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British Culture An Introduction

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How many countries make up the United Kingdom? Answer: Four England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland

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What is the current currency of The United Kingdom? The Pound Although the UK joined the EU in 1973, thus far the country has not switch their currency to the Euro. This has helped keep the UK financially strong, $1= € .77 $1= £.64 €1 = £.83 So for example, if you liked a desk that was £200, you would be paying $258.

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Who is the current Monarch? Queen Elizabeth II—not to be confused with the Virgin Queen Elizabeth of the Elizabethan/Shakespearean age. Next in line to the throne? Prince Charles Then? Prince William

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Where does the monarch OFFICIALLY reside? Buckingham Palace

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What famous river flows through London? The Thames (pronounced “Tims”

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What Centuries did William Shakespeare Live? 16th and 17th; baptized in 1564, died in 1616. Apprx. 38 plays 154 sonnets Other prominent works

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How many times did King Henry VIII get married? What is the name of at least one of his wives? Six times His wives include (in this order)… Catherine of Aragon (Spanish Princess) Divorced Anne Boleyn (mother of Elizabeth I) Executed Jane Seymore Died Anne of Cleves Divorced Kathryn Howard Executed Katherine Parr Widowed

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What are the two largest political parties in the UK? Conservative Labour

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Where are the crown jewels kept? The Tower of London Most haunted Former prisoners

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Where were the Beatles from? Liverpool

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Who is Nessie and where does she reside? Loch Ness Monster; Loch Ness (lake in Scotland)

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What is a Double Decker? A two story bus

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St. George is the patron saint of England—what is he famous for killing? A dragon

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What is the most popular food in Britain? Fish and chips

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Most famous timepiece? Big Ben

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Works cited (pictures) in order Microsoft clip art bedandbreakfasts.co.uk visitbritain.co.uk; nihongo.istockphoto.com topnews.in treehugger.com latelink.com; londonpermaculturalists.ning.com Microsoft clip art royalpaperdolls.com aboutmyarea.co.uk goingtolondon.wikispaces.com liverpoollodge.com paranormal.about.com; scotland-calling.com; tripadvisor.co.uk Microsoft clip art (2) frot.co.nz englisheso.wikispaces.com

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Proto Indo European Germanic Celtic Balto-Slavic Latin Greek Albanian Indo-Iranian Russian Ukrainian Czech Slovak Serb-Croatian Persian Kurdish Hindi Bengali Iranian Sanskrit Romanian French Spanish Portuguese Italian Slavic Baltic Welsh Bretan Gælic Latvian Lithuanian

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Germanic Icelandic East Norse West Norse Old Norse Gothic East Germanic North Germanic Old Frisian Old High German High Low West Germanic Old English Old Low German Anglian West Saxon Old Low Franconian Old Saxon Kentish Middle English Modern English Norwegian Swedish Danish

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Old English Old English has different LETTERS. "Thorn" (Þ or þ) Cloth (cláþ) Thin The letter "eth" (ð) Clothes Then Old English does not require a specific word order, the way Middle and Modern English do. Instead, OE uses declensions (little endings stuck on the end of nouns)

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Middle English Spelling has not yet been formalized in a systematic way, and many Latinate terms have entered English through intermediary French influences under the Norman conquerors in 1066.

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Early Modern English Shakespeare’s day thou/you, thy/your, thine/yours, Shakespeare's alphabet in the early modern is practically identical to ours Doesn't yet have identical punctuation conventions to ours. For instance, the exclamation mark still wasn't invented in 1590.

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Vocabulary List # 1 Assignment Using the dictionary, look up all the words for vocabulary list # 1

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