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    The document provides instructions and questions for a web quest introducing students to the United Kingdom. It includes watching a video about the names England, UK, and Great Britain and answering questions. Students then define terms related to UK culture and history and answer additional questions testing their understanding.

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    The document provides instructions and questions for a web quest introducing students to the United Kingdom. It includes watching a video about the names England, UK, and Great Britain and answering questions. Students then define terms related to UK culture and history and answer additional questions testing their understanding.

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    E3 U2 Web Quest “Introduction to the United Kingdom”

    Resources:
     Students´ background knowledge
     World Wide Web (for example: http://projectbritain.com/ )

    Work in groups and do the following tasks:


    1) Watch the following video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10 and then answer these questions:
    a. Why is there confusion among the names England, United Kingdom and Great Britain?
    b. How do you call the people from Northern Ireland?
    c. According to the narrator, what do people from Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland think of the English?
    d. Why is Great Britain a geographical rather than a political name?
    e. Why when you travel to Canada there’s British royalty in the money?
    f. Why does the narrator say that the UK is “technically a theocracy”?

    2) Next to each of the following words write a short explanation of each thing:
    Winston Churchill Adam Smith William Shakespeare
    Unicorn London Eye Shamrock
    Stonehenge Robin Hood God Save the Queen
    Union Jack Cardiff King Arthur
    Elizabeth II Belfast Big Ben
    David Cameron Loch Ness Isaac Newton
    John Lennon Margaret Thatcher Bagpipes
    The Honourable Diana Spencer BBC Saint Patrick
    The Thames Ben Nevis Royal Foot Guards

    3) Answer the following questions or complete the phrases:


    A. What is the name of the famous British passenger liner that was travelling from Southampton to New York and sank? Where was it built?
    B. It is considered ____________ to place a stamp bearing the King or Queen's image upside-down.
    C. What was the reason for the creation of the United Kingdom?
    D. What is the origin of the phrase “goodnight, sleep tight”?
    E. Windsor Castle is the largest ____________
    F. How many languages are spoken in the UK? Which are those?
    G. What was the shortest war in history that took place in 1896? How long did it last?
    H. Which country is the UK´s oldest ally?
    I. The currency of Britain is euro, isn´t it?
    J. Ludenwic and Ludenburg are the old names for ____________
    K. French was ____________ of England for about 300 years.
    L. Are Oxford and Cambridge universities located in London?

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