THE UNITED KINGDOM

(Britain)

BY MARAM EL-HADI10\1

FLAG OF BRITAIN

GENERAL INFORMATIONBritain is one of the most famous countries in the world even though it’s just an island, it’s located in Europe and it has a population of nearly 60 million people in 2009,and the original language in Britain is English.

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THE QUEEN OF BRITAINElizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra

Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms, head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations, and, in her role as the British monarch, Supreme Governor of the Church of England.

INFO ABOUT BRITAIN:As we all know once upon a time Britain was a ball of ice so it was extremely cold but as the time go the weather got warmer and warmer until it stopped at being cool, and year after another people started to come to that beautiful paradise and the education started growing not only that but its only for free that means that any one that wants to study he can do it for nothing and as we all know the .government in the lovely state is political

NATIONAL ANIMAL AND NATIONAL ANTHEM

As life grown in the UK animal started to come to it and live there such as the red dear now if you visited the wild life there you will nodes the red dear just walking thro the way to freedom ,as long as you have a country you have to have a name for your national anthem and Britain chose "God SAVE THE QUEEN "now every student every soldier every person say it with proud

hearts .

SPORTS AND PLANTS:There is a lot of sports that are played in the united kingdom such as cricket and the last statics have showed that Britain is in the third place after India and Pakistan, England was once heavily forested, but woodlands now make up only about 8% of the total land area. Tree species found in the remaining woodlands area include oak, beech, pine, birch, elm, ash, Alder, Crab Apple, Hazel, Maple, Poplar, Willow and yew .

THE CURRENCY IN BRITAIN The pound sterling (symbol: £), commonly

called the pound, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown Dependencies (the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands) and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory and Tristan da Cunha. It is subdivided into 100 pence (singular: penny). A number of nations that do not use sterling also have currencies called the "pound".

THE BRITISH POUND STERLING

TRADITIONS AND CULTURE

HISTORY OF BRITAINThousands of years ago, Great Britain was

joined to Europe and was covered with ice. About 15,000 years ago, the weather became warmer. The ice melted and the sea level rose. Great Britain became an island about 8000 years ago.

Celtic people called Britons settles in Britain. They were warriors and farmers who were skilled metal workers. They built villages and hill forts, and used iron weapons and tools. Celts called Gaels lived in Ireland.

BC Britain500,000 People migrate to Britain from Europe .

6500 The land bridge joining Britain to Europe is flooded as the sea level rises. Britain becomes an Island .

3000 New Stone Age begins: farming people arrive from Europe .

3000 First stone circles erected .2100 Bronze Age begins2150 People learn to make bronze weapons and tools

2000 Stonehenge completed 1650 Trade routes begin to form1200 Small Villages are first formed750 Iron Age begins: iron replaces bronze as most useful metal.

Population about 150,000 .

500 The Celtic people arrive from Central Europe.The Celts were farmers and lived in small village groups in the centre of their arable fields. They were also warlike people. The Celts fought against the people of Britain and other Celtic tribes .

TRADITIONAL CLOTHINGSome people think men in England wear suits

and bowler hats, but it is very unusual these days to see anyone wearing a bowler hat. A far better choice for an English national dress would be to choose from our many customs and traditions we have in England. There are a wide variety of costumes from the spectacular ceremonies associated with monarchy to the traditional costumes worn by Morris dancers and others at English country fairs.

(The man in the photo was taking part in a birthday parade for one of the Queen's Guard regiments).

Bowler hat The

suit

TRADITIONAL DANCESA traditional dance seen throughout the month

of May is Morris Dancing. It is a traditional English form of folk dancing, performed by groups of men or women. Morris Dancing has been danced for hundreds of years, and passed down through the generations in the villages of rural England. The dances are usually performed at festivals such as May Day, Whitsunn and Christmas.

TRADITIONAL FOOD (CUISINE)

Yorkshire Pudding: made from flour, eggs and milk, is a sort of batter baked in the oven and usually moistened with gravy.

Roast Meats ( cooked in the oven for about two hours): Typical meats for roasting are joints of beef, pork, lamb or a whole chicken. More rarely duck, goose, gammon, turkey or game are eaten.

Toad-in-the-Hole (sausages covered in batter and roasted.): Similar to Yorkshire Pudding but with sausages placed in the batter before cooking.

Yorkshire Pudding Roast Meat

Toad-in-the-Hole

MUSICIANS One Direction are a British-Irish boy band consisting

of members Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson.

Jessica Ellen Cornish (born 27 March 1988), better known by her stage name Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter.

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

Kamaljit Singh Jhooti born 26 March 1981), better known by his stage name Jay Sean, is a British singer-songwriter, rapper, beatboxer and record producer.

ONE DIRECTION

JESSIE J

J SEAN

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

TO BE OR NOT TO BETo be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them. To die: to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;To sleep: perchance to dream: aye, there's the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause: there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life;

CONNECTION TO THE UAE Well personally I think the UAE can learn a lot

from Britain, as you can see, in the UAE, there’s lots of traffic, but in Britain, people don’t depend on cars only, they also ride the busses, and the trains and some people even ride the Bikes, which I think people in the UAE should do. So the government should build a train that would connect the whole Emirates to each other, and not just drive you in Dubai only.