- 商品参数
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- 作者:
杰姬·盖伊著
- 出版社:天津人民出版社
- 出版时间:2017-03-16 00:00:00
- 版次:1
- 印次:1
- 印刷时间:2017-03-16
- 开本:16开
- 装帧:平装
- ISBN:9787201114361
- 版权提供:天津人民出版社
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This series of books allows readers to strengthen their vocabulary while learning important information about the history and culture of different English speaking countries. In This Is Great Britain, you will learn all about the people and history of the United Kingdom. This book will help you get to know the real Britain and it contains many travel tips for visitors. Following the flights of birds across Great Britain, the book keeps the reader entertained while sharing information about the literature, geography and history of the country.
This is the perfect book for students who are interested in completing a work or study term in Great Britain. It is also ideal for travellers who are considering Great Britain as a destination. The book comes complete with practice questions to test your new knowledge and vocabulary lists for review, so you can sharpen your English language skills while reading. Enjoy this book and the others in this essential series!
Chapter 1 Who, Where, What Is the United Kingdom?
Chapter 2 Sherlock Holmes Investigates…The History of the United Kingdom
Chapter 3 So Who Are the Brits?
Chapter 4 Sir Francis Drake Explores the Geography of Great Britain
Chapter 5 A Land of Contrasts
Chapter 6 Great British Institutions (I)
Chapter 7 Great British Institutions (II)
Chapter 8 Home Sweet Home
Chapter 9 “I Beg Your Pardon?”
Chapter 10 British Eccentrics
Chapter 11 Modern Brits
Chapter 12 Education in the UK
Chapter 13 Let’s Get Cultured
Chapter 14 Let’s Play: Sport in Great Britain
Chapter 15 Let us Pray, Let us Celebrate: Religion, Festivals and Holidays in Great Britain
Chapter 16 What to Expect: Information for the Visitor
Sherlock Holmes
Investigates…
The History of
the United Kingdom
Thought
you’d learned enough history from the Bird’s Eye Tour? Think again! This is the
United Kingdom; you can never have too much history…
To
help us see back into the past, the famous (but fictional…) detective Sherlock
Holmes will be bringing his special magnifying glass. Sherlock Holmes is known
for his use of evidence at a crime scene, and this quality may help us make
some sense of Great Britain’s long and complex past.
So,
what can you remember from the Bird’s Eye Tour? Write down some places, names
or events that we have already looked at. You might be surprised at how much
you know already.
Stone Age Britain
The
first people came to Great Britain around 700,000 B.C. They came from Europe by
land—at this time the UK was joined by land to Europe. Our magnifying glass
shows that the first people left behind burial chambers and tools made of stone
and that mammoths and giant beavers lived in Britain. The Stone Age is also
called the Neolithic period and you will already have read about the many Neolithic
monuments around the country. Can you remember the name of any of them?
Remains
of mammoths have also been found in Great Britain and many museums have tusks
and bones on display. They are huge!
Britain
became an island around 6000 B.C. as the ice age ended and the sea level rose.
The end of the ice created a warmer climate with the growth of forests. Humans
could now grow crops and keep animals for food. Around 3000 B.C., the first
stone circles were built. I bet you know the most famous one of those!
What
do you think the stone circles were for? Our magnifying glass tells us that
there are lots of secrets still buried under the earth in Great Britain.
Bronze Age Britain
The
Bronze Age began around 2100 B.C. and was called the Bronze Age because… well,
what do you think is the answer?
Here’s
a clue straight from Sherlock Holmes himself. If the Stone Age is called the
Stone Age because people used stone tools, then why is the Bronze Age called
the Bronze Age? Because man had discovered how to make tools from the metal BRONZE!
Trade
routes began to form and groups of people lived together in small villages but
Great Britain was still a backwater on the world stage, for example in Egypt
the Pharaohs (Kings) were building pyramids and burying their fabulous
treasures and the Zhou Dynasty in China produced decorated bronze objects.
Iron Age Britain
The
Iron Age in Britain began around 750 B.C. The population was around 150,000—the
present day population of Oxford. Around 500 B.C., the Celtic people arrived.
They were farmers who lived in tribes and most of what we know about them comes
from their art and what the Romans—who invaded Celtic Britain—wrote about them.
The Celts had no central government and were
warriors, living for the glory of battle. One of the most famous Celts in British
history is Queen Boudica. She led her tribe, the Iceni, in battle against the
Romans. The fact that a woman could also be a warrior tells us something else
about Celtic Britain—that women were equal to men; they could own property and
land, lead tribes and choose their own husbands. No wonder she is a heroine to
many British women!