What Do You Know About.

1) the UK as an island state?

2) the chief rivers of Great Britain and their importance in the life of people?

3) the largest lakes in the British Isles and what they are associated with?

4) the countries and largest cities in the UK?

5) the distribution of population in the UK?

6) the reason why Scotland is not densely populated?

8) the reason why the Highlands is the most underpopu­lated area of Scotland?

9) the reason why Aberdeen is the most important city in the Highlands?

10) the reason why Glasgow was a grim city?

11) the reasons why the sea has been important in the history of England?

12) industries of London?

13) the history of Ireland and the Irish people?

14) the national emblems of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?

3. State whether the following sentences are true or false. Why\why not?

a) Approximately 46 million people of the popu­lation of the UK live in Scotland.

b) The coasts of England are washed by the North Sea, theIrish Sea, the English Channel, and the Strait of Dover.

c) England is mostly an upland country. There are lowland regions in the north and the southwest, but the rest of En­gland is almost flat.

d) The wool industry is centered in Leeds and Manchester, the cotton industry in Bradford, iron ore goes to the steel, heavy machinery and shipbuilding industries of Newcastle and other cities.

e) There is no opportunity for development of farming, so England is a country of heavy machinery and shipbuilding industries.

f) Scotland takes up one fifth of the territory of the British Isles.

g) Scotland is bounded by the North Sea on the east and by the English Channel on the west.

h) The oil centre of Scotland is situated in Glasgow.

i) The names George Gordon Byron and Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson are associated with Edinburgh, because they used to live create in this city.

j) The Act of Unionproclaimed Wales to be part of England in 1536.

k) People of Wales live on a shoestring, because the unemployment is a real problem for this country.

l) The capital of Wales Aberdeen is situated near the mouth of the Taff River.

m) Wales has its own flag called the Welsh thistle.

n) 'Ulster' is the second name of Northern Ireland.

o) Ireland was a colony of Britain for about five centuries.

p) Ben Nevis is the highest point the Mourne Mountains in Wales.

q) More than a half of population of Wales lives in countryside.

r) Belfast, the capital of Northern Irelands, is the leading industrial centre and a large port.

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