2. Answer the questions:

1. What is the official name of Great Britain?

2. What is the capital of the country?

3. What is the total area of the UK?

4. What islands is the United Kingdom situated on?

5. What is the country's population?

6. What is the United Kingdom made up of?

7. What is the United Kingdom washed by?

8. How can you characterize the surface of the British Isles?

9. What is the climate of Great Britain

10. What are Britain's chief industries7

11. What is Britain's political system?

3. Translate into English:

1. Соединенное Королевство Великобритании и Северной Ирландии расположено на Британских островах, состоящих из двух больших и тысяч малых островов.

2. Население Великобритании в основном городское и составляет более 57 миллионов человек.

3. Соединенное Королевство состоит из четырех частей; в Великобританию входят Англия, Шотландия и Уэльс.

4. Британские острова омываются Атлантическим океаном, Ирландским морем, Северным морем и проливами Ла-Манш и Па-де-Кале.

5. Британские острова состоят из гористой части и низин.

6. Реки в Великобритании не очень длинные.

7. На климат Великобритании оказывает влияние Гольфстрим

8. Великобритания производит и экспортирует станки, электронику, текстиль, суда.

9. Великобритания— конституционная монархия.

4. Insert the right article:

a)

…United Kingdom of…Great Britain and …Northern Ireland is situated on … British Isles. … British Isles consist of… two large islands, …Great Britain and …Ireland, and about five thousands small …islands. Their total area is over 244 000 square kilometers.

… United Kingdom is one of … world's smaller …countries. Its population is over 57 million. About 80 percent of … population is urban.

… United Kingdom is made up of four countries: …England, …Wales,… Scotland and… Northern Ireland. Their capitals are …London,… Cardiff, …Edinburgh and…Belfast respectively. …Great Britain consists of …England, …Scotland and …Wales and does not include …Northern Ireland. But in everyday speech "…Great Britain" is used in … meaning of … "United Kingdom of …Great Britain and… Northern Ireland". The capital of … UK is …London.

… British Isles are separated from …Continent by …North Sea, … English Channel and … Strait of Dover… western coast of …Great Britain is washed by …Atlantic Ocean and … Irish Sea.

… surface of … British Isles varies very much. …north of …Scotland is mountainous and is called …Highlands. … south, which has beautiful valleys and plains, is called …Lowlands. … north and …west of …England are mountainous, but … eastern, central and south-eastern parts of England are … vast plain. Mountains are not very high. …Ben Nevis in …Scotland is … highest mountain (1,343 m). There are … lot of rivers in …Great Britain, but they are not very long. … Severn is … longest river, while … Thames is … deepest and … most important one. The mountains, …Atlantic Ocean and … warm waters of … Gulf Stream influence …climate of …British Isles.

…UK is …constitutional monarchy with …parliament and…Queen as …Head of State.

b) British Isles

... British Isles lie off ... north-west coast of continental Europe. They are made up of ... Great Britain (... England, ... Scotland and ... Wales) and ... Ireland (… Northern Ireland and ... independent Irish Republic) and some 5,500 smaller islands. ... whole territory of ... British Isles is 244,000 square kilometers.

We will not find ... high mountains or ... large plains in Britain. Everything occupies ... little place. … nature, it seems, has carefully adapted ... things- …mountains, ... plains, ... rivers, ... lakes—to ... size of ... island itself. ... mountain 12,000 feet high would be ... wonder there. So would be ... plain 400 miles long, ... river as wide and deep as ... Mississippi.

Most of ... plains lie to ... east; ... west is hilly or mountainous. ... mountains even in ... highest part of England are only ... little over 3,000 feet high. ... high¬est mountain in ... British Isles is ... Ben Nevis in ... Scotland, 4,406 feet high. ... longest river is ... Severn, about 2000 miles long. ... highest waterfall is 370 feet high.

Too often ... visitor who has only ... few days to spend sees only ... Lowland England, and so he cannot see ... contrasts between ... wild fiords of ... Scotland, ... rocks of ... North Wales, ... smiling orchard land of ... Kent, and ... open moorland of ... Sutherland. These contrasts are often not far from ... big cities.

... climate of ... British Isles is influenced by ... Atlantic Ocean.

... winters are not so cold as they can be on ... continent, but .... summers are not so warm as they usually are on ... other side of ... Channel. In ... other words, ... Great Britain has ... mild climate, but because of ... length of ... British Isles ... temperatures differ from ... district to ... district.

... North is certainly colder than ... South, but in ... winter ... coldest districts are …eastern ones. ... climate here is more, like that in ... Central Europe. On ... whole ... weather changes very often and there are ... few sunny days. Britain has ... rain in every month of ... year. ... rainiest months in Britain are ... November, ... January and ... February. Usually there is ... little snow in ... winter.

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