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Lesson 1 - Introduction UK & USA

The document provides information about the location and administrative structure of the United States. It discusses the 50 states and their capitals. It also outlines the four time zones in the US and how time changes when traveling east to west.

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Lesson 1 - Introduction UK & USA

The document provides information about the location and administrative structure of the United States. It discusses the 50 states and their capitals. It also outlines the four time zones in the US and how time changes when traveling east to west.

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HERE ARE THE BRITISH

ISLES
NAME AND LOCATION
• Situated off the north west coast of Europe;
• Represented by a large island called Great Britain (+ Wales) and a smaller
one called Ireland;
• The British Isles include a few hundred small islands;
• The 0° longitude (Zero Meridian or Prime Meridian) passes through the
International Time Measure of Greenwich, east of London (local time –
standard time for Britain, from which most other world times are
calculated).
CAPITAL CITIES
• England – London
• Scotland – Edinburgh
• Wales – Cardiff
• Northern Ireland –
Belfast
• Ireland - Dublin
THE COASTS OF BRITAIN
• Irregular coastline; constantly changing
• Many indentations around the coastline
• Typical types of coastline:
Estuary: a funnel-shaped river mouth which results from flooding of tidal areas. Some
of them contain ports: London, Liverpool, Glasgow.
Firth: a drowned glaciated valley formed mostly in Scotland after the Ice Age.
Ria: a long narrow inlet, a river valley drowned by the post-glacial rise in the sea-level.
Peninsula: a tract of land, projecting into a body of water, having water on three sides.
(in Cornwall, Devon, Wales)
Straits and Channels: narrow stretches of water, which separate two bodies of land
(the Strait of Dover, the English Channel)
MORAY FIRTH
THE THAMES
ESTUARY
BOUNDARIES
Practice and Consolidation
Homework
Terminology
• Estuary = estuar
• Firth = fiord
• Ria =golfuleț ( format prin inundarea văii unui râu)
• Strait = strâmtoare
• Channel = canal
• Inlet = golf mic
• Bay = golf
WELCOME TO THE USA
LOCATION
• It is the 3rd largest country in the world after Russia and Canada;
• Most of the Country is in the central part of North America;
• It is bordered by:
 Canada in the North
 Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico in the South
 The Pacific Ocean in the West
 The Atlantic Ocean in the East
ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE
• The USA is a huge country
in North America
consisting of 50 states and
one Federal District.
States and Capitals

Song of US states and capitals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQaWFEjTcVc


TIME ZONES
• There are 4 time zones in the USA:
Eastern, Central, Mountain and
Pacific.
• When midnight comes to New York,
it is 11 pm in Chicago, 10 pm in
Denver and 9 pm in LA.
• If you travel from East to West, you
have to set your watch back one hour
and vice versa.
Practice and Consolidation
Homework
• Guess the celebrations and find a few interesting facts about them.

American
Celebrations

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