Bài giảng Văn hóa Anh Mỹ

• Học phần: Văn Hóa Anh Mỹ
• Số tín chỉ: 4
• Giảng viên: Phạm Thị Hai Trang
Võ Nguyễn Hồng Lam
• Lớp: 54 NNA 1, 2,3
Lesson 1: Sightseeing in UK

4 regions in UK


UK
Scotland
England
Wales
North Ireland
England, Scotland & Wales
(Transcript of Video)


London
• House of Parliament
• Big Ben
• Westminster abbey
• Churchill statue
• Household Cavalry
• Trafalgar square
• National gallery
• Piccadilly circus
• Tower of London
• St Paul’s cathedral

Lesson 2
The Geography
and Climate of
Britain
Physiographic features of
England, Scotland and Wales
Physiographic features of England
• Total area: 130.410 km2
• Capital: London, the largest city in UK
• Main river: Thames, 346km, the second longest river in
UK
• Has excellent natural harbors: Newcastle upon Tyne, Hull,
London, Dover, Plymouth, Bristol, Liverpool
• Midlands and the North is mountainous in the North and
West (Midlands consists of Pennines (890-630metres) and
the Lake District (970-820m))
• Flatlands are in the East: the Fens (marshland)
• Lowland in the South has many moors, hills, dales, rivers
and canals



Seaports of England
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Dover
Plymouth Bristol
Liverpool
Landscape

Lake District
Mountain ranges: Pennines
Flatland
Moor
Rolling hill: North Downs
North York Moors
Yorkshire dales
Physiographic features of Scotland
• Total area (include islands): 78,790 km2, many of the
islands are inhabited
• Capital: Edinburgh
• Largest city: Glasgow
• Longest river: Tay (188km)
• Has irregular coastline with many inlets from the sea (Firth
of Clyde, Firth of Forth)
• Is a mountainous area (>1/2 is highland); has lakes and
lochs (Loch Lomond, Loch Ness)
• Is divided into 3 areas: Southern Uplands, Central
lowlands, Highlands
- The Southern uplands
are the fertile plains
and hills bordering
England.
- The central lowlands
runs from Edinburgh to
Glasgow and contains
industrial towns and
most of the population.
- Highlands are
mountains (Ben Nevis:

1344m, Britain’s
highest mountain)
Heather
Peat
Bog
‘About three quarters of Scotland is made
up of bog, rock and heather and peat
soils’

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Firth
Loch
‘Scotland has a very irregular coastline
with inlets from the sea called firths…
The Highlands contains narrow lakes or
Lochs….’
irregular coastline
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Physiographic features of Wales
• Capital: Cardiff, the main seaport and shipbuilding
centre of Wales
• Total area; 20,760km2
• River Severn: 354km, Britain’s longest river
• Mount Snowdon: Wales’ highest mountain
• Bala lake: largest natural lake in Wales
• Has an irregular coastline with bays (cardigan

bay)
• Is almost entirely mountainous with 3 main
regions (Snowdonia, Cambrian, Brecon Beacons)

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River Severn
Bala Lake
Geography of Britain - Revision
Name the mountainous regions of
Britain?

1. Scotland Highland
2. Grampian
3. Southern upland
4. Lake District
5. Pennines
6. Cambrian Mountains




The Geography of Britain
Britain is an island country that is surrounded by three seas: the
North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea. Britain
separated from Ireland and Northern Ireland by the Irish Sea
and from France by the English Channel. The most
mountainous areas are in the north of Britain: the Highlands
and Southern Uplands of Scotland. The southern part of Britain
contains smaller mountain ranges such as the Pennines in

England and Cambrian Mountains in Wales and the rolling hills
of England such as the Downs. England also has most of the
flatland such as drained marshlands called the Fens and the
moors of Devon and Cornwall. The south part of Britain also
has the greatest number of rivers and canals while the northern
part has many narrow lakes called lochs and sea inlets called
firths.
Climate
• The climate of the United Kingdom is
classified as a mid-latitude oceanic
climate with warm summers, cold winters
and constant rainfall throughout the year.
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• very low sunshine hours throughout the
year
• England has a mild and moist climate,
annual temperature ranges between 11°C
and 9°C.

• July is the hottest month of the year, and
January, is the coldest month.

• Fogs, mists, and overcast skies are
frequent, particularly in the Pennines and
inland regions.

Fog
Mist
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Overcast skies
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