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The biggest cities of Great Britain

Andres Veidenberg, Argo Mikk

C.R.Jakobson Gymn.

11c

Supervisors: Tiia Pukk, Marje Maasen

Viljandi

2002

Introduction

• We are going to talk about the biggest cities of Great Britain
• There are 10 biggest cities in Great Britain
• All this cities have important part of Britain economy and culture

The biggest cities

Population of the cities

London

• The capital of England
• Is situated in south - eastern England along the Thames River
• Founded by Romans in A.D. 43
• O ne of the three main financial centres in the world
• Parliament
• The river Thames runs thorough the city

Transport in London

• Double-deckers
• Black taxis
• Underground
• Planes

London underground

• Founded in 1870
• One of the biggest in the world

London sights

Westminster Abbey

Windsor Castle

Tower Bridge

Arms of London

Edinburgh

• Capital of Scotland
• Famous Edinburghers: Bell, Stevenson, Scott, Connery.
• Coastal city

Bristol

• T he largest city in the South West
• It has a great harbour
• Home of Rolls Royce
• The Concorde factory

Leeds

• 75 nationalities
• 731 Bede’s “History of English Church and People”
• Centre of wool & sewing factory

Glasgow

• Compaq
• Scotland’s largest city
• Fishing
• Harbour city

Aberdeen

• Oil Capital of Europe + 40.000 jobs

• The world's first holographic 3D camera
• It’s a coastal city

Manchester

• 10% of workers
• Significant financial sector
• The highest weekly earnings-£420.40
• Manchester United

Birmingham

• Second largest city
• Aston Hall
• The first steam engine was invented

Warwick Castl e

Shakespeare

Stratford Upon Avon

W. Shakespeare (

Liverpool

• Capital of culture
• The Beatles
• Sunday talents
• Festival city

Newcastle

• Many earthquakes
• Harbour
• Coal mining

Summary

• There are 10 biggest cities in GB.
• Only London & Birmingham have more than 1,000,000 citizens
• Many interesting sights