1. Hi carlos,
This is our work of United Kingdom. We are really sorry to send you so late but how
you know we had some problems with Patricia's computer. We'll can do the
presentation the day after tomorrow , on Thursday.
really grateful,
Jon Sancho and Patricia Benavente
United Kingdom
We are going to talk about United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland. UK is a country situated in the north-west of
continental Europe. This sovereign state is formed by the island
of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and
many smaller islands. The capital of UK is London, situated in
England. The big island (the Great Britain’s one) is border by
the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish
Sea. UK is formed by four countries: England, which capital is
London, Northern Ireland, which capital is Belfast, Scotland, which
capital is Edinburgh, and Wales, which capital is Cardiff. The United
Kingdom is a parliamentary monarquie, in which the executive
power is distributed between the queen Isabel II and the Prime
Minister David Cameron, and the parliament has the legislative
power. The queen lives in Buckingham palace with her husband the
duke of Edinburgh. The parliament meets in the Palace of
Westminster and it has two houses: an elected House of
Commons and an appointed House of Lords. The Prime Minister
lives in 10 Downing Street, London, and he is the head of
government and the president of the parliament of the United
Kingdom. The laws are created and approved in the parliament but
also they must be passed for the queen to be legal.
London:
London is the capital of England and of the UK. It is the biggest and
the most populated city of the United Kingdom. London is located on
the River Thames. London is a multicultural city where you can
listen dozens of different languages and where you can see all kinds
of cultures too. Some of the most popular places of London are the

2. Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye, the
Westminster Abbey, the Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus,
Trafalgar Square, Oxford street, the Tower Bridge, the Tower of
London, St. Paul’s Cathedral… And many more things.
Food:
The most typical foods eaten in Britain include the sandwich, fish
and chips, pies and other foods based in natural ingredients like
vegetables. There is a real problem with the obesity because of the
big consume of fast food. The tea is the most popular drink in the
country and even there is an hour everyday in which the people take
it, is called tea time.
Sport:
Great quantity of sports was created in the United Kingdom, for
example the football, the rugby, the tennis and the golf. The sport
plays a very important role in the English culture because it is very
important for the English people. England, Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland compete separately in the majority of the sports,
but there are some sports, like the basketball, that they play the four
countries together. Talking about formula 1, the United Kingdom is
one of the countries with major participation in this sport, because
the majority of the teams of Formula 1 have his base in the country
and the British drivers have win more titles as a whole that no other.
In Silverstone's Circuit they organizes annually the Great Prize of
the United Kingdom.
Languages:
The most spoken language in the UK is English of course, but, is not
the only language spoken in this country. Some British persons also
speak Scots and some Celtic languages as Irish and Welsh. In
some cities of UK there are so many different cultures that there are
a lot of foreigner languages too. Some of these foreigner languages
are French, Spanish, German and Indian.

3. Music:
The music of the United Kingdom is very varied, but it always has
been much known in the whole world thanks to the wonderful groups
and singers born in this country. One of the best types of music from
the UK is the rock, with groups and singers like The Beatles, Queen,
Elton John, Bob Geldof, Bee Gees, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The
Rolling Stones…etc. The Beatles, a group created in Liverpool in
1960s, are one of the most popular groups of the history of the world
music, with more than a billion discs sold.
Religion:
Because of the multiculturalism of the country, there are very
different religions in UK too. The Christianity is the religion with more
followers, followed by the Islam, the Hinduism, the Sijismo and the
Judaism. The majority of British Christians are not catholic, they are
Anglicans.
Patricia Benavente and Jon Sancho