of them put two great horror
characters together when Frankenstein met Count Dracula. Count Dracula was a vampire created in 1897.

Bram Stoker got the idea for Dracula while he was sitting Highgate Cemetery in North London.
Sunlight fell on a crack in the lid of a tomb.
Dracula is so popular that visitors to London can go on a guided Dracula tour.

The vampire was not drinking Mina's blood. Dracula was holding Mina's face to a long cut on his chest.
The vampire turned his head. His eyes burned with a terrible red light.
Blood was dripping from his red lips and long withe teeth.
The vampire had already taken his meal of blood!