Презентация "Icons of Britain and Russia", 7 класс

Презентация к учебнику английского языка «English 7» Кузовлев В.П.
Unit 6 «What is the best about your country?»

Автор: Воронцова Л.В.
МОУ СОШ № 7, г. Усть-Кут, Иркутская область

The first schematic Tube map was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. In 2006, the tube map was voted one of Britain's top 10 design icons.

The largest library in the world by number of items catalogued. It is estimated to contain 170–200 million-plus items from many countries.

The Georgian
town house
which the
museum
occupies as
"221B
Baker Street"
was built
in 1815.

It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud in 1835.

Blackpool Tower is a tourist attraction in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which was opened to the public on 14 May 1894.

The Championships is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, since 1877 it is played on outdoor grass courts, and since 2009 with a retractable roof over Centre Court.

Work began on the dictionary in 1857, but it was only in 1884 that it began to be published in unbound fascicles.

The dish originated in England, it became the emblematic British meal.

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The group, whose best-known line-up comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, are regarded as the most influential band of all time.

Harrods is the most famous department store in London. It is considered one of the largest and most fashionable department stores in the world. The area of the department store is 90,000 m², the sales area consists of 330 departments. The store staff is more than 5000 people.

Football is the national sport in England. Modern football originated in England in 1863. There are more than 40,000 registered football clubs in England.

CadburyWorld is an entertainment center and museum founded by Cadbury, one of the world's leading confectionery companies. The Cadbury World Center acquaints visitors with the history of the company, as well as the process of making chocolate.

Cheddar is the most popular type of cheese in the UK. CHEDDER - CHEESE SYMBOL OF THE UK.

Big Ben is a popular tourist name for the clock tower of Westminster Palace. The official name of the tower since 2012 is Elizabeth Tower.

Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster. It was built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly.

A pillar box is a type of free-standing post box, usually it is red, designed to collect postal mail.

The red telephone box for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. In 2006 the K2 telephone box was voted one of Britain's top 10 design icons.

The Rutmaster is a type of double-decker bus created in 1954 by AEC and operated in London from 8 February 1956 to 9 December 2005. During this time "Rutmaster" became a symbol of London and, perhaps, the most recognizable bus in the world.

Eystetvod - Welsh music and literary festivals with elements of competition. The winners in each category are awarded a crown and a specially made chair. Since 1880 the annual National Estetvod has been held.

The Welsh Dragon is a heraldic symbol that appears on the national flag of Wales. The oldest recorded use of the dragon to symbolise Wales is in the Historia Brittonum, written around AD 829, but it is popularly supposed to have been the battle standard of King Arthur and other ancient Celtic leaders.

Mid Wales is the central region of Wales. The area is 6,962 square kilometres. Mid Wales is dominated by the Cambrian Mountains, including the Green Desert of Wales. The region is sparsely populated, with an economy dependent on farming and small businesses.

Snowdonia is a mountainous region in northwestern Wales and a national park of 823 square miles (2,130 km2) in area. It was the first to be designated of the three national parks in Wales, in 1951. It contains the highest peaks in the United Kingdom outside Scotland.

The Millennium is a stadium in Cardiff, Wales. The capacity is over 74,500 spectators. It is the home stadium of the Wales national rugby team. The stadium also hosts the Wales national football team. It is the world's largest indoor stadium with natural grass. In 2016, the stadium was renamed Principality Stadium.

It is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, close to Princes Street. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859.

It is a tower standing on the shoulder of the Abbey Craig, a hilltop overlooking Stirling in Scotland. It commemorates Sir William Wallace, a 13th and 14th-century Scottish hero.

Sir William Wallace - Scottish knight, one of the military leaders in the war of independence from England, guardian of Scotland (regent) in 1297-1298, is revered in Scotland as a patriot and folk hero.

The Highlands is a historic region of Scotland. It is the mountainous northwestern part of Scotland, which occupies about 2/3 of this autonomous region. The Highlands are made up of a series of plateaus and ridges separated by depressions, the largest of which is Glen More.

It is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. It was founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants. The RBGE's living collection consists of more than 13,302 plant species, whilst the herbarium contains in excess of 3 million preserved specimens.

It is the world's largest arts festival, established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the month of August. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has become a world-leading celebration of arts and culture, surpassed only by the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup in terms of global ticketed events.

It is a public garden. Occupying 28 acres (110,000 m2) of south Belfast, the gardens are popular with office workers, students and tourists. The gardens opened in 1828 as the private Royal Belfast Botanical Gardens. Then it became a public park in 1895 when the Belfast Corporation bought the gardens from the Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society.

It is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 and a national nature reserve in 1987 by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland.

Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick, is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c. 385 – c. 461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland. Saint Patrick's Day was made an official Christian feast day in the early 17th century.

Lenin's Mausoleum (from 1953 to 1961 Lenin's & Stalin's Mausoleum), situated on Red Square in the centre of Moscow. His preserved body has been on public display there since shortly after his death in 1924, with rare exceptions in wartime.

