1. SCOTLAND

2. Kingdom's Flag: The Union Jack
The flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is called the Union Jack. This red, white, and blue flag was first used in The Union Jack is a combination of the flags of England (the cross of St. George), Scotland (the cross of St. Andrew), and Ireland (the cross of St. Patrick).

3. THE UNITED KINGDOM
Atlantic ocean
North Sea
Irish Sea

4. Geography Caledonia Ben Nevis – 4,400 feet=1,300m Forth and Clyde
5,140,000
The Scots, not the English

5. NATIONAL COSTUME
TARTAN – coloured checks, a long piece of cloth thrown over the shoulders
KILT – is the man’s skirt
SPORRAN – is the leather pouch

6. SCOTLAND THE BEAUTIFUL
He who hasn’t seen Scotland
doesn’t really know Great Britain

7. BIG CITIES
EDINBURGH (500,000)
GLASGOW (700,000)
ABERDEEN (300,000)

8. EDINBURGH – the capital

9. SCOTTISH LANGUAGE GAELIC Clan – a family Mac – the son of
Bonnie – beautiful
Aye – yes
Laddie – a boy
Tattoo – rearrangement of the soldiers
Whisky – water of life

10. THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND
Celtic Scotland – 1200 BC – AD 200
The painted people – the Picts - 297
Scotland divided 800
Birth of a Nation

11. Wars of Independence

12. Bonnie Prince Charles North Britain – 1707 Flora MacDonald Betty Burke
30,000 pounds were offered for his head
Immigrated to France

13. DISCOVER SCOTLAND
Loch Ness – 35km, 213m
Loch Lomond

14. DISCOVER SCOTLAND
Stone circle
Callanish

15. THE CHARACTER OF SCOTS TOUGH BRAVE DETERMINED INDEPENDENT LOYAL
THRIFTY

16. SPORT The national sport is golf. Games:
tossing the caber – бросание бревна
shanty (шанти) – вид хоккея

17. Curling

20. MUSIC Most popular Scottish songs: Auld Lang Syne
My Bonnie is over the ocean

21. FAMOUS SCOTS Heroes Allan Pinkerton (1819 - 1894)
Emigrated to the USA and
founded his own private
detective agency.
He was very successful and
became world famous.

22. FAMOUS SCOTS Sientists Robert Stevenson (1772 – 1850)
Designed and built a light-house

23. Opened the first telephone service
FAMOUS SCOTS
Inventors
Alexander Bell
( )
Invented telephone
Opened the first telephone service

24. FAMOUS SCOTS Inventors Robert Watson- Watt
Was an expert on radio waves. He invented a system called radar”. During the II World War, radar helped defend Britain from enemy attack.

25. FAMOUS SCOTS Sientists John Nappier (1550-1617) invented logarithms
as well as one of the
world’s first calculating
machine.

26. FAMOUS SCOTS Doctors Alexander Flemming (1881-1955)
During the I World War he was shocked to see soldiers dying from wounds. He found drugs to fight infection.

27. FAMOUS SCOTS Missionaries
David Livingstone (1813 – 1873)- a doctor. Africa
Mary Slessor (1845 – 1915)-
a missionary. Africa
Eric Liddell (1902 – 1945)-
a sportsman. China

28. FAMOUS SCOTS Poets (1788 – 1824) (1759 – 1796)
George Byron Robert Burns
(1788 – 1824) (1759 – 1796)

29. FAMOUS SCOTS Writers Walter Scott (1771-1832) Arthur Conan Doyle
( )

30. FAMOUS SCOTS Modern Politician
Tony Blair – the Prime Minister of the UK.
Born in 1953 in Еdinburgh.
Trained as a lawyer.

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