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1、AnIntroductiontoBritainandAmericaByYangJieAnOutlineIntroductionToBritainandAmericaByYangJieASurveyofBritainandAmerica1.Whydoyoulearnthiscourse?EssentialinformationaboutthetargetcountriesIncreasingvocabulary2.Howwillyoulearnthiscourse?3.Whatwillyoulearnfromthissu
2、bject?ApplicationofEnglishUnderstandingLearningbyinquiry;learningbydoing;learningbyexpressingoneselfContentsUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland1.LandandPeople2.PoliticalSystem3.SocialAffairs4.BritishHistoryUnitedStatesofAmerica1.Geography,Population,Ra
3、ceandEthnicGroups2.PoliticalInstitutions3.Economy4.EducationandSocialLife5.AmericanHistoryUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland1.NamesTheBritishIslesBritain,GreatBritain,Britannia,England,AlbionUnitedKingdomTheBritishEmpire,theBritishCommonwealthofNation
4、sEulerdiagramofvarioustermsintheBritishIslesMapshowingthefourcountriesoftheUnitedKingdomThecomplexevolutionofthestatesoftheBritishIsles.Thosestatesevolvedfromtheconquestsandmergersofearlierstates.FlagDescription:bluefieldwiththeredcrossofSt.George(patronsaintofE
5、ngland)edgedinwhitesuperimposedonthediagonalredcrossofSt.Patrick(patronsaintofIreland),whichissuperimposedonthediagonalwhitecrossofSt.Andrew(patronsaintofScotland);properlyknownastheUnionFlag,butcommonlycalledtheUnionJack;thedesignandcolors(especiallytheBlueEnsi
6、gn)havebeenthebasisforanumberofotherflagsincludingotherCommonwealthcountriesandtheirconstituentstatesorprovinces,andBritishoverseasterritories大不列顛島（英語(yǔ)：GreatBritain，蘇格蘭蓋爾語(yǔ)：BreatainnMhòr，威爾士語(yǔ)：PrydainFawr，康沃爾語(yǔ)：BretenVeur）NamesinnativelanguagesGreatBritain(English)P
7、rydainFawr(Welsh)BreatainnMhòr(ScottishGaelic)GreatBreetain(Scots)BretenVeur(Cornish)WhatdoesthetermGreatBritainmean?Island,westernEurope.ItisthelargestislandinEurope,comprisingEngland,Scotland,andWalesThegeographicaltermGreatBritainwasusedtodistinguishthelarges
8、toftheBritishIslesfromBrittany,orLittleBritain.WhenJamesIsucceededElizabethin1603heproposedthattheunionofthecrownsshouldbefollowedbyagovernmentalunionandsuggestedthen
