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PART ONE: ENGLISH CULTURECHAPTER 1: OVERVIEWReading 1: Country and peopleGeographically speakingLying off the north-west coast of Europe, there are tw BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY wo large islands and several much smaller ones. Collectively, they are known as the British Isles. The largest island is called Great Britain. The other large one is called Leland.Politically speakingIn the British Isles there are two states. One of these governs most the island of Ireland. This sta BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY te is usually called The Republic of Ireland. It is also called ’Eire’ (its Irish language name). Informally it is referred to as just ‘Ireland’ or ‘tBAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY
he Republic’.The other state has authority over the rest of the British Isles (the whole of Great Britain, the northeastern area of Ireland and most oPART ONE: ENGLISH CULTURECHAPTER 1: OVERVIEWReading 1: Country and peopleGeographically speakingLying off the north-west coast of Europe, there are tw BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY At the Eurovision Song Contest, at the United Nations and in the European Parliament, for instance, it is referred to as ’the United Kingdom'. In everyday speech this is often shortened to ‘the UK'. In other contexts it is referred to as ‘Great Britain’. This, for example, is the name you hear when BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY a gold medal winner steps onto the rostrum at the Olympic Games. The stickers on cars (‘GB’) are another example of the use of this name. In writing aBAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY
nd speaking that is not especially formal or informal, the name ‘Britain’ is used. The normal adjective, when talking about something to do with the UPART ONE: ENGLISH CULTURECHAPTER 1: OVERVIEWReading 1: Country and peopleGeographically speakingLying off the north-west coast of Europe, there are tw BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY is is not strictly correct, and it can make some people angry. England is only one of the four nations of the British Isles (England. Scotland. Wales and Ireland). Their political unification was a gradual process that took several hundred years. It was completed in 1800 when the Irish parliament wa BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY s joined with the Parliament for England. Scotland and Wales in Westminster, so that the whole of the British Isles became a single state- the UnitedBAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. However, in 1922. most of Ireland became a separate state.At one time the four nations were distinct from each oPART ONE: ENGLISH CULTURECHAPTER 1: OVERVIEWReading 1: Country and peopleGeographically speakingLying off the north-west coast of Europe, there are tw BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY he Celtic race; those in England and lowland Scotland were mainly of Germanic origin. This difference was reflected in the languages they spoke. People in the Celtic areas spoke Celtic languages: Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh. People in the Germanic areasspoke Germanic dialects (including BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY the one which has developed into modem English). The nations also tended to have different economic, social and legal systems.Today these differencesBAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY
have become blurred. But they have not completely disappeared. Although there is only one government for the whole of Britain, and people have the samPART ONE: ENGLISH CULTURECHAPTER 1: OVERVIEWReading 1: Country and peopleGeographically speakingLying off the north-west coast of Europe, there are tw BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY of the United Kingdom. Moreover. Welsh. Scottish and Irish people feel then identity very strongly.The dominance of EnglandThere is, perhaps, an excuse for people who use the word ‘England’ when they mean 'Britain*. It cannot be denied that the dominant culture of Britain today is specifically Engl BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY ish. The system of politics that is used in all four nations today is of English origin and English id the main language of all four nations. Many aspBAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY
ects of everyday life are organized according to English custom and practice. But the political unification of Britain was not achieved by mutual agrePART ONE: ENGLISH CULTURECHAPTER 1: OVERVIEWReading 1: Country and peopleGeographically speakingLying off the north-west coast of Europe, there are tw BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY ation can be detected in the way in which various aspects of British public life are described. For example, the supply of money in Britain is controlled by the Bank of England (there is no such thing as a ‘Bank of Britain’). The present queen of the country is universally known as ‘Elizabeth the Se BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY cond’, even though Scotland and Northern Ireland have never had an ‘Elizabeth the 1 irst’! (Elizabeth 1 of England and Wales ruled from 1553 to 1603.)BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY
The term 'Anglo' is also commonly used. Cl he Angles were a Germanic tribe who settled in England in the fifth century. The word 'England* is derivedPART ONE: ENGLISH CULTURECHAPTER 1: OVERVIEWReading 1: Country and peopleGeographically speakingLying off the north-west coast of Europe, there are tw BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY of Britain and the USA (and not just those between England and the USA).National loyaltiesWhen you arc talking to people from Britain, it is safest to use Britain* when talking about where they live and British* as the adjective to describe their nationality. This way you will be3less likely to off BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY end anyone. It is. of course, not wrong to talk about ’people in England' if that is what you mean-people who live within the geographical boundariesBAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY
of England. After all. most British people live there. (►Populations in 1995). But it should always be remembered that England does not make up the whPART ONE: ENGLISH CULTURECHAPTER 1: OVERVIEWReading 1: Country and peopleGeographically speakingLying off the north-west coast of Europe, there are tw BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY e estimates provided by the Government Actuary’s Department of the UK, based on the 1991 Census. It is expected that the total population of Britain will continue to rise by very small amounts until around the year 2025.There has been a long history of migration from Scotland, Wales and Ireland to E BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY ngland. As a result there are millions of people who live in England but who would never describe themselves as English. They may have lived in EnglanBAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY
d all their lives, but as far as they are concerned they are Scottish or Welsh or Irish- even if, in the last case, they are citizens of Britain and nPART ONE: ENGLISH CULTURECHAPTER 1: OVERVIEWReading 1: Country and peopleGeographically speakingLying off the north-west coast of Europe, there are tw BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY nce, play for that country rather than England. If. for example, you had heard the members of the Republic of Ireland World Cup football team talking in 1994. you would have heard several different kinds of English accent and some Scottish accents, but only a few Irish accents. Most of the players d BAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY id not live in Ireland and were not brought up in Ireland. Nevertheless, most of them would never have considered playing for any country other than IBAI GIANG GOC MON VAN HOA ANH MY
reland!PART ONE: ENGLISH CULTURECHAPTER 1: OVERVIEWReading 1: Country and peopleGeographically speakingLying off the north-west coast of Europe, there are twPART ONE: ENGLISH CULTURECHAPTER 1: OVERVIEWReading 1: Country and peopleGeographically speakingLying off the north-west coast of Europe, there are twGọi ngay
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