All About Britain lesson 1 year 3 British Culture

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Online lesson English Year 3 

Online lesson 3

All About Britain

First some remarks..

• Havo/VWO: in periode 5 wordt er nogmaals een leestoets aangeboden - Hoogste cijfer telt
• Mavo is een SE cijfer: 
  niet nóg een leestoets, maar soepelere
  normering!

Starting the All About Britain project

How to do this project?

• Every Tuesday night, the new chapter will appear in Magister.Me
• You do the chapters every week and hand it in ultimately a week later
• Every chapter has a different topic!
• Basic (mavo), medium (mavo+havo) and advanced assignments (vwo)

Today: activate some knowledge and share some facts about the British culture!

The beginning...

• It's called Great Britain, because France also had the region 'Brittany' 
• Albion = The White. The Romans came to Britain in the year 43. The white cliffs of Dover was called 'Albus'. 
• The Romans called the island 'Britannia'
  which is where the name Britain comes 
  from!

Drag the correct nation on the map!

Scotland

England

Wales

Northern-Ireland

Ireland

United Kingdom confusion

• Scotland & Wales & England = Great Britain
• England is only the southern part, capital is London
• Add Northern-Ireland and you have:
  "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern-Ireland"
• Republic of Ireland is a whole different country
• So the UK is made up of 4 nations

Ireland is part of the United Kingdom

1. True
2. False

England

Scotland

Northern-Ireland

Wales

The United Kingdom is made up of ..............nations

1. 3
2. 4
3. 5
4. 6

Where does Halloween originate from?

1. The United States of America
2. Canada
3. The United Kingdom
4. Ireland

British Culture

• There are many different well-known cultural things!

Just look at the image to the left

• Union jack, coaches, tea, telephone booths, the Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Full English Breakfast, Sherlock Holmes, aaaand it's always raining

Which of the 4 groups of the previous slide had the most influence on the English language?

Let's get to work!

• Magister.Me - Term 5 All About Britain - Chapter 1
• Hand in ultimately a week later - 19th of May
• First week is about British culture
• There is a different powerpoint providing all
  the links to videos and websites!