Презентация на тему Great Britain

Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Numerous smaller islands: the Isle

of Wight, Anglesey, the Scilly, Orkney, Shetland, Hebridean archipelagos.
The UK is an island in Western Europe just off the coast of France, separated by the English Channel
The Channel Tunnel links the UK with France
lies between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea

English Channel - separates it from continental Europe
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to the east by the North Sea
3/ to the west by the Irish Sea
4/ and the Atlantic Ocean

mountainous parts of the UK
the Pennine run down

the centre of northern England
coastal areas are low-lying - regularly flood during heavy rain
Most of the UK is made up of gently rolling hills such as Dartmoor (south-west of England) or the Mourne Mountains (Northern Ireland)

50,000 square miles
only 35 km from France

mostly low-lying land, with hills and agricultural land
the north is mostly covered in moorland and mountains (Dartmoor, Exmoor)

Capital City: London
Major Cities: Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield

(part of the Cumbrian Mountains in North West England

= known as Lake District)
Longest river: Thames (346 km)
Largest Lake: Windermere
a long coastline of 3,200 km

border with England, east -the North Sea, west -

the Atlantic Ocean
Highest point: Ben Nevis (1,343 m)
famous for its loch lakes, clans, kilts, medieval castles
Major Cities: Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow
Famous Scots: Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, David Hume and the actor Sean Connery.

the Bristol Channel, west: St George's Channel,north: the Irish

Sea
Capital City: Cardiff
Highest point: Snowdon 1085 metres
Longest river:Towy (Tywi) 103 km
Largest Lake: Bala

northeast of the island of Ireland
Capital City: Belfast
Highest point:

Slieve Donard mountain 848 m
Longest river: River Bann 129 km
Largest Lake: Lough Neagh

Giant´s Causeway - the North East coast, interlocking basalt columns - result of an ancient volcanic eruption

Neagh
Other major lakes:
Windermere in the English Lake District
Loch

Lomond in Scotland - famous for sightings of a mythical monster 'Nessie'

The Severn (338 km) - beginning in Wales and

entering the Atlantic Ocean near Bristol in England
Other major rivers:
the Thames which flows through Oxford and London
the Trent and Mersey rivers

climate, in general mild
the Gulf Stream (a warm

current of the northern Atlantic Ocean
difficult to predict the weather- climate changing from day to day
In general warm summers and cool winters.

Summers are cooler than on the continent, but the winters are milder.
July and August are normally the warmest month in England.
February is normally the coldest month