英美文化thelandandpeople英语.pptxVIP

Chapter 1The Land and PeopleThe British Isles;Warming up;How large is the UK compared with the USA? Which of the following shows the possible proportion?; UK The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland UK is located in the northwest of the European continent, separated by the English Channel. Britain is short for Great Britain which consists of __3__ parts. England, Scotland and Wales. Sometimes we simply call the UK Britain. Video clip ;Could you match the country with its capital?;;Some Distinctions of the UK;;2020/3/18;2020/3/18;The Union Flag a.k.a. （亦称）The Union Jack(national flag used by government);2020/3/18;Queen Elizabeth II;;Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) and visiting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown?review the honour guard during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing January 18, 2008. ;Labour Party leader Tony Blair (1997-2007);System of Government;Power-sharing system of the UK;Britain is a society with a very obvious class-structure: the middle class and the working class. The culture of a factory worker whose father was a factory worker may be quite different from that of a stockbroker whose father was a stockbroker: they tend to read different newspapers, watch different TV programmes, speak with different accents, do different things in their free time and have different expectations for their children. ;Difference between the capital and the provinces: London is dominant in the UK in all sorts of ways. It’s the largest city, with about 1/7 of the nation’s population; it’s the seat of the government; the cultural centre, home to all the major newspapers TV stations; it’s also the business centre, headquarters of most Britain’s big companies; it’s the financial centre of the nation and one of the major international financial centers in the world. As such it combines the functions of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, or New York, Washington and Los Angeles, in one city. London is a huge w