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Composition of the British Isles.

✔ The British Isles lie off the north-western coast of the European shore.

✔ Two main islands – Great Britain and Ireland, – are separated by Saint George's
Channel, the Irish Sea and the North Channel.

✔ The Isle of Wight lies off the southern shore of England in the English Channel.

✔ The Isles of Scilly lie off the south-western shore of England offshore of Cornwall.

✔ The Anglesey lies off the north-western shore of Wales.

✔ The Isle of Man lies in the Irish Sea further north from the Anglesey.

✔ The Hebrides lie off north-western shore of Scotland. There are Inner Hebrides and
Outer Hebrides.

✔ The Orkney Islands are off the northern shore of Scotland.

✔ The Shetlands are located further north, closer to Norway.

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Highland Britain.

Great Britain

Highland Britain Lowland Britain

The borderline between them is roughly a line from the mouth of river Exe in Devonshire, to the
mouth of the Tyne on the north-est coast.

✔ Scotland:
1) North-West and Central Highlands (Grampians) – Highlands are divided by the Great
Glen (the Loch Ness).
- 300 peaks over 900 m;
- Ben Nevis, 1343 m – the tallest peak, locates in Grampians;
2) Southern Uplands – rounded hills stretching towards the border with England (the
Border Country), many rivers.
Rivers: the Tay (-Tummer), the Forth, the Tweed river.
Lakes: Loch Ness.

✔ Wales:
- mainly highland, 1/5 of the landscape is National Park – glaciated peaks, lakes of
Snowdonia (the highest peak – Snowdon, 1085 m), flat-topped plateaux of the Brecon
Beacons – south, Cader Iris and Berwin Range – centre, plateaux are often broken by
deep valleys created by rivers Dee, Wye, Severn, etc. The Cambrian Mountains.
Rivers: the Dee, the Wye, the Severn, the Clwyd, the Conwy, the Usk, the Tywi, the
Dwyryd, the Mawddach.
Lakes: the Lake Bala.
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Lowland Britain.

Great Britain

Highland Britain Lowland Britain

The borderline between them is roughly a line from the mouth of river Exe in Devonshire, to the
mouth of the Tyne on the north-est coast.

✔ Scotland:
Central Lowlands – 1/5 of the land area, 3/4 of the Scottish population.
Rivers: the Clyde.
Lakes: Loch Lomond.

✔ Wales:
- the lowland zones – industrial south Wales, 2/3 of the Welsh population lives there.
England mainly undulating or flat lowland countryside
Rivers: -
Lakes: -

✔ England:
- the North Yorkshire Moors, the limestone Cotswolds, the chalk North and South Downs,
the Chiltern Hills.
- uplands: Pennines, Peak District, Lake District, Scafell Pike (978 m), the Cumbrian
Mountains, the Cheviot Hills, the Yorkshire dales; Cornwall peninsula – Exmoor and
Dartmoor.
Rivers: the Thames, the Severn, the Tyne, the Wear, the Tees, the Mersey, the Trent(-
Humber), the Great (or Bedford) Ouse, the Bristol Avon.
Lakes: The Lake District – Windermere, Ullswater, Derwentwater, Conistonwater.

✔ Northern Ireland (Ulster):

the Sperrin Mountains in the north-west, the Mountains of Antrim in the north-east, the
Mourne Mountains in the south-east (Slieve Donard, 853 m), Giant's Causeway in the north
+ northern rocky coastline
Rivers: the Lagan, the Foyle, the Upper Bann and the Lower Bann, the Mourne
Lakes: the Lough Neagh – the largest lake of the United Kingdom, the Lough Erne.
I Список вопросов:
+1- The location of the British Isles (вопросы по карте)
+2- The composition of the British Isles (вопросы по карте)
+3- Major islands
+4- Climate and weather
+5- Highland Britain (physical relief + rivers & lakes)
+6- Lowland Britain (physical relief + rivers & lakes)
+7- Vegetation
+8- The animal world
9- Environmental protection (причины плохого состояния окружающей среды, список
организаций – про Гринпис не надо, voluntary organizations).

II Знать ответы на вопросы по Chapter 1 на с. 24.