During the next weeks we will not only be a challenge for you with grammar contents but also introduce some facts about our teacher’s home countries: Let’s start with the smallest country, the beautiful country of WALES. Wales is one of the Celtic nations and a part of the United Kingdom. It located on the west coast of Britain and it’s only neighbour country is England. The flag of Wales consists of a red dragon on a green and white field. Facts to know: Capital: Cardiff Population: 3 million Number of sheep (estimated): 10 million ;-) Size: 20.779 km² Currency: Pound sterling National Anthem: “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau“ - youtube/watch?v=UTWtHJmGoHY Learn it by heart and entertain your family ;-) Highest mountain: Snowdon, 1085 m. National dish: Cawl (a soup related to the Irish stew) Language: Welsh. It is the most spoken Celtic language (720.000 speakers) Examples: Good morning: bore da!, Thank you: diolch. Good night: nos da! Famous people from Wales: Actors/Artists: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Christian Bale, Tom Jones, Roahl Dahl, Timothy Dalton, Rihard Burton,…… Athletes: Ryan Giggs, Gareth Bale (The currently second most expensive football player in the world). Info: visitwales/ Map of Wales: https://google.at/maps/place/Wales/@52.405331,-4.1595038,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x486434b66c1c0fed:0x1ebb71bc8aa5e8a2
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 12:47:06 +0000
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