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Podpora rozvoje cizích jazyků pro Evropu 21. stol. INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.
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INDUSTRIES AND AGRICULTURE - GREAT BRITAIN The
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the main industries today are banking and finance, steel, transport equipment, oil and gas, and tourism
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Other industries machine tools, electric power equipment, automation equipment, railroad equipment, shipbuilding, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, electronics and communications equipment, metals, chemicals, coal, petroleum, paper and paper products, food processing, textiles, clothing, and other consumer goods
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Principal crops wheat ( the most widely grown arable crop in the UK ) barley oats potatoes sugar beet, ( the UK is the fifth largest producer of sugar beet ) vegetables oil seed rape fruits
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Livestock products poultry sheep cattle milk meat eggs wool
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The South West of England well known for producing Cheddar cheese, named after Cheddar gorge - located close to Bristol, and for cider other regional industries:engineering, ship building, electronics and food processing Swindon is home to many new industries, such as computers and Japanese car - manufacturer Honda has an important car plant just outside Swindon
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The Southeast mainly light industries home to the largest oil refinery at Fawley - near Southhampton Kent has paper mills, shipyards, and a nuclear power station at Dungeness hundreds of small farms, with orchards and fruit farms. Kent - the 'Garden of England - is famous for its apples and for hops - used in brewing beer Lamberhurst is known for its vineyards and produces English wines
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East of England fishing is the region's most important industry - cod, herring and flatfish are brought into Lowestoft in Suffolk the Norfolk village of Orford is known for its smokehouses - meats and fish are preserved East Anglia is a great agricultural region - farmers grow cereals, sugarbeet, fruit and vegetables, and they raise turkeys, sheep and cattle
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Yorkshire engineering and textiles are the region's two top industries, and are concentrated in West and South Yorkshire Sheffield's silver and steel industries have a worldwide name for many years Yorkshire's coalfields provided much of the fuel used in British industry - most mines have now closed dairy farmers in the Dales make delicious cheeses such as Wensleydale and Swaledale the moors provide rough grazing for sheep
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Midlands Birmingham - home to so many different industries - nicknamed the "city of 1001 trades„ Trade (buying and selling) has been an important part of life in Birmingham for 800 years Nottingham - worldwide reputation for its fine lace, there are also heavy industries and many power stations along the banks of the river Trent
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Northampton - an important leather working centre the clay beds of Bedfordshire have been quarried for brick making Leicester has shoe factories fruit and sheep farming, fishing
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The North modern Manchester's industries include clothing, banking and manufacturing the rivers Eden, Derwent, Tyne and Tweed are all important salmon fisheries the Kielder forest - the largest forested area in England - a major timber producer dairy cattle
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INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky. Tato výuková prezentace byla pořízena z finančních prostředků hrazených Evropským sociálním fondem a rozpočtem České republiky.
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