The United Kingdom-Warming up and Reading

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1、Unit2TheUnitedKingdomWarmingup＆ReadingWarmingupDothisquizandfindouthowmuchyouknowaboutUK?1.HowmanycountriesdoestheUKconsistof?A.twoB.threeD.four2.HowlongdoesittaketoflyfromBeijingtoLondonHeathrowAirport?A.aboutsixhoursB.abouttenhoursC.aboutsixteenhoursbemadeupofdirectflight3

2、.WhorulestheUK:ThePrimeMinisterorthequeen?ATheQueenBThePrimeMinisterCBoth4.WhataretheprovincesCalledinEngland?AcountriesBdepartmentsCstates5.WhichisthelongestriverinEngland?ATheRiverAvonBTheRiverThamesCTheRiverSevernTheQueen’spositionisCeremonial:OpeningParliament,welcomingHe

3、adsfromothercountries,goingontourstoothercountriestoencouragetradewithBritain.VSThePrimeMinistertogetherwithhismostimportantministers(calledCabinet)andhisMembersofParliamentmakeimportantpoliticaldecisionandthelaws.ThamesSevernAvonTheRiverThamesandSevernareverysimilarinlengthb

4、utRiverThamesisslightlylonger.TheRiverThamesis338KmandtheRiverSevernis290Km.TheRiverAvonismuchshorter.1.What’sthefullnameoftheUK?2.WhichisthecapitaloftheUK?3.Englandisdividedintothreemainareas.Doyouknowwhattheyare?TheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland.London.Thesou

5、th,themidlandsandthenorth.Pre-readingWhatisthetextmainlyabout?2.HowmanycountriesmakeuptheUnitedKingdom?Whatarethey?AbriefintroductiontotheUKaboutitsfoundationanddevelopmentbasedongeography,historyandculture,etc.Four.TheyareEngland,Wales,ScotlandandNorthernIreland.SkimmingEngl

6、andWalesScotlandNorthernIrelandEnglandWalesScotlandNorthernIrelandtheUK=+++theRepublicofIrelandtheUnitedKingdomPara.1.ExplainsthejoiningofEnglandandWales.Para.2.Statestopictobeexaminedinthereading.Para.3.ExplainstheimportanceofLondonasaculturalandpoliticalcentreintheUK.Para.4

7、.Explainswhattheterm“GreatBritain”meansandhowitcameabout.Para.5.Explainsdifferencesinthefourcountries.Para.6.ExplainshowEnglandisdividedintothreezones.Readthetextquicklyandmatchthefollowing.UKContains________,________,Scotlandand________________.Inthe13thCentury_______waslink

8、edto________.In1603_______andWaleswerejoinedto_________.Organization