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1、DoYouKnow FocusIn 1GetReady main DoYouKnow Fromthefollowingvideoclip canyoutellthedifferenceamongBritishIsles GreatBritain England theUnitedKingdom andBritishCommonwealth 1 1 DoYouKnow 1 1 video II HaveageneralideaofthegeographicalpositionoftheUKKnowthedifferentnamesforthecountryanditscomponentsKnow
2、somethingaboutthetopographyoftheUKBefamiliarwiththeimportantriversandlakesintheUKKnowabouttheclimaticpatternintheUK FocusIn 1 2 WhereistheUKlocated 2text main WhatistheweatherlikeintheUK Riversandlakes WhatdoyouneedtoknowabouttheUK HighlandandLowland Fourcomponents 1 NamesforBritain Afewnamesareofte
3、nusedforthiscountry andeachhasitsspecificgeographical political historicalorarchaeologicalimplications 1 TheBritishIsles isageographicaltermthatincludesGreatBritain thewholeofIreland andmanyoffshoreislands 2 GreatBritain oritsshortenedform Britain isveryoften butinthestrictsenseincorrectly usedasasy
4、nonymforthesovereignstateproperlyknownastheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland ItcanbeageographicaltermreferringtotheislandonwhichthegreaterpartsofEngland WalesandScotlandaresituated togetherwithnumeroussmallerislands Itcanalsobeapoliticalterm 2 1 1NamesforBritain thatdescribesthecombinati
5、onofEngland Scotland andWales thethreenationswhichtogetherincludeallthelandontheisland 3 England issometimeswronglyusedinreferencetothewholeUnitedKingdom theentireislandofGreatBritain orsimplyBritain ortheBritishIsles ThisisnotonlyincorrectbutcancauseoffencetopeoplefromotherpartsoftheUK Thediversehi
6、storyofEngland ScotlandandWaleshasledtoverydifferentculturaltraditions TheScotsandtheWelshhaverighttofeelaggrievedwhenevertheterm English iswronglyusedtomeanallthree WhenitisalwayscorrecttocallpeoplefromEngland Scotland orWales British peoplefromEngland 1 NamesforBritain 2 1 1 Englandmayalsoproperly
7、becalled English peoplefromScotland Scottish andpeoplefromWales Welsh 1 NamesforBritain 2 1 1 MapoftheBritishIsles 2 TheCommonwealthofNations TheCommonwealthofNations normallyreferredtoastheCommonwealthandformerlyknownastheBritishCommonwealth isanorganisationoffifty fourindependentmemberstates Allbu
8、ttwo MozambiqueandRwanda ofthesecountrieswereformerlypartoftheBritishEmpire Thememberstatesco operatewithinaframeworkofcommonvaluesandgoalsasoutlinedintheSingaporeDeclaration Theseincludethepromotionofdemocracy humanrights goodgovernance theruleoflaw individualliberty egalitarianism freetrade multil
9、ateralismandworldpeace TheCommonwealthisnotapoliticalunion butanand 2 1 2 2 TheCommonwealthofNations intergovernmentalorganisationthroughwhichcountrieswithdiversesocial politicalandeconomicbackgroundsareregardedasequalinstatus 2 1 2 Commonwealthflag 3 UnionFlag TheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorth
10、ernIrelandusesasitsnationalflagtheroyalbannerknownastheUnionFlagor popularly UnionJack ThecurrentdesignoftheUnionFlagdatesfromtheunionofIrelandandGreatBritainin1801 ItconsistsoftheredcrossofSaintGeorge patronsaintofEngland edgedinwhite superimposedontheCrossofStPatrick patronsaintofIreland whichares
11、uperimposedontheSaltireofSaintAndrew patronsaintofScotland Wales however isnotrepresentedintheUnionFlagbyWales patronsaint SaintDavid 2 1 3 3 UnionFlag 2 1 3 TheUKflag 4 GodSavetheQueen GodSavetheKing Queen isthenationalanthemoftheUnitedKingdom Ingeneral onlyoneor onrareoccasions twoversesareeversun
12、g Thefirstversereads GodsaveourgraciousQueen LongliveournobleQueen GodsavetheQueen Sendhervictorious Happyandglorious Longtoreignoverus GodsavetheQueen 2 14 SingaporeDeclaration 2 1 2 pop Haveyouheardof SingaporeDeclaration TheSingaporeDeclarationofCommonwealthPrincipleswasadeclarationissuedbytheass
13、embledHeadsofGovernmentoftheCommonwealthofNations settingoutthecorepoliticalvaluesthatwouldformthemainpartoftheCommonwealth smembershipcriteria TheDeclarationwasissuedinSingaporeon22January1971attheconclusionofthefirstCommonwealthHeadsofGovernmentMeeting CHOGM AlongwiththeHarareDeclaration issuedin1
14、991 itisconsideredoneofthetwomostimportantdocumentstotheCommonwealth suncodifiedconstitution WhereistheUKlocated TheUK sgeographicalpositionismarkedbylatitude50 NinSouthernEnglandandbylatitude60 acrosstheShetlands TheUKisborderedonthesouthbytheEnglishChannel whichseparatesitfromthecontinentofEurope
15、ItisborderedontheeastbytheNorthSeaseparatingitfromBelgiumandHolland andborderedonthewestbytheIrishSeaandtheAtlanticOceanseparatingitfromIreland ItsonlylandborderwithanothernationisbetweenNorthernIrelandandIreland 2 2WhereIstheUKLocated 2 2WhereIstheUKLocated PoliticalmapoftheBritishIsles WhereistheU
16、Klocated Fourcomponents 2 3 Politically theUKisaunionmadeupoffourconstituentcountries England London Scotland Edinburgh Wales Cardiff andNorthernIreland Belfast plusseveraloverseasterritories MapoftheUnitedKingdom England 2 3 Englandisthemostwell knownoftheindividualcomponentsthatmakeuptheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland Inthepast Englandruledovermanylandsthroughouttheworldthatcametobe FlagofEngland knownastheBritishEmpire Englandisthelargest mostpopulous andwealthiestdivisionoftheU
