Timesaver Customs & Lifestyle in the Uk & Ireland

What is Britain? Wales and Scotland Wales Info-stop • This is the Welsh flag – The Red Dragon of Wales. • The Welsh language is one of the oldest in Europe. 20% of the population* speaks Welsh. • Do you like vegetables? The Welsh national symbol is a leek.
• Are you good at spelling? A town in Wales has the longest name in Britain! Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllanttysiliogogogoch • There are lots of castles in Wales. They were built in the Middle Ages*, when the Welsh fought the English. • Wales is called Cymru in Welsh. Don’t call Welsh people English. They aren’t. They’re Welsh! • Every year there are music and art festivals called Eisteddfods. They began around 1,000 years ago.
Read about Wales. Find the places on the map and write the letters. a 1 Feeling sporty*? Why not go to a rugby match? There are 47 clubs in Cardiff! b 2 c Take a boat from Cardigan Bay and see thousands of seals and dolphins. f 3 Go surfing! Whitesands Bay is a hit* with surfers. And it’s also got great swimming and diving. d 4 Baa! Wales is the most important sheep farming area in Europe. It’s got 11 million sheep!WALES 5 e Ancient! In Anglesey you can see remains* of Celtic* villages.

Celts moved into Wales around 4000 BC. 6 The highest mountain in Wales is Snowdon. It’s great for walking and climbing. 8 TIMESAVER CUSTOMS & LIFESTYLE IN THE UK & IRELAND © MARY GLASGOW MAGAZINES, AN IMPRINT OF SCHOLASTIC INC. TIMESAVER CUSTOMS & LIFESTYLE IN THE UK & IRELAND What is Britain? Scotland Jo is on holiday in Scotland. Complete her emails with the missing verbs in the past tense. Then match them to the pictures.
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Wrong! But Glasgow is the style capital of Scotland. We ……
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That’s a traditional cloth. My brother said he wanted to buy a kilt (a skirt for men). But he was only joking! He …..
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2 [email protected] com Hello from Scotland • Loch Ness Aberdeen • Hi! We’re in the North of Scotland now.We’re at the Highland games. They do some crazy sports. One of them is called ‘tossing the caber’ where men throw a heavy wooden pole*! At the weekend we went to Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest mountain. We ..
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to the top. It was really tiring*. • • Glasgow Edinburgh SCOTLAND 3 [email protected] com Hello from Scotland b a c I’m sending this from Loch Ness – the lake with the famous monster. We went out on a boat this morning but we didn’t …
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….. ferry* to the Orkney Islands (Scotland has 800 islands! ), and we saw thousands of birds. They were so noisy! 4 [email protected]
com Hello from Scotland d We’re having a great time in Edinburgh. That’s right, the capital of Scotland! It’s really crowded because there’s an international arts festival – there are hundreds of shows! We went to one last night – it ……
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….. great. And we climbed up to the Castle, too.
I saw somebody playing traditional music on bagpipes. TIMESAVER CUSTOMS & LIFESTYLE IN THE UK & IRELAND © MARY GLASGOW MAGAZINES, AN IMPRINT OF SCHOLASTIC INC. 9