1. Welcome
the World to
London and the U.K.
Birla High School,
Kolkata (India)
Warm Up for the Games Competition

2. THE  The UK is a developed country
and has the world's seventh-largest
UNITED economy by nominal GDP.
 It was the world's first
KINGDOM industrialised country and the
world's foremost power during the
19th and early 20th centuries.
 The UK remains a great
power with leading economic,
cultural, military, scientific and
political influence.
 It is a recognised nuclear
weapons state and its military
expenditure ranks fourth in the
world.

3. THE U.K.  Apart from the English, the Irish,
the Scottish and the Welsh, the
CULTURE U.K. today is home to many other
ethnic groups like the Indians,
People, Religion Pakistanis, Carribeans, Black
and Languages Africans and Bangladeshis.
 A wide range of religions are
practised freely in the UK,
although public holidays in
England are based around the
Christian religion.
 Though majority of the people
speak English, over 300 lanuages
are spoken all over the U.K.
including many South-Asian
languages.

4. THE U.K.  May Day Celebrations:
Maypole Dancing
CULTURE • Origin: the Roman festival
of Flora, goddess of fruit and
Festivals flowers
• Celebrate the coming of
summer after a long winter
• A time for love and
romance
 Christmas
 Boxing Day
 New Years’
Day
 Easter Monday

5. THE U.K.  Cricket: England’s national sport
The England and Wales cricket
team represents England and
SPORTS Wales. Since 1 January 1997 it has
been governed by the England
and Wales Cricket Board.
 Soccer: Most popular sport
Association football is a very
popular sport in England, where the
first modern set of rules for the code
were established in 1863.
The ECB’s Soccer  Rugby
Logo This sport used to be played by the
rich upper class only
 Tennis
 Polo
Brought to Britain from India in the
19th Century by army officers

6. THE U.K.
SPORTS
The English
Premier League

7. THE U.K.  Beijing 2008 saw the best performance by a
British team in 100 years as they finished
fourth.
SPORTS  Total 47 medals:
Outstanding Gold -19, Silver -13, Bronze -15
Performance at Beijing
 Cycling hit the top of the British medal table
Olympics 2008 with 8 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze.
 Chris Hoy secured a hat-trick of gold
medals becoming the first Briton in 100 years
to win 3 golds at the same Olympics.
 Rebecca Adlington put swimming in the
spotlight with two gold medals.
 The British rowing team bought home two
gold medals, as well as two silver and two
bronze.
 Great Britain won the Olympic title in the
coxless fours for the 3rd consecutive Games.

8. LONDON
The City of  A leading global city, with
Dreams
strengths in the arts,
commerce, education,
entertainment, fashion,
finance, healthcare, media,
professional services, research
and development, tourism and
transport all contributing to its
prominence.
 One of the world's leading
financial centre.
 It has the fifth-largest city GDP
in the world and the largest in
Europe.

9. LONDON  London's 43 universities form
the largest concentration of
The City of higher education in Europe.
Dreams  It has the third most
international visitors in the
world.
 London Heathrow is
the world's busiest airport by
number of international
passengers.
 In 2012 London will become
the first city to host the
modern Summer Olympic
Games three times.

10. LONDON  Roads and motorways are primary
domestic transport routes. There are
Transport
some 225,000 miles of roads in Britain.
 Cars, vans and taxis are the most
common modes of transport.
 Motorcycling is popular, both as a
means of transport & as a pastime.
 Buses that might be single-decker or
double-decker are widely used.
 The Tube or the internationally famous
London underground railway system .
• covers the largest area of any
underground rail system
• connects all mainline stations of
central and greater London with
253 miles of tracks

11. LONDON
Attractions

12. LONDON
Attractions

13. LONDON
OLYMPICS 2012

14. LONDON
OLYMPICS 2012