The Moscow Kremlin is a fortress in the center of Moscow and its most ancient part, the main socio-political and historical-artistic complex of the city, the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation, was the official residence of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. One of the most famous architectural structures in the world. Years of construction are1482-1495.

Ostankino Tower is a television and radio tower in Moscow. Standing 540.1 metres, Ostankino was designed by Nikolai Nikitin. It was the tallest free-standing structure in Europe and 11th tallest in the world. Between 1967 and 1974, it was the tallest in the world. The tower caught fire on 27 August 2000, killing three people. As of September 2019, the tower is the 14th tallest in the world.

The Moscow Metro is a rapid transit system serving Moscow, Russia, and the neighbouring Moscow region cities. It was opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations. It has today 239 stations (276 with Moscow Central Circle) and its route length is 408.1 km, making it the sixth-longest in the world and the longest outside China.

The library was founded on July 1, 1862, as Moscow's first free public library named The Library of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumiantsev Museum. It is nicknamed the "Leninka. In 1992, it was renamed the Russian State Library by order of a decree from President Boris Yeltsin. The volume of the fund at the beginning of 2013 is about 900 thousand documents and is constantly being replenished.

It is the world's largest puppet theater. Located in Moscow at number 3 on Sadovo-Samotechnaya street. The emblem of the theater is a hand with a ball on the index finger. The puppet theater was opened on September 16, 1931. The founder of the theater is Sergei Obraztsov.

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street. The building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts was designed by Roman Klein and Vladimir Shukhov. Construction lasted from 1898 until early 1912. The Museum was founded by Ivan Tsvetaev, a professor at Moscow University in 1912.

This is the largest national historical museum in Russia. Founded in 1872, the building on Moscow's Red Square was built in 1875-1883 by the architect Vladimir Sherwood and engineer Anatoly Semyonov. The collection of the modern State Historical Museum has more than 5 million items and 14 million sheets of documentary materials. Since 1990, it has been included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites as part of the Red Square ensemble.

This is the Moscow Art Museum, founded in 1856 by merchant Pavel Tretyakov. In 1867, the gallery was opened to the public, and in 1892 it was transferred to Moscow. As of 2018, the exposition has more than 180,000 items and includes paintings, sculptures and precious metal products created from the 11th to the 20th century.

It is a drawbridge across the Neva River. It connects the central part of the city (Admiralteisky Island) and Vasilievsky Island. The bridge is 250 m long, 27.7 m wide. It consists of five spans. The raised central two-winged span of the Palace Bridge is one of the symbols of the city. The name of the bridge has been known since 1851 and was given from the adjacent Winter Palace and Palace Embankment.

Сфинксы на Университетской набережной — скульптуры зооморфных мифических существ. The acquisition of sphinxes at the University embankment in front of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg is credited to Andrei Muravyov, who in 1830 was going on a pilgrimage to holy places. The sphinxes took their places on the waterfront in 1834.

Rostral Columns are architectural structures in the center of St. Petersburg, on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island. In the 19th century, they served as lanterns for the port of the capital.

Summer Garden is a park ensemble, a monument of gardening art of the first third of the 18th century in the Central District of St. Petersburg. The garden was founded by order of Peter I in 1704 and was originally regular.

The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture. The second-largest art museum in the world, it was founded in 1764 andhas been open to the public since 1852. It attracted 4,956,524 visitors in 2019, ranking it eighth among the most visited art museums in the world.

1. Шаблон: Горяйнова Екатерина
2. Карта
3. Карта
4. the London Tube
5. the London Tube map
6. the British Library
7. Sherlock Holmes’ Museum
8. Madame Tussaud’s Museum
9. Madame Tussaud’s Museum
10. the Blackpool Tower
11. Wimbledon tennis tournament
12. the Oxford English Dictionary
13. Fish and Chips
14. the Beatles
15. Harrods department store
16. English football
17. Cadbury World exhibition
18. Cheddar cheese
19. Big Ben
20. the Piccadilly Circus
21. the pillar box
22. the telephone box
23. the Routemaster double-decker
24. the Routemaster double-decker

25. the Royal National Eisteddfod
26. the Welsh dragon
27. Mid-Wales
28. the Snowdonia National Park
29. the Millennium Stadium
30. the National Gallery
31. the Wallace Monument
32. Sir William Wallace
33. Sir William Wallace
34. The Highlands
35. the Royal Botanic Garden
36. the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
37. Botanic Gardens
38. the Giant’s Causeway
39. St. Patrick’s Day
40. Lenin's Mausoleum
41. The Moscow Kremlin
42. the Ostankino Television Tower
43. the Moscow Underground
44. the Russian State Library
45. the Russian State Library
46. the Obraztsov Puppet Theatre
47. S. Obraztsov
48. the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

49. the Museum of the History
50. The State Tretyakov Gallery
51. Palace Bridge
52. the Sphinx
53. the Sphinx
54. the Rostral Columns
55. the Summer Garden
56. The State Hermitage Museum