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1、Chapter1LandandpeopleLDifferentNamesforBritainanditsParts1.Whatarethenamesthatcometoyourmindwhenpeoplereferto英国？(1)Britain(2)GreatBritain(3)England(4)TheBritishIsles(5)TheUnitedKingdomortheU.K.2.Whatarethesenamesexactlyreferto?GreatBritain,theUnitedKingdoma
2、ndtheBritishIslesdonotmeanthesamething.Strictlyspeaking,theBritishIsles,GreatBritain,andEnglandaregeographicalnames・GreatBritainEnglandispartofanislandcalledGreatBritain,thelargestislandinEurope.GreatBritainistheofficialnamegiventothethetwokingdomsofEngland
3、andScotiand,andtheprincipalityofWales.ItalsoineludesthesmalladjacentislandsexcepttheChannelIslandsandtheIsleofMan.SometimespeopleusetheshortennameBritaininsteadofGreatBritain.ThetermHGreatBritain1*wasusedforthefirsttimewhenEnglandandScotiandbecameasinglekin
4、gdomunderKingJamesVIofScotlandwhobecameKingJamesIofEnglandin1603・GreatBritainismadeupof：England-ThecapitalisLondon.Scotland-ThecapitalisEdinburgh.Wales・ThecapitalisCardiff.UnitedKingdomTheUnitedKingdomconsistsofGreatBritain-themainislandmadeupofEngland,Scot
5、iandandWales・andNorthernIreland.TheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland(UK)wasformedinonJanuary11801andconstitutesthegreaterpartoftheBritishIsles・ThelargestoftheislandsisGreatBritain,whichcomprisesEngland,ScotlandandWales・ThenextlargestisIreland,co
6、mprisingNorthernIreland,whichispartoftheUK,and,inthesouth,theIrishRepublic.TheUnitedKingdomismadeupof：England・ThecapitalisLondon.Scotland-ThecapitalisEdinburgh.Wales-ThecapitaiisCardiff.NorthernIreland-ThecapitalisBelfast.(ThecapitaloftheUKisLondon.)TheBrit
7、ishIslesTheBritishIslesineludetheUK,GreatBritain,andotherislandssuchasIrelandandtheChannelIslands.TheBritishIslesconsistsof:•GreatBritain(England,ScotlandandWales)•ThewholeofIreland•TheOrkneyandShetlandIslands•TheIsleofMan•TheInnerandOuterHebrides•TheIsleof
8、Wight•ScillyIslands3.•LundyIsland•TheChannelIslands•PlusmanyotheroffshoreislandsTheBritishIslesismadeupof：England-ThecapitalisLondon.Scotland-ThecapitalisEdinburgh.Wales-ThecapitalisCardiff.NorthernIre
