Destination UK

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Destination UK :

ENGLAND 

Destination UK: ENGLAND

Aims:

• To visualise and then write about a trip to London

• To practise speaking in a discussion about icons

• To practise reading skills

• To learn rhyming slang and write a short dialogue

SKILL CREATIVE WRITING

two minute trip
to London.

ICON? What images represent England to you?

1. More than ____ languages are spoken in London

1. 3
2. 350
3. 35
4. 53

More than ____% of secondary school children in England don’t have English as their first language.

1. 13
2. 30
3. 50
4. 2

The population of the United Kingdom is just over _____ million.

1. 50
2. 61
3. 44
4. 67

. The population of England is just over _____ million

1. 23
2. 56
3. 19
4. 33

The currency of the UK is the pound. _____ pence make one pound.

1. 10
2. 100
3. 1000
4. 50

Reading task: Diverse society, football and food.

Read the text and then discuss the questions in groups:

• What’s the first country you think of when you think of the United Kingdom?

• What’s the difference between England, the United Kingdom and Great Britain?

• Have you, or any of your classmates, ever visited any of the cities mentioned in the text?

• Which other famous people do you consider to be English icons?

England is perhaps the country most people first think of when they think of the United Kingdom. It

borders both Scotland and Wales and almost 50 million people live there, which is over 80% of the

UK’s total population. Major cities include London (the capital), Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds,

Newcastle, and Manchester.

London is one of the most well-known cities in the world and for many is

representative of the whole of England, if not, the whole of the UK. Other icons include football, actors

Jude Law and Kate Winslet, Bridget Jones, pubs and beer. But for most these represent the whole of

the UK, not just England.

Indistinct identity?

 

Many of the people in our survey, either English by birth or now living here, commented that it was

very difficult to distinguish between English and British culture and identity. People found that they

often identify more with other things than with England as a country.

These other things include: the

place or region in which they live, whether it be a major city or one of the English counties such as

Yorkshire, Devon or Northumberland; the UK as a whole; or the religious or ethnic community they

are from.

What’s the first country you think of when you think of the United Kingdom?

What’s the difference between England, the United Kingdom and Great Britain?

Have you, or any of your classmates, ever visited any of the cities mentioned in the text?

Which other famous people do you consider to be English icons?

cockney rhyming slang 

cockney rhyming slang

Hand in your assignments in ELO (Inleveropdracht ENGLAND)

• Have a look at the examples of Cockney Rhyming Slang, and try to make up a short dialogue

using the slang instead of standard English.

• Try and make up some new rhyming slang – you could mix English and your language if you like.

Destination UK :

ENGLAND