Учебно-методический материал «Window on Britain 1. Unit 1: An Introduction to Britain»
Window on Britain 1. Unit 1: An Introduction to Britain (Grammar Focus: Present Simple)
Watch and listen to the episode. Fill in the missing words.
______, I’m Leonie Dodd ___ welcome to Window on Britain.
______ is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The Prime Minister lives here at 10 Downing Street ______ the Houses of Parliament.
______ cover nine percent of the ______.
______, nobody really knows.
______ it is a temple; or a clock … or is it a ______?
In fact ______ ______ over eight hundred.
______ ones are on the beautiful west coast of Scotland.
A lot of British people come here on ______.
______ visit lots of places.
Watch and listen to the episode again. Fill in the numbers.
The population of Britain is over __________________________________.
__________________________________ people live in England.
______________________________ ____live in Scotland, about _________________________ in Wales and one and __________________________________ in Northern Ireland.
________________________________ people live in London, the capital city.
__________________________________ percent of the land in Britain is farmland.
__________________________________ million foreign tourists come to Britain every year.
And look — Welsh people don’t just speak English … about ________________________________ percent of the population speak Welsh, too.
Fill in question words.
______ do you know about Britain?
______ people live here?
______ is the capital city?
______ are the names of other famous cities?
5. ______ is it?
4. What do these names?
England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Queen, Buckingham Palace, Edinburgh, York , York , Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare, Liverpool, The Beatles, Cambridge, Oxford, National Parks, the Lake District in the north, Waterloo, the Channel Tunnel .
