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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Northern Ireland

Chapter 1 Geography, People and Language

全名: the United Kingdom of Great Britain（大不列颠联合王国） and Northern Ireland（北爱尔兰） .

由成千上万的小岛组成（the British Isles）. 两大岛屿：Great Britain（大不列颠） and Ireland（爱尔兰）

The River Thames (second longest and most important), originates（起源于） in southwestern England -----North Sea.

Scotland ( Edinburgh爱丁堡 ) important river:Clyde River kilts（苏克兰小短裙） Wales( Cardiff加迪夫，著名港口 ). The Severn River is the longest river of Britain------flow through western England.

Northern Ireland (Belfast贝尔法斯特，首府) Lough Neagh----the largest lake in the British Isles.

Climate: temperate, with warm summers, cool winters and plentiful precipitation(降雨量)，冬暖夏凉，降雨充沛

Three major features: winter fog, rainy day, instability 冬天多雾，常年多雨，天气不定 London---Buckingham Palace（白金汉宫）, Guildhall (市政厅), St. Paul s Cathedral（圣保罗大教堂）, The Tower Bridge of London（伦敦塔桥）

The majority of the population is descendants of the Anglo-Saxons, a Germanic people

from Europe.大部分的人口是盎格鲁-撒克逊人的后裔，从欧洲来的日耳曼人 Most people in Wales and Scotland are descendants of the Celtic people, including the Irish people威尔士和苏格兰的大多数人都是凯尔特人的后裔，包括爱尔兰人

English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages. English is in the Germanic group.英语属于日耳曼语语系

Germanic group: East Germanic, North Germanic, West Germanic. English evolved from the West Germanic group.日耳曼语系：东日耳曼语，北日耳曼语，西日耳曼语。英语从西日耳曼语中发展。

1、Old English: was influenced by Old Norse spoken by the Vikings and was related to the German and Dutch languages.受古代维京人所说的古斯坎德纳威亚语影像并和德语法语密切相关.was ended with the Norman Conquest, when the language was influence by the French-speaking Normans.古英语时代结束于说法语的诺曼人的征服

2、Middle English: William the Conqueror invaded and conquered and the Anglo-Saxons (Numerous French words came into the English vocabulary)征服者威廉入侵并征服和盎格鲁-撒克逊人（大量的法语词汇进入英语词汇）

3、Modern English(15 century): William Caxton brought standardization to English, and spelling and grammar became fixed. The first dictionary published in 1604. Samuel Johnson:

A Dictionary of the English Language was influential in a standard form of spelling.卡克斯顿威廉带来了标准化的英语，并成为固定的拼写和语法。第一本字典发表于1604。约翰逊塞缪尔：一本英文字典是有影响的一种标准形式的拼写。

Standard English is based on the speech of the upper class of southeastern England. It is also