Interesting facts

Typical dress/costume: A tall black hat, a scarlt shirt and a starched white apron.

Typical meals: Welsh lamb and cakes

Typical sweet: Shortbread

Typical music instrument: Harp

Festivals: Eisteddfood (Celtic festival).

Common surnames: There did no exist any surnames, they were introduced by the Christians.

Famous people of Wales: Richard Burton, Sir George Everest, Ronald Dahl, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta Jones. Three Presidents of the United States: Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Richard Nixon were of Welsh origin.

Welsh national anthem: “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadam” - The land of my fathers.

National game of Wales: Rugby

SCOTLAND

National Symbol and flag of Saint Andrew’s cross.

Scotland is a mountainous country in the north

of Great Britain. It has some 790 islands - 130 inhabited.

FACTS

Capital City: Edinburgh

Emblem or Symbo l: Thistle

Patron saint: St Andrew (30^th November)

Important cities: Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow.

Roman name: Caledonia

Main industries: Oil industry, electronics, shipbuilding, textiles.

Main farm production: Wool, beef, lamb, cereals.

Official language: English (Scottish Gaelic is spoken by 1.4 percent of the population)

Main religions: Church of Scotland, known as “The Kirk”, Presbiterian Church of Scotland.

INTERESTING FACTS

Typical music instrument: Bagpipe

Festivals: Hogmanay (31^st December), Burn’s Night (25^th January), Edinburgh Festival (August), Up-Helly-AA (January).

Scottish words: Yes (aye), child (barn), beautiful (bonnie), boy (laddie), girl (lassie), small (wee), lake (loch), valley (glen), stream (burn), church(kirk), New Year’s Eve (Hogmanay), family (clan), farm (croft), estuary (firth), tree trunk (caber), you (ye), happy (sousie).

Famous people of Scotland: Mary Queen of Scots, William Wallace, James Watts, Walter Scott, Adam Smith, John Knox, Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, David Hume,Sean Connery, J.K. Rowling.

Scotland is famous for....

Its fresh water lochs (lakes) – there are over 600 square miles of them. One of the most famous is Loch Ness where a mysterious monster is said to lurk in the depths of the water.

Theatre lovers from around the world come to Edinburgh for its famous theatres festival.

Edinburgh was the first city in the world, which had its own fire-brigade.

Edinburgh – the capital of Scotland, like Rome, was built on seven hills.

NORTHERN IRELAND

National symbol and flag

FACTS

Capital City: Belfast

Emblem or symbol: Shamrock

Patron saint: Saint Patrick (17^th March).

Important cities: Londonderry, Armagh.

Countries of Ulster: Antrim, Down, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh and

Londonderry.

Roman name: Hibernia

Main industries: Shipbuilding, engineering, textiles.

Main farm production: Potatoes, beef, cereals, milk, butter, bacon, eggs and chicken.

Official language: English, Irish Gaelic and Irish.

Main religions: Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.

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